AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1572-87. 



daughter being but sixeteene yeeres of age, which he 

 had brought with him out of Peru : the cause why he 

 killed her was, that she might not become a concubine 

 to villaines, nor be called the daughter of a traytor : 

 and these words he used unto her, so soone as he had 

 given her her deaths wound : but before he could finish 

 this cruell act, the souldiers came upon him, and cut 

 him in pieces, also his daughter died of her wound in 

 that place. 



Thus have you heard the miserable ende of this 



bloodie caitife : in regarde of whose treacherous and 



mischievous dealing the king would never since suffer 



this river to bee throughly discovered ; so that the 



Great riches riches and treasure of the said river remaine unknowen 



hidden ivithh g^gj^ xxvX^ this present day. 



n///^«« Now leaving to discourse any longer of this river of 



Marannon, all the coast betweene the saide river and 

 The coast of the river of Plate, is called The coast of Brasill, taking 

 Brasill.zvhy it ^j^^^ name from a kinde of wood in the same countrey, 

 was so called, ^^jj^^ Brasill-wood, whereof there is great store in 

 ana by whom r^, ■ r t» -n r i- 1 



it was at the those partes. This coast of BrasiU was first discovered 



first discov- by Pedro Alvarez Cabral, in the second voyage which 

 ered. ^^ j^i^g of Portugall caused to be made to the East 



Indies : and the foresayde Pedro Alvarez tooke possession 

 of this land for the king of Portugall: whereupon the 

 king Don Emanuel hearing newes thereof sent presently 

 shippes to discover the whole countrey, and found it 

 to be part of America otherwise called The West Indies : 

 for which cause there grewe some controversie betweene 

 him and the king of Spaine : but being kinsmen and 

 great friends one to another, they agreed in the end, 

 that the king of Portugall should holde all the countrey 

 that he had discovered, the which was (as I have said) 

 from the river of Marannon to the river of Plate ; 

 albeit the Spaniards affirme, that it stretcheth no further 

 then the Hand of Santa Catelina ; whereupon there have 

 risen many controversies betweene the Portugales and 

 Spaniardes, which have cost many men their lives. 



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