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THE
Hiſtory of Trauayle
in the
VVeltand Eaſt Indies, and other
countreys lying eyther way,
towardes the fruitfull and ryche
Moluccaes.
As
M ofcouiile Perſia, Arabia, Sele, Xz pte,
Etbiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, an
Giapan: V Vith a di ſcourſe ot
the North weſt paf-
faze.
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by Richarde lugge.
1577.
cum Prinilegio,
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To the ryght noble and excellent
Lady,the Lady Brigit, Counteſſe of Bed-
forde. my ſinguler good Lady and
Nyſtreſle.
L ftudies haue theyr fpeeiall
tymes (Ryght noble Lady) all
good partes, and finguler quali-
ties ot the mynde are holden vp,
and maynteyned with honour,
2 he ſeely chylde learneth in his
tẽder age how to {peake, to reade, to write: yoũg
laddes beſtowe theyr tyme in the ſtudy of other
liberall ſciences: as yecres come on, and wyt ei.
creaſeth, ſo finally, the whole courſe ot learnyng
is runne ouer. Agayne, the arte of Grammer is
wont erſt to be learned, and than Logike after -
warde: naturall Philoſophie goeth not before e-
loquence in our ſchooles: Geometry is firft read,
& chan Geography. So that the ſtudies of good
letters haue their times in teſpecte of mans age,
they haue theyrtymes in the order of learning:
yea they haue atyme, that maketh vs all to be-
ſtowe therein our ty me, and to ſtudie eche facul-
tie in due tyme, l meane that ſpeciall tyme they
floryshe in. I may not denye but that learnyng
hath at all tymes ben well accompted of, in moſt
countreys the fkyll of dyuers languages well
thought of, & learned men to haue benalwayes
rewarded, what is than that {peciall tyme wher-
in all ſtudies doe flooryſne? Learnyng may bee
ryght well compared vnto the floutes & fruites
(Odi. ot
ift
The Fpiſtle.
of the earth, and the ſpeciall tyme of learnyng,
vnto theyr ſinguler ſeaſons. In May, floures: in
Iune, Cheries: at Harueſt, corne; in September,
Grapes: fo farcth it in the ſtudy of good letters.
There was a tyme wha the arte of grammer was
{fo muche efteemed, that Gramariens proceeded
maſters thereof as woorfhypfully, as other pro-
feſſouts now doe in any other facultie. Than was-
it honourable to be a Poet: honourable ] fay, for
that the Poet Laureate enioyed the honour of a
Palatine. that tyme is pafte , There wasatyme
whan Logike & Aftrology onely fo weeried the
heades 87 young ſchollers, yea and buſied olde
age alſo, that true Philoſophie in deede was al-
moſt forgotten, eloquence defaced, the langua-
ges exiled. that tyme is paſt. Not long fince hap-
1 Py was he that had any [kil in the greke tongue,
he was thought a great ſcholler that could make
agreckeverfe, Nowe a dayes, who ſtudieth not
rather the Hebrue language? VVhere haue you
almoſt any greeke aucthour printed? Geograph
laye hydden many hundred yeeres in darkeneſſe
and obliuion, without regarde and price: of late
yo taketh not vppon him to diſcourſe of the
whole worlde, and eche prouince thereof parti-
culerly, euen by hearefay, although in the firſi
principles of that arte, he bee altogeather igno-
tant and vnſ kylfull? This tyme is now. So ſong
as Poetry was eſteemed, the arte of grammer
accompted of, Logike muche made of, Aſtro-
logy well thought of: Diuine Poets, good Gra-
mariens, perfecte Logiciens, excellent Aſtro-
nomers no where wanted,
.
an
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U
A
The Fpiftle
AV irgile can you ueuer want where one Mecénas is Honour &
promotion beftowed vppon the maynteyners
of controuerſies in religion, hath brought gray
heares from endleſſe Sophiſtry, from Scotus for-
malites, from Buridan and Burley, from Hol-
cot, from Bricot, from Vademecum, from Dor-
mi ſecure, and taught yonger yeeres rather to
paſſe through Ariſtotle and his interpreters, than
euer to dwell therein: cauſed them to ſtudie the
ſcriptures, to reade ouer the fathers, to conferre
the counſeyles, to learne the greeke and Hebrue
languages, to fearche the Chalday Paraphraſte,
to peruſe the olde Doctours, to tranflate the
newe wryters, to heape vp common places, to
diſcourſe of ſectes, to wryte cunningly, to preach
eloquently: and made them to be, for braulyn
Sophiſters, graue Philofophers, for formal Dun-
ſes, plaine doctors, for rude queſtionaties, diuine
Orators, for vnſkilful lchòolemen, eloquent and
graue diuines.
It is nowe almoſt one hundred & fiftie yeeres
agoe, that Don Henrico, ſonne of lohn the fyrſt
of that name Kyng in Portugale, and Nephew
vnto our Kyng Henry the fourth, made his vy-
age after the conqueſt of Septa to the Canaries,
and encouraged the Portugales to ſearche the
coaſtes of Africa, and to fecke the landes therea-
bout not ſpoken of to fore. His grande Nephew
Iohn the ſeconde, fofurthered this enterpryfe,
that the Portugale fhyppes halled the Cape of
good hope, diſcouered Æthiopia, and ſayled
where antiquitie denyed paſſage, beyond all A-
frica into the Indian ſeas. He ſent alſo expert and
‘ (O. iii. cun-
8
The Fpiſtle.
cunning traueylers into Egypt, and the redde
{ca coaſtes to eſpye what way the Portugales
might looke for beyond the Cape of good hope
to Calecut in India: the which viage in his ſonne
Emanuell his tyme, was proſperouſly taken in
hand by Vafquez Gama, the nienth day of Luly,
in the yeere of our Lorde. 1497. & happely ended
in Iuly againe, two yeeres after, to his great cre-
dit and preferment, to the immortal fame & ho-
nour of his Prince and countrey. Here began the
ſtudie of Geographie, that euer ſince ptolomeus
raigne laye troden vnder foote, & buried in duſt
and aſhes, to ſpring vp agayne, and by the relati-
ons of ſkilful traueylers in Europe, Affrike,& A-
ſie: through the diſcouery of the far Indies, the
Moluccaes, & new founde landes, of late ſo to be
wondred at, as no other facultie more, I dare be
bold to ſay, that generally all Chriſtians, lewes,
Turkes, Moores, Infidels, & Barbares be this day
in loue with Geographie. The wylde and rogiſhe
Tartares myght for famine periſhe in the winter,
5 in the ſommer ſkylfully followed not the
funne, The heathen Giapans diuided the worlde
into three partes: Afrike was deſcribed by a
Moore, The lewes report the eſtates ofall coun-
treyes to the Turkes. The Turkithe Basthaes go-
uerne the ſweeteſt prouinces in Europe, A-
frike, and Aſia, no men greater traueylers than
Chriſtians. VVho but Geographers doe teach vs
what partes of the earth be cold, warme, or tem-
perate? Of whom doe we learne howe to diuyde
the world into partes, the partes into prouinces,
the prouinces into ſhyres? of Geographers, vnto
whom
Vi
The Fpiftle
whom haue wee to make recourfe for Mappes,
Globes, tables, and Cardes, wherein the dyuers
countreys of the worlde are fet downe-vnto Ge-
ogtaphers. Set Geographie aſyde, you ſhal ney-
ther be able to get intelligences of the fituation
and ſtrength of any citie, nor of the limites and
boundes of any countrey, nor of the rule and go-
uernement of any kingdome, nor be able wel to
trauayle out of your owne doores, wil you ſee
what wife and ex perte traueylers, fkilful in geo-
metry and Aftronomy, (for that is to bee a Geo-
grapher in deede) be able to doe? Looke you on Kyng of
the King of Portugales title: the two partes, of Portugale
the three therein, were atchiucd by Vaſques Ga- & Algarbs,
ma, and other traueyleis aduentures , Confider Gui ag?
the fruites, the drugges, the pearle, the treafure, Suinesto
he cõqueſt.
the millions of golde and ſiluer, the Spanyardes anne
haue brought out of the VVeft Indies ſince the and trafike
fit ſt viage of Columbus: The great Commodities into Ethio-
our nation reapeth by the traueyle of our coun- Pia, Arabia.
treymen into Barbary, Guiny, and M oſcouia, wil Perſia & Ine
be a ſufficient teſtimony vntò all vs Engliſhmen, “™
what it is to be a fkilful traueyler, what to bee a
aineful Geographer, and learned. Deſire of rule
erb victories, victories come by cõqueſtes,
conqueſtes are furthered by traueyle, ttaueyle
can not bee maynteyned without great wealth,
wealth maketh all traueyle pleaſant. The North-
weſterne vyage, be it neuer fo full of difficulties,
will become as plaufible as any otheriourney,
if out paſſengers may returne with plentie of fil-
ucr,filkes and pearle. Let Columbus, Americus,
Corteſius, beavel fet foorth againe, and bounte-
(*) till, fully
Vif
The Epiftte:
lyrewatded, you fhal heare of other nee found
landes yet altogeather vnknowen, Let Gama be
ſet in ‘laces and Gama will tell you the fituation,
the maners, the force and wealth of forreyne na-
tions. for Gama his endeuor was, not onely by
his friend Cœlius to defcrye the countrey wher-
ſoeuer he came, but alfotolearne him ſelfe the
liches, ſtrength, and conditions of the peoples
Honour maynteyneth arte: and the fkill in Ge-
ography, as all other ſciences, hat but a tyme of
preferment, the whiche than chiefly myght bee
looked for, whan it is moſt eſteemed. This in the
noble mynde of Cadamuſt bred that earneſt de-
ſire, after Don Henrico his exam ple, to traueyle,
to pen hisowne aduentures into the Southeaſt
and Eaſt partes, to make the nauigation of Gama
and his companions knowen vnto the worlde,
The occaſions, the good fucceffe, thegreatcom-
modities wherof,Barros.a-counfeller of the Por-
tugaleKyng, paynted outlong agoe in manye
bookes, Oſorius of late, hiſtorically hath written
the ſame in fewe. This made Marcus paulus Ve-
netus a courtier in Tartary, Hayton the Arme-
nian to become a Frenchman, Lewes Vartoman.
ne a traueyler in Ethiopia, Brocardusan inhabi-
er of lury, & eche one of them to leaue his pain-
ful ĩorney with poſteritie in wrytyng. This enfla-
med the Spanyardes to take vppon them the dif-
couery of the VVeſt and Southweſterne landes,
done and written by Columbus, Pinzonus, Al-
fonſus, Corteſius, and Americus, of whom that
region America hath name. VVhoſe long letters
and tedious reportesof thinges there brought t
pale
VI
The Epiſtle
paſſe in the conqueſt of that halfe worlde, the
zunge beaſtes, the ſundry fortes of fruites, the
ioyes and riches the whiche that countrey yeel-
deth, the manners and faſhions of the people,
their cities, and princely palaces, theyr nobilitie,
their maner of gouernement, their warres, theyr
ſeruile eſtate vnder the kynges of Spayne,theig
conuerſion vnto the Chriſtian fayth, P. Margtyr a
learned and graue man, borne at Angleria in the
duchy of Milane, then Preſident at the Spanifh
kinges counſell for the weft Indies, gathered in-
to one volume, and leauing a ſide all ſupeifluous
narrations, made thereof, as it were, one briefe
and continuall hiſtorie. This volume deuided he
into eyght Decades, after the Greeke worde, ſo
calling the ſundry parcels thereof, for that eche
one conteyneth in it ten particuler bookes or
chapters. R. Eden our countreyman dyd into
Englith, whan K. Philippe was in Englande, the
three firſt Decades, and the fourth its though
vnder a wrong title, according to the Dutche:
Printers cdition,wherin the fitte, ſixte, feuenth,
and eight Decades were lefte out. He tranſiated
moreouer Gonzales Ferdinandus Ouiedus bre-
uiary of the welt Indies, & geathered togeather
out of many myghty and hageworkes, ſome
other prety pamflettes concernyng the Spany-
ardes and Portugalles voiages into the late diſ-
couered lands, adding thereto certeine difcour-
ſes of the north partes. Theſe his aforeſayde do-
inges, as fewe mennes workes at the firft come
exactly abrode, this paynefull tranſlatour myn-
ded, if not to amende, at the ſeaſt to augment,
6 5 eo i, by
1X
The Fpiftte.
by suttyng thereunto in Englifh Lewes Varto-
mannus Navigation into Agypte, Arabia, Si-
i2.Perfiagand India, with our Merchantes Mof-
couian and Pei Han trauelles: but death preuen-
ted his purpoſe, not ſuffryng him to accompliſh
his detire.
Chriſtian chatitie therefore vnto the party de-
parted, cauſed me to helpe his workes forwarde:
Nature moued me to take ſome paynes in pla-
cing ordetly, that whiche he had confufely gy-
uen out, the better to direct, and the more to
profit the reader: My profeſſion enforced me to
cut of fome ſuperfluous tranſlations, and to fill
vp the reft of his doinges with P. Martyrs other
writinges, and finally to furniſhe his want with
my one ſtore, Hoping and perſwading with
my ſelfe, that if God like wiſe call me from theſe
worldly Nauigations, and earthly defcriptions,
before myothertraucll in this facultye, taken
long ſince in hande, be ended: ſome other profeſ-
for of Coſmography wil fo rewarde me aſter my
death, as preſently of this dead man! doe de-
ſerue. Other credite ſeeke I none therefore, I
loke for no pray ſe, l hope not for honor, I gape
tor no gayne by this kind of ftudie. I knowe this
day no place, no preferment, no publike chayre,
no ordinarie lecture, no commune ſtipende, no
ſpecial reward due vnto the ſtudentes in Geo-
graphy : no not at tlus time, when this faculty,
was neuer more ſet by: no not in this realme,
where yt neuer more floriſned. The honorable
name of a Chriftian, and the infallible fruites
thereot, euer inclined me; euen from my tender
ö yceres,
The Fpiftle
yeeres, for the final portion of learning that god
hath lent me, to do good, if I could, vnto many:
and {pecially to make thoſe my friendes and wel
doers knowen vnto the worlde, by whofe bene-
uolence & fauour I doe liue, and am mainteined.
In the ſmal number whereof, for amongſt many
wel willers finde but few well doers, your Ho-
nor(right noble Lady) my Lorde & you, his no;
ble children and yours, ſince my felt returne
from beyond the ſeas, muſt I confeſſe to haue
ſtoode me chiefly in ſteede: & humbly acknow-
ledge, the firft yeerely penſion I euer was aſſu-
red of in England, to haue ben by your Ladifhip
beſtowed on me, VVherefore as I will moſt wil-
lingly yeelde vnto many other of your Honors
gẽtlemẽ to come of great houſes, to haue welthi⸗
er friendes, larger pofleflions & reuenues than I,
to be more actiue, more comely, more wyſe, po-
litike, leatned, & to haue ſeene more: ſo in hũble
duety, loyal ſeruice, ſincere affection & good wil
to your Honor, I may, Ican, l wyl contende with
any of them all, euen to the vttermuſt force and
power of my hart, head, body, life, blood, mynd,
& ſoule. In teſtimony wherof, and full aſſurance
ol my ſeruĩce vnto you for euer, theſe laſt doings
of R. Eden newly encreaſed, my firſt labours in
our language, bis hiftory & mine of trauel in the
weſt & Eaſt ludies, altogeather in one volume}
@uetifully do I preſent vnto your Honour, with |
al humility praying & moſt earneſtly requeſting
your good Ladiſhip, that you will vouchfate
it, & by leyſure, in this iourney, the whiche my
ee ii, Lorde
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The Epifite.
Lorde and you haue determined into the welt
countrey, to let your page reade them ouer to
your Honours recreation, as one of the princi-
pall cauſes wherefore at this tyme they were ſet
foorth. If varietie of matter, occurrents out of
forraigne countryes , newes of newe founde
landes, the fundry ſortes of gouernement, the
ifferent manners & faſhions of diuers nations,
the wonderfull workes of nature, the ſightes of
ſtraunge trees, fruites, foule, and beaſtes, the in-
finite treaſure of Pearle,Golde, Siluer, & 5
may recreate and delight a mynde trauelled in
weighty matters, & weeried with great affayres:
credit me, good Madam, in liftning varathis
worke, ſhall you haue recreation, you ſhall finde
delight in reading ouer theſe relations, wherein
fo newe, ſo ſtraunge, ſo diuers, fo many tecreati-
ons and delightes of the mynd are expreſſed.
Your Honours good lykyng thereof, wyll be to
me no ſmall contentation for this worke payne-
fully doone, à good occafion ſpedyly to finith
the reſt of my owne labours. concerning this fa-
Ny, a great encouragement and comſort to be-
ow my whole time hereafter only in that ſtudy,
wherewith all my former knowledge in Philoſo-
phy and Geography mayende, The whiche,
conuemently now, I amin good hope to per-
fourme, with my Lorde and your Ladythyps
good leaue, and continuance of my duety and
; ctuall deſire to doe your Honours the better
eruice. At London the 4. day. of Iuly.1§77.
Tear Honors ſeruaunt bumbly at 3 sd
8 Nee 2 JJ illi.
a
ib
X
R. VVilles Preface vnto the Reader, wherein is
let dow lc a generall ſumme as it were of the
whole worke,
Dis greate and large bolume conſiſteth
A p2inctpallp of foure partes, agretable bnte
thoſe foure coʒuers of che woꝛlde, whereun·
to the ſkilfull ſeamen and merchauntes ad⸗
uenturers of late peeres haue chtefelp tras
uetled and pet ſpecially are wont to refepee,
é The fert part contepneth foure Deeades, The art part,
mitten by P. Martyr, à learned ⁊ graue counſeller of Charles the tui Vetabe
che Emperdur fifte of that name, concernyng the Spanpardes
voyages Southweſtwarde, ¢ they; famous erploites boone in
thele newly diſcouered partes of the woꝛlde, the whiche vſually
wee now call the welt Indies. Vereunto haue we added Gen-
his Eerdinandus Ouiedus bꝛeefe hiſtoʒie touching che fame mate
ter, ſo that the fit ſt part of our boltime hath ſiue particular bookes,
In che fe whereof cap 1.2.3 4 and 5. 7. Marti deſcribech Co-
dumbu fir and ſecond nautgactons and diſcoueries of certaine
Jlandes made by bym ſpecially and his bꝛocher. In the 6 chapter
02 b oke thereof (fo: both names we finde) is fet fooꝛth Colm
bus third boiage, and the diſcouery of Peru, in che maigne weſt
Indiſp lande. In the ſeuenth, his troubles both in the weſt Indies,
and re‘ourne into Spaigne with his bꝛother, being boch pꝛilo⸗
ners. The 8. is of P. Afouſus vopages that ſame way In the g.
are declared the trauailes of / incent and Peter Ping oni, and other
Spantards like wiſe thither from Pa/os. The 10. is a toncluſton
other whole Decade, with particuler mention of ſome ſpecial nas
telt ies. ⁊ Colabus fourth botage beganne. So that in the fir! Des
cade vou haue hiſtoꝛically ſet downe the diſcouerpe of che well
Indies, taken in hande about the veere of our Loꝛde. 1492. by Co-
lambus and his compamons, vmill the peere 1510. as F. Ad crtir
witneſſech fol 8.43 47 ind 54 This worthy trau wler and (kil:
full ſeaman died at T αꝗ,ůa Spaigne. An. dom. 1506. a
Lope: repoꝛteth cap 25. in bis generall hiſtoꝛie de las Indias,
The ſecond Decade conteynech Peru matters, entituled by 7.
Af artir, Creditus Cortmens that is, a continent o maignc lande, as :
Cu. in
The ſecong
ren cade,
X
The preface.
in peeve it is of it ſelſe with the reft of. meries, in Ipke mae
ner as Europe, Affryk, ⁊ Alia, be one continent op maigne lande
vnited togeather. In che fynſt and ſe conde chapters of this De⸗
tade, ſball pou reabe the voyages of Fogeda and Nicueſa, to Da-
riena. In the thyꝛd. Colmenaris trauaples, Nicueſa his death, and
the Inaiſbe kyng Comogrus bentuolence: In the fourth, «/quex
Nunnex doynges in V rab gulfe. His conqueſt of rebellious
Barbarian kyngs in the fiſte. In the (pre Quicedus @ Cobmenaris
ambaflage out of Dariena tu Hiſpaniola, and the religion of king
Commendator in Cuba. The ſeuench booke conteineth Petrus Arias
fopnep to Paris in Peru. Che.8. the diſſention betwixt the Spani⸗
ardes and Poꝛtugales fo; chep2 boundes, and makpna of fpue
Biſhops in iheſe newely founde partes of the worde. In the 9
are ſhewed the rpuers of Darien, and philoſophically the caules
af ſo great waters there . That countrey is deſcribed in the. 10
2 extreme hunger. abydden by the companions ol Nic ucſa.
opt.
In che fyꝛſt, ſecond, and thyꝛd chapters of the thyꝛde Decade,
is conteyned an abꝛidgement of / aſcus Nunnex telations, con-
cerning his voyage to the fouth ſea, fo it lpeth ſouth from Darien,
vſually termed nowe a dayes M ar del aur, and may alſo be called
the wyde eaſt Indyſhe Ocean. The diſcouery thereof made by
Nannex, the kyng ſubdued by bym, eſpecially kyng Commo-
gras chꝛillenyng by the name of Charles, and the wynnyng of
kyng Lamanama o J ubanama and his counttep. In the fourth
chapter thal pou fyndc olumbus fourth byage, began An,d0.1502
to the mayne well Indyſhe lande, wich the deſcription of ſome
part therof, lying betwyxt cur Atlantike op weſterne Occan, and
the afopefapde Var del Zur, as Vraba, and Beragua, In teſpecte
of the hiftopp and courſe of peeres, this booke myght haue been
plared before the ſetonde Decade, but it ſhoulde ſeeme that theſe
repoꝛtes came no ſooner to.. AT artyr his handes, wherefore he
began this fourth beoke ryght well thus . J was determined. xc.
The kpkth booke conteyneth. P. Arias ioꝛnep mentioned dec. 2
lib. 7. to the noꝛth (poe of Pe yu, wherein Cart hag ena and S. Mar-
tha, two famous hauens, do ſtande, wich a deſcription of the coun:
trey and people thereof. In the {prt pou haue a diſputation touch
png the Reuant ſtreamie oʒ eaſlerne (urge of the lea, the diſcouery
af
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To the Reader.
Ire ale done by Cabot P. Arias axtiuall in Darien, the butt
dyng of S. Maris anti there, with other foꝛtreſſes, ſinally the
tommodities and vnwholeſonneſſe of Darien. In the. 7 8. 9
bookes, ſhal pou haue a deſctipion of Han ole, Cuba, and other
Nandes chereabout, done by Ardreas Moralis. Ard in che. 10
(hall pou reabe of the Plande Pines in M ar del Ter, of che kyng
therof ſubdued by Andreas Morilis, of Pearles ę the linding then
of, of Petrus Arias Captapnes oinges agaynſt the Caniballes,
of the Barbares fowlyng + the nanner of the geatheryng of gold
in Dariena.
She fourth Decade, fn ſo was it named in the Spanpards edi
tion of. P. Martyr his wookeslet forth at Alcala in Qpapne Mader,
An. do. 530. though the Nile ad Cullen printers haue entituled
it, De inſulis nuper inuent is, that ts, of Landes latety found out, to
wyt, after columbus boyages: ths booke 3 fap was by. T. A ar.
tulled out of che Indian regiftes, conteynyng ſpeciall notes
that ſeemed vnto bpm moſt meet to be publyſhed: as the diſco⸗
nery of eertayne Jlandes and crekes, nametp Lacatun done bp
Fernandes of Corduba this compmious) Cozamella,the Wands
of Sacrifice, the Jlandes of wonen, the pꝛouince Coluac an and
almaria tc. by lobn Griſ alua tus felowes: the Iacuians caps
tiuitie and diſcouery of F/orida male by chofe panpardes which
Dicgus Velaſquen ſent out of Cubs and Ferd. Corte/ins fyꝛſt naui⸗
gation, uherein he conquered Poanc hana in newe Spapne, the
death of V «/dinia,) txecution of Vifcus Nunne king Aue
bis prefentes to Charles the Emjerour, his bookes, letters, and
fuperftittons, finally the rume o Hi paniola, and utter decayt
thereol, if heede ſboulde not be talen in tyme.
Watt of al Conz alu, Ferduianaus Oredus hiſtozit conte ineth in. &.
ſeuerall chapters (eche one whered bath his proper title) a bꝛiele
declaration of the welt Indych naugation, of the metals the
which are found in thoſe lately diſctuered lands, o the maners of
the people, rites, cuſtomes, and cerinontes,of che beaſtes, oulcs,
byꝛdes, woꝛmes, kyſhes, ſeas, riuers, ſpꝛynges, trees, plantes,
hearbes, a diners other thinges tha are engendzed there boch on
the land t in the water. To this er we added certaine ſpectall
reports of new Spaincoꝛ Vearto,of e/ of Nd
countrey lying therunto, of the lands / aborad
the diſcoueryng ok. And: hus mu
chis volume.
AV
To the Reader.
Coe con: Tt Leconwe part of this worke appeareth what it is, by the
part. title thereot ſet potwne , O. to yt, a diſcoutſe to pꝛout
that there is a palſage tothe Moluccaes by the noꝛthweſt, the
whiche pꝛeſently . Cap. Furbißer attempteth, with certapne
repoꝛtes of the pꝛouince Ching in th where be hath to trike
im his voyage. and thyꝛdly of Gan, and other Aaudes by the
man The whiche ſeconde part, vheteiu matter concernyng the
noꝛchwett is handled, is fo mucſe the ſhoꝛter, by how much the
fort part ſeemed ouerlong: bepdes that the particularities of
this coꝛner of the woꝛlde are na pet fo thꝛoughly knawen, but
chat other titers thal doubtleſl in mae ample mauer employe
„ then labourtherein after the reurne of our noꝛthweſterne tra
uayterg. The which J wythe core maſt happie and pꝛoſperous.
as they moff valiantly ¢ painctillp, to the reno une of out Cngs
lyſhe nation, do ſhewe to haue tiken it in bande.
In che chyꝛd part thal you fyid a diſcription of che noꝛthea⸗
ſterne kroſtyſcus and -kingbants lying that way: as Al o/couia,
Sc hundia, oꝛ Denmarke; Orgenlande. I ſlande, Lapomia. Nor way, Sues
via. vy Sweeblande,BotbalasampGothlande ; out of Zeiglerus, Pau-
lar Iouias, Haiton, and Sebaſtiai free loꝛd 02 Baron of Herbe/tein,
wich che countreps as well noꝛh and noꝛtheaſt beyond 1 conia,
uumelp Petxora, Iuhra, and otiet pꝛouintes of the Tattats: as
allo the doyages made throug) Aoſcouia by the mierchauntes of
London into Perſia, conteinyig many ſpeciall thynges woo th
the knowledge, both of the coustrey it lelf, the commondities there⸗
ok, the manners of the people and the pꝛuuledges graunted vnta
our merchauntes by the Sophi 02 Sa) the Ferſian kyng.
Finally in the fourth par are fet Downe our merchaunteg
voyages into Guinea, and ch other parcelles ot Affrike lying
lowardes the Southeaſt , Lewes Vertomannus natligations
into Egypte „ Ethiopia, prabias Syria, Feria, and eaſt India,
euen to the fruitefull Afoluicacs, wich the prices of diugges
and other wares bꝛought fiom chence. CCibereta lo a con-
Auſion, haue we added partly out of A=, ranjrlesnus lets
ter vnptten vnto the Cardumll of Saszow: ce, and parcy out af
F. Martyrs other woorkes.that famous nau u me) round
about the whole world: the content! on betwerte the entagales
and Spanpardes for the Afolu.cacs,t iht detyeꝑng tyercot |
12 ope
Kx Vi
To the Reader.
Pope Alexander the (ore: and lall of all the abꝛidgement of .P.
M artyrs foure laſt Decades, wherein efpectallp that noble and
gloꝛpous conqueſt of Mexico is unptten. Generallp this much
of the foure partes of this large volume . The leller parcelles
and ſpeciall matter contepned in eche part, you haue fo eractelp
rehearſed in the table of the Decades Fol. 173. and in the reſp⸗
due ofthe whole woorke before eche chapter fo euidently let
downe, that any particular table thereof at al the reader greatly
needeth not, if ſo be that he be able to remember in what region
of the wozlde, Catt, Cleft, Nuth, oꝛ Souch, that be, the which
be looketh for,
J2owe concernyng. N. Coens owne dopnges, ſpncerely to
fap what I thynke, and cutteouſely to yecide hym that due pꝛayſe
the whiche worthp!p theſe his labours deſerue, pet not to flatter
bpm neither, wherg any faulte bath ben committed: as hyghly he
was to be commended for Englychyng la ſtraunge, fo wonder⸗
full, ſo pꝛofitable hiſtoꝛies as theſe are, nothyng inferioz to the
bookes of auncient wpiters, far erccedpne the multitude of foo⸗
lyſh cominentartes and kriuolous ttanflations,to to licentiouſely
bſed in our tyme: So may the gentle reader forbcare his ouer⸗
ſyghte, in ſo great a woopke, where ſome Spanypſhe pꝛouerbe,
harſh latine phꝛaſe, oꝛ bnclcane ſ peache map feeme hardly Eng⸗
lyched, oz any raſhe note to ſhame the texte. I woulde excuſe hym
fo) tranllatyng the dayes by the latine names, as Fol. 12. Non.
April.thus. At the Nones of Aprpll item, 3. [dus Octobrit. thug,
She thyꝛd daye of the Tors of October item. Fol. iy tertio Kalend,
Maj. thus. The thyꝛd daye before the Kalendes of Pape: meas
nyng in deede, the fylch daye of Appl, the 13 dap of October,
the 29 of Apzill: but therein it ſboulde ſeeme that he folowed
bis owne humor, for he oblerueth the lame phrafe of tranflas
tyng tioughout. P. Avert) whole woꝛke Pany of his Eng⸗
lyſhe wooꝛdes cannot be erculed in my apimon fo} ſinellyng to
much of he Latine as Do erf. Fol , Pon dere Fol. 23.
Diti narics. Fol. g. Portento Fol. 8. Aut jm Fol. 3i. de /-
a wiereioule. Fol. Y.
Pic able. Fol. 387. Soc.
beute. Fol, 390. inwived Fol, J. Delfin. tiue. Fol, 276.
4
4 dig n
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To the Reader.
Prodigious Fol. 279. wich other uch lyke: in the Keene of Lords,
weygötie, ſublectes, wonderkull, auncient, lowe, careful, dueti-
full, manllaughter, dꝛunken, nopſome, monſtrous xc. the u ich
laultes he conleſleth in other his owne verſes, wꝛytyng thus of
hem ſelfe.
I baue not for euery worde alked counſayle
of eloquent Eliot, or Sir Thomas Moore:
Take it therefore as I haue intended,
the faultes with fauour may foone be a mended,
Certayne Preambles here folowe, gea-
thered hy R. Eden, for the better Un-
derftanding of the whole worke,
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the Indies.
Of th ¢
welt Indies.
Certapnc Carauel ſaplyng in the TAck Ocean, about the
A coaſtes of Spapne, hada foꝛcpbly and continuall wynde u barbe begyn⸗
from che Eaſt. w herby it was dꝛyuen to a land unknowen, ug.
and not deſcrtbed in any map oz carde of the (ea, and was
dꝛyuen ſtyl along by the coake of the fame for the (pace of ma:
ny dapes, Untpil te came to a hauen, where in a ſhozt tyme the
moſt part of the maryners, beyng long befoꝛe very weake and fes
ble by realon of hunger and trauapll, dyed: So that onelp the
Pilot, wich thice oz toure other, remayned alyue. And not only
they that dyed, dyd not inioye the Indies whiche they fpr diſco⸗
uered to theyz inpftortune, but the teſpdue alſo that lyued had in
maner as {ttle fruiion of the ſame: not leauyng, oꝛ at the leaſt not
openſy publyſhyng any memoꝛte thereof, neythet of the place, oꝛ
what it was called, oꝛ in what peere it was founde: Albeit, the
fault was not theyꝛs, but rather the malyce of other, oꝛ the euule
of that which we call forcune. J do not therfore marue ple, that the
aunctent hiſtoies affoꝛme, that great thynges pꝛoceede and in⸗
creale of {mall and obſcure begonnynges, lyth we haue ſeene the
fame verpficd in this fynding of the Indies, being fo notable and
newe a thyng. Te neede not be curious to ſeeke the name of the
ot, ſych death madt a ſhoꝛte ende of his doynges Some wyl,
that he came from Andalu ia, and traded to the Jlandes of Cana.
ia, and the land of Ad dera, uh en this large and moptal naut: Tu. plot that
gation chaunced vnto bpm. Other lay that he was a By/canne, fon — tbe
and traded into Englande and Fraunce. ther alſo, that he was Indies.
à quale, ⁊ that emer he went oꝛ came from Ain 0) India:
which agreeth well with the name of theſe newe landes, as J Mina.
baue ſayd before . Agayne, ſome there be that (ap that he bꝛougbt
the Carauel to oꝛtugale, oꝛ to the Fland of 44, os to fome
otber of the Jlandes called De los Azores, Yet do none of them
alfyzme any thyng, although they al affirme that the ilot dytd
in the boule of Chriftop! er Colon, with whom remayned all ſuche
unitynges and annotations as he had made of his vopage in the
ſad Caraucll, aſwell of ſuch chynges as he obferucd both by land
and ſra, as alſo ofche elcuation of the pole in thole landes whiche
be had diſcouered.
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The Table
De the fruiteful citit of Bifinagarc iu the kyng domt of
Natſinga. Cap.. For, 84
DPthe Docilitic, agilitie and wytte ol Elephantes. Capo Fol 389
Ok the ingendyng of Elephantes: And ofthe magnificence and tyches of
the kyng of Nat linga. Cap. 10. Fol 386
he tontent e ith beste,
Ok the famous and rycht citie of Cal ecut Cay 1 Pol. 195
Ok the kyng ok Calccut: And of theyꝛ J dolatryt. Cap. 2. Fol 387
Ok the mance whiche the kyng vſeth at his meate. Cap. z. Fol. 388
Ok the Pꝛieſtes ol Caltcut named Bramini. Cap. 4. Fol. 388
Ok the diuers ſectts of Jdolatours in the citie of Calecut Cap. Fol. 39 8
The apparell of the kyng, queene, and the inhabitantes of the citit o Cae
lecut: And of theyꝛ maner of fetdyng Cap. 6. Fol. 389
Ok theyꝛ cuſtome after the death of rhe kyng. Cap 7. Fol. 389
Okt ther changyng of wyuts. Cap. S. Fol 390
The maner of fetdyng of the common people of the Tdolaters: And ok thetr
Juſtice. Cap 9. Fol. 390
Ok their honouryng of Jdolts. Cap. 10. Fol. 300
Ok their maner of warrt. Gap. 11. Fol. zot
Ok they: chyppes and maner of ſaylyng on the fea. Cap. 12 Fol. 391
She palace and courte ot the kyng of Calttut. Cap. 13. Fol. 392
The Spices ok Calccut. Cap. 14. Fol 392
Che koules and byꝛdes of Calecut. Cap. 15 Fol. 393
Ok a mok fruite full tree ot all che woꝛlde. Cap 16 yo 393
Hetwechey (owe Ryſc. Cap. 17. Fol. 394
Howe they: Phlſitions vifit the ſicke folkes. Cap 18. F 5 394
Ok they: erchaungers, bankers, and brokers. Cap. 19. Fol. 395
Ok thinbabitantes of Poliar and Uitaug. Cap. 20. Fol. 395
Ok keure fouted braſtes, f oules, and bpades N Cap. 21. Fol. 395
Ok certayne Serpentes whiche art ſeene in Caltcutr. Cap. 22. Fol. 396
Ok the lyabtes and lampes whiche are (cen N he pal ace of the
kyng of Calecut. Cap 23. Fol. 396
The great multitude of Toolaters whiche reforte to Calecut toꝛ pardon of
they: lnnes. Cap 24. Fol. 396
Fe contentes af the y : th
Of the cit ie of Caicolon and Colon.
DF Cpꝛomandel a citie of India
Of the Tlande of satlon, and the pr
there.
Ok the tree of Tina nome:
Df Waleachet, a citie ot
Ot Tarnaſart, a Citic
Ok the wylde ar
Che maner whiche the |
Tl he Tutti
wort et]
Ta
The
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The Table.
D Bangella, agreat and tyche citteof India: And of the great power of
the kyng of that citit. Cap. 13. Fol. gor
DF certaine Chziſtian merchauntes which trafique there. Cap. 14. Fol. 02
Dt ego a famous citte of India. Cap. 15. Fol. 403
Ok the magmiſitence, humanttie, and great ryches of the
kyng of ego. Cap. 16. Fol. 403
Ok the citte of sVclacha, and the great tyuer of Gaza. Cap. 17 Fol. 404
Or the Tlande of Sumatra o: Tapzobana. Cap. 18. Fol 405
Ok au other kynde of Peppet: Allo of (pike, and the precious gumme called
Laſcrpfitiumo: Belzoe Cap. Fol. 405
t hꝛet ſoꝛtes of thetree of Aloes. Cap. 20 Fol. 405
Powe the gummes of Aloes a Laſerpitium, are pꝛoued. Cap. 21. Fol. 406
Ok Divers merchauntes in the Jlande of Sumatra 03
Tapꝛobana. Cap. 22. Fol. 406
Ok the Jland of Bandan where Nutmegges 3 Wate are
kounde. Cap. 23. Fol. 40
D the Flande of Monoch, where Cloucs gtowe. Cap. 24. Fol. 407
Okthe Jlande of Vomet Cap. 25. Fol. 407
Df certaynt obferuations vled in: Nuigation to the
Ilandt of Oiaua. Cap 26. Fol. 408
Ok the land of Giaua, ⁊ the manta af Qe people, Cay. 27. Fol. 408
Of the crucil maners tn lleying (Dex Antes to the
Ant hꝛopophagi to be taten. Cap. 28. Fol. 109
Ok the ſtrange courte of the Sunne in the Tland of Siaua. Cap 29 Fol. 409
Dé they: rteurne from the Tland of Staua. Cap. 30. Fol. 409
Agayne of the citte of Calecut after they: returne thyther. Cap 31. Fol. 40
Of che commyng of the kyng of Doztugales ſhyps to the,
citie of Canono, Cap. 32. Fol. 41
Howe the autour playde the philitton, and tounterket holyncs, leit he ſhoulde
bg taken fo, a (pte of the Poztugales. Cap.33.Fol.gie
Dow the Wahumera pꝛieſtes cal the peo ple to their church.Cap.34 Fol 412
The maner of pꝛaping among the Pahumctans. Cap. 35. Fol. 412
A hat ſubtiltie the autout vſtd to Depart from Calecut, ta
go to the Poztugates. Cap. 36. Fol. 41;
Dow he Alco to the Potugales from the citit of Canonoi. Cap. 37. Fol. 413
Of the nanic ok the citic of Calecnt, and of the inemozable contlictebetweene
the Ch fans and Mahuunctans: Int e which che Poztugalcs with in-
credible vallantneſſe, cane ther; cunntes Che OueITHivwe : 4 D howe the
kyng of Cauonoꝛ retopced at the victune, Cay Fol. 115
re 3 1 tine 1 * — P
The 0 { { ( 110
419
Ok d i f Fol
1 . * 4 1 4 7
Okthe j 3 N .
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CF the a” 4 7
Mm ie Cap
the Cay ‘ 21
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Pe the Ruble.
Olthe Rubies whiche grow in the Tlande of Fe(lam,
Ot the kynde of Rubies called Spinelle.
Of the Rubies called Balaſnt.
Ok the Diamondes of the oldt mine,
Df Dapbtres,
Df Topalles.
Ok Turqueſſes.
Df Jacinthes.
Df Smaragdes 03 Emctaldes.
DE dpuers kyndes of (pices, where they growe, what they art woorth lu
— . benct And kyꝛſt of Pepper.
Fol. 426
Df Clouts. Fol. 427
DiCinamome.
Df Singer called Beledi.
Ot Ginger Mechino. Fol. 427
Ok greene Singer in conſcruts.
