A.D. 



1539- 



Marata Iteth 

 toward the 

 Southeast, 



Totonteac 

 lyeth West. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



under him. This townesman of Cevola is a white man 

 of a good complexion, somewhat well in yeeres, and of 

 farre greater capacitie then the inhabitants of this valley, 

 or then those which I had left behind me. Hee sayde 

 that hee would goe with mee, that I might begge his 

 pardon : and of him I learned many particulars : he 

 tolde me that Cevola was a great Citie, inhabited with 

 great store of people, and having many Streetes and 

 Market-places : and that in some partes of this Citie there 

 are certaine very great houses of five stories high, wherein 

 the chiefe of the Citie assemble themselves at certaine 

 dayes of the yeere. He sayeth that the houses are of 

 Lyme and Stone, according as others had tolde mee be- 

 fore, and that the gates, and small pillars of the principall 

 houses are of Turqueses, and all the vessels wherein they 

 are served, and the other ornaments of their houses were 

 of golde : and that the other sixe Cities are built like 

 unto this, whereof some are bigger : and that Abacus is 

 the chiefest of them. Hee sayth that toward the South- 

 east there is a kingdome called Marata, and that there were 

 woont to be many, and those great Cities, which were all 

 built of houses of Stone, with divers lofts ; and that these 

 have and doe wage warre with the Lord of the seven 

 cities, through which warre this kingdome of Marata is 

 for the most part wasted, although it yet continueth and 

 mainteineth warre against the other. 



Likewise he saith, that the kingdome called Totanteac 

 lyeth toward the West, which he saith is a very mightie 

 Province, replenished with infinite store of people and 

 riches : and that in the sayde Kingdome they weare 

 woollen cloth like that which I weare, and other finer 

 sorts of woollen cloth made of the fleeces of those beastes 

 which they described before unto me : and that they are a 

 very civile people. Moreover hee tolde me, that there 

 is another great Province and kingdome called Acus ; for 

 there is Acus, and Abacus with an aspiration, which is the 

 principall of the seven cities : and Acus without an aspira- 

 tion is a kingdome and Province of it selfe. He told me 



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