ealeigh’s expeditios. 
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^'■ew a great deal ot water, lie found it difficult to enter the 
ocas chicas, and was obliged to construct flat-bottomed 
arks. He remarked the fires ot the Tivitivas (Tibitibies), 
<>i the race of the G-uaraon Indians, on the tops of the 
wauritia palm-trees ; and appears to have first brought the 
cait to Europe {fructuni squamosum, similem palmcB pint). 
aiipprised, that he scarcely mentions the settlement, 
had been made by Berrio under the name ot Santo 
homo (la Vieja Guayana.) This settlement however dates 
^lom 1591; and though, according to Fray Pedro Simon, 
religion and policy prohibited all mercantile connection 
Christians " [Spaniards] and Heretics [the Dutch 
Englisti]^” there was then carried on at the end of the 
•uxteenth century, as in our days, an active contraband trade 
y the mouths ’of the Orinoco. Ealeigh passed the river 
(Cruarapo), and “the plains of Saymas (Chaymas), 
' ‘ich extend, keeping the same level, as far as Cumana and 
he stopped at Moi’equito (perhaps a little to the 
th*^ n the site of the villa de Upata, in the missions of 
6 Carony), whei’e an old cacique confirmed to him all the 
^eries of Berrio on the irruption of foreign nations 
\ I and Hpuremei) into Gruiana. The Eaudales or 
ai'aets of the Caroli (Carony), a river which was at that 
of as the shortest way for reaching the towns 
Q -'laciireguarai and Manoa, situate on the banks of lake 
assipa and of lake Eupunuwini or Dorado, put an end to 
this expedition. 
the went scarcely the distance of sixty leagues along 
ac hut he names the upper tributary streams, 
th*^°n to tin. vague notions he had collected ; the Cari, 
-A-pure (Capuri?) the Gluarico (A^oari?) the 
* 0 2 ,, and even, “ in the province of Baraguan, the great 
distinguishes tlie Meta from the Beta, which flows into the 
also d^t*^ Orinoco) conjointly with the Daune, near Athule ; as lie 
Casne*^ ^’^^“ishes the Casanare, a tributary stream of the Meta, and the 
vero <^omes from the south, and appears to be the Rio Cuchi- 
known • ^ ®oove the confluence of the Apure was then very confusedly 
were c * ^fr^mns that flow into the tributary streams of the Orinoco, 
^he as flowing into this river itself. The Apure (Capuri) and 
proxi > appeared long to be the same river, on account of their 
the numerous branches by which the Arauca and the 
join each other, is the name of Beta perchance connected with 
