A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. . . 1 . 



more was taken, the rest of his company being mvaded 



by them, saved themselves by flight, but they that were 

 The crueltie of taken, paied their ransome with their lives, and were 

 the Canbes. presently eaten. And this is their practise to toll with 

 their golde the ignorant to their snares : they are blood- 

 suckers both of Spaniards, Indians, and all that light in 

 their laps, not sparing their owne countreymen if they 

 can conveniently come by them. Their policie in fight 

 with the Spaniards is marveilous : for they chuse for 

 their refuge the mountaines and woodes where the 

 Spaniards with their horses cannot follow them, and if 

 [III. 509.] they fortune to be met in the plaine where one horse- 

 man may over-runne 100. of them, they have a devise 

 of late practised by them to pitch stakes of wood in the 

 ground, and also small iron pikes to mischiefe their 

 horses, wherein they shew themselves politique warriers. 

 They have more abundance of golde then all the 

 Spaniards have, and live upon the mountaines where the 

 Mines are in such number, that the Spaniards have 

 much adoe to get any of them from them, and yet 

 sometimes by assembling a great number of them, which 

 happeneth once in two yeeres, they get a piece from 

 them, which afterwards they keepe sure ynough. 



Thus having escaped the danger of them, wee kept 

 our course along the coast, and came the third of April 

 Burboroata. to a Towne called Burboroata, where his ships came to 

 an ancker, and hee himselfe went a shore to speake 

 with the Spaniards, to whom hee declared himselfe to 

 be an Englishman, and came thither to trade with them 

 by the way of marchandize, and therefore required 

 licence for the same. Unto whom they made answere, 

 that they were forbidden by the king to trafique with 

 any forren nation, upon penaltie to forfeit their goods, 

 therfore they desired him not to molest them any further, 

 but to depart as he came, for other comfort he might 

 not looke for at their handes, because they were subjects 

 and might not goe beyond the law. But hee replied 

 that his necessitie was such, as he might not so do : 



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