AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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Then againe I devided among them certaine other 

 things which I had, to appease them, whereupon they 

 were somewhat pacified, albeit they still shewed great 

 griefe for the people which were slaine. I requested 

 some of them to goe to Cevola, to see if any other 

 Indian were escaped, with intent that they might learne 

 some newes of Stephan ; which I could not obtaine at 

 their handes. When I saw this, I sayd unto them, that 

 I purposed to see the citie of Cevola, whatsoever came 

 of it. They sayde that none of them would goe with 

 me. At the last when they sawe mee resolute, two of 

 the chiefe of them sayde they would goe with me ; with 

 whome and with mine Indians and interpreters I followed 

 my way, till I came within sight of Cevola, which is 

 situate on a plaine at the foote of a round hill, and 

 maketh shew to bee a faire citie, and is better seated then 

 any that I have scene in these partes. The houses are 

 builded in order, according as the Indians told me, all 

 made of stone with divers stories, and flatte roofes, as 

 farre as I could discerne from a mountaine, whither I 

 ascended to viewe the citie. The people are somewhat 

 white, they weare apparell, and lie in beds, their weapons 

 are bowes, they have Emralds and other jewels, although 

 they esteeme none so much as turqueses, wherewith they 

 adorne the walles of the porches of their houses, and their 

 apparell and vessels, and they use them in stead of money 

 through all the Countrey. Their apparell is of cotton 

 and of oxe hides, and this is their most commendable and 

 honourable apparell. They use vessels of gold and silver, 

 for they have no other mettall, whereof there is greater use 

 and more abundance then in Peru, and they buy the 

 Most rich same for turqueses in the province of the Pintados, where 

 mines of gold xhtVQ are sayd to be mines of great abundance. Of other 

 The province of kingdomes I could not obtaine so particular instruction. 

 the Pintados. Divers times I was tempted to goe thither, because I 

 knewe I could but hazard my life, and that I had offered 

 unto God the first day that I began my journey : in the 

 ende I began to bee afraid, considering in what danger I 



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