2$mrcrtpttott oftDe 3iano AaMt Helena!, vti 
The 94. Chapter 
A briefe defeription ofthc Hand Saint Helena* 
ter,anOfoalb tljeic dot hestfo that it is a great 
benefit fo? them, ana a pleafant fight to be- 
bolo,bolu cleare $ in hob) manp ffreames the 
tester runneth dotenemfo the fcallep, tebiefo 
map bee thought a mpmde, confiocrmg the 
d?ineffe of the CQuntrp,togetber toitb the fto* 
me Hoches anD billes therein ♦ 2 Dhe potfftp 
gales bane bp little and little brought manp 
beaftes into if, anD in the feallepes planted al 
fo?ts of fruites: tebicb haue gtotene there in 
fo great abundance, that it is almottmcredi* 
ble, jfa? it is fo full of deflates, Buckes,tetld 
Rogges, Rennes, partridges, and HDoues, 
bp tboufanos, fo that anp man that Ml,map 
hunt and take them - $ ther is altoaies plentte 
and fufFicient,although there came as manp 
Ihippes mo?e into the plants as there doetano 
thepmap hill them tettb ftonesano fiaues 
bp reafon of the gret numbers of tbem.$ote 
fo? fruifes, as po?tingall jftggcs, pomgra* 
nets, Ranges, Lemons, Cttrons^ano fuch 
like fruifes,• there are fo manp, that grotee 
toithout planting 0? fetfing, that all the bab 
lepes are full of them, tebicb is a great plea* 
fure to behold?, fo that itfemetbtobceau 
carthlp paradife. |t hath fruite all the peare 
long, becaufe it raineth there bpfbotecrs at 
the leaft fine 0? fir times eucrie dap,and then 
againc the Auntie fijmeih fo, tbattebaffoe^ 
uer is planted, there if groteetb berieteell: 
but bccaufe the jio?tmgales are not ouer cu¬ 
rious of nete things, there groteetb not of at 
fo?ts ef fruited of pojtmgall and India W 
that llano*, fo? afluredip toithout anp doubt 
$ 3 tb'ep 
1 eBIIand of^ainf Helena 
is fo named,hecaufe the $030 
t ingales difeottereo it bppon 
%aint Helens dap, tebicb is 
thettoentte one of «pap.|t is 
in compafle fire miles, little 
mote o? lelfeand Ipeth bnder firfanc degrees 
anda quarter,on tbe»>oute fide of the Cqui* 
noctall ss°* £>paniftj miles from theCape 
deBona Speranza, andfrom tbecoaffcal* 
led Angola 0? Ethiopia 3 5-0. miles, j from 
Brafilia ^ 10. miles, ‘Cbefearetbetteonee* 
reft lands adiopning to it. 3|tis a herie high 
and hillte countrie, fo that it commonlp rea* 
cheth Unto the cloudes.- the countrie of ft felfe 
Is herie afijic and D:ic: alfo all the frees that 
are therein, tobereof there are great ft o?e, f 
grate of themfelues in tfje tecodes, are little 
teo?tb but onlp to burnetfo? it hath no fpectal 
fubffance,but Ibeteefb as if it teere halfe com 
fumed,fo that it Ihculd feme that fome mines 
of 315 ?imffone, hath in times paft bane in 
that llano, as commonlp all the llanos are 
ail much fubiect to the fame: fo? that in fome 
places thereof thep find Sulphur and 213 ?im» 
ftone. Mhen the ^o?fingalesfirftOifcouer* 
eo if, there teas not anp beafts, no? fruite, 
at all teitbin the llano, but onelp great fto?e 
of frelb boater, luhich is crcellent g©d,and 
falleth dotene from fhemountaincs,andfo 
tunneth in great abundance into the iHallep, 
Inhere the Church ftanoeth, and from thence 
bp fmall chanels into the a, Inhere the 
putiitgales fill their Ueftels full of f retina * 
The j „ booke. 
