ZlH. Eliz. Naval Expeditions, fkc. of the English, Book It

1595. " ru, or Nueva Efpanna, so left by" the Sea-side* that they can be easily" washed away by a great Flood, or" a Spring-tide, or left dry upon the" Sands, by a low Ebb. The Fort-" towns are few and poor, in Respect" of the Rest within Land. They(t are of little Defence; But they are" only rich when the Fleets are to take" on Board the Treasures for Spain:

And we must think the Spaniards" very simple, if, having so many" Horses and Slaves, they could not,“ at two Days Warning, carry all the" Gold they have within Land, and" far enough out of the Reach of our(t Men on Foot, especially, the Indies" being (as they are for the most part)“ so'mountainous and full of Woods," Rivers and Marshes.

This Voyage, therefore, he hopedwould turn to the Honour and Ad-vantage of his Country, as being a pro-bable Road to vast Treasures, and af-fording a likelier Means of annoyingthe Spaniards , in the inner Countries ofAmerica , where he conceived they layabundantly more exposed, than on theSea-Coasts. " Here (fays he, in the fame" Letter) is a Way found to answer** every Man’s Longing, a better Indies< c for Her Majesty, than the King of“ Spain hath any. ”

His Voyage On the sixth of February , of thisto discover Year, he failed from Plymouth , and,Guiana. on t p e an d twentieth of March ,

arrived at the Illand of Frinidada , eightDegrees on this Side the Line, withonly one Ship and a small Bark. AtPuerto de los Efpannoles, he met withthe other Ships, which he was to havemet at the Canaries ; And he continued* some Time there, as well to get all the

Information he could of the Country ofGuiana , as to be revenged on the Go-vernour, Don Antonio de Berreo , whothe Year before had betrayed eight ofCaptain Whiddon's People. To effectthe latter, they attacked and took theSt loscph’f Imall City of St. Joseph's , without muchtaken aud Trouble, together with the Governour.burnt, The Town they burnt; But did not findso much as one Piece of Silver in thePlace.

The Day after the Taking of thisPlace, arrived Captain George Gifford,with a Ship of the Lord Charles How-ard's, and Captain Keymis, with theGallego, and with them divers Gentle-men and others. Their Thoughts were

now whollyfoent on their'intended;Dif- 1595-

covery, and to that End, Si tPsalter Ra -leigh first called together all the Ca-ciques, or Captains, of the Island, whowere Enemies to the Spaniards ; And,by an Interpreter told them, that hewas the Servant of a great Queen, whowas the great Cacique of the North,and had more Caffiqui under her* - thanthere were Trees in the Island. Thatshe was an Enemy to the Caste Hani, (drSpaniards) on Account of their Tyran-ny and Oppression, and that, havingfreed all the Coasts of the NorthernWorld from their Servitude, site hadsent him to free them also, and with-al to defend the Country of Guianafrom their Invasion and Conquest. Go l L

Having thus secured these Chiefs G^naof the Indians to his Interest, he left fought inPuerto de los Efpannoles and returned to va * n 'Curiapan, where he strictly examinedfkv-reo, who it seems had made a very di-ligent Search for Gold. From him heunderstood, that he had been wrong in-formed concerning the Situation of thatPlace, and that it was 600 Miles fartherwithin the Country than he had beenmade to believe. This, however, hekept a Secret from his Company, whowould never have been persuaded to theAttempt, at such a Distance j And,leav-ing his Ships there at Anchor, he enter-ed the River Oronoque, with the Bottomof an old Gal hon, fashion’d like a Gaily,one Barge, two Wherries, and a ShipsBoat, in which he had a Hundred Men,and Provisions for a Month. With thesehe looked out for Guiana, for four Hun-dred Miles together, up the River, ex-posed, all the while, to the Heat of theSun, just over his Head, and incommo-ded by violent Storms of Rain, besidesmany other Difficulties; ’Till the Airblowing something cooler in April, forc-ed the Rain down every where, in suchvast Quantities, that for his own Safetyhe was obliged to return.

Sir Walter Raleigh, concluding hisAccount of the Necessity he was underto return, fays: " And for any longerStay to have brought a larger Quan-“ tity {of Ore), which I hear has been" often objected against me, whoeverhad seen the Fury of that River, af-" ter k began to rife, and had been a" Month and more, as we were, from" hearing any Thing of our Ships,tc which we left but poorly manned,would perhaps have returned sooner

" than