Chap. VIII. AMERICA. <5i> 



Scream Caroli glided downwards with extraordinary force, Raleigh return'd to More'. 

 quito^ from whence Putima, King otWarapana, conduced him to a rich Golden 

 Mountain in his Countrey, and along the Rivers Mana, Oiana, and Cumaca, to the 

 place where the .Orinoque divides it felf into three excellent Streams, the chiefeft 

 whereof, calPd Cararoopana, waflies the Prbvince Emeria, , out of whofe Mountains 

 the Rivers Waracayati, Coirama, Jkaniri, and Iparoma, glide to the Northern Ocean ; 

 as alfo the Jraturi,Amacura, Barima, Warn, Morooca, Paroma, &nd Wyni, all Branches of 

 the River Orinoque : from whence Raleigh return'd home to England. 



Not long after he fent Laurence thymes and Thomas Mafram back to Guiana : 

 Xjymes found out all the Rivers between the Ama^ones and the Orinoque, and Majham 

 the Stream Wiapoco ; from whence both return'd without any farther fuccefs. 



After this the Bufinefs lay ftill for a while, in regard Sir Walter %aleigb being (to* sir w * Utr 

 gether with Grey, Cobbam, and the <%mijh Pricfts, Watfon and Clark) found guilty of ^ d * f *T 

 High Treafon,was Condemned to die ; but being Repriev'd by thcKing,was kept a*' 

 Prifoner in the Tower for the fpace of fourteen years ; during which time he wrote a * 

 Defcription of Guiana > y which the King perufing, was fo well pleas'd with it, e/pe- 

 cially fince he undertook to make out by fevcral Reafons, that England might make 

 it felf Mafter of divers Gold*Mines there, to which Spain could lay no manner of 

 Claim, that he difchargd him out of Prifon, and permitted him to make a fecond h« »* Re- 

 Expedition : Whereupon with ten Ships, Anno 1 617. he fet Sail for Guiana again j %t*^x* 

 being tofs'd with divers Storms, he at laft came with five Sail to the River CaUiana, **"* 

 where he fell dangeroufly fick, and therefore fent Captain Kjymes with five Sail to 

 the River Orinoque, to con du ft the Men to the Gold.Mines 5 each Ship carrying 

 fifty Men, and the other Captains being Parker, North, Thomap, and Sir Walter (2^- 

 leigb's Son. The Spaniards having a Garrifon at Orinoque, fir'd very fiercely at the 

 Englijh, who fuffer'd great damage, and amongft divers others, Captain Raleigh him* 

 felf was (lain, whileft the other five Sail lay near the Wand Trinidad, under John 

 Pennington's Command, who daily fear'd the Spanijh Fleet. But fyymes found it 

 very difficult to Land in Orinoque, by reafon of the Banks along the Shore, which 

 Diego de Palameque from Puerto <$jco kept ftrongly guarded,- therefore going to an 

 even Shore with intention to Land, he was fo fharply receiv'd by a Body of Spanijh 

 Mufquetteers, that divers of his Men were mortally wounded ; yet breaking in 

 amongft them, he went towards the Gold-Mincs, to which the Way led through a 

 Wood where the Spaniards lay in Ambufcade 5 but he judg'd himfclf too weak to 

 do any good upon the Mines, one of which bclong'd toPeter P^drigo de Parama, a 

 fecond to HerYtano Frontino, and the third to Franc'tfco FaJ)?ardo : The Englijh alfo 

 were fearful, by reafon of the Spaniards Cruelties, who not long before had flay'd 

 fevejral Merchants alive ; fo that K^eymes contented himfelf with pillaging and burn- %*t2\ 

 ing the Town St. Thomas, which the Spaniards, had deferted. Soon after which £££w? 

 Captain Whitby ran away with a Ship from the Fleet, whileft fyymcs return'd back 

 to Raleigh, who laid feveral things to his Charge concerning the unneceflary Ex- 

 pence and fhamc of fuch anunfuccefsful Voyage ; which fo wrought upon I\eymes % 

 that he offer'd to lay violent hands on himfclf in his Cabbin. At length Raleigh 

 returning to London, was accus'd by the Spanijh Ambaflador Gundamor for the burn- 

 ing St. Thomas, urging that his Mafter refented it fo ill, that he threatned to wage a 

 War with England if Raleigh was not Executed- who notwithstanding he alledg'd, 

 That the Spaniards fliew'd the firft A&s of Hoftility againft the Englijh, who onety 

 defended themfclves 5 and that St, Thomas was burnt without his knowledge or 

 Order ; and that K^eymes had not obferv'd his Command in the difcovering of the 

 Gold-Mines, (which Apologies were generally look'd upon as real Truths) yet 



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