Ok che Apothecaries dzugges, and of what price they art in war and
r. Fol. 428
De the weyghtes of Poꝛtugale and India, and how they agttt. Fol. 429
Df the rrage made by the Spanyardes rounde about the worde. Fol, 429
Maximiltan Tranſilnanus letter thercot tothe Cardinall of
@altsburge. Lol. 470
The debate and ſtrift, bettwcene the Spantardes and Moztugales fog the
diuiſion of the Indies, and the trade of Spices, and the Moluctacs, ont of
Lope; de Gomara. Fol. 448
The repartition and diuiſion of the Indies and ncwe wozldt bet wecne the
Ppanpardes and the Poꝛtugalcs. Fol. 448
The caule and aucthoꝛitie whereby they deufded iht Indits. Fol. 4
Howe and by what occaſion the Empet aut laped the Jlandes oft Woluccace
to pledge to the kyng of Poꝛtugalt. ol. 451
Pope Alexander the. 6. his Bull touchyng the af
Indies, Latine and Englyſhe.
An abzingement ok. P. Mart yx bis 5. 6. v. an
of F. C. conqueſt ot Mexico by. N. Ccl
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mot part of the maryners, beyng long betoꝛe very weak and fy
ble by reaſon of hunger and trauapll, dyed: gap that onelp :
Put, wih ehrce 02 foure other, remapned alpue © Ano not
they that dyed, dyd not iniope the Jndies whlche N 0 5.
uered to thep: tyſtoꝛtune, but the reſydue alſo that ſyued had in
manet as litle fruttion of the lame: not leauyng, o at the ſeaſt not
openty publyſhyng any memopte thereof, nepther of the xlace, oz
what it was called, oꝛ in what peere it was foundet Akeit, he
ful was not theyꝛe, but rather the malyce of other, oꝛ the enn! ?
of that wich we call fortune. J do not therfoze marueple, thai
auncient biſtoꝛies affoꝛme, that great thynges pꝛoceede and
15 ol ſmall and obfeure begonnynges, ſyth we haue feene dt,
vlled in this fyndin of the Indies, being lo notable and
neue u thyng. Ile neede not be curious to fecke the name ol he
Blot, loch death made a ſhoꝛte tude of his doynges. Some wyl,
that became from Andalu ia, and traded to the Nandes of ana-
ante Ilan of Madera, when this large and moptal nau: Th: pyiot that
gation chaunced vnto hym. Other lay that he was a By ſcanne, fort tounde the
and traded into Englande and Fraunce. Other allo, that he was dies.
a Poxrugale, ¢ that either he went oz came from Nina dy India:
which agreetb well with the name ok theſe newe landes, as J..
baue ſayd defope . Agayne, ſome there be that fay that he bꝛoughe
the Caraucl to Poꝛtugale, 92 to the Jland of M adera. q to ſume 8
her ol the Nandes called De los Azores , Het do none of chem
uth eee |
waner of man N (ot ers
fe called Columbus) was, and how he came
fyrſt to the knowledge of the Indies.
“ones Ipltopier colon was bonne in Cugurco, 02 (as ſome fay
N in Nerui, a vyllagt in the territorie of o enna in Italie. e
Defended as ſome thynke, ofthe houſe of the Pele ſtreles of
Placentia in Lumbardie , Me beganne of a chylde to be a
enarpner : of whole arte ihey haue great exerciſe on the rpuer of
} Sens. Oe itade) many peeves into Suria, and other partes of the
+ Galt, After this, he became a maiſſer in makyng cardes fo the
fea.» / ereby be had great bantage. Me came to Moztugale
to finsw the reaſon ¢ deſcripiton ok the ſouth coaſtes of Affrica,
and the naulgat ions of the Poꝛttgalcs, thereby to make his
tardes moꝛe perfecte to be ſolde. De marycd in Peztugale, a
ſome (ay: 02 as many fap, in the Jlande of Madera, where he
delt at ſuche tyme as the ſayd Carauell arryued there, e
ot ſoioꝛned in his houſe, and dyed alſo there, bc queathyng to
in bis carde of the delcription of ſuche newe landes as he han
und, whercby Colon had the fpꝛſt knowledge; of the Indies.
Some haue thought p colon was wel learned in y Latmeterzü“
sand the ſtiente of Cofmographie : and that he was cherely’ typ
moued to ſceke the lands of Antipodes, aud the rych Jlande of Ci-
Pengo, wherof Marchus Paulus myteth. Alſo that he had redde
n what Plato in his dialoges of Timeus and Cricias, white
Jit great Glande of Atlantide, and of a great land in the weſt Ocean
ulndiſcauered, beyng bygger then Alia and Africa. Furthermoꝛt *
ſdhat he had knowledge what. riftotell and T beopbraftus. ye in
lhepz bookes of maruaples „ where they wpte at cere |
Atapne merchauntes of Carthage, faplpng from the —
of Gibraltar 2 and Douth, founve after
es. a great Jlande not inhabited, pet replenyched ;
al thynges requifite, and batting manp n. ble ryuers. IU
* derde (olan was not greatiy leatued: pet of goob vnde Landing
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‘Sab conferred chictelp w: n fryer, named Jobn Pere of Mar-
int: e p of Nabida, Do that J verylp
chat in maner all that he c. , and manp thynges
mope that be leaſt onfpoken, were wpieren ny the de Spas
nyſhe Pilot that dyed in his houſe. Foz Jam vera. ik
Colon by ſcience atteined to the knowledg of the Tn. d
Jong before haue commminicat this iii. ryt un Autre
men the Genuefer hat tauaple «ii the walꝰ spree) ow
not hhue come inta Spapne for this purpoſe. Bur douvrelefle
he neuer thought of any ſuch thyng, before he chaunced to be ace
quainted with the ſayde Pilot, who founde thoſe landes by foz
ume, accoꝛdyng to the ſaying of linie, O uod ars docere non po-
mit, cafes innenis. Carte, Tho lL teaches chaunce
foundé. Albett, ty. d C. un opinion - * of. iat
God of his ſin “ ~*suiBeace and infinite goodne e, at the
length with eyes. -ompaflion as it were lookyng towne kron
geauen vppon e ſonnes ol Adam, ſo long kert vnder Sathans
tuaptiuilie, intended euen then (for cau - mu. ly knowen
to rayſe thoſe wyndes of et: at Ar. uell (herein, ~~
inoſt Ipke vnto th- Gpppe of , we~ y the cemrante of the
No ond was ſaued, as by chis Ca. el this ewe woꝛlde ves
f teyted the fyꝛſt hope of they? ſaluation) was dꝛyuen to thele
landes. But we wyll now declare what area: thynges folowed
ofthis ſmall begynnyr , and howe Co: wu med Cts matter, re⸗
nealed vnto hym not Aithout Gods pꝛouidence.
VVhat labour and trauiyle Colon tookein attemp-
: tyng kis fz rlt voyage to the Indics.
AS Fterthe death of the Pilot e marpners ofthe Sopanphhe
/-\ Carauell that vifcoucred h Indies, Chriftopber Colon pure
poled to ſeeke the fame . But in howe muche mope be de⸗
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Am ſeyng the kyng of wortugale occupied in the conquett of
Werne
— — poe perdi then lynſt
— Saleeg ton no leſſe vuſped in the
warres of Granada, te . to his 1 Colom
(uo was alin ppiute to this ſecrete) to pꝛacuſe with the kyng
ol C. ud Henry the ſeuenth) beyng very ryche and age
warres, pp: unſvng to bypng bpm great rpches in ſont tyme, ic
he woulde (heme bym fauour, andfuraphe hym with rps to
bi‘couer * newe Indies, whereof he bad certapne know.cdge.
But nepther here beyng able to bꝛyng bis ſute to paſſe, be caulen
the matter to be moued to the kyng ol Poꝛtugale Don Alonſo, the
fpfth of that name: at whole handes he founde neither fauour nop
monp, foꝛaſmuch as the Licenciat ¢ a/zadilla the biſhop of Viſeo.
and one maiſter Rodrigo, men ot credite in the ſcience cf Colmes
| graphie, wichſtoode bym,and contended that there neither was
ꝝ cou de anp golde ax other ryches be founde in the weſt, as
Colon affirmed. By reaſon whereof he was very fad and penfiuer |
but pet was not diſcou r aged, oꝛ deſpaired of the hope of his good
aduenture, which be afterwarde founde. This doone, he tooke
ſhyppyng at Lifburne, and came to 7 of / Loguer, where hi
tonnumed with Martin Alonſo 2 in gon, an expert Pilot, — 3
offered bpm ſelfe unto bpm. After this, dücloſyng the whole ſe⸗
cretes of his mynd to John Terex of A archena (aftyer of thors
der of faint Frances in Rebida, well icati:ed in Colmographie)
and declaryng onto hym howe by folou ng the courfe of the
Dunne by a temperate vopage, rych and great landes myght be
founde : the fryer greatly commended his interpꝛpſe, and gaue
him counſaple to bꝛeake the matter to the Duke of M edina Sido-
nia, Don Furique of Gu man, n great loꝛoe, and very rych: and als
ſo to Don Luis of c erda, the Duke of M4 edina Cel’, who at that time
had great pꝛouiſion of ſhypᷣs wel furnyſhed in his hauen of santa
Maria. But whereas both theſe Dukes tooke the matter for a
dzeame, and as a thyng deuiſed of an Italian deceyuer, who (as
they thought) had before with lyke pꝛetenee deluded the kpuges
ol Englande and Portugale, the fryer gaue hym courage to go
to the courte of tye inces Don Feydinando,and lady
Tfabell of Caftple, woulde be ioyful
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in the peere 1486. and eluuerep nto they?
bandes the petition of h z requelt,as concernyng tye diſcoueryng
elthe new Indies But they beyng moze care f i, and appiyir 5 al
then howe they myght dyue the Pao. en out o the yr conquett
of Granada, whiche greate enterpꝛiſe they had alrt vn of Granada.
taken in bande, dyd lyttle <2 nothyng eſteeme the watter. Tut
calm at thus diſcoutaged, founde the meanes to declare his
fate to ſuche as had lometymes pꝛiuate communication with the
kyng. Det betauſe he was a ſtraunger, and went but in ſimple
apparell,noz otherwyſe credited then by the letter of a gray frier,
they belecucd bpm not, neyther aue bare to his wooꝛdes, wherc⸗
by be was greatly tozmented in his imagination. Dnelp Alonſo
of Quintanilia,the kynges chiefe auditour.gaue hym meate and
mynde at bis owne charges, and hearde gladly {ich thynges a.
he declared of the landes not then kounde: defmyna bpm in the
meane tyme to be content with that pooze en erteynment, ano
not to deſpayꝛe of his euterpꝛyſe: puttyng hym alfo in good con⸗
fopte that he hau, at one tyme op other, come to the lpeach⸗ ol
t. Catholpke princes. And chus ſhoztly after, by the meanes
of Alonjo of Quint anilia, Colon was brought to the pꝛeſence and
audience of the Cardinall Don Pero Gonzales of Mendoza, arch
biſhop of Toledo, à n an of great reuenues and aichopitie with The archb.hoy
the kyng and queene, vho bought hym before them, after that or Told.
be well perceiued and examined his intent. And by this meanes.
was bis ſute hearde of the Catholyke pꝛinces, who alſo redde the
booke of his memoptals whiche he pꝛeſented vnto hem. And
although at the lyꝛſt they tooke it foꝛ vayne and falſe that he pꝛo⸗
myſed, neuertheleſſe they put hym in good hope that he ſhe·ude
be wed diſpatched when they had fynpthed the warres of Grana-
da whiche they had nome in hande. Mich which anſwere, Colon
began to reupue his ſpirites, wich hope to be better eſteemed, and
mode fauopably to be hearde among the gentelmen ¢ noble men
of the courte, who befoze tooke hym onely lz a craſtie felowe
amd becepuer : and was nothyng diſmayde op dutouragen when
ſoeuer he debated the matter wich hem, although manp iudged
hem phantaſticall, as is the mance sig cal all
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Preious Foner, igices, and {ache other rpche thynges. They
gave hym alfa the tenth part of all the reuenues and cuſtomes
due vnto che kyng. ol all ſuch landes as he ſhoulde diſcouc., not
vopng pꝛeiudice in any thyng to the kyng ol Poꝛtugale. The
particulars of this agreement were made in the towne calles
Santi Fe: and the pꝛiuiledge of the rewarde in Granada the. xxx.
bape of Apꝛyll, the fame pecre that the citie was woonne. Aud
whereas the ſapde Catholpke pꝛinces had not mony pꝛeſently to
dilpatch Colon, Luis ol. BD. Angel, tye kynges ſecretary oface
t mtes, lent them (pre Quentes of AMA araæ, whiche in a groſſe
ſumme make. xvi. thoulande ducades.
Inche ſcutcheon of armes geuen to Columbus by Don Ferdinane
do and queene I/ ella, theſe berſes were witten.
Por Caftella, y por Leon. Nueuo mondo bal’ Colon,
£02 Caſtile and foꝛ Leon.
A newe wonlde founde was by Colon.
VVhy they were called ndies.
Dine thynke that the people ol the n. ne woꝛld were called
Indians, bycauſe they are of che colour of the eaſt Indians.
And although (as it ſemmeth to me) they dyffer much in
colour and fathions, yet is it true-that of India they were
called Jndians. India is properly caued tha great pꝛouince of
Alia. in the luhiche great Alexander kepte his marres, and was
fo named of the ryuer Ina: and is diulded into many byngs
bomes confinpng with the fame. From this great India (called
the Caf India) came great cumpanyes of men, as untteth He-
rodotus, and inhabited that part of Ethiopia that lyeth betweene
the (ca Bermeia(otherwyle called the red ea, o; p gulfe of Arabia)
aud che ryuer of Ulas: all whiche regions thet great Chyitian
prince Prefer Iokn voth nove polleſſe. he ſald Indians
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inne of that lande, and called it India: by reaſon whereof, echt
alfo hach of long tpmne ben ealleo — And hereupon
tame it that Ari/totle, Seneca, and certapne other olde authours
ud, that India was not farre from payne. After this alſa, of
later dapes our welt India was fo called, of the ſayde India of.
Prefter John where the Poxugales had they trade: J the
Pilot of the Carauell chat was fyꝛſt dꝛyuen by forcible uynde to
an vnknowen lande in the welt Ocean, called the fame India, be⸗
tauſe the Poztugales fo called ſuch landes as they had lately dil ·
touered eaſtward. Chriſtophor Colon alſo, after the {apd Pilot, cals
led the weſt landes by the fame name: Albeit ſome that take
Colonus for an expert Coſmographer, thynke that he fo named
them ok the Eaſt India, as to be the kurtheſt andonknowen
ende thereof, reachyng into the elt, vnder the other henuſphe⸗
rie on halfe globe of the earth beneath vs: affirming that when he
fyꝛſte attempted to diſcouer the Indies, he went chiefly to ſerke
the ryche Jlande of cihango, whiche kalleth on the part of great
China oꝛ Cathay, as myteth Marcus Paulus Jenetus, and other:
And that he ſhoulde ſooner come thyther by folowyng the courfg
of the Sunne Tleſtward, then agaynſt che fame.
Of the colour of the Indians.
, Me of the marueylous thynges ÿ God bleth in the come
pofition of man, is coloure: whiche doubtleſſe can not be
conſpdered without great admiration, in holoyng one to
be uhyte. and an other blacke, beyng colours veterip
contraty : ſome dyhe myſe to be pealowe, whiche is between
dlacke and white: and other of other colours, as it were ofdiuers
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liveries. And as tbeſe colours are to be matueyled at, euen fo is
ttto be confivered,bowe thep dyffer ane fromun ocher, as it were 4
by ſanſmuth as ſome men are mhpte ates Biers forts N
dk whitnes, yelowe after diuers maners ol peloue z Nakt aſter 4
dxuers lots of blackencs:¢ hom from white they goto yelom bn 15
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tpkednto ſodde Quinſes, op of che colour ol Che ttnuttes 07 Di
‘Tynes, which colour is ta them nacucall: ano nor bp chepe gopng
waked as
many haue thought:albeit they nakedneſle haue formes
what helped thercbnto. Therefore in phe maner, and with uche
as men are commonly whyte in Europe, and blacke in
Affrike, euen with ipke varietie are they tawnep in thele
Indies, with diuers degrees diuerſiy inclinyng more on lelle to
blacke oz whpte. Na leſſe marueyle is it to conlider, that men are
white in Bulle, and blacke at the cape ol Buena Speranza, and ol
Chelnut colour at the ryuer of Plata, being all in equail degrees
‘from the Equinoctiall lyne. Lykewyſe, that the men of Afrike
and Ata, that lyue onder the burnt line (called Zona Torridahart
blacke: and not they that lyue beneath, oꝛ on this ſyde the fame
lpne, as in Mexico,lucatan,Quaubtema, Lian, Nicaragua, Pana-
ma. Santo Domingo, Paria, C ape Saintt Auguftine, Lima, Quite,
and other landes of Pern. which touche in the fame Equinoctiall.
Fox in all the tracte of theſe coaſtes, certayne blacke men were
founde andy in Quarequa, when V aſchus Nunneg of Balboa diſco-
uered the fea of Sur . By reafon whereof it may ſeeme, that ſuch
barietie of colours pꝛoceedeth of man, and not of the earth: which
may wel be, although we be al boꝛne of Adam ¢ Eue,¢ know not
the cauſe why God hath ſo oꝛdeyned it, otherwiſe then to conſider
that his diuine maieſtie hath done this, as infinite other, to declare
his omnipotencie and wiledome, in ſuch diuerlitics of colours, as
appeate not only in the nature of man, but the like allo in beaſts,
byꝛdes, and floutes, where divers and contrary colours are ſeene
in one litle feather, oꝛ the leaues growyng oil of one litle ſtalke.
An other thing is alfo greatly to be noted, as touching theſe In⸗
dians: and this is, that their heare is nat curld, as is the Mooꝛes
= Ethiopians 5 inhabite the fame clime: ee are they
sercepte very fildome, and that but litle. At whiche thynges
max gyue further occafions to Philoſophers to ſeatche the fes
cretes of nature, aud complerions of men, with the nouelties of
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VVell Indies, by the writing of the diuine
Philoſopher Plato.
Lato in his famous and biuine Dialogue,
named Timeus, where he entreateth ol the
cane tke fo frame of the whole
EP | wontve, taketh fo his principle the motte
SF 4 ancient hyſtoꝛie of an Nande, in tyme of
great antiquitie, named Athlantides, mas
D kyng alfo mention of the kyng, people, and
— of the fame: and that they kept warre agaynſt the
Atheniem, and were ouercome ol them. Plato alſo there inducing
the layde hyſtoꝛie to be rehearſed by one named Critia. luho al.
firmed that he had often hearde it of his Uncle, who was in the
tyme of Solon, one ok the ſeuen ſages of the Grekes. This
Critia declared, that wien Solon went into C appt to a certayne
citie named Saim,fieuate vpon the riuer of Nias where the diuili⸗
on and recurryng of the riuer, maketh the Jlande Delta, he there
ſpake with certayne learned pꝛieſtes, very Ckylful in knowledge
of antiquities of many woꝛldes paſt. Jnſomuch that they made
mention of manpe thinges that were before the flood of Moe, oꝛ
Deucalion, and alſo before the vniuerſal conflagration oꝛ burning
of the woꝛlde in the tyme of PHeton, fozaſnniche as the warres
betweehe the people of the ſapde Jlande of Athlantides and the
Atheniens, was long before the general flood, and the conflagra⸗
tion afoꝛeſapde. *P/ato induceth the pꝛieſt, ſpeaking to Solon in
maner as foloweth.
Thinges moſt marueylous and true (O Solon) on gsi in
auncient wꝛitynges and memoꝛie of our predeceffours, and
olde ages long before ourtpmes, But aboue all thynaes, one
exceedeth al admiration for the greatneſſe and finqularitie theres
ol, whiche is this: It is in our recopdes of motte antiquities
that in times pat pour citie of Athens hath oftentpmes kepte
warres agaynſt an ‘innumerable multitude of nations whiche
came from the fea Acblantike, in maner into al Europe and Afia:
ante sche Boge mp
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Columnes of Hercules) an J lande whiche was ſayd to be much
greater then al Africa and Afia, and that from thence was paſ⸗
fage to manp other Jlandes neare thereabout, and from the
{ape Nlandes to the continent op kyꝛme lande, uhiche was right
| ouer agaynſt itneare vnto the fea: Pet. that within the mouth,
there was a litle gulfe with a porte: the deepe fea without, was
f the true ſea, and the lande without was the true continent. This
Nande was named At hlantides, and in it was a kyng cf mate
ueplous great power and myght, who had the dominion of the
ſayde Nande, and many other, and allo a great part of the conti⸗
nent lande toyercof we haue ſpoken, and muche mone towarde
our partes alloy foꝛaſmuche as they were dominatours of the
thyꝛde part of the worlde conteynyng Africa, Egypt, and Furope,
euen vnto the fea Tirrhenum. The power therefore of them bes
png then ſo great, they came to inuade both your countrey and
ours, and all other that are within the Colunmes of Hercules.
Then (O Solon) the vertue of pour citie ſhewed it ſelfe famous
1 in magnanimitie and feates of armes, with the affemblance of
* the other Grecians, in reſpſtyng theyꝛ great power, vntyl pou
had dꝛiuen them out of our lands, and reſtoꝛed vs to our libertie.
But ſhoꝛtly after that this enterpꝛiſe was atchiued, befel a mars
ueylous great earthquake, and exundation 02 ouerflowing of the
fea, which continued koꝛ the ſpace of one day and nyght: In the
whiche the earth opened it ſelle, and inglutted all thoſe vali⸗
ant and warlike men, and the layde Nande Athlantides ſunke
into the bottome of the fea, whiche was the occafton that neuer
from that tyme koꝛwarde, any ſhyp coulde ſayle that way, by reas
| fon of the great mudde and llyme whiche remayned of the dꝛow⸗
ned Sande.
: This is the ſumme of hole thynges whiche olde Critia faydg
f de had vnderſtoode of Solon. And certapnely theſe woꝛdes of
Plato ol the Laid Jland, haue cauſed great contention among may
eat Philoſophera, which haue witten commentaries vpon
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map nolwe well appeare the true meanyng hereof to be this: chat
Plato intendyng to wppte of che vniuerſall frame of the wozlde,
the whiche he knewe to be made an habitattonfop the diuine bet
man, and alſo beholdyng therin the great oꝛnament and beautie
of the heauen and ſtarres, whereby man myght knowe his God
and creatour, it myght ſeeme to hym a thyng to farre from rea⸗
fon, that only two partes thereof ſhoulde be inhabited, and the
other part deſolate and depꝛiued of men: and that the Sunne
and ſtarres might ſeeme to ſhewe theyꝛ lyght only halfe deve
tourſe without pꝛolite.ſhining only bpon the ſea and deſolate pla⸗
tes, deſtitute of man and other liuing creatures. And therefore
Plato had in great admiration the hyſtoꝛie of the ſayde Egypti⸗
an pꝛieſt, makyng mention ok an other part of the woꝛlde beſpde
Ala, Europa. and Afiica, and thought it wooꝛthy to be rehearſed
in che beginning of his diuine Dialogue afweſayde. de ought
therefore certainely to thinke our lelueg moft bounde vnto God,
that in theſe our tymes it hath pleaſed hym to reueale and diſco⸗
uer this lerrete in the yndyng ofthis newe wozlde, hereby we
are certaynely aſſured, that under our Pole ſtarre, and onder the
E quinoétial line, are moſt goodlye and ample regions, as well
and connmodioully inhabited, as are other partes of the woꝛlde
bef knowen vnto vs.
The teſtimonĩe of the Poet Seneca in his Tragedie
De Medea, where by the ſpirite of
Poetical furie, he fayth,
Venient ami :
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Tuben Typhi Sauigtin nee des halb: an,
is bes hip not Chple for laſt be left out
— So then thai the Deean diſſolue his large bandes,
151 Aina ete newe woꝛldes, regions, and landes.
To the noſte noble prince and ca-
tholike kynge. Chat les, Perer Martyr of An-
gleria wisheth perpetual felicitie.
che diuine pꝛouidence, from the time that
be kyꝛſt created the woꝛlde, bath reſerued
vnto this day the knowledge of the great
5 and large Ocean ſea: In the whiche tyme
be hath opened the fame, chtefely vnta
vou (moſte mightie Pꝛince) by the good
8 bourtume and happie fucceffe ol pour grand⸗
i 825 pour mother ſyde. The fame prouidence (J knowe
wot 35 at deltenie) hath bought me out ol my natiue coun⸗
out of the citie of Rome (where J continued
E c. yeeres) into Spalte, that J myght particutarlpe cols
lecte theſe marueilous and newe thinges, which ſhoulde other
wyſe perhappes haue lien dꝛowned in the whirlepoole of obliui⸗
on, fopalinuche as the Spanpardes men worthy great connnen⸗
pation) had oͤnly care to che generall inuentions of thele thinges.
Rotwithtanding, J do not thalenge vnto me only, the thankes
of the trauaile beltowed herein. whereas the chiefe rewarde thers
r of is due to Aſcanius, vicount Cardinal, who perreauyng that J
was wylling to depatte ditt of the citie to be pꝛelent at the
Che wartes at warres of Granatum, DéMoaneo me from my purpoſe: But
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of chynges. J was thereſdze pꝛeſente at the warres, from
whence J mitte to Cardinal Aſcanius, and by ſundzy epiltles
tertifyed hym of luch thinges as J thought matt wooꝛthye to be
put in memoꝛie. But when J perceiued that his foꝛtune was
turned froma naturall mother to a ſtepdame, J ceaſſed from
wuptyng. Pet after I ſawe, that by thouerthꝛowe of the enimies
of our fayth, S payne was pourged of the Mooꝛes, as of an euil
weede plucked vp by the rootes , leſte J ſhoulde beſtowe my
ſlippery peares in unpꝛolitable idleneſſe, J was mynded to re-
turne to Italie. But the ſinguler benignitie of boch the Catho⸗
ipke kyng and queene nowe Departed, and thep large pꝛamiſes
towarde me vpon my returne from my legacie of Babylon,
deteyned me from my purpole. Pet doth it not repent me that J
mew backe my foote, aſwel for that J fee in no other place of the
woꝛld at this tyme the lyke wooꝛthy thinges to be done: as alſo
that in maner thꝛoughout all Italie, by reaſon of the diſcoꝛde of 3
Cinittian Princes, J perceiued all thynges to runne headlong warres.
into ruine, the countreps to be deſtroyed and made fatte with
humane blood, the cities ſacked, virgins and matrones with The feaueies
theyꝛ goods and polſeſlions caried away as captiues, and mi- or warte.
ferable innocentes without offence to be ſlayne vnarmed within
they owne houſes. Df the whiche calamities, J ppd not onely
heare the lamentable outcryes, but dyd alſo frele the fame : Foz
euen the blood of mpne otune kinffolkes and frendes, was not
free from that crueltie. As J was therefore muſyng with my
felfe of cheſe thynges, che Cardinal of Arragone, alter that he
had ſeene the two fpꝛſt bookes of my Decades wptten to Alca⸗
nius, required me in the name ol kyng Frederilte his uncle, to Rens Fede
put fooꝛth the other eyght epillle bookes, In the meane tyme
alſo, whyle A was vopde of al care as touching the matters of
the Otean, the Apoltollcall meſlengers of the byſhop of Rome,
Leo the tenth (hy whoſe holſome counſayle and aucthoꝛitie we
truſt the calamities: of Italp ſhalbe kynilhed) rayſed me as it
were from fleepe, æ encoꝛaged me ta pꝛoceede as J bad begun.
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noble Pine) from whom J haue ſomwhat digreſſed. hers
payne lubdu⸗ fore wheras pour grandfather by pour mothers five, haue ſubdu⸗
3 the ed al Spaine vader pour daminion, except only one coꝛner of the
Che kongdome ſame, and haue alfa lefte pou the kingdome of Naples, with the
Maples. ftuteful Jlands of our ſeas, itis furelp a great thing and woꝛthy
to be noted in our cronacles. Gut not offendyng the reuerence
due to our pꝛedeceſſaurs, whatſoeuer from the begynnyng of che
woꝛlde bath been doone oz wꝑytten to this day, to my iudgement
ſeemeth but lyttle, yl we conſyder what newe landes and couns
treys, what newe ſeas, what ſundꝛy nations and tounges, what
golde mynes, what treaſuries of perles they haue lefte vnto your
hyghneſle, beſyde other reuenues. The whiche, what they are,
and howe greate, theſe three Decadesthall declare. Come thers
| fore moſt noble Pꝛince elected of God, and eniope that hyghe
eftate of thinges not yet vnderſtode to men. Cie offer vnto pou
The tempat the E quinottiall tyne hytherto vnknowen, and burnte bp the furis
juinoctiall un- og heate of the fonne, and vnhabitable after the opinion of the
ibe ipters. olde uuypters, a feweercepted: but nowe founde to be molt res
plenthen with people, faire, fruiteful, and moſt foꝛtunate, with a
thoufande Jlandes crowned with golde and bewwtifull pearles,
beſpdes that greate portion ol earth ſuppoſed to be parte of the
bent kenden firme lande, excedyng in quantitie thee Curopes . Come thers
ogseas tice fore andembpate this newe woꝛld, and ſuffer bs no longer to cons
Europes. ſume in defppe of pour pꝛeſence. From hence, from hence J fap
Riches eta of the (moſt noble young Pꝛince) (hal inſtrumentes 8
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. be teuerende and thankful antiquitie was
: ey N accuftomed to eſteeme thele men as gods, The rewards
: ox by whole induttric and magnanimitie luch oP.
. “te landes and regions were dilcouered, as
Aawere vnknowen to they; pꝛedeceſſours.
9 EN) But vnto ve, hauyng only one God, whom
ANS we honour in triplicitie of perſon, this re⸗
ſteth, that albeit we do not woꝛſhip that kinde of men with diuine
honour, pet do we reuerence them, and wooꝛthyly marueyle at
theyz noble actes and enterpꝛyſes. Tinto kynges and pꝛinces we
geue due obeyſaunce, by whole gouernance and furtherance they
houe ben aided to perfourme their attempts: we commend both,
and foꝛ they iult deſartes woopthply extol them. Aherekoze, as
concerning the Tlandes of the welt Orean, lately dilcouered, and The aides :
of the auctours ofthe fame Cwhiche thyng pou deſpꝛe by your Gcean, :
letters to knowe) J wyl begyn at the kyꝛſt aucthour thereof, left
I be inſurious to any man. Take it therefore as foloweth.
Chriftopborns Colonus (otherwyſe called Co/mmbus) a gentle See
man of Italie, borne in the citie of Genus. perſwaded Fernando anus.
and Clizabeth, catholike pipnces, that he doubted not to gh oe
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ede ty uop⸗ kalendes of September, in che peere ol Chyiſte. 1492. and ſet
age of Colonus log warde on his biage, being accompanied with CC. xx. Spa⸗
Jiandes Upardes . The fortunate Nandes (as manye thynke them to be,
1 whiche the Spaniardes call Canarie,found but of late Dapes are
mals. Dittaumte from the Nandes of Gades a thoufande and two hun |
| dreth myles, accoꝛdyng to they) accomptes, forthep ſay then
8 are diſtant chꝛee hundred leagues: whereas ſuche as are expert
be en. ea men, affirme that euery league conteineth foure miles, alter
1 spe they, ſupputations. Theſe Jlandes were called fortunate, for
8 the temperate apne whiche is in chem. Foz neyther the coldneſſe
of wynter is ſharpe vnto them, noz the heate of ſommer intolle⸗
rable. Pet ſome men are of opinion, that thoſe were in olde tyme
0 ate called the foztunate Jlandes, whiche the Poꝛztugales call Cape
Vo erde. Verde. Colonus therfore layled fyꝛſt to the Jlandes ofCanariz, to
| the intente there to refrethe his ſhyppes with freſhe water and
fuell, before he committed hym felfe to this ſo laboꝛous a viage,
And becauſe J haue heare made mention of the Tlandes of Ca-
nariæ, it hal not be muche from my purpole, to declare howe of
vnknowen they became knowen, and of ſauage and wilde, bets
ter manured : JFo2 by the long courſe of many peeres, they wert
Che Pil. Gans forgotten, and remapned as bnknowen,
ol Cana. Thele leuen Jlandes (therefore) called the Canaries, wert
. a founde by chaunce by a frenche man, called Bet anc hor, by the per:
— the million ak queene Katharine, pꝛotectrixe of king John her lone,
. of while he was vet in his nonage, about the peere of Chꝛiſte.
. S. CCC C. U. This Set anchor inuaded tiwo of hele Jlandes
called Lancelotus and Fortiſuentura, which he inhabited e bꝛought
to better culture. De being dead, his ſonne and heire falve bothe
the ſayde Jlandes to certayne Spantardes.
After this, Farnandus Peraria and his wyfe, inuaded Fer/ea and
Gomera. The other three were ſubdued in our time. Granc anaria,
— — with Alpbonfus Lugo. Fo that naked aun
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the Nandes of Canarie were added to the domminion of payne.
From thele Nandes Co/onns directyng his vopage towarde the
welt, folowyng the falling of the ſunne, but declining ſmewhat
towarde the left bande, ſayled on foꝛ warde. xxx dayes continu⸗
ally hauyng only the fruition ofthe heauen and the water. Chen Co ionus men
the panyardes whiche were accompanped with hym, began rebel agapnet
font to murmure ſecretely among them ſelues, and ſhoꝛtly after dym.
with wordes ok repꝛoche ſpake euil of Colonus thep2 gouernour,
and confulted with them ſelues, eyther to rydde hym out of the
wap, 02 els to caſt hym into the ſea: ragyng that they were de⸗
teyued ok a ſtranger, an outlandyſhe man, a Ligurian, a Genues,
and bꝛought into ſuche daungerous places, that they mighe
neuer returne agayne. And after. xxxiii.dayes were paſt, they fu⸗
riouſiy cryed out againſt hint, and thꝛeatned him that he ſboulde came wooves
paſſe no further. But he euer with gentle woꝛdeg and large pꝛo⸗ aud pioimtes.
miſes, appealed their furie, and pꝛolonged dap after day, ſome
tyme deſyꝛyng them to beare with hym pet a whple, and ſome
time putting them in remembꝛante that yk they ſhoulde attempt
anything againſt him, oꝛ otherwyſe diſobey bpm, it would be re⸗
puted fo: treaſon. Thus after a fewe dayes, with cheareful hartes
they eſpied the lande long looked fox. In this fyꝛſt nauigation,
he diſcouered. vi. ilandes, w erot two were exceedyng great: R
whiche, the one he called Hi pani la, and the other Johanne. But Haan
at that tyme he knew. not perfectly that Johanns (otherwyſe 5
called cuba) was an ilande. As they coaſted along by thehoe
of certapne of theſe ilandes, they hearde Nyghtyngales lyng in agu Ka
the thycke wooddes in the moneth of JRouember, They founde vember,
alſo great rpuers of freche water, and naturall hauens, of capa⸗
title to harbour great nauies of ſhippes. Sapling by the coaſteg
‘of Johanna, from the noꝛth poynt to the welt, he rode litle lelle
then eight hundzed miles (lo they cal it a hundꝛed and fuureſcoꝛe
leagues) ſuppoling that it had ben the continent o2 fyme lande,
Decaule he caulde neicher ſynde the landes ende, nop any token of
‘the ende. as fatve as he coulv tunge wich his eye: wherfozebe ves
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roughly tolſed the ſhyps by reaſon of the winter. Turning ther⸗
1 fore the femmes of his ſhyppes towarde the Ealt, he affyꝛmen
She Bande of that he had found the ilande of Oybir, whither Solomons ſhippes
bie. ſayled fo2 golde. But the dilcription of the Colmographers well
8 conſidered, it ſeemeth that bo! h theſe, and the other ilandes ads
Che andes iopnyng, are the ilands of Antilia. This ilande he called Hifpanie
ol un tia. ola, on whole north ſyde as he appꝛoched neare to the lande, che
A hrpwracke. Keele oz bottome of the biggeſt veſſell ranne vpon a blynde rocke
g i couered wich water, and cloue in funder : but the playneneſſe of
the rocke was a helpe to them that they were not dꝛoumed. Ma⸗
kyng hatte therfore with the other two ſhyps to helpe them, they
che people ot bꝛought awape al the men without hurte. Mere camming kyꝛſt a
the Alande. land, they ſawe certayne men ok the Jlande, who perceiuyng an
vnknowen nation comming toward them, flocked togeather, and
Naked people, Tanne al into the thycke woods, as it had ben hares courted with
grehoundes. Duc men purſuing them, tooke onely one woman,
whom they bꝛought to the ſhips: where fplling her with meate
and wyne, and appareling her, they let her depart to her compa⸗
nye. Shortly after a greate multitude of them came runnyng to
the (hore to behold this newe nation, whom they thought to haue
diſcended from heauen. They caſt them ſelues by heapes into the
Expert ſwym⸗ lea. came ſwimming to the ſhyppes, bꝛynging gold with them,
Bold fan earth Whiche they chaunged with our men fo, earchen pottes, dpinking
and glade. glaſſes, poyntes, pinnes, hawkes bels, looking glaſſes, x ſuch a:
ther trifles. Thus growing to further klamiliaritie, our men were
Maur tenses honoꝛably entertained of the king of that part of the iland, whole
f name was Guaccanarilius:fo it bath manp kyngs, as when Fne⸗
as arriued in Italp, he found Latium dinided into many kingdom
and pꝛouinces, as Latium, Mexeutium,T urnum,and Farc hontem,
which were feparated with narowe boundes, as thal moje largly
appeare hereafter. At the euen tide about the falling of che fonne,
2 when our men went to pꝛayer, and kneeled on their knees alter
— the maner ok p Chꝛiſtians, they dyd the lyke allo. And after luhat
8 maner ſo euer they {awe them pꝛay to the croſſe, they folowed
them in al poyntes as wel as they coulde .. They ſhewed much
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ſypppe, arid that with luche celeritie and cherefulnette, that no
krende for frende, oꝛ kynſeman fo? kynſeman, in ſuch cafe moued
with pitie, coulde do moꝛe. Theyꝛ boates are made only of one 1
tree, made holowe with a certaine ſharpe ſtone ( oꝛ they haue no Ehen gang
pꝛon) and are very long and naro we. Many affirme that they na son,
haue ſeene (ome of them with loꝛtie oꝛes. The wilde and myſche⸗
uous people called Canib cles. oꝛ Caribes, whiche were accuſtomed Cantbales, oy
to cate mans fleſhe( ⁊ called of the olde writers, Aut hropophagi) àuthnopo⸗
moleſt them exceedyngly, inuading their coun rey, takyng them vhagt.
taptiue, kyllyng ¢ eatyng them. As our men fapled to the ilandes
ok theſe meke and humane people, they left the ilands ofthe Ca-
nibales, in maner in the middeſt of they viage toward the ſouth.
They complayned that theyꝛ ilands were no leſſe vexed with the
incurſtons of theſe manhuntyng Canibales when they goe foztha The erucitie of
rouyng to ſeeke they: pꝛap, then are other tame bealtes, of Liong be Cantbales.
and Tigers. Such chyldꝛen as they take, they geld to make chem
fat, as we do cocke chickens and young hogges, and eate chem
when they are wel fedde: of ſuche as they eate, they fyꝛſt cate the
intralles and extreme partes, as handes, feete, armes, necke, and
head. The other moſt fleſhye partes, they pouder faz ſtoꝛe, as we
do peſtels of poꝛke, and gammondes of bakon: pet do they ab⸗
ſteyne from eatyng of women, and counte it ble. Ti erfore ſuche
poung women as they take, they kepe for increaſe, as we do hens
nes to leye egges: the olde women, they make theyꝛ dꝛudges.
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‘of Marueplen at, that the iuice of this roote is a poyſon as ſlrong
— ag — fo that if it be dꝛunke, it cauſeth pꝛeſent death, and
pet the bꝛead made of the maſſe thereof, is of good tafte and hol⸗
lome, as they all haue pꝛooued. They make alſo another kynde
ol bꝛead of a certapne pulle, called Panicum, guuche like vnto
wheate, whereok is great plentie in the Dukedome of Dillane,
Spapne, and Cranatum. But that o this Countrep is longer by
a ſpanne, ſomewhat ſharpe towarde the ende, and as bygge as
a mans arme inp bꝛawne: the graynes wherof are fee in a mars
ueylous oder, € are in fourme ſomewhat lyke a eaſe. CAhyle
they be ſoure and vnripe, they are whyte, but when they are ripe,
they be very blacke, when they are bꝛoken, they be whiter then
. ſnowe: this kynde of grayne they call Maig um. Golde is of
Wonen eli? ſome eltimation among them: for fome of them hang certayne
e ſmall peeces thereof at they eares and nolethꝛylles. A litle be:
; ponde this place, our men went a lande fo2 freſhe water, where
Sorein the they chaunced vpon a riuer, whole lande was myxed with muche
ners. golde. They founde there no kindes of foure footed beaſtes, cx
cept three kindes of litle conies, Theſe ilandes alſo nouryſhe
wirbt, lerpentes, but uche as are without hurt. Likewife wilde geele,
nume. turtle doues, and duckes, muche greater then ours, and as white
Suttle Doues. as [wannes. with heades of purple calour. Alfo Popiniayes, of
Dopimapes. the whiche ſome are greene, ſome pelowe, x ſome Ipke them of
Punt. India, with petowe rynges about thep2 neckes, as Plinie deſcri⸗
beth them. Ok theſe they bꝛought fourtie wich them, of molle
lyuely and dilectable colours, hauyng thepꝛ feathers enterming⸗
led with greene, velowe, and purple, whiche varietie delyghteth
the ſenſe not a title. Thus muche thought J good to ſpeake of
Hop yniayes (ryght noble pꝛince) ſpecially to this intent, that
albeit the opinion of Chriftophorus Colonus (ho affyꝛmeth theſe
Sele Htandes ilandes to be part of Iudia) doth not in all poyntes agree with
Tui. 10 the iudgement of auncient wnyters as touchyng the bygneſſe of
Maizium.
