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
I trauelled thorow another prouince
called Suchetepec; and thence to the prouince of Guasacapan: in both
which prouinces are very few people, the biggest towne therein hauing
not aboue two hundred Indians. The chiefest merchandise there, is cacao.
Hence I went to the city of Guatimala, which is the chiefe city of all
this kingdome: in this city doe inhabit about 80 Spanyards: and here
the king hath his gouernours, and councell, to whom all the people of
the kingdome repaire for iustice. This city standeth from the coast of
the South sea 14 leagues within the land, and is very rich, by reason of
the golde that they fetch out of the coast of Veragua. From this city to
the Eastward 60 leagues lieth the prouince Sonsonate, where I solde the
merchandize I caried out of Noua Hispania. The chiefest city of this
prouince is called S. Saluador, which lieth 7 leagues from the coast of
the South sea, and hath a port lying by the sea coast, called Acaxutla,
where the ships arriue with the merchandize they bring from Noua
Hispania; and from thence lade backe againe the cacao: there dwell here
to the number of threescore Spanyards. [Sidenote: Nicoia a port where ye
ships which goe to the Philippinas are builded.] From Sonsonate I
trauelled to Nicoia, which is in the kingdome of Nicaragua, in which
port the king buildeth all the shipping that trauell out of the Indies
to the Malucos. [Sidenote: Puerto de Cauallos a rich place.] I went
forward from thence to Costa rica, where the Indians both men and women
go all naked, and the land lieth betweene Panama, and the kingdome of
Guatimala: and for that the Indians there liue as warriers, I durst not
passe by land, so that here in a towne called S. Saluador I bestowed
that which I caried in annile (which is a kinde of thing to die blew
withall) which I caried with me to the port of Cauallos, lying in the
kingdome of Honduras, which port is a mighty huge gulfe, and at the
comming in on the one side of it there lieth a towne of little force
without ordinance or any other strength, hauing in it houses of straw:
at which towne the Spanyards vse yeerely in the moneth of August to
vnlade foure ships which come out of Spaine laden with rich merchandize,
and receiue in heere againe their lading of a kinde of merchandise
called Annile and Cochinilla (although it be not of such value as that
of Noua Hispania) and siluer of the mines of Tomaangua, and golde of
Nicaragua, and hides, and Salsa perilla, the best in all the Indies: all
which merchandize, they returne, and depart from thence alwayes in the
moneth of April following, taking their course by the Island of Iamaica,
in which Island there dwell on the West side of it certeine Spanyards of
no great number. [Sidenote: The description of Hauana at large.] From
this place they go to the cape of S. Anthony, which is the vttermost
part of the Westward of the Island of Cuba, and from thence to Hauana
lying hard by, which is the chiefest port that the king of Spaine hath
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