. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . f very good silke, and and oyle there is none growing in the Countrey,but what commeth out of Spaine. Also there are manygoodly fruits in that Countrey, whereof we have nonesuch, as Plantanos, Guyaves, Sapotes, Tunas, and in thewildernes great store of blacke cheries, and other whol-some fruites. The Cochinilla is not a worme, or a flye,as some say it is, but
. The principal navigations voyages traffiques & discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres . f very good silke, and and oyle there is none growing in the Countrey,but what commeth out of Spaine. Also there are manygoodly fruits in that Countrey, whereof we have nonesuch, as Plantanos, Guyaves, Sapotes, Tunas, and in thewildernes great store of blacke cheries, and other whol-some fruites. The Cochinilla is not a worme, or a flye,as some say it is, but a berrie that groweth upon certainebushes in the wilde fielde, which is gathered in time ofthe yeere, when it is ripe. Also the Indico that doethcome from thence to die blew, is a certaine hearbe thatgroweth in the wilde fieldes, and is gathered at one timeof the yeere, and burnt, and of the ashes thereof, withother confections put thereunto, the saide Indico is , Salsa perilla, Cana fistula, suger, oxe hides, andmany other good and serviceable things the Countreydoeth yeeld, which are yeerely brought into Spaine, andthere solde and distributed to many nations. Robert Tomson. 358 ROGER BODENHAM A voyage made by M. Roger Bodenham to S. [in. 455.]John de Ullua in the bay of Mexico, in theyeere 1564. Roger Bodenham having a long time livedin the city of Sivil in Spaine, being theremarried, and by occasion thereof usingtrade and traffique to the parts of Bar-bary, grew at length to great losse andhinderance by that new trade begun by ^ ^^^, ^^^^^me. in the city of Fez: whereupon being ^.If^fp^^^returned into Spaine, I began to call my wits about mee, ^y ^gg^fand to consider with my selfe by what meanes I might and renew my state; and in conclusion, by theayde of my friends, I procured a ship called The BarkeFox, perteining to London, of the burden of eight ornine score tunnes; and with the same I made a voyageto the West India, having obteined
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