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" The like and a more large discourse I made to the rest 

 of the nations both in my passing to Guiana, and to 

 those of the borders, so as in that part of the world her 

 maiesty is very famous and admirable, whom they now 

 call Ezrabeta Cassipuna Aquerewana, which is as much 

 as Elizabeth^ the great princesse or greatest commaun- 

 der. This done wee left Puerto de los Htspanoles, and 

 returned to Curiapan, and hauing Berreo my prisonour 

 I gathered from him as much of Guiana as he knewe." 



21. Leaving their ships and some of their Companiqns 

 at Curiapan, Sir Walter and about 100 officers and 

 men, in wherries, one little barge, a small cock-boat, 

 and a galley; carrying nine or ten men a-piece, with 



We refer to his poetry and his letters of adulation written to the Queen 

 during the period he was for the first time confined in the Tower; nay 

 even the romantic incident of the cloak, which, as Fuller tells us, led to 

 his favour with the Queen, proves him the accomplished courtier. The 

 adulation which pervades the account of his discovery, from the com- 

 mencement to the end, does not astonish us therefore ; but we venture 

 to say, from the knowledge we possess of the charafter and taste of the 

 Indian, that a representation of Zuccaro's portrait of her Majesty, now 

 at Hampton Court, in which she is presented in a fantastic dress, and, 

 which we must confess, does not convey to our imagination the idea of 

 beauty, would have had many more attraftions for the assembled multi- 

 tude of admiring Indians than the portrait which Raleigh showed to 

 them. — Schomburgk's Note. 



At the meeting of the British Association at Ipswich in 1895, Mr. 

 im Thurn. C.M.G., the author oi Among the Indians of Guiana, made 

 a statement, in the Anthropological seftion, that shows the Indians of 

 Guiana as still prone to the admiration of pictures. Mr, im Thurn said : 



" In one instance a savage tribe in Guiana, as the result of a fort- 

 night's teaching, were baptised, and they then abandoned their hunting 

 and erefted a church, but instead of a religious painting such as the 

 one in the building they were imitating they put up a portrait of Mr, 

 Gladstone from the Illustrated London News." 



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