HENRY HAWKS a.d. 



1572. 

 arts. They are very artificiall in making of images with 

 feathers, or the proportion or figure of any man, in all 

 kind of maner as he is. The finenesse and excellency 

 of this is woonderfull, that a barbarous people as they 

 are, should give themselves to so fine an arte as this is. 

 They are goldsmiths, blackesmiths, and coppersmiths, 

 carpenters, masons, shoomakers, tailors, sadlers, imbro- 

 derers, and of all other kind of sciences : and they will 

 do worke so good cheape, that poore yoong men that 

 goe out of Spaine to get their living, are not set on 

 worke : which is the occasion there are many idle people 

 in the countrey. For the Indian will live all the weeke 

 with lesse then one groat; which the Spanyard cannot 

 do, nor any man els. 



They say, that they came of the linage of an olde man The Indians 

 which came thither in a boat of wood, which they call a T^^^^^^^ 

 canoa. But they cannot tell whether it were before the -^^^^ Zm.^ 

 flood or after, neither can they give any reason of the 

 flood, nor from whence they came. And when the 

 Spanyards came first among them, they did certeine 

 sacrifice to an image made in stone, of their owne 

 invention. The stone was set upon a great hill, which 

 they made of bricks of earth : they call it their Cowa. 

 And certeine dayes in the yere they did sacrifice, certeine 

 olde men, and yoong children ; and onely beleeved in 

 the Sunne and the Moone, saying, that from them they The Sun and 

 had all things that were needful for them. They have in 

 these parts great store of cotton wooll, with which they 

 make a maner of linnen cloth, which the Indians weare, 

 both men and women, and it serveth for shirts & smocks, 

 and all other kind of garments, which they weare upon 

 their bodies : and the Spanyards use it to all such pur- 

 poses, especially such as cannot buy other. And if it 

 were not for this kind of cloth, all maner of cloth that [ill. ^dd.'] 

 goeth out of Spaine, I say linnen cloth, would be solde 

 out of all measure. 



The wilde people go naked, without any thing upon The wllde In- 

 them. The women weare the skinne of a deere before 



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Moone 

 honored. 

 Store of cotton. 



dians. 



