A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



sow Maiz and other kinds of graine. Also in this circuite 

 there are great stones to make lyme, and these stones 

 must needes proove very good as I doe thinke, but we 

 never had any triall thereof. 



This harbour hath all things necessary to builde a 

 citie, where your majestie may have your armies and 

 fleetes of shippes to ride at an anker in safetie without 

 danger of loosing : and it is a very healthful countrey, 

 and where the citie shall be builded it is all stony 

 ground : and forasmuch as the raine water which doth 

 fall from the mountaines may doe hurt unto the citie, 

 there at the foote of the mountaine wee will make a great 

 pond to receive in all the water which doth fall from the 

 mountaines, and so from thence to goe into the sea, as 

 more at large your majestie may see by my platforme. 



If it would please your majestie, it were good that 

 the citie of Nombre de Dios might bee brought and 

 builded in this harbour : it would not bee very charge- 

 able unto the citizens by reason that all their houses are 

 made of timber, and they may benefite themselves with 

 the same againe, and likewise with the tyles of their 

 houses : the greatest charge will bee to land timber and 

 to cut downe the mountaine of wood. 



If it please your majestie that the sayd citie of Nombre 

 de Dios should bee builded in this harbour the first thing 

 which must be finished is to make up this high way, and 

 so to pull downe the Church which is in Nombre de Dios, 

 and the Contractation house, and so newe build it in this 

 harbour : and then to command all the fleetes of shippes 

 from time to time to come and unlade their goods in this 

 sayd Puerto Bello : And that those marchants and factors 

 of Spaine which are lygers in Panama and Nombre de 

 Dios, shall come to this harbour and builde anew their 

 warehouses for receiving of their goods. So by these 

 meanes in short time it will be greatly inhabited with 

 people : also the fleete shall not passe so many dangers 

 as they dayly doe in Nombre de Dios : neither will there 

 so many people die as there dayly doe in Nombre de 



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