Chap,VIII. from the I. os James I, to the Revolution,

1609. This Gentleman arrived there in■ACoionysent twenty Days, landed at Conception- Har° Ver: hour; And he, and his Companions,

built Houses, or rather Huts, for theirHabitations, during their Stay, Mr.Guy behaved himself so courteously tothe Natives, that he entirely gainedtheir Friendship, and the Englijh werenot at all disturbed by them, in Carry-ing on their Settlement, as they were, in other Places: This Attempt succeed-

retums. nevertheless, no better than the

former, and Things not answering theirExpectation, Guy, and his Colony, re-turned to England . I do not, however,find when they came back, for in April

1713. Mr. Guy was yet there with aColony.

1609.

Purchas,Vol IF. p.1267.

Harris'* Col.P. I.p. 715.Appendix toSmith'* Gen.Hist. of Vir-ginia, p. 49-

Ships, Com-manders andCompanies.

Their De-ture.

i r rhal at

"^upoco.

Harcourt’* Voyage to Guiana.

This Voyage was performed, underthe Direction and Command of RobertHar court, of Stanton Har court, in theCounty of Oxford, Esq ; And the Ves-sels employed in it were the Rose, aShip, of fourscore Tuns, the Patience,a Pinnace, of six and thirty Tuns, andthe Lilly, a Shallop, of nine Tuns. Inthe Rose were, with Mr. Har court, Cap-tain Edward Fijher, Captain EdwardHarvey, Mr. Edward Gijford, and hisKinsman, Mr .Thomas Harcourt, withone and thirty Gentlemen and others,Land-men, two Indians, and three andtwenty Mariners and Sailors. In thePatience , Mr. Harcourfs Brother, Cap-tain Michael Harcourt, with twentyGentlemen and others, Land-men, andeleven Mariners and Sailors; And inthe Lilly, Jasper Lilly, Master, withone Land-man and two Sailors. So thatthe whole Company consisted of ninety-seven Persons, whereof threescore wereLandmen. Being thus embarked, theyset Sail from Dartmouth, the twenty-third of March. I shall omit the Cir-cumstances of the Voyage, and supposethem already on the Coast of Guiana.

Being arrived, the seventeenth ofMay, in the Bay of Wiapoco, it was notlong before several Canoes of Indianscame to see who and what they were,and, finding they were English , cameon Board them without any Fear orCeremony. Such an Idea had Sir Wal-ter Raleigh, by his courteous and up-right Behaviour, imprinted in them, ofthe English Nation. These People, whowere yery forward and ready to traffick

with the Englijh, were of the Towncalled Car ipo, on the East-Side of theHill, at the Mouth ot Wiapoco- River.

Their King, or chief Lord, who hadbeen some Years in England, was thenwith Mr. Harcourt, and, with anotherof his Country-men, came Passengerswith him, tho’ he had not discoveredhis Quality, ’till the Joy of his Subjects,at the Sight of him, made him known.

Among the Indians, who came first onBoard, was one who spoke the EnglijhTongue, perfectly well, and was knownto some or the Ship’s Company, havingserved Sir John Gilbert, in England,many Years. And the Indian, whoaccompanied the King or Chief, havingbeen fourteen Years in England, thesetwo were of singular Service to the Eng-liso.

The first Ceremonies being past, fsff'Mr. Harcourt acquainted them, that the c i ares j nsOccasion of his coming among them*l>y%» ofwas to settle a Colony there, and to take fjjsj t0Possession of the Country, for the King * e n lanS ’of England, by Virtue of a Grant of it,by them, to Captain Leigh, and bysome of their Country-men before, toSir Walter Raleigh ; Assuring them,however, at the same Time, that HisMajesty intended no unjust Usurpationover them, nor to treat them, in anyWay, like Slaves and Vaffids; But on-ly to be their Friend and Protector, andto deliver them from the Insistencies andOppressions of the Garibbees. Aftersome Debate, the Indians gave theirConsent that they might live amongstthem, and promised to furnissi them withHouses, and all other Necessaries, asfar as they were able ; But could notforbear expressing some Diffidence, intheir Performing their Promises, sinceSir Walter Raleigh had been so dilatory censeuin his.

This being done, they all went a- And receivessioar, where they met with the best j aReception the Indians could give them, Manner , onand were dispersed up and down the Shoar.Town, on the Side of the Hill, whiletheir Ships rode at Anchor, at the Footof it. The great Rains, which confin-ed them near a Month, being ceased,the Captain set himself to discover theGolden Mountains, which had been the ^ HafSpurs to this Undertaking; But their court goes inGuide, who had promised such great Search of theThings, during the Voyage, failed in Go ^'^ nes;the Performance of them, and eitherhad wilfully deceived them, or had beendeceived himself; For when he came5 to

The Indiansut to it: