runneth 

 Nortkzva?'d. 



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small stakes set up for markes : the shore here is plalne 



and sandie, and the countrey very pleasant. 



Chap. 2. 



Sailing along the coast from the two aforesaid great 

 Rivers, they discover three mouthes of lakes and a 

 goodly Countrey, they come unto Cabo Roxo, and 

 take possession of those countreys for the Emperours 

 Majesty. A discourse of the faire havens that are 

 on those coastes, and of very many Islands which 

 they saw, before they came to the Cape called Capo 

 de las Plaias. 



His day wee sailed along the coast the space of 



1 6. leagues, and in the midst of this voyage there 



is a Bay very faire of 4. or 5. leagues, having certaine 



bankes or fences in it, in beholding whereof we tooke 



great pleasure. The night following we road in 20. 



The coast fadome water. The next day we followed our voyage 

 toward the North, and having sailed 3. or 4. leagues 

 we saw 3. mouthes of lakes which entered into the 

 land, where they became like standing pooles. Wee 

 road a league distance from these mouthes in 6. fadome 

 water, to see what they were, and sent our boat with 

 certaine men, to see if there were any entry for our 



[III. 399.] ships : for halfe a league from shore we had not past 

 one or two fadome water. Here our men saw 7. or 8. 

 Indians, and found sundry sorts of greene herbes some- 

 what differing from those of Nueva Espanna. The 

 Countrey is plaine, but farre within land they saw great 

 and small hils extending themselves a great way, and 

 being very faire and pleasant to behold. The day 

 following we proceeded on our voyage, sayling alwayes 

 in sight of the plaine coast toward the Northwest, in 

 10. or 15. fadome water. And having sailed 6. good 

 leagues we found a Bay on the coast within the land 

 of about 5. leagues over, from whence the coast trended 

 Northwest, and this day we sailed about 16. leagues. 

 All this coast is plaine, and not so pleasant as that which 



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