A.D. 



1540. 



Marke what 

 things the 

 Spaniardes 

 cary zuith them 

 in 7iewe dis- 

 coveries. 



Rio de buena 

 Guia. 



Parrats in 

 these parts. 



Two moones 

 to Cez'ola. 

 Another booke 

 written of the 

 particulars of 

 that countrey. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



them. I caused one of them to be filled with wares 

 of exchange, with corne and other seedes, with hennes 

 & cockes of Castile, and departed up the river, leaving 

 order that in that province called Campanna de la Cruz 

 they should build an Oratorie or Chapell, and called it 

 the Chappell of our Lady de la Buena Guia, and that 

 they should call this river Rio de Buena Guia because 

 that is your Lordships Devise : I carried with me Nicolas 

 Zamorano Pilote mayor, to take the height of the pole. 

 And I departed on tuesday the fourteenth of September, 

 & on Wednesday I came unto the first dwellings of the 

 first Indians, which came running to hinder my passage, 

 supposing that we had bene other people, for we caried 

 with us a fifer, & a drummer, and I was clad in other 

 apparell then I went in 'before, when they saw me first 

 of all : and when they knew me they stayed, though 

 I could not grow unto perfect friendship with them, 

 whereupon I gave them some of those seedes which 

 I brought with mee ; teaching them how they should 

 sow them : and after I had sayled 3 leagues, my first 

 interpretour came even to my boat to seeke me with 

 great joy, of whom I demanded wherefore he had left 

 me, he tolde me that certaine companions of his had 

 led him away. I made him good countenance and better 

 intertainment, because he should beare me companie 

 againe, considering howe much it did importe me to 

 have him with me. He excused himselfe because he 

 stayed there to bring mee certaine feathers of Parrats, 

 which he gave me. I asked him what people these 

 were, and whether they had any Lord : hee answered me, 

 yea ; and named three or foure unto me, of foure or 

 25 names of people which he knew and that they had 

 houses painted within, and that they had trafficke with 

 those of Cevola, and that in two moones hee came into 

 the countrey. He told me moreover many other names 

 of Lords, and other people, which I have written downe 

 in a booke of mine, which I will bring my selfe unto 

 your Lordship. But I thought good to deliver this 



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