A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



bignesse, that they know no difference betweene it & 

 TJie great ^-^g maine sea. There be infinite numbers of Canoas 



^ManoToTEl ^" ^^^ ^^^^' ^^^ ^'^ ^ suppose) it is no other then that. 

 Dorado whereon Manoa standeth : In this river, which we now 



standeth. call Devoritia, the Spaniards doe intend to build them 



a towne. In Moruga it was, that they hunted Wareo and 

 In September, his people, about halfe a yere since. Arromaiarie, who 

 wan so great credit by overthrowing the Tivitivas of 

 Amana, and making free the passage of that river (but 

 now againe liveth in disgrace, by reason that the Charibes 

 of Guanipa have killed most of his followers, and burnt 

 his townes) was present with them, and tooke away many 

 of the women of that place. Arracurri, another Indian 

 of the nation of the Arwaccas inhabiting in Barima, was 

 likewise present, and conducted the Spaniards to all 

 the Indian dwellings. They were not of Anthonie de 

 Berreo his companie, that followed this chase, but were 

 the Spaniards of Margarita, and the Caraccas, with whom 



Tj'hs Spaniard ^Santiago forsaking his governour Berreo joyned him- 

 understandeth ^^^^^^ p^^. ^j^-^j^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ .^^ -^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^j^-, 

 the Gmanian , , , . •' ^ . , ,_, 



language, and ^^^' every day expectmg sentence or death, i he occasion 



is reputed a hereof grew as followeth. 



very sufficient When Berreo, having lost his men, was left with 

 Fasshardo at Cumana all alone, as forlorne, and never 

 likely to compasse his intended conquest of Guiana : 

 the governors of the Caraccas and Margarita consulting 

 together, sent with all speede into Spaine, to advertise 

 their king, that Berreo was utterly unable to folow this 

 enterprise, that he had given it over, and did now sojorne 

 in his old dayes at Fasshardo his house, minding nothing 

 else but his solace, and recreation. They farther declared, 

 of how great importance this matter was : and that an 

 English gentleman of such reckoning, as they named 

 your lordship to be, having bene in Guiana, and under- 

 standing so much of the state thereof, and the nations 

 thereunto adjoyning, as Topiawarie, being both olde and 

 wise, could informe you of, who also in confirmation 

 of friendship, had given you his onely sonne, to whome 



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