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Important account of Walter Raleigh's travels to the new world. In the 1596 edition on page 33: After the death of this Morequito, the soldiers of Berreo spoiled his territorie and took divers prisoners. Among others they took the uncle of Morequito called Topiawari, who is now king of Arromaia (whose sonne I brought with me into England), and is a man of great understanding and policie: he is above 100 yeeres old, and yet of a very able bodie. The Spaniards led him in a chain 17 dayes, and made him their guide from place to place between his countrey and Emeria, the province of Carapana aforesaid, and was at last redeemed for 100 plates of gold, and divers stones called Piedras Hijadas, or spleen stones. Now Berreo, for executing of Morequito and other cruelties, spoiles, and slaughters done in Arromaia, hath lost the love of the Orenoqueponi and of all the borderers, and dare not send any of his soldiers any farther into the land than to Carapana, which he calleth the port of Guiana. But from thence, by the help of Carapana, he had trade farther into the countrey, and always appointed 10 Spaniards to reside in Carapana’s towne, by whose favour, and by being conducted by his people, those ten searched the countrey thereabouts as well for mines as for other trades and commodities.""