AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



French men know not as yet, but by gesse, who having 



travelled to the Southwest of the cape, having found 



the same dangerous, by meanes of sundry banks, as we 



also have found the same: and there finding masts 



which were wracks of Spanyards comming from Mexico, 



judged that they had gotten treasure by them. For it 



is most true that divers wracks have beene made of 



Spanyards, having much treasure : for the Frenchmen 



having travelled to the capeward an hundred and fiftie 



Two Span- miles, did iinde two Spanyards with the Floridians, which 



yards lived ^YiQy brought afterward to their fort, whereof one was 



ong among ye j^ ^ caravel comming from the Indies, which was cast 



away foureteene yeeres ago, & the other twelve yeeres ; 



of whose fellowes some escaped, othersome were slain 



by the inhabitants. It seemeth they had estimation of 



Pieces of Gold their golde & silver, for it is wrought flat and graven, 



graven among ^hich they weare about their neckes ; othersome made 



on tans. ^^^^^^ |^|^g ^ pancake, with a hole in the midst, to 



boulster up their breasts withall, because they thinke 



it a deformity to have great breasts. As for mines 



either of gold or silver, the Frenchmen can heare of 



Florida none they have upon the Island, but of copper, whereof 



esteemed an ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ have not made the proofe, because they 



were but few men : but it is not unlike, but that in 



This copper the maine where are high hilles, may be golde and silver 



^TrfcT Id '^'^^^ ^s in Mexico, because it is all one maine. The 



called by the Frenchmen obteined pearles of them of great bignesse, 



Savages, but they were blacke, by meanes of rosting of them, 



S-^croa phyra. for they do not fish for them as the Spanyards doe, 



but for their meat : for the Spanyards use to keepe 



dayly afishing some two or three hundred Indians, some 



of them that be of choise a thousand : and their order 



is to go in canoas, or rather great pinnesses, with thirty 



men in a piece, whereof the one halfe, or most part 



Pearles. be divers, the rest doe open the same for the pearles : 



for it is not suff^ered that they should use dragging, for 



that would bring them out of estimation, and marre 



the beds of them. The oisters which have the smallest 



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