It is not unknown how that most Industrious and honourable Knight, Sir _Walter Rawleigh,_ in the Year of Our Lord 1595, taking the Isle of _Trinidado,_ fell with the Coast of _Guiana,_ Northward of the Line 10 degrees, and coasted the Coast, and searched up the River _Oranoco;_ where understanding that twenty several Voyages had been made by the Spaniards; in discovering this Coast and River, to find a passage to the great City of _Mano,_ called by them the _Eldorado,_ or the Golden City: he did his utmost to have found some better Satisfaction than Relations: {MN-1} But means failing him, he left his trusty Servant _Francis Sparrow_ to seek it, who wandring up and down those Countries, some fourteen or fifteen years, unexpectedly returned; I have heard him say, he was led blinded into this City by _Indians;_ but little Discourse of any purpose, touching the largeness of the report of it; his body seeming as a Man of an uncurable Consumption, shortly died here after in _England._ There are above thirty fair Rivers that fall into the Sea, between the River of _Amazons_ and _Oranoco,_ which are some nine degrees asunder. {MN-2} In the year 1605, Captain _Ley_, Brother to that noble Knight, Sir _Oliver Ley,_ with divers others, planted himself in the River _Weapoco,_ wherein I should have been a Party; but he died, and there lies buried, and the supply miscarrying, the rest escaped as they could. * * * * * {MN-1} Sparrow _left to seek the great city of_ Mano. {MN-2} Captain _Charles Ley._ {MN} Sir _Thomas Roe,_ known to be a most Noble Gentleman, before he went Lord Ambassadour to the Great _Mogul,_ or the Great _Turk,_ spent a year or two upon this Coast, and about the River of the _Amazons,_ {MN-2} wherein he most imployed Captain _Matthew Morton,_ an expert Sea-man in the discovery of this famous River, a Gentleman that was the first shot, and mortally supposed wounded to Death, with me in _Virginia,_ yet since hath been twice with command in _East-Indies;_ {MN-3} Also Captain _William White,_ and divers others worthy and industrious Gentlemen, both before and since, hath spent much time and charge to discover it more perfectly, but nothing more effected for a Plantation, till it was undertaken by Captain _Robert Harcote_ 1609. * * * * * {MN-1} Sir _Thomas Roe._ {MN-2} Captain _Morton._ {MN-3} Captain _White._