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coates some weare good apparel, others hides of kine 

 very well dressed, which they take to bee the best 

 apparell of that countrey, whereof they have there great 

 quantitie. Likewise the women goe apparelled, and 

 covered downe to the foote. These Indians gave me 

 very good intertainment, and curiously enquired the day 

 of my departure from Vacupa, that at my returne they 

 might provide me of foode and lodging. They brought 

 certaine sicke folkes before mee, that I might heale them, 

 and sought to touch my apparell, and gave mee certaine 

 Cow-hydes so well trimmed and dressed, that by them a 

 man might conjecture that they were wrought by civile 

 people, and all of them affirmed, sthat they came from 

 Cevola. 



The next day I followed my journey, and carrying 

 Another ^ith mee the Pintados, I came to another Village where I 



village. ^^g ^gjj received by the people of the same : who like- 



wise sought to touch my garments, and gave mee as 

 particular knowledge of the Lande aforesayde, as I had 

 received of those which mette mee before : and also tolde 

 mee, that from that place certaine people were gone with 

 Stephan Dorantez foure or five dayes journey. And 

 here I found a great crosse, which Stephan had left me 

 for a signe, that the newes of the good Countrey in- 

 creased, and left worde, that with all haste they should 

 sende mee away, and that hee would stay for mee at the 

 ende of the first Desert that he mette with. Heere I set 

 up two Crosses, and tooke possession according to mine 

 instruction, because that the Countrey seemed better unto 

 mee then that which I had passed, and that I thought it 

 meete to make an acte of possession as farre as that 

 place. 

 [III. 369.] In this maner I travailed five dayes, alwayes finding 



inhabited places with great hospitalitie and intertainments, 

 and many Turqueses, and Oxe-hides, and the like report 

 concerning the countrey. Heere I understood, that after 

 two dayes journey I should finde a desert where there is 

 no foode ; but that there were certaine gone before to 



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