CANDISHS CIRCUMNAVIGATION ad. 



1587. 



quantitie of 25 pounds weight in silver in pieces of impounds 



eight rials, and abundance of houshold stuffe and store- '^[^^S^^ ^^ 



houses full of all kinde of wares : but our Generall 



would not suffer any man to carrie much cloth or 



apparell away, because they should not cloy themselves 



with burthens : for hee knew not whether our enemies 



were provided with furniture according to the number 



of their men : for they were five men to one of us : 



and wee had an English mile and an halfe to our ships. 



Thus wee came downe in safetie to the towne, which was [III. 812.] 



very well builded, and marvellous cleane kept in every 



streete, with a towne-house or Guild hall in the middest, 



and had to the number of two hundred houses at the least ^-^f ^'^^^^ ^f 



in it. Wee set it on fire to the s^round, and P:oods to the ^/^^^^^adzoo 



, r r -1 111 1 houses in it. 



value or tive or sixe thousand pounds : there was also a Abarkeseton 



barke riding in the roade which wee set on fire, and fire. 

 departed, directing our course to the Hand of Puna. 



The 25 day of May wee arrived at the Hand of Puna, The Hand of 

 where is a very good harbour, where wee found a great ^^^^ "^^ithm i 

 shippe of the burthen of 250 tunnes riding at an anker Efuinoctial to 

 with all her furniture, which was readie to bee haled on the South. 

 ground : for there is a speciall good place for that ^ g^'^^^ ^hlp 

 purpose. Wee sunke it, and went on shoare where ^^^^^• 

 the lord of the Hand dwelt, which was by the waters 

 side, who had a sumptuous house marvellous well con- 

 trived with very many singular good roomes and 

 chambers in it : and out of every chamber was framed a 

 gallerie with a stately prospect into the sea on the one 

 side, and into the Hand on the other side, with a 

 marvellous great hall below, and a very great storehouse 

 at the one ende of the hall, which was filled with botijas 

 of pitch and bash to make cables withall : for the most ^^^^^ ^^0^^ °f 

 part of the cables in the South sea are made upon that ^'^^'^^ ^^^^ ^^ 

 Hand. This great Casique doth make all the Indians 

 upon the Hand to worke and to drudge for him : and hee 

 himselfe is an Indian borne, but is married to a marvellous 

 faire woman which is a Spaniard, by reason of his pleasant 

 habitation and of his great wealth. 



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