A.D. 

 1564. 



The place 

 where Cochi- 

 nilla groweth, 

 and the price 

 thereof. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



being so defended by the water. It is a city plentifull 

 of all necessary things, having many faire houses, 

 churches, and monasteries. I having continued in the 

 countrey the space of nine moneths, returned againe for 

 Spaine with the Spanish fleet, and delivered the mer- 

 chandise and silver which I had in the ship into the 

 Contractation house, and there received my fraight, which 

 amounted outwards and homewards to the value of 

 13000 ducats and more. I observed many things in the 

 time of my abode in Nova Hispania, aswell touching the 

 commodities of the countrey as the maners of the 

 people both Spanyards and Indians : but because the 

 Spanish histories are full of those observations, I omit 

 them, and referre the readers to the same : onely this 

 I say, that the commodity of Cochinilla groweth in 

 greatest abundance about the towne of Pueblo de los 

 Angeles, and is not there woorth above forty pence the 

 pound. 



A notable discourse of M. John Chilton, touching 

 the people, maners, mines, cities, riches, forces, 

 and other memorable things of Nev^ Spaine, 

 and other provinces in the West Indies, scene 

 and noted by himselfe in the time of his 

 travels, continued in those parts, the space of 

 seventeene or eighteene yeeres. 



N the yeere of our Lord 1561, in the 

 moneth of July, I John Chilton went 

 out of this city of London into Spaine, 

 where I remained for the space of seven 

 yeres, & from thence I sailed into 

 Nova Hispania, and so travelled there, 

 * and by the South Sea, unto Peru, the 

 space of seventeene or eighteene yeeres : and after that 

 time expired, I returned into Spaine, and so in the yere 

 1586 in the moneth of July, I arrived at the foresayd 

 city of London : where perusing the notes which I had 



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