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Dudley learned here, were * man-eaters or canibals, and 

 great enemies to the islanders of Trinidad.' He made a 

 note of some of the words used by the islanders, with 

 their English meanings : and these are preserved in 

 Hakluyt. 



14. During his stay of thirty-nine days at the island, 

 Dudley colle6led information from the ' Savages' about 

 Guiana, and especially of those parts of the ' Maine over 

 against Trinidad.' He sent off his ship's boat with fourteen 

 men to the Orinoco, to discover a Mine of Gold, of which 

 he was told. After sixteen days' absence, * making but 

 one night's aboad anywhere,' the exploring party re- 

 turned to Trinidad. They brought news, among other 

 things, of a rich nation, that sprinkled their bodies with 

 the * poulder of golde, and seemed to be guilt, and farre 

 beyond them a great towne called El Dorado, with 

 many things.' DUDLEY wished to go to Guiana, and see 

 for himself : but his men had suffered such hardships in 

 their journey of 250 miles, in a rowing boat, that not one 

 man would go with him, albeit, as he says, he had a 

 commision to hang or kill them. 



15. While the party were gone to the Orinoco, those 

 who remained at Trinidad were rejoiced at being joined 

 by Captain Popham, in ' a pinnasse of Plymouth.' If 

 Dudley had not lost his own pinnaces, he says, he and 

 Popham would have * discovered further the secrets of 

 those places.' As it was, they stayed on some six or 

 eight days longer for Sir Walter Raleigh, who, as 

 they surmised, * had some purpose for this discovery ; to 

 the ende, that by their intelligence and his boates, they 

 might have done some good.' Sir WALTER did not 

 arrive at Trinidad for some weeks afterwards, so Dudley 



