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The four voyages of Raleigh to the Lower 

 Oroonoko succeeded each other from 1595 to 

 1617. After all these useless attempts, the ardor 

 of research for Dorado has greatly diminished. 

 No expeditions have since been formed by a 

 numerous band of colonists ; but some solitary 

 enterprises have been undertaken, and encou- 

 raged by the governors of the provinces. The 

 notions, which were spread by the journeys of 

 father Acunha in 1688, and father Fritz in 1637, 

 to the auriferous land of the Manoas of Juru- 

 besh, and to the Lag una de Oro # , contributed 

 to renew the ideas of Dorado in the Portuguese 

 and Spanish colonies north and south of the 

 equator. At Cuenza in the kingdom of Quito, 

 I met with some men, who were employed by 

 the bishop Marfil, to seek at the east of the 

 Cordilleras, in the plains of Macas, the ruins of 

 the town of Logrono, which was believed to be 

 situate in a country rich in gold. We learn by 

 the journal of Hortsmann, which I have often 



defend him against all enemies abroad and defray the expences 

 of a garrison of 3000 or 4000 soldiers.— It seemeth to me 

 that this Empyre of Guiana is reserved for the English 

 nation." {Raleigh, p. 7, 17, 51, 100.) 



* See above, p. 312. 1 found, among the valuable collections 

 of D'Anville preserved in the Archives of foreign affairs at 

 Paris (No. 9545), a curious manuscript map, tracing the 

 journey of father Fritz. Tabula geografica del Rio Mar anon, 

 1690. 



