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tales related by one Martinez* (J nan Martin de 

 Albujar?), who said he had been abandoned in 



* I believe I can demonstrate, that the fable of Juan 

 Martinez, spread abroad by the narrative of Raleigh, was 

 founded on the adventures of Juan Martin de Albujar, well 

 known to the Spanish historians of the Conquest ; and who, 

 in the expedition of Pedro de Silva (1570), fell into the 

 hands- of the Caribbees of the Lower Oroonoko. This Albu- 

 jar married an Indian woman, and became a savage himself, 

 as happens sometimes in our days on the western limits of 

 Canada, and of the United States. After having long wan- 

 dered with the Caribbees, the desire of rejoining the Whites 

 led him by the Rio Essequebo to the island of Trinidad. He 

 made several excursions to Santa Fe de Bogota, and at length 

 settled at Carora. {Simon, p. 591.) I know not whether he 

 died at Portorico; but it cannot be doubted, that it was he 

 who learned from the Caribbee traders the name of the Ma- 

 tioas (of Jurubesh). As he lived on the banks of the Upper 

 Carony, and reappeared by the Rio Essequebo, he may have 

 contributed also, to place the lake Manoa at the isthmus of 

 Rupunuwini. Raleigh makes his Juan Martinez disembark 

 below Morequito, a village at the east of the confluence of the 

 Carony with the Oroonoko. Thence he makes him dragged 

 by the Caribbees from town to town, till he finds at Ma- 

 noa a relation of the inca Atabaiipa (Atahualpa), whom he 

 had known before at Caxamarca, and who had fled before the 

 Spaniards. It appears, that Raleigh had forgotten, that the 

 voyage of Ordaz (1531) was two years anterior to the death 

 of Atahualpa, and the entire destruction of the empire of 

 Peru ! He must have confounded the expedition of Ordaz 

 with that of Silva (1570), in which Juan Martin de Albuzar 

 partook. The latter, who related his tales at Santa Fe, at 

 Venezuela, and perhaps at Portorico, must have combined 

 what he had heard from the Caribbees with what he had 



