A DESCRIPTION OF THE CANARIES 



before mentioned to barter & sell away at Santa Cruz. 

 And in lieu of such mony as should arise of the sale 

 of those goods they were appointed to returne backe 

 into England good store of Orchell (which is a certaine 

 kinde of mosse growing upon high rocks, in those dayes 

 much used to die withall) some quantity of sugar, and 

 certaine hundreds of kid-skinnes. For the procuring of 

 which and of other commodities at the best and first 

 hand the sayd Thomas and William were to make their 

 abode at Santa Cruz, and to remaine there as factours 

 for the abovesayd M. Nicolas Thorne. 



And here also I thought good to signifie, that in the 

 sayd letters mention is made of one Thomas Tison an 

 English man, who before the foresayd yere 1526 had 

 found the way to the West Indies, and was there resi- 

 dent, unto whom the sayd M. Nicolas Thorne sent 

 certaine armour and other commodities specified in the 

 letter aforesayd. 



A description of the fortunate Hands, otherwise 

 called the Hands of Canaria, with their strange 

 fruits and commodities : composed by Thomas 

 Nicols English man, who remained there the 

 space of seven yeeres together. 



Ine intent is particularly to speake of the 

 Canaria Hands, which are seven in 

 number, wherein I dwelt the space of 

 seven yeres and more, because I finde 

 such variety in sundry writers, and 

 especially great untruths, in a booke 

 called The New found world Antarctike, 



A.D. 



550. 



set out by a French man called Andrew Thevet, the 

 which his booke he dedicated to the Cardinall of Sens, 

 keeper of the great seale of France. 



It appeareth by the sayd booke that he had read the 

 works of sundry Phylosophers, Astronomers, and Cos- 

 mographers, whose opinions he gathered together. But 



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