A.D. 



1594. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



An abstract taken out of certaine Spaniards letters 

 concerning Guiana and the countries lying 

 upon the great river Orenoque : with certaine 

 reports also touching the same. 



An advertisement to the Reader. 



Hose letters out of which the abstracts 

 following are taken, were surprised at 

 sea as they were passing for Spaine in 

 the yeere 1594. by Captaine George 

 Popham : who the next yeere, and the 

 same that Sir Walter Ralegh discovered 

 Guiana, as he was in a vovapfe for the 

 West Indies, learned also the reports annexed. All 

 which, at his returne, being two moneths after Sir 

 [III. 663.] Walter, as also so long after the writing of the former 

 discourse, hearing also of his discoverie : he made knowen 

 and delivered to some of her Majesties most honourable 

 privie Councell & others. The which seeing they con- 

 iirme in some part the substance, I meane, the riches 

 of that countrey : it hath bene thought fit that they 

 should be thereunto adjoyned. Wherein the Reader is 

 to be advertised, that although the Spaniards seeme to 

 glorie much of their formall possession taken before 

 Morequito the Lord of Aromaya, and others there- 

 abouts, which throughly understood them not at that 

 time, whatsoever the Spaniards otherwise pretend : yet, 

 according to the former discourse, and as also it is re- 

 lated by Cayworaco, the sonne of Topiawary now chiefe 

 Lord of the said Aromaya, who was brought into Eng- 

 land by Sir Walter Ralegh, and was present at the same 

 possession and discoverie of the Spaniards mentioned in 

 these letters ; it appeareth that after they were gone out 

 of their countrey, the Indians then having farther con- 

 sideration of the matter, and more then conjecture of 

 their intent, having knowen and heard of their former 



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