ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1550. 



yeeres therein. Also there is a wood called Barbusano, 

 of like vertue, with many Savine trees and Pine trees. 

 And beneath these sorts of trees are woods of Bay trees 

 of 10 & 12 miles long, which is a pleasant thing to 

 travell thorow, among the which are great numbers of 

 small birds, which sing exceeding sweet, but especially 

 one sort that are very litle, and of colour in all respects 

 like a Swallow, saving that he hath a little blacke spot 

 on his breast as broad as a peny. He singeth more 

 sweetly then all the rest, but if he be taken and impri- 

 soned in a cage, he liveth but a small while. This Hand 

 bringeth foorth all sorts of fruits, as Canaria doth : and 

 also all the other Hands in generall bring foorth shrubs 

 or bushes, out of the which issueth a juice as white 

 as milke, which after a while that it hath come out 



Lime. waxeth thicke, and is exceeding good birdlime, the bush 



is called Taybayba. This Hand also bringeth foorth 

 another tree called Drago, which groweth on high among 

 rocks, and by incision at the foot of the tree issueth 

 out a liquor like blood, which is a common drug 

 among Apothecaries. Of the wood of this tree are 

 made targets greatly esteemed, because if any sword or 

 dagger hit thereon, they sticke so fast that it is hard 

 plucking them out. 



This is the most fruitfull Hand of all the rest for 

 corne, and in that respect is a mother or nurse to all 

 the others in time of need. There groweth also a 



Orchelgood certaine mosse upon the high rocks called Orchel, 



for dying, ^j^ } s bought for Diars to die withall. There are 1 2 

 sugar houses called Ingenios, which make great quantity 

 of sugar. There is also one league of ground which 

 standeth between two townes, the one called Larotava, 

 and the other Rialeio, and it is thought that the like 

 plot of ground is not in all the world. The reason is, 

 that this one league of ground produceth sweet water 

 out of the cliffes or rocky mountaines, corne of all sortes, 

 fruites of all sortes, and excellent good silke, flaxe, waxe, 

 and hony, and very good wines in abundance, with great 



130 



