a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



And for that in the ample vent of such things as 

 are brought to you out of England by Sea, standeth a 

 matter of great consequence, it behoveth that all humanitie 

 and curtesie and much forbearing of revenge to the 

 Inland people be used : so shall you have firme amitie 

 with your neighbours, so shall you have their inland 

 commodities to mainteine traffique, and so shall you 

 waxe rich and strong in force. Divers and severall 

 commodities of the inland are not in great plenty to 

 be brought to your hands, without the ayde of some 

 portable or Navigable river, or ample lake, and there- 

 fore to have the helpe of such a one is most requisite : 

 And so is it of effect for the dispersing of your owne 

 commodities in exchange into the inlands. 



Nothing is more to be indevoured with the Inland 

 people then familiarity. For so may you best discover 

 all the natural commodities of their countrey, & also 

 all their wants, al their strengths, all their weaknesse, 

 and with whom they are in warre, and with whom 

 confederate in peace and amitie, &c. which knowen you 

 may worke many great effects of greatest consequence. 

 And in your planting the consideration of the clymate 

 and of the soyle be matters that are to be respected. 

 For if it be so that you may let in the salt sea water, 

 not mixed with the fresh into flats, where the sunne is 

 of the heate that it is at Rochel, in the Bay of Por- 

 tugal, or in Spaine, then may you procure a man of 

 skill, and so you have wonne one noble commoditie 

 for the fishing, and for trade of marchandize by making 

 of Salt. 



[III. 46.] Or if the soyle and clymate be such as may yeeld 

 you the Grape as good as that at Burdeaux, as that in 

 Portugal, or as that about Sivil in Spaine, or that in 

 the Islands of the Canaries, then there resteth but a 

 workeman to put in execution to make Wines, and to 

 dresse Resigns of the sunne and other, &c. 



Or if ye finde a soyle of the temperature of the 

 South part of Spaine or Barbarie in the which you 



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