go 



TRAVELS THROUGH 



undertaking than that of having completed one 

 of the mod horrible voyages that ever were 

 heard of About the fame time P/iilip de Ure, 

 fearing that ^efada would profit alone by this 

 difcovery, fet out from Coro in the province of 

 Venezuela^ together with Aquito^ the Lieuteiiant 

 Felakazar^ and one hundred and twenty men ; 

 but a Cacique having told him, that mod of the 

 people of ^icfada had perilhed in the undertak- 

 ing, he went to the fouthward along the river 

 Guabari^ and flopped, as Father Simon and Fa- 

 ther Tiedrahata afTure us, at the firfl fettlement 

 cf Omaguas^ in a very bad plight. But what 

 will not men undertake for the fake of gold ! 

 Juri facra fames^ quid non mortalia pctfora cO'- 

 gis*? 



But to what purpofe is all this philofophy. — 

 The Hay which I intend to make here, will en- 

 able me to fend you a new letter on the fubjed 

 of the mofl interefting particulars of the politics 

 and form of government of the nations who in* 

 habit this country. I am, 



S I R, &c. 

 At the AkanzaSy 

 051. 29. 1751. 



'^- Here follows a dull quotation fj-om a Spanifli author upr 

 on this fubjeft, which we thought proper to omit. F» 



