A.D. 

 1572. 



Water con- 

 gealed to salt. 



Dogs of India 

 described. 



Cacao a fruit 

 currant as 

 money. 



Fruits. 



Hot springs. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



checke of the governour, because he had not gone 

 forwards, and seene the end of that river. 



They have in the countrey, farre from the sea side, 

 standing waters, which are salt : and in the moneths of 

 April and May the water of them congealeth into salt, 

 which salt is all taken for the kings use and profit. 



Their dogs are all crooked backt, as many as are of 

 the countrey breed, and cannot run fast : their faces are 

 like the face of a pig or an hog, with sharpe noses. 



In certeine provinces which are called Guatimala, & 

 Soconusco, there is growing great store of cacao, which 

 is a berry like unto an almond : it is the best merchandize 

 that is in all the Indies. The Indians make drinke of 

 it, and in like maner meat to eat. It goeth currantly 

 for money in any market or faire, and may buy any flesh, 

 fish, bread or cheese, or other things. 



There are many kinde of fruits of the countrey, which 

 are very good, as plantans, sapotes, guiaves, pinas, aluacatas, 

 tunas, mamios, limons, orenges, walnuts very small and 

 hard, with little meat in them, grapes which the Spanyards 

 brought into the countrey, and also wilde grapes, which 

 are of the countrey, and are very small, quinses, peaches, 

 figs, and but few apples, and very small, and no peares : 

 but there are melons and calaba9as or gourds. 



There is much hony, both of bees and also of a kind of 

 tree which they call magueiz. This hony of magueiz is 

 not so sweet as the other hony is, but it is better to be 

 eaten only with bread, then the other is ; and the tree 

 serveth for many things, as the leaves make threed to 

 sowe any kinde of bags, and are good to cover and thatch 

 houses, and for divers other things. 



They have in divers places of the countrey many hote 

 springs of water : as above all other, I have seene one in 

 the province of Mechuacan. In a plaine field without 

 any mountaine, there is a spring which hath much water, 

 & it is so hot, that if a whole quarter of beefe be cast into 

 it, within on halfe houre it will be as well sodden as it will 

 be over a fire in halfe a day. I have seene halfe a sheepe 



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