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A06694	Nevves of Sr. VValter Rauleigh With the true description of Guiana: as also a relation of the excellent gouernment, and much hope of the prosperity of the voyage. Sent from a gentleman of his fleet, to a most especiall friend of his in London. From the riuer of Caliana, on the coast of Guiana, Nouemb. 17. 1617.	R. M., fl. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 17148.3; ESTC S109776	23,360	50

Treasure will be found in euery Monument which how vnspeakable it is I leaue to iudgement And this doth also witnesse Martines a Spanyard who liued seauen Moneths in the great Citie Manoa which hee called El Dorado the place of gold with the great Emperour Inga and saw with his eyes what Lopez had written And further he did affirme of himselfe that when hee first entred into that Citie which for buildings state and popularitie and all other outward excellencies hee thought the goodliest in the whole world it was neare noone and then they vncouered his face for in his whole trauell hee was led by the Indians blindfold before and hee trauelled all that day till darke night and the next day from Sunne-rise till Sunne-set directly forward within the Citie before hee came to the Emperours Court which expresseth a masse of buildings farre beyond our apprehensions But here it will be obiected by the curious that without all question if this were possible to be so that the Conquest thereof had beene attempted many yeares agoe and that the Spanyard who hath got Peru and Mexico would not haue slept in a Designe of this great consequence Or if he had that then these knowledges would haue inflamed all the great Spirits of Christendome to haue ioyned their forces together in so worthy a Conquest And surely the Obiection is true nor hath eyther the Spanyard or other Princes beene sloathfull in this attempt though it hath please God their labours haue not hitherto taken effect For first the Marquesse of Pescaro imployed Oreliano about the Discouery of this Empire in the yeare 1542. and hee was the first that found out the Riuer of Amazons but failed in his first purpose After him Ordace who was Knight of the order of St. Iago did attempt the same designe vnder whom Martines before mentioned was maister of the Munition this Ordace was slaine by a mutiny vpon the Coast of Guiana with all such as likewise fauoured him by reason whereof the attempt fayled and few or none of the Company returned beeing sixe hundred foote and thirty horse After the death of Ordace Pedro de Osua a Knight vndertooke the attempt and hauing spent much time and search in the Riuer Amazons and wearied his soldiers was also by a mutiny stird vp by one Agiri a man of meane quality put to the sword and with him all such as loued him Then Agiri being chiefe tooke on him the attempt but not being able by that Riuer to finde any passage to Guiana he returned back and committing diuers rebellious outrages was in the end ouerthrowne in Nueuo reigno and finding no way to escape first slew his Children to saue them from defamation and after himselfe After him succeded in this enterprise Ieronimo Ortal de Saragosa but failing of his entrance was cast on a contrary Coast and so proceeded no further Then followed Don Pedro de Siluas but hee also entring by the Riuer Amazons was by those warlike Woemen defeated and but seauen of his Company escaped whereof but two onely returned Then came Pedro Hernandez de Serpa and vndertooke the action but marching by Land to the Riuer Orenoque was met by an Army of the Indians and ouerthrowne so that of his whole power returned but eighteene persons This ouerthrow heard of the Adalantado Don Gonzales Cemenes de Casada vndertooke the action and sought his passage by the Riuer which is called Papamene but he also sayling in the true entrance returned with the losse of much labour and cost This Gonzales gaue his Daughter in marriage to a very braue and stoute Spaniard but a little persidious called Bereo binding him by his oath and honour to pursue the Action to his last substance or the losse of his life which Bereo vndertooke and all be it hee had the experience of all those which had gone before and of diuers others and was well perswaded of their errours and mistakings yet he fayled as much as any other nor euer could come to any true light thereof till hee got conference with an antient King of that Countrey called Carapana This Bereo was after taken Prisoner by Sir VValter Rauleigh our noble Generall at Trinidado from whom he exacted much of that hath beene formerly written in the yeare of our Lord 1595. at which time Sir VValter attempted the discouery of Guiana and proceeded further therein being but himselfe and one hundred followers of all sorts then euer any man had done before he entred by one of the maine branches of Orenoque being nine in number which fall out of the North side and seauen out of the South and passed the Countrey of the Tiuitiuas which are people that in the Sommer dwell in houses on the ground but in the Winter vpon the tops of trees Thence he came into the goodly Riuer of Amana on whose borders he saw grow aboundance of fruit Trees good and pleasant to eat which was a very great reliefe to his Company when their victualls were spent and such strange plants and flowers as was most wonderfull Then hee went to a Towne of the Arwacas where hee found reliefe of victualls and other necessaries and a most delicate and sweet Country and in lesse then fifteene dayes after hee came to descry the mountaines of Guiana thence he went to the Towne of Toparimaca an Indian Casiquy which Towne is called Arwacas and there feasted was refreshed and got a Pilot to bring him to Guiana so that thence hee passed by the Iland Assapano and the Iland Icoana thence to the I le Ocaywita whence hee sent two Guianians to tell the Lord of that Country of his comming so he passed by the plaines of the Samay which reach to Cumana and Caracas thence hee went vp to Aromaia which was the Country of Morequito that was formerly slaine by Bereo where in the Port thereof hee anchored and the King of Aromaia came a foote vnto him being fourteene English miles and brought him all sorts of prouisions with this King beeing a man of an hundred and tenne yeares old Sir Walter discoursed in priuate and vnderstood that Country to bee a part of Guiana and withall he learnd from him the waies passages to Manoa the strength gouernment of the great Empire and lastly the nature disposition of the people and what Nations and Countries were aduerse vnto them After this discourse Sir Walter gaue him leaue to depart the old man promising him vpon his returne all things necessary that hee should want Thence Sir Walter went to view the famous Riuer Caroli and so to to the Iland Caiama thence to Canuria where he had conference with the Cassique thereof and from him learned also more of the state of Guiana and of the great wealth and of certaine Siluer Mynes which were then vpon the borders of that Riuer where hee then