LAURENCE KEYMIS ad 



1596. 



The report of a Spanyard, Captaine with Berreo 

 in the discoverie of El Nuevo Dorado. 



THat the information sent to the King was in every 

 poynt truely sayde, that the river Orenoque hath 

 seven mouths, or outlets into the sea, called Las Siete 

 bocas de dragon, that the sayd river runneth farre into 

 the land, in many places very broad, and that Anth. 

 de Berreo lay at Trinidad, making head to goe to con- 

 quere and people the sayd Dorado. 



A Relation of the second Voyage to Guiana, 

 performed and written in the yeere 1596. by 

 Laurence Keymis Gent. 



To the approved. Right Valorous, and worthy Knight, 

 Sir Walter Ralegh, Lord warden of the Stanneries, 

 Captaine of her Majesties Guard, and her Highnesse 

 Lieutenant generall of the Countie of Cornewall. 



Have here briefly set downe the effect of 

 this your second Discoverie without any 

 enlargement of made wordes : for in this 

 argument, single speech best beseemeth 

 a simple trueth. Where the affinitie of 

 the matter with your person, leadeth mee 

 to write of your selfe, unto your selfe, 

 that small libertie which I have therein used, shall, I 

 doubt not, without offence or sinister construction, be 

 given to the cause in hand : which, whether it suffer 

 not detriment, by attributing lesse then of right be- 

 longeth ; the judgement bee theirs, that uprightly and 

 indifferently shall weigh the consequents of their evill 

 purpose, who in seeking to detract from the Author of 

 these Discoveries, doe so much as in them lieth, wound, 

 deface, & tread under foot the thing it selfe. But this 

 is no novelty, nor proper only to these our dayes. 

 For long since it hath bin said, Laudes eo usque sunt Pericles, 

 tolerabiles, donee ea dicuntur, quae auditores se quoque 



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