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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

a continuall ioynt and common trade and commerce for euer for otherwise it might prooue hard for Aduenturers of small summes to reape any benefit after the ten yeeres ended but by a common continued commerce they or their heires or assignes shall be sure to haue it A Treasurer generall for the Plantation shall bee resident in London and when the returne of profit diuidable shall be he shall forthwith deliuer to a particular Treasurer resident in euery shire the proportionable part or profit due to the Aduenturers of that shire which particular Treasurer shall deliuer to the high Constables of euery Hundred the proportionable part due to the Aduenturers of that Hundred And the high Constables shal deliuer to the Constables and Minister of euery Parish within their Hundreds where any Aduenturers shall be the proportionable part due to the Aduenturers of that Parish And the Constable Minister shal deliuer to euery person in that Parish his due according to the proportion of his aduenture To this end a Register shall be kept by the Constable and Minister of each parish of the names of each Aduenturer in that Parish with their seueral aduentures the time when they brought in the same So as such as he remooued out of a Parish where they aduentured to some other place shall either themselues or their heires or assignes receiue his proportionable profite in the parish where he aduentured without further trouble or trauell The like Register shall remaine with the high Constables of the Aduenturers in their Hundred And the like with the particular Treasurer of that shire of the Aduenturers of that shire And the like of all the Aduenturers whatsoeuer with the Treasurer generall for the Plantation But yet such as aduenture not before this next intended voyage which wee account the first voyage for the Plantation or before the second but stay longer expecting the euent must not expect equall shares with the first Aduenturers but if his aduenture come in after the second voyage and before the third he shall want a fift part of that which the first Aduenturers shall haue And such as come in before the fourth voyoge shall want two fift parts And such as come in before the fift voyage shall want three fift parts And such as come in before the sixt voyage which perhappes may be the last voyage in the first three yeeres a voyage being ses forth euery halfe yeare shall want foure fift parts of what the first Aduenturer shall haue And so a single share for so late an Aduenturer of twelue pound tenne shillings will be but one hundred Acres in inheritance and his profit accordingly in proportion and so for a greater or lesser rate so lately aduentured Euery Aduenturer in person if he die hauing neyther wife nor childe in Guiana liuing his next kinsman that will goe in person at the next voyage or sending after his decease shall haue his share or part but if none such will goe in person then the next heire of the deceased in England shall haue a fift part of that share in inheritance being about one hundred Acres And the residue being foure hundred Acres shall be disposed of to some other that will goe in person that so by the death of the party deceased the number of the Planters in person may not be diminished and that yet his next heire here may haue some competent benefite by the aduenture of his kinsmans person If a man and his wife goe each of them shall haue fiue hundred acres yet so that the share of the wife be at the husbands dispose as is vsed by husbands in England that marry women heires who cannot alien the same without the wiues consent If a man his wife goe the suruiuor shal haue the others share if they haue no children borne in Guiana but if they haue children borne there then onely the suruiuor shall haue the share of the deceased vntill the childe be one and twenty yeeres olde and then the child shall haue it for that the share of the personall aduenture of the suruiuor will be competent maintenance so as the childe may well haue the other share If a man and his wife and a childe of theirs goe each shall haue fiue hundred Acres The shares of Commaunders Officers and men of place and qualitie that aduenture in Person are not to be rated according to single shares of inferiour and common persons that aduenture in person but according to their place qualitie and merite in such sort as shall be fit to giue them content and incouragement to aduenture their persons in so honorable and worthy an Action Diuine Preachers that wil imitate the glorious examples of the Apostles who ceased not to trauell amongst all sorts of Heathen and sauage people for the plantation of the holy Gospel are worthily numbred amongst the persons of place qualitie and shall haue such worthy shares for the aduenture of their persons in 〈◊〉 seruice of the blessed Trinitie as shall giue them good content Thus much concerning the Generall Aduenture and Plantation In the Particular Plantation and Aduenture there shal be certaine Signiories or other Portions of land allotted and graunted to such as like not to be partakers of the Generall Plantation and Aduenture but haue otherwise a desire to ioyne together in seuerall companies or corporations of select friends and acquaintance or else to plant apart and single by themselues as Lords of Mannors or as Farmers These