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A02626	A relation of a voyage to Guiana Describing the climat, scituation, fertilitie, prouisions and commodities of that country, containing seuen prouinces, and other signiories within that territory: together, with the manners, customes, behauiors, and dispositions of the people. Performed by Robert Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt Esquire. The pattent for the plantation of which country, his Maiestie hath granted to the said Robert Harcourt vnder the Great Seale.	Harcourt, Robert, 1574?-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 12754; ESTC S103834	52,578	88

discouering a gallant Country From Arrawary vnto the riuer of Cassipurogh extendeth the Prouince of Arricary containing the Signiories of Arrawary Maicary and Cooshebery of which Anakyury is principall who by Nation is a Yaio and fled from the borders of Orenoque for feare of the Spaniards to whom hee is a mortall enemy Hee hath seated himselfe in the Prouince of Arricary and now dwelleth at Morooga in the Signiory of Maicari To the N. Norwest of which there falleth into the Sea a riuer called Conawini wherevpon the Signiory of Cooshebery bordereth whereof an Indian named Leonard Ragapo is Chiefe vnder the subiection of Anaki-v-ry This Indian is christened and hath been heretofore in England with Sr. Walter Raleigh to whom hee beareth great affection hee can a little vnderstand and speake our language and loueth our Nation with all his heart During my aboad at Wiapoco hauing intelligence of him and of his Country and that certaine stones were found therein supposed to bee Diamonds I sent my Cozen Captaine Fisher to discouer the same and to fetch some of those stones to bee resolued of the truth At his comming thither Leonard entertained him with all kindnesse not after the ordinary rude manner of the Indians but in more ciuill fashion and with much respect and loue hee furnished him with guides to conduct him through the Country to the place where the Stones were found being fifty miles Southward vp into the Land beyond which place there is an high Mountaine appearing in sight called Cowob and on the top thereof as the Indians report a great Lake or Poole full of excellent fish of diuers kindes The Country was as pleasant and delightfull as euer any man beheld but the Stones not Diamonds yet they were Topases which being well cut and set in Gold by a cunning workman doe make as faire a shew and giue as good a lustre as any Diamond whatsoeuer which yeeld good hopes of better to be found hereafter For where the Topas is found on the Mountaines of Tenaseren in the East Indies the greatest store of Diamonds are also found When my kinsman returned Captaine Leonard came with him to Wiapoco being aboue an hundred miles from his owne Country only to visite mee and my company for the great loue hee did beare to Sr. Walter Raleigh and our Nation I much maruelled to see him for assuredly hee is the brauest Indian of all those parts After hee had been with mee a day or two hee earnestly requested mee to send some of my company into his Countrey which hee greatly commended for the wholsome ayre and plenty of victuals alleaging that the place where then wee liued by his owne experience was very vnhealthfull that our men would there bee subiect to sicknesse and die and for an instance hee named Captaine Lee and his company who formerly were planted there and almost all dyed by sicknesse in the same place But hee assured me that his owne Country Cooshebery was of a good ayre pleasant and healthfull that there they might haue roome sufficient to build English houses in for those were the words hee vsed that thither they should be welcome and should want nothing Much hee perswaded to draw mee to his desire which by his importunity I granted and accordingly performed it finding his Country answerable to his report being for the most part champian ground naturally intermixt of plaine fields fruitfull meadowes and goodlywoods in such admirable order as if they had been planted artificially by handy labour The fields appearing aboue the meadowes in pleasant and delightfull manner presenting here and there vnto the eye from stately Mounts most beautifull and liuely prospects the meadowes bordering on euery side betweene the fields and woods the woods growing in the lowest valleyes betwixt the meadowes and commonly are watered with sweete and pleasant fresh stremes running through them which strange rare mixture of Mounts valleies meadowes fields and woods afford as excellent and healthfull habitations as can bee wished or desired but is not greatly peopled From the riuer of Cassipurogh N. Westward to the riuer of Arracow and vp further into the land towards the West and Southwest as farre as the riuer of Arwy which falleth into Wiapoco aboue the ouerfalles extend the Prouinces of Arracoory and Morownia which also to the landward by the relation of my Brother Captaine Michael Harcourt and Captaine Haruey who haue trauelled and discouered those parts are pleasant and delightfull plaine Countries like vnto Cooshebery The Arracoory Countrey is well peopled and their chiefe Captaine is called Ipero Betwixt the Wiapocoories and Arracoories there is no