AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



river. It standeth in one degree and fourtie minutes : for 

 we fell so farre to the Southwardes by your lordships 

 direction. The barre without hath at the least three 

 fathome, at the shoaldest place, when it is lowe ebbe. 

 The depth within is eight and tenne fathome. The water 

 alwayes brackish. We found not any inhabitants in this 

 place neere the sea coast. I omit here to recite the names 

 of the nations that are borderers, their townes, Captaines 

 and commodities that their countreyes doe yeelde, as also 

 the soundings, tydes, and how the coast lyeth &c. think- 

 ing it fittest to reduce these disjoyned and scattering 

 remembrances to one place. As wee passed we alwayes 

 kept the shore within viewe and stopped the floods, 

 still ankering at night in three or foure fathome. When 

 we came to the North headland of this Bay (which wee 

 named Cape Cecyl) we sawe two high mountaines like 

 two islands, but they joyne with the mayne. In this tract 

 lying Northnorthwest neere 60. leagues, there fall into the 

 sea these severall great rivers, Arrowari, Iwaripoco, 

 Maipari, Coanawini, Caipurogh. Wee ankered in two 

 fathome not farre from these hilles, and filled all our 

 caske with fresh water by the shippe side, for in the 

 A sea of fresh sea thirtie miles from the mouth of any river it is fresh 

 water. ^j^j good. This second Bay extendeth it selfe above 



thirtie leagues to the Westward, and containeth within it 

 these rivers Arcooa, Wiapoco, Wanari, Caparwacka, Cawo, 

 Caian, Wia, Macuria, Cawroor, Curassawini. Here leav- 

 ing the ship at anker, I tooke into the boate John Provost, 

 my Indian Interpreter, John Linsey, and eight or nine 

 others, intending to search some of these rivers, and to 

 seeke speech with the Indians. In Wiapoco, at the foote 

 of the Eastermost mountaine, where the river falleth into 

 the sea, wee found twentie or thirtie houses, but not 

 inhabited. Wee stayed there but one night. Wanari 

 we overpassed, because the entrance is rockie and not 

 deepe. In Caperwacka we sailed some fourtie miles, but 

 could see no Indian. At one of their portes under the 

 side of a hill, wee tooke in so much Brasill wood as our 



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