AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1587. 



This Spanish woman his wife is honoured as a Queene 

 in the Hand, and never goeth on the ground upon her 

 feete : but holdeth it too base a thing for her : But 

 when her pleasure is to take the ayre, or to goe abroad, 

 shee is alwayes carried in a shadowe like unto an horse- 

 litter upon foure mens shoulders, with a veile or canopie 

 over her for the sunne or the winde, having her gentle- 

 women still attending about her with a great troope of the 

 best men of the Hand with her. But both shee and the 

 lorde of the Hand with all the Indians in the towne were 

 newly fled out of the Hand before wee could get to an 

 anker, by reason wee were becalmed before wee could 

 get in, and were gone over unto the maine lande, 

 having carried away with them to the summe of 

 1 00000 crownes, which wee knew by a captaine of the 

 Hand an Indian, which was left there with some other 

 upon the Hand under him, whom wee had taken at 

 sea as wee were comming into the road, being in a 

 balsa or canoa for a spie to see what wee were. 



The 27 our General himselfe with certaine shot and 

 some targettiers went over into the maine unto the 

 place where this foresayde Indian captaine which wee 

 had taken had tolde us that the Casique, which was 

 the lord of all the Hand, was gone unto, and had caried 

 all his treasure with him : but at our comming to the 

 place which wee went to lande at, wee found newly 

 arrived there foure or five great balsas, which were laden 

 with plantans, bags of meale, and many other kinds of 

 victuals. Our Generall marvelled what they were and 

 what they meant, asking the Indian guide and command- 

 ing him to speake the trueth upon his life : being then 

 bound fast, hee answered being very much abashed, as 

 well as our companie were, that hee neither knewe from 

 whence they should come, nor who they should bee : 

 for there was never a man in any one of the balsas : 

 and because hee had told our Generall before, that it 

 was an easie matter to take the sayd Casique and all 

 his treasure, and that there were but three or foure 



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