THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA ad. 



1595. 

 And the next morning wee heard them answere us also 



with a piece : wee tooke them aboord us, and tooke 



our leave of Putima their guide, who of all others most 



lamented our departure, and offered to send his sonne 



with us into England, if we could have stayed till he 



had sent backe to his towne : but our hearts were cold 



to behold the great rage and increase of Orenoque, and 



therefore departed, and turned toward the West, till 



we had recovered the parting of the three branches 



aforesayd, that we might put downe the streame after 



the galley. 



The next day we landed on the Island of Assapano 

 (which devideth the river from that branch by which 

 we sent downe to Emeria) and there feasted our selves 

 with that beast which is called Armadilla presented unto 

 us before at Winicapora, and the day following we 

 recovered the galley at ankor at the port of Topari- The port of 

 maca, & the same evening departed with very foule Topanmaca. 

 weather and terrible thunder, and showers, for the Winter 

 was come on very farre : the best was, we went no 

 lesse then 100 miles a day, downe the river ; but by 

 the way we entred, it was impossible to returne, for 

 that the river of Amana, being in the bottome of the 

 bay of Guanipa, cannot be sayled backe by any meanes, 

 both the brize and current of the sea were so forcible : 

 and therefore wee followed a branch of Orenoque called 

 Capuri, which entred into the sea Eastward of our 

 ships, to the end we might beare with them before the 

 wind, and it was not without neede, for we had by that 

 way as much to crosse of the maine sea after we came 

 to the rivers mouth, as between Gravelyn and Dover, 

 in such boats as your Hon. hath heard. 



To speake of what past homeward were tedious, either 

 to describe or name any of the rivers. Islands, or villages 

 of the Tivitivas which dwell on trees : we will leave 

 all those to the generall mappe : and to be short, [III. 659.] 

 when we were arrived at the sea side, then grew our 

 greatest doubt, and the bitterest of all our journey fore- 



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