4?4 James I, Naval Expeditions 7 &c of the EngUllg Book'III

But is disap-pointed.

: 609, to the Spot he had built his Hopes upon,nothing was to be found. And yet,they were convinced the Country af-forded Gold, as well by the Assurancesgiven them by the Natives, who shewedthem certain Images, which, upon anEssay, appeared to contain at least onethird Gold, as by ocular Demonstrationof great Quantities of the white Spar, inwhich the Gold engenders j And whichthey found to contain both Gold andSilver; But they had Reason to be-lieve theseMines were too far up, in thehigher Parts of Guiana, and perhapstoo strongly guarded, for them to hopegetting at them : And, besides, theyhad then neither Time, nor Power tosearch into the Bowels of the Earth, forthe Mines.

This Disappointment had like to haveHe visits the p rec j a Mutiny among those who came

Wiapcco: .out with no other View than to plungeat once into Riches; But the Captain,with great Prudence and good Conduct,prevented it’s running such a Length ;And, to keep them employ’d, not onlywent himself up the River of Wiapoco,upon Discovery, but sent his Brother,with some others, on the same Errand,to the River Arrawary, and the Coun-try bordering upon it, which adjoins tothe River of the Amazons. ' He wentalso and took Possession of the Moun-tain Gomeribo , which is the uttermostPoint of Land to the Northward, in theWiapoco. This he did, according toCustom, with the Ceremony of Twigand Turf, in the Presence both of hisown People, and the Indians too.

After Possession taken, the Moun-tain was delivered over to an Indian, tohold and possess the same, himself andhis Heirs, of His Majesty, James,King of England, paying the yearly Du-ty of a tenth Part of all Tobacco, Cot-ton-wool, Annoto, and other Commo-dities growing within the Limits of thesame.

Dangerons The Attempt of the Captain’s Bro-Voyage. th er, and Captain Harvey, in Discover-ing of the River Arrawary, was attend-ed with great Difficulties and Hazards ;For the Length they run by Sea to thisRivrr was near a Hundred Leagues,thro’terrible Breaks upon the Flats andShoals. They went, likewise, fiftyLeagues up the River, and all this on-ly with siat-bottomed Canoes, some-thing longer than the common ThamesWherries, but not near so broad.

And fendshis Brotherto the Riverof Arawary.

’Takes Pos-sess on ofGomeribo.

The Indians they met with up this isiop-River plainly discovered they had ne- Diftoversiver seen European Faces before, ft was “pfj fa-long before they coitld be brought to wa ry.'any Sort of Trade or Conversation, withthem, tho’ they had other Indians intheir Company. But, at last, the Sightof their Toys wrought upon them, andinduced them to come to some Termsfor Provisions j A Want of which, how- jnd Fcjsefever, at last, obliged them to return to fi m taken-Wiapoco: They took Possession, never-theless, of the Country, in Form, asMr. Hare our t had done of Gomeribo.

Not long after this, Mr. Harcourt R eturn f 0 rwas obliged to return for England, pure- England,ly for Fear of wanting Cask to containsufficient Beer and Water, for the Voy-age; The Master having neglected tohave his Cask Iron-bound, before theirDeparture, which occasioned many ofthem to burst their Hoops, in that hotCountry. -Mr. Har court left his Brotherto command in Chief, in his Absence,to whom Captain Harvey was joined, asAssistant, and Mr. Qifforcl, as his Lieu-tenant, and with them he left 'fifty orsixty of his Men, (according to Harris,tho’ Purchas fays but twenty.) Fie de-parted the eighteenth of August.

Mr. Har court, in his Way home-wards, made several Discoveries on theCoast, and in some of the Rivers, (aparticular Account of which would betoo tedious here,) and returned after-wards safe to England, arriving in Ire-land, the nine and twentieth of Novem-ber. Being come to London, by theFavour of Prince Henry, he obtained alarge Patent, for all that Coast calledGuiana, together with the famous Riverof Amazons, to him and his Heirs; Buthe was involved in so many Troubles,that he was not able to supply his Colo-ny, and only sent over some few Pas-sengers, with certain Dutch-men, but tolittle Purpose. And thus this Businesslay dead again for several Years, ’tillSir Walter Raleigh once more revived itin 1617. as we shall fee below. Cap-tain Harcourt kept however Possession,full three Years, and, in that Time,lost but six of his Men.

Virginia Affairs.

It might now be expected that I A fairsfIshould resume the Affairs of Virginia ; Virgin! 3-But several Colonies having, by this

Time,