ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1565. 



can learne, wanting oyle, butter, cheese, milke, egges, 

 sugar, honny, vineger, saffron, cynamom and pepper. 

 Barley-branne the Danders doe use in stead of salt : medi- 

 cinable things holsome for the bodie have they none at 

 all. Neverthelesse in that Hand sundry fruites doe 

 growe, not much unlike the fruites of Spaine : and 



Great store of great store of Silver mynes are therein to be seene. 



Stiver mynes. >p ne p e0 pl e are tractable, civill, wittie, courteous, without 

 deceit, in vertue and honest conversation exceeding all 

 other nations lately discovered, but so much standing 

 upon their reputation, that their chiefe Idole may be 

 thought honour. The contempt thereof causeth among 

 them much discord and debate, manslaughter and mur- 

 ther : even for their reputation they doe honour their 

 parents, keepe their promises, absteine from adulterie 

 and robberies, punishing by death the least robbery done, 

 holding for a principle, that whosoever stealeth a trifle, 

 will, if he see occasion, steale a greater thing. It may 

 be theft is so severely punished of them, for that the 

 nation is oppressed with scarcitie of all things necessary, 

 and so poore, that even for miserie they strangle their 

 owne children, preferring death before want. These 

 fellowes doe neither eate nor kill any foule. They live 

 chiefely by fish, hearbes, and fruites, so healthfully, that 

 they die very old. Of Rice and Wheat there is no 

 great store. No man is ashamed there of his povertie, 

 neither be their gentlemen therefore lesse honoured of 

 the meaner people, neither will the poorest gentleman 

 there match his childe with the baser sort for any gaine, 

 so much they do make more account of gentry then of 

 wealth. The greatest delight they have is in armour, 

 each boy at fourteene yeeres of age, be he borne gentle 

 or otherwise, hath his sword and dagger : very good 

 archers they be, contemning all other nations in com- 

 parison of their manhood and prowesse, putting not up 

 one injurie be it never so small in worde or deede, 

 among themselves. They feede moderately, but they 

 drinke largely. The use of vines they knowe not, their 



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