CANDISH'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1587. 



very good to eate, ready made up in the store houses for 



the Spaniards against they should come for their tribute. 



This Hand also yeeldeth many sorts of fruits, hogs, and 



hens. These Indians are held In such slavery by them, 



that they dare not eate a hen or an hogge themselves. [I^^- 808.] 



But the Spaniards have made them all In that Hand P'/'^^'f f '-:(" 



^, , . ^ ,_, r I 11 -1 S. Mary Hand 



Christians. Thus we fitted our selves here with corne ^^^^ ^// 



asmuch as we would have, and as many hogges as we had Christians. 



salt to powder them withall, and great store of hennes, 



with a number of bags of Potato rootes, and about 500. 



dried dogge-fishes, and Guinie wheate, which is called 



Maiz. And having taken as much as we would have, yet 



we left marvellous great store behind us. Our General 



had the two principals of the Hand aboord our shippe, and 



provided great cheere for them, and made them merle 



with wine : and they in the ende perceiving us to bee 



no Spaniards, made signes, as neere as our Generall could 



perceive, that if wee would goe over unto the mayne land 



unto Arauco, that there was much Golde, making us Araucorichin 



signes, that we should have great store of riches. But ■S'^^'^'^- 



because we could not understand them, our Generall 



made some haste, and within 2. or three dayes we 



furnished our selves. 



The 18. day in the morning we departed from this place, 

 and ran all that day Northnortheast about 10. leagues, 

 and at night lay with a short sayle oiF and on the coast. 



The 19. wee ranne In East Northeast with the land, 

 and bare in with a place called The Conception, where T^he Concep- 

 wee anchored under an Hand, and departed the next ^^^^• 

 morning without going on land. 



The 20. wee departed from The Conception, and 

 went into a litle Baye which was sandie, where we 

 saw fresh water and cattell, but we stayed not there. 



The 30. day we came into the Bay of Quintero, Quintero 

 which standeth in 33. degrees & 50 minutes. standeth in t,t, 



The said day presently after we were come unto an ^^^^^^^ 

 ancre in the Bay, there was a Neteherd or one that 

 kept cattle which lay upon the point of the hill asleepe, 



303 



