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
[Sidenote: Totonteac lyeth West.] Likewise he saith, that the kingdome
called Totonteac lyeth toward the West, which he saith is a very mightie
Prouince, replenished with infinite store of people and riches: and that
in the sayde Kingdome they weare woollen cloth like that which I weare,
and other finer sorts of woollen cloth made of the fleeces of those
beastes which they described before vnto me: and that they are a very
ciuile people. Moreouer hee tolde me, that there is another great
Prouince and kingdome called Acus; for there is Acus, and Ahacus with an
aspiration, which is the principall of the seuen cities: and Acus
without an aspiration is a kingdome and Prouince of it selfe. He told me
also, that the apparel which they weare in Ceuola is after the same
maner as they before had certified me, and that all the inhabitants of
the Citie lie vpon beddes raysed a good height from the ground, with
quilts and canopies ouer them, which couer the sayde Beds: and hee tolde
mee that he would goe with me to Ceuola and farther also, if I would
take him with me. The like relation was giuen vnto me in this towne by
many others, but not so particularly. I trauelled three dayes iourney
through this valley: the inhabitants whereof made mee exceeding great
cheere and intertainement. In this valley I saw aboue a thousand
Oxe-hides most excellently trimmed and dressed. And here also I saw
farre greater store of Turqueses and chaines made thereof, then in all
places which I had passed; and they say, that all commeth from the city
of Ceuola, whereof they haue great knowledge, as also of the kingdome of
Marata, and of the kingdomes of Acus and Totonteac.
Chap. 4.
Of a very great beast with one horne vpon his forehead; and of the
courtesies which the Indians shewed Frier Marcus of Niça, in his
Voyage. Also how cruelly Stephan Dorantez and his companions were
vsed vpon their arriuall at Ceuola, by the Lorde thereof.
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