The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14: America, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
there is another kind of small worme which creepeth into the soles of
mens feet and especially of the black Moores and children which vse to
go barefoot, and maketh their feet to grow as big as a mans head, and
doth so ake that it would make one run mad. They haue no remedy for the
same, but to open the flesh sometimes 3. or 4. inches and so dig them
out. The countrey yeeldeth great store of suger, hides of oxen, buls and
kine, ginger, Cana fistula and Salsa perilla: mines of siluer and gold
there are none, but in some riuers there is found some smal quantitie of
gold. The principal coine that they do trafique withal in that place, is
blacke money made of copper and brasse: and this they say they do vse
not for that they lacke money of gold and siluer to trade withall out of
the other parts of India, but because if they should haue good money,
the marchants that deale with them in trade, would cary away their gold
and siluer, and let the countrey commodities lie still. And thus much
for S. Domingo. So we were comming from the yles of Canaries to S.
Domingo, and there staying vntil the moneth of December, which was 3.
moneths. About the beginning of Ianuary we departed thence towards the
bay of Mexico and new Spaine, toward which we set our course, and so
sailed 24. dayes till we came within 15. leagues of S. Iohn de Vllua,
which was the port of Mexico of our right discharge: And being so neere
our said port, there rose a storme of Northerly windes, which came off
from Terra Florida, which caused vs to cast about into the sea, againe,
for feare least that night we should be cast vpon the shoore before day
did breake, and so put our selues in danger of casting away: the winde
and sea grew so foule and strong, that within two houres after the
storme began, eight ships that were together were so dispersed, that we
could not see one another. One of the ships of our company being of the
burthen of 500. tun called the hulke of Carion, would not cast about to
sea as we did, but went that night with the land, thinking in the
morning to purchase the port of S. Iohn de Vllua, but missing the port
went with the shoare and was cast away. There were drowned of that ship
75. persons, men, women and children, and 64. were saved that could
swim, and had meanes to saue themselves: among those that perished in
that ship, was a gentlemen who had bene present the yere before in S.
Domingo, his wife and 4. daughters with the rest of his seruants and
household. We with the other 7. ships cast about into the sea, the
storme during 10. dayes with great might, boisterous winds, fogs and
raine: our ship being old and weake was so tossed, that she opened at
the sterne a fadome vnder water, and the best remedy we had was to stop
it with beds and pilobiers, and for feare of sinking we threw and
lightned into the sea all the goods we had or could come by: but that
would not serue. Then we cut our maine mast, and threw all our Ordinance
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