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wrong, as also considering that to enter Guiana by 

 small boats, to depart 400 or 500 miles from my ships, 

 and to leaue a garison in my backe interested in the 

 same enterprise, who also daily expected supplies out 

 of Spaine, I should haue sauoured very much of the 

 Asse : and therefore taking a time of most aduantage, I 

 set vpon the Corp du guard in the euening, and hauing 

 put them to the sword, sente Captaine Calfeild on- 

 wards with 60 soldiers, and my self followed with 40 

 more and so toke their new city which they called S. 

 Joseph^ f by breake of day : they abode not any fight after 

 a few shot, and al being dismissed but onely Berreo 

 and his companion, I brought them with me abord, and 

 at the instance of the Indians I set the'r new city of 

 S. Josephs on fire." 



19. On the same day that the Spaniards were fallen 

 upon, and Berreo was taken prisoner, Raleigh was re- 

 inforced by tbe arrival of Captain GEORGE GiFFORD, in 

 the Lion's Whe/pe, and Captain LAWRENCE Keymis, in 

 the Gallego. With them came ' divers Gent, and others, 

 which to our little army was a great comfort and supply.' 



20. Having paid off his score against the Spaniards 

 of Trinidad, Sir WALTER and his companions made haste 



* Among the Indian tribes of the Upper Orinoco and its northern 

 tributaries, the Ventuari, Padamo, &c., the descendants of the Spaniards 

 are still called Castilanos. When the Macusis speak of the Spanish 

 inhabitants of the Lower Orinoco about Angostura, they call them 

 sometimes Carrakinio (perhaps from Caracas ?), but more frequently 

 Espanolos. The descendants of the Portuguese or Brazilians are 

 called in the Carib dialefts and by the Guianians in general Caraiwa; 

 those of the Teutonic races, as the English, Dutch, Parana-ghiri, 

 signifying Sea-people. Caraiwa is a foreign word, and has been 

 introduced from the Tapuyas ; it signifies 'white man'— Sckomhir^k's 

 Note. 



