Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration: The Case of the United States of Venezuela Before the Tribunal of Arbitration to Convene at Paris Under the Provisions of the Treaty ... |
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Abraham Beekman aforesaid colony annatto Barima Berbice Blue Book boats Burr.-For Burr.-The Cajoeny canoes Captain Caraibans Caribs carried coast colonists colony of Essequibo Commandant Commandeur in Essequibo Company Zeeland Chamber Company's Court of Policy creek Cumaná Cuyuni river Demerara Director-General in Essequibo Dutch Esquivo Extract from letter Extract from proceedings Governor Guayana Guiana High Mightinesses Hollanders Honor India Company Zeeland Indians informed inhabitants Island Juan land Laurens Storm leagues letter from Storm letter from West Lordships Majesty mandeur Maroco matter Missions month Moruca mouth necessary negroes Note by Prof Orinocque plantations Pomeroon possession Postholder Poytos present Province of Guayana quibo Report Reprinted from Blue Reprinted from U. S. request Reverend Father river Cuyuni river Essequibo River Orinoco Royal sail sent settlement ship soldiers Spaniards Spanish States-General Storm van's Gravesande Surinam territory tion trade Trinidad Tumeremo U. S. Commission vessels village West India Company
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Page 18 - Netherlands, with the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the coast of America, from the straits of Magellan to the remotest north.
Page 182 - I had the honour to give YY. HH. a hasty account of the dangerous position of the River Cuyuni ; since then I have given express commands that one of the two assistants there should proceed up the river as far as possible, or as far as he could go without any danger ; that he should make a very careful inspection of the situation of the Spanish Missions, and that he should get the Indians to procure him an exact account of their strength and further particulars. If possible, he was to bring down...
Page 18 - Straits of Anian, as well on the North Sea as the South Sea, nor on any islands situated on the one side or the other, or between both : nor in the western or southern countries, reaching, lying, and between both the meridians, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the east, to the east end of New Guinea, in the west inclusive, but in the name of this United Company of these United Netherlands.
Page 27 - Company, and for the reason that individual colonists l are permitted to trade there as well as the Company, so that the goods coming from there can not fetch their proper price. On this point they are of advice that, at the expiration of the charter, either the trade there ought to be held exclusively for the Company or it were better that the aforesaid place should, subject to the proper fees, be thrown open to free...
Page 267 - Vol. 8, p. 181.] MOST EXCELLENT SIR: The States of the Province of Holland and Westfriesland determined to establish a colony on the coast of the mainland at Cape Orange, between Surinantte and the Amazon river, in order to hold the greater part of the coast from Trinidad to the Amazon river, for they already have the settlements in Barbiche, Sequiebes, and Surinamtes. ******* No. 342. Memorandum of those who left Catalonia for the Missions of the Island of Trinidad, in the year 168O.
Page 457 - God preserve), we have received commands that, among other things, the Prefect and Assistants are to assemble for the purpose of deliberating upon the sites for new reductions. This has always been done whenever it, has been considered necessary to found any village of Indians. Precisely as ordered, and in the manner...
Page 212 - Excellency said he knew nothing of the matter, and that he would send the said document to the Council of the Indies, in order to take their advice thereon, yet that apparently they would want to write thither in order to obtain the necessary information. I requested him that as information would be written for, that he would be pleased at the same time to send orders to the Governor to discontinue all hostilities, and to leave those of the colony in quiet possession, as they had possessed the same...
Page 96 - Spaniards have established a mission up in this river, and have built a small fort there, he himself having been there and spoken with the priest and soldiery ; that they were busy making much brick there, with the intention next year to found yet another mission and fort some hours nearer, farther down this river, [while! all the Indians, coming away from those parts, are fleeing this way and praying for protection.
Page 156 - Cumand, the buildings at the Post being destroyed and burnt. The reasons that they had for such unlawful proceedings must be best known to themselves, because they can have not the very least shadow of a claim to possession, or it must have been the chimerical pretensions of the priests in these parts that the whole of America belongs to His Catholic Majesty, and that all other nations hold possession merely precario, and by permission. So that they must have had entirely different reasons, and which...
Page 190 - What a pity it would be if such a flourishing colony (such as this is now growing) were to be ruined by rogues and pirates, as must inevitably be the case if no powerful measures are adopted to resist the pirates from Orinocque and...