AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



The friers sent us meat from the house ready dressed, 

 and the friers, and the men and women used us very 

 courteously, and gave us some shirts and other such 

 things as we lacked. Here our men were very sicke of 

 their agues, and with eating of another fruit called in the 

 Indian tongue, Guiaccos, which fruit did binde us so sore, 

 that for the space of tenne or twelve dayes we could not 

 ease our selves. The next morning we departed - from 

 thence with our two Spaniards and Indian gard, as afore- 

 sayd. Of these two Spaniards the one was an aged man, 

 who all the way did very courteously intreate us, and 

 would carefully go before to provide for us both meat 

 and things necessary to the uttermost of his power : the 

 other was a yong man who all the way travelled with us, 

 and never departed from us, who was a very cruell caitive, 

 and he caried a javeline in his hand, and sometimes when 

 as our men with very feeblenesse and faintnesse were not 

 able to goe so fast as he required them, he would take his 

 javelin in both his handes, and strike them with the same 

 betweene the necke and the shoulders so violently, that he 

 would strike them downe ; then would he cry, and say, 

 Marchad, marchad Ingleses perros, Luterianos, enemigos 

 de Dios : which is as much to say in English, as March, 

 march on you English dogges, Lutherans, enemies to 

 God. And the next day we came to a towne called 

 Pachuca, and there are two places of that name : as this 

 towne of Pachuca, and the mines of Pachuca, which are 

 mines of silver, and are about sixe leagues distant from 

 this towne of Pachuca towards the Northwest. 



Here at this towne the good olde man our Governour 

 suffered us to stay two dayes and two nights, having com- 

 passion of our sicke and weake men, full sore against the 

 minde of the yoong man his companion. From thence 

 we tooke our journey, and travelled foure or five dayes 

 by little villages, and Stantias, which are farmes or dairie 

 houses of the Spaniards, and ever as wee had neede, the 

 good olde man would still provide us sufficient of meates, 

 fruites, and water to sustaine us. At the end of which 



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