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off aria, they came to an Anchor before the Ifland Qtbugua, Anno i J4 1 . after they 

 had been eight hundred Leagues. 



Orellana informing the Spanifl) Court of his Adventures, defir'd the chief Com. T h, Enctt- 



""" »"* . jy [ j . ... . . LI t.on of Orrf : 



mand of the Province of the Jmaymes , which after earneit Solicitations he ob- <,„,. 

 tain'd, and accordingly fetting Sail from St. Lucar, he went to the Illand Tenerif 

 with three Ships and five hundred Men, where he ftay'd three Moneths, and two 

 on Cape de Verd. On Teneriff feveral of his Men ran from him, and on Cape de Verd 

 he buiy'd ninety eight, and left fifty fick behind him ; yet he Steer'd to Srajlle, 

 where, meeting with contrary Winds, he had undoubtedly perifli'd for lack of 

 Water' if the great Showers of Rain had not fupply'd his Wants, one of his Ships 

 carrying feventy Men and eleven Horfes.was never heard of, with the other two he 

 Sail'd by 'Baxos de San%oque, and from thence a hundred Leagues Northwardly be- 

 yond Maragnan, where a great way off at Sea they found frefh Water, in which 

 Orellano Steering, got between the Ifles into the River De las Jmazpnes, where he 

 Barter'd for Provifions, Sail'd two Leagues up the River, and came to an Anchor 

 before a few Huts, but fienderly ftor'd with Provifions, where he fpent three 

 Moneths in breaking up one of his Ships, and building a Ketch. In the mean time 

 fifty feven of his Seamen dy'd. Sailing twenty Leagues farther, he loft his beft 

 Ship ; whereupon he gave order to build a Barque of the Wreck. Thus he fpent 

 thirty days in vain to find the fore mention'd Arm of the River Amazones: the 

 Barque being finifli'd in ten Weeks, and going beyond the Ifies Maribiaue and Q»i. 

 tan, found the three great Rivers to difembogue into the River Amines, which there 

 was twelve Leagues broad • but wanting Provifions, and the Men being too weak 

 to go farther, they came back to the fruitful Ifland Comao, where a hundred Spani- 

 ards fetled themfelves, the reft going down with the Barque to find out Orellana, Hc ^^ 

 who, as his Wife informed them, dy'd with Grief. criet 



The EnglifhznA N.etherlanders,Viho Sail'd hither after the Spaniards left off,afcnbe 

 a Breadth of fifty or fixty Leagues to the Mouth of the Ama^one River, which dif. 

 charges its Water with fuch force into the Northern Ocean, that it keeps its colour 

 and tafte above thirty Leagues, according to the ocular teftimony of Captain Bar- 

 court. The Weftcrn Point, by the Netherlander call'd The North Cape, runs with a 

 long Slip of low Land into the Sea, into which more North-Wefterly fall the 

 Streams Taponnowyny , Arowary, Arykary, Qaffepoun, and Wtapoca j fome of them with 

 great Wilderneffes full of Trees . others glide between plealant Meadows. 



Eighty Leagues up the Ama^ne River the Vlufmgers have built a Fort call'd 

 Naffaw, on the narrow Ifland Cogemines, which is twenty Leagues long, and fepara- 

 ted I from the Shore by a Creek, and feven Leagues farther, on another Ifle, the Fore 

 Orawe ■ from which two Forts they Trade with the Natives, Arowaccas and Apebon, 

 bartering European Trifles for Tobacco , Cotton , Sugar, Gums, and feveral 



Tinftures. ■ A r ttr . 



Sir Walter Raleigh, Anno 1595. fending Captain BJher from Wiapoco to UuwA*w>to 

 (Ragapo, fome years before Baptiz'd in England, and then Governor of the Province ^jr- 

 Coojhebery, lying between the Jmazpne River and Wapoco, he receiv'd Ffier very ci. ^ Pro - 

 villy ana conduced him fifty Leagues up into the Countrey, to the Mountain Vl 

 Qvob, on whofe top is a deep Pool, full of well tailed Fifli, and furrounded with 

 the glittering Stones Topa*. ■ which Raleigh took the more notice of, becaufe the 

 fame Ground in the Eaji-lndtes where thefe Stones are found, inclofes alio Dia- 

 monds. Moreover, the Province Coojhebery rifes with plealant Hills, but conhfts 

 moft in delightful Fields and Woods. _ 



The River Jrocawo, falling into the Inlet Wtapoco, diferabogues alio with the 



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