LAURENCE KEYMIS a.d. 



1596. 

 His men murthered him, and afterward the sayde rebels 

 beheaded lady Anes his wife, who forsooke not her lord 

 in all his travels unto death. 



20 Frier Francis Montesino was in the province of 

 Maracapana with 100. souldiers bound for Guiana, when 

 Lopez Aguirri the tyrant made insurrection in all those 

 parts of the Indies. What became of this intended 

 journey is not expressed. 



In this discoverie of Guiana you may reade both of 

 Orellana, who discovered the river of Amazones An. 

 1542. and of Berreo, with others that have trode this 

 maze, and lost themselves in seeking to finde this 

 countrey. 



An advertisement to the Reader. 



IN this Breviarie, the names onely are comprised of 

 such, as being led with the generall fame of Guiana, 

 have indevoured to discover and possesse it. The whole 

 histories are long and cannot suddenly be translated or 

 englished at large, as we in these Elegies finde them. 

 It may perhaps seeme strange and incredible, that so 

 many cavalleros should all faile in this one attempt, since 

 in many parts of the Indies, far smaller numbers in 

 shorter time have performed as great matters, and sub- 

 dued mighty kingdomes : I have therefore thought it 

 good here to alleage those reasons, which by circum- 

 stance may bee gathered to have beene chiefe impediments 

 to the Spaniard in this intended search and conquest. 



The first may bee the remotenesse or distance of their 

 places of Rendevous, from El Dorado : which appeare 

 to be foure, Nuevo reyno, the mouth of Amazones or 

 Orellana, Cubagua or the coast of the Caracas, and 

 Trinidad. 



I From Moiobamba, where Orellana hath his head- 

 spring, to his mouth, the Spaniards account it 2000. 

 leagues. Raleana riseth neere the said mountaines in 

 Moiobamba, & tributeth his waters to the sea, not farre 

 from the other : Guiana is environed with these 2 fresh- 



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