VASQUEZ DE CORONADO a.d. 



1540. 



will grinde as much as foure women of Mexico. They 

 have most excellent sake in kernell, which they fetch ^^H &'^^ 

 from a certaine lake a dayes journey from hence. They ^^/J'^^^^^^^^ 

 have no knowledge among them of the North Sea, nor ^^^ ^i^fii^ 

 of the Westerne Sea, neither can I tell your lordship 1^0. leagues 

 to which wee bee nearest : But in reason they should f^'°^^ Ctbola. 

 seeme to bee neerest to the Westerne Sea: and at the J-Z/J' j -^ 

 least I thinke I am an hundred and fittie leagues from Porkespkks, 

 thence : and the Northerne Sea should bee much further mightie sheep, 

 off. Your lordship may see howe broad the land is "^'Ude goates. 

 here. Here are many sorts of beasts, as Beares, Tigers, ^^^J^ ^^^^' 

 Lions, Porkespicks, and certaine Sheep as bigge as an Q^^^ces. 

 horse, with very great homes and little tailes, I have ^tagges. 

 scene their homes so bigge, that it is a wonder to be- T^hey travaUe 

 hold their greatnesse. Here are also wilde goates whose ^' ^^^^^^^^J^' 

 heads likewise I have scene, and the pawes of Beares, ^^^ ^7^^^^ ^^^^ 

 and the skins of wilde Bores. There is game of Deere, Oxe hides 

 Ounces, and very great Stagges : and all men are of dressed and 

 opinion that there are some big^orer then that beast /^^«{^^^'^0' 

 which your lordship bestowed upon me, which once 

 belonged to John Melaz. They travell eight dayes 

 journey unto certaine plaines lying toward the North 

 Sea. In this countrey there are certaine skinnes well 

 dressed, and they dresse them and paint them where 

 they kill their Oxen, for so they say themselves. 



[Chap. 4. 

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