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and released them,* St. ROBERT DUDLEY perceiving his 
hopes of Trinidada bootlesse direéted his cource first to 
the maine land South-west from point d’Brea or Pt. Pich, 
on Trinidada, and from thence dispatched a Company 
of Soldiers in small Boates up yé river Oranoque, on a 
discovery for gold mines, they wandered up and downe 
fourteen days or there abouts, and returned to the fleet, 
makeing little discovery; and Sir ROBERT DUDLEY 
sayled over againe to the River Parracoa, on Trinidada, 
where he watered, and tocke in soome fresh provisions, 
and fruits, and sayled thence first to the island Granada, 
and then to St. John, Portarico, and other parts of the 
Indies, where hee did the Spanyards great damage, and 
during his stay at Trinidada, did make some progresse 
in the Arawaco language, St ROBERT DUDLEY had not 
been gon from Trinidada, above two months but there 
arrived from England, at yt Island St. WALTER RALEIGH,t 
wth, a small fleet of her Maties. ships ; who first anchoring 
within point Galeria, the east point of yt Island, he did 
wth, his barge, from the said east point, row by the 
shoare into every Bay, Cove, River, and Creeke, untill 
he came to the point wth, in ye grand Bay, called Punta 
de Brea, or point Pitch, (wceh, is noe less than 170 miles 
by the shoare) where the whole clifts are that kinde of 
Pitch, called in ye West Indies Munjack ; Sir WALTER 
* See Seétion, 18, Supra. 
+ An account of Raieigh’s first visit to Trinidad will be found in 
Seétions 16 to 24, Supra. Details of his second visit to that Island will 
be found in Seétion 28, Supra. Edwards, in his admirable Life of 
Sir Walter Raleigh, quotes from a Manuscript, preserved in the — 
Library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 297, B, 2, 2, ff. 160, This 
is a Narrative, by Jones, the Chaplain of the Flying Chudleigh, of the 
events of the second voyage, 
