AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



but the rest making shift for themselves, escaped away. 

 But this one, because he was their guide, and was the 

 occasion that divers times they had made invasion upon 

 them, had for his traveile a stake thrust through his 

 fundament, and so out at his necke. 



The sixt of May aforesaide, wee came to an yland 

 called Curagao, where wee had thought to have anckered, 

 but could not find ground, and having let fal an ancker 

 with two cables, were faine to weigh it againe : and the 

 seventh sayling along the coast to seeke an harborow, 

 and finding none, wee came to an ancker where we rode 

 open in the Sea. In this place we had trafique for hides, 

 and found great refreshing both of beefe, mutton and 

 lambes, whereof there was such plentie, that saving the 

 skinnes, we had the flesh given us for nothing, the 

 Exceeding plentie whereof was so abundant, that the worst in the 

 plentte of cattle gj^jp thought scorne not onely of mutton, but also of 

 sodden lambe, which they disdained to eate unrosted. 



The increase of cattell in this yland is marveilous, 

 which from a doozen of each sort brought thither by the 

 governour, in 25. yeres he had a hundreth thousand 

 at the least, & of other cattel was able to kill without 

 spoile of the increase 1500. yeerely, which hee killeth 

 for the skinnes, and of the flesh saveth onely the tongues, 

 the rest hee leaveth to the foule to devoure. And this 

 I am able to afiirme, not onely upon the Governours 

 owne report, who was the first that brought the increase 

 thither, which so remaineth unto this day, but also by 

 that I saw my selfe in one field, where an hundred oxen 

 lay one by another all whole, saving the skinne and 

 tongue taken away. And it is not so marveilous a thing 

 why they doe thus cast away the flesh in all the ylands 

 of the West Indies, seeing the land is great, and more 

 then they are able to inhabite, the people fewe, having 

 delicate fruites and meates ynough besides to feede upon, 

 which they rather desire, and the increase which passeth 

 mans reason to beleeve, when they come to a great 

 number ; for in S. Domingo an yland called by the 



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