JOHN CHILTON ad. 



1568. 



taken in the time of my travell in those yeeres, I have 

 set downe as followeth. 



In the yeere 1568, in the moneth of March, being 1568. 

 desirous to see the world, I embarked my selfe in the 

 bay of Cadiz in Andaluzia, in a shippe bound for the Cat^iz. 

 Isles of the Canaries, where she tooke in her lading, & 

 set forth from thence for the voyage, in the moneth 

 of June, the same yere. Within a moneth after, we 

 fell with the Isle of S. Domingo, and from thence directly 

 to Nova Hispania, and came into the port of S. John ^^« J^^" de 

 de Ullua, which is a litle Island standing in the sea, 

 about two miles from the land, where the king main- 

 teineth about 50 souldiers, and captalnes, that keepe the 

 forts, and about 150 negroes, who all the yeere long 

 are occupied in carying of stones for building, & other 

 uses, and to helpe to make fast the ships that come in 

 there, with their cables. There are built two bulwarkes 

 at ech ende of a wall, that standeth likewise in the sayde 

 Island, where the shippes use to ride, made fast to the 

 sayd wall with their cables, so neere, that a man may 

 leape ashore. From this port I journeyed by land to 

 a towne called Vera Cruz, standing by a rivers side, ^^^'^ C^^^- 

 where all the factours of the Spanish merchants dwell, ^ ^S^.J 

 which receive the goods of such ships as come thither, 

 and also lade the same with such treasure and merchandize 

 as they returne backe into Spaine. They are in number 

 about foure hundred, who onely remaine there, during 

 the time that the Spanish fleet dischargeth, and is loden 

 againe, which is from the end of August to the beginning 

 of April following. And then for the unwholesomnesse 

 of the place they depart thence sixteene leagues further 

 up within the countrey, to a towne called Xalapa, a very Xalapa six- 

 healthfuU soile. There is never any woman delivered ^^^^^ leagues. 

 of childe in this port of Vera Cruz : for so soone as they 

 perceive themselves conceived with child, they get them 

 into the countrey, to avoid the perill of the infected aire, 

 although they use every morning to drive thorow the 

 towne above two thousand head of cattell, to take away 



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