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A10354	The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empire of Guiana with a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the spanyards call El Dorado) and the prouinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries, with their riuers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595. by Sir W. Ralegh Knight, captaine of her Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden of the Sannerries [sic], and her Highnesse Lieutenant generall of the countie of Cornewall.	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1596 (1596)	STC 20634; ESTC S110574	74,398	128

to the discription in the Chart of discouerie where euery one shall be named with his rising and descente When three daies more were ouergone our companies began to despaire the weather being extreame hot the riuer bordered with verie high trees that kept away the aire and the currant against vs euery daie stronger than other But we euermore commaunded our Pilots to promise an end the next day and vsed it so long as we were driuen to assure them from fower reaches of the riuer to three and so to two so to the next reach but so long we laboured as many daies were spent and so driuen to draw ourselues to harder allowance our breade euen at the last and no drinke at all and our men and our selues so wearied and scorched and doubfull withall whether we should euer performe it or no the heat encreasing as we drew towards the line for wee were now in fiue degrees The farther we went on our victuall decreasing and the aire breeding greate faintnes we grew weaker and weaker when we had most neede of strength and abilitie for howerlie the riuer ran more violentlie than other against vs and the barge wheries and ships bote of Captaine Gifford and Captaine Calfield had spent all their prouisions so as wee were brought into despaire and discomfort had we not perswaded all the company that it was but onlie one dayes worke more to attaine the lande where we should be releeued of all we wanted and if we returned that we were sure to starue by the way and that the worlde would also laugh vs to scorne On the banks of these riuers were diuers sorts of fruites good to eate flowers and trees of that varietie as were sufficient to make ten volumes of herbals we releeued our selues manie times with the fruits of the countrey and somtimes with foule and fish we saw birds of all colours some carnation some crimson ' orenge tawny purple ' watchet and of all other sortes both simple and mixt as it was vnto vs a greate good passing of the time to behould them besides the reliefe we found by killing some store of them with our fouling peeces without which hauing litle or no bread and lesse drink but only the thick and troubled water of the riuer we had been in a very hard case Our old Pilot of the Ciawani whom as I saide before we tooke to redeeme Ferdinando told vs that if we would enter a branch of a riuer on the right hand with our barge and wherries and leaue the Galley at ancor the while in the greate riuer he would bring vs to a towne of the Arwacas where we should finde store of breade hens fish and of the countrey wine and perswaded vs that departing from the Galley at noone we might returne ere night I was very glad to heare this speech and presently tooke my barke with eight musketiers Captain Giffords wherrie with himselfe foure musketiers Captaine Calfield with his wherry and as many and so we entred the mouth of this riuer and because we were perswaded that it was so neere we tooke no victuall with vs at all when we had rowed three howres we maruailed we sawe noe signe of any dwelling and asked the Pilot where the towne was he told vs a litle farther after three hours more the Sun being almost set we began to suspect that he led vs that way to betray vs for he confessed that those Spaniardes which fled from Trinedado and also those that remained with Carapana in Emeria were ioyned togither in some village vpon that riuer But when it grew towardes night and we demaunding where the place was he tolde vs but fower reaches more when we had rowed fower and fower we saw no signe and our poore water-men euen heart broken and tired were ready to giue vp the ghost for we had now come from the Galley neer forty miles At the last we determined to hang the Pilot and if we had well knowen the way backe againe by night he had surely gone but our owne necessities pleaded sufficiently for his safetie for it was as darke as pitch and the riuer began so to narrowe it selfe and the trees to hang ouer from side to side as we were driuen with arming swordes to cut a passage thorow those branches that couered the water We were verie desirous to finde this towne hoping of a feast bicause we made but a short breakfast aboorde the Galley in the morning and it was nowe eight a clocke at night and our stomackes began to gnawe apace but whether it was best to returne or goe on we began to doubt suspecting treason in the Pilot more and more but the poore olde Indian euer assured vs that it was but a little farther but this one turning and that turning and at last aboute one a clocke after midnight we saw a light and rowing towardes it we heard the dogs of the village When wee landed we found few people for the Lorde of that place was gone with diuers Canoas aboue 400. miles of vpon a iourney towards the heade of Orenoque to trade for golde and to buy women of the Canibals vvho afterward vnfortunately passed by vs as we rode at an ancor in the port of Morequito in the dark of night and yet came so neer vs as his Canoas grated against our barges he left one of his company at the porte of Morequito by vvhom vve vnderstood that he had brought thirty yoong vvoomen diuers plates of gold and had great store of fine peeces of cotton cloth and cotton beds In his house vve had good store of bread fish hens and Indian drinke and so rested that night and in the morning after vve had traded with such of his people as came down we retuned towards our Galley and brought with vs some quantity of bread fish and hens On both sides of this riuer we passed the most beautifull country that euer mine eies beheld and whereas all that we had seen before was nothing but woods prickles bushes and thornes heere we beheld plaines of twentie miles in length the grasse short and greene and in diuers parts groues of trees by themselues as if they had been by all the art and labour in the world so made of purpose and stil as we rowed the Deere came downe feeding by the waters side as if they had beene vsed to a keepers cal Vpon this riuer there were great store of fowle and of many sorts we saw in it diuers sorts of strange fishes of maruelous bignes but for Lagartos it exceeded for there were thousands of those vglie serpents and the people call it for the abundance of them the riuer of Lagartos in their language I had a Negro a very proper yoong fellow that leaping out of the Galley to swim in the mouth of this riuer was in all our sights taken and deuoured with one of those Lagartos In the mean while our cōpanies in the Galley thought we had

