The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George Ii. 3
The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George Ii. 3
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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He bent his courfe to Guiana, and remaining himfelf at the mout;h of the riyer Oroonoko, with five of the largeft fiiips, he lent the reft up the ftream, under the com- inand of his fon and of captain Keymis, a per- fan entirely devoted to his interefts. gut inftead of a country abounding in gold, av the adven- turers were taught to expeft, they fovmd the Spaniards had been warned of their approach, and were prepared in arms to receive fehem, N 3 yoyng lU HISTORY OF ENOI/AND. Young Raleigh, to ...encourage his men, called out that *• This was the true mine," meaning the town of St. Thomas, which he was ap- proaching; *« and that none but fools looked for any other:*' but juft as he was fpeaking, he received a (hot, of which he immediately ex- pired. This was followed by ahother difap- pointment, for when the Englifh took poflef- fion of the town they found nothing in U of any value. It was Keymis who pretended that he had ifccn the mirie, and gave the firft account of Jt to Raleigh; but he now began to retrafl:, and though he was within two hours mafch of the place, hp rpftafed, on the moft abfurd pre- tences, to take any effcftual ftep towards find- ing it.
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