TO SIR ROBERT CECIL 



of Cibola, Tiguex, Cicuic, and Quivira, of The gulfe 

 of California, & the Northwesterne sea-coast to Cabo 

 Mendogino and Sierra Nevada : as also of the late & rich 

 discovery of 15. provinces on the backside of Florida and 

 Virginia, the chiefest wherof is called the kingdome of 

 New Mexico, for the wealth, civil government, and popu- 

 lousnesse of the same. Moreover, because since our warres 

 with Spaine, by the taking of their ships, and sacking of 

 their townes and cities, most of all their secrets of the 

 West Indies, and every part thereof are fallen into our 

 peoples hands (which in former time were for the most 

 part unknowen unto us,) I have used the uttermost of 

 my best endevour,' to get, and having gotten, to translate 

 out of Spanish, and here in this present volume to publish 

 such secrets of theirs, as may any way availe us or annoy 

 them, if they drive and urge us by their sullen insolencies, 

 to continue our courses of hostilitie against them, and 

 shall cease to seeke a good and Christian peace upon 

 indifferent and equal conditions. What these things be, 

 and of how great importance your honour in part may 

 understand, if it please you to vouchsafe to reade the 

 Catalogues conteyning the 14. principal heads of this 

 worke. Whereby your honor may farther perceive that 

 there is no chiefe river, no port, no towne, no citie, no 

 province of any reckoning in the West Indies, that hath 

 not here some good description thereof, aswell for the 

 inland as the seast-coast. And for the knowledge of 

 the true breadth of the Sea betweene Nova Albion on the 

 Northwest part of America, and the yle of Japan lying 

 over against the kingdomes of Coray and China, which 

 until these foure yeeres was never reveiled unto us, being 

 a point of exceeding great consequence, I have here 

 inserted the voyage of one Francis Gualle a Spaniard 

 made from Acapulco an haven on the South sea on the 

 coast of New Spaine, first to the Philippinas, and then to 

 the citie of Macao in China, and homeward from Macao 

 by the yles of Japan, and thence to the back of the West 

 Indies in the Northerly latitude of 37. degrees |-. In 



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