



Xtva Albion* 



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Nature and 

 Habit of the 

 People, 



lot A M E%^I C A. Chap. X. 



3. Qcuic, another fmall Town, four days Journey fxomTtgnes. The Countrey 

 about this place, although generally it be-all good Pafturage, and maintains abun- 

 dance of Cat t el, yet is it fo open and plain, that for almoft a hundred Miles toge- 

 ther, the Spaniards, in their March hither from New Spain, found neither St,one nor 

 Tree, nor any thing elfe that could ferve them for a Land=mark . fo that they were 

 forc'd, as they march'd along, to raife up Heaps of Cow-dung, to ferve them for 

 direction in theircomingback, which was not long after : for not finding the Com. 

 modities they fought for, and fearing to be furpris'd by Winter in thofe cold Coun- 

 treys, where they had no kind of accommodation, they made fomewhata hafty 

 Retreat, leaving behind, them onely fome few Religious Men, of the dj^der *Jf 

 St. Francis, whole Endeavours to do the People good by Converting them tor the 

 true Knowledge and Worfliip of Almighty God,procur'd them not long 'after, the 

 Crown of Martyrdom, being murder'd all of them, excopt one, by the Natives, and 

 he not without much difficulty cfcaping their Hands. 



NOva Albion was fo denominated by Sir Francis 'Drake, when he was there Enter- 

 tain'd by the King of that Countrey 5 but whether it were in QuiYtra that he 

 was thus Entertained, and left that Denomination, or in the Ifland of California, ap- 

 pears not either from the Relation, or from the common Confent of Cofmogra- 

 phers, fince fome there are, who will have QuiYtra and Nova Albion to be one and the 

 fame Province ; others reckon it to be the utmoft North- Weft part of California ; 

 others make it diftincl: from QuiYtra, yet determine it not to the Ifland California, 

 feeming rather to make it an adjoyning Countrey to QuiYtra : wherefore finding 

 little elfe that concerns the Defcription of the Place, except the laid Voyage of 

 Drake, we fliall here fet it down, and leave the farther Difquifition concerning the 

 Situation of the Place, till we come to defcribe the Ifland of California it felt 



Captain Francis Drake fet Sail from Plymouth Jimo 1 ^yj. and after much hardfiiip 

 getting through the Straights of Magellan, arriv'd in the Haven Guatulco, having.be- 

 fore his coming thither taken as many rich Spanifl) Ships in the Southern Ocean as 

 he could poflibly have wiflh'd for , fo that his onely care now needed to have been 

 how to get fafe home ; yet he put on a Refolution, not to come fliort of Ferdinandus 

 Magellan™ % who Saild about 'the World. Which brave Refolution of Drue's was 

 approv'd of by all his Sea-men ; whereupon he fet Sail along the North of Califor- 

 nia the fifth of June ; being gotten into forty two Degrees, which was the fanned 

 that Cabrillo went, he came on a fudden out of a warm Air into fo frigid a Climate, 

 that the Sea-men were almoft kill'd with Cold, and the farther they went, the 

 colder it grew ; wherefore falling down three Degrees more Southerly, they got 

 into a convenient Haven, where the Natives who liv'd along the Shore brought 

 them Prefents . which Drake left not unrequited, by returning them others, that 

 were to them more novel, and not unufeful. 



Thefe People are exceeding hardy ; for,notwithftanding the extraordinary cold* 

 nefs of the Climate, the Men go naked • but the Women wear Garments of pleited 

 Flags or Ruflies, which being put about their Middle, hang down to their Ancles ; 

 on their Stomachs hang the ends of a hairy Skin ty'd together, which hanging alfo 

 over their Shoulders, cover their hinder Parts. They fhew great Reipect and 

 Obedience to their Husbands. Each Houfe is furrounded with an Earthen Wall, 

 and ali the Corners thereof being dole ftopp'd, and Fires made in the midft of 

 them, they are very warm. Rufhes and Flags ftrow'd thick on the Ground near 

 the Walls, ferve them in ftead of Beds. 



The Indians coming a fecond time to Vifit the FngUfl>, brought them Plumes of 



Feathers, 



Sir Francis 

 Drake's Ar- 

 rival there. 