hearty loue and friendship yet in outward shew they hold good quarter In Morrownia there is also store of people which are friendly Indians In that Prouince there is a very high Hill called Callipuny fashioned like a Sugerloafe or a Pyramides which ouervieweth and discouereth all the Territories adioyning aboue an hundred miles Beyond the Country of Morrownia to the Southward bordering the riuer of Arwy is the Prouince of Norrak the people thereof are Charibes and enemies both to the Morrowinnes the inhabitants of Morrownia and to the Wiapocoories who are also vnder the subiection of Anaky-v-ry the Principall and greatest Lord or Cassique of all the Yaios in those Prouinces bordering vpon the Sea betwixt the Amazones South-eastward and Dessequcbe North-westward From the riuer of Amazones to the Bay of Wiapoco there fall into the Sea these riuers following Arrapoco a branch of Amazones Arrawary Micary Conawini and Cassipurogh In the Bay of Wiapoco to the East of the said riuer there falleth into the Sea the riuer of Arracow and into Arracow falleth the riuer of Watts To the North of Wiapoco there is a smal creeke called Wianary which letteth in the Sea a daies iorney Westward vp into the land some take this creeke to bee a riuer but they doe erre in that opinion it hauing neither spring nor fountaine from whence it falleth To the North and N. west of the said creeke there is a ridge of high Mountains running towards the riuer of Apurwaca the soile whereof is excellent fertile for Tobacco and beareth the best of all those parts so are the Sugar-canes there growing the best and fairest that are found vpon the Coast and all the tract of Land betwixt the riuers of Wiapoco and Apurwaca is accounted the Prouince of Wiapocoory containing the Signiories of Wiapoco and Wianary Beneath the ouerfalles in Wiapoco which are forty miles distant from the Sea there is much people both of Yaios and Arwaccas of the Yaios in this riuer Carasana is chiefe Of the Arwaccas Arriquona is Principall In Wianary there are few Indians and Casurino is their chiefetaine To the N. west of the Bay of Wiapoco there fall into the Sea the riuers of Apurwaca Cowo Wio and Caiane Apurwaca is

Anguilla vpon St. Lukes day where I thinke neuer Englishmā dissembogued before vs for we found all our Sea-charts false concerning that place those broken Islands being placed therein to the Southward of Anguilla betwene it and St. Martins and wee found them scituat to the Northward thereof When wee had cleered our selues of the broken Islands wee stood away North-East shaping our course the neerest way wee could for Flores and Corues and so continued with faire weather the winde still mending vpon vs vntill the thirtieth day of October about twelue of the clocke that day there began a storme with contrarie windes still variable which continued vntill 4. the next day in the afternoone In this storme wee lost the company of the Pinnesse in the night but had fight of her againe vpon the fourth of Nouember late in the euening and the next day shee came vp vnto vs at two of the clocke in the afternoone Then the winde came faire at West and wee steered away East by North and E. N. Eastamong The seauenth of Nouember I relieued the Pinnesse with more bread and left her to follow after vs not being able to keepe way with vs before the winde which then blew strongly at West for I was very vnwilling to loose the benefit of a speedy passage which the cōtinuāce of that faire winde was like to afford vs. And so following our course on the eleuenth day in the morning we had sight of Fayal one of the Islands of the Terceras which we left on our starboord side and steered away for England the winde continuing faire vntill the twenty foure day But then it changed first to the East by North and then to the East south-east and became so violent and furious that for three daies space we were not able to beare out saile but did driue before the winde at the least three leagues a watch out of our course and the first land wee made was Cape Cleere in the South-west part of Ireland where against our wils we arriued at Crooke Hauen the twenty nine of Nouember Our arriuall there at that present was happy for vs considering our extreame wants and great necessities for of all our store we had remaining but one hogshed of water halfe a hogshed of beuerage all our beere being spent and wasted by leakage sixe peeces of beefe and three of Porke which was all our prouision we had neither fish butter oyle cheese nor pease left to relieue vs whereby we had fallen into a lamentable distresse if almighty God had not in time brought vs vnto this harbour where we supplied our wants by the helpe of Captaine Reignolds commander of his Maiesties Pinnesse called the Moone whom we fortunately met there altogether vnexpected But the winde continuing contrary at the East and like to hold still in that corner presaged new wants to insue if a speedy remedy was not prouided To preuent the worst I resolued to goe by land to Yoghall neere vnto which place remained some friends and acquaintance of mine by whom I might prouide my selfe of meanes to defray my charge vntill my returne into England and therefore gaue commandement to the master of my shippe to wage a Pilot and