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their vifluals and arms ; set off on their journey up 

 the Orinoco. They promised to return in fifteen days, 

 but were away a month. Of that admirable piece of ex- 

 ploration, a delightful description will be found in 

 Raleigh's charming account of The Discoverie of the 

 Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, When 

 the explorers returned to Curiapan, after passing through 

 severe hardships, they found their ships at anchor : 

 * then which/ says RALEIGH, 'there was never to us 

 a more joyfull sight.' After burying Captain WhiddoN 

 at Trinidad, the little Fleet sailed away for England. 



22. In 1596, Captain LAURENCE Keymis in the Z?/?^- 

 ling^ returning from a voyage of exploration to Guiana, 

 stopped at Trinidad, after touching at Tobago. His own 

 account of his visits to those places is very short. They 

 fell in with the Punta de Galera, " the North-Eastermost 

 part of Trinidad. But having Tobaco in sight we first 

 went thither. This isle is plentiful of all things, and a 

 very good soil. It is not now inhabited, because the 

 Charibes of Dominica are evil neighbours unto it. They 

 of Trinidad have a meaning and purpose to fly thither, 

 when no longer they can keep Trinidad. Their only 

 doubt is, that when they are seated there the Spaniard 

 will seek to possess it also. The Governor of Margarita 

 went lately in a pinnace to view this island. GILBERT, 

 my pilot, who sometime lived there, noteth it for the best 

 and fruitfulest ground that he knoweth. 



" Thence we returned to Punta de Galera, and anchored 

 in ten fathom under the North side of the Island, some 

 five or six miles from the said point. The flood-tide 

 striketh along the coast to the Eastward very strongly. 

 We discharged a piece of Ordnance, and afterward went 