indaungered and brought from his powerfulnes as any prince in Europe if it be considered from how many kingdoms and nations his reuenews are gathered and those so weake in their own beings and so farre seuered from mutuall succor But because such a preparation and resolution is not to be hoped for in hast and that the time which our enimies embrace can not be had againe to aduantage I will hope that these prouinces and that Empyre now by me discouered shall suffice to inable her Maiesty and the whole kingdome with no lesse quantities of treasure then the king of Spayne hath in all the Indies east and west which he possesseth which if the same be considered and followed ere the Spanyards enforce the same if her Maiesty will vndertake it I wil be contented to lose her highnes faueur and good opinion for euer and my life withal if the same be not found rather to exceede then to equal what soeuer is in this discourse promised or declared I will nowe referre the reader to the following discourse with the hope that the perilous and chargeable labors and indeuours of such as thereby seeke the profit and honor of her Maiesty and the English nation shall by men of quallitie and vertue receiue such construction and good acceptance as themselues would looke to be rewarded withall in the like W R. THE DISCOVERIE OF GVIANA ON Thursday the 6. of Februarie in the yeare 1595. we departed England and the sunday following had sight of the North cape of Spayne the winde for the most part continuing prosperous wee passed in sight of the Burlings and the rocke and so onwardes for the Canaries and fell with Fuerte ventura the 17. of the same moneth where we spent two or three daies and relieued our companies with some fresh meate From thence we coasted by the Gran Canaria and so to Tenerife and staied there for the Lyons whelp your Lordships ship and for captaine Amys Preston and the rest But when after 7. or 8 daies we found thcm not wee departed and directed our course for Trinedado with mine owne shippe and a small barke of Captaine Crosses onely for we had before lost sight of a smal Gallego on the coast of Spayne which came with vs from Plymmouth wee arriued at Trinedado the 22. of March casting ancour at point Curiapan vvhich the Spaniards call punto de Gallo which is situate in 8. degrees or there abouts we abode there 4. or 5. daies and in all that time we came not to the speach of any Indian or Spaniard on the coast we saw a fire as we sailed from the point Carao towards Curiapan but for feare of the Spanyards none durst come to speake with vs. I my selfe coasted it in my barge close abord the shore and landed in euery Coue the better to know the Iland while the ships kept the chanell From Curiapan after a fewe daies we turned vp Northeast to recouer that place which the Spaniards cal Puerto de los Hispanioles and the inhabitants Conquerabia and as before reuictualing my barge I left the shippes and kept by the shore the better to come to speach with some of the inhabitantes and also to vnderstand the riuers watring places and portes of the Iland which as it is rudely done my purpose is to send your Lordship after a fewe daies From Curiapan I came to a port seat of Indians called Parico where we founde a fresh-water riuer but sawe no people From thence I rowed to another porte called by the naturals Piche and by the Spaniardes Tierra de Brea In the way betweene both were diuers little brooks of fresh water one salt riuer that had store of oisters vpon the branches of the trees were very salt wel tasted Al their oisters grow vpon those boughs and spraies and not on the grounde the like is commonly seene in the West Indies and else where This tree is described by Andrewe Theuet in his french Antartique and the forme figured in the booke as a plante verye straunge and by Plinie in his XII booke of his naturall historie But in this Ilande as also in Guiana there are verie manie of them At this point called Tierra de Brea or Piche there is that abundance of stone pich that all the ships of the world may be therewith Ioden from thence and wee made triall of it in trimming our ships to be most excellent good and melteth not with the sunne as the pitch of Norway and therefore for ships trading the south partes very profitable From thence we went to the mountaine foote called Annaperima and so pasing the riuer Carone on which the Spanish Citie was seated we met with our ships at puerto de los Hispanioles or Conquerabia This Iland of Trinedado hath the forme of a sheephooke and is but narrow the north part is very mounteynous the soile is very excellent and wil beare suger ginger or any other commodity that the Indies yeeld It hath store of deare wild porks fruits fish fowle It hath also for breade sufficient Mais Cassani and of those roots and fruits which are common euerywhere in the west Indies It hath diuers beasts which the Indies haue not the spainards cōfessed that they found grains of gold in some of the riuers but they hauing a purpose to enter Guiana the Magazin of all rich metetls cared not to spend time in the search therof any farther This Iland is called by the people thereof Catri and in it are diuers nations those about Parico are called Iaio those at Punto Carao are of the Arwacas and betweene Carao and Curiadan they are called Saluaios betweene Carao and punto Gallera are the Nepoios and those about the Spanish Citie tearme themselues Carinepagotes Of the rest of the nations and of other portes and riuers I leaue to speake heere beeing impertinent to my purpose and meane to describe them as they are situate in the particular plot and description of the Iland three partes whereof I coasted with my barge that I might the better describe it Meeting with the shipps at puerto de los Hispanioles we founde at the landing place a company of Spanyards who kept a gard at the descente and they offering a signe of peace I sent Captaine Whiddon to speake with them whome afterward to my great griefe I left buried in the saide Iland after my returne from Guiana beeing a man most honest and valiant The Spanyards semed to be desirous to trade with vs and to enter into tearms of peace more for doubt of their own strength then for ought else and in the ende vpon pledge som of them came abord the same euening there stale also abord vs in a finall Canoa two Indians the one of them being a Casique or Lord of the people called Cantyman who had the yeare before beene with Captaine Whiddon and was of his acquaintance By this Cantyman wee vnderstood what strength the Spanyardes had how farre