The Andians the Sphere and compaſle of the Globe, as concernyng the na⸗
art Antipodes
totheSpas uuigable portion ol the ſame being under vs, pet the Popimiapes
nparbdes. end many other thynges brought from thence, doo declare that
thefe Nandes fauour ſome what of nia, eyther beyng neare vn⸗
seritore, bo lt, q els ufthe fame nature: fpaſmuthe as ay ſtole alfo, about
Hencca,” he ende ok his booke 4e Cel &. Mundo, n
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with diners other auethours not ignoꝛaunt in Colmographie, do India nots
. from paine from —
bp the welt Ocean, Lee fooxth Gos.
Maſtyr, Aloes, and ſundꝛy other ſweete gununes and ſpyces, as Gosampine
doch India, Cotton allo of the Goſſampine ace. asin! dain bag. e dem-
the countrey of the people called Seres. Herts.
The languages of alj che nations okcheſe i+ endes, map well The laugnage
be kuytten with our Latine letters. „ og wey vas graven Z urei. of theft Au-
A houſe Bos. Golde Cauni. A good man, Taino. Nothing. 1%.
ani. Al other woꝛds of theyꝛ language, they pronounce as plain⸗
ly as we do the Latine tongue. In theſe ilande they kounde no Trees ¢ fruites
trees kuowen vnto them, but Nine qpple trees, and Date trees, Ne
and thole of marueplous heßght, and exceedyng harde, by rea
fon ok the great moyſtneſſe and fatneſſe ol the grounde, wich Fat and mopſt
continual and temperate heate of the fanne, v hiche endurech Heute dantinu⸗
fo al the whole pere. They playnely affirme the ilande of Hi/pa- Aa temperate,
nils ta be the motte fruitefull lande ti t che de auen compall. 5 lle at yitpas
about, as ſhall moꝛe largely appeare hereaſier in the particuler niola.
deſcription of the fame,“which we entende to fet fooꝛth when we
‘hathe better inſttructed. Chas makyng a league of frendlhyp
Vich the kung, and leauing with hym. xxrbiii. men to ſearche the
ilande, he departed to Spapne, tak: ug with hym tenne of the in
habitauntes to learne the Spaniſhe tongue, to the intent to bſe
them afterward for igterpretours.Colonus therfore at his returne
wag honourably ret᷑tiued of the kyng and queene, who cauiſed
bpm to ſyt in theyz prefence, whiche is a token of great loue
and honour among the Spanparves. Me was alſo made Admi⸗
tal of the Ocean, and his brother gouernour of che tlande.
Toward the ſekund voyage he was furniſhed with. xbii. hips, The ſcconde
twheof tinee welk great taractes of thouſande tunne, xii. were aeg of Caz
ofthat fopt which the Spaniards cal Caranelas, withoutbeckes,
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hess und comne,as tubeate, barlep,cye beaneg, a w peaſe, and Cache
— other, aſwel for foc e as to ſowe: beſyde vines, plantes, and
N ſeedes, of ſuche ters, kruites, and hearbes, as thoſe countrepes
lacke, and (not to be foꝛgotten) ſimdꝛy ky ades of artyllerie and
Lenard. iron. voles, ar aobes,arrowrs,crofbowes,bplles,hargabulled,
bꝛo de ſwoozte . ge targettes, ppkes, mattuckes, ſhouelles,
hammers, naple.* ſawes, axes, and ſuche other. Thus beyng
furniſhed acco. gung t ia ward from the Nlandes of Ga-
des (nowe called Cales) the ſeuenth day before the Calendes of
October, in the peere of Chit. 1493. and ariued at the tlanves
of Canarie at the Calendes of October: Ok thele ilandes, the
6 laſt is called Ferrea, in whiche there is no other water that may
Waater mon“ be dzunke, but only that is geath. l. vol the deawe, which tonti.
——— mally diſtyllech from one only tree, growyng on the hygheſt
allpe. bancke of the il ue, and falleth into a rounde trenche made with
mans hande: we were enkourmed of thele tl ynges within fewe
de es after his deyartiu .. UAhat ſhall ſucceede, we wyl certifie
vou hereafter. Thi. 3 lare pe well, from "ye courte, at the Joes
of Nouember. 1493. :
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Calella Wes past olone in high Spayne, in refpect from you,
tus. and is in that parte of Spayne whiche is called Ca/tella
f beyng diftant from Gades about, xl. myles.
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of the hyppes ſent waozde to the kyng and queene, that he had
none other matter to certifie them of by the poſtes, but only
that the Admiral with fiue ſhyppes, and fourefcope and ten men,
temayned ſtyll in Hi/paniols to ſearche the ſecretes of the ilande,
and that as touchyng other matters, he hym ſelfe would ſhoꝛtly
make relation in theyz pꝛeſence by wooꝛde of mouth: therefore
the day before the Nones of Apꝛyl, he came to the Courte hym
ſelfe. (Chat J learned ol hym, and other faythfull and credible
men, whiche came with hym from the Admiral, J wil rehearſe
vnto pou, in ſuche oꝛder as they declared the fame to me, when J
demaunded them: take it therefoze as foloweth. The third day
of the Joes of October, departyng from Ferres, the laſte of the che Jtande
ilandes of C anariæ, and from the coaſtes of Spayne, with a Ma- of Fereca.
nie of ſeuenteene ſhippes, they ſayled. xxi.dayes before they came
to any ilande, inclining of purpoſe more towarde the left hand
then at the kyꝛſt voyage, kolowing the noꝛth noꝛtheaſt winde, and
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a market place. And fozaſmuche as haue made mention of
theyp houſes, it hall not be greatly from my purpoſe to deſcribe
in wat manner they are buylded: They are made rounde lyke
belles o2 roumde pauilions. They frame is rayſed of exceedyng
high trees, ſet tlafe togeather, and faſt rampaired in the ground,
fo ſtanding aflope, and bending inwarde, that the toppes of the
trees ioyne togeather, and beare one agaynſt another, hauyng
alfo within the houſe certaine ſtrong and ſhoꝛt pꝛoppes 02 poſtes
whiche ſuſteyne the trees from fallyng. They couer them wich
the leaues of date trees, and other trees ſtronglye compact and
hardened, wherwith they make them clofe from winde and wea⸗
ther. At the ſhoꝛte poſtes oꝛ pꝛoppes within the houſe, they tye
ropes of the cotton of goſſampine trees, oꝛ other ropes made of
certapne long ¢ rough rootes, much lyke vnto che ſhꝛubbe called
Spartum, wherot in old tyme they bled to make bandes foꝛ vines.
and gables and ropes fo, ſhygpes. Theſe they tye ouerthwarte
the houſe from pofte to poſte, on theſe they lay as it were cers
taine matreſſes made of the cotton of gollampine trees, whiche
growe plentifully in theſe ilandes. This cotton the Spanyards
cal Algodon, and the Italians Bombaſine: and thus they lie epe
in hangyng beddes. At the entrance of one of they houſes, they
ſawe two images of wood lyke bnta ſerpentes, whiche they
thought had been fuche idols as they honour: but they learned
akterwarde that they were fet there onlye for comelyneſſe, for
they knowe none other god then the ſunne and moone, althougy
they make certaine images of goſſampine cotton to 5ᷣ ſimilitude
ok luche phantaſies as they fap appeare to them in the nygbt.
Dur men found in they hou es, al kindes of earthen veſſels, not
muche vnlyke vnto ours. They founde allo in they kytchens,
mans fleſhe, duckes lleſhe, x gooſe fleſhe, al in one pot, and other
on the ſpyts redy to be layde to the fyꝛe. Entring into their inner
lodgynges, they kounde faggottes of the bone s of mens armes
and legges, wiyiche they referue to make heades for theyz are
rowes, becauſe they lacke iron, the other bones they caſt aap
men they haue eaten the flethe. They founre iphewsple the head
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ename one gent bal m pallace, about the luhiche
ber come concatertoplape » Giben cep perceten he com
myng of our men, they fledde. In they: houſes they founde
allo aboue thirtie childzen captiues, whiche were relerued to
be eaten, but our men tooke them away to vſe them for inter ·
pꝛeters. Searching more diligently the inner parts of the land,
they founde feuen other ryuers, bygger then tyis whiche we
{pake of befoꝛe, runnyng through the ilande, wich fruitefull
and pleafaunt bankes, delectable to beholde. This ilande
they called Guadalupea,fop the ſunilitude that it hath to the mount The monne
Guadalupus in S papne, where the image of the virgm Parie Guadainpus
is religioully honoured, but the inhabitauntes call it Carucueria. garutuetia.
0} Qucraquiera : It is the cheefe habitation of the Canibales. They
ought from this iland. vii. Popiniapes, bigger then Pheſants, Poviniapes
muche dyfferyng from other in colour, baupng thepz backes, Phe kantte.
« sbpeftes, and bellies of purple colour, and they wynges of other
variable colours: in al theſe ilands is no leſſe plentte of Popyn⸗
iapes, then with vs of ſparrowes oz ſtarelynges. As we bing
bp capons and hennes to franke and make them fat, fo doo they
thele bigger kindes of Popyniayes foꝛ the fame purpoſe. After
that they had thus ſearched the ilande, and dꝛiuen cheſe Canibales Che Canibat
to flight ( whiche ran awapat they kyꝛſt approche, as foone as ut 10 fag
they had eſpied them) they called their company togeather, and
as foone as they had bꝛaken p C anihales boates op lighters (whis
che they tal Canoas) they looſed they ankers the day befope the
Foes of Nouember, and departed from Guadalupea. Colonus the
Admiral, fo the vefrre he had to {ee bis companions, whiche at
bis fyꝛlt vopage be left the pecre before in Hi/paniols to ſearch the
countrep, let pafie many ilandes both on his ryght hande, ¢ left
bande, and fapled directly thyther Wy the way there appeared
from the noꝛth a great iland, which the captines that were taken
in Hifpaniols, called A4 adanino, o Matinino, affirming it to be Matin an
uabited only with women, to twh5 the Canibales baue arteſſe at den. of ws
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babe Amaxones in the tlande of Leſbos: the men chytoren they
lemde to theyy fathers, but the women then keepe wich them
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ius, and replenyſhed with al thynges neceflarie for the
dns der lite of man His they called Mons Serratus, becaule it was full
Aus. of mountapnes . The captpues further declared, that the Cani⸗
len ug fan bales ave woont at fome time to goe from they owne coaſtes
* aboue athoulande myles to hunt koꝛ men. The day folowing,
they ſawe an other ilande, the whiche becauſe it was rounde,
antta Maria thep called Santta Maria Rotunda. The next day, they founde
otunda. an other, whiche they called S. Martini, whiche they let paſſe
anctus Mar- alſu, becauſe they had no leaſure to tarrye. Lykewyſe the thirde
nus. daye they eſpied another, whole Diametral ſyde, extendyng from
anita Maria the Eaſte to the welt, they iudged to be a hundzed ¢ fpftie myle.
ntiqas. They affirme all theſe ilandes to be maruelous fayꝛe and fruite⸗
poyſon. Ihen they had taried there
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made, ok terrible and froumyng countenante, and a Lions face.
Our men, leaſte they ſhoulde take the more hurte by beyng „ comnict wir
wounded a farre of, thought it beſte to iuyne with them. Ther⸗ the Canbala
fone with al ſpeede, ſetting foꝛward with their ores the bꝛigandine
in whiche they were fette alande, they ouerturned their Canva
with a great violence, whiche being *
ſtanding, as wel the women as the — they
partes at our men thicke and thzeefolde. At che length, gea⸗
theryng them ſelues togeather vpon a rocke couered with the
water, they fought manfully vntyll they were ouercome and tas
ken, one beyng flapne, and che queenes fonne fore wounded.
Mhen they were bought into the Admirals ſhippe, they dyd no
move put of herr liercenes and cruel countenaunces, then do the eye fiercenea
Lions of Lybia when they perceiue them ſelues to be bounde in ¢ terrible coun
chapnes. Chere is no man able to beholde them, but he hall Candles. 8
fecle his bowels grate with a certayne hozrour, nature hath
endued them with fo terrible menacing and cruell afpect, This
toniecture I make of mee felfe,¢ other which oltentymes went
with me tafe them at Methymna Campi: but nowe tu returne pretypmne
to the voyage. Pꝛoceeding thus further and further, moze then Campi.
kyue hundꝛed myles, kpꝛſte towarde the welt ſouthweſt, then
towarde the ſouthweſt, and at the length towarde the weſt
noꝛthweſt, they entred into a mayne large ſea, hauyng in it iu.
numerable ilandes, marueplouſiy dyfferyng one from another, —
lan ome of them were very fruitefull, and fullofhearbes and Landes
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cebipelagus, Archipelagus. From this tracte pꝛoceding fopwarn, in the midde
infata. S. 30, May there lyeth an taupe whiche thinhabitantes call Burichina,
annes 0} 8 02 Buchena: but chey named it [nfuls.S . Iobannis. Dyuers of
aes them whom we had delyuered from the Canibales, ſayde that
they were bone in this tlande, affirming it to be verpe populous
and kruteſull hauing alfo many faire wooddes and hauens. Ther
is deadly hatred and continual battaple betwene them and the
Canibales. They haue no boates to paſſe from their owne coaſtes
to the Canibaler: but if it be their chaunce to ouercome them
when they make incurfion into theyꝛ countrey to fecke their
bs prape(as tt formetpme happeneth, che foꝛtune of warre being vn ·
neath forbear certayne) they ſerue them . h like lauſe, requiting death for
death. Faq one of chem mangeleth an other in pieces, and rote
them, and eate them euen beloze their eyes. They taryed not in
this ilande: Pet in the welt angle therof, a fewe of chem went
a lande fo; frethe water, and founde a great and high houſe after
che maner of their buyldyng, hauing . xi. other of their vulgare
cotages placed about the fame, but were all lefte deſolate, whe⸗
her it were that they reſozted to the mountaynes by reaſon of the
bemouns | beate which was that tyme of the peere, and to returne tothe
ertbenthe. playne when the ape wareth coulder, 02 els for feare ofthe ca.
une. nibales whiche make incurſion into the ilande at certapne feafons,
0 In al this ſlande is only one kyng. The ſouth (pve hereof exten:
deth about two hundꝛech myles, Shortly alter, they came to the
ilande of Hiſpaniola, being diſtante from the firfte danve of
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Avmpꝛall in che name ol his bother, and tolde a tae abs “ene
nguage as concetnpng the death of our meng as they pꝛooued
afte rwarde, but at this tyme had no regarde to his communi⸗
cation fn lache of interpꝛetours, whiche were eyther all dead,
or eſcaped and ſtolne away when they dꝛewe neare the flandes.
But of the ten, ſeuen dyed by chaunge ol ayꝛe and dyet. The in⸗
habitauntes ok theſe ilandes haue ben euer fo vled to lyue at 1
bertie, in play and paſtyme, that they can hardly away with
the poke of ſeruitude, which they attempte to thake of by all
meanes they may. And furelp pk they had receiued our religion, A happie he
Awoulde thynke they; lyfe molte happie of all men, pf they
myght therewith eniope theyz auncient libertie. A fewe thinges
contente them, hauyng no delyte in ſuche ſuperfluities, for the Suverfuitiss
whiche in other places men take infinite paynes, and commit 8
manye vnlawfull actes, and pet are neuer ſatillied, whereas ma⸗ Many haue to
nye baue to muche, and none yenough. But among thele ſymple n
foules,a fewe clothes ſerue the naked: weightes and mealures YS”
are not needeful to ſuche as can not ckyl of craft and deceyte, and
baue not the vſe ol peſtiferous money, the ſeede of innumerable
miſcheeues: fo that yf we ſhall not be aſhamed to confelle the
trueth, they ſeeme to liue in that golden wonlde of the whiche
olde wyyters ſpeabe ſo muche, wherein men lyued ſymplpe Wolde. den
and innocentlye without enloꝛcement of lawes, without quarrel ;
lyng, iudges, and libelles, content only to ſatiſũe nature, without
further vexation fo knowledge of thynges to come. Det theſe
naked people allo are topmented with ambition, fop p delire they Raned men
haue to enlarge their dominions: by reaſonwherol they kepe war Aubin
and deſtroy one another, from the tabiche plague J ſuppole the :
golden woꝛlde was not free. Foz even then alfo, C ede. non cedam,
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from the Canibales , and earneftly one of them tuhom
our men called Katherine, he ſpake gentelp vnto her. And thus
when he had ſeene and marueyled at the hoꝛſes, and ſuch other
thyngs as were in the ſhyppe, vnknowen ta them, and had wich
& good grace and meryly aſked leaue of the Admiral, he depar⸗
ted. Net ſome there were whiche counfapled the Admirall ta
— che other — — Fes. in the ſpꝛyng
moꝛning, certaine meflengers bei vnto him by the
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fuppoting that it had byn the mouth of ſome great ryuer He
founde heare allo a berp commodious and fafe hauen, and theres.
ſioꝛe named it Portus Regalis. They fap that the enterance of this
is ſo crooked and bending, that after the ſhyps are once within
the lame, whether they turne them to the left hand, o to the right,
they can not percepue where they came in, vntyl they returne to
the mouth of the ryuer, although it be there fo bꝛode that thꝛee of
the byggeſt veſſels may faple togeather on afroont , The ſharpe
and high hylles on the one ſpde and on the other, fo bꝛake the
wynde, that they were vncertaine hol to rule they; ſayles. In the
myddle gulfe of the ryuer, there is a pꝛomontoꝛie 02 point of the 3
land with a pleaſant groue, ful of Popingiapes and ot her byꝛdes, and eib
which bꝛeede therin e fing very ſweetly: They perceyued allo
that two ryuers of no final largeneſſe fell into the hauen. CAhyle
they thus ſcarched the lande betwene boch, Melchior eſpied a
high houle a farce of, where ſuppoling that Guaccanarillus had
lyen hyd, he made towarde it: and as he wag goyng, there met
hym a man with a frownyng countenance, and a grymme looke,
with a hundꝛed men folowyng hym , armed with bowes and ar⸗
rowes, and long and ſharpe ſtaues lyke iauelynnes, made
harde at the endes with fine, who appꝛoching towardes our
men, Spake out aloud with a terrible voce, ſaying that they were Tann.
Taini(that is) noble men, and not Cauibales : but when our men
had geuen them lignes of peace, they left both they weapons
and lierceneſſe. Thus geuyng ech ol them certayne haukes bels, Vaunes bellen.
they tooke it for fo great a rewarde, that they delyꝛed to enter
bondes ok neare frendſhyp with vs, and feared not immediatly to
ſubmit them ſelues vnder our power, and reſoꝛted to our ſhyps
with their pꝛeſentes. They that mealured the houſe ( beyng made 1 large houle.
in tound kourme ) kound it co be from ſyde ta ſyde. xxxii· great pa⸗
ces, cumpaſſed about with xxx. other vulgare houſes, hauyng in 8
them many beamies crolle ouer, x couered with reedes of lundꝛy eedes of fans
dulburs, methed e as it were weaued wi 0 att Ahe i rolours.
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cats. Dakpng therefore a brotherly league with this Cacicus (that ia
to ſap a kyng) they returned to the Admiral, to make relation
what they had ſeene and hearde: whereupon he ſent kooꝛth vis
uers other Centurians with they; hundzedes, to ſearche the
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Goiulanus. „4, noble poung gentlemen, and of great courage. And as they
went towarde the mouutayues to ſeeke Guaccanerillus, diuiding
the mountapnes betweene them, one of them founde on the one
„ lyde thereof, foure ryuers fallyng from the fame mountapnes,
tallung from and the other founve thꝛee on the other ſyde. In the ſandes of al
mauntapnes. thele riuers is founde great plentie of golde, whiche the inhabi⸗
tauntes ok the fame ilande whiche were with vs, geathered in
Che manner of (his manner: makyng holes in the lande with theyz handes a
gatherutg gald. Cubite deepe, and takyng vp lande with theyꝛ left handes from
— of the bottome of the ſame, they pycked out graynes of golde with
they ryght handes without any moze art oꝛ cumng, and ſo
deliuered it to our men, who affirme that many of them thus
geathered, were as bygge as tares on fytches. And J mec lelle
lawe a maſſe of rude golde (that is to lay, fiche as was neuer
moulten) lyke vnto ſuche ſtones as are founde in the bottomes
A matte ot tude ok ryuers, weighyng niene ounces, whiche Hoieda hym {cif
soviet kounde. Beyng contented with theſe ſignes, they returned to
f t⸗he Admirall to certiſie hym hereof. Foꝛ the Admirall had com:
maunded bnder payne of punyſſ/ ment, that they ſhoulde meddle
no further then theyꝛ commiffion: whiche was only, to ſearche
the places with theyꝛ ſignes. Foz the fame went that there was
wu ihr a certayne kyng of the mountaynes from hence thole rpucrs
poute of gode. had they fall, whom they cal Cacicus Caunaboa,that is, the loꝛd of
the houſe of golde, ſoꝛ they cal a houſe Boa, golde, Cauni, and
Holfome toa: kyng oz loꝛde Cacicus, as we haue ſayde before. They aflirme
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ter. and pien⸗ that there can no where be founde better lyſhe, noꝛ of moꝛe ple:
tur offehe. fant taſte, o; moꝛe holſome then in theſe riuers: alſo the waters
ok the fame tu be motte holſome to dꝛynke. A elchior him ſellt
Che dan and kolde me, that in the moneth ol December the dayes e nygbte⸗
Enden De- be of equal length mn. Yd Canibales : but the {phere 0 ct
tember, les of che heauen agrerth not thereunto, albeit that in the ſam
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mall chen extreme. De tolde me alfo when Z queltioned wich
‘han as concerning ö eleuation of the pole fro the hoꝛizontal line, The eleuation
that al che ſtarres called // N num oz charles wayne, are hyd vn C dong are
der the Moꝛth pole to the Cauibales. And ſurely there returned calted guardens
none from thence at this bioage, to whom there is moꝛe credit to d be vole.
be geuen, chen to this man. But ilhe had byn ſkilfull in Aitro⸗
nomie, he ſhoulde haue fapve that the day was almolle equall
with the night: Foz in no place towarde the ſtay of che ſonne
(called Solſticium) can the night be equall wich the day. And as 5
for them, they neuer came under the Feu noctial, fonafinuch ag — Equinoc⸗
chey had euer the Naxth pole theyꝛ guyde, and euer eleuate in
ſight aboue the Horizontal. Thus haue J bzielely wpitten vnto
pour honour, ag muche as J thought fufficient at this tyme,
and ſhall ſhoꝛtly hereafter (by Gods fauoure) wryte onto you
more largely of fuch matters as ſhalbe dayly better knowen Foꝛ
the Admiral hym ſelle ( whom J vſe kamperly as my berykrende)
bath pꝛomiſed me by his letters, chat he top! geue me knowledge
of al uch chinges as ſhall chaunce. Me hath notwe choſen a trong
place where he may build a citte, ncare vnto a cõmodious hauen,
and hath alredy buylded man houſes, and a chapel, in the which * 3 and
(aa in a newe woꝛlde heretoſoꝛe voyde of all religton) God is
daply ſerued with. xiii. pꝛieſtes, accoꝛdyng to the maner of our
churches. Ahen the tyme nowe appꝛoched that he pꝛompſed
to ſende to the king and queen e, and hauyng pꝛoſpereus winde
for that purpoſe, fent backe the. xii. Tarauelles, wherof we made
mention before: which was no final hynderance and areefe vnto
hym, efpectallp conſyderyng the death of his men whom he lefte
inthe ilande at the fyꝛlt voyage, wherby we are yet ignoꝛant of
‘many plates and other ſecretes, where we myght ocherwyſe e
haue had further knowlenges but as tyme ſhall reueale them a⸗
gapne, fo wyll J aduertyſe pou of the ſame. And that you may
the better knowe by conference had with the Apotbecaries and
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felfe, touch them fyrtt loltly moouyng them to pour Ipppes , fon
although they be not hurtful, yet foꝛ they exceſſe of heate, they
are ſharpe, and byte the tongue pf they remapne any while
thereon: but yl the tongue be blyſtered by taſtyng of them, the
fame is taken away by dzynkyng of water. Ok the come allo
whereof they make theyꝛ bꝛead, this bꝛynger hall deliuer fome
graynes to pour loyothyp,both whyte and blacke, aud therwith
Filoatoes, o all a trunke ok the tree ok Aloes.the whiche pf you cut in peeces,
ugnum sors. pou ſhall feele a ſweete fauour to pꝛoceede from the ſame. Thus
’ fare pou hartily well, from the Court of Methymna Campi, the
thyꝛde day before the Calendes of Pay. Anno Dom. 1494. |
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Lodouike Cardinall of Aragonie, and
Neuiewe to the kyng.
Pho Ou delpꝛe that foolpſhe Pheton ſhoulde as
ö . 70 gapne rule the chariots of the Sumie, and
e contende to dꝛawe ſweete licours out of the
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Dee cribe vnto pou the newe wonld, found in the
wet by che good foꝛtune and gouernaunce —
of the Catholique princes Ferdinandus and
Elizabeth, your Uncle and Aunte, ſhewyng me allo the letters
ok kyng Frederike pour Uncle, witten to me in that bebalfe: But
{pth pou haue layde this burden on my backe, in power it
is to commaunde me to take bppon me moze then J am well
able, pe both ſhall receiue this pꝛecious ſtone rudely cloſed ut
lead after my manner of woꝛkemauſbyn. TUherefoe, when pou
fk fhal perceme the learned ſoꝛt frendly, the malitious enutoufiy,
mmaoche backbpters furioufip;to bende they ſlaunderouis dartes
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with his whole nauie: But nowe we entende further ta ſhewe
what he founde as concernyug the nature of this ilande, after
that he had better ſearched the ſecretes ol the lame: Lykewyſe
of the ilande of c neare bnto it, whiche be ſuppoſed to be the
fyꝛme lande. Hi/paviola therefore (whiche he alfirmeth to be
Ophir, whereof we reade in the thyꝛde booke of the kvnges) ts Ophur whither
ok latitude fyue ſouth degrees, hauyng the noꝛth pole eleuate sotomons
on the noꝛth ſyde revit. degrees, and on the ſouth (poe (as they ed fog
{ay) xxii. degrees, it reacheth in length from Catt to CTleſt, ſe⸗ 8
uen hundꝛed and foureſcoꝛe myles, it is diſtant from the landes
of Gades (called Cales) xlix. degrees, and maꝛe, as ſome fap: the
fourme of the ilande reſembleth the leatfe of a Coefnutte tree.
Ci jon a hygh hyll on the Moꝛth ſyde of the ilande, he buylded 55
a citie, becauſe this place was molt apt for that puryoſe. by reac 7
fon of a myne of ſtones whiche was neare vate the lame, ſer⸗
uyng well both to buylde with, and alfa to make Lyne: at the
bottome of this hyll, is there a great playne ol tyyeeſcoꝛe myles
in length, and in breadth ſomewhere rit. ſomewhere. xx. myles
where it is bꝛodeſt, x fire myles where it is narroweſt: thꝛough
this plapne runne diuers fayꝛe ryuers of wholſome waters, but
the greateſt of them, whiche is nauigaule, kallech into the hauen
of the cite foꝛ the 8 à furlong: howe fertile and fruit⸗
ful this valley ts, v erſtande by theſe thynges whiche
folowe. Onthe thore Mis ryuer, they haue lyimitted and en: A toten ot mar⸗
cloled certay ound, to make gardens and oꝛchyardes, in the uenous frustes}
whiche al kynde of bygger hearbes, as radiſhe, letuſe, colewoꝛts, flee
borage, ⁊ ſuche other, ware rype within xvi dayes after the ſeede
is ſowen, lykewyle Melones, Gourdes, Cucumers, and ſuche wearbes greene
other, within the ſpace of. xxxbi. dayss, theſe garden hearbes —
they haue freſhe € greene al the whole peere. Allo the rootes ob
che canes oz reedes of the licour whereof ager is made, growe Blanes ang
& cubite hygh within the (pace ol. ry. Bayes, but the licour is bines.
met pet hardened. The lyke they affirme ol plantes oꝛ ſbꝛoudes
al poung vines, and chat they haue the leronde peere grathered
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ofthe rype eares ofthe fame the thynde day beloꝛe che calendes ol
Apzill, which was chat peere the vighe of the Neſurrection of
our Loyd . Aifo, al kyndes of pulle, as beanes, peaſon, fycchea,
tares,¢ ſuch other. are rype twyſe in the peere, as al they whiche
come from thence affirme with one voyce, pet the grounde
is not vniuerſallp apte to beare wheate. In the meane tyme
whple theſe thinges were doing, the Admirall ſent out a com:
panye of xxx. men to ſearche the Region of Cipanga, otherwyſe
called Cibana. This Region is full of mountaynes and rockes:
and in the mpodle backe of the whole ilande is great
plentie of golde. CAhen they that went to ſearche the region
were returned, they repoꝛted maruelous thinges as touching the
great ryches of this Region. From theſe mountaynes, deſcende
foure great ryuers, which by the maruelous induſtrye of nature,
diuideth the whole ilande into foure partes, in maner equal, ouer⸗
heading e wateryng the whole ilande with their bꝛanches. Ok
theſe foure ryuers the one reacheth to warde the Eaſte, this the
inhabitantes call Iunna: another to warde the weſte, and is
called: Attibunicus: the thirde toward the Noꝛth, named Jachem:
the latte reacheth inta the South. and is called Naiba. The day
beldze the Joes. of Marche, the Admirall him ſelfe, with al his
phozſemen, and foure hundꝛed footemen, marched directly to⸗
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the ryuer, the playne, and the mountayne which enuironed the
other ſyde ofthe playne, he chaunced vppon an other vate, with
, where was no pallage befoye, ann delcended into another pale
whiche as nowe the begynnyng of cib ana. Though this allo
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ktrelſe ol faint Thomas, che whiche in che mene tyme bohyfle
de was buplopng, che inbabrtaumtes beyng defprous of baukes gan 2.
belles,and other of our thinges, refogeeo dapi chpeher, to whom s
the Admirall declared, that yk they woulde bꝛyng golde, chey
ſhoulde haue whatſdeuer they woulde afke. Fooꝛthwich turning
they: backes, and runnyng to the ſhoze of the next riuer, they
returned in a ſhoꝛte tyme, bꝛyngyng with them theyꝛ handes ful
of golde. Amongſt all other, there came an olde mau, bꝛyngyng Srapnes and
with him two pibble ſtones of golde, weyghyng an ounce, deſp. pibbie tones
ryng them to geue hym a bell toꝛ the fame: who when he fawe elde.
our men marueyle at the bygnelſe thereof, he made ſignes that
they were but (mall and of no value in reſpecte of ſome that he
had ſeene, and takyng in his hande foure ſtones, the leaſt wher:
of was as bigge as a Malnut, and the biggeſt as bigge as an
Drange, he fapd that there was founde peeces of golde fo bygge
in his countrep, beyng but balfe a dayes iourney from thence,
and that they had no regarde to the geatheryng thereof, wherby They pam
we perceiued that they palſe not muche foꝛ golde, inalmuche as 8
it is golde only, but lo karre elleeme it, as the hande of the Arti: golde onctp
ficer hath feſhioned it in anp comely fourme. Foz who dooth but. ac.
greatly eſteeme rough marble, oꝛ vnmought Juoꝛieꝰ but if they
be bought with the cunning hande of Phidias oꝛ Praxiteles, and
ſhaped ta the ſimilitude of p fame Nimphes oꝛ Faires of the fea
(called Nereiades) oʒ the Fapꝛes of the wooddes (called ama.
driades)they thal neuer lacke byers. Beſyde this olde man, there
came alfo diners other, bꝛyngyng with them pybble ſtones of
golde, weighing x. oz. ru dꝛammes, x feared not to confefle, that
inp place where they geathered that gold, chere were found forts
tyme ſtones of golde as bygge as the head ok a childe. CUhen he Stones o
had taried here a fem dapea, he ent one Luxanus, à noble pong de rh. an
gentleman, with a few armed men, to ſearch alche partes of this ata chüde.
region: who at his retin that the inbabttants ſhelwed
bim greater thynges then we haue ſpoken of here before, but he
dyd openly declare nothyng thereof, whiche they thought was
. — luch as we —— .
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ollde vines wilde vines, rype, and ok pleaſant tafte, but the inhabitauntes
be ante palle not on them. This region, thought be full of ſtanes ard
‘rockes (and is therefqe called Cibana. whiche is as muche tu
fap as a ſtone) pet it is wel replenyſhed with trees and paftures,
Fg nouns yea they tonſtantly affirme,that pf p graſſe ol thele mountapnes
0 be cutte, it groweth age yne within the {pace of foure dayes.
hygber then wheate. And loꝛaſmuche as many ſhomes of raynt
doo fall in this region, whereof the ryuers and flooddes haue
zolde in the they encrraſe, in euerp of the whiche golde is founde myxt with
ers falling fande in all places, they iudge that the golde is dayuen from the
rom the mountaypnes, by the vehement courſe of the ſtreames twhiche fall
Rountapnes. from the lame, and runne into the ryuerg. The people of this
teegion are geuen to idleneſſe and play, for ſuche as inhabite the
libertie and moumtaynes, {pt quakyng fo colde in the M ynter ſeaſon, and
Phe mourns had rather to wander vp and dowune idellp, then take the paynes
apnes are to make them apparell, where as they haue wooddes full of
eee Gollampine cotton: but fiche as dwell in the valles op playnes,
feele no colde in NAynter. CUhen the Admirall — thus ſear⸗
ched the beginning of the region olc ibana. he repayꝛed to Iſabel⸗
4s (for fo he named the citie) where, leauyng the gouernaunce of
the Nande with his deputics, he pꝛepared hym ſelle to fearch
rhe nande further the limites ol the Bande of Cubs o Johanna. whiche be
It Cuba. pet doubted to be the firme lande, and diſtant from Hiſpaniola
| anly . ter, myles. This dyd he with moze ſpeedye expedition,
dung to remembzaunce the kynges commaundement, who
wylled hym fyꝛſt with al celeritie, to ouerrunne the coaftes of the
JC eennel ates nadiiiadaediadine inte eecahe sien oe
punce.ét. tempt to inuade the fame, lo che kung of — — affirmen
: qdhat it parteyned ani tu him ta diſcouer theſe vnknowen landes:
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tothe South a hunded leagnes LMeſtwarde, without che paras
leis of the Nandes talled apud Viride, d Cabrnerde, whiche wwe: e ilanbes
thinke to be thole that in olde tyme were called He/perides: thele ol wetyeribes
partepne to the kyng of Poztugale, and from thele his Pylotes,
whiche do peerelp ſearche newe coaſtes and regions, directe
they: courſe to the Eaſt, ſaylyng euer to warde the left hande by
the backe of Aphꝛike, and the ſeas of the Ethiopians: neycher
to this day had the Poꝛtugales at any tyme ſayled South warde SPs Deve
o Meſlwarde from the Nandes of Cabouerde. Pꝛeparing ther: maith pny
fore three ſhyppes, he made hatte towarde the Jlande of Jobanna
02 Cuba, whyther he came in ſhozt ſpace, and named the poynt
therof, where he fyꝛſte arryued, Alpha and O, that is, the fyꝛſte
and che laſt: “for he ſuppoſed that there had ben the ende ol our
Caſt, becauſe the ſonne fallech there, and of the CAeſt, becauſe it
tyſeth there. Foz it is apparant, that Aeſtwarde, it is the be⸗
ginning ol India beyonde the ryuer of Ganges, and Caftwarde, The ende of
che kurthelt ende of the lame: whiche thyng is not contrary ta eae d
realon, foꝛaſmuche as the Caſmographers haue left the lymittes
of India beyond Ganges Undetermined, where as alſo fone were
of opinion, chat India was not farre from the coaſtes of Spaine, — not far
as we haue ſaid before, CUithin the pꝛoſpect of the beginnyng of tom Hpaint.
Cuba, he founde a commodious hauen in the extreme angle of
the Nande of Hifpaniola, ko in this part the Jlande recewueth
a great goulfe: this hauen he named Saint Nicholas popte, be: (2° Sainte Nica⸗
yng ſcarcely twentie leagues from Cuba. As he departed from 1
hence, and fapled Meſtward by the South (pve of cuba, the fur
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meb againſt him, and fojbode him wich chꝛeatuyng woꝛdes: but
beyng ouercome, chey made a league of frendſhyp with hym.
Thus dez arting from Lamaica he layled toward the Wiel, with
a pꝛoſperous wynde, for the ſpace ol dneeicore and tenne dapes,
thpnking that he had paſſed ſo karre by the compalſe of the earth
being vnderneath vs, that he had ben neare vnto Aurea Cherfone>
ſus(nowe called Malaccha) in our eaſt India, beyonde che be⸗
gynnyng of Perſider: £02 he playnely beleened that he had left on
ly two of the twelue houres of the ſunne, which were bnknowen
to bs, for the olde wzyters haue left halle the courſe of the ſunne
vntouc hed, where as they haue but only diſcuſſed that
parte of che earth whiche lyech betweene the Jlandes of Gades,
and the ryuer of Ganger, 02 at the vttermoſt, to Aurea Cher ſone-
fur. In this Mauigation, he chaunced on many furious ſeas,
running with a fall as it had ben the ſtreames of floods, alſo
mat wypplepooles, and ſhelfes, with many other dangers, and
kr. , by reatth of the multitude of ilandes whiche lay on
duery ſyde. But not regardyng al chefe perylles, he determined
to pꝛoceede, vntil he had certaine knowledge whether Cuba were
°° ghidlative,op me lande. Thus he ſapled forward,coattyng euer
( large
the ſhoꝛe toward the CCictt foꝛ the {pace of CC. yeti leagues,
is; dbauea choulanve and tince hundꝛed myles and gaut
nales ti ſeuen hrůndzed landes by the way „lenupng alfo on the
left hande (as he leared not to report) ‘chee thoulande here and
chere. “But let bs nowe returne to ſuche thynges as he founde
woozthy to be noted in this nauigation. Saxylyng therefore by
che lyse Of Cuba, and ſeatthyng the uatitro ok che places, he eſpy⸗
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pounde weight, ard two ferpentes of eyghe foote long aperre:
whereat marueylyng, and lookpng about if they could eſpye any
of the inhabitauntes, and that none appeared in (babe (for they
fledde al to the mountaynes at the commyng of our men) they
felto they meate, and ate the ſyſhe taken with other mens tras
uayle, but they abſteyned from the ſerpentes, which they affirme .
to differ nothing from the Crocodiles of Egypt, but onlp in bye: 8
neſſe: fo; (as Plinie fapth) Crocodiles haue fometymes ben found .
of wit. cubits lang, but of thele the biggeſt were but of eyght
foote : Thus being wel refreſhed, they entred into the next wood,
where they found many of che fame kynde of ferpentes, hanging
vpon boughes oftrees, ofthe whiche, ſome had theyꝛ mouthes
tyed with ſtrynges, and ſome they: teeth taken out. And as they
ſearched the places neare vnto the hauen. they ſawe about, irr.
men in the top ofa hygh rocke, tubiche fled as ſoone as they had
eſpyed our men, who by ſignes and tokens of peace callyng
them agayne, there was one which came neare them, and ſtoode
on the toppe of a rocke, ſeemyng as thaughhe were pet feare⸗
full: but the Admiral ſent one Didacus to hym, a man of the fame
countrep, whom he had at his fyꝛſte voyage taken in the ilande
of Gaanabaini, being neare bute Cuba, wyllyng hym to come
neare, and not to be afraide. Ihen he hearde Didacus ſpeake to
theinerpeters char they were che kynges ſyſhers, fentaf they Tbe kingee
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as many more che fame nygbt. Beyng allted why they kpꝛlle
rotted the fyſhe whiche they entended to beare to theyꝛ kyng ?
they anſweared, that they myght be the freſher and vncoꝛrupted.
