cerning 

 wel disposed 

 know them, 

 he had bin 

 that the 

 there were 



Cevola a 



FERNANDO ALARCHON a.d. 



1540. 

 stood ; and when I saw their lord which he shewed 

 unto me, I prayed him to come with me into my boat, [III. 434.] 

 which he did very willingly, and so I went still up the 

 river, and the olde man came and shewed me who 

 were the chiefe lords : and I spake unto them alwayes 

 with great courtesie, & all of them shewed that they 

 rejoyced much thereat, & spake very wel of my com- 

 ming thither. At night I withdrew my selfe into the 

 midst of the river, & asked him many things con- 

 that country : and I found him as willing & 

 to shew them me, as I was desirous to 

 I asked him of Cevola : and he told me 

 there, and that it was a goodly thing, & 

 lord thereof was very wel obeyed : and that 

 other lords thereabout, with whom he was 

 at continual warre. I asked him whether they had 

 silver & gold, and he beholding certaine bels, said they 

 had metal of their colour. I inquired whether they 

 made it there, and he answered me no, but that they 

 brought it from a certain mountaine, where an old 

 woman dwelt. I demanded whether he had any know- 

 ledge of a river called Totonteac, he answered me no, 

 but of another exceeding mighty river, wherein there 

 were such huge Crocodiles, that of their hides they 

 made bucklers, and that they worship the Sunne neither 

 more nor lesse then those which I had passed : and 

 when they offer unto him the fruits of the earth, they 

 say : Receive hereof, for thou hast created them, and 

 that they loved him much, because he warmed them ; and 

 that when he brake not foorth, they were acolde. Herein 

 reasoning with him, he began somewhat to complaine, say- 

 ing unto me, I know not wherefore the Sunne useth these 

 termes with us, because he giveth us not clothes, nor people 

 to spin nor to weave them, nor other things which he 



Gold and sil- 

 ver in a moun- 

 taine neere 

 Cevola. 

 A mighty 



This river 

 seemeth to hee 

 'Northward by 

 the colde. 



giveth to many other, and he complayned that those of that 

 country would not suffer them to come there, and would 

 not give them of their corne. I tolde him that I would 

 remedie this, whereat he remayned very well satisfied. 



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