HENRY HAWKS ad. 



1572. 



Jennets, as any are in Spaine, and better cheape then Jennets, 

 they bee in Spaine. And with their mules they cary 

 all their goods from place to place. 



There is raine usually in this Countrey, from the 

 moneth of May, to the midst of October, every day, 

 which time they call their winter, by reason of the said 

 waters. And if it were not for the waters which fall 

 in these hot seasons, their Maiz, which is the greatest 

 part of their sustenance, would be destroyed. This 

 Maiz is the greatest maintenance which the Indian Maize gra'me 

 hath, and also all the common people of the Spaniards. ->^^^' ^^^ ^^'^. 

 And their horses and mules which labour, cannot be ^^^^/ 

 without the same. This graine is substantiall, and in- 

 creaseth much blood. If the Miners should bee 

 without it, they coulde not labour their Mines : for all 

 their servants eate none other bread, but onely of this 

 Maize, and it is made in cakes, as they make oaten 

 cakes, in some places of England. 



The Indians pay tribute, being of the age of 20. 

 yeeres, 4. shillings of money, and an hanege of Maiz, An Hanega is 

 which is worth 4. shillings more unto the King every ^ bushel and 

 yeere. This is payd in all Nova Hispania, of as many ^^ ^•^^* 

 as be of the age of 20. yeeres, saving the Citie of 

 Tlascalla, which was made free, because the citizens 

 thereof were the occasion that Cortes tooke Mexico in 

 so little a time. And although at the first they were 

 freed from paiment of tribute, yet the Spaniards now 

 begin to usurpe upon them, and make them to till a 

 great field of Maiz, at their owne costes every yeere 

 for the King, which is as beneficial unto him, and as 

 great cost unto them, as though they paid their tribute, 

 as the others doe. 



The ships which goe out of Spaine with goods for 

 Peru, goe to Nombre de dios, and there discharge the 

 said goods : and from thence they be caried over the 

 necke of a land, unto a port towne in the South 

 sea, called Panama, which is 17. leagues distant from 

 Nombre de dios. And there they doe ship their goods 



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