The fitſt part ofthe thinzes that 
foarth ofthe citie the laſt yre, moʒe than ten kintalles ot it 
which is a thouſand pound weight, fo that nowe they aſke 
ko Rmbarb ofthe Indias, ſoꝛ that it is fo familiar, that ther 
is no huſoand man that doeth not vſe it, as a molt ſure mes 
dit ine, and at great eſfeaes, betauſe fa2 that kinde of pur⸗ 
gation, there is no nerde of a Phiſition, as being that, vnta 
wich all men giue moll credite, zs a thing determined and 
appꝛoued for good. i 
A hane talked with many of them that haue come from 
the ne we Spaine, and in efpecially with them that haue 
bene in Mechonc an, tanterning the faſhion ef the plant that 
this roete is af, and what ſoꝛme and Figure it bath, the 
Which theydoe bzing feom the Country, within 40. leages 
ol beyonde echoacan, from a countrie whichis called Ce- 
ima, andthev haue fo little care therein, ſteing that their 
pꝛincipall intent is onto their intereſt and gaine, that they 
kno no moze thereof, but that the Indians in Mec ho ac an 
doe fell it them the rotes being dꝛie and cleane , as hither 
they dae bring them, and the S paniardes doe buy them, as 
à kinde of Perthandiſe, and fo ſend th: m to ſpaine. 
And ſure lx in this we are worthy of great repꝛehenſion, 
that feepng that there are in the newe papne, fo manye 
Dearbes,and Plantes, andotherthinges sPedicinable, of 
la much impaztaunce, there is not any that wꝛiteth of thew 
Nozisit onderſtoad, mhat vertues and fumes they haue, fa 
to accord thé With durg: ſo that it men baba deſire to ſearch 
datt and experiment fo many kinde of medicines as the n 
Niang did fell intheir Parket places and Faires it would 
be —— of great se tA viliti e to ſee and to kolos 
oper ties and to experiment tye variable and greate 
tifedtes, which the Indians doe —— with 
_ State pooofeamongest themſelues, whych they haue & 
dem we staur parte without ang confiveration doe re- 
te it and luthe as dos knewe their ctf des, weill not sig 
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