A.D, 



1540. 



The valley de 

 los Caracones 

 distant Jive 

 dayes journey 

 from the Wes- 

 terne sea. 



[in. 375-] 

 Seven or eight 

 Isles, which 

 are the Isles 

 of Calfoima. 



A ship seene 

 on the sea 

 coast. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Indians our friendes which wee brought with us, and 

 to some others that had lost their cattell in the way, 

 and were not able to carry their victuals so farre which 

 they brought from Culiacan. It pleased God that wee 

 gate some small quantitie of Maiz with this traffique, 

 whereby certaine Indians were releived and some 

 Spanyards. 



And by that time that wee were come to this valley of 

 the Caracones, some tenne or twelve of our horses were 

 dead through wearinesse : for being overcharged with 

 great burdens, and having but little meate, they could not 

 endure the travaile. Likewise some of our Negros and 

 some of our Indians dyed here ; which was no small want 

 unto us for the performance of our enterprise. They 

 tolde me that this valley of the Caracones is five dayes 

 journey from the Westerne Sea. I sent for the Indians 

 of the Sea coast to understand their estate, and while I 

 stayed for them the horses rested : and I stayed there 

 foure dayes, in which space the Indians of the Sea coast 

 came unto mee : which told mee, that two dayes sayling 

 from their coast of the Sea, there were seven or eight 

 Islands right over against them, well inhabited with 

 people, but badly furnished with victuals, and were a 

 rude people : And they told mee, that they had seene 

 a Shippe passe by not farre from the shore : which I 

 wote not what to thinke whither it were one of those 

 that went to discover the Countrey, or else a Ship of 

 the Portugals. 



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