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the 14th Raleigh arrived at Cayenne. He sent his 

 barge ashore, to enquire for his servant Harry, the 

 Indian. When Harry came, a day or two after, he ' had 

 almost forgotten his Inglish,' but not his friendship for 

 his old Chief. He brought great store of food, to the 

 refreshing of Sir Walter's Company. At Cayenne was 

 Captain Jansen, of Flushing, ' who tiad traded that 

 place a dussen yeares.' On the 17th of November, with 

 the help of Captain Jansen, Sir VvALTER's ship, the 

 Destiny, got over the bar and went into the river. Here 

 the sick were set ashore, and here they all recovered. 

 Here also the barges were set up ; the ships were cleaned ; 

 the casks were trimmed and filled with water ; and the 

 smith's forge was set up, and such iron work was made 

 as the Fleet needed. At Cayenne they remained until 

 the loth of December, when the Fleet assembled at the 

 isles du Salut. Here 400 soldiers and sailors were em- 

 barked in the Encounter^ the Confidence^ the Supply^ 

 and another vessel, for the Expedition up the Orinoco. 

 They sailed on the loth, Sir Walter Raleigh himself 

 leaving for Trinidad, two or three days after. Besides 

 his ship, the Destiny^ there went with him, the Jason 

 (Captain JOHN Pennington), the Thunder, (Sir War- 

 HAM St. Leger), the Flying H art {^\x]0W^ FERNE),the 

 Chudley^ and two or three others. In that most valuable 

 edition of the Discoverie of Guiana^ published by the 

 Hakluyt Society, and edited by Sir ROBERT SCHOM- 

 BURGK, there is printed the Journal which Sir Walter kept, 

 in his own hand, of his second voyage. From that record the 

 following entries relating to Trinidad are extra6led* : — 

 " The 15 of December we made the land neere Pvn6lo 



* Cotton MSS., Titus, B. VIII., fol. 153. 



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