AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1596. 



By this I perceived, that to stay longer for him (though 

 gladly I could have bene content to spend one seven- 

 nights more to speake with him) would bee purposelesse. 

 Wherefore having assured so many of the Indians as at 

 any time came unto us, of our speedie returne, promising 

 them plentie of knives, beades, and hatchets, if they would 

 reserve their Cassavi, and provide store of their pieces 

 of golde for us : I desired this Captaine to bee a meanes 

 that our friends of Trinidad might understand of our 

 being in the River and that wee meant to relieve them 

 so soone, as conveniently might bee. Hee promised in 

 Carapana his behalfe, that this should not bee forgotten. 

 One of the Captaines of the Cyawannas, who doe now 

 dwell in the River Arawawo, neere Trinidad, undertooke 

 also without fayle to ascertaine them thereof. I was the 

 more carefuU herein, because so many ships being heere, 

 I doubted least they would take order that no Indian 

 should speake with us. For so indeede it fell out. 



This Captaine of the Cyawannas came likewise to 

 joyne with us, and had provided fifteene Canoas for that 

 purpose. Their dwelling was lately in Macureo, where 

 the Spaniardes one night stealing on them, killed twentie 

 of their men, and burnt their houses, because they re- 

 fused to trade with them for certaine images of golde 

 made with many heades which they had gotten out of 

 Guiana. I sent a present of Yron to Carapana, and 

 then set sayle. 



In turning downe the river wee spent eight dayes. In 

 many places where the chanell lyeth wee found twentie 

 fathome depth : where it is sholdest, wee had two fathome 

 and a halfe, and that but in one or two places. Of the 

 worthinesse of this River, because I cannot say ynough, 

 [III. 682.] I will speake nothing. Wee have presumed to call it 

 by the name of Raleana, because your selfe was the first 

 of our nation that ever entred the same, and I thinke it 

 nothing inferiour to Amazones, which is best knowen by 

 the name of Orellana, the first discoverer thereof. By 

 turning onely, without helpe of oares to passe so long 



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