REPORTS OF GUIANA ad. 



1594. 



cruelties upon their borderers and others of the Indians 

 elsewhere : At their next comming, there being ten of 

 them sent and imployed for a farther discovery, they 

 were provided to receive and entertaine them in an 

 other maner of sort then they had done before ; that is 

 to say, they slew them and buried them in the countrey 

 so much sought. They gave them by that meanes a 

 full and complete possession, the which before they had 

 but begunne. And so they are minded to doe, to as 

 many Spaniards as come after. Other possession they 

 have had none since. Neither doe the Indians meane, as 

 they protest, to give them any other. One other thing 

 to be remembred is that in these letters the Spaniards 

 seeme to call Guiana and other countries neere it, border- 

 ing upon the river of Orenoque, by the name of Nueva 

 Dorado, because of the great plentie of golde there in 

 most places to be found. Alluding also to the name 

 of El Dorado which was given by Martinez to the great 

 citie of Manoa, as is in the former treatise specified. 

 This is all I thought good to advertise. As for some 

 other matters, I leave them to the consideration and 

 judgement of the indifferent Reader. W. R. 



Letters taken at sea by Captaine George Popham. 



1594. 



.Alonso his letter from the Gran Canaria to his 

 brother being commander of S. Lucar, con- 

 cerning El Dorado. 



THere have bene certaine letters received here of late, 

 of a land newly discovered called Nuevo Dorado, 

 from the sonnes of certaine inhabitants of this citie, who 

 were in the discovery : they write of wonderfull riches 

 to be found in the said Dorado, and that golde there 

 is in great abundance : the course to fall with it is fiftie 

 leagues to the windeward of Margarita. 



[Alonsos letter 

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