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
Our greedy feeding caused vs to fall sicke of hote burning
agues. And here at this place one Thomas Baker one of our men died of a
hurt: for he had bene before shot with an arrow into the throat at the
first incounter.
The next morrow about ten of the clocke, we departed from thence, bound
two and two together, and garded as before, and so trauailed on our way
toward Mexico, till we came to a towne within forty leagues of Mexico,
named Mestitlan, where is a house of blacke friers: and in this towne
there are about the number of three hundred Spaniards, both men, women,
and children. The friers sent vs meat from the house ready dressed, and
the friers, and the men and women vsed vs very courteously, and gave vs
some shirts and other such things as we lacked. Here our men were very
sicke of their agues, and with eating of another fruit called in the
Indian tongue, Guiaccos, which fruit did binde vs so sore, that for the
space of tenne or twelue dayes we could not ease our selues. The next
morning we departed from thence with our two Spaniards and Indian gard,
as aforesayd. Of these two Spaniards the one was an aged man, who all
the way did very courteously intreate vs, and would carefully go before
to prouide for vs both meat and things, necessary to the vttermost of
his power: the other was a yong man who all the way trauelled with vs,
and neuer departed from vs, who was a very cruell caitiue, and he caried
a iaueline in his hand, and sometimes when as our men with very
feeblenesse and faintnesse were not able to goe so fast as he required
them, he would take his iauelin in both his handes, and strike them with
the same betweene the necke and the shoulders so violently, that he
would strike them downe; then would he cry, and say, Marchad, marchad
Ingleses perros, Luterianos, enemigos de Dios: which is as much to say
in English, as March, march on you English dogges, Lutherans, enemies to
God. And the next day we came to a towne called Pachuca, and there are
two places of that name: as this towne of Pachuca, and the mines of
Pachuca, which are mines of siluer, and are about sixe leagues distant
from this towne of Pachuca towards the Northwest.
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