which was most material.

The next day following we left the mouth of Caroli, and arrived again at
the port of Morequito where we were before; for passing down the stream
we went without labour, and against the wind, little less than a hundred
miles a day. As soon as I came to anchor, I sent away one for old
Topiawari, with whom I much desired to have further conference, and
also to deal with him for some one of his country to bring with us into
England, as well to learn the language, as to confer withal by the way,
the time being now spent of any longer stay there. Within three hours
after my messenger came to him, he arrived also, and with him such a
rabble of all sorts of people, and every one loaden with somewhat, as if
it had been a great market or fair in England; and our hungry companies
clustered thick and threefold among their baskets, every one laying hand
on what he liked. After he had rested awhile in my tent, I shut out all
but ourselves and my interpreter, and told him that I knew that both the
Epuremei and the Spaniards were enemies to him, his country and nations:
that the one had conquered Guiana already, and the other sought to
regain the same from them both; and therefore I desired him to instruct
me what he could, both of the passage into the golden parts of Guiana,
and to the civil towns and apparelled people of Inga. He gave me an
answer to this effect: first, that he could not perceive that I meant
to go onward towards the city of Manoa, for neither the time of the year
served, neither could he perceive any sufficient numbers for such an
enterprise. And if I did, I was sure with all my company to be buried
there, for the emperor was of that strength, as that many times so many
men more were too few. Besides, he gave me this good counsel and advised
me to hold it in mind (as for himself, he knew he could not live till
my return), that I should not offer by any means hereafter to invade the
strong parts of Guiana without the help of all those nations which were