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to return to Curiapan : thence to make their way, up 

 the Orinoco, in quest of Guiana. Before quitting Port 

 of Spain, the Captain of the Guard to Queen ELIZA- 

 BETH, called together a number of the Indian Captains of 

 the Island, and informed them of the Power of the 

 Sovereign of England. In the subjoined statement of 

 this transaftion, Raleigh'S account of the effe6l of his 

 showing the Virgin Queen's pi6lure to the simple islan- 

 ders, is simply delicious ; — 



*' We then hastened away towards our purposed dis- 

 couery, and, first I called all the Captaines of the iland 

 together that were enemies to the Spaniardes, for there 

 were some which Berreo had brought out of other 

 countries, and planted there to eat out and wast those 

 that were natural of the place, and by my Indian Inter- 

 preter, which I carried out of England, I made them 

 vnderstand that I was the seruant of a Queene who was 

 the great Casique of the north, and a virgin, and had 

 more Casiqui vnder her then there were trees in their 

 iland : that she was an enemy to the Castellani^ in respedl 

 of their tyrannie and oppression, and that she delivered 

 all such nations about her as were by them oppressed, 

 and hauing freed all the coast of the northern world 

 from the seruitude had sent me to free them also, and 

 withal, to defend the country of Guiana from their 

 inuasion and conquest. 1 shewed them her maiesties 

 pi6ture which they so admired and honoured, as it had 

 beene easie to have brought them idolatrous thereof.f 



* St. Joseph is now almost abandoned since Fort of Spain became the 

 capital. The number of inhabitants amounted in 1837 to six hundred 

 and four. 



■j- R:il'igh possessed the indisptnsrible accomplishment of a courtier 

 of Queen Elizabeth s reign, namely the art of flattery, in a high degree. 



