. 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. nto Hispaniola, although there isnot so much sugar. The principall towne of this Handeis called Havana, which hath an excellent harboroughbelonging thereunto. The townesmen are very rich byreason of the fleetes that come from Nueva Espanna, firma which touch there; for the safeguarde ofwhich fleetes and of the towne it selfe there is a castlebuilt neere the said har
. 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. nto Hispaniola, although there isnot so much sugar. The principall towne of this Handeis called Havana, which hath an excellent harboroughbelonging thereunto. The townesmen are very rich byreason of the fleetes that come from Nueva Espanna, firma which touch there; for the safeguarde ofwhich fleetes and of the towne it selfe there is a castlebuilt neere the said harborough kept with Spanishsouldiers; neither is there any castle or souldiers in allthe Hands but onely here. There is also another Hand S. Juan de inhabited with Spaniards called Boriquen or Sant Juan Puerto rico. j^ Puerto rico. It is but little, yet every way as plenti-fuU as the other two are; and therefore I omit to speakethereof. But now to prosecute my discourse of the port-townesupon the maine lande : Eastwarde and Southward fromMargarita there are no townes inhabited by Spaniardes or Fernambuck, Portugals, till you come to Fernambuck upon the coastof Brasil; notwithstanding that betweene the sayd Hand 240. LOPEZ VAZ AD. 1572-87. and Fernambuck runneth the mightie river of Marannon, The great whereof (both because of the greatnesse and the riches ^l^J^ ^ > , . , T 1 1 1 • • Marannon, contayned therein) 1 must needes make some relation, m regarde I have promised to speake of every place that is of any value in all the Indies. This river is one of the greatest in the world, and was first found when as the Spaniardes sought out the other coast: but none can passe up this river because of the greatnesse of the current which commeth downe, as also there are many shelves of sand lying in the mouth thereof: wherby it was long [III. 784.] before the riches in and about this river were knowen, untill such time as the kingdome of Peru was conquered: at which time a Captaine
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