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on his descent of the Amazon, he bought a vessel and 

 sailed away to Spain. With him went the news of his 

 great discovery. He at the same time spread the tale of 

 the warrior women, for whom he revived the name of 

 Amazons. 



5. In 1592, Don Antonio de Berreo y Oruna 

 removed from Margarita and settled at Trinidad, the 

 better to carry out his proje6l of exploring Guiana. In 

 quest of the rich Empire, he had spent 300,000 ducats. 

 Of him Raleigh wrote : — '' This Berreo is a gent, well 

 descended, and had long served the Spanish King in 

 Millain, Naples, the low^ Countries and elsewhere, very 

 valiant and liberal, and, a gent, of great assuredness, and 

 of a great heart.'* It was BERREO who founded the town 

 of Saint Joseph, the early capital of the island. His wife 

 was a niece of the celebrated GONZALES XlMENES DE 

 QUESADA, who founded the New Kingdom of Granada. 

 According to Spanish views, Berreo * conquered' Trini- 

 dad from the Indians. 



6. Berreo was not long left in undisturbed enjoy- 

 ment of his island Kingdom. The English sailors who, 

 in the spacious times of good Queen BeSS, did much to 

 break up the Naval Power of Spain, had, even before the 

 failure of the Invincible Armada^ taken their pleasure 

 in the West Indies : smiting the Don with swashing 

 blows. Some of these sea-dogs looked in at Trinidad. 

 As far as possible, in their own words, let us get their 

 impressions of what they saw there, as they have been 

 preserved for us by Hakluyt of honoured memory. 



7. Master Andrew Barker, of Bristol, had a score 

 to pay off against the Spaniards, for injuries done at 

 Teneriffe. He determined to himself redress those wrongs. 



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