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and, for somewhat more, even their own daughters. Hereof 

 the Spaniards make great profit ; for, buying a maid of twelve 

 or thirteen years for three or four hatchets, they sell them 

 again at Marguerita in the West Indies for fifty and a hundred 

 pesoes, which is so many crowns. 



** The master of my ship, John Douglas, took one of the 

 canoes which came laden from thence with people to be sold, 

 and the most of them escaped, yet of those he brought, there 

 was one as well favoured, and as well shaped, as ever I saw 

 any in England ; and afterward I saw many of them, which 

 but for their tawny color may be compared to any of Europe. 

 They also trade in those rivers for bread of cassavi, of which 

 they buy one hundred pound weight for a knife, and sell it at 

 Marguerita for ten pesoes. They also recover great store of 

 cotton, brasil-wood, and those beds which they call hamacas, 

 or brasil-beds, wherein in hot countries all the Spaniards use to 

 lie commonly, and in no other, neither did we ourselves 

 while we were there. 



* We could not learn of Berreo any other way to enter but 

 in branches, so far to the windward as it was impossible for us 

 to recover. For we had as much sea to cross over in our 

 wherries as between Dover and Calais, and in a great billow, 

 the wind and current being both very strong. So as we were 

 driven to go in those small boats directly before the wind into 



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