to make a new Company, but differences of opinion split up the venture, and North sought locations further east. By 1629, the settlement had faded away, and Harcourt possibly died there. Britain took over the region in 1796, during hostilities with France, which then occupied the Netherlands. Further reading A Relation of the Second Voyage to Guiana by Lawrence Kemys (1596) References Bibliography Populated places established in 1620 1620 establishments in the British Empire History of French Guiana