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THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA
them in chains, and dropped their naked bodies with burning bacon, and such other torments, which I found afterwards to be true; for in the city, after I entered the same, there were five of the Lords or little kings (which they call Casiqui in the West Indies) in one chain almost dead of famine, and wasted with torments; these are called in their own language Acarewana, and now of late, since English, French, and Spanish are come among them, they call themselves Capitains, because they perceive that the chiefest of every ship is called by that name. Those five Capitains in the chain were called Wannawanare, Carriaori, Maquarima, Tarroopanama, and Aterima. So as both to be revenged of the former wrong, as also considering that to enter Guiana by small boats, to depart 400 or 500 miles from my ships, and to leave a garrison in my back interested in the same enterprise, who also daily expected supplies out of Spain, I should have savoured very much of the Ass; and therefore taking a time of most advantage, I set upon the Corps du guard in the evening, and having put them to the sword, sent Captain Calfeild onwards with sixty soldiers, and myself followed with forty more, and so took their new city, which they called S. Joseph, by break of day. They abode not any fight after a few shot, and all being dismissed but only Berreo and his companions, I brought them with me aboard, and, at the instance of the Indians, I set their new city of S. Josephs on fire. The same day arrived Captain George Cifford with your Lordship’s ship, and Captain Keymis, whom I lost on the coast of Spain, with the Gallego, and in them divers Gentlemen and others, which to our little army was a great comfort and supply.