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from the diverse temperature, and the ayre which commeth LlB - Iy 

 from the one part and the other. The revenue of wine 

 there is not small,, but it goeth not out of the country. But 

 the silke that is made in New Spaine is transported into 

 other countries, as to Peru. There were no mulberrie 

 trees in the Indies, but such as were brought from Spaine. 

 and they grow well, especially in the province which they 

 call Misteca, where there are silke-wormes, and they put 

 to worke the silke they gather, whereof they make very 

 good taffetas. Yet, to this day, they have made neyther 

 damaske, sattin, nor velvet. The sugar yet is a greater 

 revenue, for they not only spend it at the Indies, but also 

 they carry much into Spaine, for the canes grow exceeding 

 well in many parts of the Indies. They have built their 

 engins in the Hands, in Mexico, in Peru, and in other partes, 

 which yeeldeth them a very great revenue. 



It was tolde me that the engine for sugar in Nasca was 

 worth yeerely above thirty thousand peeces of revenue. 

 That of Chicama, ioyning to Truxillo, was likewise of great 

 revenue, and those of New Spaine are of no lesse ; and it is 

 a strange thing to see what store they consume at the In 

 dies. They brought from the Hand of Santo Domingo, in the 

 fleete wherein I came, eight hundred ninety eight chests of 

 sugar, which being, as I did see, shipped at Puerto Rico ; 

 every chest, in my opinion, weighed eight arrobas ; every 

 arroba weighing five and twenty pounds, which are two 

 hundred weight of sugar. Sugar is the chiefe revenue of these 

 Hands, so much are men given to the desire of sweete 

 things. There are likewise olives and olive trees at the 

 Indies, I say in Mexico and Peru, yet hath there not beene 

 to this day any mill for oile, for that they eate all their 

 olives, and dresse them well : they finde the charge is 

 greater to make oile than the profit, and therefore they 

 carry all the oyle they do spend from Spaine. And heere 

 we will end with plants, and will passe to such beasts as be 

 at the Indies, 



