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to the shore in our boat; but no Indian came unto us. I 

 would have sent John of Trinidad to procure some of 

 them to speak with us ; but he was altogether unwilling 

 alleging that their dwellings were far within the mountains, 

 and that he knew no part of that side of the Island. 

 From this place we set sail for Santa Lucia, but fell 

 with Granata, which we found not inhabited;" 



23. When Sir WALTER RALEIGH was on his way 

 down the Orinoco, in 1595, he left two young English- 

 men with Topiawari, the chief Cacique of Arromaia, to 

 learn the language of the Indians in that part of the 

 country. One of these was FRANCIS SPARREY, 'a ser- 

 vant' of Captain GiFFORD, and the other HUGH GoODWiN, 

 a ' boy' of Sir Walter's. Goodwin was eaten by a 

 jaguar. In 1596, Sparrey was taken from the Orinoco, 

 to Cumana, by Captain Philipe DE Santiago, who had 

 been sent to fetch the two Englishmen, by DON ROQUE 

 DE Montes, the Royal Treasurer of Cumana. Sparrey 

 was sent prisoner to Spain. He published, in 1602, a 

 description of Trinidad, which will be found in Chapter 11, 

 Volume IV, of PuRCHAS's Pilgrims.^ 



24. Master John Wilson, on his return from the 

 Wiapoco, or Oyapok, in 1606, in a Dutch ship, put in at 

 Trinidad. The 'Spaniards entertained him and his com- 

 panie very kindly for they gave them Tobacco for all such 

 commodities as they had, and suffered them to lade Pitch 

 which goeth out of the ground there, for that our Master 

 durst not goe to the Point de Ree to lade sault there as 

 he determined, because he heard that the Spaniard did 

 lye there with their men of warre, and had taken cer- 



* See Reports from Santiago and de Montes, in 1596, in the Parlia- 

 mentary Blue Book: Venezuela No. i, (1896), pp.49 to 51. 



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