. Young folks library . AN ENGLISH EXPLORER IN MEXICO By miles iHE gentlemen that thus tookevs for their seruants or slaues,did new apparell vs throughout, with whom we abode, doingsuch seruice as they appointed vsvnto, which was for the most partto attend vpon them at the table, andto be as their chamberlaines, and towaite vpon them when they wentabroad, which they greatly accountedof: for in that countrey no Spaniard will serue one an-other, but they are all of them attended and serued byIndians weekely, and by Negroes which be their slauesduring their life. In this sort we remaine
. Young folks library . AN ENGLISH EXPLORER IN MEXICO By miles iHE gentlemen that thus tookevs for their seruants or slaues,did new apparell vs throughout, with whom we abode, doingsuch seruice as they appointed vsvnto, which was for the most partto attend vpon them at the table, andto be as their chamberlaines, and towaite vpon them when they wentabroad, which they greatly accountedof: for in that countrey no Spaniard will serue one an-other, but they are all of them attended and serued byIndians weekely, and by Negroes which be their slauesduring their life. In this sort we remained and seruedin the said citie of Mexico, and thereabouts for thespace of a yeere and somewhat longer. Afterwardsmany of vs were by our masters appointed to go tosundry of their Mines where they had to doe, and to beas ouerseers of the Negroes and Indians that labouredthere. In which mines many of vs did profite andgaine greatly: for first we were allowed three hundredPezos a man for a yeere, which is threescore poundsterling, and besides that the Indians and Negroes 1
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