vpon the first shift of winde if it fauoured him in any time to bring the shippe about to Yoghall where I ment to abide his comming resoluing thence to goe for Bristol And I appointed if the winde did hold against him to send him mony to supplie their victuals vntill it pleased God to alter it but he regarding his owne priuate ends more then my commaund and direction vpon the first shift of wind went away with my shippe without my knowledge to Dartmouth in the west Country and left me behind in Ireland whereof as soone as I had intelligence I presently tooke the opertunitie of a speedy passage in a barke then reddy bound for Bristol and so the next morning being the fifteenth of December I departed from Yoghall and arriued at Bristol the seuententh day My Pinnesse which we left at Sea to follow after vs was likewise by the aforesaid storme driuen into the west of Ireland to a place caled Dingen le Coushe and there remained along time wind-bound but at the last by Gods permission arriued at Bristol the second day of February During the time of my voyage we left but one land-man who died in Guiana and one sailer and an Indian boy who died at Sea in our returne and during the space of these three yeares last past since the voiage of all the men which I left in the country being in number about thirty there died but six whereof one was drowned another was an old man of threescore yeeres of age and another tooke his death by his owne disorder the rest died of sicknes as pleased God the giuer of life for which small losse his holy name be blessed now and euer Hauing thus most noble Prince declared the whole course of my voiage to Guiana performed in the yeare of our Lord 1609. I hold it needefull for the better satisfaction of the fauourers and wel-willers of this action by adding of a speciall note or two and by a briefe reremembrance of some points mentioned in the former discourse to expresse the worthinesse of the enterprise being of importance and not to bee regarded lightly In euery forraine action vndertaken by the subiects of a Christian Prince they ought to haue especiall regard to three principall ends and designes First that it may bee for the glory of God Secondly for the honour of their Soueraigne Thirdly for the benefit and profit of their Countrey Which three principall ends and intendements if they faithfully prosecute and labour to aduance with constant resolution they shall infallibly bring their vndertakings to blessed prosperous and honorable end And now if it shall appeare that this enterprise for discouery and plantation in Guiana is chiefely grounded vpon these three designes I hope there is not any man bee hee neuer so malitious and full of enuy that can with iust exp●●●tions scandalise it or worthily contemne it First then for the glory of God it hath been and euer will bee held cleere and vnquestionable that God cannot be more honoured nor his holy name by any meanes more glorified then by the prosperous grouth and happy increase of his Church through the conuersion of those that bee heathen and barbarous Nations to the knowledge of him our true God his Sonne Iesus Christ and the holy Ghost the blessed indiuiduall Trinity and to the profession and practise of Christianity which heauenly and euer memorable worke may through Gods good blessing and assistance without which indeede all our trauell therein and all the labour of the world is but lost bee easily effected and accomplished in Guiana the people thereof being of a louing and tractable nature towards the English whom they loue and preferre before all other strangers

to the power and strength of the Vndertakers of the Generall nerall Plantation which I hope with Gods assistance shall be sufficient to resist and repell the malice of our greatest enemies FINIS Gutyn Owen 23 of March 1608. The Rose The Patience The Lilly Land men 60. They set saile the 23. of March The first of April 1609. The Shallop in danger to be lost They ariue at Alegranza Tenerife An excellent watering place The riuer of Amazones Fresh water in the Sea 30 leagues from land Iosepth Acosta Hieron Giraua Tarraconensis The 11 of May they made land in Guiana The Patience in danger of wracke Islands called Carripapoory The Bay of Wiapoco Indian boats A village called Caripo A messenger sent to the Indians The Indians came aboord The chiefe men of the Nation of the Yaios couer their priuities The women generally goe all naked Their conference with the Indians The Orenoqueponi rendred themselues subiects to Queene Elizabeth Possession of the Countrey taken at Wiapoco by Captaine Lee to his Meiestics vse The Indians goe to councel Their answer * By Sr. Walt. Raleigh and Capt. Lee. The Indian Martyn goeth ashoare The English take land The English feasted by the Indians The gratefull offer of Martyn The English setled at Caripo in Wiapoco The strength of the place The bounds and limits of Guiana Arrapoco a branch of Amazones Arrawary Maicary Anaky-v-ry chiefe of the Yaios Morooga Conowini Cooshebery Leonard Rapago Lord of Cooshebery A Mountaine called Cowob Topases in Cooshebery The quality of the Prouince of Cooshebery Arracoory Morrownia An exceeding high Hill called Callipuny Norrak Anaki-v-ry Riuers falling into the Sea betweene