AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1556. 



tremitie of the weather, which flying in the winde, many- 

 times doeth chance to hit on the masts and shrowds of 

 the ships that are at sea in foule weather. And in trueth 

 I do take it to be so : for that I have seene the like in 

 other ships at sea, and in sundry ships at once. By this 

 men may see how the Papists are given to beleeve and 

 worship such vaine things and toyes, as God, to whom 

 all honour doth appertaine, and in their neede and 

 necessities do let to call upon the living God, who is the 

 giver of all good things. 



The 16. of April in Anno 1556. we arrived at the port 

 of S. John de Ullua in new Spaine, very naked and 

 distressed of apparell, and all other things, by meanes 

 of the losse of our foresaid ship and goods, and from 

 His arrival at thence we went to the new Towne called Vera Cruz, ^yq 

 Vera Cruz, leagues from the said port of S. John de Ullua, marching 

 still by the sea side, where wee found lying upon the 

 sands great quantitie of mightie great trees with rootes 

 and all, some of them of foure, five, and sixe cart load 

 by our estimation, which, as the people tolde us, were 

 in the great stormy weather, which we indured at sea, 

 Florida 300. rooted out of the ground in Terra Florida, which is 

 leagues from three hundreth leagues over by Sea, and broupfht thither. 

 So we came to the saide Towne of Vera cruz, where wee 

 remained a moneth : and there the said John Field 

 chanced to meete with an olde friend of his acquaintance 

 in Spaine, called Gon9alo Ruiz de Cordova, a very rich 

 man of the saide Towne of Vera cruz : who hearing 

 of his comming thither with his wife and family, and of 

 his misfortune by Sea, came unto him and received him 

 and all his houshold into his house, and kept us there 

 a whole moneth, making us very good cheere, and 

 giving us good intertainement, and also gave us that 

 were in all eight persons of the said John Fields house, 

 double apparell new out of the shop of very good cloth, 

 coates, cloakes, hose, shirts, smocks, gownes for the 

 women, hose, shooes, and al other necessary apparel, and 

 for our way up to the Citie of Mexico, horses, moiles, 



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 Ullua, 



