HENRY HAWKS 



cast In, and Immediatly it hath bene sodden, and I have 

 eaten part of it. 



There are many hares, and some conies. There are 

 no partridges, but abundance of quailes. 



They have great store of fish in the South sea, and 

 many oisters, and very great. The people do open the 

 oisters, and take out the meat of them, and dry it as they 

 do any other kinde of fish, and keepe them all the yeere : 

 and when the times serve, they send them abroad into the 

 countrey to sell, as all other fish. They have no salmon, 

 nor trowt, nor pele, nor carpe, tench, nor pike in all the 

 countrey. 



There are in the countrey mighty high mountaines, and 

 hilles, and snow upon them : they commonly burne ; and 

 twise every day they cast out much smoke and ashes at 

 certeine open places, which are in the tops of them. 



There is among the wilde people much manna. I have 

 gathered of the same, and have eaten it, and it is good : 

 for the Apothecaries send their servants at certeine times, 

 to gather of the same for purgations, and other uses. 



There are in the mountaines many wilde hogs, which 

 all men may kill, and lions and tygres ; which tygres do 

 much harme to men that travell in the wildernesse. 



In this countrey, not long since, there were two 

 poore men that found a marvellous rich mine ; and when 

 these men went to make a register of the same (accord- 

 ing to the law and custome) before the kings officers, 

 they thought this mine not meet for such men as they 

 were : and violently tooke the sayd mine for the king ; 

 and gave no part thereof unto the two poore men. 

 And within certaine dayes the kings ofBcers resorted 

 thither to labor in the mine, & they found two great 

 mighty hilles were come together ; so they found no 

 place to worke in. And in the time while I was among 

 them, which was five yerees, there was a poore shep- 

 heard, who keeping his sheepe, happened to finde a well 

 of quicke-silver ; and he went in like maner to manifest 



A.D. 

 1572. 



Hares and 



conies. 



deafish. 



[III. +65.] 



Burning 

 mountaines. 



Manna. 



Wilde hogs, 

 lions, and 

 tigres. 



the same, as the custome and 



maner is 



the kings 



2B 



Mines dis- 

 covered, net 

 found againe. 



The authour 

 five yeeres in 



Nueva Es- 

 panna. 



