A.D. 

 1595. 



A reheanall 

 y description 

 of all the na- 

 tions andrivers 

 found in this 

 discoverie. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



passed, for I protest before God, that we were in a most 

 desperate estate : for the same night which we ankored 

 in the mouth of the river of Capuri, where it falleth into 

 the sea, there arose a mightie storme, and the rivers 

 mouth was at least a league broad, so as we ranne before 

 night close under the land with our small boates, 

 and brought the Galley as neere as we could, but she 

 had as much a doe to live as could be, and there wanted 

 little of her sinking, and all those in her ; for mine owne 

 part I confesse, I was very doubtfull which way to take, 

 either to goe over in the pestred Galley, there being 

 but sixe foote water over the sandes, for two leagues 

 together, and that also in the channell, and she drew 

 five : or to adventure in so great a billow, and in so 

 doubtfull weather, to crosse the seas in my barge. The 

 longer we taried the worse it was, and therefore I tooke 

 Captaine Gifford, Captaine Calfield, and my cosen 

 Greenevile into my barge ; and after it cleared up, about 

 midnight we put our selves to Gods keeping, and thrust 

 out into the sea, leaving the Galley at anker, who durst 

 not adventure but by day-light : And so being all very 

 sober, and melancholy, one faintly chearing another to 

 shewe courage, it pleased God that the next day about 

 nine of the clocke, wee descried the Ilande of Trinidad, 

 and stearing for the neerest part of it, wee kept the 

 shore till wee came to Curiapan, where wee founde our 

 shippes at ankor, then which there was never to us a 

 more joyfull sight. 



Now that it hath pleased God to sende us safe to our 

 shippes, it is time to leave Guiana to the Sunne, whom 

 they worshippe, and steare away towardes the North : 

 I will therefore in a fewe wordes finish the discovery 

 thereof. Of the severall nations which we found upon 

 this discovery I will once againe make repetition, and 

 howe they are affected. At our first enterance into Amana, 

 which is one of the outlets of Orenoque, we left on the 

 right hand of us in the bottome of the bay, lying directly 

 against Trinidad, a nation of inhumaine Canibals, which 



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