Guinea

y desque llegamos a la gran plaça, que se dize El tatelulco, Como no aviamos visto tal cosa, quedamos admirados de la multitud de gente y mercaderias que En ella avia, y del gran conçierto y rregimiento, que en todo tenian y los prinçipales que yvan con nosotros, nos lo yvan mostrando, cada genero de mercaderias estavan por si, y tenian situados y señalados sus asientos, començemos por los mercaderes de oro y plata, y piedras rricas y plumas y mantas, y cosas labradas y otras mercaderias de yndios esclavos, y esclavas, digo que trayan tantos dellos a vender aq̃lla gran plaça, como traen los portugueses los negros de guinea, e trayanlos atados En vnas varas largas Con colleras a los pescueços, porque no se les huyesen y otros dexavan sueltos. luego estavan otros mercaderes que vendian rropa mas basta y algodon, E cosas de hilo torçido y cacahuateros que vendian cacao, y desta manera estavan quantos generos de mercaderias ay en toda la nueva españa, puesto por su conçierto de la manera que ay En mi tierra, ques medina del canpo, donde se hazen las ferias, que En cada calle estan sus mercaderias por si, ansi estavan En esta gran plaça

When we reached the great square called Tatelulco, we were amazed, for we had never seen such a thing. We marveled at the crowds of people and the goods in it, and at the good order and control kept in everything. The chief men who came with us pointed it all out to us. Each kind of goods was kept by itself and had its own fixed place. Let us begin with the dealers in gold and silver, precious stones, feathers, cloth, and embroidered goods. Then there were other goods: Indian slaves, men and women. I say they brought as many of them to sell in that great square as the Portuguese bring Blacks from Guinea. They brought them tied to long poles, with collars around their necks so that they could not run away, though others they left loose. Next there were other merchants who sold coarser cloth and cotton, and things of twisted thread, and cacao dealers who sold cacao. In this way every kind of goods found in all New Spain was there, set out in order. It was like my own home town, Medina del Campo, where the fairs are held and each street has its own goods. That is how it was in this great square.