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and PoPHAM re-watered their ships at Paracoa, and set 

 sail from Trinidad, on the 12th of March, * to see further 

 of the Indies.' On the 13th, when 25 leagues to the 

 northward of Granata, they took a small prize of * Sackes.' 

 which * refreshed them well.' Dudley arrived at St. 

 Ives, in Cornwall, at the end of May. In his voyage, 

 he tooke, sunk and burnt nine Spanish ships, * which 

 was losse to them, though I got nothing.' 



16. On the 22nd of March 1595, Sir WALTER RA- 

 LEIGH, the Founder of England's Colonial Empire, arrived 

 at Trinidad, With his own ship, came a small vessel 

 commanded by Captain Crosse. They cast anchor at 

 Point Curiapan, * which the Spanyards call Punto de 

 GalloJ It is now called Hicacos or Icacos ; and, with 

 Punta Foletto, forms the Serpent's mouth.* On the 

 coast they saw a fire, as they sailed from Point Carao, 

 now called Negra Point, to Curiapan. For fear of the 

 Spaniards, no Indian dared to come to speak with the 

 Englishmen. Before anchoring at Curiapan, Raleigh 

 had got out his barge, and in it coasted the Island ' close 

 abord the shore and landed in every cove, the better to 

 know the island, while the ships kept the channell.' At 

 Curiapan they stayed four or five days ; but, in all that 

 time, they *came not to the speach of anie Indian or 

 Spaniard.' From Curiapan they ' turned up north-east to 

 recover that place which the Spaniards cal Puerto de los 

 Hispanioles, and the inhabitants Conquer abia.' As be- 

 fore, Sir Walter left the ships, got into his barge, and 



* The Topographical notes of Sir Robert Schomburgk, to Raleigh's 

 Discoverie of Guiana, are used here to elucidate Sir Walter's account of 

 his itinerary. 



