A.D. 

 1572. 



Sheepe. 



WoolL 

 Cloth. 



Woad. 

 Alum. 

 Brasill. 



[III. 467O 



Hogs grease 

 in stead of oik. 



Silks of sun- 

 dry sorts. 



Horses. 

 Mules. 



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and tallow ; and the fowles eat the carkeises : and so they 

 do in Cuba and Porto Rico, whereas there is much sugar, 

 and cana fistula, which dayly they send into Spaine. 

 They have great increase of sheepe in like maner, and 

 dayly do intend to increase them. They have much 

 wooll, and as good as the wooll of Spaine. They make 

 cloth as much as serveth the countrey, for the common 

 people, and send much cloth into Peru. I have seene 

 cloth made in the city of Mexico, which hath beene solde 

 for tenne pezos a vare, which is almost foure pounds 

 English, and the vare is lesse then our yard. They have 

 woad growing in the countrey, and alum, and brasill, and 

 divers other things to die withall, so that they make all 

 colours. In Peru they make no cloth : but heereafter 

 our cloth will be little set by in these parts, unlesse it be 

 some fine cloth. The wools are commonly foure shil- 

 lings every roue, which is ^yq & twenty pounds : and in 

 some places of the countrey that are farre from the places 

 where as they make cloth, it is woorth nothing, and doth 

 serve but onely to make beds for men to lie on. 



They make hats, as many as doe serve the Countrey, 

 very fine and good, and sell them better cheape, then 

 they can be brought out of Spaine, and in like maner 

 send them into Peru. 



Many people are set on worke both in the one and in 

 the other : they spin their wooll as we doe, and in steed 

 of oyle, they have hogs grease : they twist not their threed 

 so much as wee doe, neither worke so fine a threed. 

 They make no kersies, but they make much cloth, which 

 is course, and sell it for lesse then 12. pence the vare. It 

 is called Sayall. 



They have much silke, and make all maner of sorts 

 thereof, as Taffataes, Sattins, Velvets of all colours, and 

 they are as good as the silkes of Spaine, saving that the 

 colours are not so perfect : but the blackes are better then 

 the blackes that come out of Spaine. 



They have many horses, and mares, and mules, which 

 the Spaniards brought thither. They have as good 



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