EARLY ENGLISH COLONIES IN TRINIDAD. 19 
livered at ye River Carone on Trinidada being resolved 
to rebuild their Cittie St. Joseph, wh. at yt time wth. the 
Indians, they could not doe for the Arrawacoes, Nepoyes 
and Carrebs, the Natives of Trinidada did unanimously 
owne the protection of the English and St- WALTER 
RAWLEIGH did instru& them in building a fortification, 
on the most naturell fastnesses, and to make them Mus- 
quett proofe, whither their old men, wives, and children, 
might retyre,, in time of distresse, whilst they might 
gaule the Spanish Settlements. Hee likewise stored 
them wth. many thousands of Arrow-heads of hardened 
Iron, such as they never had before nor since. The 
Dutch Merchants sent their Negroes, by one ISAAC Du- 
VERNE, who Anno 1606, landed 470 men and women, 
negroes, at Trinidada, and during his stay did converse 
much wth. the Indians, whome he reports to have had a 
Venerable opinion of Sir WALTER RAWLEIGH, This gen- 
tleman did travell many score miles on Trinidada, and doth 
report it to bee the best land he ever beheld, he saith 
there are in it rich copper and iron mines, sometimes 
(he saith) he found mountaines covered wth. Marquoy- 
setts, very ponderous, That he traveiled some Miles in 
one Valley, the earth whereof being fragrant as violetts, 
and from the trees that grew on that land, there issued 
out the most odorifferous Balsome he ever smelt. 
From DUVERNE’S observacions, Anno 1607, nothing 
hapned considerable for divers yeares, some little mis- 
understanding between the Spanyards, and ye native 
Indians and St. WALTER RAWLE!GH’S harbouringat Point 
Gallo or Cape Coast, on that Island, in his last and un- 
happy Voyage to Guiana, 1618, and his renewing his 
league, and acquaintance wth. the Indians, 
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