FRANCIS DE ULLOA a.d. 



being the sixeteenth of November wee set forward, but 

 sayled very little, for the North and Northwest winds 

 were against us. Here we discovered certaine plaines, in 

 my judgement very great and greene, and right before us 

 we could not discerne any mountaines or woods, whereat 

 wee marvelled to see so great a countrey. And wee met 

 an Indian in a Canoa on the shore whereon the sea did 

 breake, who stayed to beholde us a great while, and often- 

 times hee lifted up himselfe to view us the better, & 

 then returned backe along the coast : we used al dili- 

 gence to see whether he would come out further from 

 the shore, to give him chace, and to trie whether we 

 could catch him, but he very cunningly viewed us 

 without comming neere unto us, and returned to the 

 shore with his Canoa. Here we saw in the evening 

 but one fire, and wist not whether it were done by the 

 cunning of the Indians, because they would not have 

 us know that there were people there, or that it was [III. 407.] 

 so indeede. From the said 16 day of November untill 

 the 24 of the same moneth we could not proceede on 

 our way above 12 or 15 leagues: and looking into 

 our Sea-chart, we found our selves distant from the 

 Xaguges of the Port of Santa Cruz about 70 leagues. T/iey are 70 

 Now on the 24 being: munday very early in the morn- ^^fg^^^fi'om 



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Countrey, and all along the coast we saw many faire 

 plaines with certaine furrowes made in the midst like 

 unto halfe plaines, the said plaine still appearing up into 

 the Countrey, with pleasant champions, because the 

 grasse which grew there was very beautifull, short, and 

 greene, and good pasture for cattell. Howbeit because 

 we rode so farre off, we could not perfectly judge what 

 kind of grasse it was, but it shewed very short and 

 greene, and without thornes. These plaines on the 

 right hand made a bay into a valley which seemed to 

 be a piece of a mountaine : the rest shewed to be al 

 plaines without any thistles or weedes, but full of grasse 

 good for cattel very green and faire, as I have said. 