Thus ioynyng handes for a token of further frendſhyp, euerye
man refopted to his one. The Admirall went forwarde as he
had appoynted, folowyng the fallyng of the funne from the be⸗
ginning of Cuba, called Alpha and O: the ſhoꝛes oz {ea bankes
even vnto this hauen, albeit be full of trees, pet are they
rough with mountaines: of thele trees, ſome were full of blot
ſomes and flowꝛes, and other laden with fruites. Beyonde the
hauen, the lande is moze fertile and populus, whole inhabitantes
are mope gentle, and moze deſyꝛous of our thynges: for as ſoone
as they had eſpied our ſhyppes, they flocked all ta the ſhoze,
bꝛyngyng with them ſuche bꝛead as they are accultomed to cate,
and gourdes ful of water, offeryng chem vnto our men, and furs
ther, deſpyng them to come alande. In al theſe Tlandes is a cers
taine kinde of trees as bigge as Elmes. whiche beare Gourdes
in che ſteade ol fruites, thele they ble only foꝛ dꝛynkyng pottes,
and to fetche water in, but not fo meate, fo the inner ſubſtance
of chem is {omer then gall, and che barke as harde as any ſbell.
At the Joes of Map, che watchmen lookyng out of the top caſtle
ofthe hyp, towarde the South, lawe a multitude of Jlaudes
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great fpthe, or Coptople there is great abundance, byg · Abundante
releth her elfe loofen , the inuadeth the fythe dj Coptople as
{wiftly as an arrowe, and where the bath once faſtened her holde,
the catteth the purſe ol ſkynne, luhereaf we ſpake define, and
by dawyng the fame togeather, fo graſpeleth her pray, that no
mans ſtrength is to bnloale the fame, extepte by lytle
and lytle dꝛawyng the lyne, the be ſomwhat aboue the
pmnme of the water, fop then, as (one as the (eeth the beight:
nefle ol the apre, the letteth goe her holde. The prape therfore
beyng nowe dꝛawen nere to che bzymme of che water, there
leapeth ſodenly out of the boate into the ſea, ſu manpe fyſhers as Ficker min.
map luffice to holde faſt the pꝛaye, vntyll the reſt of the company
haue taken it into the boate. Ilhiche thyng doone, chey loole
fo muche of the coꝛde, that the huntyng kyſhe may agapne
returne to her place within the water, where by an other conde,
they let Downe to her a peece ol the pꝛay, as we bſe to rewarde
greyhoundes after they haue kylled they, game. This fpthe,
they cal Guaicanum, but our men cal it Neuerſum. They gaue our The fithe
men foure Coptoples taken by this meanes, and thofe of ſuche Guaicanum,
byggeneſle, that they almoft fylled they fyſhyng boate : foz
ſhele kyſhes are eſteemed among them foꝛ delycate meate. Our
men recompenſed them agayne wich other re wardes, and fo let
them depart. Beyng alked of the compaſſe ol that lande, they
aunſweared that it had no ende weſtwarde. Pott inſtantly they
deſyꝛed the Admirall to come a lande, oꝛ inhis name to ſende —
one with them to lalute theyꝛ Cazicus, (that is) their kyng, afl.
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and hearons. Betwene chele ilandes and the continent, he ens
tered into ſo narotwe: ſtreyghtes, chat he coulve ſcarſely turnt
333 hacke che hyppes, and thelẽ allo ſo (halowe, that the keele of che
dicke water. ſhyppes ſomtyme rafe on the landes. The water oltheſe ttrep-
| ghtes, fz the [pace of fourtie mples,was white and thycke, lyke
9 meale had ben ſparkeled thꝛoughout
al that ſea. And when they hav at the length efcapen cheſe ſtray⸗
and were nowe come into a mayne and large fea, and had
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| ther exceding hygb mountapne, whycher the Admiral reſoꝛter
oddes or Haan bes eppes wic kreſhe water and fuel. Meare among
trees. wooddes of Date trees,t pyneapple trees of excedyng
t heigbt, he founve two natine ſpꝛynges offrethe water . In the
meaue tyme, tubple the waodde was cuttyng, and the barrelles
: fling, one of our archers went into the wood to hunt, there
nappares he elpped a certayne man with a whpte betture, fo lyke a fryer ol
A bie ehornerof fapnt Marye ol Mercedis, that at the fyrtte light be
| ſuppoſed it had ben the Admirals pꝛieſt, which he brought with
hym, beyng a man of the fame oer: but two other folowed him
ummedtade out of the Game wooddes. Sbonliy after, he fatve a
karre of a whole company of men clothed in apparel, being about
Err. in number. Chen turning pie backs, ww exping out to bie
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into the flande, vntyl they myght ſynde eyther thoſe apparellen
men, oꝛ other inhabitauntes of that countrep. Then they had
paſſed oter the wood, they came into a great playne ful of graſſe
and hearbes, in whiche appeared no token of any pathway. Here
— — thꝛough che graſſe and hearbes, they were
fo andbetmapt therein, that they were ſcarſelye able
to paſſe a myle: the grafle beyng there lytle lawer then our ripe
toꝛne: beyng weeryed, they were enforced to returne
agapne, finding no pathway, The day folowyng he ſent fooꝛth
xtb. armed men another way, commaundyng them to make dilt ·
gent fearch and inquilition what manner of people inhabited the
ande: Litho departyng, when they had found, not farre from the
{ea ſide.certayne ſteps of wyld beaſtes, of the which they ſuſpec⸗
ted ſome to be of Lions feete, beyng ſtrycken with feare, retur⸗
turned backe agayne. As they caine, they formde a wood in the
whiche were many natiue vines, here and chere creepyng about
bygb trees, with many other trees bearyng aromatical fruites Trang bern
and ſpyces. Of chele vines they brought with them into Spaine spices a (wett
many cluſters of grapes, very ponderous, and ful of licour: but rutes.
of the other fruites they brougit none, betauſe they putrilied by
the way in the ſhyp, x were caſt into the fea. They lay allo that
inthe landes oz medowes of thole wooddes, they ſawe flockes of
great Cranes, twyſe as bygge as ours. As he went foꝛward, and
turned his faples towarde certayne other mountapnes, he eſpied
two cotages on the ſhoꝛe. in the whiche he fate only one man,
who being bꝛeught to the ſhippe, figntficd with head, fyngers,
aud by al other ſignes that he coulde deuiſe, that the lande whiche
lay beyonde thoſe mountaynes was very full of people: and as
the Admiral dꝛem neare the ſhoꝛe of the fame, there met bim cers
tayne C anoas, hauyng in them manp people of the countrey, wha
made lignes and tokens of peace and krendſhyp. But here Dida- Otmers lan-
cus the interpꝛetour, which vnderſtoade the language ol thinha⸗ guages in the
bitantes of the beginning of c aba. vnderſtode not them one whit, Tuba.
whereby they conlpdered that in ſundzy proutnces of Cuba, were
undꝛp languages. Me had alfo umtelligence, that tn the inlande ol
this region was a king of great power, a actuſtomed to weare
apparell: he ſayde that all the tracte of this thore wag nor»
hed with mater, and ful of mudde, belette duch .
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e een ge maner of our maryſhes: Vet whereas in this place
they went alande foz kreſhe water, they founde many ofthe (1 el
ey in the whiche pearles are geathered. But that coulde not
caule the Admiral to tracte the tyme there, entending at this
pe pꝛoue howe manp landes ct ſeas he could diſcouet
wing to the kinges commaundement . As they yet pꝛoceden
— ſawe here and there, al the way along bp the ſhoze,
à great ſmoke ryſing, vntyll they came to an other mountayne
foure ſtoꝛe mples diſtant, there was no rocke oz hyll that
coulde be ſeene, but the fame was all of a ſmoke. But whether
thele kyꝛes were made by thinhabitantes fo their neceflarp
bulpnes, 02 (as we are wont to ſette beacons on Fyre when we
fulpecte thappꝛoche of our enimies) thereby to geue warning ‘0
thepr neyghbours to be in a rcvines, r geather togeather, if per
baps our men ſhoulde attempt any thyng againſt them, oꝛ other:
wyſe as (ſeemeth moſt ipkelv)to cal them togeather, as to a won:
der, to beholde our pyppes, they knowe pet no cectentie. In
this tracte, the fhores bended lomtyme towarde the South, and
ſometyme towarde the CCieftand welt ſouchweſt, and the {ca
dn ath 4. was euerpe where entangled with Tandes, by reafon tubereof,
) — the keeles of the ſhyppes often times raſed the ſandes foꝛ ſhalaw⸗
neſſe of the water: So that the ſhyppes being very fore bꝛuuſcd
and appayꝛed, the ſayles, cables, and other tackelinges, in mancr
rotten, and the vytailes (eſpecially the biſkette bꝛead) coꝛrupted
| by takyng water at the rpftes euyll clofen, the Admiral was evi:
forced to turne backe agayne: This late poynte where he
touched of Cuba (not pet being knowen to be an ilande) he called
Euangeliſta. Thus turning his ſaples towarde other ilandes ly⸗
ing not farre from the fuppofed continent, he chaunced into a
' nmititude ot mayne ſea, where was ſuche a multitude of great Toꝛtoyſes, that
Tuitoy- ſomtyme they taped the ſhyppes: Mot long after, he entred into
Ayulleof white a gulfe of whyte water, lyke vnto that wherof we ſpake before.
dat. At che length, fearing the thelfes of the tl.nds,be returned to the
| ſhoꝛe ofcuba by the fame way whiche he came. Here a multuude
. of thinhabitantes, as well women as men, relozted to bpm with
a cheerefull countenances, and with feare, ningyng with them
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tafte, to be muche moze pleaſaunt then our partryches. CCiberes
fore where as in eating uf them he perteiued a certayne ſauoure
of ſpyte to pꝛoceede from them, he commaunded the croppe to
be opened of ſuche as were newely kylled, and founde the fame
full of ſweete ſpyces, whiche he argued to be the tauſe of they
ſtrange taſte: Foz it ſlandeth with good reaſon, that che fleſbe
of beaſtes, ſhoulde dꝛawe the nature and qualitie of thep2 ac:
cuſtomed nouryſhment. As the Admirall harde maſſe on the
fhore, there came towarde bpm a certayne gouernoure, a nan
of foure ſeoꝛe peeres of age, and of great grauitie, although he Shs Deanne
were naked lauing bis pꝛyuie partes. Me bad a great trayne of ode gouernons
men wapting on hym. All the whyle the pꝛieſte was at maſſe,
he ſhewed him felfe bery humble, and gaue reuerent attendance,
with graue and Demure countenaunce. CCihen the maſſe wag
ended, he prefented to the Admirall a baſkette of the fruites of
his countrey, delyuering the fame with his owne handes. Chen
the Admirall had geutelly entertayned him, delyzing leaue ta
ſpeake, he made an opation in the pꝛeſence of Didacus the inter⸗
meter, ta this effect. N haue byn aduertifed( moſt mighty pꝛince) ern oration ot
that yon haue of late wich great power ſubdued many lands and the nanedg os
Reglone, hytherto vulknowen to pou, and haue bꝛought no litle sur.
feare vppon all the people and inhabitauntes ol the lame: the
whiche pour good fortune, pou (hal beare with leſſe inlolencie, if
vou remember that the foules ol men haue two iourneves after 8
they are departed from this body: Che one, foule and darke, pre. ehe ane
pared fox fiche as are iniutious and cruell to mankpnde: the man,
other, plealaunt and delectable, oꝛdeyned for them which in they
ipfe tyme loued peace and quietnes. Hf therfore pou acknowledge
pour ſelfe to be montall, and conſiner that euery man ſhal recciue
tondigne rewarde oꝛ punyſhement foꝛ luche thynges as he hach
done in this life, you mpl wꝛongfully hurte no man. Ahen he
had ſaide thefe woꝛdes and other lyke, which were declated to the
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an, ening ther tat em fc en nf,
true religion: and that he was ſent into thole countrepes by
the Chziſtian 2 chen
purpole, and fj e and pimyſhe the Canibales, and
luche ocher people, and to defend innocentes again
che biolence of eupl doders, wyllyng hym, and al other ſuchc
‘as imbzaced vertue, in no cafe to be afrapde, but rather to open
his mynde unto hym, pfepther he, oꝛ any other ſuche quiet men
as he was, had ſuſteyned any mong of they? neyghhours, and
that he woulde (ee the fame reuenged. Theſe comfortable words
of the Admirall ſo pleafed the olde man, that noturchſtandyng
his extreme age. he woulde gladly haue gone wich the Adentral.
as he had done in deede, pf his wyle and chyldꝛen had not hyn
dered hym of his purpeſe: but he marueyled not a lytle, that the
Admiral was vnder the dominion ok another: and much mone,
when the interpꝛetour tolde hym of the gloꝛye, magniticencc.
pompe, great power, and furnimentes of warre of our kinges,
and of the multitudes of vities and townes whiche were under
thep) domintons. Intendyng therefore to haue gone with the
Adnnrall, his wyfe and chyldꝛen fell pꝛoſtrate at his feete, with
teares delyꝛing him not to forfake them and leaue them defolate:
at whofe pitiful requeſtes, the wooꝛthy olde man beyng mooucy,
remayned at home to the romoꝛt of his people and familie, la.
tiſũyng rather them then hym felfe: for not pet ceaſſyng to
woonder, and of heauie countenance becauſe he myght not de⸗
part, he demaumded oltentymes pf that lande were not heauen,
whiche brought foorth ſuche a kpude of men? Foꝛ it is certain.
that among them the lande is as common as the ſunne and wa
ter, and that Pyne and Thyne (the ſeedes of all myfcheefe)
haue no place wich them. They are content with fo lptle, chat
in ſo large a countrey they haue rather ſuperfluitte then lcarce⸗
neſſe: ſothat (as we haue ſayde before) they ſeeme to lyue in
the golden woꝛlde without topic, lyuyng in open gardens, not
intrenched with dyches, diuided with hedges, oꝛ defended wit!
wales: they deale truelp one wich another without lawes, wich
out bockes, and without ludges: they take hym foꝛ an euyl and
man, uhiche taketh plealure in dooyng hurt to o
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they byead,as A aig ium, Iuc ca, and. Ages, concerted with ſuche
ſympie dyet, whereby health is preferued, and diſeaſes auoyded. Simylt dytt.
The Amirall therefore departyng from thence, and myndyng to
returne agapne ſhoꝛdly after, chaunced to come agayne to the
Sl ube of Inaica, beyng on the fouth ſyde thereof, and coaſted
all along by che thope of the fame from the Ueſt to the Calf,
from whole laſt comer on the Catt (pve, when he ſawe towarde
the Noꝛch ſyde on his left hande certayne hygh mount aynes, he
knewe at the length chat it was the ſouth (poe ofthe Nande of
Hifpaniola, whiche he had not pet patlen by. IUherefqhe, at the B'Paniola.
Calendes of September, entryng inta che hauen of the fame
Jlande, called faint Nicholas hauen, he repayꝛed his ſhyppes,
to the intent that he might agayne wafte and ſpoyle the Jlandes
of the Canibales, and burne all thep? Canoas, that thole rauenyng ue, *
wolues might no longer perſecute and deuoure the imocent
ſheepe: but he was at this tyme hyndered of his purpole, by reas
fon of a dileaſe which he had gotten byto much watching. Thus al
beyng freble and weake, he waslevde of the Marpners to the wo mch Was;
titie of Iſabella, where, with his to brethren whiche were there, ching ·
and other of his familiars, he recouered his health in ſhoꝛte
ſpace: pet coulde he not at this tyme aſſaple the Canibales, by
reaſon of {edition that was rien of late among the Spanyardes
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as they ſhould lay to his charge, as alſo to mate a fupply of other
men in the place of them whiche were returned, and eſpeciallye
to pꝛouide fo} byttualles, as wheate, wine, oyle, and ſuche other,
whiche the Spanyardes are accuſtomed to eate, becaule they
coulde not pet well agree wich ſuch meates as they founde in the
Nandes, determined fhoptip to take his bopage into Spapne:
but what he bpd before his departure, J wyll byecfelp rehearſe
The kynges of the Nandes which had hytherto lyued quietly,
aud content with they: lytle whiche they thought aboundant,
he Mages wheras they nowe perceiued that our men began to fatten foote
bib within they regions, x to beare rule among them, they toke the
matter ſo greeuouſly, that they thought nothyng els but by what
meanes they myght vtterlye deſtroy them, and fo euer abolpthe
les Mulbe⸗ the memozp of they name, for that kinde of men (the Spanp⸗
bauteut. ardes J meane, which folowed che Admiral in that nauigation)
were fo? the moſte part vnruly, regarding nothyvng but idleneſſe,
plap, and libertie, and woulde by no meanes abſteyne from iniu⸗
ries, rauiſhing of the women of the Jlandes before the faces of
their huſbandes, fathers, and beten: by which they: abomina:
ble myſdemeandur, they diſquieted the myndes of all the inhabi
tantes, inſomuche that whereſoeuer they founde any of our men
8604 renenge, mmepared, they flue them with ſuch lierceneſſe and gladneſſe,
f 8. ag though they had offered lacrifte to God. Intendyng therfore ¢
te pacific theyꝛ troubled mpades , and to punyſhe them that
flue his men before he departed from thence, he fent foꝛ the king
ofthat vale, whiche in the booke befoꝛe we deſcribed to be at the
foote of the mountaynes of the region of Cibana , this kynges
name was Guarionexius : wo, the moze ſtrayghtly to concyle
vnta hym the frendſhyp of the Admirall, gaue his ſyſter to wyft
ti Didacus a man from his chyldes age brought vp with the Ave
mirall, whom he vfed for his interpꝛeter in the pꝛouinces of Cu-
ba. After this, he ſent for C aunaboa, called the loꝛde of the houſe
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we ambalſadours . of diuers regions were ſent to
Cannaboa, — — to permit the Chris
ſtians to inhabite che except he had rather ſerue then
rule. On the other partie, Hoieds aduertiſed Caunaboa to roe to
the Admiral, and to make a league of frendſhyp with hym: but
the ambaſſadours on the contrarp part, thꝛeatned bpm, that it he
woulde fo doo, the other kynges woulde inuade his region. But
Hoieda aunſwertd them agayne, that whereas they conſpired to
mapntepne they libertie, they ſhould by that meanes be brought
to ſeruitude ¢ deſtruction.if they entended to refi op kepe warre
axaint the Chꝛiſtians. Thus Caunaboa on the one five and the
other beyng troubled, as je were a rocke in the fea beaten with
tontrarp floopdes, and muche moze vexed wich the ſtoꝛmes
ok his gyltie conſcience, for that he had pꝛiuily llayne. xx. of our
men onder pretence of peace, feared to come to the Admiral: but
at the length, hauyng excogitated his Decept, to haue flapne the Kaunaboacon⸗
Aomirall and his conpanye, under the colour ok frendſhyp, pf trat bag
opoꝛtunitie would fo haue ſerued, he repayꝛed ta) Admiral, with
bis whole fan nlie, and many other wayting on him, armed after
they manner. Beyng demaunded why he bꝛought ſo great a
rout of men with him, he aunſwered, that it was not decent foꝛ fo
great a prince as he was, to goe out of his houſe without ſuche
à bande of men: but the thyng chaunced muche otherwyſe then
he looked fo, for he fell into the fares whiche he had pꝛepared
for other, for tuhereas by the way he began to repent hym that he
tame fuoꝛthj of his houſe, Hoieda with many fapre wooꝛdes pꝛo⸗
miſes bꝛought him to the Admiral, at whoſe commaundement
be was immediatly taken and put in pꝛilon, fo that the ſoules of
dur men were not long from theyꝛ bodyes vnreuenged. Thus
Caunaboa with al his familie beyng taken, the Admirall was des
termined to runne ouer the Jlande, but he was certified that
there was fiche famine among the inhabitauntes, that there ee
was alredy fyftie thouſande men dead thereof, and that they dy ⸗ paniola.
£0 pet dayly, as it were rotten ſheepe, the cauſe whereof, was
wel knowen to be theyꝛ owne obſtinacie and frowardneſle: for
heras they ſawe that our men entended to choole them a dwel
ung place in the Nande, ſuppoling that they myght haue dꝛy⸗
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man in his dune region, that whiche they had alredy ſuue n, of
both kyndes of bꝛead, whereof we made mention in the firfte
booke, but efpecially among the mountaynes of Cibana, others
wyſe called C ipang a. 8 as they had knowledge that
the golde whiche aboundeth in that region, was the chiele cauſe
that deteyned our men in the Jland. In the meane tyme, he ſent
fooꝛth a Captapne with a bande ok men, to ſearche the South
ſyde of the Jlande, who at his returne, reported that thoughout
all the tegions that he trauapled, there was ſuche ſcarcenelle ol
bread, that for the (pace of. xvi. dayes, he ate nothyng but the
rootes of hearbes, and of young date trees, oʒ the fruttes of other
wylde trees: but Guarionexius the kyng of the vale, lying beneath
the mountaynes of Cibana, whole kyngdome was not fo waſted
as the other, gaue our men certayne bpttualles . Tlithin a
kewe dayes after , both that the iourneys myght be the fhonter,
and alſo that our men myght haue more fafe places of refuge,
if the inhabttauntes fhoulde hereafter rebell in lyke manner, he
buylded another koꝛtreſſe ( whiche he called the Towne of Cons
ception) bet weene the Citie of [/abells,and Saint Thomas for
treſſe, in the marches of the kyngdome of this Guarionexins,
wichin the pꝛecincte of Cibana, vpon the ſyde of a hyll, hauyng
a fayꝛe riuer of holſome water runnyng harde by the fame.
Thus when the inhabttantes ſawe newe buyldiuges to be dayly
erected, and our ſhippes lying in the hauen rotten and halfe ine»
ken. they began to diſpayꝛe of any hope of libertie, and wandꝛed
bp and downe with heauie cheare From the Compe of Concep
tion, ſearchyng diligentlye the inner partes of the mountaynes
of Cibana, there was a certayne kyng whiche gaue them a maſſe
of rude golde as bigge as a mans fpit, weighing. xx. ounces: this
golde was not founde in the banke of that riuer, but in a heape of
dye earth, and was lyke vnto the tone called Topas, whiche
is ſoone reſolued into lande This maſſe of golde J mee ſelſe
ſawe in Caſtile, in the famous Citie of MA et hymna Campi, where
the Court lay al that wynter. J fawe alfo a great peece of pure
Bleftrum, of the which
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olde tyme of the citie of Corinthus: his peece of E- etectrumis a
leftrum was of ſuche weight, that J was not only with both my — 1 of
bandes vnable to litt it from the ground , but allo not ol ſtrength one portion
toremoue it epther one way op other: they affirmed that it wey⸗ eigen of fr,
ed mone then three hundꝛed pounde weyght, after eyght ounces. being ol pio⸗
to the pounde, it was foundein the boule of a certayne pꝛynce, art pott
and left hym by his pꝛedeceſſours: and albeit that in che dayes and was ther:
of the inhabitauntes pet lyttyng, Elerl em was no where digged, une m greas
pet knewe they where the myne thereof was, but our men with ter etimation
muche aboo coulde hardely cauſe them to ſhe we them the place, Ehe Some
they boꝛe them ſuche pꝛiuie hatred, pet at the length they Electrum.
brought them to the myne, beyng now ruinate and ſtoppcd with
ſtones and rubbyſhe:it is muche eaſper to dygge then is the tron
myne, and might be reſtoꝛed agapne, yk myners and other work:
men ſkylful therein were appoynted thereto. Mot karre from mdebe
the come of Conception, in the ſame mountaynes, is founde ber 18 taten
great plentie of Amber, and out of certaine rockes ok the fame, au of greats
diſtilleth a ſubſtance of the pelowe colour whiche the Paynters 4 ſiches.
vle. Not farre from theſe mountapnes are many great woods, ober ment on
in the whiche are none other trees then Bꝛaſtle, which the Itali⸗
ans cal Verxino. But here perhaps (ryght noble pꝛynce) pou Wooddes of
woulde aſke, what ſhould be the caule, that where as the Spany⸗ ile Here
ardes haue bz out of theſe Nandes certayne ſhyppes laden
with Bꝛaſile, of Solſampine cotton, a quantitie of
Amber, a lytle golde, x ſome ſpyces, why they haue not vdꝛoug h
fuche plentie of golde, and ſuche other ryche marchaundizes, ag
the fruitefulneſſe of theſe regions ſeeme to pꝛomyſe : To this
Jaunſwere, that when Colenus the Admirall was lykewyſe de⸗
maunded the cauſe hereof, he made aunſwere, that the Spa⸗
nyardes whiche he tooke with hym into theſe regions, were ge⸗
uen rather to play, and idleneſſe, then to labour, and Aicentiulnes
were mone ftudiou’ of edition and newes, then delirous of peace berg?”
and quietneſſe: alſo, that being geuen to licenciouſneſle, they re-
belled ¢ forlooke him, findyng matter of kalle acculation againſt
hym, becaule he went about to repꝛeſſe they, outragiouſneſſe:
by teaſon whereof, he was not pet able to bneake the power ol
the inhabitauntes, and freelpe to poſſeſſe the full dominion of
che quames ano thete hynderaunces to ca ae
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eathered, and beit, euen this peere whple I mote theſe thyngs at pour requett,
PEDMSGE> ONE they geathered in two monethes the line ofa thoulande and
pe mine. two hundꝛed poundes weyght al gold. But becauſe we entende
V to ſpeake mode largely of theſe thynges in theyꝛ place, we wyll
nowe returne from whence we haue digreſſed. hen the inha⸗
bitauntes perceiued that they coulde by no meanes ſhake the
poke from they necks, they made humble ſupplicationto the Ad⸗
mital, that they myght ſtande to thep tribute, and applye them
ſelues to reincreaſe the fruites of they countrey, beyng nowe als
moſt waſted. Me graunted them theyꝛ requeſt, and appoynted
ſuche oꝛder chat euery region ſhoulde pay theyz tribute, with
the commodities of thep2 countreps, accoꝛdyng to theyꝛ poꝛtion,
and at ſuche tyme as they were agreed vpon: but the violent fa:
mine did fruſtrate al thefe appoyntmentes, for al the trauaples
oftheyz bodyes, were ſcarcelye able to ſuffiſe to fynde them
meate in the wooddes. whereby to luſteyne theyꝛ lyues, beyng
of long tyme contented with rootes and che fruites of wylde
trees: pet many ofthe kynges with theyꝛ people, euen in this ers
treme neceffitie, brought part of theyꝛ tribute, molt humblye
befpapng the Admiral to haue compallion of their calamities,
and to beare with them pet a whyle, vntyl the Nande were reſto⸗
red to the olde ſtate, pꝛomplyng further, that that whiche was
nowe wantyng, ſhoulde then be double rerompenced. But fewe
of the inhabitauntes ofthe mountaynes of Cc ib aua kept theyꝛ pros
miſe, becauſe they were forer oppꝛeſſed wich famine then anpe
of the other. They fap that the inhabitantes of theſe mountaynes
rhe nature or dpffer no lelle in language and manners from them whiche
he region dil⸗ dwel in the playnes, chen among us che ruſticalles of the coun:
pages fhe ma* trey, from the gentlemen of the courte : wheras notwithttanding
3 they lyue as it were both vnder one poꝛtion of heauen, and in mas
nythinges much after one falhion , as in nakedneſle, and rude
3 fimplicitte. But nowelet vs returne to Cannaboa the king of
boa in capti? the houſe of golde, beyng in captiuitie. Ahen he perceiued hym
ultit. felfe to be caſt in pꝛiſon, frettyng and gratyng his teeth, as it
the Smita bat yan
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daminlon the region of Cipanga 0 Cibana (toherot he toast king)
tt ſhoulde be expediert to ſende thyther a garriſon of Chpittian
men, tu delende the fame from che — —
nyng, ſent Hoieda with ſuche a companye of men, as mpght
— — pf they ſboulde moue warre agaynſt
them. Dur men had ſcarcelye entred into the region, but the
brother of Caxnaboa came agaynſt them uuch an armie of fyue aunaboa bi
thoulande naked men, armed after theyꝛ manner, with clubbes, bother rebels
arrowes tipt wich bones, and ſpeares made harde at the endes 'tb-
wich fre. Me ſtole vpon our men beyng in one of they houſes,
and encamped rounde about the fame on euerp ſyde. This Ciba.
sian, a3 a man nut ignoꝛant in che diſcipline ot warre, about
the diſtaunce of a furlong from the boule. diuided his armie
into lyue battaples, appoyntyng to cuerp one of them a circuite
by equall diuiſion, and placed the froont of his owne battaple
directly agaynſt our men. hen be had thus fet his battaples
in good atap, he gaue certapne fignes that p whole armie ſhould
marche foꝛwarde in oꝛder with equall paces, and with a larome A congict bes
Feb alfaple they ennis ich font that none might elcape. Morne tbe ci
But our men iudging it better to encountre wich one of the bats ipe Spaniarvs
taples, then ta abpde the bunt of the whole armie, gaue onſet
light, the relidue beyng ——
tothe mountapnes and from tabence they made a pitts
full howlpng to our men, nefpppng them ta ſpare chem,
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beyng taken, the Admiral licenced the people to reſoꝛt euerye
man to his owne: theſe thynges thus fortunately atchiued, this
region was pacifien. Among theſe mountaynes, the vale whi⸗
che Caunaboa inhabited, is called M agona,andis exceeding fruit
ful, hauing in it many goodly ſpꝛinges and riuers, in the ſande
whereof is founde great plentie of golde Che fame peere in
Egreate tents the moneth of Sune, they fap there arofe ſuch a boyſtous tem
sth of June. pelt of winde fromthe Souchweſt, as hath not lightly ben heard
ol, che bidlence wherof was ſuch, that it plucked bp by the rootes
whatſoeuer great trees were within the reache of the force ther:
of. Wihen this whyꝛlewynde came to che hauen of che citie,
it beat Downe to the bottome ok the fea chꝛee ſhyppes, whiche
lay at anker, and bꝛoke the cables in ſunder, and that ( whiche is
the greater marueyle) without any ſtoꝛme oꝛ roughneſe of the
fea, only turnyng them thee op foure tymes about. The inha⸗
bitauntes alſo affyʒme, that the ſame peere the ſea extended it
ſelfe further into the lande, and role hygher then euer it dyd bes
fore by the memoꝛie of man, by the ſpace of a cubit. The people
therefore muttered among them ſelues, that our nation had
troubled the ele mentes x cauſed ſuche poꝛtentous ſignes. Chefe
tempeſtes of the ayꝛe Cwhiche the Grectans call T iphones, that
mit win⸗ is, uhrnlewyndes) they call Furacanes whiche they lay, doo often
tymes chaunce inthis Jlande: but that neveber they, noꝛ thepr
Furacanes, great graundfathers, euer lawe ſuche violent and furious Fura⸗
canes that plucked vp great trees by the rootes, neyther pet ſuch
ſurges and vehement mocions on the ſea, that fo waſted the land:
as in deede it may appeare, foꝛaſmuche as wherefocuer the fea
bankes are neere ta any playne, there are in maner euery where
floꝛyſhyng medowes reaching euen vato che More: but nowe let
bo. peed — vs returne to Caunaboa. As kyng Caunaboa therefore and his
land pus Lzother ſhoulde haue ben bought into Spayne, they dyed by the
lather. ww, for very penſiuenelle and anguiſh of minde. The Admiral,
whole ſhiypes were dꝛowned in the foꝛeſayd tempelt. perceiuing
him ſelfe to be nowe encloled, commaunded forthwith two other
ſhyppes ( whiche the Spantarded cal Caranelas) to be made: fox
he had with hym all manner al Artificers parteyning thereun ·
to. CCtbple thele thynges were dooyng, he lent fooꝛth Bart ho-
a bis byodyer , berng ä
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Hiſpaniola to be Ophir, as we ſayde before) luppolech that 0 — 47
lomon che kyng of Hieruſalem had his great ryches of golde, —
whereof we reade in the olde Teſtament, and that his ſhyppes
fapled to this Ophir by the gulſe of Perſia, called Sinus Perficus.
But whether it be fo oꝛ not i lpeth not in me to iudge, but in my |
opinion it is farre ol. As che myners dygged the fuerficial en O Sold in me
vppermoſt part of the earth of p mynes, duryng for the fpace of duperfical
lire mples, ¢ in dyuers places (pften the lame on the dʒpe lande, a..
they founde ſuche plentie or golde, that euery hyꝛed labourer
could eaſily finde euer day the weight of thee dꝛannnes. Theſe
mynes beyng thus ſearched a founde, the Lieuetenant certifies
the Admiral hereof by his letters, the which when he had recei⸗
ued, che fifth day of the Toes of March, dnno.14.95.he entred into
his newe ſhyppes, and tooke his voyage directly to Spayne, to
aduertiſe the kyng of all his affayzes, leauyng che whole regt
ment of the Jlande wilh hig brother the Licuetenant,
The fift booke of the fyrſt Decade, to
Lodouike Cardinall of A ragonis.
Fter the Admirals departing into Spaine.
bis bother: the Licuetenaumt buylded a
N tontreſſe in the golde mines as he had cont:
NN maumded bpm: this he called the golden
N tome, becaule the labourers founde goldt tower.
N nee Ni en by nies Seng the
ſhoulde be ge walhed, trycd, and inoulten : sown
at 1 on of wante of vittualles, enfoꝛced to leaue Lache or vi-
imperkecte, and to goe feeke for meate. Thus ag ales.
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betauſe chey lacked meate in the foꝛtreſſe, whyther he
haſted n
koztreſſe a garriſon of ten men, with that poztion ok the Jlande
leauyng alfo wich chem a Hounde
~~ bead whiche pet remayned,
—— kyndes ok lytle beaſtes whiche they call / iar, not
muche vnlyke our Conies, he returned to the koꝛtreſſe of Con:
ception. This alſa was che moneth wherein the kyng Ga arione-
xius, and alſo M anic aut e xius boyverer onto hym, ſhoulde haue
8 aun in thera tributes. Remaynyng there the whale maneth
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of June, he exacted the whole tribute of cheſe two kynges x pe:
tualles neceſſary ſoʒ hym and ſuch as he bꝛought with hym, whi⸗
che were about foure hundꝛed in munber . Shoꝛtly after, about
the Kalendes of July, chere came thꝛee Carauels from Spapne,
bing ing with them ſundꝛye kyndes of vyttualles, as weate,
ople, wine, bakon, ¢ Martelmas beefe, whiche were diuided to
euery man accoꝛdyng as neede required, ſome allo was loft in
the caryage for lacke of good lookyng to. At the aryual of theſe
ſhyppes, che Lieutenaunt receiued commaundement from the
kyng and the Admiral his bꝛother, that he with his men ſhould
remoue their habitation to the fouth ſyde of the Tlande, becauſe
it was nearer tu che golde mynes: Allo that he ſhoulde make
diligent ſearche for thoſe kinges whiche had flapne the Chꝛiſti⸗
an men, and to ſende them wich theyꝛ confeverates bounde into
Spapne. At che next voyage therefore he {ent thꝛee hundꝛed cap⸗
tiues, with chee kynges, and when he had diligently ſearched
the coaſtes of the ſouth lyde, he tranſpoꝛted his habitation, and
buylded a foztreſſe there, vpon the toppe of a hyll neare vnto a
ſure hauen: this kfoꝛtreſſe he called faint Dominckes towne.
Into this hauen runneth a riuer of whollome water, repleniſhed
with fandyp kyndes of good fyſhes: they affyꝛme this ryuer to
haue many benefites of nature, for where fo euer it runneth,
all chinges are ex pleaſaunt and fruitefull, hauyng
on euery ſyde ques, ate trees, and diuers other of he
Aande fruites fo plentifullpe, that as they ſapled along by the
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at kruites, hong ſo ouet they bedbes, that hey might plucke
them with theyꝛ handes: alfa that the frultfulnes of this ground,
is eyther equall with the ſoyle of Jlabella. oy better. In Iſabella Itabella.
he lefte only certapne ficke men, and ſhippe mygbtes, whom
he had appoynted to make certayne carauels, the reſidue of bis
men, he conneighed to the ſouth, to faynt Dominickes tobe. *
After be had buylded this foꝛtreſſe, leauyng therin a ——
1 wt. men, he with the remanent okhis ſduldiers, prep
them felues to ſearche the inner partes of the eit 1 *
the Nande, hytherto knowen onely by name. Therefore
about . xxx. leagues, (that is) fourefcope and tenne myles
from the fortreffe, he chaunced on the ryuer Naiba, whiche Te a
we fayde to deſende from the mountapnes of Cibaue, ryght to ·
warde the ſouth, by the myddeſt of the ilande. TCthen be had
ouerpaſſed this ryuer with a companye ok armed men diupded
into. xxb. decurions, that is, tenne in a company, with they cas
pitaynes, he ſent two decurions to the reglans of thole kynges
in whofe landes were the great woodds of bꝛalile trees . Fnelp-
| ning towarde the lefte hande, they founde the wooddes, entred 8
into them, and felled the high and precious trees, which were ta Balle trrta,
that day vntouched. Eche of the decurions filled certapne of the
ilande houfes with the trunkes of bꝛalile, there to be reſerued
vntil the ſhippes came which ſhould carp them away. But the
Lieutenaunt directing his iourney towarde the right hande, not
farre from the bankes of ÿ riuer of Naila, founde a tertaine kyng
whofe name was Beuchius Anacauc hoa, encamped againſt thine
habitantes of the pꝛouince ol Naiba, to ſubdue them vnder his do
minion, as he hav done many ocher kings of the iland, boꝛderers
vnto hun, The palace of this great king, is called ara gua, & is
ſituate toward the (let ende of the ilande, diſtant from the rps
tet of Naiba . xxx. leagues. Qi coe — —
the Neſt ende r his palace, are ditionaries vutohim , All thaet
eee,
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banda pe dre una um egen. .
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of Spayne. To whom he ſayde, Howe can pou
requypze that of me, whereas neuer a region vnder my dominion
bpingech forth wolves Foz he had heard, that chere was a ſtrange
nation entred into the ilande, whiche made great ſearch for galde:
But “Bat be fuppolen thatthep deſyꝛed forme other thyng . The lieu ·
meared agarne; God foꝛbydde that we should en:
ioyne any man to pape ſuch tribute as he myght not ealelp for
beare, 0p ſuch as were not engendered oꝛ growing in the region:
but we vnderſtande that pour regions bꝛyng fooptlh great plen
tie of Goampine cotton, and hempe, with ſuch other, wherof
we deſpze pou to geue bs parte. hen he heard theſe wooꝛdes,
he pꝛompſed with cherelull countenaunce, to geue hym as much
of theſe thynges as he woulde requpꝛe. Thus dilmiſling his
aymp, and fending meſſengers before, he him ſelfe accompanied
the Lieutenaunt, and bꝛought him to his palace, being diſtant
(48 we haue ſapde). xxx. leagues. In al this tracte, they paſſed
the iuriſdiction of other pꝛinces, beyng vnder his domi
nion: Of the whiche, ſome gaue chem hempe, of no lefle good⸗
nes to make tackelinges for ſhyppes chen our wood: Other
foe brought bead, and fone ne cotton. And fo
eucry ol them payde trybute with ſuche commodities as cheyz
countreps bꝛought fooꝛth. At che length they came to the kin
ges manſion place of X aragua. Gefone they entered into the pa⸗
lace, a great multitude of the kynges ſeruauntes x ſubiectes re⸗
fopted to the court, honoꝛably( after their maner)to receyue their
kyng Beuchius Anacauchoa, wich the ſtrangers which he bꝛoughe
With him to fee che magnificence ol his court. But now {hal pou
btare howe they were intertaine d. Among other triumphes and
Aygbtes, two are elpecially to be noted: Fyꝛlt, there mette
— ix chem a company ef. rr women, beyng al che kynges wyues
and concubines,
bearyng inthe handes bꝛanches ol date trees,
. they tere all naked, lauyng that
then pepute partes were touered with 1 of goffampine
Taotton: but the virging, hauyng they; beare hangyng downe
about cheir stped about the forebcad with a fyllet,
They affirme that they
they? faces hꝛealles. pap·
E neee bodpes, were ercredyng
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tothe, and well proportioned, but Combat inelynpug to a loue·
y bꝛoune. They luppoled that they had ſeene thofe moſt beuty⸗
full Dryades, 03 the natpue nymphes oz fayres of the fountaynes
whereof the antiques ſpake fo muche. The bꝛaunches of date
trees, which they bone in they? right handes when they daunced,
they deipuered to the Lieuetenaunt, with lowe curtelp and ſimy⸗
lpn countenaunce . Thus enteryng into the kynges houſe,
they founde a delptate ſupper prepared for them, after theyz
maner. Ciben they were well refrethed with meate, the nyght
dawyng on, they were bought by the kynges officers, cuerp
man to his lodgyng, accoꝛding to his degree, in certayne of they
houſes about the pallaice, where they reſted them in hangyng
beddes, after the maner of the countrep, wherof we haue ſpoken
moꝛe largely in an other place.
