AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



the marques nephew to olde Pedro Melendes that slew 

 Ribault, & is now governer of Florida, weareth. He 

 saith also, that to make passage unto these moun- 

 taines, it is needefull to have store of Hatchets to give 

 unto the Indians, and store of Pickaxes to breake the 

 mountaines, which shine so bright in the day in some 

 places, that they cannot behold them, and therefore they 

 travell unto them by night. Also corslets of Cotton, 

 which the Spanyards call Zecopitz, are necessary to bee 

 had against the arrowes of the Savages. 



He sayth farther, that a Tunne of the sassafras of 

 Florida is solde in Spaine for sixtie ducates : and that 

 they have there great store of Turkie cocks, of Beanes, 

 of Peason, and that there are great store of pearles. 



The things, as he reporteth, that the Floridians make 

 most account of, are red Cloth, or redde Cotton to make 

 baudricks or gyrdles : copper, and hatchets to cut withall. 



The Spaniards have all demaunded leave at their owne 

 costs, to discover these mountaines, which the King 

 denyeth, for feare lest the English or French would 

 enter into the same action, once knowen. 

 [III. 362.] All the Spaniards would passe up by the river 



of Saint Helena unto the mountaines of golde and 

 Chrystall. 



The Spaniards entring 50. leagues up Saint Helena, 

 found Indians wearing golde rings at their nostrels and 

 Oxen. eares. They found also Oxen, but lesse then ours. 



Sixe leagues from Saint Helena toward the North, 

 there is a poynt that runneth farre into the sea, which 

 is the marke to the Seamen to finde Saint Helena and 

 Waterin. 



Waterin is a river fortie leagues distant Northward 

 from Saint Helena, where any fleete of great ships may 

 ride safely. I take this river to be that which we call 

 Waren in Virginia, whither at Christmasse last 1585. 

 the Spaniards sent a barke with fortie men to discover 

 where we were seated : in which barke was Nicholas 

 Burgoignon the reporter of all these things. 



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