Signiories or Portions of Land shal be conueyed and assured vnto them in Fee simple with all such Royalties Liberties Priuiledges Franchises and Commodities as shal be fit and necessary for the aduancement of their Plantations and can by vertue of the Pattent be granted vnto them They shall plant and people the same at their owne proper costs and charges and conuert the profits thereof to their owne vse and behoofe vnder the conditions following They shal yeerely pay vnto such Officers as shal be appointed for that purpose the fift part of all Ores of Gold and Siluer as shall at all times hereafter be found and gotten within the bounds and limites of the Signiories and Lands graunted vnto them which fift part of Oare is by the Pattent reserued to his Maiestie The fift part being deducted for his Maiestie they shal also pay to the Patentees or vnto their Officers for that purpose appointed all such rents and dueties as betwixt the said Patentees and them shall be agreed vpon and such as haue beene vsually payed by the planters and inhabiters of the like Plantations whereof there are extant many presidents And also from time to time shall obserue pay performe all such other customs impositions reseruations and limitations as are mentioned expressed in the said Patent And for their safety and defence in all the said particular Plantations they shall be ayded protected and defended both by Sea and Land against all assaulters inuaders and intruders according

A RELATION OF A VOYAGE TO GVIANA 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 HARCOVRT of Stanton Harcourt Esquire The Pattent for the Plantation of which Country his Maiestie hath granted to the said ROBERT HARCOVRT vnder the Great Seale NOMB 14. 7 8. The Land which we walked thorow to search it is a very good Land If the Lord loue vs he will bring vs into this land and wil giue it vs. AT LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for W. WELBY and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard at the signe of the Swan 1613. ❧ To the high and Mighty Prince CHARLES Prince of GREAT BRITAINE HAuing had tryall most worthy Prince of your most renowned Brother Prince Hērie his many fauours towardes mee and princely furtherance of my humble sute vnto his Maiestie your royall Father and our dread Soueraigne for obtayning for mee his gracious Letters Pattents for the planting and inhabiting of all that tract of Land and part of Guiana betweene the riuers of Amazones Dessequebe scituate in America vnder the Equinoctiall Line Whereof I haue taken possession to his Maiesties vse and discouered the maritime parts I was greatly thereby incouraged to proceed in the enterprise and had vnder his Maiesties fauour deuoted my selfe vnto his seruice But now seeing by Gods permission your excellent Brother his princely Honour by right of succession is fallen vpon your Highnesse and verily hoping that you will not onely equall but also exceed him in vertuous exercises and aduancing all honorable actiōs and worthy enterprises I haue in like maner religiously vowed the best fruits and effects of my indeauors vnto your Highnesse seruice And for as much as that part of the world which wee now call America was heretofore in the yeere of our Lord 1170. discouered conquered and possessed by Madoc one of the sons of Owen Gwyneth prince of north-Wales I therfore in all humble reuerence present the prosecution of this high Action vnto your gracious Patronage principally belonging of right vnto you being the honourable true and worthy Successor to the Principality of VVales If my trauell seruice therein shall perform ought woorthy of your Princely regard I shall much glory thereat and account it my happiest fortune and greatest honour And shall heartily pray vnto the King of Kings to continue in your Highnesse a pious and inuincible heart and to giue you a conquering and victorious hand and the dominion of many rich and mighty Kingdomes in this world and in the worlde to come a Crowne of Glorie in his eternall Kingdome Your Highnesse most humble deuoted seruant ROBERT HARCOVRT ❧ To the Readers ADVENTVRERS FAVORERS and wel-willers to the Plantation in GVIANA IT is the part of valiant and noble spirites to apply their indeuours to honourable and woorthie atchiuements but chiefely to frame their actions therein by the rule of vertue and accomplish the end for which they were created which is in their vocations to serue and glorifie GOD and to doe good vnto others For the better performance of their dueties in that behalfe let them examine their inclinations and dispositions in the course of their life and what they finde themselues most inclined vnto to that let them seriously bend their forces either to cherish or suppresse it to follow or forsake it according as it tendeth to vertue or vice to honour or disgrace As touching the courses of life inclining to the better part some men are naturally giuen to bee schollers either in Diuinity Philosophy or other learning some are more inclined to be Statists some to be Souldiers and trauellers some desire to bee Citizens and Merchants and some like best to leade Coun●trey life and follow husbandry and othersome are wholly inclined to the Mechannicall trades and handy crafts In all which professions as men are naturally addicted more or lesse they attaine to perfection and may thereby accomplish the end for which they were created But to vndertake