The day folowyng, they bꝛonght our men to their common
hall, into the whiche they come togeather as often as they make
auy notable games op trummhe⸗, as we haue ſayde before. Here,
after many daunſynges, ſynginges, malkinges, runnpnges,
meſtlyngs, and other trying of maſtryes, ſodaynly there appea-
red in a large plaine neere vnto the hal, two great armies of men
of warre, whiche che kyng foꝛ his paſtyme had cauſed to be pꝛe⸗
pared, as the Spaniardes vſe the plape with reedes, which they
tall Iug a de Cauias. As the armies dꝛewe necre togeather, chey
allayled the one the other as fierſely, as if moꝛtall emmies with
they baners ſpleade, Mould fight for theyꝛ goodes, they: landes,
theyꝛ lyues, they libertie, theyꝛ tountrey, theyꝛ wyues ¢ theyꝛ
childꝛen, ſo that within the momente of an houre,foure men were
llayne, and many wounded. The battaple allo ſhoulde haue
tontynued longer, pfthe kyng had not, at the requeſt of our men,
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tauſed them to ceaſſe. The thyꝛde day, the Licuctenant coum *
ſaylyng the kyng to fowe moꝛe plentte of gaſſamptne vppon the
bankes neere vnto the waters ſyde, that they myght the better
pape they trybute pꝛyuately, accodyng ta the multitude of
they houles , he pꝛepapꝛed to Iſabe lla, to bylite the ſpcke men
uhiche he had lefte there, and alſa ta {ee howe his wooꝛkes
went foꝛwarde. In the tyme ol his ablence xxx. of his men
were conſumed with diuerſe diſeaſes . TUheretoze beyng {ore
roubles in his mynde, and in mauer at his wyttes we
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what he were belt to dog, for as muche as he wanted alchynget
neceſlarie, as wel to reftore them to health whiche were pet
actaſed, as alfo bitaples to mayntayne p whole multitude, where
as there was pet no ſhyppe come from Spayne: at the length,
he determyned to ſende abꝛode the ficke men here and there to
ſundꝛye Negyons of the ilande, and to the caſlelles whiche they
had erected in the fame. Foz direcely from the citie of Jſabella
to ſaynt Dominikes tote, that is, from the noꝛch to the ſouth,
through the ilande, they had buyer thus many catties, F prt,
xtxbi. myles diſtant from Jlabella, they buylded the caſtell of
Sperant ia. From Sperantia, pro, myles, was the caſtell of ſaynt
Natharine. From ſaynt Kacharines xx mples, was ſaynt James
tome. Other. xx. mpyles from ſaynt James towꝛe, was a ſtrong⸗
er foꝛtreſſe then any of the other, whiche they called the tome
of Conception, which he made the ſtronger, becauſe it was ſituat
at the rootes of the golden mountapnes of Cibaua, in the great
and large plapne, ſo fruiteful and well inhabited as we haue bes
fore deſcribed. He buylded alſo an other in the mydde wape bes
twene the tome of Conception, ¢ ſaynt Dominikes towꝛe, the
whiche alſo was ſtronger then the towꝛe of Conception, becauſe
it was within the lymittes ok a great kyng, hauyng under his
dominion fiue thouſande men, whole chiefe citie and head of the
Realme, beyng called Bonauum, he wylled that the caſtell ſhould
alſo be called after the ſame name. Cherefore leauyng the ficke
men in theſe caſtels, and other of the ilande houles nere vnto
the fame, he hym felferepapned to ſaynt Domninikes, exacting
trybutes of al the kynges whiche were in his way. hen
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experience of the power and policie of our men. They came to:
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tune of warte. Here the Lieutenaunt, confiltyne with the Cay - ans.
tayne of the koꝛtreſſe and the other ſouldiers of thom he had the
tonducte, — 5 — in — —
poules,before they coulde prepare army. He
therefore to euery kyng a Centurion, that is, a captayne of a
hundꝛed, which were commaunded vpon a ſudden to inuade they?
houles iu the nyght, and to take them ſleepyng, before the people
being (cattred here ¢ there) myght aſſemble togeather. Thus
fecretlp enteryng into their vyllages, not fortified wich walles, Chekinges
trenches, ar bultwarks,chep lobe in bponthem, toke them, bound duet.
them, e led away euery man his pꝛiſoner accoꝛding as they were
commaunded. The Lieuetenant hym ſelfe with his hundꝛed
men, alſayled kyng Gu arione xius ag the woꝛthier perſonage,
whom he tooke pꝛyſoner, as did the other captaines they kings,
and at the fame heure appoynted. Fourcteene of them were
bꝛought the fame nyght to the towꝛe of Conception. Shoꝛtlye
after, when he had put to death two of the kynges whiche were
the chiele autours of this nee reuolte, and had ſuboꝛned Gio King Suaris
nexins ſ the other kynges ta attempt the ſame, leaſt the people parboncd.
for ſoowe of theyꝛ hinges ſhoulde neglecte 02 foꝛſ ke their couu⸗
trep, whiche thyng myght haue ben great incommoditie to our
men, who by thincreaſe of they ſeedes and fruites were often:
tymes ayded, he freelp pardoned aud diſmiſſed Gusrionexias and
the other kynges, the people in the meane tyme flocking togca ·
ther about the towne, to the nuniber of tyue thoufande withont
weapons, with pitifid houling fop the deltuerance of their kinges:
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wandered vp and downe, as deſolate in a ſtrange coumtrey, lack:
png vittailes, and worne out of apparell, whereas. xv. monethes
were nowe paſſed fence the Admirals departure, duryng which
tyme, they toulde heare nothyng out of Spapne. The Licue
tenaunt comfoꝛted them all that he coulde with fayꝛe wondes
and pꝛomyſes. Jn the meane tyme, Beuc hius Anacauchoa (cht
ofthe (elt partes ol the Region of Xara u (of whom
we ſpake before) ſent meſſengers to the Lieuetenaunt, to figuis
fe vnto hym, that he bad ina redynes the goflampine cotton,
and luche other thynges as he wylled hym to prepare fo the
payment of his trybute. Tihereupon the Lieuetenaunt tooke
his tourney thyther, and was honoꝛably receiued of che kyng and
bis ſyſter, ſomtyme the wyfe of Caunaboa the kyng ol Cibans,
bearyng uo leſſe rule in the gouernaunce of her brothers kpne:
dome, then he hym ſelfe: Foꝛ they affirmed her to be a wyle
woman, of good maners, x pleaſaunt in company. She earneltly
perſwaded her bꝛother, by thexample of her huſband, to loue and
obey the Chꝛiſtians. This woman was called Anacaona. We
lounde in the palace of Beuc hius Anacauc hoa. xxxii. kyngs, which
bad bꝛought they tributes witch them, and abode his comming,
They brought wich them alſd, beſyde they tribut alligned them,
further to demerite p fauour of our men, great plentie of vitailes,
as both kindes of bꝛead, cumnies, and fiſhes, alredy dꝛied, becauſe
they ſhould not putrifie: Serpentes allo of that kynde which we
fapd to be eſtemed am ong chem as moſt delicate meat, and ipke
bnto Crocodiles ſauing in bygnes. Theſe ſerpentes they cal /
annas, uhich our men learned (ſomwhat to late) to haue ben en
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ronatie,he fel to aimapne without al feare : the whiche chyng bis
compamons percetuing, — —.—
inſomuch that they had now none other talke, then of the
nelle ofthele ſerpentez, which they affpyme to be of moze pleas
ſaunt taſte, then epcher our Phelantes oꝛ Partriches: but
chey loſe theyꝛ tate, ettept they de prepared after a certapne fas
fhion, as dos Beacockes and Pheſantes, except they be enters
lar ded befine they be roſted. They pꝛepare them thertfoꝛe after
this manner: Spot, taking cut theyꝛ botuelles, cuen from the The dieting
tinote to the thygbes, they waſhe and rubbe they) bodyes bery to — cam
cleane boch within e without, chen rolling them together on a cir⸗
cle, miolued after the manner of a lleepyng ſnake, they thuſte
them into a pot, of no bigger capacitie then to holde them only,
this done, pi ting a litle water vnto them, wich a portion of
the Nande d pper, they ſeethe them with a foft tyꝛe of fweere
wood, and ſuche as maketh no great ſmoke: Of the la te of chem
beyng thus Lode, is made an exceedyng pleafant broth op pot
tage. They ſay alſo, that there is no meate to be compared to the
egges of hele ſerpentes, which they ble to ſeeihe by them ſelues: 8
they are good to be eaten as foone as they are ſodde, and may enges daten.
alſo be referued many dayes after. Wut hauyng lay de thus
much of their entertaynement and dayntie fare, let vs nowe
ſycake of other matters. hen the Lieuetenaunt had fylled one
of the Jlande houfes with the Gollampine cotton which he had Sono ping
reteiued fo) tribute, tht kynges pꝛomyſed furthermoye to geue cotton.
bpm as muche of chev? bread as he wou'de de maunde: he gaue
them hartit thankes, and gently accepted they frendly pꝛoffer.
In the meane tyme, whyle this bꝛead was a geatheryng in fun:
diy regions, to be brought ta the pallate of Peuchius Anachaucoa
kyng of N aragua, he ſent meſſengers to I abel, fo one of the
two Caraueſles whiche were lately made there, intendyng to
fend the fame againe thither laden with bread. The Mayners
ad of thefe tydynges, faylen about che Jlande, and in lhoꝛte
bought the ſhyppe to the coaftes of Naragua. The ſyſter
ok kyng Beuchius Anacauchoa, that wyſe and picafaunt woman
Anacamnat the wyft ſometyme of C aunaboa the kyng of the gol: 8
den boufe ofthe mountapnes cf Cibana, whofe dyed in caona,
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tiue countrey, perſwaded che king her bꝛother, that they both
myght gee together to (ee it: fop the place where the ſhyppe. lay,
was not paſte. vi, myles diſtant from & aragua. They reſted all
nyght in the mudwap, in a certayne vyllage in the which was the
trraſurie o iewel houſe of Anacaons, Der treaſure was neither
golde, ſiluer, d pꝛetious ſtones, but only thynges neceflarp to be
vſed, as chayzes, ſtooles, ſettels, diſthes, potingers, pottes,
pannes, baſons, trepes, and ſuch other houſholde ſtuffe and ins
woꝛkemanly made of a certapne blacke and harde
ſhyning wood, which that excellent learned phifition, John bap⸗
tiſt Elifius, affirmeth to be ebene. Ahatſoeuer portion of wit
nature hath geuen to the inhabitantes of theſe ilandes, the fame
doth molt appeare in theſe kynde of wooꝛkes, in which they
ſhewe great art and cunnyng, but thofe which this woman bad,
rhe Flande of were made in the land of Guanabba, lituate in the mouth of the
Suanabba.
Cunnyng Ars
nficers,
A ſtone in the
Geede Df Frou,
weſt ſyde of Hi/paniola : In theſe they graue the lyuely images
of ſuch phantaſies as they ſuppoſe they fee walke by nyght.
which the antiques called Lemures: Allo the images of men, fer:
pents, beaſtes, ¢ what fo euer other thing they haue once ſeene.
hat woulde pou thinke (motte noble pꝛince) that they coulde
poo, if they had the vſe of Fron and ſteele : Foꝛ they only fre
make chele foft in the fyre, Talterwarde make chem holome and
carue them with a certayne ſtone which they kynd in the ryuers.
Ok Kooles and chayzes, the gaue the Lieuetenaunt fourteenc,
and ol veſſelles partapning to the table and kitchen, thee gaue
hym chꝛeeſcoꝛe, ſome of wood, and lame of earth, allo gollam⸗
pyne cotton redye ſpunne, foure great bottomes of exceeding
weight. The dap folowing when they came to the (ea ſide, where
was an other village of the kynges, the Lieuetenaunt cont
maunded the ſhyppe boate to be brought to the hore, The kyng
allo had prepared two Canpas, paynted after theyꝛ maner, one
fox bpm felfe and certayne of his gentelmen, au other for bis fi:
Ber I nac aona and her wayting women: but Anacaona deſpꝛed to
be taried in the Wippe boate with the Lieuetenaunt. Ihen
thep nowe appꝛoched neare bnto the ſhippe, certayne great pc:
des ol odinaunce were diſcharged of purpoſe, the fea was fyl⸗
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a ken fete fngpoteg that cea of che tonne be
ben in daunger of fallyng, but when they ſawe the Lienerenant
laugh, and looke chearefullp on them, they called agayne they
+ ew when they pet dꝛewe nearer to the ſhyp, and hearde
of the fluites, hawlmes, and dꝛinnmes. they were won-
Muſical in⸗
— ſweete harmonie thereof Entryng into ſtramentes.
the ſhyppe, and beholdyng the foꝛeſhyp and the ſterne, the toppe
caſtel, the maſte, the hatches, the cabbens, the keeie,and the tack:
lynges, the bꝛother fyxyng his eyes on the (pier, and the ſyſter 10 —
on the bꝛother, chey were both as it were dumme and amazed, tian.
and wyſte not what to ſay foꝛ to muche woondꝛyng. TLibple
beholdyng theſe thyngs, they wandered vp and downe the ſhip,
the Lieutenaunt commaunded the ankers to be looled, and the
fayles ta be hoyſed vp. Then were they further aſtonyſhed, when
they ſaw fo great a mole to mooue as it were by it ſelfe, without
oꝛes, and without the force of man: foꝛ there aroſe from the earth
ſuche a wynde, as a man woulde haue wyſhed fo2 of purpoſe. Det
kurthermoze, when they perteiued the ſhippe ta mooue lmetune
foꝛwarde, and ſometyme ba ſometyme toward the righe
hande, and ſometyme towarde the lefte, and that with one winde,
and in manner at one inſtant, they were at theyꝛ wyttes ende for
to much admiration. Theſe thynges funſhed, and the ſhippes la⸗
den with bread, and luche other rewardes, they beyng allo re⸗
compenced with ocher ofour thynges, he diſmiſled not onelp
the kyng Zeuc hius Anac hauc ha and his ſyſter, but lykewile all
ther ſeruauntes ¢ women, repleniſhed wich ioye t wondering.
After this, he hym ſelfe tooke his ioꝛney by foote with his foul:
diers to the citie of [/abellz, where he was aduertiſed that one
foldanus & imenus, a noughty felowe whom before , beyng his
ſeruant, he had pꝛelerred to be capitayne of the myners and la⸗
bourers, after made bpm a Judge in cauſers of controueiſie)
had vſed hym ſelle outragiouſiy, and was maliciouſſy mynded The
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againſt hym, and further, the cauſe of much miſchiele in his rancic & e
ablence . Fon kyng Guarione xius (who a whple before was par- aduaunced,
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the toppes ine 77 — and haue their comncrs
reaching 8 Betweene both the comers of the
mountapnes, is there a greate playne, by the whiche many ris
uers fall from the mountaynes into the fea, the people are verpe
fierſe and warlike men, hauing thep2 oꝛiginal of the Cambales:
for when they deſcend from the mountaynes to the playnes. to
keepe warre with theyꝛ boꝛderers, they eate all ſuch as they kul.
Guaarionexius therfoxe, fleeing to this kyng of theſe mountaynes,
refentes of ſuch thinges as are wanting in his
6 how vileiy, villanouſtp, and violent
ly he had ben bled of aur men, with whom he coulde nochyng
preuatle neither by fapre meanes, noꝛ by faule, nother by humi⸗
litie, noꝛ by ſtoutneſſe, and that to be the cauſe of bis reſozting,
to hym at that tyme, moſt hum y deſpꝛing him to be his defence
agaynſt thoppreffions of ſuche myſcheuans people. MI aioba-
nexius heteuppon, made hym pꝛomiſſe to ayde and betpe hym
the Chꝛiſtians al that he might. The Lieutenant theres
ode made hatte to the foꝛtreſſe of Conception, whither,ag foone
was comé, he ſent for Roldanus X eminus, who with ſuche
pa chew hym, lay in certayne of the Jlanv villages, rit.mples
diſtant from the foꝛtreſſe. At his commyng, the Lieuetenaunt
aſked him what al theſe ſturres and tumultes meant’ he anſwe⸗
red without abaſhment, Pour bꝛother the Admiral hath ta doo
therewich, and chall aunfwere fop the ſums befrethe kyng, fop
i — — hym in truſt, that he hath
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refpecte vnto vs, we are determined no longer to be bnder pour
obedience. Then Roldanus had ſpoken thele woꝛdes, and ſuche
other, the Lieuetenaunt woulde haue layde handes on hym, but
he eſcaped his fyngers, and fledde to the CCielt partes of the regi⸗
on of Xaragua, hauyng with hym a trayne of thꝛeeſcoꝛe and ten
men, whiche were ok his candederacie. Here this fylthy ſynke of
rebelles thus conſpired, pl yde theyꝛ bages, and lyued wich looſe r icencionns
bꝛydles in al kynde of myſcheeke, robbyng the people, ſpoyling verte,
the countrey, and rauiſhyng both wyues and virgins. CAhyle
theſe thynges were dooing in the Nande, the Admiral had eight
ſhippes appoynted hun by the kyng, of the whiche he ſent two
laden wich vyttualles, rom 4er o Gades of Hercules pyllers, Merentes pp
directly to the Lieuetenant his bother. Theſe ſhyps by chaunce !*.
arrpued fyꝛſt on that ſyde of the Jlande where ole Xemi-
nus ranged with his companions, n tn Moat tyme had ſe⸗ a violent per
duced them, pꝛomyſyng them in the ſteede of mattockes, wens Walton.
ches pappes: for labour, pleaſure: for hunger, abundance: and
loꝛ weerynelſe and watching, ſleepye and que neſſe GA arionevius — . —
in the meane tyme allembled a power ok his frendes and con⸗ 58
fenerates, ⁊ came oftentymes Downe into the playne, and flue as
many of che Chꝛiſtian men as he coulve meete conuementlye,
and alſo the Jlande men whiche were cher freendes, waſting
theyꝛ grounde, deſtroying they ſeedes, and ſpoyling their vyl⸗
lages. But Roldanus and his adherentes, albeit they had knows
ledge that the Admiral woulde ſhoꝛtly come, pet feared they no⸗
thing, becaufe they had ſeduced the newe men whiche came in
the kyꝛſt ſhy ppes. CCibple the Lieuetenaunt was thus tolled in
the myddeſt of cheſe ſtoꝛmes, in the meane tyme his bꝛother the
Admiral fet foꝛ warde from the coaſtes of Spapne : but not diz
rectly to Hi/paniola, for he turned moꝛe towarde the ſouth. In the The thd vo;
whichevopage, what he dyd, what coaſtes both of the lande and fr Abel.
ſeahe compalſed, and what newe regions he diſcouered, we wyl
lyꝛſt declare: fo to what ende and concluſion the ſayd tumultes
and (editions came, we wyl expꝛeſle in che ende ol the booke fo:
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Calendes of June, in the peere of Thꝛiſte
1498. hoyſed vp his ſayles in the hauen of
tithe towne Barramedabas , not farre diſtant
rom Cales, and fet foꝛwarde on his voyage
wich eyght ſhyppes laden with vittualles
and other neceſlaries. Oe diuerted from his
— race, whiche was by the Jlandes of Canarie , by reas
fon of certayne trenchmen pyꝛates and rouers on the ſea, whiche
lap in the ryght way to meete wich hym. In the way from Cales
to the Jlandes of Canarie, about foureſcoze and terme myles to:
warde the left hande, is te Nlande of Madera. mone ſouthward
then the citie of Ciuile by foure degrees, for the Pole Artike is
eleuate to Ciuiſe.xxxbi.degrees, but to this Jlande (as che Ma⸗
riners fay) only. xxxii. De ſayled therefore fyꝛſt ta N adera, and
ſendyng from thence directly to Hi/paniols the reſidue of the
fhippes laden with bittualles and other neceflartes , he him ſelle
with one ſhyppe with deckes, and two Marchant Care uelles,
toaſted towarde the South to come to the Equinoctial lyne, and
lo fooꝛch to folowe the tracte of the fame towarde the Welt, to
the intent to (earch the natures. of ſuche places as he coulde finde
vnder oꝛ neare vnto the ſame, leauing Hi paniola on the noꝛth {ive
on his ryght hande. In che middle of this race, lye riti. Nandes
of the Poꝛtugales, whiche were in olde tyme called He/perides,
and are nowe called Caput V mnide, d Cabouerde, theſe are ſituate in
the fea, ryght ouer agaynſt the inner partes of Ethiope, Meſt⸗
warde two dayes ſaplyng. One of theſr the Poꝛtugales call
Bonanifta. Mith the Snayles, o rather the Toꝛtoyſes ofthis J-
lande, many lepꝛous men are healed and cleanſed of them lepꝛo⸗
fie. ing ſodainly from hence, by reafon of che cantagioul⸗
neſſe ofthe apze,befapled. COLL xxrx mples toward the (ek
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South. There was he ſo vexed with maladies and lente (tz it
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to abide that ertremitie ofbeate, Here the north pole tons eleuate
onely. v. Degrees from the Hozizontall. Foz the ſpace of .vitt,
bapes, in the which he ſuffered theſe extremites, onely the fyꝛſt
day was fapre, but al the other, clowdy and rayny, pet ncuer⸗
theleſſe feruent hotte: CTlherefoꝛe it oftentymes repented hym
not a litle, that cuer he tooke that way. Being tolſed in theſe Bane
gers and vexatiuns eyght continuall dapes, at the lengthe an
Eaſtſoutheaſt wynde arofe, and gaue a pꝛoſperous blaſte to his
ſaples. Ahiche wynde folowing directly towarde the welt, he
founde the ſtarres ouer that paralell placed in other oder,
and an other kynde of ame, as the Admirall hym felfe toilde
me. And they al affirme, that within thꝛee dayes fapling, they
founde moſt temperate and pleafaunt apze. The Admiral al:
fo affirmeth, that from the clune ofthe great heate and bnholſome
apꝛe, he euer aſcended by the backe of the fea, as it were by a
hygh mountayne towarde heauen, yet in all this tyme, coulde
he not once fee any land: But at the length, the day before the Caz
lendes of Julp, the watch man lookyng kaoꝛth ok the toppe caſtel
ofthe greateſl ſhippe. cried out aloud: foꝛ top that he eſpied thꝛee
exceding hygh mountaynes, exhoꝛting his felo wes to be of good
cheere, and to put away al penfiuenes : for they were very beaup
and ſoꝛowfull, as well fo the are fe x hich they ſuſteyncd by rea⸗
ſon of thintollerable heate, as allo that their freſhe water fayled
them, whiche ranne out at the ryftes of the barels, couſed by ers
treme heate, as we haue layd Thus being wel con f ted, they
dꝛew to the land, but at theyꝛ fyꝛſt appꝛoch they could not arpue,
by reafonof the ſhalownes of the fea netre the ſhoꝛe: Pet loking
a. but ot theyꝛ ſhyppes, they myght well perceiue that the Region
was injabpted, and wel cultured, fo, they ſawe very fayꝛe gar⸗
dens, and pleaſount medowes: rom the trees and herbes wher ·
of, whenthe moꝛnyng deawes beganne to ryſt, there pꝛoceaded
manpe ſweete fauoures. Twentie myles diſtant from hence,
they chaunced into a hauen, very apte to By
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beattes fete, ofthe whiche they founde one dead, muche Ipke a
groate. The day folowyng, they ſawe a Canoa tomuinyng a farre
ol, hauyng in it foure and twentie poung men of goodly coꝛpoꝛa⸗
ture and high ſtature, al armed with targets, bowes, t arrowes:
the heare of they heades was long and playne, and cutte on the
forehead much after the manner of the Spanyards, their pꝛyuie
partes were couered with fplicts of goſſampine cotton, of ſun⸗
dꝛy colours enterlaced, ⁊ were beſide al ouer naked Here the Ad⸗
miral, conſydering with him ſelfe the coꝛpoꝛature of this people,
and nature of the lande, he beleeucd the fame to be ſo muche the
nearer heauen, then other regions of the fame paralel, and further
remooued from the groſſe vapours of the vales, and maryſhes,
howe muche the hygheſt toppes of the byggeſt mountaynes
are diſtant from the deepe vales Foꝛ he earneſtly affirmeth, that
in al that nauigation, he neuer went out of the paralels of Ethi⸗
ope: Do great difference is there be:tweene the nature of thinha⸗
bitauntes, and of the ſoylts of diuers regions, al vnder one clime
om paralel, as is to ſee betweene the people and regions beyng
in the kyꝛme lande of Ethiope, and them ok the Jlandes under
the fame clime, hauyng the pole ftarre eleuate in p fame degree.
Foz the Echiopians are all blacke, hauing they: heare curled,
mone like wool then heare:but theſe people of the Nand of Puta,
(beyng as J haue ſayde vnder the clyme of Ethiope) are white,
with long heare, and of pelom colour Aherckege it is apparant,
the caufe of this fo great difference, to be rather by the diſpoſition
of the carth, then conſtitution of heauen. Foz we knowe,
that ſnowe falleth on the mountapnes of che Equinoctial, oꝛ
burnt lyne, and the fame to endure there continuallpe: we
knowe lykewyſe, that the inhabitauntes of the regions farre di ·
hym with gentleneſſe, ſhewed them loo kyng glaſſes, fayꝛe and
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by no meanes allure them by gyftes, be thought to prsoete tuba®
be coulde do with muſicall inſtrumentes, anv therefore com:
maunded that they whiche were in the greatett ſyyp, ſhould play mudcal ins
on then dummes and ſhawimes. But the poung men ſuppo⸗ drumentes.
fing this to be a token of battayle, left they opes,¢ in the twinc⸗
ipng of an eye had they arvowes in them bowes, and they tars
gets on their armes: ann chus directing they arrowes towarde
our men, ſtoode in expectation to knowe what this noyſe might
meane. Dur men like wyſe peparpng they: bowes and ars
rowes, appꝛoched towarde them by litle aud litie. But they de⸗
parting from the Admirals ſbyppe, and truſting to the dexteritie
of they ores, came fo neare one of the leſſe ſbyppes, that one of
them plucked the cloke from the gouernour of the ſhyppe, and
as wel as they coulve by ſignes, required hym to come alande,
pꝛomiſyng fayth that they woulde commune with bim of peace.
But when they ſawe him goe to the Admirals ſhyp, whyther he
went to afke leaue that he might commune withthem, ſulpecting
hereby ſome further deceyt, they leapt immediatlye into the Ca⸗
noa and fleedde as ſwyft as the wynde, ſo that to conclude, they
could by no meanes be allured to lanuliaritie: Nherſoge the Ave
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bym felfe, and they which were his companions in this byoage,
beyng men of good credit, and perceauing my dilygence in
ſearchyng for theſe matters, tolde me pet of a greater thyng,
. — or frech that is, that for the {pace of xrui. leagues, amountyng to a
= hundꝛeth and foure myles, he ſavled euer by frethe water, infos
much that the further he pꝛoceaded, eſpecially towarde the weſt,
he affirmed the water to be the frether . After this, he came
icine: Re hig he mountapne inhabited onely with Monkeyes oꝛ FW ws
Monkepes. malits, on that part towarde the Eaſt: Foz that ſyde was rowgh
with rockye and ony mountapnes, and therefore not inhabited
with men. Wet they that went a lande to ſearche the countrep,
founde nere vnto the fea, many favre ſteldes, well tylled and
ſowen, but no people, noꝛ vet houſes oꝛ cotages: Marhanpes
they were gone further into the countrey, ta ſowe they; coꝛne,
and applye they: hul handꝛy, as wee often ſee our huſbandemen
to leaue theyꝛ attons and villages for the fame purpoſe. In
the wet ſyde of that mountayne, they cſpped a large p'apne,
whither they made halt, and caſt ander in the bꝛode ryuer. As
— = foone as the inhabitantes had knowledge that a ſteange nation
A ar. was arrpued in they» coattes, they came flockyng without
all feare to lee our men. Cie vnderſtode by cheyꝛ ſygnes and
poyntynges, that this Region was called Paria, and that it
was very large: in ſu muche that the further it reac eth towarde
the we ſte, to be fo muche the better inhabited and repleniſhed
wich people. The Admiral therfoꝛe, takyng into his ſhippe foure
of the men of that lande, ſearched the weit partes of the fame,
By the temperatenes of the aper, the pleaſaũtnes of the ground,
and the multitude of people which they ſawe daily more ¢ more
as they ſayled, they coniectured that theſe thynges poꝛtended
ſome great matter: as in deede their apininon failed them not, as
we will further declare in his place. The ſonne not pet ryſen, but
beginnyng euen nowe to ryſe, being one day allured by the plea⸗
ſauntnes of the place, and ſweete ſauours whiche bꝛeathed rom
the lande to the ſhyppes, they went a lande: Were they founde a
greater multytude of people, chen in any other place. As our
63 men appꝛoched towarde them, there came certeine meſlengers
reople, from their Cacici,chat is, the kinges of the countrey, to deſpꝛe the
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ſalt water, he determined to deferre this marte to a moze conues
nient tyme: Pet he fent to land two ofthe ſhyp boates laden with
men, to thintent to fetch ſome garlands of pearles for erchauge
ol dur thynges, and alſo ſummhat to ſearche the nature ofthe Ree
gion, and diſpoſition of the people. They enterteyned our men
gentellp, and tame flocking to them by beapes, as it had ben
to beholde ſome ſtrange monſters. Fyꝛſt there came to meete
our men, two men of grauitie, whom the multitude folowed:
One of theſe was well in age, and the other but young. They
thinke it was the father, with his forme whiche ſhould ſurteede
bpm. Mhen the one had faluted and embpafen the ocher, they
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was a great company both of men and women, but they ſtoode
Shyte men diſſeuered the one from the other, They are w'ypte, euen as
dental du our men ave, ſuung ſuche as are much conuerfant in the ſunne.
They are alſa verp gentle, and full of humanitie towarde ſtran
gers. They couer chev, pꝛiuie partes with goſſampine cotton,
wꝛought wich ſumdꝛy colours, and are beſyde all naked. There
was kewe, oz none, that had not eyther a coller, a chayne, oꝛ a
bzacelet of golde and pearles, and many had all. Beyng al⸗
ked where they had that golde, they poynted to certayne moun⸗
taynes, ſeemyng with they countenaunce to diſſw de our men
from goyng thither: Foꝛ putting theyꝛ armes in theyꝛ mouthes,
and grynnyng as though they bytte the ſame, ſtyll poyntyng
ta the mountapnes, they ſeemed to inſinuate that men were
eaten there: but whether they meant by the Canibales. oꝛ wylde
beaſtes, our men coulde not wel perceiue. They tooke it excee⸗
dyng greeuouſlye, that they coulde neyther vnderſtande our
men, noꝛ our nien them. Ahen they whiche were fent to lande,
were returned to the ſhyppes about thꝛee of che clocke at after
noone the ſame day, hꝛyngyng with them certapne garlandes,
and collers of pearles, they looſed theyꝛ ankers to departe, min⸗
dyng to come agayne ſhoꝛtlpe, when all chynges were fet in
good oꝛder in HiJpaniola : but he was pꝛeuented by another,
phatownelſe ¶ whiche defeated him ofthe rewarde of his trauaple. Oe was als
it the ſea. ſa hyndered at this time by reaſon of the ſhaloluneſſe of che ſea, r
violent courte of the water, which with continuall tolſſyng, bꝛuiſed
the greateſt thippe as often as any great gale of wind aroſe. To
auoyde the daungers of luche ſhalowe places and chelfes,
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Nett, yet ſame iuhat moze ſouth warde, ag the bendyng of the
{hoe requpꝛed, he entered into a ſea full of herbes o weedes,
The ſeede of the herbes whiche lwym me on the water, are
muche Ipke the berrpes of the tree called Lenti can, whiche bears
ech the lweete gunmme called Maflix: they grewe fo thyckr,
that they ſomtyme in maner Taped the pppes. The Admiral
repozted, that here there is not one dape throughout all the
peere much longer oꝛ ſboꝛter then an other, and ihat the Noꝛth
pole is here eleuate onelp fpue degrees as at Paris, in Whole Che cieuation
tracte all thele coattes tye. Me alfo declaredecrtapne thinges ofthe Pole as
as concernpng the bariete of the north pole: the whiche betauſe Vara.
they ſeeme contrarpe to thopinyons ot all the Aſtronomers, J
wyll couche them but wich a dꝛye foote, as ſayth the proucrbe, Note a ſecrete
But it is well knowen mot noble prince) that wyiche we call the wore karre.
the pole Marte, m; nopth ttarre (calico of the Ttalians Tramon- :
tana) is not the very poynt of the pole Artyke, vppon the whiche
the ares op extremities of heauens are turned about. The whi⸗
che thing map well be pꝛoued, it when the ſtarres fyꝛſt appeare, zn experienca
pou beholde the pole ſtarre though any narowe hele: Jo fo,
applping pour inſtrument therto in the moꝛnyng, ſomwhat be⸗
fone the daye (pring haue blem iſhed they light, yr then pou looke
though the ſame hole, pou ſhall perreiue it to be moued from
the place where pon ſawe it fot. But howe it commeth to
palle, that at the begynnyng of the euenyng twillght it is eleuate
in that Region only fyue degrees in the moneth of June, and
in the moꝛuyng rwylygbt ta be elevate ro. degrees by the fame 2 marneyloug
quadpant , J Doo not bnderſtande, noz pet doo the reaſons c.
whiche be bꝛyngeth, in any poynt ſatyſfye me. Sop he ſayth,
that he hereby coniectured, chat the earth is not perfectly round:
but that when it was created, there was a certayne heape
rayſed theron, muche hygher then the other partes of the fame.
Lo that (as be ſayth) it is not toumde after the forme of an apple
0) a bal(as other thinke) but rather lyke . a pearr as it hangeih on
the tee, and that Paris is the Region which palleſleth the
02 hygbeſt part cherof neareſt vntu heauen: In fo
muche that hee earneſtly contenverh; the carthly Paradyſe to he e
Raute in the tapped. of thofe thee bplles, mpiche we lade
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che ſhippe, nm chat the outragious ſtreames ofthe fre the waters
wpiche ſo biolentlye iſchue out of the lapde gulfes, and ſtryue
fo with the ſalt water, fall headlong from the toppes of the ſaide
mountaynes: But ot this matter, it ſhall ſuffyce to haue ſayde
thus muche Let vs nowe therefore returne to the hyſtoꝛie
from whiche we haue digreſled. Tl hen he percciued hum felfe
to be thus innnapped in ſa great a gulfe beyonde his expecta⸗
tion, fo that he had nowe no hope to fynde any paflage to warde
the noꝛth, wherby he mygbt faple directly to Hi / paniola, he was
enforced to turne backe the fame way by the whiche he came,
and Directed his vyoage to Hi paniola by the noꝛth ol that lande
lying towarde the Cat. They whiche afterwarde ſearched this
lande more turyouſlpe, wyll it to be parte of the continent oz
firme lande of India, and not of Cuba as the Admiral ſuppoled:
F 02 there are many whiche affirme that they haue fapled round
aboutc ub. But whether it be fo oꝛ not, oꝛ whether envping
the good foꝛtune of this man, they ſeeke occaſyon of quarelyng
— agaynſt hym, J can nat udge: But tyme ſhall (peake, whiche
in tyme appoynted, reuealeth both truth and falſehod. But whe⸗
ther Paria be continent oꝛ not, the Admirall doch not muche
contende, but he fuppoleth it to be continent: De alfo affire
meth that Faria is moze fouthwarde then Hi/paniola, by cyght
hunden foureſcoꝛe and two myles. At the length he came to
Hifpanicls (ta ſee his ſouldiers which he left with his bꝛethꝛen)
the thyꝛd day of the calenves of September, in the peere. 1498.
but (as often times chaunceth in humane thynges) among his
ſo manp profperous, pleafaunt, and luckye affayzes, fortune
myngled ſome ſeedes of woꝛme wood, and cozrupted his pure
coꝝne with the malicious weedes of cockle.
