AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



turning downe the River with the force of the streame 

 some twentie miles in sixe houres : the next morning 

 with ten shot I went ashoare, intending if the Indians 

 should thinke themselves too weake, with our helpe to 

 displant the Spaniardes : to set some of them on worke, 

 for hatchets and knives to returne us golde graines, 

 and white stones from such places, as they should be 

 directed unto. When wee came to the place of their 

 usuall abode ; wee sawe that they lately had bene there, 

 but could speake with none of them. It may be that 

 feare (which is easie of beliefe) perswaded them that 

 we were Spaniards. Gilbert my Pilot here offered to 

 bring us either to the myne of white stones neere 

 Winicapora, or else to a gold myne, which Putijma 

 had shewed him, being but one dayes journey over- 

 land, from the place where we now stayed at an ancor. 

 I sawe farre off the mountaine adjoyning to this gold 

 myne, and having measured their pathes neere the same 

 place this last yeere, could not judge it to bee fifteene 

 miles from us. I doe well remember howe comming 

 that way with Putijma the yeere before, he pointed to 

 this same mountaine, making signes to have me goe 

 with him thither. I understood his signes and marked 

 the place, but mistooke his meaning, imagining that he 

 would have shewed mee the overfall of the River Cur- 

 wara from the mountaines. My Indian shewed me in 

 what sort without digging they gather the gold in the 

 sand of a small river, named Macawini, that springeth 

 and falleth from the rockes where this myne is. And 

 farther tolde me, that hee was with Putijma, at what 

 time Morekito was to be executed by the Spaniardes, 

 and that then the chiefe of Morekito his friends were 

 in consultation, to shewe this myne unto them if so 

 they might redeeme their Captaines life, but upon better 

 advise, supposing them in this case to bee implacable, 

 and that this might proove a meanes to loose not onely 

 their king, but their Countrey also : they have to this 

 day concealed it from them, being of all others the 



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