FRANCIS DE ULLOA ad. 



1539- 

 the maine. On both sides of this River wee beheld 

 goodly and pleasant great plaines full of many greene 

 and beautifull trees, and farther within the land we 

 beheld certaine exceedino^ h'lsh. mountaines full of woods 

 very pleasant to beholde. From this River wee sailed 

 still along the coast the space of 15. leagues, in which 

 course wee found two other Rivers in our judgement Two great 

 as great or greater then Guadalquivir the River of ''^^'^''^• 

 Sivilia in Spaine. Al the coast by these Rivers is plaine 

 as the other which we had passed, with many woods : 

 likewise within the lande appeared great mountaines 

 covered with woods very beautifull to beholde, and 

 beneath in the plaine appeared certaine lakes of water. 

 From these Rivers we sailed 18. leagues, and found 

 very pleasant plaines, and certaine great lakes whose Certaine great 

 mouthes opened into the Sea : here our Captaine thought ^' "' 

 good throughly to discover what those lakes were, and 

 to search whether there were any good haven for his 

 ships to ride in, or to harbour themselves, if any tempest 

 should arise ; and so hee commaunded a boat to be 

 hoised out into the Sea, with a Master and five or sixe 

 men to view them, and to sound the depth, and botom 

 of them : who went thither, and found the coast very 

 sholde, and the mouthes of the lakes ; whereupon they 

 made no accompt of them, onely because the shore was 

 so shallow, for otherwise the land was very pleasant. 

 Here at evening we saw on the shore 10. or 12. Indians 

 and fires. The aforesaide two Rivers are two leagues 

 distant the one from the other little more or lesse, and 

 are great, as I have saide, and being in the last of them 

 v/e went up to the ship-top, and saw many lakes, and 

 one among the rest exceeding great, and wee supposed 

 that they had their springs out of this great lake, as 

 other Rivers also have from other lakes, for wee sawe the 

 course of them severally each by themselves, having 

 goodly woods growing all along their bankes. The cur- 

 rents of these Rivers might be discerned three leagues 

 within the Sea : and at the mouthes of them were many 

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