THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA a.d. 



1595- 

 Putijma foretold us of the mine. In this lake we saw 



one of the great fishes, as big as a wine pipe, which Great fishes 

 they call Manati, being most excellent and holsome ^^^^^^ Manatl 

 meate. But after I perceived, that to passe the said ^^^^^ 

 river would require halfe a dayes march more, I was 

 not able my selfe to endure it, and therefore I sent 

 Captaine Keymis with sixe shot to goe on, and gave 

 him order not to returne to the port of Putijma, which 

 is called Chiparepare, but to take leisure, and to march 

 downe the sayd valley, as farre as a river called Cumaca, 

 where I promised to meete him againe, Putijma him- 

 selfe promising also to bee his guide : and as they 

 marched, they left the townes of Emparepana, and 

 Capurepana, on the right hand, and marched from 

 Putijmas house downe the sayd valley of Amarioca- 

 pana, and wee returning the same day to the rivers 

 side, saw by the way many rockes, like unto gold ore, 

 and on the left hand, a round mountaine which con- 

 sisted of minerall stone. 



From hence we rowed downe the streame, coasting 

 the province of Parino : As for the branches of rivers 

 which I overpasse in this discourse, those shall be better 

 expressed in the description with the mountaines of Ajo, 

 Ara, and the rest, which are situate in the provinces 

 of Parino and Carricurrina. When we were come as 

 farre downe as the land called Ariacoa, (where Orenoque 

 devideth it selfe into three great branches, each of them 

 being most goodly rivers) I sent away captaine Henrie 

 Thin, and captaine Greenevile with the galley, the neerest 

 way, and tooke with mee captaine Gifford, captaine Cal- 

 iield, Edward Porter, and captaine Eynos with mine owne 

 barge, and the two wherries, and went downe that branch 

 of Orenoque, which is called Cararoopana, which leadeth 

 towards Emeria the province of Carapana, and towards 

 the East sea, as well to finde out captaine Keymis, 

 whome I had sent over land, as also to acquaint my 

 selfe with Carapana, who is one of the greatest of all the 

 lords of the Orenoqueponi : and when I came to the 



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