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Ac their Fcaft they nuke themfelves Drunk with a Drink made of Honey, 

 Noble-men heretofore onely drinking the Liquor of Qacao } but of late it is com. 

 mon, and made by all People, though never fo mean. They fpeak feverai Langua- 

 ges, the chiefeft whereof is that of thcCkontales, a falvage People. They divide their' 

 Year, call'd Joalar, that is, faffing, into eighteen Moneths, and each Moneth into 

 twenty Days. They formerly mcafur'd the Year by the Nights, and began the Year 

 forty days fooner than the Europeans. 



The Towns in this Province arc i. New VaUodolid , by the Indians n&m'd Comayagua, 

 lying in a pleafanc Valley under a temperate Climate. The Cattel brought hither 

 from Spain increafe exceedingly. The Silver«Mynes are alfo fo well (lor'd, that they 

 keep the Melting-houfe in the Town always employ 'd. 



The Governor of this Place hath his Residence next to the Treafury-Chamber. 



Anno 1588. the Bifliop's See was tranflated hither from Truxillo : Nineteen years 

 before which Francifcode Monteio fent his Lieutenant siphon/ode Cacenes thither, to 

 build a Village half way between the Southern and Northern Ocean 5 who accor- 

 dingly erected the Town Santa Maria de Camoyagm, near a River Navigable for £4- 

 noos, which difembogues in fuerto de Cayallot. The remaining part of the Way to 

 the Haven Fon/eca being paflable for Carrs (which was a means to prevent many 

 Inconveniences which us'd to happen to Travellers on the Way between fanama and 

 Nombre de Vios) the Spanifr King was fo much conccrn'd at the firft propofal hereof, 

 that he fent the famous Surveyor HBaptijla Antonello thither, and the rather, becaufc 

 he received information, that the new Way, along which they carried theMer- 

 chandife from feru t Mexico, and other Countreys along the South Sea,lay very plca- 

 fantly, by reafon of the brave Vineyards, Corn.Fields, Fruit-Trees, Pafturcs, 

 Streams abounding with Fifli, Herds of Deer, and Cony- Warrens ; yet Antonello 

 meeting with many troubles, would not undertake the Bufinefs. 



New ValladolU is adorn'd with a great Church, a Cloyflcr, belonging to the 

 Monks T>e la Merced, and handfom Streets. 



1. Thirty Leagues Weftward from this City lies another call'd Gratia* a Dios, be- 

 gun by Captain Gabriel de ^oyas,Anno 1530. that fohc might be near the Gold-Mines : 

 But becaufe the Natives kept the new Inhabitants in continual alarm, and daily 

 Storm' d theunfinifli'd Fortifications, %pyas was neceffitated to leave off building 

 any farther, the rather, becaufc none came to his afliftance from the neighboring 

 Garrifon. 



Six years after Gonzales de Alvarado undertook this Work, and built the City on a 

 Rocky Mountain; which, though otherwife barren, produe'd lufty Horfcs and 

 ftrong Mules. 



3. Sanfedro y thovg\\ lying under a hot and unwholfom Climate,us'd formerly to 

 be a brave City of Trade 5 but it is gone much to decay fince Golfo Dolce hath been 

 difcover'd, becaufe from that Bay the Commodities are carried in Barques up into 

 the Countrey. 



4. The Village Juan de fuerto deCatallos, inhabited by Factors and Moors : It re- 

 ceiv'd that Denomination, becaufe not far from it feverai Horfes were fore'd to bt 

 thrown over-board in a Storm. Though it be but ill fortifi'd, yet it hath an ex- 

 ceeding large Haven. Captain Chriflo f her N^ew port arriving here Anno 1 591. found 

 two hundred Houfes, and in them a confiderable Booty left, notwithftanding four 

 Ships richly laden had lately fetSail from thence. 



Six years after Newport, Capt.^/tf. Sherly re-took the Place,and leaving the Haven 

 open for Pyrats, Alphonfus Qoriado judg'd it convenient to remove the Trading Place 

 to Amatiaue . he built the Village Thomas de Qajlilla, and fortifi'd the fame againft all 

 manner of Aflaults. Behind 



