ore the wound be dressed, or soon upon it, there
is no way with them but present death.

And so I will return again to our journey, which for this third day
we finished, and cast anchor again near the continent on the left hand
between two mountains, the one called Aroami and the other Aio. I made
no stay here but till midnight; for I feared hourly lest any rain should
fall, and then it had been impossible to have gone any further up,
notwithstanding that there is every day a very strong breeze and
easterly wind. I deferred the search of the country on Guiana side till
my return down the river.

The next day we sailed by a great island in the middle of the river,
called Manoripano; and, as we walked awhile on the island, while the
galley got ahead of us, there came for us from the main a small canoa
with seven or eight Guianians, to invite us to anchor at their port,
but I deferred till my return. It was that cacique to whom those Nepoios
went, which came with us from the town of Toparimaca. And so the fifth
day we reached as high up as the province of Aromaia, the country of
Morequito, whom Berreo executed, and anchored to the west of an island
called Murrecotima, ten miles long and five broad. And that night the
cacique Aramiary, to whose town we made our long and hungry voyage out
of the river of Amana, passed by us.

The next day we arrived at the port of Morequito, and anchored there,
sending away one of our pilots to seek the king of Aromaia, uncle to
Morequito, slain by Berreo as aforesaid. The next day following, before
noon, he came to us on foot from his house, which was fourteen English
miles, himself being a hundred and ten years old, and returned on foot
the same day; and with him many of the borderers, with many women
and children, that came to wonder at our nation and to bring us down
victual, which they did in great plenty, as venison, pork, hens,
chickens, fowl, fish, with divers sorts of excellent fruits and roots,
and great abundance of pinas, the princess of fruits that grow under the
sun, especially those of Guiana. They brought us, also, store of bread
and of their wine, and a sort of paraquitos no bigger than wrens, and of
all other sorts both small and great. One of them gave me a beast called
by the Spaniards armadillo, which they call cassacam, which seemeth to
be all barred over with small plates somewhat like to a rhinoceros, with
a white horn growing in his hinder parts as big as a great h