. 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 . , and referre the readers tb the same : onely thisI say, that the commodity of Cochinilla groweth ingreatest abundance about the towne of Pueblo de losAngeles, and is not there woorth above forty pence thepound. A notable discourse of M. John Chilton, touchingthe people, maners, mines, cities, riches, forces,and other memorable things of New Spaine,and other provinces in 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 . , and referre the readers tb the same : onely thisI say, that the commodity of Cochinilla groweth ingreatest abundance about the towne of Pueblo de losAngeles, and is not there woorth above forty pence thepound. A notable discourse of M. John Chilton, touchingthe people, maners, mines, cities, riches, forces,and other memorable things of New Spaine,and other provinces in the West Indies, sceneand noted by himselfe in the time of histravels, continued in those parts, the space ofseventeene or eighteene yeeres. IN the yeere of our Lord 1561, in themoneth of July, I John Chilton wentout of this city of London into Spaine,where I remained for the space of sevenyeres, & from thence I sailed intoNova Hispania, and so travelled there,and by the South Sea, unto Peru, thespace of seventeene or eighteene yeeres : and after thattime expired, I returned into Spaine, and so in the yere1586 in the moneth of July, I arrived at the foresaydcity of London : where perusing the notes which I had 360. JOHN CHILTON 1568. taken in the time of my travell in those yeeres, I haveset downe as foUoweth. In the yeere 1568, in the moneth of March, being to see the world, I embarked my selfe in thebay of Cadiz in Andaluzia, in a shippe bound for the of the Canaries, where she tooke in her lading, &set forth from thence for the voyage, in the monethof June, the same yere. Within a moneth after, wefell with the Isle of S. Domingo, and from thence directlyto Nova Hispania, and came into the port of S. John 55« J^^» dede UUua, which is a litle Island standing in the sea, ^^^^•about two miles from the land, where the king main-teineth about 50 souldiers, and captaines, that keepe theforts, and about 150 negroes, who all the yeere longare occupied i
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