OF ALL SUCH NOTABLE THINGES AS BE BETWIXT SPAINE TILL YOU COME VNTO THE KINGDOME OF CHINA, AND FROM CHINA VNTO SPAINE, RETURNING BY THE ORIENTALL OR EAST INDIAS, AFTER THAT THEY HAD ALMOST COMPASSED THE WHOLE WORLD. WHEREIN IS CONTAYNED ALL THE RITES, CEREMONIES, AND CUSTOMES OF THE PEOPLE, THE RICHES, FERTILITIE, AND STRENGTH OF MANY KINGDOMES: AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THEM

Made and set fourth by the Author of this Book, as well by that which he hath seene, as also by true relation that he had of the religious and barefoot Fryers of the order of Saint Francis, who travailed the same the yeare 1584

CHAP. I.

A Commentarie of the New World

Saint Lucas de Barrameda, and the citie of Cadiz, from whence ordinarily goeth foorth all such fleetes and shippes that go vnto the Occident, or West Indias, are distant the one from the other onely fiuc leagues, and in thirtie seuen degrees of altitude; from whence vnto the ilandes called the Canarias is two hundred and thirtie leagues, and alwayes doo rut to the southwest, and is ordinarily sailed in eight or ten dayes. The seas are rough, which causeth great waues; for which cause it is called the gulfe of the Jeguas.