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tries. Raleigh gives this basin forty miles in 

 breadth ; and, as all the lakes of Parima must 

 have auriferous sands, he does not fail to assert, 

 that in summer, when the waters retire, pieces 

 of gold of considerable weight are found there. 



The sources of the tributary streams of the 

 Carony, the Arui, and the Caura, (Caroli, Arvi, 

 and Caora *, of the ancient geographers) being 

 very near each other -f-, this suggested the idea 

 of making all these rivers take their rise from 

 the pretended lake Cassipa %. Sanson has so 



misapprehension give rise to these denominations ? I am 

 surprised to find the Indian words (of one of the different 

 Caribbee dialects ?) Ezrabeta cassipuna aquerewana, translated 

 by Raleigh, " the great princes or greatest commander." 

 Since acarwana certainly signifies a chief, or any person who 

 commands (Raleigh, p. 6 and 7), cassipuna perhaps means 

 great, and lake Cassipa is synonimous with great lake. In the 

 same manner Cass-iquiare may be a great river, for iquiare, 

 like veni, is, on the north of the Amazon, a termination com- 

 mon to all rivers. Goto, however, in Cassipa-go£o, is a 

 Caribbee term denoting a tribe. See above, p. 402. 



* D'Anville names the Rio Caura, Coari ; and the Rio 

 Arui, Aroay. I have not been able hitherto to guess what is 

 meant by the Aloica (Atoca, Atoka of Raleigh) , which issues 

 from the lake Cassipa, between the Caura and the Arui. 

 t See above, p. 582, 684, 689. 



X Raleigh makes only the Carony and the Arui issue from 

 it (Hondius, Nieuwe Caerte van bet wonderbare landt Guiana 

 besocht door Sir Water Ralegh, 1594-1596) j but in posterior 

 maps, for instance that of Sanson, the Rio Caura issues also 

 from lake Cassipa. 



