Earty ENGLIsH COLONigS IN TRINIDAD. 29 
Island, by the place called Warwick: River in ye Chart 
and had pitched upon yt place, feareing ye Spainyards. 
The same yeare 1645, these people likewise deserted 
their Collonie, feareing the Report of that Mortallitie, 
that of late had been amongst their neighbours, would 
not onely discourage all people, from comeing thither, 
but. would likewise be a meanes to animate the Spanyards 
against them; Yett before they would leave the Island 
divers of the gentlemen at the request of the Arawacoes 
and Sepoyes, Indians, did resolve to take a farther view 
of the Island, then they had yett done, and one Mr. Wo. 
DRAX, a gentleman of, knowne reputacion, one of those 
that went upon the discovery, and now lived in London, 
told the author that about 30 miles from the sea, by a 
river syde they mett with a Valley covered wth. large 
trees, whose barke was yellow as gold and the wood a 
dellicate red, the earth as fragrant and reare iike the 
smell of, damask roses, and though these gentlemen, re- 
ceived this great incouragement, the Collonies upon the 
wing, and many gone, they were forced to leave this 
excellent country. 
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