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ace emake NVA (of whom we ſpake befoze) retuſed in his
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hym, and not onely behaued hym ſelfe moudely agapnit the or ol
Admiralles bother and L ieuetenant, ſometyme his maiſter,
but alſo ſent letters to his repꝛoche to the kyng of Spayne, thers
in accuſyng both the bꝛethꝛen, laying heynous matters to theyꝛ
charges. But the Admirall agapne ſent meſſengers to the
kyng, whiche myght intoꝛme hym of theyz rebellyon, inſtant⸗
ip delpring bis grace to ſende hym a neme fupplye of men,
wherby he might ſuppꝛeſſe hep: letentiouſnes, and punith them
fog theyꝛ miſcheuous actes. They accuſed the Admirall and his
bꝛother to be vniuſt men, cruel enimies, and ſhedders of the The Spaniar⸗)
Spanyſhe blood, declaryng that bypon euerp lygbt ocraſpon una. d“
they woulde racke them, hang them, and head chem, and that
they tooke pleaſure therin, and that they departed trom them,
as from cruell tyꝛantes and wylde beaſtes reiopcyng in blood,
allo the kynges enimies: affyꝛmyng lykewyſe, that they wel
perceiued theyꝛ entent to be none other then to vlurpe thempire
ol the Tlandes, whiche chyng (they ſayde) they ſuſpected by a
thouſande coniectures, and eſyecially in that thep woulde per⸗
mit none to reſoꝛte to the golde mynes, but only ſuche as were
they familiers . The Admirall on the contrarp part, when he whi weed
deſpꝛed ayde of the kyng to inkring they? inſolencie, auouched 2 9
that al thoſe his accufers, which had deutſed ſuche lyes agaynſt
hym, mere noughtie felomes, abhonnnable knaues and bilains,
theeues and baudes, ruffians, adultererg, x rauiſhers of women,
falle periured vagaboundes, and ſuch as had ben eyther conuict,
in ꝑꝛyſons, oꝛ fledde fo? feare of iudgement: fo eſcaping puniſh⸗
ment, but not leauing vice, wherm they ſtyll contynucd, and
brought the ſande with them to the tland, lyning there in like mas
ner as befoze, in thefte, lechery, c all kyndes of miſcherle, and
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— spon that the whiche code wich moſte agilttie make the head
EExone of chofe poche whetches to fice quyte aud cleane from the
bodye to che grounde at one ſtrocke, he was the beſt man, and
counted mot bonopabile , Theſe thyngs, and many ſuche other,
the one of them laid ta the others charge befaze the king. Ahile
chele thingess were vboyng; che Admiral! fen: his hnocher the
Leanetenaunt wich an armp of fowre(cope and tenne footemen,
and a ſewe heꝛſemen (uith thꝛee chouſande of che Nande men,
mhiche were mogtall enimpes to the Ciguamans) to meete
the people of ciguaa, ‘with Ryng Guarione cus they gtaunde
kapitayue, whe bud dodnt muche myſcheefe to our men, and
uche an audured them. Therefore when the Lteurenaunt
bad conducted his army to the bartkes of a certeyne great ryuer
runnyng by che playne, whiche we ſayde before to lye betwene
the comers of the mountapnes ol Ciguaua and the ſea, he founde
tw {routes ofbis enumies lurkyng in certepne buſhes, wheres
olche one, caſtyng bym ſelfe headlong into the fea, efcaped, aud
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by reafon ol they fupfinetit uf foote. Thus beyng i the woods
des they thotte at our men moze lalely, for they beong accuftns
med to the woodden, and naked without anye etre, paſſed
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he ſawe na ſtirring in the wooddes, he went (bp the
counſel and er apy sa ä — artes
— — had his cheefe manſton place, in the bil npng sates
lage calleo Caprounm, bp the which name aifo the kyngs palace bat
was called, Sepny mye fame village. Thus marching keꝛwarde
with his armie, about twelue myles of, he eic · nped in the vile
lage of another kyng, whi⸗ he the inhabitauntes h d foꝛſaken faz
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molt fate halve, Of them whiche were taken; he fent one, and
wit bim another of the Jlande men, which was of his part. o
Maobanexiut, with conunaundeinent in this effect, The Licue⸗
tenaunt bought nat hyther his army D A a‘obanexius) to kepe
wurc either gaint pou, oꝛ pour prople, lo; he greatly deſpꝛeth
peur frendſhip:but his intent is, that Guarionexius,who hath pers
ſwaded por te he his ayde againſt him, to the great deſtruction
of pour people, and vndoyng of pour countrep, may haue due
correction, afc for his diſobedience tawarde hym, as alfo foʒ
rayſong tumultes among the people: CCtherefore he requireth
Bong Guar pou, and exhoꝛteth pou to deliuer Guarionexius into his handes,
us. che whiche thing yl you ſhal perkourme, the Admirall his bꝛother
{pil not only gladly admyt ou to his frrendſhyp, but allo ene
large and defende your domi. . And yk herein pou refule to
accomplyſhe his requeſt, it wyll folowe, that pou thal ſhozt⸗
lye repente pou thereof: Foz pour kyngdome ſhalbe waſted
wich ſur nde and fyꝛr, and pou ſhall abpde r wpe of warte,
whereof you haue 9. experience with fauour, as pou (all
further know eareaſter to pour payne, pf with ſtubberneſſe pou
prouoke him to ſhewe the vttermoſte of his y wer. hen the
meſſenger had thus voone his rant, NI iobanexius anfwered,
chat Guarionexius was a good man, indued with mam / vertues
as all men knewe, and th rfoze he thought him wythy his ayde,
eſpecially in as much as he fied to him for ſuccoure, and that he
had made hen ſuche pꝛomiſe, whom aud he had pꝛoued to be his
Err ba: kaichfull frend: againe, that they were naughty men, violent, and
of vyte. cruel, deſiring other mens goodes, and ſuch as {pared not to
ſhed innocentes blood: in fine, that he would not haue to doo
with ſuche myſcheuous men, noꝛ pet enter into frendſhyppe
with chem. Then theſe thynges came to the Lieuetenauntes
ture, he commaundedthe village to be burnt where he by ſelle
encamped, with manpe other villages there about: and when
be dꝛewe nere to the place where Maiobanexius lap, he ſent mel
ſengers to him agayne, to common the matter with him, and to
wyll hym to ſend ſome one of his molle fapthfull frendeg to
entreate with hym of peace, Uhereuppon the kyng fent vn⸗
to hym one ok his chee e c entelmen, and with hym twa other
tomapteon hem. Cibenve came tothe Licuetenauntes 1
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fence, he frendlp renuyꝛed hym to perſwade his loꝛd and maiſter ape Lieuete⸗
in bis name, and earneſtly to admoniſhe hym, not to ſuffer his — prod hea
png kyngdome to be ſpoyled, oꝛ hym ſelle eo abyde the ba: Matobant⸗
ſarde of warre f02 Guarionexius fake : and further to exhoꝛte bpm rus.
to delyuer hym, excepte he Wwoulde procure the deff uction both
of hym ſelfe, his people, and his countrey. Ihen we meſlengor
was returned, ¶ aiobanexius aſſembled the pes, le declaring
bnto them what was doone: but they crped out on him to deliver
Guarione xius, and hegan to curle the bape thec eure they had res
ceaucd hym, thus to diſturbe they quietneſſe. A aiobanexius ane
ſwered them, that Guarionexius was a good man, had well de⸗ aby
ſerued of him, geuing him many princely prefentes, and had allo barous kpng.
taught both his wile and him to fing and daunce, which thing he
did not little eſteeme, and was iar fore fully reſolued in no cale
to lopſake hun, oꝛ agaynſt al humanitie to betray bps krende,
which fled ta his fan ſiiccoure, but rather to abide al extremities
ut him, then to miniſter occafion of oblonute to llaunderers, to
teporte that he had betraicd his gheſt, whom he toke into his
houle wich warranties. Thus dimiſling the people, ſighing and
with ſoꝛowfull hat es, he called Gnarionexius befoꝛe him, pꝛoni⸗
_ fing bingagayne, that he would ve partaker of his fortune while
life laſted: info much that he thought it not belt to fend any furs
ther wooꝛde to the Lieuetenaunt, but ꝓpoynted him whom bes
fone he fent to him, to keepe the way with a garriſon of men, ta
thintent, that yk any meſlengers ſhoulo be ent krol. che Lieue⸗
tenaunt, to flap them by the way, and admit none to communica⸗
tion, oꝛ further entreatie of peace. Ju the meane time, che Lieu⸗
tenaunt ſent two. wherofthe one was a captiue Ciguauian, and
—— — krendes to ie
men: and and ſlaine. The Lieutenaunt fos The Lienete⸗
lowenthem ten footemen ¢foure yopfemen, finding enges ace)
bis meſſengers dend in the way, be was further pꝛouoked to Larne,
math, and determined moze extremely to deale wich M airba-
nexins ¢ therfone went foptvard intontinently with his whole avs
ny to his cheefe pallace of c pronum, herr be pet lay incampe.
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tror-bles : each ba bi eae
Che Spaniar⸗ — none other meate but only Ca ibi, that is, ſuch rootes wher⸗
Mathe Mart. of they make they bread, but ſeldome to they, fpll: als
ſo V ſiar, that is, lyttle beaſtes tyke Conpes, if by chaunte nowe
and then they tooke ſome with they: houndes. 9 a
none other then water, ſuch as they founre- one (nee
and ſomtyme nv". ſaueryng of the maryſhes. Emong —
delicates, that lyttle ſieepe that they had, was euer for the moſt
parte abꝛode vnder the fir mament, ans that not without watches
men, and in continual remoouing, as the natuce of warre requi⸗
—— reth, Tlith theſe fewe therfore, the Lieueten amt deter · nined to
ſearche the mountaynes, dennes, and caues, if he coulde in any
0 place fynde the ſteppes ol 4 aiobanexius 02 Guarionexius. In the
. goe
— (9 prone ifthep cone take / ay conies) chaunced bps
— two of AMA aiobanexius familyers, which were ſent to certaine
billages of his, to make pꝛouiſion of bꝛead. Theſe he cnfopced to
declare where they loꝛde lay hid, x bed the fame alfo foꝛ guides,
to boing our men to the place. Twelue of our men tooke this en
te pyſe in hand, pamting them felues alter S naner of the Cig ·
a poticie uauians: So that by this ſtratageme op policie, they came ſoden⸗
lp bppon M aiobanexius and tooke hym pꝛiſoner, with his wyfe,
chilozen,¢ family, and tonueighed them to the towe of Conceps
tion to the Lieuetenaunt. Mithin a fewe dayes after, hunger
ate oe pope ara Lit, Be > whom cers
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euer nature bꝛought fooꝛth in the Nand: TN om, when the king woman.
her hul bande, who loued her moſt ardently( as her beautie deſer⸗
ued) hearde fap that the was taken pꝛyſoner, he wandered bp
and dolune the deſartes lyke a man out of his wytte, not know⸗
pny what to doo oz fay, But at the length, he came to the
Lieutenaunt, pꝛomiſyng moſt taythfullpe, that he woulde ſub⸗
mit him ſelſe and al that he coulde make, vnder his power, fo
that he would rome hym his wyfe. The “Lieutenaunt accep⸗
ted the condition, x reſtored him his wife, ve rtaine other rus
lers and gentlemen which he had taken pꝛyſoners before: chars
ging them, and bynding them with an othe, to be euer redy at his
commaundement. Shortly after, this king of his owne free
motion, eme agayne to the Lieutenaunt, bꝛyngyng with hun
kyue . men without weapons, ſauyng only ſuche inſtru⸗
mentes as they ble in tyllage of theyꝛ ground. De bꝛought with
hym allo ſeedes to ſowe, vHerwith at his owne charc e, he cau⸗
ed ſuch plentie of hep cone and fruites to growe in ſundꝛy pla⸗
tes ofthe larg bale, wherok we ſpake before, that ſhoꝛtly after,
ere ſeene many fayꝛe and fruitfull feelves that came therof:
and for his gentelneſſe being rewarded ok the Lieuetenaunte
wich certayne of our thynges, he departed topfullpe. Wiben
the report hereof ca to the Ciguauians, it mocued the minder The kynges
Athe krcges to hope of clementie, whereuppon they came ferment
‘together to the Lieuetenaunt wich humble ſubmiſlion and faith: Leuetenaune,
full rumple, euer after to be under bis obedience, deſpꝛyng
hem torettope unto them they kyng with his familie. At chevy
tequett, the kynges wyle and his houthotve was fet at liber⸗
J ut theking kepe tpl as.a prpfoner, Theſethynges dyd the
feutenaunt inthe Mande, not pet huowpng what his aduer⸗
Giese acre: bau lap to is charge ne de hog of
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who being diſquieted wich theyꝛ quarelinges and artu⸗
fo that by reaſon of they diſcention, offo
Sere of golde and other thynges, there was as pet
into Spayne, avpoynted a newe guucrnour,
a redꝛeſſe in their thynges: and eyther to pus
ere were fautie, op els ta ſende thein to hum. That
was foun. e agaynſt the Admirall and his bꝛother, 02 agaynſt
8 bis abuertaries — hym, J do not well knowe. But
this Jam fare of, that both the bꝛechꝛen arc taken, bꝛought, and
caſte in pꝛiſon, with they: goodes conkiſcate. But as foone as
the king vnderſtode that they were bꝛougbt bounde ta Cales, he
ſent meſſengers in pofte, with commaundement that they
ſbould be fooled and come freely to his pꝛeſence: wherby he des
clarcd that he toke their trouve s greeuouſly. It is allo ſaid, that
the new gouernour fent letters to the kyng, wꝛitten with the Ao:
miralles hand in ſtraunge and vnknowen ſppheringes, to his
bꝛothee the Liruetenauut being abſent, wyllyng hym to be in a
redynes with a power of armed men to come and ayd hym, A the
G bite chould pꝛoffer hym an; violence, TUherok the
uernour Hauing knowledge (as he layth) eyng allo
Awhiche he had pꝛepared were in a redines, appꝛ
chat the Lieuetenaunt was zune to bis trother 5 en
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boch vnwares, before ti, 2 multitude came togeather wyl
folowe , rome, the molt true and poudent Judge wyll declare.
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mim bad lycendes gruinted them of the kyng to ſreke firrther at:
they otune charges, vpon condition to pay hym fapthlully his:
portion, which is thefpfte part. But betauſe ar nige all ocher,
one Petrus Alphonſus, called Nignus by his ſurname, fapled ta- The nanigati-
che louth with more prolperous foztune then anp of the Site
I thinke it beſt firſt to ſpeake ſomewhat of hs vopag:,
therfore wich anly one ſhyp, well furniſhed at h. c vne char ⸗
that he had his pallepozte, with commaundement in
in cafe to caſt anker paſt fyftye leagues Dita t trout anye place
here the Admirall had touched, ſayled fyꝛſt to Paria, where the
Admiral founde both the men and women fo laden with chemes,
garlandes, and bꝛaſelettes of pearles, as we haue ſayde before,
Coaſtyng therfore along by the fame ſhoꝛe, accoꝛdyng to the
hings commaundement (pet lea ung behynd hym the regions of
Cumanaand M anacapana) he came to the regions which thinha⸗
bitantes therof cal Curiana, where he found a hauen (as he fateh)
much lyke the port ot Gades oꝛ Cales: into the which entei yng, he
ſawe a farre of certayne houſes one the ſhuꝛe, and percepued,
when he dꝛewe neere, that t was a village of only eyght houſes.
Proceading pet fin. her for the ſpace of three myles, he eſpied
an other village well replenpthet with people, where there met
hym koftye naked men on a company, hauing with them a cer⸗
tapne ruler, who deſpꝛed Alphonſus ( come to they, coaſtes.
He brought with hym at thys tyme, many haukes belles, pyn⸗
nes, nedels, bꝛaſelettes, chepnes, garlandes, and rynges, with
counterfet ſtones and glares, and ſuch other trykelles, the which
- Wthin the moment ok an houre, he had exchaunged for fpftecne
ounces of theyꝛ pearles, which they woꝛe aboute theyꝛ neckes Pearies foy
and armes. Then they yet moꝛe erneſtly deſpꝛed hym to ſayle try tes.
to they coattes; p unyſyng bpm that he ſhdulde there baucas
many p arles as ye woulde deſyꝛe. He condiſcended to they? Sreat prentig
Legqueſt: and the day folowing, came to the place where they ap⸗ of pearits.
Popnted hym: Lying chere at anker, a great imultitude of people
relonted to hym, inftantlp requining, bpm to come alande. But
when he conſpdered the imnnnerable multitude of people which
was there allemdled, and he had only. xxxiii. men in his com:
pany, he durſt not commit hym ſelfe ey haudes, but gaue
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come to the. toyp with their Canoass fu heit boates (which che
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f wood as in che landes, yet moꝛe rude, and not ſo artificially
Hy as theyꝛs daumen cherfine
to the fhpp as faite as then might, veingyng with them greate
ol pe aties (which they cal Tenorat) exchanging the fame
our match. andieg. De kounde this per ple to be of gentyll
nature, ſimple, and innocent, being conuerſant with them in
theyꝛ houſes, iuꝝ th fpace of xx. dayes. Chey houſes axe made
of wood, couered with the leaues o date trees. Their meate for
be trivesin the motte parte, is she ſhelkyſhes in the which the pearles are ens
which pearles gendered, wherok their {ea coftes are full. They haue allo greate
art engendied. plenty ol wyld beaſtes, as hartes, wyld bores, and connies like
vnto hares, both in coloure un bigneſſe, ſtocke doues alfo,
and turtle doues: lykewyſe geeſe and duckes. which they nopithe
in theyz houſes as we doo. Peacockes flee aboute in maner in
euery wuod and graue, bit they are not diſtinct with ſundꝛy coe
lours as ours atv: toz ve cockes are like vnto the hennes. Theſe
people of Carina are crattie hunters, and exceding cunning ar⸗
chers, ſothat they will not lyghtly miffe any eaſte oz byꝛde that
they ſhoote at. Dur men conſt. ned certayne dayes heare very
pleſaumtely: duryug which time, wholdeuer bꝛoughr them a
herr manner n peatocke, had for the ſamt dure pinnes : be chat brought a phea⸗
of bargapning, ſamte, had two, and for a ſtocke doue.oꝛ turtle doue, one, and
fop a goole. a anale looking glaſſe, op a litle ſtone of glaſſe. Thus
they bought and folve with pꝛofering anu bydding. denying and
N retuſing, as it had byn in a greate market. hen pinnes were
ecto pꝛolered them, they aſked what they ſhoulde do with them, be⸗
ing naked: But our men ſatiſlied them with a craſtie anſwere,
primes, of § — néclaring by tokens that they were bery nete ry, to picke theyꝛ
teeth — 8 Bet aboue I thyn⸗
kes belles were mo emed among them, for theyꝛ
treat ei am, ory ound r faire colour, and waulde therfore geue much for one of
them. Dur men, lod ging in their houſes, heard in the nyght {ea
fan hoꝛrible noyſes i roxynges of wild beaſtes in the wooddes,
whiche are full of exceding great and hygh trees of ſundꝛye
a ien but the bent f thele woodes, are not noyſome
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naked, with they: bowes and arrowes , pet hath it not ben
harde of, that any man bath ben ſlayne of any wylde beatt As
man hartes 02 wylde boꝛes as our men would deſyꝛe them to artes and
hayng they woulde kyll in the woodes with their arrowes, and Weide bores,
not to fayle to bꝛyng them. Chey lacke kyne, goates and ſheepe.
Thepʒ bꝛead is made of rootes, as is theyꝛs of the Ilands. Tois
nation, hath blacke yeare, groſſe and ſomwhat cult, pet long
allo. They keepe theyz teeth verp whyte, and foz that purpole
pie to carp a certaine herbe betwene they spprs for the molt
part of the day, and to waſhe they moutyts when they caſt it
away. The women doo all hep: buſynes at home in theyꝛ how
ſes, and haue allo the cure of tyllage of the grounde: but the men
apply them ſelues to the warres and huntyng, to plape, ſyng⸗
png and daunſpng. They haut - dy kyndes of water pottes,
iugges, and dꝛinkyng cuppes made of earth in other places
about them, and nought chyther for exchaung of other thynges:
F 07 they vie iayzes and markettes fo the fame purpol>, and are
eatly deſyꝛous of ſuch thynges, as are not bought forth c.
made in theyꝛ countrey, as nature bath geuen . diſpolption to
al men, to deſyꝛt ind be delyted with newe and ſtrang thynges.
Many of them had hangyng at hep pearles the images of cer⸗
teine blalles and birdes, verp artiſitiouſiy made ok golde, but not fete sae
pure: thele allo are bꝛeught them fro other places for exchang f
of other thynges. The golde wherok they are made, is natiue, Wals gore,
and of much lyke line nes to that wherof the floꝛenz are coyned.
The men of this coun cep, inctoie theyꝛ pꝛiuie meinbers in a
gourde, cutte after the falhiõ of a coddepice, oꝛ els couer the fame
with the ſhell of a toptople, tyed about they loynes with laces of
goffampine cotton: In other places of that tract, they tinuſt the
ſynew within th ſheeth cherof, and bynde the {kine falt with a
fring. The g cat wylde beaſtes whero we ſpake before, and
many other thynges which are not found in any of the Tlandes,
telttfie that this region is parte ofp continet oꝛ firme lande. But Tonen or the
the chiefett conietture wherby they argue the ſame, is, that by the continent og
coattes ol that lande, from Paria towarde the welt, they fayten ine ande,
about tee. M. myles, ſindyng no ſigne 02 token of any ende.
Theſe people of Curiana (whiche —~ tall curtan:) being de⸗
maunded where they hap ſuch plentie of golde, fignified that it
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beyng diſtant from them lite lunnes, that is, {ire dayes iourney
weſtwarde: and Hat they images of golde were made in the
fame region. Mhereupon our men directed theyꝛ voyage thy⸗
ther immediadyn, and arpued there at the Kalendes of Moa⸗
uer ber, in “he peere of Chꝛiſte a thouſande and kyue buns
med. The per ple of the conntrey reſoꝛted to them without
frare, bʒyngyng with them of the golde whiche we ſayde to be
natiue in that region This people had alfo collers of pcarles
about theyz neckes, which were bꝛought them from Curiana fop
exchaunge of theyꝛ marchandiles , None of them woulde ex⸗
chaunge anye ok thole thynges whiche they had out of other
countreys: as neyther the Curians golde, noꝛ the Canchietans
pearles: pet among the Cancl,..w.ns they founde but lytle golde
redy geathered. They toke with them from thence cer / ayne very
fapze Warmalets oꝛ Munkeyes, and many ) onvngaves of fins
dꝛpe colores. In the moneth of Mauember, the ayꝛe was there
tgoſt temperate, and nothyng colde. The guardens of the
noꝛth pole were aut ol ſyght to both the people, they are fo
neare the Equinoctial. Of the degrees of che ple, they can geue
none other accompte. Theſe peuple are wel diſpoled men, ok ho⸗
neſt conditions, and nothyng ſuſpitious, foꝛ almoſt al the nyght
long they reſoꝛted to the ſl sppe with they: boates, and went
abooꝛde ſhypue without feare, as dyd the Curians. They call
pearles, Coria as. They are ſomewhat ielous, foꝛ when anye
ſtraungers come among them, chey euer place theyꝛ women be:
hynde them. In this region of Canchieta, the gollampine trees
growe ofthem ſelues commonly in many places, as doo with
vs elmes, wyllowes, and fallowes: and therefore they vſe to
make bꝛeeches of cotton, wherewith they ce ter they pꝛiuie
partes in many other regions thereabout. A en they L yet
ſayled on fopwarde by the fame coaſtes, there came forth againſt
them about two choulande men, armed after they: manner, for
byddyng them to come alande. Theſe people were fo rude and
ſauage, chat our men coulde by no meanes allure them to fami⸗
liaritie. Dur men therefore, contented only with thep2 pearies,
returned backe p fame we. y came, where they remained wih
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bellies wel wich good meate. And here it ſermeth to me not karre
from my purpole, to declare what chaunced vnto them in they
refurne when they came now within the fight of the coaſt of T=
ria. They happened thertoꝛe in the wap, at Os Draconis, and the
gulfes of Paria e mherot᷑ we ſpake befope)to meets with a naup of
rviu Canoas of Canibalea, which went a rouing ta hunt foz nen: ganibales *
muh affoone as they bad efpied our men, allaile thetr Chip fierce: abi.
ly c withon . feare encloſed p fame, diſturbing our men on euery
fide with their arrowes: but our men fof att them with tyeyʒ
| they fled immediatly, whõ our men folowing with
the ſhyp boate, tocke one of theyꝛ Canoas, and in it only one
Canibal ( ſoʒ the other had eſcaped) and wich him another man
bounde, who with teares runnyng downe his cheekes, and with
geſture of his handes, eyes, head, fignified that fire of his
companions had ben cruelly cut in peeces, and eaten of that mil
cheuous nation. and that he ſhoulde haue ben likewyſe handled
the day tolowpny: herefoꝛe they gaue hym power ouer tye
Canibal, to do with him what he would. ge. with the Canib⸗ is Death ten
dune clubbe, he layde ~p hym al that he migh. dꝛyue with bande death.
and foote, grir ing and fretting as it had ben a wyld boze, thin:
kyng that he had not pet ſuffit. ently reuenged the death of his
companions, when he had beaten out his bꝛaynes and guttes.
Mhen he was demaunded after wat fort the Canibales were
woout to inuade other countreys, he anſwered, that they euer
pied to carpe with them in theyꝛ Canoas, a great multitude of
clubbes, the whiche. wherefoener they do lande, they pptch in the Bowe the Cae
grounde, and encampe them ſelues within the compatle of the their campe.
lame, to lye the moge fatelp in the nyght ſeaſon. In Curiana they
ktounde the head of a captapne ofthe Canibales, nayled ouer the
booze of a cer / ne gouernour fo2 a token of victoꝛpe, as it had
beuthe ſtand cde op helmet taken from the enimie in bartayle.
In cheſe of Paria is a region called Haraia, in the which
great plentie — aos ary tabagbinaliepen
beyng there tolled wich the of the wyndes, dꝛyueth the
ſalte waters into a large playne by the ſea ſyde, where, afters
warde when the fea waxeth calme, and the ſunne begynneth
tothine, the water is conicaler*~“~ molt pure and whyte faite,
wherewith inmuncrable ſyyypes myght be laden, prmen dpa
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4. — of but of — 9 — tabole tater is mone ſharpe and fale
7 2 thes the water of the ſea. Thinhabitantes do greatlye eſteeme
at et this bay of Fut, whiche they ble, not only for they owne commo⸗
ditie, but alfo woonking the fame into a ſquare forme lyke onto
dickes, they ſru it 1 rangers for exchaunge of other thynges
Che bodyes of Whiche the lacke. Inthis Region, they ſtretche and dꝛye the
Aub rigen. dead bodies of they; kinges and noble men, laping the fame
vpon a certayne frame of woodde, muche lyke vnto a hurdle oꝛ
grediren, with a gentell fre vnder the fame, by lyttle and lyttle
conſumyng the lleſhe, and Rep. che ſkynne hole with the bones
incloſed therein. Theſe dꝛped carcaſes, they haue in great reue⸗
rence, and honour them fo theyꝛ houſhoulde an famulier gods.
Chey fap chat inthis nlace they ſawe a man, in an other place
„. woman, thus dꝛyed aud reſerued. Then they departed from
Cutiana, the. bil. day of the Joes of Febzuarp, ta returne to
Spayne, chey had thꝛeeſcoꝛe and xbi poundes Leight (after. biii.
vnces to the pounde) of pearles, which they bought fo exchange
of our thinges, mounting to the value of fpue chillinges. Oepar⸗
ting therfore, they conſume chꝛeeſcoze dayes in theyꝛ tourney
(although it were ſhoꝛter then from Hi/paniola) by reaſon of the
continuall courte of the fea in the welt, which dyd not only great⸗
ly ſtey the ſhippe, but alſo ſomtymes dꝛyue it backe. But at the
length they came home fo laden with pearles, that they were
with euery maryner. in maner as common as chaffe. But the
matter ol the ſhyppe, Petrus Alphonſus, being accuſed of his com:
panpons that he had ſtowlen a great multitude al netious pears
les, and defrauded the kyng ol his portion which. was the alth
parte, was taken of Fernando de Vega, à man of great lerning and
experience, ¢ gouernour of Gallecia. here they aryued, and was
there kept in pyſon a long tyme. But he ſtyll denyeth that euer
he deteyned any part of the pearles. Many of thele pearles were
as bygge as haſell mittes, and as opiente (as we call it) as
thep be of the Cal parte . “et not of fo great pꝛyce, by
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ſelle was prefent wich the right bonopable Duke of Met kyna, and
vas bipde to Dynner wich hir in the citie of Cinile,chep ꝛougl t
to hym aboue a hundzed and twentie ounces of] zatles to be
lde, whiche ſurely bpd greatly delyte me with their fayꝛenes
Margarita ; fo? thep deny that there is any p arles founde in The Jlande of
curiana. But lith the matter is pet in controuerſie, we wyl paſſe srargatita.
to other matters. Thus muche you haue, whereby you may con:
lecture, what comtnoditie in tyme to come may bee looked foꝛ
from theſe newe landes ofthe welt Meran, whereas at the fyꝛſt
diſcouering, thep ſhewe ſuche tokens of great ryches. Thus
fare pe well,
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maiſters of two of cye ſmall ſhippes which
the Spaniards call Caraue/as, beii. g moued
— bythe reat ryches c amplitude of the new
landes, furnyſhed of theyz owne charges foure Carauels, in the
hauen of they owne countrey, which the Spanpardes cal Palos,
bomering on the welt Ocean. Dauing therfore the kings licence
g paſſepoꝛt to depart, they looſed from the hauen, about the Ca:
lendes of anche peere. 1499. This hauen of / 400, is
theelcone x twelue myles diſtant from Gades, commonly called
Cales, and. xitii. myles from Ciuile. All thinhabitantes of this
towne,not one excepted, ate gee geuẽ to ſearching of the fea,
and continually evercifed in fapling. They alfo directed their vi
age kyꝛſt to the iland of Canarie by the ilands of Heſperides, num The lanes
talled Cabouerde, which fome cal Gorgoder-Zeducias . @apling Cabodelbe
therfore directly toward the fouth from that ilande of He/perides
the jPoztugales (bepng poflellecs of che ſame) cal Santi
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g. James Taroli, and departing from thence at the Joes of Jamnary, they
Taine —— wynde, beyng in the myddeſt Ae
ſouth and the welt. Ahen they ſuppoſed that they had layled
about thre hundreth leagues ba the lame wynde, they fap that
The uoith pole they loft th. ſyght ol the Noꝛthe ſtarre: and were ſhoꝛtelp after
*ut af üght. tolled wah excedyng tempettes bothe of wynde and lea. and ver
ed with intolerable heate: Pet ſapled cheycn further (not with
out great d er) foʒ the ſpace of twa hundꝛed ¢ foꝛtie leagues,
folowing yet th ſan e wynd by the loſt pole.CCiberfoze, whether
habitable regions be under the Equinoctiall lyne oꝛ not, let theſe
Yabitableregi. mien and the oulve wyters, alwel E hiloſophers as poetes anv
uns under the coſmographers difculle, c theſe mẽ affirme it to be habitabie,
ue. betta and meruelouſiy repleniſl en wich penple: and they, that it is un
habitable by reafon of the fonne beames depending perpendicu⸗
lurly 02 directlye ouer the fame, Pet were there many of the olde
wypters, whiche attempted to pꝛoue hes, Thele ma
rpners being . aunded if they fa the fouth pole, they anſwe⸗
red that the knew no ſtarre there like onto this pole, that might
be decerned about the poynt: but that they ſawe an other oꝛder
of ſtarres, and a certeyne thicke myſt ryſyng from the hopisontall:
lyne, whiche greatly hyudered they ſyght. They c ontende allo,
that there is a great heape oꝛ tyſyng in the myddeſt of the earth,
whiche taketh away tye ſyght of the ſouth pole, vntyllthey haue
btterlp vaſled ouer the ſame: but they berely beleeue that they
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che open kynnament, after the maner of warre. Dur men
oy epi not bet to trouble sbem vntyll the moꝛnyng. There
fone, ar the ryſyng of the fonne, foptie of our men well armed,
wente towarde them: agaynſt whom came forth. xxxii. of them,
wich bowes, ſiynges and dar 28, euen redy to fyght. The o⸗
ther companpe folowed them, armed after the ſame u. aner. Dur people ot biab
men affirme chat they rere of bygher ſlature then er · her the Al daturt.
maynes oꝛ Pannondans. They beheld our men with frownyng
r thꝛeatenyng countenaunce: but our men che a it not good
to fal to bickering wich them, vncertapne vbether it were
fo feare, o; they would not dxyue them to flight. CAher⸗
fone they went about to allure them by faire meanes ¢ rewards:
but they refuled all kynde of gentelnes, and ſtoode euer in a re⸗
dines to fight, declaring the lam ſignes aud tokens, Thus
dur men reloꝛted to they ſhyppes, and they to the place from
whence they came, without any further bufines, The fame nyght
about mydnyꝛcht, wep uedde, i left the place voyde where they 11
lay inthe campe. Dur men luppole them to sx ax igabund and ur beef
wandering nation, lyke bnte the Septhians, witht it houſes oz
terteyne dwelling pres, lyuing only with the fruites of the
earth, hauing they wyues and chp” zen folowing them. Suche
ag meaturés their kooteſteppes in the lande, affirme with great
othe, that one oftheyꝛ keete is almoſt ar long as two feete of
our men ofthe meane ſoꝛte. Sapling on vet further, they founde
an other riuer, but not of deapth fufficient to beare the Carauels:
they {ent therefore the four. ſhippe boates to lande, full of ar⸗
med men to ſearch the countrey. They efpper vppon a hygh hyll
nere vnto the fea ſyde, a greate multitude of people, to whom
dur company ſent fooꝛth one man with certepne of our thynges
to allure them to ere’ ange. And when he had caſt a haukes bell
to warde teen, they tau dolune a wedge of golde a cubit longe:
the which as he ſtouped to take bp, they lodenly incloled hym,
ind carped hym away, But he was ſhoꝛdly after reſcued by his
compantons,to fome of their paynes: fa they fluc eyght of our
men, wounded many a farre ol, with they; arrowes, and dartes
made of wood, hardened at the endes with frre, Alter this they
incommpaſled our ſhippe boates within ver, and came rally:
Wwichin the reache of dur men, laping holde on the boates
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with an arrawe, the other fleddeẽ and eſcaped. And thus they
elfte this fierce and warlyke people, ſaylyng toward the noꝛth
welt, along by the lame coattes, wich owfull hartes for the
death of theyꝛ companyons. UUAhen they has fapled about xl.
A fea of frethe leagues, they Haunted into a fea of ſuche frethe water, that
water. thep lylled they; barelles and hoggeſheades therewith Search⸗
ing the raule hereof, they vnderltoode that a vehement courſe ol
riuers diſcended with great violence from the toppes of certayne
great hylles . They fay alfo that there lyeth within the fea, mae
Manp fruitful nye foptunate and fruit landes, and well inhabited, and
Aandes. hat thinhabitantes of this tracte are men ok meeke nature, and
ſuche as doo not refule ſtraungers, pet lyttle pꝛotytable to them,
Bauman. peor. hecafe they haue no marchandyes for tyete purpule, as golde,
* on precious b nes. for lacke whereof, they brought from hence
thyꝛtie cap. ues to fell for flaucs. Thinhabitantes call this re
gion Mavistambal. The region of the ca gart of that ryuer, is
called Camomorus, and that Jf the weſt part Paricora, in the mid⸗
lande whereof, thinhabitantes fiqnifped that there i. great plem,
tie of golde: Fon, folo ing this riuer directly toward the Month
(as the bending of the (hore requpꝛed) they recouered agatne the
Regions ot ſyght obthe nopth pole. All the coatee of this tracte, parti yneth
Paria. to Paria, the which(as we ſaßd befor) was fyꝛſt found by C olenns
Gold g pearles hytm ſelfe, and hath in maner in euery place great abundaunce
of pearles . They fap that theſe coaſtes are adioynyng vnto, and
all one with Os Draconis, and alſo boweryng vppon the reg ons
of Cumana, M anacapana, Curiana, Cauchi a, and Cuchibachos
Wiherfore hep thought it to be part of tye, me land~ of India,
beyonde the riuer of Ganges, Foꝛ the great x apes there
of, doth not permit that it ſhoulde be an ilande, beit the whole
earth vntouered with water, largely taken, may pe called an J
lande. From the poynt of chat land where they loſt the light of
the noꝛth pole, ſaylyng by a continuall tracte about tic him
— Dyed leagues towar ... weſt ſyde of Paxia, they fay that (amol
m chem war) cher chaunced into atiuer called Ad .%m5
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wwhiche chey alfirme to be ol ſuche exreedyng tyeaveh, chat ie
might ſerme incredible, pf the antiques bpd not make mencion 14
el the lyke. Beyng demaunded of me pf it were not ſalt water |
where it diuided the lande, they anſweared that the water therof |
was very freſhe and lweete, and that che further it ranne, to be fo |
muche the kreſher: alfo ful of Nandes and wholfome fpthe: chey |
dare auouche the breadth therofto be mone thenthirtic leagues, |
Het pf we wel weigh and conſyder the largeneſſe and wideneſſe
of Bonioſtomea and Spirioſtome a, the mouthes of the famous riuer |
of [ter (nowe called Danubius) and bowe farre they violate op
conrupt the fale water with their freſhneſſe, we ſhal ceaſſe co mars
ueyle, although this other riuer be greater: for who can diminiſh
the power ol nature, but that it may make chis bigger then the
other, and another bygger then this ? And J ſuppole this to be
the ryuer whereof Colonas the Admirall made mention in the
deſcription of his bopage in thele coaſtes. But we thal hereafter
about Paria, great wooddes of Bꝛaſile trees, and bought away About in
with them dee thouſande poundes weyght thereof. They laß Wladi |
that the Bꝛaltle of Hiſpaniola, is muche better then this to dye f
cloth with a moze fayꝛe and durable colour. From hence, folam⸗
ing the winds ( which the Spaniards cal Northueſt. and the Ita⸗
lians Greco) thep paſſed by many landes bery fruiteful, pet left
deſolate and waſted by reafon of the crueltie ol the Canibales:
le; they went alande in many places, they ſounde the ruines of
many deſtroyed houſes: pet in fome places they founde men, bit
thoſe exceedyng fearefull, fleeyng to the mountapnes, rockes,
and woodpes at the ſyght of euery ſtraunger op 2
abydyng places, ton |
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great trees dyuers places
bing fine thacfeuie Spice, bub the Apathecaries eal Cel? due fen.
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. Ipke vnto a great bagge
| ‘on purſe. The deade carkag of this beaſte, pou ſame with me,
and turned it ouer and ouer with pour owne handes, maruey⸗
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fap it is knowen by experience, that fhe neuer letteth her whel⸗
pes goo out of that purſe, except it be ether to play, o; to ſucke,
vn yll ſuche tyme that they be able to gette they lyuyng bp
them ſelues. Cheptooke thys beatte with her whelpes : But
1 Thontelp after in the ſbyppes . Pet the damme
liued certaine monethes: but at the length, not being able to a
bide ſo great alteration of ayꝛe, and change of meate, the died als
ſo in the way , But of this beaſte, we haue ſaidt enongh. Let vs
nom therfore returne ta the aucthours of theſe thinges . Thele
two Tine ou, the vncle and the neuiem, ſuſteyned many greate
troubles hoꝛrible tempeſtes and perilles in this
| Fo when they had nowe failed by the coattes of Paria about fyre
| Hundzed leagues, + (as they ſuppoſed) beyond the citie of Cathay,
and the coſtes of Eaſt India beyond the tiner ol Ganges, there
| role ſodenly ſo fierte a tempeſt inthe moneth of Julp, chat of the
four Carauels which they had with them, two were do wned
| euen before they eyes: and the thynd lying at anker, with tyke
. ſodennes caried out of they? ſygbt throtngh the violence of the
tempeſt: the fourth allo lying at anker, was fo faker and bꝛoo⸗
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to bee donne info extreeme a caſe, and hom to pꝛouyde them
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F K Reatons , beyng out of all hope
Sas —— — flap all the in ·
f i about
the ocher Coulve confpype together to kp them, bit they for
ume mas betten Fo che Caranel which
away, was come to them agapne. eee ig
And che otber that remapned, was faucd andrepapen. Tit
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wold etter:
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Pa em es ofthe Spaniards Anime album, whole Arima alu
perfume is of mott excellent effect to heale the reumes, murreg, :
md heauines of the head. Astouching this vyage, as pet J know |
no other newes that Ji thought woopthy to certiſte you ol, her⸗ -
fore, J wyl nome make an ende of this bocke, becaule pou put
me fo often in remembꝛance ol pour departure: Het to accoms f
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nnd fperdicions: J haue therefore geatheren thete fete chinger
kolowyng, out of a booke mytten by one Romonus an eremtte,
whom Colonus had leſt with certayne kynges of the Flanve to
inſtruct them in the Chpiftian fapth. And betauſe in manner their
whole religion is none other thyng then ivolatrie, J wil begyn
at thep; idolles. It is therefore apparant by the images whi
che they honour and commonly, that there appeare unto
chem in the nygbt tertapne phantafies and illuſtons of
euil Ipirites, ſeducing them into many fonde and foolith errours:
for they make certayne images of Goſſampine cotton, folded
oz wꝛeathed after they: manner, and hard ſtopped within. Theſe
mages they make ſpttyng, muche lyke unto the pyctures of
ſpirites and deuyls which our paynters are accuftomed to paynt
bpon walles: but fopalmuche as J mee ſelle ſent pou foure of
thefe images, vou map better pꝛeſently fignific vnto the kyng
—— tos cy gi —— like vn
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Amaiaua. Thep ſap, that before it was lamiull for men to come ables mee.
foonth of the raue, the mouth of the caue was kept and wat⸗ The Qurde pis
r Machicbael: this Ma. Ranktounay
c boc hael. departyng ſome what farre from the caue, to the intent
to fee what things were abzode, was ſodenly taken of the lum,
(whole ſyght he was foꝛbidden) x was turned into a fone, They
fayne the ipke ol diuers other, that whereas they went looꝛth in eae
the npgbt leaſon a fylhyng lo farre from the caue, that they could
not returne before the ryſyng of the ſunne (che whiche it was not
laboful for them to beholde) chep were tranſtourmed into Pyꝛo⸗
balane trees, which ol them ſelues grow plentifully in the Nand.
They ſap furthermoꝛe, that a certayne ruler called / agoniona.
ſent one tooꝛth of the caue to goe a fyſhyng, who by like chaunce
was turned into a Myghtingale the ſunne was ryſen be: The Apgh>
fone he came agapne ta the cae? and that peerelp about che 34e.
Came time that he was turned into a byꝛde, he doch in the nyghe
with a fong bewayle his myſfoꝛtune, and call foꝛ the
belpe ol his u Vagonionas And this they thynke to be the
e ee ee
‘fore in his mind fop the lolſe of his familiar frend
whom he lone d fo entirely, lenuyng the men in che caue, Hought
dorch only the women with thep, ſuckyng chyldꝛen, leauyng
the women in one ol the Jlands of that tracte, called A arbinino, The Nande or
and carped the chyidzen away with bpm: which poore wretches Marpmine, —
. on the batte of
tos, toa, that is, mamma, mant, as ——— i
themothers pappe. Inv hereof chep fap it cometh that nah mts fung
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. Machinnet h: This caue they honour moge religiouſiy then dyd
the Grekes in tyme paſte, Corinth, Cyrrba, oꝛ Nyſa, and haue
adourned it with pyctures of a thouland fachions. In thentrance
ok this c aue they haue two grauen Zemes , wherof the one is cal
led Biuthaitel, and the other AA arohu. Beyng demaunded why
they had this caue in fo great reuerente, they anſwered earnellly.
