Raleigh, vol. ii, page 420._

Right Honourable Sir,

These are to let you understand that whereas, according to your Honor's
direction, I have been framing of a Charte out of some such of Sir
Walter's notes and writings, which he hath left behind him,-his
principal Charte being carried with him, -if it may please you, I do
thinke most fit that the discovery of Captain Kemish be added, in his
due place, before I finish it. It is of importance, and all Chartes
which had that coast before be very imperfecte, as in many thinges elce.
And that of Sir Walter's, although it were better in that parte then any
other, yet it was don but by intelligence from the Indians, and this
voyadge was specially for the discovery of the same; which is, as I
find, well and sufficiently performed. And because the secrecy of these
matters doth much importe her Majesty and this State, I pray let me be
so bould as to crave that the dispatch of the plotting and describing be
don only by me for you, according to the order of trust that Sir Walter
left with me, before his departure, in that behalf, and as he hath
usually don heretofore. If your Honor have any notes from Sir Thomas
Baskerville, if it may please you to make me acquaynted with them, that
which they will manifest of other particularytyes then that before Sir
Walter hath described shall also be set downe.

Although Captain Kemish be not come home rich, yet he hath don the
speciall thing which he was injoined to do, as the discovery of the
coast betwixt the river of Amasones and Orinico, where are many goodly
harbors for the greatest ships her Majesty hath and any nomber; wher
there are great rivers, and more then probability of great good to be
don by them for Guiana, as by any other way or to other rich contryes