1581-83. 



Very great 

 and rich stiver 



mines. 



Tobosos. 



AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Spanyards found in this journey many mines of silver, 

 which according to the judgement of skilfull men, were 

 very plentiful! and rich in metall. 



A dayes journey from thence they met with another 

 nation called Tobosos, who so soone as they beheld the 

 countenance of our people fledde unto the mountaines, 

 leaving their townes and houses desolate. Afterward wee 

 understood that certeine yeeres past there came unto that 

 place certaine souldiers to seeke mines, who caried away 

 captive certaine of the people of the countrey, which 

 caused the rest of them to be so shey and fearefull. 

 The captaine sent messengers to call them backe againe, 

 assuring them that they should not sustaine any harme, 

 and handled the matter so discreetly, that many of them 

 returned, whom he made much of, and gave them gifts, 

 using them kindly, and declaring unto them by the 

 interpreter, that their comming was not to hurt any 

 man : whereupon they were all quieted, and were content 

 they should set up crosses, and declare the mystery of 

 the same, making shew that they were highly pleased 

 therewith. For proofe whereof they accompanied them 

 on their voyage, as their neighbours had done, untill 

 they had brought them to a countrey inhabited by 

 another nation, which was distant from theirs some 12 

 leagues. They use bowes and arrowes and go naked. 



The nation unto which the sayd Tobosos conducted 

 them, is called Jumanos, whom the Spanyards by another 

 name call Patarabueyes : their province is very great, 

 conteining many townes and great store of people : their 

 houses are flat-rooffed, and built of lime and stone, and 

 the streets of their townes are placed in good order. 

 All the men and women have their faces, armes and 

 legges raced and pounced : they are a people of great 

 stature, and of better government, then the rest which 

 they had scene in their former journeyes : and are well 

 provided of victuals, and furnished with plenty of wilde 

 Rio turbioso leasts, fowles and fishes, by reason of mighty rivers 

 del Norte. which come from the North, whereof one is as great as 



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Jumanos or 

 Patarabueyes. 



