JOHN CHILTON a.d. 



1570. 

 Spanyards, and many Indians. All the Indians of this 

 province pay their tribute in mantles of Cotton wooll, 

 and Cochinilla, whereof there groweth abundance thorow- 

 out this countrey. Neere to this place there lieth a port 

 in the South sea, called Aguatulco, in the which there Aguatuko. 

 dwell not above three or foure Spanyards, with certaine 

 Negroes, which the king mainteineth there : in which 

 place Sir Francis Drake arrived in the yeere 1579, in 

 the moneth of April, where I lost with his being there 

 above a thousand duckets, which he tooke away, with 

 much other goods of other merchants of Mexico from 

 one Francisco Gomes Rangifa, factour there for all the 

 Spanish merchants that then traded in the South sea : for 

 from this port they use to imbarke all their goods that 

 goe for Peru, and to the kingdome of Honduras. From 

 Guaxaca I came to a towne named Nixapa, which standeth Nixapa. 

 upon certaine very high hilles in the province of Sapot- Sapotecas. 

 ecas, wherein inhabit about the number of twenty Span- 

 yards, by the King of Spaines commandement, to keepe 

 that country in peace ; for the Indians are very rebellious : 

 and for this purpose hee bestoweth on them the townes 

 & cities that be within that province. From hence I 

 went to a city called Tecoantepec, which is the farthest Tecoantepec 

 towne to the Eastward in all Nova Hispania, which some 

 time did belong to the Marques de Valle, and because it 

 is a very fit port, standing in the South sea, the king of 

 Spaine, upon a rebellion made by the sayd Marques 

 against him, tooke it from him, and doth now possesse it 

 as his owne. Heere in the yeere 1572 I saw a piece of 

 ordinance of brasse, called a Demy culverin, which came 

 out of a ship called the Jesus of Lubec, which captaine 

 Hawkins left in S. John de Ullua, being in fight with the 

 Spanyards in the yeere 1568 ; which piece they afterwards 

 caried 100 leagues by land over mighty mountaines to 

 the sayd city, to be embarked there for the Philippinas. 

 Leaving Tecoantepec, 1 went still along by the South sea 

 about 1 50 leagues in the desolate province of Soconusco, Soconusco. 

 in which province there groweth cacao, which the Chris- 



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