The Seranilla in

The isle of Centanilla or Santanilla in

Cape Camaron on the maine, South of the enterance of the Honduras

Ganaba in

Genaza in

Here followeth a declaration of the Longitudes, or Western and Eastern distances, from Spaine to Newe Spaine in America, and from thence backe againe to Spaine.

Leagues.

From Sal Medina upon the Coast Andaluzia till
you bring your selfe North and South with
Cape Cantin upon the Coast of Barbary
From Sal Medina to the island of Gran Canaria
From the Gran Canaria to Deseada

From Deseada to Monserate

From Monserate to santa Cruz

From santa Cruz to Cape Roxo the Southwest
Cape of Sant Juan de Puerto Rico

From Cape Roxo to Saona

From Saona to sant Domingo

From sant Domingo to Ocoa

From Ocoa to Beata

From Beata to the isle Baque

From the isle Baque to Navaza

From Navaza to sant lago of Cuba
From sant lago of Cuba to Cabo de Cruz
From Cabo de Cruz to the first Cayman
From the first Cayman to the middle Cayman
From the middle Cayman to the great Cayman
From the great Cayman to the isle of Pinos
From Cabo de Cruz to the isle of Pinos by the

forsaid course

From the isle of Pinos to Cabo de Corrientes
From Cabo de Corrientes to Cabo de sant Anton

43

33

32

34

40

6

12

48

106

19 20

The course from
Cabo de sant
Anton to sant
Juan de Ullua by
the outside or

North of the
Isles called

Alacranes.

The course from

Cabo de Corri

From Cabo de sant Anton to

the Nigrillos

From the Nigrillos, untill you
bring your selfe North and
South with the isle Vermeja
From the isle Vermeja to Villa Rica
From Villa rica to Sant Juan de
Ullua

From Cabo de Corrientes to the
first sounding

entes to sant Juan From the first sounding till you

106

25

96

12

45

de Ullua on the

inside or South of

island called Isla de Ranas

the Alacranes.

From Isla de Ranas unto

come so farre a head as the

80

The longitudes from New Spaine, backe
againe to Spaine.

From Saint Juan de Ullua to the Tortugas.
From the Tortugas to Havana.

From Havana to the head of the Martyrs.

From the head of the Martyrs to the Mimbres.
From the Mimbres to Bahamá.

From the head of the Martyrs to Cabo de

From Saint Michael to Cape Saint Vincent.

From Terzera to Cape Saint Vincent.

From Cape S. Vincent to Cabo de santa Maria

upon the coast of Algarbe.

From Cabo de santa

1595.

The discoverie of the large, rich, and beautifull
Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and
golden citie of Manoa (which the Spaniards call
El Dorado) and the provinces of Emeria, Aromaia,
Amapaia, and other countries, with their rivers ad-
joyning. Performed in the yeere 1595 by Sir Walter
Ralegh Knight, Captaine of Her Majesties
Guard, Lorde Warden of the Stanneries,
and Her Highnesse Leiutenant Generall
of the Countie of Corne-wall.

To the right Honourable my singular good Lord and
kinsman Charles Howard, Knight of the Garter,
Baron and Counceller, and of the Admirals of
England the most renowmed: and to the right
Honourable Sir Robert Cecyll knight, Counceller
in her Highnesse Privie Councels.

Or your Honours many Honourable and friendly partes, I have hitherto onely returned promises, and now for answere of both your adventures, I have sent you a bundle of papers, which I have devided betwene your Lordship, and Sir Robert Cecyll in these two respects chiefly: First for that it is reason, that wastful factors, when they have consumed such stockes as they had in trust, doe yeeld some colour for the same in their account; secondly for that I am assured, that whatsoever shall bee done, or written by me, shall neede a double protection and defence. The triall that I had of both your loves, when I was left of all, but of malice and revenge, makes me still presume, that you wil be pleased (knowing what litle power I had to performe ought, and the great advantage of forewarned enemies) to answer that out of knowledge, which others shal but object out of

1595.

malice. In my more happy times as I did especially Hon. you both, so I found that your loves sought mee out in the darkest shadow of adversitie, and the same affection which accompanied my better fortune, sored not away from me in my many miseries: al which though I can not requite, yet I shal ever acknowledge: & the great debt which I have no power to pay, I can do no more for a time but confesse to be due. It is true that as my errors were great, so they have yeelded very grievous effects, & if ought might have bene deserved in former times to have counterpoysed any part of offences, the fruit thereof (as it seemeth) was long before fallen from the tree, & the dead stocke onely remained. I did therefore even in the winter of my life, undertake these travels, fitter for bodies lesse blasted with mis-fortunes, for men of greater abilitie, and for mindes of better incouragement, that thereby, if it were possible, I might recover but the moderation of excesse, & the least tast of the greatest plenty formerly possessed. If I had knowen other way to win, if I had imagined how greater adventures might have regained, if I could conceive what farther meanes I might yet use, but even to appease so powreful displeasure, I would not doubt but for one yeere more to hold fast my soule in my teeth, till it were performed. Of that litle remaine I had, I have wasted in effect all herein. I have undergone many constructions. I [III. 628.] have bene accompanyed with many sorrowes, with labour, hunger, heat, sickenes, & perill: It appeareth notwithstanding that I made no other bravado of going to the sea, then was ment, and that I was never hidden in Cornewall, or els where, as was supposed. They have grosly belied me, that forejudged, that I would rather become a servant to the Spanish king, then returne, and the rest were much mistaken, who would have perswaded, that I was too easefull and sensuall to undertake a journey of so great travell. But, if what I have done, receive the gracious construction of a

1595.

painefull pilgrimage, and purchase the least remission, I shall thinke all too litle, & that there were wanting to the rest many miseries. But if both the times past, the present, and what may be in the future, doe all by one graine of gall continue in eternall distast; I doe not then know whether I should bewaile my selfe, either for my too much travell and expence, or condemne my selfe for doing lesse then that, which can deserve nothing. From my selfe I have deserved no thankes, for I am returned a beggar, and withered, but that I might have bettred my poore estate, it shall appeare by the following discourse, if I had not onely respected her Majesties future Honour, and riches. It became not the former fortune in which I once lived, to goe journeys of picory, it had sorted ill with the offices of Honour, which by her Majesties grace I hold this day in England, to run from Cape to Cape, and from place to place, for the pillage of ordinaries prizes. Many yeeres since, I had knowledge by relation, of that mighty, rich and beautifull Empier of Guiana, and of that great and golden Citie, which the Spaniards call El Dorado, and the naturals Manoa, which Citie was conquered, reedified, and inlarged by a yonger sonne of Guainacapa Emperour of Peru, at such time as Francisco Pizarro and others conquered the said Empire, from his two elder brethren, Guascar, and Atabalipa, both then contending for the same, the one being favoured by the Orejones of Cuzco, the other by the people of Caxamalca. I sent my servant Jacob Whiddon the yere before, to get knowledge of the passages, and I had some light from Captaine Parker, sometime my servant, and nowe attending on your Lordship, that such a place there was to the Southward of the great Bay of Charuas, or Guanipa: but I found that it was 600 miles farther off then they supposed, and many other impediments to them unknowen and unheard. After I had displanted Don Antonio de Berreo, who was upon the same enterprize, leaving my