A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



your majestie shall have this citie very well fortified, by 

 reason it is of such importance for the service of your 

 majestie, and the trade of all Spaine and Peru, and all 

 the Indies: for this is the principall fort of all this 

 countrey. 



Over against this point of the Ycacos, in the Isle of 

 Cares, hard by the water side, there are great store of 

 stones, free stones, and other stones to make lyme, and 

 wood to burne the stones withall for the lyme, and great 

 part of the stones doe lie about the water : so the wood 

 will cost but the cutting of it downe, and the working 

 of it, and with little paines taking it will bee brought to 

 good perfection, for wee have already made triall thereof, 

 for there was never building that went to decay after it 

 hath bene made, nor perished by the sea : so the charge 

 hereof will be but litle or nothing. 



And for to put this in practise to build a fort, it is 

 needefull that your majestie should send hither and to 

 many other places, where any fort shall bee made, some 

 store of Negros, and to this place would be sent 150 

 Negros brought from Guyney : and if the Negros of 

 Havana are not to bee imployed there, nor those which 

 are in Sant Juan de Ullua, it may please your majestie 

 to cause them to bee sent for to this place, for most of 

 them be artificers, some masons, bricklayers, smithes and 

 sawyers, and to send some masons from Spaine to teach 

 our men these occupations. And after these fortifications 

 are ended and all furnished, then the Negros may be 

 solde to great profit, for a Negro that is of any occupation 

 is sold here for 600. and 700. pezos. 



Nombre de Dios. 



N Ombre de Dios is builded upon a sandy Bay hard 

 by the sea side, it is a citie of some thirtie hous- 

 holdes or inhabitants : their houses are builded of timber, 

 and most of the people which are there be forreiners, 

 they are there to day and gone to morrow : it is full 

 of woods and some places of the land are overflowen 



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