A.D. 



1587. 



The lie of 

 Puna IS almost 

 as big as the 

 Ik of Wight. 



Cotton trees. 



An excellent 

 orchard. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



This Hand is very pleasant for all things requisite, and 

 fruitful : but there are no mines of gold nor silver in 

 it. There are at the least 200 houses in the towne 

 about the Casiques pallace, and as many in one or two 

 townes more upon the Hand, which is almost as bigge 

 as the He of Wight in England. There is planted on 

 the one side of the Casiques house a faire garden, with 

 all herbes growing in it, and at the lower end a well 

 of fresh water, and round about it are trees set, whereon 

 bombasin cotton groweth after this maner : The tops 

 of the trees grow full of cods, out of which the cotton 

 groweth, and in the cotton is a seede of the bignesse 

 of a pease, and in every codde there are seven or eight 

 of these seedes : and if the cotton bee not gathered 

 when it is ripe, then these seedes fall from it, and 

 spring againe. 



There are also in this garden fig-trees which beare 

 continually, also pompions, melons, cucumbers, radishes, 

 rosemarie and thyme, with many other herbes and fruits. 

 At the other end of the house there is also another 

 orchard, where grow orenges sweete and sower, lim- 

 mons, pomegranates and lymes, with divers other 

 fruits. 



There is very good pasture ground in this Hand ; 

 and withall many horses, oxen, bullockes, sheepe very 

 fat and faire, great store of goates which be very tame, 

 and are used continually to bee milked. They have 

 moreover abundance of pigeons, turkeys, and ducks of 

 a marvellous bignesse. 



There was also a very large and great church hard by 

 the Casiques house, whither hee caused all the Indians 

 in the Hand to come and heare masse: for he himselfe 

 was made a Christian when he was maried to the Spanish 

 woman before spoken of, and upon his conversion he 

 caused the rest of his subjects to be Christened. In 

 this church was an high altar with a crucifixe, and five 

 belles hanging in the nether end thereof. We burnt 

 the church and brought the belles away. 



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