by Walter Raleigh

Name: The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana
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The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

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“The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana”, is a work by by Walter Raleigh. It explores elements such as riches, Peru and port.

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ But I hope it shall appear that there is a way found to answer every man's longing; a better Indies for her Majesty than the king of Spain hath any; which if it shall please her Highness to undertake, I shall most willingly end the rest of my days in following the same. If it be left to the spoil and sackage of common persons, if the love and service of so many nations be despised, so great riches and so mighty an empire refused ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ The country hath more quantity of gold, by manifold, than the best parts of the Indies, or Peru. All the most of the kings of the borders are already become her Majesty's vassals, and seem to desire nothing more than her Majesty's protection and the return of the English nation. It hath another ground and assurance of riches and glory than the voyages of the West Indies ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ The king of Spain is not so impoverished by taking three or four port towns in America as we suppose; neither are the riches of Peru or Nueva Espana so left by the sea side as it can be easily washed away with a great flood, or spring tide, or left dry upon the sands on a low ebb. The port towns are few and poor in respect of the rest within the land, and are of little defence, and are only rich when the fleets are to receive the treasure for Spain ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ If I had known other way to win, if I had imagined how greater adventures might have regained, if I could conceive what farther means I might yet use but even to appease so powerful displeasure, I would not doubt but for one year more to hold fast my soul in my teeth till it were performed. ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ Juan de Rodas, of Cassaris, of Antiochia, Caramanta, Cali, and Anserma have gold enough to pay the king's part, and are not easily invaded by way of the ocean. Or if Nombre de Dios and Panama be taken, in the province of Castilla del Oro, and the villages upon the rivers of Cenu and Chagre; Peru hath, besides those, and besides the magnificent cities of Quito and Lima, so many islands, ports, cities, and mines as if I should name them with the rest it would seem incredible to the reader. ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ I will therefore leave it to His ordinance that hath only power in all things; and do humbly pray that your honours will excuse such errors as, without the defence of art, overrun in every part the following discourse, in which I have neither studied phrase, form, nor fashion; that you will be pleased to esteem me as your own, though over dearly bought, and I shall ever remain ready to do you all honour and service. ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ I did therefore, even in the winter of my life, undertake these travails, fitter for bodies less blasted with misfortunes, for men of greater ability, and for minds of better encouragement, that thereby, if it were possible, I might recover but the moderation of excess, and the least taste of the greatest plenty formerly possessed. ”

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by Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana — Raleigh's Discovery Of Guiana

“ In the port towns of the province of Venezuela, as Cumana, Coro, and St. Iago (whereof Coro and St. Iago were taken by Captain Preston, and Cumana and St. Josepho by us) we found not the value of one real of plate in either. But the cities of Barquasimeta, Valencia, St. Sebastian, Cororo, St. Lucia, Laguna, Maracaiba, and Truxillo, are not so easily invaded. Neither doth the burning of those on the coast impoverish the king of Spain any one ducat ”

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