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insolent, yet needy and weak. Their force was reputa- 

 tion : their safety, opinion. The Spaniards treated the 

 English worse than they did the Moors. There was news 

 that the King of Spain intended ' to plant Orinoco.' Men, 

 cattle, and horses, were arriving daily, to be employed 

 in fortifying Trinidad, raising a new City, and in the 

 'Conquest' of Guiana. Rowe's own opinion was that 

 'all will be turned to smoke.' The Government was 

 lazy : and had more skill in planting and selling Tobacco, 

 than in ere6ling Colonies or marching Armies.* 



28. In November 16 17, Sir Walter Raleigh arrived 

 in the West Indies, for the second time, in search of 

 El Dorado. On the nth of November he made the 

 North Cape of Wiapoco, in Guiana. There he rode 

 sufficiently long for his skiff to go to the shore, to enquire 

 for his " sarvant, LEONARD, the Indien who bine with me 

 in England 3 or 4 yeers, the same man that tooke Mr, 

 HarcORT's brother and 50 of his men when they came 

 upon that Coast and were in extreme distress, having 

 neither meat to carry them home nor meanes to live there, 

 but by the help of this Indien whom they made believe 

 that they were my men : but I could not here of him by 

 my boat that I sent in, for he was removed 30 mile 

 into the country, and because I had an ill rode and 

 5 leages of, I durst not stay his standing for.' From the 

 Wiapoco, Raleigh stood for Caliana, which we now 

 know as Cayenne, ' where the CasiQUE was also my 

 sarvant, and had lived with mee in the Tower 2 yeers.' 

 He left in port at Wiapoco, two Hollanders, that were 

 loading with 'Onotto, gums, and spekeld wood.'t On 



* Calenddr of State Papers: Colonial Series, 1574 to 1660, p. II. 

 f Letter- wood. 



