AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



and falleth into Orenoque farther West, making all that 



land betweene Caroli and Arui an yland, which is likewise 



a most beautifull countrey. Next unto Arui there are 



The rivers of xy^o rivers Atoica and Caora, and on that branch which is 



Atotca and called Caora, are a nation of people, whose heads appeare 



not above their shoulders ; which though it may be 



thought a meere fable, yet for mine owne part I am 



resolved it is true, because every childe in the provinces of 



Arromaia and Canuri affirme the same : they are called 



Ewaipanomaa Ewaipanoma : they are reported to have their eyes in 



s range ea - ^^^^ shoulders, and their mouthes in the middle of their 



(esse nation, 



[III. 653.1 breasts, and that a long traine of haire groweth backward 



betweene their shoulders. The sonne of Topiawari, which 

 I brought with me into England told me that they are the 

 most mighty men of all the land, and use bowes, arrowes, 

 and clubbes thrice as big as any of Guiana, or of the 

 Orenoqueponi, and that one of the Iwarawakeri tooke a 

 prisoner of them the yeere before our arrivall there, and 

 brought him into the borders of Aromaia his fathers 

 countrey. And farther when I seemed to doubt of it, hee 

 told me that it was no wonder among them, but that they 

 were as great a nation, and as common as any other in all 

 the provinces, and had of late yeeres slaine many hundreds 

 of his fathers people, and of other nations their neigh- 

 bours, but it was not my chance to heare of them till I 

 was come away, and if I had but spoken one worde of it 

 while I was there, I might have brought one of them with 

 mee to put the matter out of doubt. Such a nation was 

 written of by Mandevile, whose reports were holden for 

 fables many yeeres, and yet since the East Indies were 

 discovered, we find his relations true of such things as 

 heretofore were held incredible : whether it be true or no, 

 the matter is not great, neither can there bee any profit in 

 the imagination ; for mine owne part I saw them not, but 

 I am resolved that so many people did not all combine, or 

 forethinke to make the report. 



When I came to Cumana in the West Indies afterwards 

 by chance I spake with a Spaniard dwelling not farre from 



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