FRANCIS DE ULLOA a.d. 



1539^ 

 the sea, howbeit wee killed good store of them, which 

 were so fatte as it was wonderfull : and when we opened 

 some of them to have their livers, we found certaine 

 small blacke stones in their bodies, whereat wee much 

 marveiled. The next day wee rode at anker here for 

 lacke of good weather to sayle withall : whereupon the 

 Captaine determined to goe on shore with nine or ten 

 in his company, to see whether there were any people 

 there, or any signe of people that had bene there, and 

 they found on the maine land seven or eight Indians like 

 to Chichimecas, which were gone a fishing, and had a raft ^ ^^ft °f 

 of canes ; who so soone as they espied us ranne away ^^'^^^' 

 and betooke themselves to flight, but being pursued by 

 us, in the end we tooke one of them, whose language 

 was so strange that wee could by no meanes understand 

 him ; his clothing was nothing at all, for he was starke 

 naked. These people caried their water in bottels made ^^^^^^^ tf 

 of beasts skins, they fished with hookes of bone, and wee ^ffVii^^ 

 found good store of their fishes, whereof we tooke three of bone. 

 or foure dozen. 



The Indian which we had taken seeing himselfe in our 

 hands did nothing but weepe, but the Captaine called 

 him, and made much of him, giving him certaine beades, 

 with a hat and certaine hookes of ours, and then let him 

 goe. And it seemed that after hee was returned to his 

 companions, he declared unto them how we had done 

 him no harme at all, shewing them the things which we 

 had given him : whereupon they also determined to come 

 unto us to our boate, but because it was now night, and 

 that our shippes were farre from us, we forced not to stay 

 for them, especially because it was a bad place and a 

 dangerous. This countrey hath on the sea-coast high 

 and bare mountaines with certaine grasse in some places 

 like unto our broomes, or like unto woods of rosemary. 



The next day wee sayled neere to the coast on the 

 same side, with very scarce winde, and in a manner 

 calme, and ranne not above five leagues, and all the 

 night following we lay becalmed, and we saw on the 



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