An account of several late voyages and discoveries
to the s,reights Jf Magelhn. 89 !leos, then Pullets, then frefh Fiíl1, all dreífed ith hot Sauce, and very good Diet it was ; thc: iCourfe was Swect-mcacs: evcry Courfe was •ed in Silver Dilhes, and all the Places were 1·er, and thc Pots and Scew-pots, and ali the !enlils bdonr;ing co thc dreffing of the Provifi– r.rerc Sil ver ; the 13:ifon wherein th~y brought :ter to wath their Hands v..-as in Jike m:mner Je of Silver, very largc, and thc Hilts of the ' 1 Jicrs Swords were Silver, but the Hiles of the ccrs .Swords were Gold of good value: More– 'er che P late at the But- en<l of the Stock of their , . uíquctoons was of thc fame Metal, and thc that the Rod runs in was Silvcr; as alto the of rhe Gun-íl:ick,and their Tobacco Boxes,arid utf.Boxe.i,and t.1eStaves which they walk wid1 re headed and ferrcllcd with Silver, and fer. 1 ed on thc joynts with Silver. Jndecd they Mafiers of much Silver and Gold, and it but little eficemed among thcm. Their ing was PI.ita no 'V,zll,m,1d..1 muó oro in ,1. our Spanijh Gcndcm('n deíired to go :iboard hmy Lieutenant, and foe che Ship, al1ll P ilot into the Harbour, if I would come in, which y <lid noc <-1uefüon but I would, as I undcr– afterward by a Sp,wi,1rd that carne aboard e, who reve:ilcd to me their whole Dcfign, they intende<l to furprifo the Ship, which J rtook careto prevent,giving thcm nr.; oppor– . y: For ir hath been a gcn•.!ral praétice with SfaniarJs in America, to betray ali forcign ln– ~ in thefe parts; as I had read of their trca.. e chcrous
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