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A68498	Nevv Mexico. Otherwise, The voiage of Anthony of Espeio who in the yeare 1583. with his company, discouered a lande of 15. prouinces, replenished with townes and villages, with houses of 4. or 5. stories height, it lieth northward, and some suppose that the same way men may by places inhabited go to the lande tearmed Deʻ Labrador. Translated out of the Spanish copie printed first at Madreel, 1586, and afterward at Paris, in the same yeare.; Historia de las cosas mas notables de la China. English. Selections	González de Mendoza, Juan, 1545-1618.; Loyola, Marín Ignacio de, d. 1606. aut; Avanzi, Francesco.	1587 (1587)	STC 18487; ESTC S110080	12,043	34

other things Both men women are apparelled in Chamois very well dressed Our mē could not learne the name of that nation for want of an Interpreter that vnderstood their language notwithstanding they dealt with them by signes when they shewed them certaine stones of very great price demaunding whether there were any such in their land They answered by signes that about fiue daies iourney from thence toward the West there were plentie of the same also that they themselues would guide them thether shew them vnto them which they afterward performed accōpanying them for the space of 22 leagues all inhabited by the same natiō Next vnto whom they presently came along the riuer to an other nation far more populous then the last where they were very well receiued entertained with many presents especially of fish which was there infinit by reason of great lakes thereabout wherin the same were bred They remained among those people thrée daies who enterteined them night and day with diuerse dances after their manner sundrie demonstratious of great ioy but they could not learne their name for want of an interpreter howbeit they vnderstood that y e countrie stretched very far were a gret nation Among them they found an Indian of the nation of the Conchos who by signes gaue them to vnderstand that 15. iourneis thence toward the west there was a great verie broad lake about the same many great townes houses of thrée or foure stories hie the inhabitants apparelled plentie of victuals promised to bring them thether where of they were very glad so they gaue ouer the prosecuting of the first determination taken at y e beginning of the iourney which was to go northward to y e end to succour the fryers aforesaid In this prouince that which particularly was to bee noted is y t y e same was of a good temperature a welthy cuntry plenty of game aswel on wing as foote rich in mettals other particular things of profit Frō this land they traueiled 15 daies not méeting any other people Thus passing along through great woods of pine apples pines like those of Castile hauing iournied by estimation 80. leagues they came to a small village or towne of a few people in whose houses which were poore and of straw they found many skins of déere very well dressed as those of Flanders with much white salt and that verye good héere they lodged them very well for the space of 2. daies that they there remained then conueyed them 12. leagues further still going northward by the riuer aforesaid vntill they came to the cuntry named New Mexico along the marishes of y e same riuer grew plentie of white elms which they cal Alamos Blanchos like woods in some places 4. leagues large the lyke of walnuttrées and many arbors of vynes like those of Castile Hauing iourneyed twoo daies through these groues of elmes and walnuttrees they came to 10 villages or townes scituat on either side of y e said riuer besides others which they might sée further of which séemed to be very well peopled as also those that they came vnto cōteined aboue 10000 soules In this prouince they were much made of had very good interteinment being guided frō towne to towne had great plenty of victuall giuen thē as hens many other things all with great good will Here they found houses of 4 stories high very wel builded with gallant lodgings in most of thē stoaues for the winter season Their garments were of cotton of déeres skins the attyre both of the men women is after the maner of the Indians of Mexico but the strangest thing of all was that both men and women did weare shoes bootes of good leather with soales of cow hides a matter neuer séene in any other of those countries before The womē do kéepe theyr haire very well combed and dressed vp without any thing vpon theyr heads In all these townes they haue Cassicques that gouerne them in like maner as the Mexicans with their sergeants and officers to execute their commandements which going thorough the towne to with an outcrie deliuer the Cassicques precepts vnto y e people causing the same to be put in execution Here our men found many idols which the inhabitants did worship especially they haue in euery house a tēple for y e diuell wherinto they ordinarily carie him meat as it is among the Christians an vse to erect crosses in the high waies so haue this people certaine high chapels in in the which they say the Diuell vseth to take his ease recreate himselfe as he trauelleth from one towne to an other these chappels are very wel