British Guiana Boundary: Arbitration with the United States of Venezuela. The Case [and Appendix] on Behalf of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty, Volume 3Printed at the Foreign office, by Harrison and sons, 1898 - Guyana |
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Page 108 - Heere, was so injudiciously and childishly driven away, badly treated, and for ever estranged from us, that the efforts made to enter into communication with it have hitherto proved fruitless — a political dodge of the Carib nation of which it would be thought incapable.
Page 109 - ... known. Now, this Post was, as is known, attacked in a treacherous manner contrary to the law of nations, and contrary to all Treaties, by the Spaniards of Guajana in the year,* with a detachment of 100 men, the Postholder and his assistant being taken prisoners to Guajana, and from there to Comana, the buildings at the Post being destroyed and burnt. The reasons that they had...
Page 182 - I have the honour to be in your lordships' service (•which I trust will be but a short time) I send back to Europe by the first ship all recruits who come here and turn out to be French. Necessity compels me to do this, and I would no longer be answerable to God or man for the danger into which the Colony would be brought by this. The colonists, especially those down in the river and on the sea-coast, are unceasingly complaining that they are continually compelled to be on their guard, and really...
Page 109 - Cajoeny have their source in a large lake or inland sea as the Indians call it, which lake is inclosed by high mountains, inhabited by vast numbers of Indians, who, through fear of the Spaniards, allow no strangers to come into their country, it being related that already two detachments of Spaniards sent into those parts to make discoveries have been beaten and massacred. Whether this lake is the Lake of Parima or that of Cassipa is not yet known.
Page 84 - ... (Aceite de Maria), and of a species of bixwort found on the Orinoco. To procure these some Dutch introduce themselves among the fleets of these Indians, painted according to the custom of the said savages, by which they encourage them, and add boldness to the lamentable destruction which they work. Added to which, many Caribs receive a great supply of arms, ammunition, glass beads, and other trifles, with the understanding that they are to be paid for within a certain time with Indians, which...
Page 81 - Indians, with arrows, guns, and broad swords, which force he kept, said the Indian, for the whites of Guayana, because they hindered him taking the Indians of the nations of the Orinoco and selling them to the Dutch. That these latter told the aforesaid Indians not to show the Swedes a good place for their settlement, and they themselves would give them all they required. Having considered this matter in my Council of the Indies, and taken the advice of my Attorney-General, and deliberated thereupon,...
Page 118 - HH., if anything be undertaken it will be done inland, and not on the sea-coast ; of this I am perfectly certain, and I do not think that two years will elapse before we see something of the kind. In this emergency I have again had a talk with van der Heyde about Cuyuni. He has told me that the Indians were won over to be helpful, but that they wished in that case to be assured also of protection against the Spaniards. He is of opinion that it would be needful that, at the place where the Post is...
Page 105 - Berbice to-day with letters from me, in order that they may be employed there as may be found necessary. This body of Indians is wholly from the River Mazaruni. I had never supposed or been able to suppose that such a number of Caribs lived in that river alone. It is quite true that at the beginning of the last war but one I once had their number taken grosso modo, and it then amounted to 11oo men capable of bearing arms; but this was the whole jurisdiction of the Company, from Abary to Barima.
Page 183 - ... us. This matter is really getting more dangerous for this colony every day, because the rascals are employed upon the so-called coast-guards and privateers of which I wrote in my last letter, and it has been reported to us by Spaniards themselves that the aforesaid deserters openly threaten that they will not only make a raid upon the Post in Maroco, but that they will also pay a visit to a few of the lowest plantations.
Page 116 - I have received a report from the few colonists who still reside in the upper reaches of the rivers that a few weeks ago they had seen a white man with a few Indians proceeding down the falls of the River Cajoeny and proceeding up the River Masserouny.