JOHN CHILTON ad. 



1570. 

 imbarke them in certeine small ships in the South sea 

 for all the coast of Peru. In one of these ships I went 

 to Potossi, and from thence by land to Cusco, and from Potossi, 

 thence to Paita. ^^f^^'- 



Here I remained the space of seven moneths, and then 

 returned into the kingdome of Guatimala, and arrived 

 in the province of Nicoia, and Nicaragua. From Nicara- 

 gua I travelled by land to a province called Nicamula 

 (which lieth toward the North sea in certaine high 

 mountaines) for that I could not passe thorow the 

 kingdome of Guatimala at that time for waters, where- 

 with all the Low countreys of the province of Soconusco, 

 lying by the South sea, are drowned with the raine that 

 falleth above in the mountaines, enduring alwayes from 

 April to September : which season for that cause they call 

 their Winter. From this province I came into another 

 called De Vera Paz, in which the chiefest city is also Vera Paz. 

 called after that name, where there dwelleth a bishop [III. 459.] 

 and about forty Spanyards. Among the mountaines of 

 this countrey toward the North sea, there is a province 

 called La Candona, where are Indian men of war which 

 the king can not subdue, for that they have townes and 

 forts in a great lake of water above in the sayd moun- 

 taines : the most part of them goe naked, and some weare 

 mantles of cotton wooll. Distant from this about 80 

 leagues, I came into another province called the province 

 of Chiapa, wherein the chiefest city is called Sacatlan, Chiapa 300 

 where there dwelleth a bishop and about an hundred ^^J^/^^/ fi''^^ 



IVL ex ICO 



Spanyards. In this countrey there is great store of 

 Gotten wooll, whereof the Indians make fine linnen 

 cloth, which the Christians buy and cary into Nova 

 Hispania. The people of this province pay their 

 tribute to the king all in Cotton wooll and Feathers. 

 Foureteene leagues from this city there is another called 

 Chiapa, where are the finest gennets in all the Indies, 

 which are caried hence to Mexico, 300 leagues from 

 it. From this city I travelled still thorow hilles and 

 mountaines, till I came to the end of this province, to 



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