of gold, 37,375 hides, 2270 chests of indigo, besides cochineal, logwood, sugar, spices and precious stones.

It brought 11,509,524 fl.

into the coffers of the company, and a dividend of 50 per cent, was paid to the shareholders.

It was a wrong policy thus to deal with the results of a stroke of good fortune not likely to be repeated.
This year was, however, to be a lucky year unto the end.

A fourth expedition under Adrian Jansz Pater which left on August 15 for the Caribbean sea, sailed up the Orinoco and destroyed the town of San Thome de Guiana, the chief Spanish settlement in those parts.