Guiana

P. L. 11. 410. (See also EI Dorado.) A region in the northern part of South America, of greater extent than the country now called Guiana. Sir Walter Raleigh, who made two expeditions to Guiana, writes as follows: “Whatsoever prince shall po e e it, that Prince shall be Lord of more golde, and of a more beaut i full Empire, and of more Cities and people, then either the King of Spaine, or the great Turke. But because there may arise many doubts, and how this Empire of Guiana is become so populous, and adorned with so many great Cities, townes, temples, and treasures, I thought good to make it knowen, that the Emperour now reigning is descended from those magnificent princes of Peru, of whose large territories, of whose policies, conquests, edifices, and riches Pedro de Cieza, Francisco Lopez, and others have written large discourses, for when Francisco Pizarro, Diego Almagro and others conquered the said Empire of Peru, and had put to death Atabalipa sonne Guaynacapa, • one of the yonger sonnes of Guaynacapa out of Peru, and tooke with him many you sands of those souldiers of the Empire called Orejones, and with those and many others which followed him, hee vanquished all that tract and valley of America which is situated betweene the great river of Am a zones, and Baraquan, otherwise called Orenoque and to.. fled ch128.xhtml m 149