LAURENCE KEYMIS ad. 



1596. 

 forth for reprisall, to exercise trade in. To such as shall 

 be willing to adventure in search of them, I could pro- 

 pose some hope of gold mines, and certaine assurance of 

 peeces of made golde, of Spleene-stones, Kidney-stones, 

 and others of better estimate. But because our beleefe 

 seemeth to bee mated in these greater matters, and a 

 certaintie of smaller profits is the readiest inducement 

 to quicken our weake hopes ; I not going so farre as mine 

 owne eyes might warrant mee, doe onely promise in the 

 aforesayd rivers Brasil-wood, honey, cotton, Balsamum, 

 and drugs to helpe to defray charges : and further, be- 

 cause without a beginning there can bee no continuance of 

 these benefites unto our countrey to any that shall be the 

 first undertakers hereof, I am gladly content to give such 

 light and knowledge, as by conference with the Indians I 

 have attained unto. 



My selfe, and the remaine of my fewe yeeres, I have 

 bequeathed wholly to Raleana, and all my thoughts live 

 onely in that action. The prosecuting whereof is in it 

 selfe just, profitable, and necessarie. Just, because it is 

 intended for the defence of harmelesse people, who fearing 

 thralldome and oppression, desire to protect themselves 

 and their countrey under her Majesties tuition : Profitable, 

 as may bee gathered not onely by many Spanish letters 

 intercepted, but also by the proofes mentioned in the 

 discourse of the first discoverie, and since that, by the 

 Indians owne voluntarie relations : and lastly, by the 

 provision that the Spaniards doe make to acquite us 

 thereof. Necessarie it is, as being the onely helpe to put 

 a bitte in the mouth of the unbrideled Spaniard ; the 

 onely way to enter into his treasurie of Nuevo Reyno, 

 and Peru ; the onely meanes to animate the wronged 

 Indians with our assistance to seeke revenge for the ex- 

 treme murthers and cruelties, which they have endured, [in. 684.] 

 and to ruinate his naked cities in all those parts of the 

 Inland ; whose foundations have beene layd in the blood 

 of their parents and ancesters. 



The forces that the Spaniard hath already sent to 

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