. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. auoient trouue vne plaine acosté de Cajane qui leur sembloit fort propre et quilsdesiroient que nous y allassions mais la difficulté deretourner nous empescha ioinct que les Yayos ou nousestions a Commaribo nous tesmougnoient beaucoupdafection qui nous fit demourer. Le dixiesme Januier nous achetasmes vn champ pourfaire du Toubac dAriane du Texel qui nous coustaquatre haches. Le vingt cinquiesme nostre Capitaine fut a Capoureauecq Louys le Mayre allant a la chasse ils trouuerentune Campagne au Nord West dudict Capour
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. auoient trouue vne plaine acosté de Cajane qui leur sembloit fort propre et quilsdesiroient que nous y allassions mais la difficulté deretourner nous empescha ioinct que les Yayos ou nousestions a Commaribo nous tesmougnoient beaucoupdafection qui nous fit demourer. Le dixiesme Januier nous achetasmes vn champ pourfaire du Toubac dAriane du Texel qui nous coustaquatre haches. Le vingt cinquiesme nostre Capitaine fut a Capoureauecq Louys le Mayre allant a la chasse ils trouuerentune Campagne au Nord West dudict Capoure eslon-guee diceluy de lieue et demie elle estoit longue de deuxlieues et large dune parsemée de boscages et pleinedherbe il y auoit en plusieurs endroits des places fortpropres pour cultiuer le suchre et par tout bonne pourla tinture de cotton il laissa au diet Capoure Louys leMayre. 20 Mars Le vingtiesme de Mars les Caribes de Cayane vinrenta Commaribo. Le vingtdeuxiesme y arriuerent les Aricoures habi-tant la riuiere de Cassipoure ennemis des Caribes ce qui [ 242 ]. .^^ < - £ w i Journal of a Voyage to Guiana which the Spaniards had made beyond Corperarj on 1624the Amazons. -^«?y ^ On the 7th our gunner came from Cajane ^ to tellus that our men had found a plain on the Cajane thatseemed to them very suitable and they wished us togo there, but the difficulty of returning prevented us;in addition to which the Yayos where we were at Com-maribo showed us much affection, which induced us toremain. On the loth of January we bought of Ariane ofTexel a field in which to grow tobacco, which cost usfour axes. On the 25th our Captain was at Capoure^ withLouis le Maire. Having gone hunting, they found acountry to the North West of the said Capoure, dis-tant therefrom about a league and a half. It was twoleagues long and one wide, studded with groves andfull of grass. In several places there were very suit-able spots for cultivating sugar and it was good every-where for the dyei
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