ABSTRACT
In the Wiapoco Roe would have encountered the English settlers carried out by Robert Harcourt in May 1609. Between 1611 and 1620 English and Irish projectors initiated several factories and plantations along the north bank of the Amazon between Cabo do Norte and the confluence of the Maicuru. In 1609 the English contraband tobacco trade to Trinidad and the Orinoco was at its peak. The English and Irish on the Amazon were similarly obligated to the Dutch. While the Dutch may have left men on the Amazon before 1610 there is only slender evidence that they did so. Their effort to colonize the rivers of the ‘Wild Coast’ after that date seems to have been prompted by considerations exactly contrary to those which moved the English and the Irish traders.
