Heroes of the Elizabethan age : stirring records of the intrepid bravery and boundless resources of the men of Queen Elizabeth's reign . Joseph by break of day. They abode not any fightafter a few shot, and all being dismissed but only Berreo andhis companion, I brought them with me aboard; and at theinstance of the Indians, I set their new city of S. Joseph onfire. We can see from these specimens of Raleighs compositionhow much better educated a man he was than the great sea-men already described. At this moment they were delightedto see some of the ships arrive, which they thought had beenlo
Heroes of the Elizabethan age : stirring records of the intrepid bravery and boundless resources of the men of Queen Elizabeth's reign . Joseph by break of day. They abode not any fightafter a few shot, and all being dismissed but only Berreo andhis companion, I brought them with me aboard; and at theinstance of the Indians, I set their new city of S. Joseph onfire. We can see from these specimens of Raleighs compositionhow much better educated a man he was than the great sea-men already described. At this moment they were delightedto see some of the ships arrive, which they thought had beenlost; Captain George Gilford and Captain Keymis and diversothers— a great comfort and supply to our little armie. Raleigh called all the Caciques of the island together, andby his Indian interpreter explained that he was the servant ofa queen who was the great Cacique of the North and a virgin;an enemy of the Castellani (Spanish), who had sent him to freethe Indians and defend Guiana from invasion and conquest. He then showed them a portrait of Elizabeth, which theyso admired and honoured, as it had been easier to have brought 268. yuEEN Elizabeths Jtortrait Raleigh called tocjether all the Caciques of the island and showed iheni theportrait of the Queen, the great Cacique of the North. THE FIRST GREAT COLONISER them idolatrous thereof. Still keeping Berreo his prisoner,whom he found to be a gentleman of great assuredness, veryvaliant and liberal and of a great heart and good family, hesays, I used him according to his estate and worth in allthings I could. Berreo, not suspecting that Raleigh was in search of ElDorado, freely told him of his own plans for discovering thegolden city, showed him written statements of men who hadbeen there, and of the Jesuit Gumilla, who had met an Indianwho stated that he had resided there fifteen years, and whoseaccount of it was so minute ^and convincing that it seemed im-possible to be a fabrication. So Raleighs credulity was fedand strengthen
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