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braches or spaniels which Stephan caryed with him, and 

 they say that there is great store of that cattell in 

 Totonteac. 



Chap. 3. 



He entreth into a desert, and the Indians suffer him to 

 want nothing necessary. Following his Voyage, he 

 commeth into a fertile valley, and hath certaine know- 

 ledge given him (as he had before) of the state of 

 Cevola and of Totonteac ; and that the coast of the 

 sea in 35. degrees trendeth much to the Westward : 

 and also of the kingdomes of Marata and Acus. 



A desert of 'HT^He next day I entred into the Desert, and where I 



foure dayes J_ ^^g ^.q J^ie, I found bowers made, and victuals 



journey. ^^^ abundance by a rivers side : and at night I found 



bowers and victuals in like sort, and after that maner I 



found for 4. dayes travell : all which time the wildernesse 



continueth. 



J very popu- At the ende of these foure dayes, I entred into a valley 



lous valley. ^^^^ ^^U inhabited with people. At the first Village 



there mette me many men and women with victuals, and 



all of them had Turqueses hanging at their nostrils and 



eares, and some had collars of turqueses like those which 



the Lord of the Village before I came to the Desert, and 



his two brethren wore : saving that they ware them but 



single about their neckes, and these people weare them 



Collars of tur- three or foure times double, and goe in good apparell, 



queses two or ^^^^ skinnes of Oxen : and the women weare of the sayd 



three times ;_, , . -i j j 1 



double. Turqueses at their nostrils and eares, and very good wast- 



coats and other garments. Heere there was as great 

 knowledge of Cevola, as in Nueva Espanna of Temis- 

 titan, and in Peru of Cuzco: and they tolde us particularly 

 the maner of their houses, lodgings, streetes and market- 

 places, as men that had bene oftentimes there, and as 

 those which were furnished from thence with things 

 necessary for the service of their housholde, as those 

 also had done, which I already had passed. I tolde 

 them it was impossible that the houses should be 



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