Ee riginat ot becanſe the ſunne and the moone came kyꝛſt out of the fame to
Man n gene Ipght to che wonlde: they baue religious concourte to cheſt
caues, as we are actuſtomed to goe on Pylgrimage to Rome,
oz Uaticane, Compoſtella, o; Mieruſalem, as moſt holy t head
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£02 they thunke that dead folkes walke in the night,
and cate the fruite called Guaunaba,onknowen bnto vs, x fomes
—— bate a Quinte: 3 ng cOuerfant
png people, euen in cheyꝛ beddes deteiue women
7 tnt ca them the ape of men, ſhewyng them ſelues as
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le chaunte chat the ſyckee perſon dye, his kynitotks,bp witch ·
10 ital, ctalte, enforce” the dend to canfelle whether he vpen by naturall
beate. de gde on by the negligere of the Bort un in that he had not fatter
4s he ſhoulde haue done, oꝛ not miniſtred a conuenient medicine
i knn the Difeate: ſo char ikchis phtficiom be funde fantie,thep take f
* 2 Ok chele tones q bones whiche theſe Foirii
carp in theyꝛ mouthes, yl the women tan tome by them, they
ö beleeuyng them to be greatly effectuall
do helpe women trauap!yng with chylde, and thereloꝛe honour
chem as they do they Zemes: Fm diuers of the inhabttantes hos
mut Zemes of diuers fathions': fome make them of waod, as
they were ad monyſhed by tertayne biſions appearing vnto them
in the woods: Other, whiche haue receiued aunſwere of them
among che rockes, make them of fone and marble, Dome they
„ mate ok rootes, to the ſimilitude of ſuche as ne aroma noe
4 21 ; j —— Seatherpng the rented called net. wheren
ea we haue ſayd before. Cele I ces they ber
gangen: tie — pientie x fruitfuines of thdſe rotes; as the antiquities
the gen⸗ heleued ſuich fayzies op ſpirites as they called Dry des, amadry>
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oycing that he is returned to them krom the {peach ofthe Zemes,.
demaundyng of hym what he hath ſeene. Then he openyng his
mouth, doateth that the Zemes ſpake to hym duryng the tyme of
bis traunce. declaryng that he had reuclations either concerning i erlations.
bictopie 02 deſtruction, famine oꝛ plentie, health op ſyckeneſle,
0} whatſoeuer happeneth fyꝛſt on his tongue. Nowe ( moſt noble
Mince) what neede pou hereafter to matueyle of the ſpirite of
Apollo — bis Sibplies witherrremefurie: pott haw The Wirite
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antiquitie had — But —
thought that the fuperttitious
nowe wheras J haue declared thus muche of the Zemes in gene⸗
ral, I thought it not good to let paſſe what is ſayde of them in
partituler. They ſay cherefore that a certayne kyng called Gua-
maretus, had a Z emes whole name was Coroc hotum, whe (they
fay) was oftentimes woont to deſcend from the hygheſt place of
the houſe where Guamaretus kept hym falt bound. They affirme,
that the cauſe ol this gor his bandes and departure,
was eyther to hyde hym (cife, 02 to goe lecke for mcate, on eis
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puri iopned with her in gouernaumre,
) geather together che waters pte fall from che bpgh byles to
. the balleies, that being tooled, they may with force bniſte out ins
-———‘to-groate loodes, and overflows the countrep, péthe people va
| ching woyehp tobe noteD, mberwith we til mae an endo his
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| ather concinualy from meate x dzinke, to knot foniee
| stot te — bocmme and atop this Fatting
that within few peeres there ſhoulde come to the ilande a nation
— woich baum derer abe cul
men and cevimonies of che iland, and eyther Gay al theyp cbpl-
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Eros ap) ate pater mere op ene kone a
burden bpponme, and applyed my felfets wapting. I haue
~~ gherfone cholen thele fetwe tynges, out al a greate beape of luch
as ſeemed to me mot woꝛchy to be noted among the large
mytynges ok the aurchoures and ſearchers ofthe fame. Uher
fore, forafinuch as pou haue endeuored to wneſt cut of my han ·
des the whole example of all my wooꝛkes, to adde the ſame to
the innumerable volumes af your Iphparie, J thought it good
nowe to make a bꝛeefe reherlall of thoſe chynges which were
done from that peare ofa thoufand and ſiue hundꝛed, euen vnta
„nen fo — —— FHF — mytte
— yvnges beareafter, if god graunt me tpfe.
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to haue actomꝑly⸗
fhenthe whole Decade confiting of ten bookes, But J haue avs
ded this to the tenth as a perpendpeuleripne, and as it were a
backe guide oz rere warde to the others o that you map knytte
ſzekxꝛtt tenth tothe npnth, ¢ impute this to octuppe the place
——— This aꝛder haue N appopn:
. — — ſhaulde be compelled often times.to ute puer che
ea But nom let bs come to our purpote, Che ſbyppe
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rable: pet not hurtfull, except Lions, Tigers, and Crocodiles.
This J meane in ſundzy regions of that greate lande of Paria,
but not in the ilandes: no not ſo muche as one, l; all the
beattes of the ilandes, are meeke and without hurte, except
men, which (as wee haue ſayde) are in many ilandes deuourers
of mans fleſhe. There are alſo dyuers kyndes of foules, And in
manp places battes ot ſuch bygnes, that they are equall with
turtle doues. Theſe battes, haue oftentymes allalted men in the
night in theyꝛ fleepe , and fo bytten them with theyꝛ benemous
teeth, that they haue ben therby almoſt dꝛyuen to madnes, in fo
much that they haue ben compelled to flee from fitch places, as
from rauenous Parpies. In an other place, where certaine of
them ſiept in the night ſeaſon on the ſands by the fea ſyde, a mon
ſter commyng out of che ſea, came vpon one of them fecretelpe,
amd carped bpm away by the myddeſt out of the ſyght of his fe⸗
lowes, to whomhe crped in vapne len helpe, untpyl the beatt leapt 2 55a nn
into the {ea with her pray. It was the kynges pleaſure that they iter of the lea.
ſhoulde remapne in theſe landes, and buylde townes and foꝛtrel⸗
ſes: whereunto they were fo well wyllyng, that diuers pꝛofered
them ſelues to take bpon them the ſubdupng of the lande, mas
kyng great ſuite to the kyng that they myght be appoynted f
thereto, The coaſt ofthis tracte is exceedyng great and large, fote thelarge
and the regions and landes thereof extende marueylous karre, —
fo that they affirme the continent of theſe regions with the Tan: ’
des about the fame, to be chꝛyſe as as al Europe, beſide
thofe landes that the Poꝛtugales haue ſouthwarde, whi⸗
che are alſo exceedyng large. Therkoꝛe doubtleſſe Spayne hath
deſerued great paple tn cheſe our dapes, in that it hach made
knowen vnto vs fo many thouſandes of Intipodes uhiche lap bid ,,
befoze , and unknotwen to aur forefathers: andhath thereby n
miſtred ſo large matter to wyyte of, to ſuche learned wyttes as
pel ps ——ů— —
whom J opened a geathered things rude⸗
pee togeather as you ſee: the which, 3
pou wil cake in good part, aſwell ag that J can not
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— — — Hiſpaniola.
Our men haue ———
is — to ſuche as haue ben vſed to our bꝛead made
of wheate, and that them ſtrengthes were muche detayed bp
pla alte, biyng of the Lares mberefope the kyng hath ol late commaunden
reth the formes that wheate ſhoulde be ſuwen there in diuers places, and at fun:
althpugts. dux tymes ofthe peere: It groweth into bolowreedes, with fel
eares, but thoſe very bygge and kruitefull. They fynde the lyke
ſoltneſſe and delicatenelſſe to be in hearbes, whiche growe there
to the height ol coꝛne. Neat oꝝ cattel, become of bygger Mature,
and exceedpng fat, but ther flethe is moze vnſauerie, and thepꝛ
———ů1 toe fimne vi'be tes
rp wateryſhe: but of hogges and ſwyne, they affirme the contras
xp, that they are moze wholfome, and of better taſte, by reafon of
— — — beyng ol much better
nouriſhment then maſte. There is almoſt none other kynde of
lleſhe commonly ſolde in the market. The multitude
are exceedyngly encreaſed, and become wylde as ſoone as
are out of the ſwyneheardes keepyng. They haue ſuche plentie
entie of ol beaſles and foules, chat they thal hereafter haue no neede to
Ban. baue —— 8 Che increaſe of al beaſtes
grom bigger then the boode they came of, by reaion of che ranks
| of Hi/p ola, Sey bane notwefounive hat — of tong
Taba is an 3
lande. tyme they thought to haue ben firme lande. for the great length
a maruayle that the inhabitants
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into the Tleſt, muche longer then f anv in bꝛeadth
. ie chen ep tapoten SE
at the fyꝛſt: for it is very narolwe in refpect of the length, and is
for the moft part very fruitefull and pleafaunt, Caſtwarde, not
farre from Hi/paniola, there lyeth an Nand leſſe then Hiſpaniola
more then by the halle, whiche our men called Senfti lobannis, SOC Sande or,
beyng in manner ſquare, in this chepfounde erceedpng ryche S. Zopanms. —
golde mpnes : but beyng nowwe occupped in the golve mynes of Boie mpeg.
Hiſpaniola, they haue not pet {ent labourers into the Nand. But
the plentie and reuenue of golde of al other regions, geue place
to Hifpaniola, where they geue them felues in manner to none
other thyng then to geather golde, ol whiche topke this oꝛder ts
appointed. To euery ſuch wittie and Tkilful man as is put in truſt
to be a ſurueyour op ouerſeer ol theſe woꝛkes, there is alligned
one oꝛ mone kings ofthe Jland, with their ſubiects. Chele kings
accoꝛdyng to they league, come with ther people at certapne
tymes of the peere, and reſoꝛt euery of them ta the golde myne
to the whiche he is alligned, where they haue al manner ol dyg⸗
ging oz mining tooles delyuered them, and euery king with his
men, haue a certapne rewarde alowed them for they; labour.
For when they depart from the mynes to ſawyng of cone, and
other tyllage ( wherunto thep are addict at certaine other tymes, Tylagt.
left thep? foode ſi ould faile them. ) they receiue loꝛ their labour,
one a ierkin, oꝛ a dublet, another a ſhyꝛt, another a cloke oꝛ a cap:
for they nowe take pleaſure in theſe thyngs, and goe no mone nas
ked as they were woont to doo. And thus they vſe the belpe and
labour of the inhabitauntes, both foz the tyllage af they ground,
and in they; golde mynes, as though then were theyꝛ ſeruantes
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good maners, Ahen they are growen do mans age, they ſende
chem home to they countrepes to he example to ocher, and eſpe⸗
se bat ce ep) ts — —
ſubiectes in lone and obedience. By reaſon wherof, they come
now by faire meanes ¢ gentel perſwaſions, to che mines which
lye in two regions of che ilande, about chyꝛtie myles dyſtaunt
fromthe cytie of Dominica, wherof the on is called Sancti Chriſto⸗
phori: and the other beyng diftant aboute fourſcoꝛe and tenne
mples, is called c ibaua, not farre from the cheele hauen called
Portus Regalis. Theſe regions are verp large, in the which in
manp places here and chere, are founde ſamtyme euen in che vps
per crutt of che earth, and ſomtyme among the ſtanes, certayne
rounde pieces oꝛ plates of golde, ſometime of finale quantytie,
and in fome places of great wayght: info much that there hath
yn founve rounde pieces of three hunded pounde weyght,
and one of three thouſande, thee hunmed and tenne pounde
weyght. te mbicbe (as pou aro) was fee whale to the kyng
in that ſhyp in the which che gouernour Boadilla mas commyng
Nee
the wap, by reaſon it was ouer laden with che weyght of gold €
multitude of men, albeit, there were ma then a chonſande pers
fons which aw and handeled the piece ol gold. And wheras bere
1 the common pounibe, bur
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be firſt Decade. nea
ind the regions there about, is carpevto twhich are
ten peerelp aboue thaee hundꝛed thoufand pound wayght of gold. choutadwergde
DE any man be knowen deceptfullpe tu keepe backe anp por patreln in -
tion of golde, whereof he hath not made the kynges officers prt. pamela.
uie, he forfeprerh the fame for a fone. There chaunceth among
them oftentpmes manp contentions and controuerfies, the wht.
che vnleſſe the magiſtrates of the Jlande do fynyſhe, the caſe is
temoued by appellation to the hygh coun ayle of the court, from
w ole ſentente it is not lawfull to appeale in al the Dominions
of Caſtyle. But let vs nowe returne to the newe landes, from oe ‘4
whence we haue digreſſen. They are innumerable,diuers,and ‘
erceedpng forcunate. CCiverefore the Spanpardes in theſe our
dapes, and they noble enterpꝛyſes, do not geue place epther to
che factes of Saturnus, 0} Hercules, 02 anye other of the auncient
pꝛyntes of famaus memoꝛp, which were canonized among the
goddes, called Heroes, fo they? ſearchyng of newe landes and
regions. and bꝛyngyng the fame ta better culture and ciuilitie.
Oh God, howe large ¢ farre thal our poſteritie fee the Chꝛiſtian Enlargyng of
teligion extended ꝛhowe large a campe haue they nom tu wander rügte n
in, whiche bp the true nobilitie that is in them, oꝛ mooued by ber- The original or
tue, wyll attempt eyther to deſerue lyke pꝛayle among men, op note.
teputation of well doyng befe Gods ¶Mhat J conceiue in my
mynde of theſe thynges, J am not able to expꝛeſſe with penne oz
tongue. J wil nom therfore fo make an end ofthis perpendiculer 5.
conclufion of the whole Detade, as myndyng hereafter to ſearch
and geather euery thyng particulerlp, chat I may at further ley⸗
fure unpte the fame mone at large. Fo; Colonus the Admtral,
with foure chips, and a hundred, dneefcope,and ten men, appoyn⸗
ted by the kyng, diſcouered in the pecre ol Cinitte. 1520. the
lande oueragayn ĩ the Melt coꝛner of Cubs, diſtant from the
fame about a bunnpen and the rtie leagues: in the myddeſt of
lubiche tratte. lyeth an Bande called uanaſſa. From hente he Te Aare
directed his voyage back warde tutward the Catt, by the hore ok en
tha: cod, ſuppatyng bat he ſhoulde haue funde the coattes of
Paria, but it ehaunced atherwile. It is ſapde allo that / incenciar
Agnes (of wham we haue fpsken beſtze) am one Lobannes Date TYE vOPAgE OF
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barbaroufiretfe. J haue thought it rood therfthe to latilſie che
requeſt of hele wyle men, elpetially bſpng thaurchoꝛptie of pour
name, wherunto not to haue obeped, I ſhoulde eſterme my ſelle
to haue ronumytted a heynous offence. IAherfoʒe I wyll nowe
bꝛiefly rehearle in oꝛder, what hyd coaſtes the S panpardes ouer
ran, who were thaucthours therof, where they reſted, what fur
ther hope they bꝛought, and fmallye wuhat greate thynges thoſe
tractes of landes do pꝛomyſe in time to come, In the declaration
of mp decade of the ocean, which is nowe pꝛynted and dyſperſed
thꝛoughout Chꝛpyſtend me vnwares to me, J deſcribed howe
Chriftophorus Colonus founde thoſe ilandes wherof wee haue {pes
ken, and that turnyng from thence towarde the left hande ſouth⸗
ward, he chaunced into grrate regions of landes, and large ſeas,
dyſtant from the Equinoctiall lyne, onely from fpue degrees to landes di⸗
tenne: where he kounde bꝛode ryuers and exceeding hygh moun · gant from the
tapnes coucred twit’) ſuowe, and harde by the ſea bankes, uhere Sue aces
were manye commodious and qupet haucns, But Colonus being grees to ten.
Row departed out ofthis lpfe, the kyng beganne to take care, The deatg of
how thole lands might be inhabtted with Chꝛiſtian men, to thine Colonus.
treaſe of our fapth: A heruppon be gaue lycence by his letters
Patentes to al ſuch as would cake the matter in hand, and eſpeti⸗ „ deneran |
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fus Departing Eppft wich ehzee hundzed ſouldiers from the ilande dus Fegg.
Of H/paniola (in the which we fayd the Spaniatdes had builoed
à cptie ¢ planted them habitation) ¢ faplyng in maner ful ſouth,
he came to one of the hauens found before, which Colonus named
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lathe whiche they affreme both the men and women to bee of Ca rama
men and wonnen are very good archers. Dur men founde cers
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grebe un, eaten. Ctpecially the bach ofthe tree is contaarous fy fc
Cire whofe As Meepe nder it any tyme, bane they heades Iwolne, and lole
Madoweis their light: but if they lleepe but a while, they fight commeth
burt. agayne aſter a fewe dayes. This porte is diſtant foure hundred,
kyttie x fire mples from that port ol fi i pamola whiche the Spas
npardes call Peata, in the whiche alfo they furniſt e them ſelues
when they prepare anpe voyage to feeke other newe landes.
hen Foge da had entred into the hauen, he enuaded, flue, and
fpopled the people, whem he founde naked and ſcattered: foz
they were geuen him foꝛ a pray by the kynges letters patentes,
becauſe they had ben befoze tyme cruell agaynſt the Chꝛiſtians,
and coulde neuer be allured to permytte them quietlye to tome
mithin they; dominions. Here they founde golde, but in no great
quantitie, noꝛ pet that pure: they make of it certapne bꝛeſt plates
and bꝛooches whiche they weare foz comelpnefle. But Fege la
not content with theſe ſpoyles, vſyng certayne captines, which
he had taken before, for guydes, entred into a byllage twelue
myles dyſtant from the fea ſyde further into the lande, into the
which they were fled whenhe ff enuaded. Here he founda nas
ked people, but apte to warre: foꝛ they were armed with tars
gettes, ſhieldes, long ſwooꝛdes made of wood, and bowes with
arrowes typt with bone, oz hardened with fyꝛe. As ſoone as they
had eſpyed our men, they wich they: gheſtes who they had recets
| teyued, allapled them with deſperate myndes, beyng therto more
earneſtly pꝛouoked, beholdyng the calamitie of thele whiche fled
— violence dane to they women and chyldzen,
in che ſpoyle and laughter. In this conflyct our men had the
ouerthꝛowe: in che which, one Johannes de Lacoſſa( heing in auc
| thopitie next vnto Fogeda the captapne, and alfa the fyꝛſte that
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them lyſt, and alfo that by reaſon of his age, be was ok greater
ptie: But ellpetiallp becauſe che rumoure was chat .
Therfore, at the arrpual ol Nicueſa, they conſulted what was
bet to be Doone: and determyned kyꝛſte to reuenge —
of they felawes. Aheruppon, ſettyng they, battayle in araye,
they marched in the nyght to warde them whiche flue Coſſa with
bis companyons. Thus ſtealyng on them vnwares in the latte
watche of the nygbt, and encompallpng the vyllage where they The Spanpars
lap, couſpſtyng ol a hunden houleg and moe, baupng alfo in it beach or ers
chꝛyſe as many of theyꝛ neyghbours as of them ſelues, they {er companions,
it on frre, with diligent watche that none myght eſcape. And
thus in ſhoꝛt time they brought them and theyꝛ houſes to aſhes,
and made them paye the raunfome of blood with blood: foz
of a great multitude of men and women, they ſpared only {pre a @ great fangs
—.— all other beyng deſtroyed with fyꝛe o; ſuond, except der
fee whiche eſcaped pꝛiuily, hey learned bp theſe reſerued chyl⸗
Nen, that Coffs and his felowes were cut in peeces, and eaten |
of them that flue them. By reaſon whereof, chey ſuppoſe chat |
thele people of Camairi tooke theyz oꝛiginal of the Caribes, others |
tople called Canibales. Here thepfounde ſome golde among the Cantbalen.
athes . For the hunger of golde dyd no leſſe incourage our men The hunger
to aduenture chefe peryls and labours, then dyd the poſſellſ de-
ofthe landes. Theſe thinges chus liniſhed, and the death aco
and his felowes reuenged, chey returned to the hauen.
— Fogbda whiche came fyꝛlt, fyꝛt — departyng with
bis armie to ſeeke V raba, connmitted to his gouernaunce, ſapled
by an Nunde called Fortis lyingin the berweene rab aye vue
and che hauen of Carthage: into the whiche be founde Fortis.
it to be an Jlande of the Canibales, bꝛyngyng wich hym from
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Catt toaſtes ot / rabs, whiche the inbabitauntes call C arib aua.
rom whence the Caribes oꝛ Canibales of the landes are ſayd
to haue theyz name and original, Pere he began to builde a for
treſſe, and a vyllage neere vnto the ſame, therein intendyng to
place they fpr habitation, Shonily after, beyng inſtructed by
Certapne captpucs, that there was about ttuclue mples further
within che lande, a tertayne vyllage called Tiruſi. hauyng in it a
ryche golde myne, he determined to deſtroy the village, to the
which when he tame, he founde the inhabitantes redy te delende
theyꝛ rygbt, and that lo ſtoutlye, that encoun with them,
he was repulſed with ſhame and domage: foꝛ people alſa
ble bowes and venemous arrowes. TUithin a fewe dapes after,
beyng enforced fop lacke of vittualles to inuade another village,
he hym ſelfe was ſtrycken in the thygh with an arro we Some
ok his felowes fay, that he was thus wounded of one of the inha⸗
bitauntes whofe wyle he had ledde away captiue befoꝛe. They
fap allo that he had fyꝛſt krendlye commumen with Fogeda la re⸗
deeming of his wle, and had appoynted a day to boing a poꝛtion
of golde for her raunſome, and that he came at the day alligned,
not laden with golde, but armed with bowes and arrou
eyght other confederate with hym which had ben before partas
bers of the iniuries done to them fyꝛſt at the hauen af Canbage.
nd aſterward atthe burnyng ok the vyllage, in reuenge tubers
ol, they had deſperately conſecrated them ſelues to deat h: But
the matter beyng knowen, the captayne of this conſpiracie was
vor flapne of Fogeda his compantons, and his wle betepner in eap⸗
„ be, Ke, allo sipongh che mulicroudnetle of he nene.
tonſumed and was died vp by lytle e litle. Mule
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silo srconnttich to Pixerro ant bis conypanions, that tt bald noe
be imputed to them for treaſon, 38 thence pf he
came not agapue at the bap appopnted, with vyttuales, and a
newe ſupplye of men. Theſe . ru dayes beyng nowe pall, wheras
they coulde pet heare nothpng of Fogeds, and were dayly moze
and moxe oppꝛeſſed with ſharpe hunger, they entred into the
two Bꝛigandines which were left, and departed from that land.
And as chep were nowe ſaylyng on the mayne fa towarde Hiſ⸗
| paniola, atempett fovapnelp aryſyng, ſwalowed one of the Bꝛi⸗
| gandines with all chat were therein. Some of they felowes ats
u migandine kyꝛme, chat they playnely ſawe a fyſhe of huge greatneſſe [wum
Browne wit dpng about the Brigandine (fop thole (cas byng foopth great
1 at monſters) and that with a ſtroke of her taple, the broke the rud⸗
der of the ſhyppe in peeces,whiche faylyng, the Bꝛigandine bes
ing dꝛiuen about by force of the tempeſt, was dꝛowned not farre
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haue landed in the Ilande, 2 were Nyuen the
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mette by chaunce
— r e und te egionofCachiecoe tae
—- mouth ol the riuer whiche che Spanpardes called Zoium gattin
a that is, che boule of che catte, becaule they Gatoe a cattefypte in
that place: Boium, in the tongue of Hi/paniola.is a boule, —
— — thynges neceflarie, both fox
and apparel, yngyng alſo with hym an
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fon of the hauen of Can hege and of the goodly ſtature. firength,
and beautie both of men and women beyng inthe fame. tere he
(ent certapne to goe alande on the choye both to fetch frett water,
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tempt to bite chem krom they coaſtes and diſturbe their (pyar
aun am ol fallfe and crueltie, and further thꝛeatnyng theit
e and deltruction; except they woulde We them ſelues mone
frendely tolwarde chem. Foz he aduertiled them that thete
woulde choꝛtlye come into theyꝛ lande at med meu, in number
like vnto che ſandes ol the ſea, and that to they utter deſtructiut,
7 not only pfthep relyſted them not, but alfo except theprecetucy
Pe them, and entertayned them honourably. In the meane time,
| Chevleottars Ancijus was entourmed that his men were detcvncd :uhercfore
gets agapuit ſulpectyng ſome decepte, he bꝛdtight kooꝛth alt his target men.
| a@trowes,
Ares. _ for teare of they benemous atrowes and ſettyng them in battel
arape, he marched fopwarde towarde them whiche Taped his
men. But he whiehe connnuned with the barbartans, geuyng
bym a ſigne with his hande to pꝛoceede no further, he ſtayed, and
tallyng to hym the other, he kneboe that aif was ſafe: foꝛche bats
barians protered hym peace, becauſe they were not they whom
they ſuſpected them to haue ben, meanyng bp Fogela Nicueſa.
who had ſpoyled the vyllage ſtandyng there by the ſea ſyde, and
tatyed away many captities, and allo burnt anocher vyllage fur
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tu of targetted, henne, fanclymasann lutbeotber herbe
for the warres, but all this with euil (pecdes and in an cuil houre:
for as they were euen newe entryng into ihe hauen, the gouer ·
nour of the hyppe whiche fate at the helme, ſiroke che ſhyppe antilus typo
vpon the ſandes, where it was ſo laſt encloſed and beaten with wiacke,
the wanes of the fea, that it opened in the myddeſt, and all Lott
dat was therein, a thyng furelpe miſerable tobeboive : foz of
all the vyttualles that they had, they ſaued only tweluc barrelles
of meale, with a fewe. cheeſes, and a lytle bybker head, foꝛ al
_ the beaſtes were daowned, and they them ſelues eſcaꝑed bards
ly and halfe naked, by helpe of the Bꝛigandine and ſhip boate,
carping with them only a fewe weapons. Thus they fell tram |
one calamitie into another. beung nowe moze carefull for they:
ipues then fog golde. Pet heyng bought alyue and in health tan
that lande whiche they fo greatiy deſyꝛed, they coulde du no leſle
then to pꝛouide fog the futteynpng, of then bodyea, becaule thep
toulde not Ipue only byayie: and whereas they one fapled,
they muſt ner des lyue by other nens. Per among thele ſo many
eum n neee offtred it ie tr vnto them s fop they
founde, not karre from the leaf} pest groue of Date trees, anon u grone of
the . —.— —— 2 9 — date trees.
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Mebparves and gardens, and noꝛy greate
Dtligence as we du cheries, peaches, and quinſes. This tree in
leaues, heyght, and trunke, is very lyke vnto the tree that bea ·
rech the fruxte called Zizipbs, which the Apothecaries call
Tuinbs, But whereas now the wylde bores began to fayle them,
chey were enforcedto conſulte and pꝛouyde fo2 che tyme
to come: & wich they whole arnipe, they entered
kurther into the land. The Canibales of this pꝛoupnce, are moll
expert a « Ancifus had in his companpe, a hundzed men,
Er Se. by the may with only chꝛee men of thinhabitantes,
: “ere
but acing chyl⸗
des age, they lette arroweè out of
Sean, 3 eae
they came, muche moꝛe vnfortunate then they were befoze,and
n — cheticeea dotebne petane: getty Sect
Oe inhabptantes had ouerthotuine the foxtrelte which Fogeda
Daphne, en ban bre pie vue afte as foone a8
Pixarrus and his . the land.
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therof, finft fent away theyꝛ cbyldꝛen and weakeſle ſoꝛt of cheyꝛ
with they: baggage and houlhould ſtuffe, and allembled
all ſuche togeather both men and women, as were meete fo2 the
warres. Thus beyng armed with weapons and deſperate min ·
des, they ſtoode in a redyneſſe to fyght, and taryed the comming
of our men vpon a lytle hyll, as it were to take the aduauntage
ofthe grounde: our men iudged them to be about fiue hundꝛed
in munber. Then Anci/us the captayne of our men, and Lieue⸗
tenaunt in the ſteede ol Fog eda, ſettyng his men in oꝛder of bate
tayle arap, and with his whole company kneeling on his knees,
they all made humble pꝛayers to GDD fo} the bictoʒic, and a
bowe tothe image of the bleſſed virgin whiche is honoured in
Ciuile, by the name of Santa Maria Antiqua, pꝛompſyng to
ſende her many golden gyftes. and a ſtraunger of that countrey:
alfo, to name the byllage Sanita Maria Antiqua after her nanies
lpkewyſe to erecte a temple called by the fame name, oat
the leaſt to dedicate the king of that pꝛouince his pallace to that
ble, ik it ſhould pleaſe her to alliſt them in this dangerous enters
pile. This done, al the foutyiers toke an oth, that no man fhouly She ſouldiere
turne his backe to his eue. Then p captayne commaundng o'
them to be in a redyneſſe with they targets and iauelyns, and
the trumpetter to blowe the battayle, chey ſiercely alſayled they?
enimies with a larome: but the naked barbarians, not long able
to abpoe the force of our men, were put to flight, wich they kyng rare binn
and taptayne c emac cus. Our men entred into the vyllage, where to lyght.
they founde plentie of meate, ſuch as the people of the countrey
ble, fufficient to allwage theyꝛ pꝛeſent hunger, as incad made of
rootes, wich certayne kruites vnlyle vnto ours, whiche they
reſerue for ſtoꝛe, as we doo Cheſtnuttes. Ok theſe people, the
men are vtterly naked, but the women, from the nauel downe⸗
warde are covered with a fyne cloth made of gollampine cots
ton, This region is vtterty without any ſharpeneſſe of wymer: The rineroe
ke; the mouth of this ryuer of Darien, is onlpe eyght degrees Darin, but
diſtaunt from the Eguiuactiall tyne, fo that the common forte dun >estees
betweene
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hat from they: opinton, loꝛaſmuthe as the dyſlerente tan noi
be great. The day after that they aryued at the lande, they faye
led along by the rpuer, where they founde a great thycket of
recdes, continuyng fop the ſpace of a myle in length, ſuppoling
(as it chaunced in deede) that che byderers thereabout whiche
had fled, had eyther lyen lurkyng there, oꝛ els to haue hid they
ftuffe among thoſe rtedes: CCiherenpon, armyng them ſeluts
wich chepp targets, foꝛ feare of the people lying in an ibuſhe, they
Somefounde Learched che thpcket diligentiy, aud founde it withaut men, but
ol teebts. xeplenyſhed w th houcholde ſtuffe and golde. They founde alſa
à great multitude of ſhetes, made of the fitke op cotton of che gol
Adel plates fampine tree: lykewyſe diuers kyndes of veſſels tooles made
af gelbe. of wood, and many of earth: alſa many bzeſt plates of golde, and
ouches mougqht after theyꝛ manner, to the ſumme ofa hundꝛed -
€ two pound weight: foꝛ they alſo take pleaſure inthe beaut e of
golde, and woke it very artiliciallp, although it he not the pꝛyce
of thyngs among them as wit! vs. They haue it out af uthet ree
gions, fo? exchaunge of ſuch thynges as theyꝛ countten bꝛingeth
he golden bath: fop fuch regions as haue plentie of brea and gaalampric,
seinen part lacke golde, and fuche as bypng ford golde, are fop Pit part
barten. rough with mauntaynes and rockes, and there lade kurren: and
thus they erercife marchandies without the vſe of mon y. Ne;
iopſyng chere ſme with double gladneſſe, al wel in that thep ſawe
— lykeneſſe of golde, as allo that foꝛtune had offered them fe
pre and fruitetul a countrep, they ſent for they: felowes whom
they had left beloꝛe in the Eaſt (poe of the gulfe of aba. Pet
fome fay, that the ayꝛe is there vnuuholſome, becauſe that part of
the region lyech in a lowe valley, enuironed with mountayne⸗
and maryſhes.
The ſeconde booke of the ſeconde Decade, of the ſup-
poſed continent.
Vaue deſcribed to pour holyneſſe whert
Fogeda with his companpe (to whom the
ge trattes ol V raba was aſſigncd to in:
bana therefope teaue them of /rabs for
a whple, and teunne agapne ta Nicue/a.to
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hom the got and L ieutenauntſhyp of the moſte large
pꝛouince of Ber agua (bepng the Celt (poe of the guife of V rab)
was appopnted, Cie haue declared hotwe Niche/a,
with one Carauel and two Bpigandines.from V raba the turtidics
tion of his frend ¢ companion Fogeda, directed his courſe iets
warde to Beragus. leauing the bygger ſhyppes ſomewhat behind
hym, to folowe hym a farre of, but he tooke this deuite in an
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fo be both lott his felowes in the nyght, and went
of che riuer Beragua, uhiche he cheefelp ſought.
One lau Olanus à Cantabzian, and gouernour of one of the Lu Clans
— — coubuct of one of the Bꝛigandines: he
pnoe, learned of the inhabitauntes, whiche was
to the gulle of Beragua, ouerpaſſed and left
— et Nicarfs.Olewn: therfore directyng his courſe coward
the Eat, met with che other Bꝛigandine, which had allo rod
dered out of the way bp reafon of the varkenes ofthe night. The
Bugandine, was one Petrus de V mia. Thus Petrus de
aoe meetyng, they conſulted hat was belt lia.
to be
vi ¢ rpuer
15 m — called La>artos. Theſe 2 Lagartus.
— of he rpc Nilus in Egypt. In this rpuer they
ſounde they companions and felowes of theyꝛ errour, lying
at anker with the great ſhyppes, whiche folowed behynde by
the gouernours commaundement. Here the whale Ani be.
“png diſquieted by reafon of the qouernours erreur,
| by the aduite of the captaynes of the Bꝛigan ·
inegswlyo had raſed neere vnto the coattes of Beragua.they fap:
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| in ſteede of Nieueſa wom they bad lofte,
capptatnes,
of thofe . rotten for age, and ſuffered them
8 n of the ſurg es ofthe fea. Pet of cher
Rel? vat p'ankes, wpth other newe, made of che trees of that
1 —.— they fape to be exceeding bigge and hygh) they
framed a nem cat auell ſhoxtelye after, whiche they myght vſe ta
} ſerue for they neteſſitie. But Beragua was founde bythe vnfo
2258 fe gate veftenpe of Petrus de Vmbria, Ic hee, beyng a man of
pt wit and apt for wardneſſe to attempte thinges ( in which
e faxtune will beare a ftroke notwithſtanding our pꝛo⸗
; _ uibence) tooke vppon bym thaduenture to ſearche the ſhoze, to
thintent to fpndea way fo; bis felotwes where they myght bette
come aland. Fo; this purpole, he chafe hym xii.maryners, and
went aboopde the hyp boate whiche ſerued the greatett ſhyppes.
She flawyng of the fea, raged and roꝛed there, wich a hoꝛrpble
twhurling,as we reade of the daungerous place of Scylla in the
banger feaof Cicilie, by reaſon of the ———
Acne. uta the (ea, from uubiche the waues rebounding with ppolen
" makea great rr rong
nelle oz reflowing, the Spaniardes call Refacca, In theſe daun⸗
gers whetchen Y mbris meſteled a while, but in ſhoꝛt ſpace, a
wane of the ſen almoſte as bygge as a mountavne, reboundyng
from the rockes, ouertuhelmed the boate, and deusured the fame
mich the men euen in the 9
all, only one eſcaped
getting ſuſteyning
the fea butyll the nf day when it waren 2
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te" * gampanpe. But Vmbria with the other eleuen, were veterlye
..., Calle ame. Che reſydue of che companpe, durſt not conunitte
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treſſe, and to ſowe feedes after the manner of they; countrep,
acertapne bale of fruiteful grounde, becauſe in sec pane —
region is barren, As theſe thyngs were thus doing in Ber agu.
one of they ſtanding vpon the top of a high rocke of
efpeciall, and his eyes towarde the (ick, began to
crye, Lynnen ſaples, lynnen faples, And the neerer it ewe to⸗
warde hym, he percetued it tu be a ſhyp boate, cammyng with
a lytle ſayle: pet reteiued they it with muche reioycing, loꝛ it
was the kyſher boate ol Nicueſa his Carauel, and of capacitie to
carp only fyue men, and had nolue but che in it, whiche han
ſtolne it rom Nicueſa, hetauſe he refuſed to geue credite to them
that he had paffen Beragua, and left it behinde him Eaſtwarde.
‘Fo they ſeeyng Nicue /a and his felowes to conſume daylye by
famine, thought that they woulb pꝛooue foꝛtune with that boate,
eee in derde it was.
Debatyng therefore with theyꝛ felo mes of theſe matters, they
declared hom Nicue/a erved and loſt the Carauel by tempeſt, and che miterabie
that he twas nome wanderyng among the maryſpes of bnknow: calt of Micucte
en coaſtes, full of miſerie and in extreme penurie of all chynges,
— —— thꝛeeſtoꝛe and tenne dapes,
only with herbes and rootes,+ ſeldome with fruites of the cour:
trey, contented to dxynke water, and. pet that oftentymes fap:
lyng, betaule he was inſtant to trauaple eſtwarde by feote,
bycthat meanes to come to Beragua. Colonus the lyꝛſt
ſynder of this mayne lande, had coaſled along by this tracte, and
named it Gracia Dei, but thinhabitantes cal it Cer abaro, Through
this region, there tumneth a rtuer, whiche our men named Sankt i c he riner of
Mattbei, diſtant from the Meſt (pve of Ber agua, about an hun · S. Matthei.
2 ere Filet paſſe the name of this tiuer,
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„ wat here rm tap; he cat in ppiftn,
Aa. and accuſed hyim of trealon, betauſe he the aucthoꝛitie of
the Lieuetenaunthhpp, and that lo the he had to beare
rule and — UU— — per alfo
hat bebehanep him {eife negligently, demaundyng furthermore
ofp, what was the cauſe of his ſo long delay. Lykewyſe he
‘Spake to al the under officers ſharpely, and with a troubled mind,
| and within tewe dayes after, commaunded them to truſſe vp
theyꝛ packes, and make them redy to depart. They deſpꝛed him
2 to qupet hym ſelle, and to fopbeare them a whple, vntyl they had
| teaped the come that they had ſowen, whiche woulde thoptly be
Come wareth pe: fon all kunde of cone wuaxeth rype there euery fourth mo⸗
rype eutrye “Neth after it is ſumen. But he vtterly denyed to tarpe anpe whyt,
wurth moneth hut that he woulde fooꝛthunch depart from that vnfoztunate
lande, and plucked vp by the rootes all that euer was brought
into the gulfe of Beragua, and commaunded them to direct theyꝛ
courte cowarde the Eat, After they had layled about the (pace
ol ixteene myles. a certaine young man, whole name was Gres
goꝛie, a Genues boꝛne, and of a chylde brought vy with Colonus,
called to remembꝛaunce that there was a hauen nat farre from
chence: and to pꝛooue his ſapinges tue, he gaue his felowes
cthele tokens, that is, that they ſhoulde kynde vpon the ſhoze,
n anker of a lot ſhyppe halle couered with ſande, and under a
tree next onto the hauen a ſpꝛyng of cleare water. They came
to the lande, lounde the anker and the ſlpꝛyng⸗ and commended
the wytte and memoꝛie of the young man, that he onlye among
IN manpe of the Maryners which had ſearched thoſe coattes with
pe -Colonus ,. bore the thyng fo well in mynde. This hauen Colonus
9296 de called Portus Bellas, Chere as in this voyage for lacke of vyt
Portus Bellus. tualles, they were ſometymes enforced to goe alande, they were
eupl entreated of thinhabitantes: by reafon whereof, they:
ſtrengthes wert ſa weakened with hunger, that they were not
— able to keepe warte againdt naked men, dj ſcatcely to beate theit
harneſſe on they backes: and therefoꝛe our men loſt twentie of
- thevy companions, which were ſlayne with benemous arrowes.
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ſyde, vpon the poynt oz cape,twbiche in tyme named .
Marmor. but Bp tneve Ge b reat or Tone hunger, that Cape Ma-
they: ſirength ferued them not to luſteyne fuche labour, pet he
erected a lytle tonne, able to reſyſt the fyꝛſt aſſaulte of the inha⸗
bitauntes : this tonne be called Nomen Sei. From the tome that en Hef
he leſt Beragua, what in the iournep among the ſandie playues, :
then allo for hunger while be builded the towne, of the feure whi⸗
che remapnedalpue, he lott two hundred. And thus by litle and
Iptle, the multitude offeuen hundꝛed, foureſcoꝛe, and kyue men,
was bꝛought nowe to ſcarcelye one hundꝛed. CAhyle cue
lyued with thele fewe miſerable men, there aroſe a contention
among chem of /raba, as concernyng the Lieuetenantſyyppe:
for one Vafcus Nannex, by the iudgement of al men, truſtyng
move to his ſtrength then wit, ſtyꝛred vp certayne light felowes
agaynſt Anciſus, ſaping that Ancifas had not the kyngs letters
patentes foꝛ that office, and that it was not (irfficient that he
was aucthoziſed by Fog eda, and therefore foꝛbode that he ſhould
execute the office of the Lieuetenauntſhyp, and wylled them to
choofe certayne of they: owne companye, by whoſe counfaple
and aucthozitie they myght be gouerned. Thus being diuided
into factions, by reaſon that Fogeda they? captayne came not a:
gayne, whom they ſuppoled to be nowe dead of his venemous
wound, they contended whether it were belt to ſubſtitute Nicue-
Jain his place. The wyſelt ſoꝛt, ſuche as were familier with Ni-
cueſa, could not beare the inſolencie of / a/cus Nunnez, thought
u good that Nicueſa ſhoulde be fought out thoughout all thoſe
coattes : fo they had knowledge that he departed from Beragua,
becauſe of the barrenneſle of the grounde, and that by the exam
ple of Anciſus, and ſuche other as had made ſhypwꝛacke, it were
poſlible that he myght wander in ſome fecrete place, and that
they coulde not be quiet in theyꝛ myndes, vntyl they knewe the
tertayntie whether he with his felowes were aliue oꝛ dead. But
Vafcus Nunne x, fraryng leſt at the commyng of Nicucſa. he
h oulde not be had in aucthozitie among bis felowes, ſayd they
Were mad men to thynke that Nicueſa lyued, and although he
were alpue, pet that they had na neede af his belpe: for he.
