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Before the Mouth of Cajani appears the high Ifland Mattoory, furrounded by the 

 lefler Ifles SannaTbony, Epenefari, and Eponeregemene. 



Between the Rivers Cajani and Maccaria, lies the low Ifland Muccumbro, out of 

 whole Center rife two Mountains, and which is inhabited, as the Main Coaft by 

 Caribbeeans, whofe General ArraTbicary fhew'd great friendship to the Netherlander s : 

 They obferve no certain Laws for Government; Adultery and Murder they punifli 

 with Death ; they are very tyrannical towards their Wives, who for the lead aft 

 of incivility have their Brains beat out; they efteem one another according to the 

 number of their Wives, the eldeft of which performs all Houfhold»Offices. 



The Caribbeeans are accounted to have been the firft Inhabitants of this Coun* c*rM«**t 

 trey, for the Jaos^ Sappaios, ,Ar oWacc as, and faragotos, were driven hither by the Spa* tmtf**** 

 maris from Trinidad or Oronoque. 



The wild Caribbeeans live farther up into the Countrey , and often fall with great 

 rage upon the other 5 but fince the Netherlanders have furnifli'd them with Arms, 

 they have not beenfo much molcfted by them. 



Beyond MacaYta lies the River Caurora, which is very narrow and deep 5 and next River *« 

 in order the Rivers Manamonary y Sinamary, Cunanama,Juraca, Mawary, Amana, and Ma- 

 ra^yny, full of Ifles, and four Leagues broad at the Mouth 5 along the Shore grow 

 little Trees, whofe Leaves wither as foon as touch'd by Mankind, but revives 

 again within half an hour. 



Next follow the Rivers Sorrenam y Sorrenamme, Copanama, Marateca, and Curetiny, 

 where the Netherlanders, by virtue of a Patent granted by the States General, drove x 

 Trade for feveral years. 



Somewhat farther the (Berbice, Apart, MaycaVmi y Mabeyca, Mirara and EJfekebe, dis- 

 charge their Waters into the Ocean, twenty days Journey from their Spring-Head, 

 where a great Lake (by the Jaos call'd The ^oponoitfini, and by the Caribbeeans, Tarime) 

 fpreads it felfa great way ; and on its Northern Shore hath the Town Mama. 



Along the River Ejfebeke is an excellent fort of Wood, the Dye call'd Orellano, and 

 abundance of CaJfaYt : In the Mouth of the River alfo lies the Ifle Ottoma, 



Laftly, between Ejfebeke and the great River Orinoque, glide the lefler Streams 

 Iwapoi, Vauroma, Gayni, Moruga, Ammacoura, and 9arima, before which lie feveral 

 namelefs Ifles. 



Qhriftopher Qolumbus, in his third Voyage to the Weft-Indies, difcover'd the great The d^ 

 Ifland Trinidad, where before the Mouth of the Bay Valient he was in great danger, l"^*™ 

 as alfo the Ship Commanded by Alonfo de Ojeda, by reafonof the Waves, with which 

 the great River tuyapar, otherwife call'd Orinoque, coming out of the High-lands of 

 faria, falls into the Sea, which made him call the faid Mouth Socca del Vrago ; fo 

 that Columbus, Anno 1 500 . difcover'd the Main Coaft of America to the Northward 

 of Guiana, as far as the Promontory De la Vela, before Jmericus Vefputius ; whither 

 Diego de Ordas Steer'd with three Ships, Mann'd with four hundred Caftilians, in the 2ft if * *-' 

 Year izj 1 . and before Guiana took four Qaribbeeans Prifoners in a Qanoo, and finding p* 111 ™ - 

 an Emerauld about them as big as a Man's Hand, they informed him, that up the 

 River was a Rock all of fuch Stones, and a Mountain on which grew high Trees, 

 yielding (lore of Myrrh ., but the ftrong contrary Tides and Water.falls prevented 

 Ordas from going thither ; and being troubled at the lofs of one of his Ships, he 

 ran along the Shore to faria, and took the Fort which Antonio Sedenno, Governor of 

 Trinidad, had caft up there, and left the Command thereof to Juan Gonfahe^, 

 Ordas pretending that Sedenno had built it contrary to the Emperor's Order, and that 

 he had made Slaves of the Natives. Martin Jamie*, Tafur ftay'd in the conquei'd 

 Fort according to Ordas his appointment, who went up the River Or'moque not 



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