A.D. 



1539' 



Ancon de S. 

 AndreSyOrThe 

 haveji ofS. 

 Andrew in 3 2 

 degrees. 



[III. 402.J 



Tzco Indians 

 of exceeding 

 huge stature. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



shore five or sixe fires. The land is high with very 

 high mountaines without grasse, having certaine caves 

 in them : the next day also, and part of the night 

 followinor we were becalmed : and the morow after we 

 followed our course along the sayd coast, and passed 

 betweene a great Island full of exceeding high moun- 

 taines, and the maine land, where we saw a very great 

 haven in the firme land in which wee ankered to see 

 what it was, and being come to an anker, the Captaine 

 and some of us went on land the same day to see if there 

 were any people and fresh water, and wee found certaine 

 small cottages covered with drie grasse, with certaine 

 little staves layd overthwart, and we went a little way 

 into the countrey which was very baren, by certaine small 

 and streight pathes, and found a little pond or pit, but 

 drie and without water ; and here the Captaine tooke 

 possession for the Marques of the valley in the name of 

 his Majestie, and after this we returned to our ship, and 

 that night we sawe foure or five fires on the land. The 

 next day the Captaine determined, because hee had 

 scene these fires, to goe on shore, and so with our two 

 boates we went fifteene or twenty of us unto certaine 

 crooked strands two leagues from the place where our 

 ships rode, and where we had scene the fires, and we 

 found two Indians of exceeding huge stature, so that 

 they caused us greatly to wonder ; they caried their 

 bowes and arrowes in their hands, and as soone as 

 they saw us leap on shore they ran away, and wee 

 followed them unto their dwellings and lodgings, which 

 were certaine cottages and bowers covered with boughs, 

 and there we found great and small steps of many 

 people, but they had no kind of victuals but onely 

 cuttle-fishes which wee found there. The countrey 

 toward the sea side seemed but barren, for we saw 

 neither trees nor greene grasse there, yet were there 

 certaine smal pathes not well beaten, and along the 

 sea-coast we saw many tracts of dogges, hares, and 

 conies, and in certaine small Islands neere unto the 



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