trimmed painted In all their crable grounds whereof they haue plentie they erect on the one side a porch standing vpon foure pillers wherin the laborers do eat and make their feasts for the people are much giuen to labour do ordinarily follow their worke It is a wooddie countrie full of pyne trées The weapons that they vse are very stronge bowes arrowes pointed with pedernall or flint wherewith they will péerce a coat of maile they haue also certeine staues of halfe a yard long full of sharpe flints sufficient to cleaue a man asunder in the middest called Imacanas and they vse shields of raw cow hides Of New Mexico and the things there to be seene HAuing remained 4. daies in this Prouince not far off they came to another called the Lande of Tyguas conteining 16. townes in one whereof called Poala they vnderstood that the inhabitants had slayne the 2. Fryers aforesaid viz. Frier Frauncis Lopes Frier Augustine Ruys whom they went to séeke for the thrée boyes and the mungrell When the townesmen therfore and their nexte neighbors sée our people there their consciences accusing them and fearing least our men came to punish thē to reuenge the death of the persons aforesaid they durst not abide but leauing their houses emptie fled into the woodes bordering about them from whence they would neuer come downe notwithstanding sundry deuises which our men practised there about They found in the townes houses good store of victuals with infinite numbers of hens of that cuntry sundry sorts of mettals wherof some séemed to be verie good I am not able to shew what numbers of people this prouince might conteine by reason as is aforesaid they were fledde to the thickets Finding those to be deceased whom they sought for they entered in consultation whether they shuld returne into new Biscay from whence they came or else go forward on the iourney wherin were diuers opinions Howbeit vnderstanding that toward the east parts of that prouince and somewhat distant from thence there were some very great rich towns also finding themselues so néere the same the said captaine Antony of Espeio with the cōsent of frier Bernardine Beltran the

NEW MEXICO Otherwise The Voiage of Anthony of ESPEIO who in the yeare 1583. with his company discouered a Lande of 15. Prouinces replenished with Townes and villages with houses of 4. or 5. stories height It lieth Northward and some suppose that the same way men may by places inhabited go to the Lande tearmed De Labrador Translated out of the Spanish copie printed first at Madreal 1586 and afterward at Paris in the same yeare Jmprinted at London for Thomas Cadman ❧ To my verie louing freend maister Henrie Anderson Merchant ALthough good will perfect friendship is not to be requited nor bought with monie yet such is the excellencie thereof that it is oftentimes requited with some ingratitude wherwith the vertue is much more beawtified as it was with the good wise king Don Alonso of Spaine who being giuen to vnderstand that one vnto whom he had done great good by preferring him to honour besides many liberall gifts was verie vnthankfull for the same He answered in a milde manner that a great good turne is neuer requited without some ingratitude euen so I may compare you in this happines vnto him in vnhappines my selfe vnto the other who for much good haue returned but ill Wherfore I am the bolder being so well acquainted with your good dispositiō to shew my selfe thankfull being well assured that you cannot thinke of my seruice euill seing as I haue said you haue alwaies doone well being deliuered vnto mee by Maister Boldley a small Spanish Pamphlet of the late Discouerie of the 15. Prouinces in the west Indians which the Spaniardes intituled The New Mexico Knowing your Christian and louing care vnto the common weale of your countrie in wishing vnto our nation the knowledge that belongeth vnto all good Christian people that nothing bee hidden whereas some profit may be reaped And although this small Treatise be the least of this argument that euer was translated and my skill much lesse in the dooing thereof yet being well considered and noted there may haply grow thereby more profit vnto those which intend to reap the benefit then in some other bookes of greater discoueries because it reuealeth more riuers coasts and people towards our northern parts then others heretofore haue done Thus assured of your good liking and the accepting of my good will wherein although I haue vsed a worse English phrase thē others would do yet I haue kept so neere as I can the very Spanish sence crauing pardon I commit you to God my Pāphlet to the good Reader London this 13. Aprill 1587. Your louing freend A. F. ¶ Of New Mexico and the discouery thereof and what is knowne touching the same WHereas in the title of this Treatise I haue saide that in the yeare 1583. there was discouered a Lande conteyning 15. Prouinces lying in or vpon the continent of Newe Spaine which by the discouerers therof was named Newe Mexico I will with as much breuitie as I may for it I had diffusedly set downe all that haue béene therein seene and knowne it would require a history declare the substance of the same which is that in the yeare 1581. a