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information which had been obtained at that 

 period on the countries situate to the south of 

 Fief a Guayana. He lent faith to the fables 

 invented by Juan Martin de Albujar, and enter- 

 tained no doubt either of the existence of the 

 two lakes Cassipa and Ropunuwini, or of that 

 of the great empire of the inca, which, after the 

 death of Atahualpa, the fugitive princes were 

 supposed to have founded near the sources of 

 the Essequibo. We are not in possession of a 

 map, that was constructed by Raleigh, and 

 which he recommended to lord Charles Howard 

 to keep secret. The geographer Hondius has 

 filled up this void ; and has even added to his 

 map a table of longitudes and latitudes, among 

 which figure the laguna del Dorado, and the 

 ville imperiale de Manoas*. Raleigh, when at 

 anchor near the Punta del Gallo ^ in the island 



(perhaps passing over the ridge of Galipano) to the town of 

 Caraccas. {Simon, p. 594 ; Raleigh, p. 19.) Those only 

 who are acquainted with the situation can be sensible, how 

 difficult and daring this enterprise was. 



* Jodocus Hondius, brevis et admiranda Descriptio Regni 

 Guian<E,\bm y y. 13. Raleigh, p. 21, 25,46, 52, 65, 69, 72, 

 90, 98, 108. 



+ The northern part of la Punta de Icacos, which is the 

 south-east cape of the island of Trinidad. There Christopher 

 Columbus cast anchor, Aug. the 3d, 1498. A great confu- 

 sion exists in the denomination of the different capes of the 

 island of Trinidad ; and as recently, since the expedition 

 of Fidalgo and Churruca, the Spaniards reckon the longitudes 



