Carapana

The king of this land is called Carapana, a man very wise, subtle, and of great experience, being little less than an hundred years old.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49 1909

The king of this land is called Carapana, a man very wise, subtle, and of great experience, being little less than an hundred years old.

The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh 1586

Under this able leader I fought in several engagements that were fierce and sanguinary as all such fratricidal contests are, and ever have been in the annals of civil war, at San Sebastien, Carapana, Tarasca, and elsewhere, our guerilla struggle extending over the whole extensive country in almost every direction, where there was a town to sack or property to plunder, until at last the insurgent "patriots" were conquered and peace restored.

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

He also despatched messengers to his son in Nuevo Reyno to levy all the forces he could, and to come down the river Orenoque to Emeria, the province of Carapana, to meet him; he had also sent to Santiago de Leon on the coast of the Caracas, to buy horses and mules.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49 1909

The Spaniards led him in a chain seventeen days, and made him their guide from place to place between his country and Emeria, the province of Carapana aforesaid, and he was at last redeemed for an hundred plates of gold, and divers stones called piedras hijadas, or spleen-stones.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49 1909

We understood by these chieftains of Winicapora that their lord, Carapana, was departed from Emeria, which was now in sight, and that he was fled to Cairamo, adjoining to the mountains of Guiana, over the valley called Amariocapana, being persuaded by those ten Spaniards which lay at his house that we would destroy him and his country.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102 1909

But in mine opinion, or rather I assure myself, that Carapana being a notable wise and subtle fellow, a man of one hundred years of age and therefore of great experience, is removed to look on, and if he find that we return strong he will be ours; if not, he will excuse his departure to the Spaniards, and say it was for fear of our coming.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102 1909

After three hours more, the sun being almost set, we began to suspect that he led us that way to betray us; for he confessed that those Spaniards which fled from Trinidad, and also those that remained with Carapana in Emeria, were joined together in some village upon that river.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49 1909

This town is called Arowocai; the people are of the nation called Nepoios, and are followers of Carapana.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102 1909

On the hithermost part of Orenoque, as at Toparimaca and Winicapora, those are of a nation called Nepoios, and are the followers of Carapana, lord of Emeria.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102 1909