certeine religious person of the order of Franciscans na Frier Augustine Ruis dwelling in the vale of S. Bartholmew béeing giuen to vnderstande by certeine Indians called Conchos who communicated with other their neighbors néere adioining called Passaguates that toward y e north partes men might traueile by land to certeine great towns of the Spaniards neuer discouered nor knowne pretending the saluation of their soules hée craued license of the Conde of Corunna viceroy of the saide Newe Spayne and other his superiors to trauaile thither to learne their language afterward to bring them to receiue baptisme and to preach vnto them the holy Gospell Hauing obteined this licence and taking with him two companions more of the same order with eight souldiers who voluntarily offered to accompanie him he departed in purpose to put in practise his pretended Christian charitable intent within fewe daies iourney came into a Prouince named Tiguas distant from the mynes of S. Barbara where they began their iourney 250. leagues northward in which land through occasion the inhabitants killed one of his two companions Which when the souldiers that came with him perceiued entering into further consideration of their successe and fearing least some thing to their great harme might thereof ensue they determined with a common consent to returne to the mynes of S. Barbara from whence they set foorth in respect of the small number that they were to withstand such matters as might happen béeing so farre distant from the places which the Spaniards did inhabite and from al necessary succour But the two Fryers that remained did not onelie dislike of their resolution but also séeing so fit occasion to execute their purposes and so much fruite euen ripe for Gods table when they could no waye perswade the souldiers to proceede in the discouerie resolued to stay in the saide prouince with onely thrée Indian boyes and one mungrell whome they carried with them thinking that notwithstanding they there remained alone yet they shoulde bee very safe by reason of the affability and loue wherwith the inhabitantes intreated them When the eight souldiers were thus returned to their desired place they presently sent newes of their successe to the viceroy at Mexico which is distant frō S. Barbaras mines 160 leagues The Franciscan fryers hearing of the stay of their brethren did much mislike hereof fearing least being so alone they might be slaine and therfore began to moue and stirre vp the mindes of sundry souldiers to accompanie an other Fryer of the same order called Frier Bernardine Beltran into the same prouince thēce to bring the said two other fryers in safetie and to prosecute that which was before begun At the same time there was through occasion at the said mynes a citizen of Mexico called Anthony of Espeio a rich man and of great courage industrie one zealous in the seruice of the kings maiestie Don Phillip and was borne in Cordoua This man vnderstanding the said fryers purpose together with the importance of the muse offered his person to the iourny as also to spend part of his substance and to aduenture his life therein if he might to that ende obteine license and authoritie of the chiefe deputies in those places Wherefore by the procurement of the saide Frier there was order taken by Capteine Ontinerus his maiesties chiefe Alcady in the towne of the soure kinges within the gouernement of Biscay 70. leagues from the said mines of S. Barbara that he might as well in person go forward on the sayd iourny as also to gather take vp suche souldiers as voluntarily would accompany him to y e end so to prosecute this his Christian an enterprise The saide Antony of Espeyo tooke this busines so earnestly in hand y e in very few daies he had gathered together his souldiers and

most part of his companie determined to procéed in the discouerie to sée wherto it would come as also to giue assured certaine notice to his maiestie as eye witnesses of al that themselues had séene so with one accord they determined that the armie should lie still there while the captain two more of his cōpany should prosecute their desire which they put in practise After two daies iourney they happened of another prouince wherein they sée 11. townes much people in their opinion aboue 40000 soules It was a very fertile soile and no lesse furnished with prouision whose cōfines did immediatly adioine vnto the land of Cibola wherin are many kine with whose skins they do apparell themselues as also with cotton imitating in their gouernment the orders of their neighbors there séemeth to be many rich mines of whose mettals they found in the Indians houses which Indians haue do worship Idols and receiued our men with peace giuing them victuals to eat This being séene as also the disposition of the countrie they returned to the campe there to giue notice to their company of all that is aforesaid Béeing returned to the army they had intelligence of another cuntry called Quires which stood along vpon y e north Riuer about 6. leagues of in their iourney thitherward about 1. league frō y e place there came forth very many Indians to receiue them in peace requesting them to go with