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destroyed * by the Dutch, under the command 

 of Captain Adrian Janson, in 1579. The second, 

 founded -f- by Antonio de Berrie, 1591, near 

 twelve leagues east of the mouth of the Carony, 

 made a courageous resistance^: to Sir Walter 

 Raleigh, whom the Spanish writers of the con- 

 quest know only by the name of the pirate 

 Reali. The third town, now the capital of the 

 province, is fifty leagues west of the confluence 

 of the Carony. It was begun in 1764, under the 

 governor Don Juacquim Moreno de Mendoza, 

 and is distinguished in the public documents 

 from the second town, vulgarly called the for- 

 tress (el castillo, las fortalezas), or Old Guayana 

 (Vieja Guayana), by the name of Santa Thome 

 de la Nueva Guayana. This name being very 

 long, that of Angostura § (the strait) has been 



* Laet, Nov. Orbis, Lib. 17, p. 660. Gumilla, vol. i, p. 31, 

 35, places erroneously the expeditions of Raleigh in the years 

 1545 and 1547. The first of the voyages undertaken at Ra- 

 leigh's expense was in 1595 ; the second, that of Laurence 

 Keymis, in 1596 j the third, described by Thomas Masham, 

 in 1597; and the fourth, in 1617. The first and last only, 

 were performed by Raleigh in person. This celebrated man 

 was beheaded October the 29th, 1618. (Harris's Coll vol. ii, 

 p. 252.) It is therefore the second town of Santo Tomas, 

 now called Vieja Guyana, which existed in the time of Raleigh. 



f Caulirijp. 175, and not in 1586. (Depons Voyage d, la 

 Terre-Ferme, vol. iii, p. 254.) 



X Fray Pedro Simon, not. 7, Chap, xxii — xxviii, p. 635 — 

 661. 



§ Europe has learnt the existence of a town of Angostura 