any profession contrary to a mans naturall inclination is a losse of time a worke that yeldeth no profit but breedeth many inconueniences and destroyeth nature For the meere Scholler will neuer bee good Statist Souldier Merchant nor Mechanicall tradesman yet learning is a singular helpe in all these professions neither will the professed Souldier euer attaine to exquisite perfection in learning or in the other professions so likwise of the rest The naturall inclination of man may bee somwhat restrained corrected and reformed but is rarely and hardly altered Naturam expellas furca licèt vsque recurret In these and all other professions whatsoeuer men may so proceede in their particular societies that each seuerall company in his proper vocation may bee a help comfort and support vnto the rest and they are firmely bound both by the law of God and Nature to exercise and follow their professions for the benefit of others not coueteously seeking their owne gaine only thereby but charitably respecting first the glory of God and then the honour of their Prince and profit of their Countrey which is the end for which they were created To the end therefore that our Countreymen of all professions in this Kingdome may bee worthily induced to performe their duties in that kinde not only at home in their owne Countrey but also abroade in foraigne parts wheresoeuer any of our Nation shall be imployed eyther by discouery or conquest for the reducing of vnknowne and barbarous people void of all knowledge of God and ciuill gouernement to Christianity and the subiection and obedience of of our Soueraigne and that such others as want imployment or competent meanes to follow their professions and are slipt aside from vertuous exercises and honourable enterprises to idle wantonnesse effeminate disorders and other extrauagant courses of life may bee recalled reformed and encouraged by better endeuours to performe their duties to God their Prince and their Countrey I thought it conuenient to propound vnto them a worthy and memorable enterprise for the prosecution and accomplishing whereof it hath gratiously pleased his Maiesty to grant mee priuiledge by Pattent namely the discouery and plantation of a part of the great rich mighty Empire of Guiana wherein they shall finde variety of imployments to spend their times worthily in their seuerall vocations plentifull meanes to supply all wants and necessities and many worthy aduentures to obtaine immortall renowne and perpetuall fame And for as much as all mens actions are subiect to miscensure and some perhaps may thinke the labour lost which is bestowed in this enterprise foreiudgeing the Countrey being rude barbarous and heathen to bee vnprofitable I will therefore here particularly shew wherein our Countreymen of the seuerall professions before mentioned may profitably labour in this worke and performe thereby to God a seruice most

the land is low where the heate would bee most vehement if it were not quallified and tempered by a fresh Easterly winde or Brieze most forcibly blowing in the heate of the day in many places this low land is very vnhealthfull and little inhabited by reason of the ouerflowing of the waters but for the most part it hath goodly nauigable riuers a fertile soile much people and is a healthfull habitation Vpon the Mountaines there is a high land where the ayre is coldest in some places it is fruitfull in others not but generally is full of Mineralls and mines of mettals and yeeldeth as many as any part eyther of the East or West Indies both of the best and of the basest whereof we shall by Gods permission giue good testimony to the benefit of our Countrey and honour of our Nation in time conuenient and in most places vpon the Mountaines there is sound and healthfull dwelling There is also a middle sort of land which is of a meane height and is most temperate healthfull firtile and most inhabited of all other it aboundeth in meadowes pastures and pleasant streames of fresh water in goodly woods and most delightfull plaines for profit pleasure sport and recreation and also is not void of Minerals The prouisions of this countrey for victuals are many First of the roote of a tree called Cassaui they make their bread in manner following they grate the roote vpon a stone and presse out the iuice thereof which being rawe is poyson but boyled with Guinea pepper whereof they haue abundance it maketh an excellent and wholsome sawce then they drie the grated roote and bake it vpon a stone as wee bake our Oaten cakes in England This bread is very excellent much like but far better then our great Oaten cakes a finger thicke which are vsed in the Moorlands and the ●eake in Staffordshire and Darbyshire There is a kinde of great wheat called Maix of some it is called Guinea wheat which graine is a singular prouision in those Countries and yeeldeth admirable increase euen a thousand or fifteene hundred for one and many times much more It maketh excellent meale or flower for bread and very good malte for beere or ale and serueth well for sundry other necessary vses for the reliefe of man Of the aforesaid Cassaui bread and this wheat the Indians make drink which they call Passiaw it will not keep long but must bee spent within foure or fiue daies they make another kinde of drinke of Cassaui called Parranow very good and strong much like vnto our best March beere in England and that kinde of drinke will