them to their townes which they accepted were very wel enterteined In this prouince they found but 5 towns though very full of people for they sawe aboue 15000 soules who doe worship Idols as doe also their neighbors In one of these townes they foūd a parrat in a cage as they vse in Castile also shadows called Tirasoles like vnto those y t they bring frō China wherin were painted the sun moone many stars where hauing takē y e altitude they foūd it to be 37. degrees a half vnder y e north Departing out of this prouince traueiling by the same path within 14. leagues they foūd another prouince called Cumes wher they did sée other 5. cities y e greatest wherof was called Cia was so large y t it conteined 8. market places the houses tyled painted of diuers colours much better then haue béene séene in the former countries The number of inhabitants séeme to be aboue 20000. soules They gaue to our people for presents many curious mātles with meates well dressed were accompted to be more curious of greater pollicy then any of them y t yet they had séene of better gouernment They shewed thē rich mettals the mountains not far off from whence they had them heere also our people heard of another prouince bearing toward the northwest whereunto they purposed to go Hauing trauailed about 6. leagues they came to y e same prouince which was called Amages conteining 7. towns very great to their iudgemēt in y e same 30000. soules one of these towns was very faire wherto they refused to go as well because it stoode in a wood as also for feare of mishap if per chance they shuld be seperated one frō another They are people in māners not vnlike their neighbors as well furnished as they of as good gouernment About 15 leagues frō this prouince westward they foūd a great towne called Acoma cōsisting of aboue 6000 soules standing vpō a high rocke which was aboue 50 paces high hauing no other entrance but by a ladder or payre of staiers hewen in the same rocke which bred a great maruell in our men al their water they haue in cesternes The chiefe mē of this towne came peaceably to visit the Spaniards bringing them many mantels Chamois well dressed plētie of victuals Their erable land lieth 2 leagues frō them the water that moisteneth the same procéedeth from a small riuer néere therto about the which do grow many rose trées like to those of Castile There are also many woods hauing in thē some mines of mettall but they went not to sée them because the Indians be both many very warlike Our men remained here 3 dayes and in one of the townes the people made them a solemne daunce therewith came forth in gallant garments plaies very ingenious wherewith they were wonderfully delighted About 24 leagues frō hence toward the west they hapned vpon a prouince in the countrie language called Zuni and by the Spaniards named Cibola wherin do inhabite very many Indians In this citie had Frances Vasques Coronado erected many crosses and other tokens of Christianitie which yet remaine They also found there three Indian Christians that had cōtinued there euer since his said iourney whose names were Andrew of Cuyoacan Iasper of Mexico Antony of Guadalaiara who had almost forgottē their owne language but could speake that countrie speech very well notwithstanding that in a smal time being talked withall they easily recouered the vnderstāding of what so euer was spoken Of them our men vnderstood that 60 daies iourneis of there was a very great lake vpō the shores thereof many goodly townes also that the enhabitans of y e same had plentie of gold which was y e better to be knowen because they al did were bracelets earerings thereof also that Frances Vasques Coronado being certified thereof had gone out of this land of Cibola procéeded 14 iournies thitherward and then through want of water was forced to returne determining neuerthelesse to make a second voiage thither being better furnished for y e same which he neuer performed being preuented therein by death Vnto the news of y e riches aforesaid did the said Anthony of Espeio apply himself to whose opinion the most part of his company condiscended except the Frier who alledged y t it was now time to returne to new Byscay from whence they came there to giue accompt of y t which they had séene whereto most of them consented leauing their capteine with onely 9 companions y t willingly followed him who after knowledge of y e riches aforesaid departed with his said companions traueiling directly toward y e west after hee had iourneied 28. leagues found another very great Lande which by estimatiō conteined 50000 souls more The inhabitans vnderstanding of their approch sent them word vpon paine of death to come no néerer their townes wherto y e capteine answered y t their comming was no way to harme them as they should wel perceiue therefore requested them not to molest them withal gaue to the messenger some such rewards as they had at hand who vpon y e same gaue so good words of our people y t he mollified y e harts of the rebellious Indiās obteined leaue for them to come among them which they did with 150 of their frendes of y e prouince of Cibola aforesaid and the thrée Mexican Indians before mentioned When they