| Rene Noorbergen - Social Science - 2001 - 214 pages
...Venezuela, Guyana and Dutch Surinam. These are his recollections, taken from Discoverie of Guiana (1596): "The Empyre of Guiana is directly east from Peru towards the sea and lieth under the Equinoctial line, and it hath more abundance of Golde than any part of Peru, and as many... | |
| D. S. Hammond - Nature - 2005 - 552 pages
...great treasure houses, real and fabled, of the preColumbian inhabitants of South and Central America: The Empyre of Guiana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the Equinoctial line, and it hath more abundance of Golde then any part of Peru, and as many... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - History - 2006 - 472 pages
...and Baraquan, otherwise called Orenoke and Mormon.1 The Empyre of Guiana is directly east from Pent towards the sea, and lieth vnder the Equinoctial line,...and it hath more abundance of Golde then any part 20 of Pent, and as many or more great Cities then euer Pent had when it florished most: it is gouerned... | |
| Charles W. Eliot - Travel - 2006 - 405 pages
...between the great river of Amazons and Baraquan, otherwise called Orenoque and Mafanon.u The empire of Guiana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line; and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many or... | |
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