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death of Ordace and Marlines, one Pedro de Osua, a knight 

 of Navarre, attempted Guiana, taking his way from Peru, and 

 built his brigantines upon a river called Oia, which riseth to 

 the southward of Quito, and is very great. This river falleth 

 into Amazons, by which Osua, with his companies, descended, 

 and came out of that province which is called Mutylones; 

 and it seemeth to me, that this empire is reserved for her Ma- 

 jesty and the English nation, by reason of the hard success which 

 all these and other Spaniards found in attempting the same, 



" Although, as I am persuaded, Guiana cannot be entered 

 by the Maranyon, yet no doubt the trade of gold from thence 

 passeth by branches of rivers into the river of Amazons, and 

 so it doth on every hand far from the country itself. For 

 those Indians of Trinidado have plates of gold from Guiana, 

 and those cannibals of Dominica who dwell in the islands by 

 which our ships pass yearly to the West Indies, also the In- 

 dians of Paria, those Indians called Tucaris, Chochi, Apoto- 

 mios, Cutnanagotos, and all those other nations inhabiting near 

 about the mountains that run from Paria through the province 

 of Vensuello, and in Maracapana, and the cannibals of Gua- 

 nlpa, the Indians called Assawai, Coaca, Aiai, and the rest 

 (all which shall be described in my description as they are 

 situate) have plates of gold of Guiana. And upon the river 

 of Amazons, Thevet writeth, that the people wear croissants of 

 gold, for of that form the Guianians most commonly make them, 



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