. 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. sse, then you shall have it deeper againe more andmore. Before the towne of Santos we rode in eight andtenne fadome water. A letter of Francis Suares to his brother DiegoSuares dw^elling in Lisbon, written from theriver of Jenero in Brasill in June 1596. con-cerning the exceeding rich trade newly begunnebetweene that place and Peru, by the wayof the river of Plate, with small
. 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. sse, then you shall have it deeper againe more andmore. Before the towne of Santos we rode in eight andtenne fadome water. A letter of Francis Suares to his brother DiegoSuares dw^elling in Lisbon, written from theriver of Jenero in Brasill in June 1596. con-cerning the exceeding rich trade newly begunnebetweene that place and Peru, by the wayof the river of Plate, with small barks of 40. tunnes. Ir, we set saile from Lisbon the fourthof April 1596, and arrived here in thisriver of Jenero the twentie seventh ofJune next ensuing. And the same daythe Visitadores did visit our ship withgreat joy, thinking that those com-modities which wee brought with us,had bene for the marchants of this countrey : but itprooved to the contrary. The pilot brought with him in the sayd shippe two [III. 707.]pipes of wine which were taken from him, and solde Wine solde atby the Justice for foure and twenty reals every gallon, an excessiveBut I solde mine for two and thirty and sixe and thirty ^^^ 39. AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1596. reals the gallon. If I had brought any great store ofwine, I should have made a great gaine of it: for Ishould have gotten eight reals for one. The next day in the morning wee went all on shore,and gave God thanks for our prosperous voyage, andgood successe which he had sent us. And because thegovernour of this countrey was gone from this Towneto another house of his, three leagues up into the riverbeyond the place where we rode at anker, I desiredthe captaine of our shippe after dinner, that we might takethe shippe boat, and goe to the place where the governourdid lie. And so going up the river, we met with a canoawhich was comming downe the river, and going aboord ourshippe ; which canoa was laden with fresh victuals, andin the same was
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