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Capuri*, Grand Amana (Manamo Grande), and 

 Macureo (Macareo). As his ships drew a great 

 deal of water, he found it difficult to enter the 

 bocas chicas, and was obliged to construct flat- 

 bottomed barks. He remarked the fires of the 

 Tivitivas (Tibitibies), of the race of the Guaraon 

 Indians, on the tops of the mauritia palm trees ; 

 and appears to have first brought the fruity to 

 Europe, fructum squamosum, slmilem palmce pini. 

 I am surprised, that he scarcely mentions^ the 



island of Trinidad (lat. 10° 50'), the spot which was falsely 

 believed to have been the first seen by Columbus, by the name 

 ofPunta de la Galera. 



* See above, p. 724, and 755, where I have given the 

 topography of the delta of the Oroonoko. The name of 

 Capure is now given to one of the bocas chicas, between the 

 Pedernales and Macareo. The geographers of the 16th cen- 

 tury were agreed to denote the Boca de Navios by this name. 

 The narrative of Raleigh (p. 38 — 42) leaves much doubt on 

 this subject. Is the word Capure significative 5 Raleigh 

 (p. 72) gives this name to a northern branch of the Meta, 

 which during more than half a century is found thus marked 

 in all the maps of Sanson, and of those who copied him. 

 Now this Rio Capuri, which flows out near the Cabruta, is, 

 in my opinion, no other than the Rio A pure itself, called 

 Apuri by the Indians. The Voari of Raleigh, a tributary 

 stream of the Capuri, is probably the Rio Guaricu or Vari-cu 

 of the Indians. 



f See above, p. 535. 

 % He merely says (p. 48) : " Those Spaniards which fled 

 from Triniado, and also those that remained with Carapana in 

 Emeria (now the mission of the Capuchins of Carony), were 

 joined in some village upon the Orinoco." 



