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come, and every dale doeth come, and in especiallie of Golde 

 and Siluer : That it is a thyng of admiration that the greate 

 number of Milleons, whiche hath come besides the greate 

 quantitie of Pearles, hath filled the whole worlde, also thei doe 

 bryng from that partes, Popingaies, Greffons, Apes, Lions, 

 Gerfaucons, and other kinde of Haukes, Tigers wolle, Cotton 

 wolle, Graine to die colours with all, Hides, Sugars, Copper, 

 Brasill, the woode Ebano, Anill : and of all these, there is so 

 greate quantitie, that there commeth every yere, one hundred 

 Shippes laden thereof, that it is a greate thynge and an incredle 

 riches. 



"And besides these greate riches, our Occident all Indias 

 doeth sende unto us many Trees, Plantes, Herbes, Rootes, 

 Joices, Gummes, Fruit es, Licours, Stones that are of greate 

 medicinall vertues, in the whiche there bee founde, and hath 

 been founde in them, verie greate effectes that doeth excede 

 muche in value and price : All that aforesaied, by so muche as 

 the Corporall healthe is more Excellent, and necessaire then the 

 temporall goodes, the whiche thynges all the worlde doeth 

 lacke, the wante whereof is not a little hurtfull, according to the 

 greate profite which wee doe see, by the use of them doeth 

 followe, not onely in our Spaine but in all the worlde. . . . The 

 people of old tyme did lacke them, but the tyme whiche is the 

 discouerer of all thynges, hath shewed them unto us greatly 

 to our profite, seying the greate neede that we had of them. 



" And as there is discouered newe regions, newe Kyngdomes, 

 and newe Prouinces, by our Spanyardes, thei haue brought unto 

 us newe Medicines, and newe Remedies, wherewith thei doe cure 

 and make whole many infirmities, whiche if wee did lacke them, 

 thei were incurable, and without any remedie, the whiche 

 thynges although that some have knowledge of them, yet thei 

 bee not common to all people, for whiche cause I did pretede 

 to treate and to write, of all thynges, that thei bryng from our 

 Indias, whiche serueth for the arte and use of Medicine, and the 

 remedy of the hurtes and deseases, that wee doe suffer and 



