Chap. IIL of the ENGLISH in AMERICA^ 
to the laft Hour of his Life. He, to fulfil this Obligati- 
on, undertook this Enterprize,with feven hundred Horfe, 
attended by a vaft Number of Indian Slaves ; but after 
marching five hundred Leagues in Purfuit of this Pro- 
jedt, he was obliged to return, but brought with him 
from the Frontiers of Guiana forty Plates of Gold, and 
many other valuable Curiofities, fufficient to fortify him 
in his Refolution not to abandon the Defign. It was 
this Berreo that Captain Whiddon had to deal with, and 
of whom he made a very bad Report* on his return. 
When Sir JValterh Projed was ripe for Execution, 
he was affifted by the Lord Admiral Howard and Sir 
Robert Cecily fo that in the beginning of the Year 1595 
he was ready to proceed ; and it appears, from his Re- 
lation, that he had in the whole five Ships. He does 
not tell us the Name of his own, which he commanded 
in Perfon ; though, as to the reft, he diftinguifhes them 
plain enough ; fo that we perceive the Lion's Whelp, 
which was the Lord Admiral’s, was commanded by 
Captain George Gifford ; Captain Keymis had the Com- 
mand of a Galego, befides a Bark, which was committed 
to Captain Crofs, and another to Captain Calfield. The 
whole Number of Men in this Fleet is not mentioned ; 
but the feled Company of Officers, Gentlemen, and 
Soldiers, he ufed in his Difcoveries, exceeded not one 
hundred. 
Thus prepared he departed from Plymouth on the 6th 
of February following, and failed to the Grand Canaries, 
and fo to Tenerff, where he waited a while for the Lion's 
Whelp, and for Captain Amias Prejion. But this Cap- 
tain difappointed him, and went upon another Adven- 
ture, which proved fome Difadvantage in the Profecu- 
tion of his Difcoveries. After waiting feven or eight 
Days, to no Purpofe, he failed with his own Ship and a 
Bark, commanded by Captain Crofs, to the Eland of 
Idrinidada, where he arrived the 2 2d of March, and 
fpent a confiderable Space of Time in viewing that 
Ifland, examining all its Ports and Havens, and even 
every little Creek, with infinite Care and Exadnefs. 
The Reafons which moved him to this Stay, were two ; 
the firft, that he might revenge himfelf upon Berreo 
for the Injuries he had done Captain Whiddon'^ People, 
eight of whom he betrayed into his Hands, and then 
ufed them barbaroufly ; the other was, that he might 
obtain fome Account of the Continent, and of the moft 
proper Method for entering into Guiayia, in both of 
which he fucceeded, in fpite of all the Care the SpaniJIo 
Governor could take to hinder it. At laft, perceiving 
that the Spaniards were contriving Meafures for his De- 
ftrudion, and knowing there could be nothing more 
fatal than to leave an Enemy at his Back, he refolved to 
make himfelf Mafter of this Place, which he knew 
would gain him the Friendffiip, as w;eil as fecure him 
the Obedience, of the Indians, who by the Spaniards were 
moft cruelly opprdfed. Accordingly he lent Captain 
Calfield to attack the Main-guard with fixty Men, and, 
following himfelf with forty more, reduced the Town of 
St.Jofeph without much Trouble. 
The Inhabitants he fet at Liberty, keeping only the 
Governor and his Spaniards Prifoners j and afterwards, 
at the Requeft of the Indians, burnt the Place ; but 
though he gratified them in this Refped, yet, in all 
others, he adted towards his Prifoners, and more efpe- 
cially towards the Governor, with fo much Civility and 
Kindnefs, that he drew from him a faithful Account of 
all his Adventures in Purfuit of the Defign before-men- 
tioned. The fame Day that Raleigh made his Conqueft 
arrived Captain Gfford^ and Captain Keymis, and in their 
Ships divers Gentlemen, and others, which to his little 
Army was a great Succour and Solace. Then, proceed- 
nu- c Difcovery, Raleigh firft called all the 
Chiefs of the Ifland together, who were Enemies to the 
Spaniards ; for fome of them Berreo had brought out of 
h planted there to eat out and wafte 
t e Natives ; then by the Indian Interpreter, whom he 
earned out of England, he made them underftand, 
A was the Servant of a Queen, who was the great- 
eft Clique in the North, and a Virgin, who had 
‘ more Caziques under her Command than there were 
Vol.IL Numb. LXXXIY, 
“ Trees in that Ifland 5 that flie was ah Enemy to the 
“ Caji elans, in regard of their Tyranny and Oppreft 
“ fion ; and, having freed all the Coafts of the northern 
“ V^orld from their Servitude, had fent him to free 
“ them alfo ; and withal, to defend the Country of 
“ Guiana from their Invafion and Conqueft.” Then 
he ffiewed them her Majefty’s Pidlure, which they fo 
admired and honoured, that it had been eafy to have 
made them idolatrous thereof. 
