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" loss of the lands, that they prevent the conversion 

 " and subjeftion of many others, through the news that 

 " the runaways give them, exaggerating the great trou- 

 '' bias and necessities they have to bear with in the above 

 " mentioned towns, thus doing away with the hope of 

 " bringing together, and founding a town in the neigh- 

 " bourhood of said capital, with the Indians who inhabit 

 " the lands of the lower Orinoco." 



Later on, he says, with reference to a proposal to 

 people lands in the Orinoco, on the island of Imataca, 

 that it would be very convenient to found two Spanish 

 towns, one " on the lands of the Orinoco, on the south 

 " of the Western extremity of the aforesaid island of 

 *' Imataca, and the other from eight to twelve leagues 

 " more to the east of the first." As Archbishop Laud 

 proposed to force Episcopalianism upon the Puritans of 

 New England, at the point of the bayonet, so did 

 Inciarte intend " by apostolic blows and knocks, to 

 *' prove his do6lrine orthodox." It " would, further- 

 " more be very necessary," wrote this militant coloniser, 

 " to send eight missionaries with a suitable escort to 

 " subje6l the numerous Indians, Mariosas, Guaraunos 

 " and Caribbeans, v/ho inhabit that neighbourhood. I 

 " do not think that it would be difficult to subject them, 

 " especially if they were given to understand that they 

 *' would be left in their own lands, as the great obstacle 

 *' to their conversion has been hitherto that they have 

 " been carried away from these fertile lands and taken 

 *' into others, almost barren." Again : 



" If the lower Orinoco is not populated, the pro- 

 " vince of Guiana, far from being profitable to the 

 " Royal Treasury, will be very expensive as it has been 



