. 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 . barren of Maiz: for obtaining whereofhee sendeth to the valley called The valley of theLord: he is informed of the greatnesse of the valleyof the people called Caracones, and of the nature ofthose people, and of certaine Islands lying alongthat coast. He 22. of the moneth of Aprill last pastI departed from the province of Culiacanwith part of the army, and in such orderas 1 m
. 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 . barren of Maiz: for obtaining whereofhee sendeth to the valley called The valley of theLord: he is informed of the greatnesse of the valleyof the people called Caracones, and of the nature ofthose people, and of certaine Islands lying alongthat coast. He 22. of the moneth of Aprill last pastI departed from the province of Culiacanwith part of the army, and in such orderas 1 mentioned unto your Lordship, andaccording to the successe I assured myselfe, by all likelihood that I shall notbring all mine armie together in thisenterprise: because the troubles have bene so great andthe want of victuals, that I thinke all this yeere wilnot be sufficient to performe this enterprise, & if itshould bee performed in so short a time, it would beto the great losse of our people. For as I wrote untoyour Lordship, I was fourescore dayes in travailing to ^]. 374-JCuliacan, in all which time I and those Gentlemen my ^qo kamescompanions which were horsemen, carried on our backs, from 145 K. AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 1540. and on our horses, a little victuall, so that from hence-forward wee carried none other needefuU apparell withus, that was above a pound weight: and all this not-withstanding, and though wee put our selves to such asmall proportion of victuals which wee carried, for allthe order that possibly wee could take, wee were drivento our shifts. And no marvayle, because the way isrough and long: and with the carriage of our Harque-buses downe the mountaines and hilles, and in thepassage of Rivers, the greater part of our corne wasspoyled. And because I send your Lordship our voyagedrawen in a Mappe, I will speake no more thereof inthis my Marcus Thirtie leagues before wee arrived at the place whichofNtza. ^j^g father provinciall tolde us
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