A.D. 

 1572. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



their privities, and nothing els upon all their bodies. 



They have no care for any thing, but onely from day 



to day for that which they have need to eat. They are 



big men, and likewise the women. They shoot in bowes 



which they make of a cherry tree, and their arrowes are 



of cane, with a sharpe flint stone in the end of the same ; 



they will pierce any coat of maile : and they kill deere, 



and cranes, and wilde geese, ducks and other fowle, and 



wormes, and snakes, and divers other vermin, which they 



eat. They live very long : for I have scene men that 



have beene an hundred yeres of age. They have but 



very litle haire in their face, nor on their bodies. 



Friers in reve- The Indians have the friers in great reverence: the 



rence. occasion is, that by them and by their meanes they are 



free and out of bondage ; which was so ordeined by 



Charles the emperor : which is the occasion that now 



there is not so much gold and silver comming into 



Europe as there was while the Indians were slaves. 



For when they were in bondage they could not chuse but 



doe their taske every day, and bring their masters so 



much metall out of their mines : but now they must be 



well payed, and much intreated to have them worke. 



So it hath bene, and is a great hinderance to the owners 



of the mines, and to the kings quinto or custome. 



Copper mines. There are many mines of copper in great quantity, 



whereof they spend in the countrey as much as serveth 



their turnes. There is some golde in it, but not so 



much as will pay the costs of the fining. The quantity 



of it is such, and the mines are so farre from the sea, 



that it will not be worth the fraight to cary it into Spaine. 



On the other side, the kings officers will give no licence 



to make ordinance thereof; whereupon the mines lie 



unlaboured, and of no valuation. 



There is much lead in the countrey ; so that with it 



they cover churches, and other religious houses : where- 



mt . . ^ fore they shall not need any of our lead, as they have 

 The pompe of . , J, . ^ . . ^ ' -^ 



owners of ^^^ need thereor m times past. 



mines. The pompe and liberalitie of the owners of the mines 



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