Ht^orie of the Indies lib, 5. 



wholefbme and clecrc , temperate betwixt heate and 

 cold , winter and dimmer are very diftincS, and there 

 they finde great ftore of veiy fine gold. Yet this land 

 is poore and finally peopled., by reafon of their conti- 

 nuall warre with the Auricanos, and their aflbciates, be- 

 ing a rough people and friends to libertie. 



Of the vnknwne Land^ and the diver fitie of a whole 

 day, betwixt them of the Eaftandthe Weft. 

 C H A P. 23. 



THere are great conie&ures, that in the temperate 

 Zone at the Antartike Pole , there are great and 

 fertile lands : but to this day they are not difcovered, 

 neither do they know any other land in this Zone , but 

 that ofChil/e y andfome part of that land which ruanes 

 from Ethiopia , to the Cape of GW Hope, as hath been 

 faidin thefirftbooke; neither is it knowne if there be 

 any habitations in the other two Zones of the Poles, 

 ?nd whether the land continues aqrfftretcheth to that 

 which is towards the Antartike or South Pole. Nei 

 ther do we know the land that lies beyond the ftraight 

 of Magellan, for that the greateft height yet difcovered, 

 is in fiftiefix degrees 5 as hath beene formerly faide 5 and 

 toward the Artike or Northerne Pole^it is not knowne 

 how farre the land extendes,which runnes beyond the 

 Cape of Me#dofin,ar\d the Calipbornes, nor the bounds 

 and end of 'Florida , neither yet how farre it extendes 

 to the Weft. Of late, they have difcovered a new land, 

 which they call New Mexico*, where they fay is much 

 people that f jpeake the Mexicaine tongue. The Phftipf** 

 KCS and the following Hands, as fome report that know 



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