A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



of one hundred yeeres of age, and therefore of great 



experience) is remooved, to looke on, and if he finde 



that we returne strong he will be ours, if not, hee will 



excuse his departure to the Spaniards, and say it was 



for feare of our comming. 



Wee therefore thought it bootlesse to rowe so farre 

 downe the streame, or to seeke any farther of this olde 

 fox : and therefore from the river of Waricapana (which 

 lieth at the entrance of Emeria) we returned againe, and 

 left to the Eastward those foure rivers which fall from 

 the mountaines of Emeria into Orenoque, which are 

 Waracayari, Coirama, Akaniri, and Iparoma : below those 

 foure are also these branches and mouthes of Orenoque, 

 which fall into the East sea, whereof the first is Araturi, 

 the next Amacura, the third Barima, the fourth Wana, 

 the fift Morooca, the sixt Paroma, the last Wijmi : 

 beyond them there fall out of the land betweene 

 Orenoque and Amazones 14 rivers which I forbeare to 

 name, inhabited by the Arwacas and Canibals. 



It is now time to returne towards the North, and wee 

 found it a wearisome way backe from the borders of 

 Emeria, to recover up againe to the head of the river 

 Carerupana, by which we descended, and where we 

 parted from the galley, which I directed to take the 

 next way to the port of Toparimaca, by which we 

 entred first. 



All the night it was stormie and darke, and full of 

 thunder and great showers, so as wee were driven to 

 keepe close by the bankes in our small boats, being all 

 heartily afraid both of the billow and terrible curent of 

 the river. By the next morning we recovered the mouth 

 of the river of Cumaca, where we left captaine Eynos 

 and Edward Porter to attend the comming of captaine 

 Keymis over land : but when wee entred the same, they 

 had heard no newes of his arrivall, which bred in us a 

 great doubt what might become of him : I rowed up a 

 league or two farther into the river, shooting off pieces 

 all the way, that hee might know of our being there. 



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