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above given, they will conclude that the policy that 

 prompted such sweeping statements partakes of Dan- 

 TON's VAudace: toujour s de I'Audace. What did 

 Raleigh say ? — Let us quote from the Hakluyt Society's 

 edition of his Discovery , published in London in 1848, 

 and ably edited by Sir ROBERT SCHOMBURGK, with 

 whose name the Boundary question has made the World 

 familiar. Of Guiana, Sir WALTER recorded (p. 115): — 



" To conclude, Guiana is a countrey that hath yet her 

 " Maydenhead, never sackt, turned, nor wrought, the 

 " face of the earth hath not been torne, nor the vertue 

 " and salt of the soyle spent by manurance, the graves 

 " have not beene opened for gold, the mines not broken 

 " with sledges, nor their images puld down out of their 

 " temples. It hath never been entered by any armie of 

 " strength, and never conquered or possessed by any 

 " Christian Prince." 



As to the precarious footing the Spaniards held on the 

 Orinoco, RALEIGH said (p. 39). : — 



" Now Berreo for execution of MOREQUITO and 

 " other cruelties, spoiles, and slaughters done in Arro- 

 " maia hath lost the love of the Orenoqueponi, and of all 

 " the borderers, and dare not send any of his soldiers 

 " any farther into the land than to Carapana, which he 

 " calleth the port of Guiana ; but from thence by the 

 " helpe of Carapana he had trade farther into the 

 " countrey, and alwaies appointed 10 Spaniards to reside 

 " in Carapana's Towne ; by whose favor and by being 

 " conduced by his people, those ten searched the coun- 

 " trey thereabouts as well for mines, as for other trades 

 " and commodities." So that mention of 10 Spaniards, 

 stationed at San Thome, is equal to Raleigh'S " affirm- 



