APPENDIX IV

Summary

GAZETTE OR BROADSHEET, PRINTED AT SEVILLE IN GOTHIC LETTER, BY ALONZO DE LA BARRERA, 1574.

[First page, large type, Summary.]

Very true and certain account of that which has newly been known of the new Islands of the West, and of the discovery which they mention of China, which was written by Hernando Riquel, Secretary of the Government, of them (the islands) to a friend of his in Mexico, which came in the ships which had put into the port of Capulco, and of their great riches, and of the trade and merchandise of China, and of the manner in which they extract and work gold: and another relation of the news which has arrived from Italy, and the fortification of Tunis, and of the fleet of the Great Turk: and how the city of Geneva has treated of returning to the obedience of the Holy Mother Church, and finally the death of the most Christian King of France, and of that which is going on in Paris and in Flanders. There is also the epitaph which has been found here of the blessed King Don Fernando, who conquered Seville, M.D. lxxiiii.

[Second page, smaller type.]

We reside in this isle of Luçon, whither the camp of his Majesty has passed, as it is the best of all these districts; in it there are many mines of gold in many parts, which have been seen by Spaniards, and all say that the natives work it as they work silver mines in New Spain. And the metal has a continuous vein like the silver ore.