Amazones and Wiapoco Wianary a creeke The Prouince of Wiapocoory Carasana Arriquona Casurino Riuers faling into the Sea to the N. West of Wiapoco Muccumbro an Island Mattoory an Island Arrawicary chiefe Captaine of the Caiane Foure or fiue men placed at Caiane The manner of their gouernement Murder and Adultery punished by death The Indians by nature iealous ouer their wiues The Indians haue manie wiues Diuers languages in Guiana The Charibes most ancient vpon the sea coast The Indians make warre for their weomen The Charibes warre vpon Leonard The vsuall weapons of the Indians Leonard desireth and of the English The manner of ordering their men in the warres The Charibes amazed at the sight of the English Leonard speaketh to the Charibes The Charibes agree to peace for feare of the English The season of the yeere in Guiana Teh summer beginneth in August The winter beginneth in February The burning Zone Ioseph Acosta Their account of times and numbers They vse no sacrifice nor religious worship to anithing The manner of their drinking feast at the death of their Captaines Their Peeaios or Priests haue conference with the diuel Their opinion of the dead At the death of a Cassique they kill an Indian to serue him in the other world The quality of the Land The prouisions for victuals The roote of Cassaui maketh their bread and drinke Maix or Guinea wheat Their diuers kindes of drinke An excellent drinke made of Cassaui Store of hony The soile excellent for Vines Sundry kinds of beasts in Guiana Swine which haue the nauile in the backe Great variety of Fowles Diuers kinds of fish Oysters hang vpon trees A fish hauing 4. eyes and the ribs and backe like a man The Sea-cow like beefe Sundry kinds of fruits Pina Platana Potato Medler Plummes Nuts The variety of Commodities Suger canes Cotton woll Natural hemp or flaxe Diuers commodities for Diers Annoto A gumme which dyeth a yellow in graine Sweete Gummes The vertues of Colliman or Carriman The Colliman helpeth the gout Barratta a rare Balsamum A perfume like sweet Margerome Druggs and simples for phisicke An apple which prouoketh sleepe to death A berry curing the bloody Fluxe A leafe curing the wounds of the poisoned arrowes A leafe curing the headache A wood that maketh fish drunke Tobacco The commodities most esteemed by the Indians Disorders by mutiny The high Countrey of Guiana aboundeth with Images of Gold The rocks of the purest white Sparre are Mines of gold or siluer Many ouerfalles in Wiapoco People hauing great eares who worship an Idoll of stone The proportion of the Idole Possession taken for the king at Gomeribo The like possession taken at Arrawary Point Perillus. A great argument of plenty in the Countrey A dangrous Boore at Carripoory Two speciall things to bee obserued The fidelity of the Indians The plenty of victuals Gomeribo deliuered to an Indian as the Kings tenant The only cause of losse by the Voyage Capt. Michael Harcourt left commander of the company Twenty men left with Captaine Harcourt at Waipoco The Pinnesse receiued a leake at Caiane R. Meccooria R. Courwo Riuers to the West of Courwo Islands called Curewapory They proceede in discouery of Marrawini The riuer full of ouerfalles They went six daies iourney vp the riuer Trees which had the sense of feeling Scallger Exercit 181. sect 28. Bartas Eden 1. day 2. week Viawia a Towne of 20 houses Mr. Vnton Fisher and two others left at Wiawia Mr. Fisher trauelled eleuen daies iourney vp the riuer of Marra viz. 100 leagues The Prouince of Moreshegoro Indians with rough skins like Buffe Diuers mighty Nations of Indians far vp in Marrawini towards the high land Riuers falling into Marrawini Twenty daies iourney from Taupuramune to the head of Marraw The Country aboue the head of Mar. is plaine and Champian ground The tenth of September they left Guiana They were in danger to be cast away They finde three English shippes at Pūta de Galea Pitch gotten in the earth which melteth not with the Sunne They arriue at Port ae Hispania Don Sanches de Mendosa commeth aboord their shippe The Spaniards much molested by the Charibes They depart from Trinidado They arriue at Meues An excellent hot Bath at Meues An extreame cough cured by the Bath A mans hand burned with Gunpouder and by the Bath cured in 24 houres Swellings in the legges cured in a day They depart from Meues They left the Pinnesse to follow after them They fell with Fayal They are driuē by a storme into Ireland Their great necessitie and want The Pinnesse first arriued in Ireland and afterward at Bristol The number of those that died Three principall ends to be obserued in euery forraine action 1. The glory of God 2. The honour of our Soueraigne An. 1588. The profit of our Country The burning Zone habituable The clmate pleasant fruitfull and healthfull The loue of the people towards our Nation A good motiue to those that want imployment An Empire may be gained to our Soueraigne The nature of the climate Page 23. The disposition of the people The quallity of the land Page 27. The prouisions of the Countrey page 27. 28. 30. and 31. A beast and a fish like Beefe A Beast like Mutton Good bread Drinke like March beere Excellent strong Ale Sacke and Canary wine The commodities of the Country pag. 31 and 32.