REPORTS OF GUIANA ad 



1594. 

 But now they have sent me to learne out and discover 

 the waves most easily to enter, and to people the said 

 Provinces, and where the campes and armies may best 

 enter the same. By reason wherof I intend so to doe 

 in the name of his Majestie, and the saide governour 

 Antonio de Berreo, and in token thereof I require you 

 Francis Carillo, that you aide mee to advance this crosse 

 that lieth here on the ground, which they set on end 

 towardes the East, and the said Master of the campe, 

 the captaines and souldiers kneeled downe, and did due 

 reverence unto the saide crosse, and thereupon the master 

 of the campe tooke a bowle of water and dranke it off, 

 and tooke more and threw abroad on the ground : he 

 also drewe out his sworde and cut the grasse off the 

 ground, and the boughes off the trees saying, I take this 

 possession in the name of the king Don Philip our master, 

 and of his Governour Antonio de Berreo : and because 

 some make question of this possession, to them I answere, 

 that in these our actions was present the Cassique, or 

 principall Don Antonio, otherwise called Morequito, 

 whose land this was, who yeelded consent to the said 

 possession, was glad thereof, and gave his obedience to 

 our lord the king, and in his name to the said Governour 

 Antonio de Berreo. And the said master of the campe 

 kneeled downe being in his libertie, and all the Captaines 

 and souldiers said, that the possession was well taken, 

 and that they would defend it with their lives, upon who- 

 soever would say the contrary. And the said master of 

 the campe having his sword drawen in his hand saide unto 

 me : Register, that art here present, give me an instrument 

 or testimoniall to confirme me in this possession, which I 

 have taken of this land, for the Governour Antonio de 

 Berreo, and if it be needefull I will take it a newe. And I 

 require you all that are present to witnesse the same, and 

 do further declare that I will goe on, taking the possession 

 of all these landes wheresoever I shall enter. Signed thus. 

 Domingo de Vera, and underneath. Before me Rodrigo 

 de Caranza, Register of the armie. 

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