cacique Aramiary, to whose town we made our long and hungry voyage out
of the river of Amana, passed by us.

The next day we arrived at the port of Morequito, and anchored there,
sending away one of our pilots to seek the king of Aromaia, uncle to
Morequito, slain by Berreo as aforesaid. The next day following, before
noon, he came to us on foot from his house, which was fourteen English
miles, himself being a hundred and ten years old, and returned on foot
the same day; and with him many of the borderers, with many women
and children, that came to wonder at our nation and to bring us down
victual, which they did in great plenty, as venison, pork, hens,
chickens, fowl, fish, with divers sorts of excellent fruits and roots,
and great abundance of pinas, the princess of fruits that grow under the
sun, especially those of Guiana. They brought us, also, store of bread
and of their wine, and a sort of paraquitos no bigger than wrens, and of
all other sorts both small and great. One of them gave me a beast called
by the Spaniards armadillo, which they call cassacam, which seemeth to
be all barred over with small plates somewhat like to a rhinoceros, with
a white horn growing in his hinder parts as big as a great hunting-horn,
which they use to wind instead of a trumpet. Monardus (Monardes,
Historia Medicinal) writeth that a little of the powder of that horn put
into the ear cureth deafness.

After this old king had rested awhile in a little tent that I caused to
be set up, I began by my interpreter to discourse with him of the death
of Morequito his predecessor, and afterward of the Spaniards; and ere I
went any farther I made him know the cause of my coming thither, whose
servant I was, and that the Queen's pleasure was I should undertake the
voyage for their defence, and to deliver them from the tyranny of the
Spaniards, dilating at large, as I had done before to those of Trinidad,