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MAI'S OE EALEIQH AXB HOKDIUS. 
brated incursion of tliat navigator, in 1595, on the coast of 
V enezuela and at the mouths of the Orinoco. Ealeigh col- 
lected from Bei’rio, and from other prisoners made by 
Captain Preston* at the taking of Caracas, all the informa- 
tion which had been obtained at that period on the countries 
situate to the south of Vieya Qumjana. He lent faith to 
the fables invented by Juan Martin de Albujar, and enter- 
tained no doubt either^ of the existence of the tw'o lakes 
Ca.ssij)a and Eopunuwini, or of that of the great empire ctf 
the Inca, which, after the death of Atahualpa, the fugitive 
piinces w'ere supposed to have founded near the sources of 
the Essequibo. We are not in possession of a map that 
was constructed by Ealeigh, and which he recommended to 
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 
Me laguna del Dorado, and the Ville Imperiale de Manoas. 
Ealeigh when at anchor near the Punta del Gallof in the 
island (A Trinidad, made Ids lieutenants explore the mouths 
ot the Orinoco, principally those of Capuri, Grand Amana 
(Manamo Grande), and Maeureo (Macareo). As his ships 
• These prisoners belonged to the expedition of Berrio and of Her- 
nandez de Sarpa. The English landed at Macuto (then Guayca Alacuto), 
whence a white man, Villalpando, led them by a mountain-path between 
uumbre and the Silla (perhaps passing over the ridge of Galipano) to the 
town of Caracas. {Simon, p. .59t ; Raleujh, p. 1 9.) Those only who are 
acquainted with the situation can be sensible how difficult and daring this 
enterprise was. ® 
t The northern part of La Pnnta de Icacos, which is the soutli-easfc 
cape of the island of Trinidad. Christopher Columbus cast anclior there 
Hgust d, 1498. A great confusion exists in the denomination of the 
iffcrent capes of the island of Trinidad ; and as recently, since the expe- 
tlilion of Fidalgo and Churruca. the Spaniards reckon the longitudes in 
houth America west of La Punta de la Galera (lat. 10° .90', long. 63° 20' 
attention of geographers on this point. Colum’ 
bia called the south-east rape of the island Punta Galera, on account of 
i7,?d.?a™e “^1 “ to the west, and 
lauded at a low cape, which he calls Punta del Arenal; this is our Punta 
e , ■* (funta de la Playa) where he 
btopped to take in water (perhaps at the mouth of the Rio Erin), he sale 
In the south, Jor the first time, the continent n/AmeiHca, which he called 
Isla banta. It was, therefore, the eastern coast of the province of Cu- 
mai a, to the east of the CaSin Macareo, near Punta Redonda, and not the 
SverTr" ““ Columbus), which was first 
