A.D. 



1540. 



Pipes to drinke 

 Tabacco with. 



Maiz, gourds, 

 Mill. 



Grindest07ies, 

 earthenpots, 

 good fish. 



This river 

 overflozveth his 

 banks at cer- 

 taine seasons. 



Colde and 

 raine. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



which they make. The apparell of these people were 

 like the former : they carried their pipes with them to 

 perfume themselves, like as the people of New Spaine 

 use Tabacco. I inquired whether they had any governour, 

 and found that they had none, but that every family 

 had their severall governour. These people have besides 

 their Maiz certaine gourds, and another corne like unto 

 Mill : they have grindstones & earthen pots, wherein 

 they boyle those gourds, and fish of the river, which 

 are very good. My interpreter could goe no farther then 

 this place : for he said that those which we should find 

 farther on our way, were their enemies, and therefore 

 I sent him backe very well contented. Not long after 

 I espied many Indians to come crying with a loude 

 voice, and running after me. I stayed to know what 

 they would have ; and they told me that they had set 

 up the crosse which I had given them, in the midst of 

 their dwellings as I had appointed, but that I was to 

 wit, that when the river did overflow, it was wont to 

 reach to that place, therefore they prayed mee to give them 

 leave to remove it, and to set it in another place where 

 the river could not come at it, nor carry it away: which 

 I granted them. 



Chap. 5. 



Of an Indian of that countrey they have relation of 

 the state of Cevola, and of the conditions and 

 customes of these people, and of their governour: 

 and likewise of the countreys not farre distant from 

 thence, whereof one was called Quicoma, and the 

 other Coama : of the people of Quicoma, and of 

 the other Indians not farre distant they receive 

 courtesie. 



THus sayling I came where were many Indians, and 

 another interpreter, which I caused to come with 

 me in my boat. And because it was cold, & my 

 people were wet, I leapt on shore, and commanded a 

 fire to be made, and as we stood thus warming our 



