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of white, crimson, and carnation, perching on the river's side, 

 the air fresh with a gentle easterly wind, and every stone that 

 we stooped to take up, promised either gold or silver by its 

 complexion. 



Having learned what I could in Canuri and Aromaia, and 

 received a faithful promise of the principalest of those pro- 

 vinces to become servants to her Majesty, and to resist the 

 Spaniards if they made any attempt in our absence, and that 

 they would draw-in the nations about the lake of Cassipa, and 

 those Iwarawakeri, I then parted from old Topiawari, and re- 

 ceived his son for a pledge between us, and left witli him two 

 of ours. To Francis Sparrow I gave instructions to travel to 

 Macureguarai, with such merchandize as I left with him, 

 thereby to learn the place, and if it were possible to go on to 

 the great city of Manoa. Which being done, we weighed 

 anchor, and coasted the river on Guiana-side, because we 

 came up on the north-side, by the lawns of the Saima and 

 Wikiri. 



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' " The next day we landed on the island of Assapana, 

 (which divideth the river from that branch by which we went 

 down to Emeria) and there feasted ourselves with that beast 

 which is called armadilla, presented unto us before at Winica- 

 pora. And the day following, we recovered the galley at an- 

 chor at the port of Toparimaca, and the same evening de- 



