May 10– From "The Discovery of Guiana" (1596) by Sir Walter Raleigh

 Raleigh was looking for El Dorado (Also, we need more protagonists with villain songs)

May 10– From The Discovery of Guiana (1596) by Sir Walter Raleigh

Summary: Yep, he found Guiana.

Commentary: First, and most importantly, this picture exists:

I don't even know what to alt text here. Man reclining with very long pipe while a servant tip toes in the background? Totally undersells it. Thanks, Wikipedia

    They have gold croissants. Which I assume is an arm band or some other crescent shaped piece of jewelry.

we use for spleen-stones (stones reduced to powder and taken internally to cure maladies of the spleen)

Thanks for clarifying, Sir Walter.

This is gross: 

Hereof the Spaniards make great profit; for buying a maid of twelve or thirteen years for three or four hatchets, they sell them again at Margarita in the West Indies for fifty and an hundred pesos, which is so many crowns.

 You can't describe people as having "the most valiant and manly speech" and not quote them!

These Tivitivas are a very goodly people and very valiant, and have the most manly speech and most deliberate that ever I heard of what nation soever.