. 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 . tly provided by ^^^ reasons1 • r J J 1 r J ^1 ^ which moove lawe, upon pame or death, and losse or goods, that none ^^^ ^- ^ ^r of these countreys should traffique with any other nation, spaine to forbid although the people themselves doe much now desire to forren traffike trade with any other then with them, and would un- ^ ^f^ ^^^^ doubtedly doe, if they feared not the
. 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 . tly provided by ^^^ reasons1 • r J J 1 r J ^1 ^ which moove lawe, upon pame or death, and losse or goods, that none ^^^ ^- ^ ^r of these countreys should traffique with any other nation, spaine to forbid although the people themselves doe much now desire to forren traffike trade with any other then with them, and would un- ^ ^f^ ^^^^ doubtedly doe, if they feared not the perill ensuing ^^^ thereupon. About Mexico, and other places in Nova Hispania,there groweth a certeine plant called magueis, which wine, vineger, hony, and blacke sugar, and ofthe leaves of it dried they make hempe, ropes, shooeswhich they use, and tiles for their houses: and at the endeof every leafe there groweth a sharpe point like an awle,wherewith they use to bore or pearce thorow anything. Thus to make an end, I have heere set downe thesumme of all the chiefest things that I have observed andnoted in my seventeene yeres travell in those parts. [A relation377 1572. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES. A relation of the commodities of Nova Hispania,and the maners of the inhabitants, written byHenry Hawks merchant, which lived five yeeresin the sayd countrey, and drew the same at therequest of M. Richard Hakluyt Esquire ofEiton in the county of Hereford, 1572. S. John de l|v%^===^:^^ il Aint John de UUua is an Island not highIJllua. Wlff ^^^^€sm. above the water, where as now the Spanyards upon M. John Hawkins beingthere, are in making a strong fort. Inthis place all the ships that come outof Spaine with goods for these parts,do unlade: for they have none otherport so good as this is. The comming into this placehath three chanels, and the best of all is the Norther-most, which goeth by the maine land: and on everyside of the chanels there are many small rocks as b
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