HENRY HAWKS a.d. 



1572. 



dize as they have need of. And of these things there 

 have bene brought into New Spaine both cloth of gold 

 and silver, and divers maners of silks, and works of gold 

 and silver, marveilous to be seene. So by their saying, 

 there is not such a countrey in the whole world. The 

 maine land is from the ylands 190. leagues : and the 

 ylands are not farre from the Malucos Northwards. 

 And the people of those ylands, which the Spaniards 

 have, say, that if they would bring their wives and 

 children, that then they should have among them what 

 they would have. So there goe women dayly, and the [III. 468.] 

 king payeth all the charges of the maried men and 

 their wives, that go to those ylands. And there is no 

 doubt but the trade will be marveilous rich in time to 

 come. It was my fortune to be in company with one 

 Diego Gutieres, who was the first Pilot that ever went 

 to that countrey of the Phillippinas. Hee maketh report 

 of many strange things in that Countrey, aswell riches, as 

 other, and saith, if there bee any Paradise upon earth, it 

 is in that countrey : and addeth, that sitting under a 

 tree, you shall have such sweet smels, with such great 

 content and pleasure, that you shall remember nothing, 

 neither wife, nor children, nor have any kinde of appetite 

 to eate or drinke, the odoriferous smels wil be so 

 sweete. This man hath good livings in Nova Hispania, 

 notwithstanding hee will returne thither, with his wife 

 and children, and as for treasure there is abundance, as 

 he maketh mention. In this countrey of Nova Hispania 

 there are many buckes and does, but they have not so 

 long homes as they have here in England. The Span- 

 iards kill them with hand-guns and with grayhounds, and 

 the Indians kill them with their bowes and arrowes, and 

 with the skins they make chamoyce, such as we in Eng- Chamoke. 

 land make doublets and hose of, as good as the skins that Spanish 

 are dressed in Flanders, & likewise they make marveilous leather. 

 good Spanish leather of them. There is a bird which is ^^^/j^Jj'^ 

 like unto a Raven, but he hath some of his feathers white : ^^^o^re car- 

 there is such abundance of them, that they eate all the rion. 



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