A.D. 



1572-87. 



^anta. 



Cannete. 



Truxillo. 



Paita. 



GuataquiL 



Tumbez. 



Salsaperilla. 

 Ships built at 

 Giiaiaquil. 

 Puerto Viejo a 

 place where 

 Emralds 

 abound. 



La Buena Ven- 

 tura. 



La gover- 

 nacion de 

 Popaian, 



Negros fled 

 from their 

 masters. 



Panama. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Next unto this standeth a small towne of the Spaniards 

 by the sea side called Santa : and next unto Santa is 

 another small towne of Christians called Cannete. From 

 hence they saile unto a rich citie called Truxillo, being 

 one of the principall townes of Peru, and containing 

 about five hundred houses. Then followeth Paita 

 which hath to the number of two hundred houses. 

 Leaving this towne they passe to Guaiaquil which 

 standeth fortie leagues up into a great bay or river, 

 at the entrance of which river standeth Tumbez a 

 towne of the Indians. All this coast along from Ata- 

 cama to Tumbez it never raineth, as I have before 

 said : so that all the houses in their townes are not 

 tyled, but covered with bourdes to keepe off the heate 

 of the Sunne, for they feare no raine at all. Guaiaquil 

 is the first place where it raineth, and here they gather 

 Salsaperilla. Here is also great store of timber, and at 

 this place they build many shippes. Hence they sayle 

 along the coast to a small and poore towne called Puerto 

 Viejo, which in times past hath bene rich with emralds : 

 but now since these stones in regard of their plenty 

 are growen nothing worth, this towne likewise is waxen 

 very poore. Below this village standeth another called 

 La Buena Ventura : but whosoever go thither must 

 needs meet with evill fortune, the place it selfe is so 

 waterish and unholesome. Here abide not above 20 

 men, who serve onely to transport goods unto a citie 

 standing fiftie leagues within the maine, in a province 

 called La governacion de Popaian. From Buena Ven- 

 tura and Popaian till you come to Panama there is no 

 other towne, by reason of the high mountaines, the 

 manifold rivers, and the unholesomenesse of the 

 countrey. In this place doe inhabite the Negros that 

 runne from their masters, and upon these mountaines 

 was Oxnam the English Captaine and his men taken, 

 as is before mentioned. Beyond these mountaines 

 standeth the citie of Panama, being a rich place, by 

 reason that all the treasure which commeth from Peru 



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