The like and larger Speeches he made in a folemn Man- 
ner to the reft of the Nations, both in his Paflage to 
Guiana and to thofe of the Borders, fo as in that part of 
the World the (^leen of England' % Fame was diffufed, 
with great Admiration. This done, Raleigh returned to 
Curiapan \ and though he had learnt of Berreo that Gui- 
ana was fome hundred Miles further than the Accounts 
he had received of Captain Whiddon had reprefented it, 
he kept the Knowledge thereof from his Company, 
who he much feared would have been difeouraged thereby 
from profecuting the Difeovery. When Raleigh had 
further gathered from Berreo the Proceedings of the paft 
Adventurers and his own, he told him he was come upon 
the fame Defign, and was refolved to fee Guiana. 
Berreo ufed many Arguments to diffuade him ; as that 
he muft venture in very light and fmall Boats, to pafs fo 
many dangerous Shallows, and could not carry Victuals 
enough above half the way ; that none of the Country 
wouIq fpeak with him, and if he followed them would 
burn their Towns •, befides, the Way was long, the’ 
Winter at hand, and the Rivers beginning to fwell ; but 
abo ve all, that the Kings and Lords who bordered upon 
Guiana, had decreed that none of them ffiould trade with 
any Chriftians for Gold, becaufe the fame would be their 
own Overthrow. Raleigh, refolving however to make trial, 
direded his Vice-Admiral Captain Gifford and Captain 
Calfield to turn Eaftward againft the Mouth of the River 
Capuri, and gave them Inftrudions to enter at the Edge 
of the Shole, and upon the beft of the Flood to thruft 
over, but they laboured in vain, nor did the Flood con- 
tinue fo long, but the Water fell before they could pafs the 
Sands, tho they ufed all the Skill and Diligence they could. 
Then Raleigh fent one King, Mafter of the Lion's 
Whelp, to try another Branch, called Amana, if either 
of the fmall Ships would enter ; but when he caiiie to 
^ the Mouth, he found it like the reft ; after him went 
fiohn Lowglas, who difeovered four fair Entrances, 
but all ffioie and ffiallow in the Bays leading to them. 
In the mean time Raleigh, fearing the worft, caufed his 
Carpenter to cut down an old Galego Boat, to fit her 
with Banks for Oars, and fo as ffie might draw but five 
P'eet. In this went Raleigh with Gentlemen and Officers, 
to the Number of threefcore ; in the Lion's /FMp-Boat 
and Wherry they carried twenty ; Captain Calfield, in 
his Wherry, carried ten ; and a Barge Raleigh' 5 ten 
more ; this was all the Means they had, having left their 
Ships at Curiapan, to carry a hundred Men with Wea- 
pons and Provifions for a Month, expofed to all the 
Extremes of the Weather, all the Hazards of the Water, 
to lie open to the Air, and upon hard Boards by Night 
in Storms of Rain, or under the burning Sum by Day, 
to fmell the wet Clothes of fo^many crowded together, 
the dreffing of their Food, and that moftly ftale Fiffi, 
in the fame Place, to be in fuch a Labyrinth of Rivers, 
in fuch a remote unknown Region ; what Prifon could 
be more loathfome and unhealthy, what Profpedf more 
fearful and defolate ? At firft fetting out they had twenty 
Miles of a high Sea to crofs in thefe crazy Boats, fo that 
they were driven before the Wind into the Bottom of the 
Bay of Guanipa, inhabited by inhuman Cannibals, who 
ffiot poifoned Arrows, and from thence to enter one of 
the Rivers of which Lowglas had brought Tidings. 
After four Days they got above the Force of the Tide, 
and might have wandered a Year about, and never 
been able to extricate themfelves j in fuch a general Con- 
fluence or Rendezvous of Streams were they now bewil- 
dered, and fo refembling one another, as not to be di- 
ftinguiffied, ^ but imperceptibly circulating and driving 
them about into the fame Place where they had been be- 
fore, paffing between many Iflands and Streights, whole 
I i i Borders- 
