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whereof tenne were for that place and Guiana, and had 

 some other shippes ready at Cadiz, if the same had not 

 beene by my Lordes her Majesties Generals and your 

 lordship set on fire. 



In one worde ; The time serveth, the like occasion 

 seldome happeneth in many ages, the former repeated 

 considerations doe all joyntly together importune us, 

 nowe, or never to make our selves rich, our posteritie 

 happie, our Prince every way stronger then our enemies, 

 and to establish our Countrey in a state flourishing and 

 peaceable. O let not then such an indignitie rest on us, as 

 to deprave so notable an enterprise with false rumors, and 

 vaine suppositions, to sleepe in so serious a matter, and re- 

 nouncing the honour, strength, wealth, and soveraigntie 

 of so famous a conquest, to leave all unto the Spaniard. 



Townes, and Casiques or Captaines that in this 

 were discovered. 



A.D. 



1596. 



Wareo. 

 Mashwipo. 



1 These are enemies to the laos, their money 



is of white and greene stones. They speake 

 the Tivitivas language ; so likewise doe the 

 nation of the Arricari, who have greater store 

 of those moneyes then any others. 



2 Here it was as it seemeth, that Vincent Pinzon 



the Spaniard had his Emeralds. In one of 

 these two rivers certain Frenchmen that suf- 

 fred shipwrack some 2. or 3. yeres since, doe 

 live. 



3. 4. 5. These with the other two seeme to 

 bee branches of the great river of Amazones. 

 When wee first fell with land, wee were, by 

 ye Indians report, but i. dayes journey from 

 the greatest river, that is on that coast. 



6 The first mountaines that appeare within lande, 

 doe lie on the East side of this river. From 

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