keepe ten daies many sorts they haue which I haue tasted some strong some small some thicke some thinne but all good being well made as commonly they were amongst the Yaios and Arwaccas which are the cleanliest people of all those Nations There is great store of hony in the Country and although it bee wilde being taken out of trees and buries in the earth yet is it as good as any in the world of which may be made an excellent drinke much vsed in Wales called meath The hony and the waxe are also good commodities for marchandise There be no Vines in that country but the Soyle being rich and ferlile and the climate hot if they were planted there they would prosper exccedingly and yeeld good Sackes and Canary wines which in those parts we finde to be very wholesome Many other necessary prouisions sufficient for the sustenance of man do there abound in plenty Namely Deere of all sorts wilde Swine in great numbers whereof there are two kinds the one small by the Indians called Pockiero which hath the nauile in the backe the other is called Paingo and is as faire and large as any we haue in England There be store of Hares and Conies but of a kinde farre differing from ours There be Tigers Leopards Ounces Armadils Maipuries which are in taste like beefe and will take salt Baremoes or Ant-Beares which taste like Mutton and other small beasts of the same taste coloured like a fawne Elks Monkies and Marmosites of diuers sorts both great and small of these beasts there be innumerable and by experience wee haue found them all good meate Many other kinds of beasts there are of sundrie and strange shapes which heereafter shall bee figured in their true proportion according to the life with their names annexed Of Fowles there be diuers kinds namely Wild-ducks Widgins Teates Wild-geese Herons of diuers colours Cranes Storks Pheasants Partriges Doues Stock-doues Black-birds Curlewes God-wits Wood-cockes Snits Parrats of sundry sorts many other kinds of great and small birds of rare colours besides great rauenous fowles and Hawkes of euery kinde Of Fish the variety is great first of Sea-fish there is Sea-breame Mullet Soale Scate Thorneback the Sword-fish Sturgion Seale a fish like vnto a Salmon but as the Salmon is red this is yellow Shrimps Lobstars and Oysters which hang vpon the branches of trees There is a rare fish called Cassoorwa which hath in each eye two sights and as it swimmeth it beareth the lower sights within the water and the other aboue the ribbes and backe of this fish resemble those parts of a man hauing the ribbes round and the backe flat with a dent therein as a man hath it is somewhat bigger then a Smelt but farre exceeding it for dainty meate and many other sorts there be most excellent Of fresh-water fish many kinds vnknowen in these parts but all exceeding good and dainty And I dare be bold to say that this Country may compare with any other of the world for the great variety of excellent fish both of the Sea and fresh waters There is also a Sea-fish which vsually commeth into the fresh waters especially in the winter and wet season it is of great esteem amongst vs and we account it halfe flesh for the bloud of it is warme it commeth vp into the shallow waters in the drowned lands and feedeth vpon grasse and weeds the Indians name it Coiumero and the Spaniards Manati but we call it the Sea-cow in taste it is like beefe will take salt and serue to victuall ships as in our knowledge hath beene proued by our Countrimen Of this fish may be made an excellent oyle for many purposes the fat of it is good to frie either fish or flesh the hide as I haue heard will make good buffe and being dried in the Sunne and kept from wet will serue for Targets and Armours against the Indian arrowes In the wet season the store of them are infinite some of these hides were heretofore brought into England by Sr. Walter Rawleigh The seuerall kindes of fruits are many the Pina Platana Potato Medler Plummes of diuers sorts 〈◊〉 Nuts of strange kindes The excellency of the Pina I cannot expresse for I dare boldly affirme that the world affordeth not a

them and satisfied vs all that there was Gold in Guiana Shortly after that my Indian Anthony Canabre brought mee a peec of a rocke of white Sparre whereof the high Countrey is full And if the white Sparres of this kinde which are the purest white of all others for euery sort of Mine hath a sparre and for the most part white bee in a maine rocke they are certainely Mines of Gold or Siluer or of both I made triall of a peece of Sparre which the same Indian discouered vnto me and I found that it held both Gold and Siluer which although it was in small quantity gaue mee satisfaction that there bee richer Mines in the Countrey to bee found but the best lie deeper in the earth and wee had not time nor power to make search for them Being thus informed and sufficiently resolued of the commodities of the Countrey well satisfied of the Minerals I bent all my endeauours to finde out the fittest places and most conuenient for our first plantations at the last I found out many and some of speciall note which are for many respects of great importance and when time serueth our forces and number of men being answerable I will lay them open to the knowledge of the world and for wealth I hope they shall fully answere all mens expectations I trauelled vp the riuer of Wiapoco to view the ouerfalles but the waters being high and