Jn oxhide. 



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1540. 



very rudely done, because the painter spent but one day 

 in drawing of the same. I have seene other pictures 

 on the walks of the houses of this citie with farre better 

 proportion, and better made. I send your honour one 

 Oxe-hide, certaine Turqueses, and two earerings of the 

 LertaineTur- g^j^^^ ^j^^ fifteene combes of the Indians, and certain 

 tablets set with these Turqueses, and two small baskets 

 made of wicker, whereof the Indians have great store. I 

 send your lordship also two rolles which the women in 

 these parts are woont to weare on their heads when they 

 fetch water from their welles, as wee use to doe in Spaine. 

 And one of these Indian women with one of these rolles 

 on her head, will carie a pitcher of water without touching 

 the same with her hande up a lather. I send you also 

 a muster of the weapons wherewith these people are woont 

 to fight, a buckler, a mace, a bowe, and certaine arrowes, 

 among which are two with points of bones, the like 

 whereof, as these conquerours say, have never beene 

 seene. I can say nothing unto your lordshippe touching 

 the appareU of their women. For the Indians keepe them 

 so carefully from us, that hitherto I have not seene any 

 of them, saving onely two olde women, and these had 

 two long robes downe to the foote open before, and 

 girded to them, and they are buttoned with certaine 

 cordons of cotton. I requested the Indians to give me 

 one of these robes, which they ware, to send your honour 

 the same, seeing they would not shewe mee their women. 

 And they brought mee two mantles which are these, 

 which I send you as it were painted : they have two 

 pendents like the women of Spaine, which hang some- 

 The death of what over their shoulders. The death of the Negro is 

 A/jtf-^" ^^^ most certaine : for here are many of the things found 

 which hee carried with him : And the Indians tell me that 

 they killed him here, because the Indians of Chichilticale 

 tolde them that hee was a wicked villaine, and not like 

 unto the Christians: because the Christians kill no women: 

 and hee killed women ; and also he touched their women, 

 which the Indians love more then themselves ; therefore 



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