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in his XII. booke of his naturall historic. But in this 

 ilande, as also in Guianuy there are verie manie of them. 



" At this point called Tierra de Brea or Piche there is 

 that abundance of stone pitch, that all the ships of the 

 world may be therewith loden from thence, and wee 

 made triall of it in trimming our ships to be most excel- 

 lent good, and melteth not with the sunne as the pitch 

 of Norway, and therefore for ships trading the south 

 partes very profitable. From thence we went to the 

 mountaine foote called Annaperima,^ and so passing 

 the riuer Carone, on which the Spanish Citie was seated, 

 we met with our ships at Puerto de las Hispanioles or 

 Conquerahia.^^ 



18. Arrived at Port of Spain, RALEIGH gives details 

 that inform us of the ruthless errand he had set himself, 

 when with grim purpose he steered for that Port. He 

 tells his story as follows : — 



" Meeting with the ships at Puerto de los Hispanioles, 

 we found at the landing place a company of Spanyardes 

 who kept a guard at the descent, and they offering a 

 signe of peace I sent Captaine Whiddon to speake with 

 them, whome afterward to my great griefe I left buried 

 in the said iland after my returne from Guiana, being 

 a man most honest and valiant. The Spanyards seemed 

 to be desirous to trade with vs, and to enter into tearins 

 of peace, more for doubt of their own strength then for 

 ought else, and in the end vpon pledge, some of them 

 came abord : the same euening there stale also abord vs 

 in a small Canoa two Indians, the one of them being a 



* This hill, in the neighbourhood of San Fernando, is now called 

 Naparima, and has given its name to the whole d^\<,\.x\^.—Schomhurgk^s 

 Note. 



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