strong I could not passe them In August when they are fallen with some labour they may bee passed This riuer hath very many ouerfalles lying one a good distance beyond another euen to the head thereof Aboue some of the first falles there dwelleth an Indian called Comarian who is an old man of a free disposition by him I learned that a certaine distance aboue the first falles the riuer Arwy falleth into Wiapoco moreouer that certaine daies iourney beyond him towards the high land vpon the borders of Wiapoco there is a Natiō of Charibes hauing great eares of an extraordinary bignes hard to bee beleeued whom hee called Marashewaccas amongst these people as Comarian reporteth there is an Idole of stone which they worship as their God they haue placed it in a house made of purpose for the greater honour of it which they keepe very cleane and hansome This Idole is fashioned like a man sitting vpon his heeles holding open his knees and resting his elbowes vpon them holding vp his hands with the palmes forwards looking vpwards and gaping with his mouth wide open The meaning of this proportion he could not declare although he hath been many times amongst them and hath often seene it What other Nations were beyond these he did not know hauing neuer trauailed so farre but hee sayth they be Charibes and also enemies vnto them It seemeth there bee many Nations of those great eared people for in the Riuer of Marrawini I heard also of the like who dwell farre vp towards the high land as hereafter you shall heare and I suppose by the trending of the Riuers of Wiapoco and Marrawini are all one people Vpon the 14. day of August I went vnto a Mountaine called Gomeribo being the vttermost point of land to the Northward in the bay of Wiapoco I found the soile of it most excellēt for Tobacco Maix Cotton trees Annoto trees Vines for any other thing that should be planted there When I had taken good view of the place and found it commodious for many purposes then in the presence of Capt. Fisher diuers Gentlemen and others of my company and of the Indians also I tooke possession of the land by turfe and twig in the behalf of our Soueraigne Lord King IAMES I tooke the said posession of a part in name of the whole continent of Guiana lying betwixt the riuers of Amazones and Orenoque not being actually possessed and inhabited by any other Christian Prince or State wherewith the Indians seemed to be well content and pleased In like manner my Brother Capt. Michael Harecourt and Capt. Haruey whom I left as his associate and hee esteemed as an inward friend in a notable iourney which to their great honour they performed to discouer the Riuer of Arrawary and the Country bordering vpon it neere adioining to the riuer of Amazones did take the like possession of the land there to his Maiesties vse The dangers and great difficulties which they in that attempt incountred were memorabe and such as hardly any of our Nation in such small Canoes being onely some-what longer but not so broad as our Thames wherries and flat bottomed euer ouercame the like First the number of their owne attendants besides themselues was onely one man and a boy Their troope of Indians 60. persons Their iourney by Sea vnto the Riuer of Arrawary was neere 100. Leagues wherein by the way they met with many dreadful plunges by reason of a high going sea which breaketh vpon the flats and shoales especially at the next great cape to the North of Arraway which in respect of the danger they passed there they named Point Perilous Then their discouery vp the riuer was 50. leagues more where they found a Nation of Indians which neuer had seene white men or Christians before and could not be drawne to any familiar commerce or conuersation no not so much as with our Indians because they were strangers to them and of another Nation The discouery of this riuer is of great importance and speciall note affording an entrance more behouefull for the searching and discouery of the inland parts of Guiana then any other riuer yet knowne vpon the Coast for trending Westward vp into the land it discouereth all the Countries and Nations to the Southward of Arricary Cooshebery Morrownia and Norrack which I haue mentioned before Many weekes they spent in this aduenture still taking vp their lodgings in the woods at night Prouision of meate they wanted not for Fish were euer plenty and at hand and the woods yeelded eyther Deere Tigers or Foule their greatest want was of bread and drinke which onely defect did hinder at that time the accomplishment of that discouery For when the Indians perceiued their bread to bee neere spent and their drinke to bee corrupted they could not bee perswaded to proceede hauing no meanes to supply their wants amongst the Arrawaries the Indians of that riuer who would not freely trade with them vpon this first acquaintance but alwaies stood vpon their guard on the other side of the riuer where they inhabited yet they desiring to obtaine some of our English commodities and make triall of our Indians friendshippe afforded some small trade for their present releefe during their aboade in that riuer So that of force they were constrained to breake off their discouery and hasten homeward But here their dangers ended not for as they returned arriuing at certaine Islands called Carripoory and passing betweene them the main land much against the wils

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.