14 TIMEHRI. 
Mountaynes issues out great quantities of Tarre,* some 
black, other green and yellow, «nd the very clifts towards 
the sea are stored wtea sort of Munjack, not much un- 
like pitch, to the eye, wc. serves very well for triming 
ships, there is great store of sulpaur on some of the moun- 
taines, and other symtomes of rich mines. 
For the time of its being first inhabited, know yt- one 
DIDACUS A CAMPUS, and some other Spaniards, between 
the yeares 1522 and 1590, attempted to settle this Island, 
but were expelled by the natives ; who though of different 
nations, had a sence of the Spanish cruelty, and were 
unanimous against so severe ar enemy. Uxf?z// I know 
not upon wt. occasion, otherwise than a common fate, 
that at certaine periods of t me had attended most 
nacions i). the world, had then a concurrence to theire 
distru€tions, for about the year: 1587, tie Carrebes and 
Arawagoes had great differences in the West Indies and 
particulary on Trinidada, where the Nepoyes or Sapoyes 
nation (for they call themselves by both those names) 
abetting ye- Abrawacoes by wél!, meanes abundance of 
the Careb nacions were distroyed and the Arawacoes 
and Nepoves strangly wasted. This gave the Spaniard 
an op2rtunity o° setling on th : Island weh, united the 
Indians. and Ovipo in his Hist ry of ye West Indians is 
of opinior. had not the King of _ paine, in time, imployed 
that excellent Soldier DON A.‘TONIA DE BERERO,T a 
rst judi ‘ous gentleman, the 1 tives would have rooted 
them ut of their new Colonie wh. vas only ore small 
‘ For Raleigh’s mention of the Pitc Lake and Schomburgk’s Noée, 
See 17, Supra. . 
+ Ment.on of Berreo; or Berrio, as the Spaniards spell the name, 
wili be found in Seétions 5, 6, 8, and 19 Supra, 