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henantqat;. i mette to rule a Nicneſa. Cibple they were thus reafonyng
arcioneris ti and fro, one Rodericus Colmenaris arpucd in thoſe coaſtes wich
„ Toimena- two great ſhyppes, hauyng in them threefcore kecſhe men, with
gre st plentie of vyttu Ales and apparell. Of the nauigation of
this Colmtnarit, J entend ta ſpeake ſome what moꝛe. Me therfoꝛe
departed from the hauen of Hi paniola, called Beata (where thep
prepare and furnyſhe them ſelues whiche make any boxage into
thefe landes) about the Joes of October, in the peere. 1510.
| and landed the. ix. of Nouember in a region in the large pꝛouince
of Paria, founde by C ognus betwene the hauen C art hag o, and the
region of cc bibac hoa. In this boyage, what by the roughneſſe
of the ca, and ſierceneſſe of the barbarians, he ſuffered many ins
commodities : for when his freſhe water fapled, he ſayled to the
mouth of a certapne riuer which thinhabitantes cal Gira, beyng
| apt to receiue ſhippes. This riuer had his courſe from the toppe
1 erteedyng ok an exceedyng hygh mountayne couered with ſnowe, hygher
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Ns) courren then the wyiche, al the companions, of this captapne Rodericus
wh ino ue. ſap, that chey neuer ſawe: And that by good reaſon, yk it were
couered with ſnolwe in that region, which is not paſt ten degrees
diſtant from the Equinottiallyne. As they began to dꝛaw water
out of theyꝛ ſhyp boate, a certayne kyng made to warde them, ap⸗
Mopacied parelled with velures of gollampine cotton, hauyng twentie
* noble men in bis company apparelled alfo; which thyng ſeemed
N ſtraunge to our men, and not ſeene before in thofe parties. The
kynges apparell hong looſe from his ſhoulders to his elbowes,
@ andfrom the gyꝛdle downewarde, it was much lyke a womans
kyꝛtle, reaching euen ta his heeles. As he dꝛewe necre towarde
our men, he ſeemed freendly to admonyſhe them to take none of
the water of that ryuer, alfyꝛmyng it to be vnwholſome for men,
arid ſhewed them that not farre from tyence, there was a rpuer,
of good water. They came to the ryuer, and endeuouryng to
come neere the hore, they were dꝛiuen backe by tempeſt. Alſo
he _ the burbuling of the land, declared the fea to be but ſhalow chere.
They were therefore enfopced to returue to the fyꝛſte ryuer
where they myght fatelp caſt anker. This kyng layde wayte
fo our men: for as they were fyllyng they barrelles, he let
on them with about ſcuen hundzed men (as our men ius ⸗
e ae die tp name ih der wee f.
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tooke away bre am oe mame th
liercely affaplyng our men with theyz benemous arrawes, that
—— anv feuen, before they coulde couer Spanpardes
chem ſelues wich their targets. Foß chat poyſon is of Guchforce, feng abe
* . m⸗ rowes,
mediatly, for they pet knewe no remedie agaynſt this kynde of
poyſon, as they after learned of the inhabitauntes of Hi poniola
fon this Nande bypngety fooih an hearbe which quencheth and
moꝛtilieth the violent popfon of the hearhe, wherwith t Ale 2 remedie a:
towes are infected, (o that it be miniſtred in tyme. Det of our — —
companye tuhiche went loz water, ſeuen eſcaped that conflyctec 1
and hydde them ſelues in a hollowe tree, lurkyng there vntyll
nyght, yet eſcaped they not the handes of theyꝛ enimies: for the
ſhyppe departed from thence in the nyght ſeaſon, and left chem
there, ſuppolyng that they had ben ſlayne. Thus eon
fuche perpls and daungers ( which J lygbtip ouerpatte, becaule
J wyll nat be tedious ta pour holpneſſe) he arpued at the
length at the hauen of / raba, and ca anker at the Eaſt ſyde che hauen of
thereof, from hence not long before, our men Departed to the, aba.
ett ſyde, by teaſon of the barrenneſle of chat ſoyle. C UAhen he
had continued a wwhple in the hauen, and fatye no man ſtyrryng,
marueyied at the ſcilence of the places (fo he ſuppoſed there to
haue found his felo wes) he could not caniecture what this ſhould
meane: and thereupon began ta luſpect that eyther they were
r Ta
knuwe the certayntie hereof, he commaunded all the great oꝛdi
uaunee, and other ſmall gunnes whiche he had in his hyppess
to be charged, and tpers to be made in the night vpon che toppes
of the rockes. Thus che fpers beyng kyndled, be commaunded
e ee ekon ait by the U
— — Aherefoxe, hy the
wlowyng of th
Colapeniaris. by OM she Aleſt (poe,
commpug, without vi
— * be brought them abundance of meate,
Binke,and apparel: It reſteth now e moſt holy father) to declare
what came ot the diſſention among them of Vrabs, as concer
e e ee sa captapnen.
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the ſuppoſed continent.
aa Lithe cheete officers i in Beragua, omen ned
as were mott politike in e
pon chey —— che gouer ·
nour, rekuſyng the comming of Nicueſa, a
S Grigandine whiche he made of his owne
1 and agreed, agaput both the wyl of Anciſus, and the
offence V.afebus Nunnex that Nicuefa ſhotild be ſought
forth to take away the ftrpfe as touching the mnent. They
klerted therefore Colmenaris (ol whom we before) to take
this matter in hande, willing him co make diligent ſearche for
Nithefatinthote tvaltes there they ſunpoſed he erred: fo) they
hearde that he had foꝛſaken Zeragus the region of an bnfruitefil
ground: They gaue him therfore
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— — manner Dyed p wich extreme, bie be in .
hunger, fylchy and horrible to heholde, wich only thneeſcoꝛe men
in his companp, left alive ol ſeuen humdꝛed. They al ſeemed ta
bim fo miferable, that he no leſſe lamented they caſe, then yl he f
dad found them dead But Colmenaris comfoꝛted his frend Nicue-
ſe, and embpacpng hym with teares and cheareful woꝛds, relee⸗
ued his ſpirites, and further encouraged hym with great hope
of better fortune, d claryng alfo that his commpng was locked
for, and greatlye deſyꝛed of all the good men of / aba, for that
they hoped that by his aucthopitie, theyꝛ dilcoꝛde aud contention,
ſhoulde be ſiniſhed. Nicueſa thanked his frende Colmenaris after
ſuche ſoꝛte as his calamitie required. Thus they tooke (hyp tas
grather, and ſailed directly to / raba. But ſo variable and vncon⸗
fant is the nature of man, that he ſoone groweth out of ule, bes
commeth infolent and vnmyndlull of benefites after to muche fes ——
licitie: for Nicue/aafter tbus many teares and pa on muche ae
diuers hemaylynges ol his infontunate deſtenye, after
Hankeſgeuyng, .
and kyſled the feete of Cohnenaris his ſauiour, he began to quarel
with hym before he came pet at / raba, repꝛouing bpm x them al
loꝛ the alteratiun ol the ſtate of thynges in val a, and fo) the gea⸗
theryng of golde, alfyꝛmyng that none of them ought to haue
—— golde without the aduice of hym oꝛ Fogeda
bis companpon, TAden theſe ſayinges and ſuche lyke, came ta
the cares of them ol / aba, they ſo ſtyꝛred vp the myndes of Aue
cifus Lieuetenaunt fo Feg eda, and al o of V aſcbus Nunnex, of
che contrary part, agaynſt Nu. that ſhoꝛtly after his arpuall
with his dneeſcode men, they commuaunded hym duch threats
ra sat ar pene hw - rae hom
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| ano ent gandine in an vnfoꝛtunate houre, for he was never ſeent
after, luppoſe that the Bꝛigandine was owned wich al
the men therein. And thus undappie Nycueſa fallpng headlong
Ebe beath of ont of one mifery into another, ended bis lite moꝛe miſerably then
pou 866 2 thus vylely reiectev. and they vpttuals
eee,
e 2 —— ſeekyng
they pꝛay, to inuave ſuche as dwelt about they conkynes. Ja.
chus Nunne x iherfoꝛe, their new captaine of their owe election,
alſemblyng togeacher a hundzed and thirtie men, and ſettyng
them in onder of battayle after his (wooꝛdplayers faſhion, pul-
led vp with pꝛyde, placed his ſouldiers as pleaſed hym, in the
foze warde and rerewarde, and ſome, as partizens, about his
amine 2 owne perſon. Thus alſoſtatyng with hym Colmenarit, he went
eng to fpople the kynges which were boꝛderers therabout, and came
cs aregion about that coaſt called Coibs (whereof wemade
ion before) imperioully and with cruel! countenanee com:
maundyng the kyng of the region, whole name was Careta (of
| whom they were neuer troubled as often as they paſſed by his
Dominions) to geue them vyttualleg. But Careta denyed that he
2 coulde geue them any at that tyme, alleagyng that he had often ·
| tymes ayded the Cipittians as they paſſed by thole coaſtes, by
| reafon whereof , his Tore was nowe conſumed: ala chat by the
meanes ol the continual warre whiche he kept euer from his
childes age with a kyng whole name was Poncha, borderyng
Kaen ga. e and his familie were in great ſcarceneſſe
of al thynges. Po seen ssn ab
beat aur bis emer 5 emt n ant ail
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ten fie te Dariena, lich this
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Yet de ſyꝛcd they to returne to they? olde — —
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haue ben bꝛought vp. The vyttuals which Tc bi —
the vyllage of Careta, to bis felomes left in Dariena, was rather.
fonewhat to allwage theyꝛ prefent hunger, then beterly ta take
away hep) neceflitte, But as touching Ancifus. beyng Lieues Ancitus, Bienes
tenaunt fo Fogeda, whether it were befope thele thyngs, vj afters ne ts gan
4 knowe not: but this I am ſure of, that after the retectyna, of pivtou,
Nicuefa,many occafions were fought againſt Ancifas bp V aſchus
and his factionaries . otwloeuer it wag, Ancifus was taken,
and caſt in prpton, and his goodes tonliſcate: the cauſe hereof:
was (as Vac bus alleaged) that Ancifus had his commiſſion of
the epee | ae only, hom they ſaid to be nom
dead, and not ol the kyng, faping that he moulde not obey anye
man that was not put in off ce by the kung him ſelle by his let 4
ters patentes Pet at the tequeſt of the graueſt forthe was ſeme⸗
hat pactfied,and dealt moze geutelly wich hym, hauyng fome
rompaſſion on his calamities, and thereupon conunaunded him anciſus taketh
to be lnoſed. Auciſus beyng at libertie, tooke ſhyppe to depart bie —
from thence to Hifpaniola: bi befoe he had hoplen bp his faple, Bala.
al the wife for reſoꝛted to him, humblxe deſyꝛyng bpm to ree
turne agapue, poniſyng that they woulde dos their diligence,
that Y eſchus being reconciled, he myght be reftoped to his full
aucthoritie ofthe Licuctenauntſyyp: but Inciſus refuſtd to con
fent to theyꝛ requeſt, and ſu departed, Det ſome there were that The reuenge
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elle ofche chyng requiceth, In this menne tyme, they determi:
ned all with one agreement, to lende melſengers into Hi/paniola
to the young Admiral and viceroy, ſonne and heyze ta Chriftopbo-
rus Colonus the fynder of theſe landes, and to the other gouer⸗
4 nours of the Nande (from hom the newe landes teceiue theyꝛ
z apbeant lag) to ſigniſie vnto them what ſtate chep ſtoode in,
and in what nereſſitie they liue n, alſo what they had founde, and
in what hope they were of greater thyngs, if they were furneſhed
willy plentie ofpyttualles and other neceſſaries. Sor this pur:
pole they elected, at the allignement o / aſc hut. one / al lia, he-
ing one ot his faction, and inſtructed by bpm agaynſt Ancifas,
and to be aſſyſtant with bpm, they appopnted one Z amudius a
Cantabꝛian, ſo that commaundement was geuen to Yu ta
returne from Hi paniola with bittuals, æ Zamudius was appovre
ted to take his voyage into Spayne to the kyng. They toke ſhip
boch togeather wich Ancifus hauyng in mind to cevtifie the king
howe things were handied there, much other unſe then Zemudi-
us infa mation. I mec ſelte ſnake with boch Anc iſus ¢ Zamndius
at their comming to the court. Ahyle they were occupied about
theſe matters, choſe wꝛetched men of Dariena iuoſed Careta the
king ol Coil a. vpon condition that he ſhoulde ayde them in their
Ring Poncha. warres agaynſt his enimie and theyꝛs, kyng Ponche,borerpng
bpon bis Dominions. Careta made a league withthem, pꝛomiſing
that as they palſed by his kingdome, he woulde gene them all
things neceflarie,¢ meete them with an armie of men, to goe fo
g ward wich them to the battaile agaiuſt Poucha. They weapons
' are nepther botues nop benomed arrowes, as we layde thinbabi⸗
3 taumtes to haue, whiche diuel eaſtward beyonde the gulfe. They
Swe or ygbt therektpe at hande tuith long fworves (whiche they call
— M acanasymabe of wood, betauſe they baue no Tron. They vie
alſo long ſtaues Ipke iauelyns, hardened at the endes wich fre,
aw cn typt with bone, alſo certapne ſiynges and dartes. Chus efter
the league made with Careta, both be and our men hat cer ayne
Bayes appoynten them ta tyll they grounde and (ewe tha yz
22 comity ſeedes. This done, bp the ayde of Carcta,and by his conductit n,
be they marched towarde the pallace of P onc ha. who ficd at they;
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not helpe they felowes there with. by reaſon of the farre diſtanct
of the place, they had great plentic : for the byllage of
Poncha was mone then a hundzed myles dyſtant from Dariena,
whereas was allo none other remedie, but that the fame ſhoulde
haue ben carped on mens backes to the fea ſyde, beyng farre of,
5 i DEPRES inthe wohiche they came to the vil
lage of Careta, Pere they founde certapne poundes weight of
gold, grauen € mought into ſundꝛy ouches. After the ſackyng
of this vyllage, they reſaꝛted toward the ſhiys, intending to leaue
the kynges of the inlande untouched at this tyme, and to inuade
only them which dwelt by the fea coaſtes. Not farre from Coiba,
in the fame tracte, chere is a region named comog ra, and the king The region ot
thereof called Comogras, alter the lame name. To this kyng genen de
they came fyꝛlt next after the ſubuertion ol P onc ha, and founde Bariena. xxx.
his pallace fituate in a fruiteful plarne ol. xi. leagues in bꝛeadth, eagues.
at the rootes of the further ſyde ol p nert mountapnes.Comozrus
had in his courte a certaine noble man of necre conlanguitie te
kyng Careta, whiche had fled to Comogrus bp reafon of certapne
diſſentions which was betwene Careta q hym, chee noble men,
thep cal lara. This ura therefore of Coiba, met our men by the
wap, and conciled Comogrus to them, becaule he was wel know / ang Camas
en to our men, from the tyme that Nicuefa paſſed fort by thoſe grus.
coattes. Out inen therfore went quietly to che pallace of Come-
gras beyng diſtant from D ariena thirtie leagues by a plaine way
about the mountapnes. This kyng Comogrut had ſeuen ſonnes,
poung men, ot comelp fourme andſtature, which he had by ſundꝛy
wy reg. Dis pallate was frames of poſtes oꝛ proppes made of
trees faſtened together alter a ttrange ſolt, and offo trong buit- rer
ding, that it is of no leſſe frength then walles of tone. They
whiehe meaſured the length of the flonre thereof founde it to be a
bunnied and fyftie paces,and in breadth, fotueſcoꝛe foore , bee
pag roofed and paued with marueylous arte. Chey foiuide his
coꝛehouſe furniſhed with abundante —— victuals after the
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———— ann applea. They ſay
Alle Comogras they dune wines of und iy tadtes, boch
whyte and blacke. But nowe pou ſhal heare of a chyng m ne
monſtrous to bcholde. Entryng therefore into the inner partes
ofthe pallace, they were bꝛought into a chamber han geo about
wich the carkaſles of men, tyed with ropes of guſſampine cot ·
ton. Beyng demaunded what they meant by that ſuperſtition,
they anſwered that thoſe were the carcaſſes of the father, graund⸗
father, ¢ great graundfather, wich other the auntetours of they
kyng Comogrus, declaryng that they had the ſarne in great reve:
tence, and that they taake it for a godly thyng to honour chem
religiouſlp, and therefore apparelled euery of the ſame ſumptu⸗
oullp with gold and precious tones, accoꝛding vnta thep? eſtate.
After this forte dyd the antiquitie honour they Penaten, whiche
they thought had the gouernance of they lyues. Hawe they dye
theſe tarcaſſes byon certaine inſtrumentes made of wood, ipke
unto hurvells, wich a foft frre under the fame, fo that only the
Chinne remayneth to hold the bones togeather, we haue deſcribed
dnthefopmer Decade. Ok Comogras his ſeuen ſonnes, the el.
Deft han an excellent natural wyt. e there fee thought it gaad
to flatter and pleaſe chis wanderyng kinde of men (out men A
ee by thiftes and ſpoyle, leſt being olfended, and
fecking s againſt him ¢ his familie, they ſhould landlt
bpm as they dyd other which fought no meanes how to gratifie
chem: CAherelqhe, he gaue / aſchut and Colmenaris faure thou:
fande ounces of golde artificiallp tought, and alſa fifſtie ſlattes,
whiche be had taken in the warres: fon fiche, eyther they
fell fed exchaunge of other thynges, ule chem
as them liſteth, faz chey haue not the vie of manep, This golnt
with as muche mone wavicl they han in another plate, nur men
weighed in che poꝛche o Como grur hig palace, tu feparate the fit
parte thereof, is due to the kynges Exchequer:
lap it is decreed, that the fyft part ui both solve, pare
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precious ſtones, ſhoulde be aſſigned to she kpuges treaſurers.
and (be reſidue to be diuided among them ſelues by compoliti⸗ |
on. Pere as bꝛabblyng and contention aroſe among our men f
about the diuit yng of go de, this eldeſt fonne of kyng Comogrus |
beyng pꝛelent, uhom we prapled fo bis wyſedome, commyng
ſome what with an angrye countenaunce towarde hym whiche
helde the ballaunces, he ſtroke them with his fyſte, and ſcatte⸗
red al the golde that was therein about the poꝛche, tharpelpe EA
rebukpng them with woopdes in this ellecce CCthat is the fou.
matter, pou Chyiſtian men, that pou fo greatly eſterme ſo lytle
portion of golde moze then your owne quietneſſe, whiche neuer⸗
theleſſe pou entende to deface from theſe faye ouches, and to
melt the ſame into a rude maſſe. Pk your hunger of golde be fo Te bunger of
inſatiable, that onlpe fo; the deſyꝛe you haue thereto, pou dif: golde.
quiete fo manpe nations, and pou pour ſelues alfo ſuſteyne fo
manp calamities and incommodities, lpuyng lyke baniſhed men
out of pour owne countrep, J wyll ſhewe you a region flow: .
ung with golde, where pou map fatiffig pour rauenyng ap- * Tsien Home
vetites: But pou mutt attempt the thing iaaith a greater power,
top it ſtandech pou in hand by force of armes to ouercome kings
of great puiſſaunce, and rigoꝛous defendours of theyꝛ domini⸗
ong. Foʒ beſpde other, the great kyng Tumanama wyll come Keng Tuma⸗
foopth agaynſt you, whoſe kyngdome is moſt riche with golde /
and diſtant from hence only (pre ſunnes, that is, {pre dayes: for
they number the dayes by the ſunne. Furchermoꝛe, oz euer pou
tan conie thither, pou multe paſſe ouer the mountaynes inha ⸗
bited of the cruell Canibales, a fierce kynde of men, deuburers bales.
ol maus fleſhe, lyuyng without lawes, wanderyng, and with:
out Empire: for they alſo beyng deſpꝛous of golde, haue
lubdued them vuder they dominion, whiche before inhabited
the golde mynes ol the mountaynes, and ule them iyke bonde⸗ hee Sone
men, vſyng they labour in dyggvng and wooꝛkyng their golde monntapnes.
in plates and ſundzy images, lyke vnto theſe whiche pou fee
bere: for we do no mode elteeme rude golde bumMoUghL, then Onunougdt
we do clopdes of earth, before it be fourmed bythe hande of golde not eftes
the wooꝛkemanta the ſimlitude eyther ol fore velſell neceſſa -
tie fa our ble, op ſome ouche beautifull to be wome. Theſe
hrabe des oe reeqyue of them in crannge d aher of
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Preuuare paſſpng ouer thefe mountaynes (poyntyng wich his fin:
* — mountaynes) pou thal {ee another ſea,
where they ſayle wich ſhyppes as bygge as pours (meanyng
the Catauels)vfpng both layles and pes as vou doo, although
the men be naked as we are: all the way that the water run
f nech from the mountapnes, and al that {poe lying to warde the
stumdance or Douth, bꝛyngeth foorth golde abundauutly. As he ſayd theſe
Solde. woondes, he poynted to the vellelles in whiche they vie to ſerue
them meate, affyꝛmyng that kyng Aman ama, and all the other
udode kuyngs beyond the mountaynes, had ſuch ¢ al other theyꝛ houle⸗
algolde . hold ſtuffe of golde, and chat there wag no leſſe plentie of gald ae
mong thole people of che South, then of Fron uch vs: for
he knewe by relation of our men, whereof our [wooꝛ des and
other weapons were made. Dur captaynes marueylyng at the
oration of che naked poung man (forthep had for interpreters
thofe three men whiche had ben before a peere and a halfe cow
uerfauntin the court of kyng Careta)poudered in they mindes,
and earneilly conſydered his ſayinges, fo that his rafhnefie in
ſcatteryng the golde out of the ballaunces, they turned to myꝛth
and vrbanitie, conunendyng his dooyng and faping therin, Then
they afken hym frendly, vpon what certaine knowledge he fpake
thole thynges, oꝛ what he thought belt herein to be done, yfthey
ſhould bung a greater ſupply of men? To this young C omega
ſtaying a whyle with him lelfe, as it were an Ozatout preparing
bymlelfe to ſpeake of ſame graue matter, and difpoting his body
to a ieſture meete to perſwade, ſpake thus in his mother tongue,
7 Geue care vnto me, O pou Chniſtians . Albeit that the arecdic
Kabed ‘peo: hunger ol golde hath not yet vexed vs naked men, pet do we dex
2 ſtroy one another by reaſon of ambition and deſpze to rule.
ambitton. Hereok ſpyngeth moptal hatred among vs, and hereof commeth
uu deſtruction. Dur pꝛedeceſſours kept warres, and fo dyd
' ep uals beyng bayderers about ee
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In the whiche warres, as we haue ouerc ome, fo haue we ben
ouerrome, as doth appeare by the number of bondmen
bs, which we toke by the ouerthꝛowe of our enimies, ol the
che J haue geuen pou fpftie, Lykewyſe at another tyme, our ads
uerlaries hauyng the bpper hande agaynſf vs, ledde awaye
many of vs captiue, for ſuche is the chaunce of warre. Allo,
among our familiers (whereof a 8 ben cap⸗
tiues with them) beholde here is one tubiche of long time led
a papneful lyfe in bondage vnder the poke of that kyng beyonde
the mountapnes, in whole kyngdome is ſuch abundance df gold.
Ok hym, and ſuche other tnnumerable, and lyke wyſe by the res
‘font of free men on theyꝛ {ive commyng to va, and agayne of our
men reſoꝛtyng to them by fafe conduct, thele thynges haue ben
tuer as well knowen vnto vs, as our owne polleſſions: but
that pou may be the better alſured hereof, and be out of al ful: A vehement
pettion that you thall not be deteiued, make me the gupde of Paton.
this voyage, byndyng me faſt, and keepyng me in fafe cuſtodie .
to be hanged on the next tree, yl you fynde my ſayinges in anye
poynt vntrue. Folowe my counſaple therefope, and lende for a
thoulande Ciniftian men apt for the warres, by whole power
we may, with allo the men of warre of Comogrus my father, ar:
med after our manner, inuade the dominions of our enimies:
where boch you may be fatiffien with golde, and we fo) our cou⸗
ductyng and aydyng pou in this enterpꝛyſe, thall thinke our
ſelues abundantly rewarded, in that you ſhal helpe to deliuer bs
from the iniuries and perpetuall feare of our enimies . After
theſe wooꝛdes, this prudent young Comogrus helde his peace, x token ot
and our men mooued with great hope and hunger of golde, be⸗ Dunger.
Jan agayne to ſwalowe downe they ſpyttle.
The fourth booke of the ſeconde Decade, of
the ſuppoſed continent,
Z r that they had taryed here a fewe
BAM YN dapes, and baptiſed Comogrus, with all uyng come:
i Kop) \ CS bis familie, and named hym the name n re
WUC er Charles, after the kyng of Bpapne, tame,
VE INDY they returned to they; felowes in Par ena.
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fanvefouldiers, whiche his ſonne required to pa de auer th
mountapnes taw rde the Such (ca. Tus entryn p in: the
vyllage whiche they had chaſen to inhabite, ey had knauledgt
that / alliuia was returned within fire monethes after his de⸗
parture, but with no great plentie of vottu ales, becauſe he
brought but a ſm il ſhyppe: pet with hape that ſhoꝛtly acter,
there ſhoulde be ſent them abundance ol vyttualles, and a newe
ſupplpe of men. $07 young Colonus the Adnural, and vicerop of
Hiſpaniola, and the other gauernours of che Jlande, acknow'er:
ger that bytherto they had na reſpect to them of De ie a, becanſe
they fuppofen that Ancifas the Lieuetenaunt had fafelp arryued
there with his ſhyppe laden with vyttualles: wylling them from
hence fooꝛth to be of good cheare, and that they ſhoulde lacke no:
chyng herealter, but that at this pꝛeſen: tyme they had no bigger
fhip wherby they myght fend them greater plentie of neceſlaries
by V aldixia. The vpttuals cherfore which he bꝛought, ſerued rae
ther ſomwhat to mitigate theyꝛ pꝛeſent necellitie,then to (arilfie
theyꝛ lacke. Wiherefore, wichin a kewe dapes after V aldiuia his
teturne, they fel agayne into lyke ſcarceneſſe: eſpecially foꝛaſ⸗
muche as a great tonne and tempeſt whiche came from the
bhygb mountapnes, with horrible thunder and lyghtnyng in the
Horrible aht moneth of Moucmber, brought with it duche a floodde, that it
nrng in the partly caryed away, and partly dꝛomned al the coꝛne and ſeedes
‘Aourmbe,, luhich they had ſawen in the moneth ol September, in a fruices
tull grounde before they went to kyng Comogrus. The ſeedes
whiche they of Hi/paniola call A aix um, and they of Vraba call
Hobba, whereol they make theyꝛ bread, whiche alſo we ſayde to
be rype thꝛyſe euery petre, betauſe thoſe regions are not bytten
with the ſbarpeneſſe of wynter by reaſon ok theyꝛ necrenelle ta
the Equinoctial ſyne. It is alſo agreeable to the principles of
natural philoſophie, that this byead made of AT aizins 02 Hobbs.
ſhoulde be moze wholfome for the inhabitauntes of thole cou
ane Sta bp — Schwert
digeſtion: for whereas wantyng, the na ate
not dyuen front the outwarde partes into che inwarde partes
and precopoials, whereby digettion is mube
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kyng to fend them a thouſande ſouldiers, by whofe helpe they
myght bp force make waye through the mountapnes, diuidyng
the fea on both ſydes, if they coulde not bꝛyng the fame to palle
quietly. The ſame V alliuia was alſa ſent on this meflage, cary⸗
ing with hym to the kynges treafurers (hauing theyꝛ office of
receipt in Hi/paniola ) three hundꝛed poundes weyght of golde,
after eyght ounces to the pounde, for the fpft portion due to the
kynges excheker. This pound of eight oimces, the Spantardes
tall Marcha, whiche in weight amounteth to fyftye peeces of
golde called Catellani, but the Caſtilians call a pounde Peſum.
Ale conclude therefore, chat the ſumme hereof, was. x v. thous
and of thoſe peetes of gold called C /tellani. And thus is it appa⸗
tent by this actompt, chat chey receiued of the barbarous kinges,
a thouſande and kyue hundꝛed poundes, of eyght ounces to the
pounde ; all the whiche they founde readye tought in ſundꝛye
kynde⸗ of ouches, as chepnes, bzaſclets, tablets, and plates,
boch to hang befope theyꝛ bꝛeſtes, and alfo at theyz cares, and
noſethꝛpls. V aldiniatherfore toake ſhypping in the fame Cara⸗
uell in the which he came laſt, and returned allo before the thyꝛde
day of the des of January, in the peere of Chꝛiſte M. D. XJ.
CUhat chaunced to hym in chis voyage, we wyll declare in place
conuentent. But let vs nato returne to them whiche remayned
in Vraba. After the diſmiſſyng of V aldiu ia, beyng pꝛicked for
warde with outragious hunger, they determined to ſearche the
umer partes of that quife in ſundꝛy places, The extreeme angle
& poynt of the fame gulle is diſtant from the enterante thereof,
about foureſcoꝛe myles. This angle ox comer, the Spaniardes
tall culata. Vaſchus hym ſelfe came to this poynt with a hundꝛed
men, coaſting along bythe gulle with one bꝛygandine and cere
tayne of che boates of thole whiche the Urabians call
Vu, lpke wate them whiche ttauntes of Hi/paniols call
Canoas. From
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fo falleth into the fame. Daylyng along by the ryuer about the
{pace of thyꝛtie myles(for they cal it niene feaques) and ſome⸗
hat enclynyng towarde the tyg et bande Spourlwarde, they
founde certapne vyllages of thinhabitauntes, the kyng whereof
was called Dab aiba. Our men alfo were certificd betoze, that
Cemacchus the kyng of Dariena, whom they put to flyght in the
battayle, fledde to this Dabaiba, but at the commpng of our men,
Dahaſha allo fledde. It is thought that he was admonyſhed by
Cemacchus, that he ſhoulde not abyde the bꝛunte of our men. De
folowed his counſayle, foꝛſooke his billages, and left all chynges
deſolate: vet our men founde heapes of bowes and arrowes, ale
fo nuuche houſholde Hufe, and many kyſhyng boates. But thole
maryſhe groundes were neyther apt fo ſowyng okſerdes, oꝛ
plantyng of trees, by reaſon whereof, they founde there fewe
luche thynges as they deſpꝛed, that is, plentie ol byttualles: for
the inhabitauntes of this region haue no bꝛead, but ſuch as they
geat in other countreps neare about them by exchange to theit
8 a aoe on an : pet founde they in
oules of hole whiche fledde, golde wrought and grauen, ꝛ·
mountyng to the ſumme of ſeuen thouſande of thole peeces, whi⸗
che we ſayde to be called Ca/tellaui: alfo certaine Candas, of the
whiche they bꝛought away two with them, and great plentie of
thep2 houſhold ſtufe, with certaine bundels ol botwes ¢ arratoe s.
They lap, that from the maryſhes of that riuer, there come cer
tapne battes in the nyght ſe aon, as bygge as turtle doues, inua·
dyng men, and bytyng them with a deadly wounde, as ſoꝛne of
them teftifie whiche haue ben bytten ol the fame. J mee (eife
tommuning with Anciſus the Lieuetenant whom they reiected,
and among other ihynges al kyng hym of the benemous byting
Ar Hag ten of hele battes, he tolde me that he hym felfe was bytten by one
of chem on the heele, his foote lying vncouered in the nyght, by
reafon of the heate in ſommer feafon, but that it hurte hym na
more, chen iche had ben bitten by any other beat not venemous.
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with whot irons, and chat he had experiente chereof in the regi
vn of Caribana,wwhere manp of his men were fo wounded, They
departed therefore from the poynt of the quife of Vraba not wel
tontented, becauſe they were not laden with vittualles. In this
— — tempeſt in that wyde guife,
that they were enfopced to caft into the fea al the houſpold ftufte, K temp.
whiche they tooke from the pooꝛe metches whiche liued only by
kyſhyng. The fea alfofwalowed vp the two boates that they
tooke from them, wherewich the men were lykewyſe owned.
The lame tyme that / aſc bus Nunne & attempted ta fearche the
poynt of the gulfe tawarde the ſouth, euen then by agreement,
dyd Rodericus Colmenaris take his voyage toward mountaines
by the eaſt, with thꝛeeſcoꝛe men, by the tiuer of the other gulle.
About fourtie mples diſtant from the mouth of the other rpuer,
(foꝛ they cal it twelue league s) he founde certayne vyllages ſitu⸗
ate vpon the bankes of the ryuer, whole C hiui (that is) kyng, they
cal Turui. Mith this kyng dyd Colmenaris pet remapne, when
Vaſchus after his returne to Dariena. Laplyng by the fame ryuer,
tame ta hym. Here retreſhyng theyꝛ whole companye with the
dit nals of this Jurui, they departed from thence togeather. O⸗ ing Turni.
ther fourtie maples from hence, the ryuer encompaſſech an Jland
inhabited with kychermen. In this, becauſe they ſawe great plen
tie of trees whiche beare Caffia fiſtula, they named the Jlande
Cann They found in it ix. villages of ten cotages apeece. 2. Flande of
On the rygbt fye of the Glande there runneth another riuer, maße.
whofe chanel is ol de apth ſufficient to beare Bꝛigandines. This
tiuer they called Ruum Nigrum.frd the mouth wherol, about. xv
miles diſtant, chey found a towne of fixe. C.houles ſeuered, whole
Chebi (that is) kyng, was called Abenamac hei. They al farlooke
them houſes, as ſoone as they heard of our meng commyng: but
when they ſaw chat our men purſued them, they turned againe, x
tan vpon them with deſperate mindes, as men dziuen from their
owne poſſeſſiuns. Theyꝛ weapons are ſwaods of waod,
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tertaine ot his noble men. A common ſouldter of ours, whom the
kyng had wounded, commyng to hym when he was taken, cut
of his arme at one ſtroke with his [wooꝛde: but this was done
bnawares to the captapnes. The number of the Chꝛiſtian men
whiche were here, was about an hunmped and kyftie: the one
halfe whereof the captaynes left here, and they with the refi
due rowed vp the riuer agayne, with twelue of the boates of hole
regions, whiche they cal / vu, as they ol Hiſpaniola cal them Ca-
noas ag we haue ſayde. From the ryuer of Nun Niger, and the
Nande of Cannafiſtula, fop the ſpace af thꝛeeſcoꝛe and ten myles,
leauyng both on the right hande and on the left, many riuers kal
ling into it bygger then it ſelfe, they entred into one, by the con:
ductyng of one of the naked inhabitauntes, beyng appoynted a
gupde fo; that purpoſe. Uppon the banke of this ryuer next
vnto the mouth ol the ame, there was a kyng called Abib eiba.
who becauſe the region was ful of maryſhes, had his pallace
Sulig ma buplded in the toppe of a hygh tree, a nein kind of bulldyng, and
a tree. ſeldome ſeene: but that lande bꝛyngeth forth trees of ſuch excee⸗
ing height, that among theyꝛ branches a man may frame large
as we reade the lyke in diners auctours, howe in many
regions where che Ocean fea rifeth and ouerfloweth the lande,
ryſyng or the people were accuſtomed to flee to the hygh trees, and after
Octan ſea. the fall of the water, to take the kyſhe left on the lande. This mae
nner ol buyldyng, is to lap beames crolſe ouer che bꝛanches of the
trees, faſt bounde togeather, and thereupon to rayſe they frame,
ſtrongly made agaynſt wynde and weather. Dur men luppole
| that they builde theyꝛ houſes in trees, by reafon of the great
floods and ouerflowyng of riuers, whiche oftentymes chaunce
| in thole regions. trees are of ſuche heyght, that the
Laus puight. Arength of no mans acme, is able tu hurle a ttone to the houles
| ed therein. And therfore do J geue the better credit to Pli
Plinie, . cand other auctoura, whiche vnite that the trees in fome pla
tes in India are fo high by reafon of the fruitefulnes of p ground,
abundance of water, and heate of the region, that no man is
= able to ſhoote ouer them wich an arrowe: and bp iudgement of
| gruitefu all men, it is thought that there is no fruitefuller graunde un ·
Waunde. der thelinme, chen this in mhereof we note enttrate. Dur
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fuche bignes, that ſeuen men, pea fometimes eight, holdyng
bande in hande with theyꝛ armes ſtretched forth, were ſcarſely
able to fathame them about: pet haue they they cellers in the
grounde, well replenyſhed wich ſuch wynes wherof we haue
ſpoken before . #02 albeit that the vehemencie of the winde is
not of power to caſt downe thofe houſes, oꝛ to bꝛeake the bans
ches of the trees, yet are they tolled therewith, and ſwaye fore
what from {pve ta lyde, by reaſon whereof, che wyne ſhoulde be
muche troubles wich mooning. All other neceflarpe thinges,
they haue with them in the trees. hen the kyng oz any other
of the noble men, dyne oꝛ ſuppe in thefe trees, theyꝛ wyues are
brought them krom the cellers by they Ceruauntes, whiche by
meanes of exerciſe, are accuffomed with no leſſe celerytie to
runne vp and Downe the ſtaires adherente to the tree, then doa
our wayting boyes bppon the playne grounde fetche vs what
wee call for from the cobbarde beſyde our dyning table. Dur
men thereloꝛe came tothe tree ofkyng Abibeibe, and by thinter⸗
metoures called hym fooꝛtch to communication, geutng hym
ſignes of peace, and thereuppon wylling hym to come downe.
But he denyed that he woulde come out of his houſe, deſp⸗
ring them to ſuffer hym to lyue after his fathion: but our men
fell from fayꝛe wooꝛdes to thꝛeatning, that ercept he woulde vel:
tende with all his familie, they woulde eyther ouerthꝛowe the 45 eig th
tree, op elles ſet it on fppe. hen he had dented them agayne, kong of the
they fell to hewing the tree wich theyꝛ ares, Abibeiba ſeting the to Taal
chippes fall from the tree on cuery ſyde, chaunged his purpole, .
and came downe with only two of his ſonnes. Thus alter they
had entreated of peace, they commumed of geacheryng of golde.
Abibeiba aunfwearen that he had no galbe, and that he neuer han Gele no n.
anp neede therofop perregardeb mam mare chen kones. But fran en
then they were inſtante vppon hym, he ſayde vnto them, I onto.
vou fo greatly deſyꝛe golde, J wyll ſeeke for ſome in the next
and bꝛyng it vnto pou: foꝛ it is plentifully engen
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canibales. of the Canibales, but vtterlp vopde without meno; ſtuffe: fo;
when they had knowledge that our men wandered in the pꝛouin⸗
tes ncere about them, they teſoꝛted to the mountaynes, carping
alltheyz goodes and ſtuffe with them.
The fyfte booke of the ſeconde Decade. of
the ſuppoſed continent.
N le meane tyme whple cheſe thynges
deere done along by the ſhozes oz bankes of
che rpuer, a certapne Oecurian, that is, a
( captapne over tenne, of the companye of
— Vaſchus and Colmenaris had left
. taz a garryſon in Nuo Nigro, in the domini⸗
— on of kyng . whether it were
chat he was compelled through hunger, oz that bis fatal nap
was nowe come, he attempted with his ſouldiers to ſearche the
tountreys necre thereabout, and entred into the vyllage of a king
talled Abraiba. This captaynes name was Nia. hom Abraiba
fine with two of his felowes, but the reſidue fledde. Within a
. felwe dayes after, Abraiba hauyng compaſſion on the calamitie v
; ol his kynſman and neyghhour Abenamacheins, dꝛuen
ſttom his owne poſſeſſions (whole arme alſo we ſayd belqʒe that
one of the ſouldiers cut of at the riuer of Nuo Nigro) and now res
mapnyng with Abraiba, to whom he fied by ſtealth after he was
taken, went to Abibeiba thinhabitour ol the tree, ho had nowe
like wyſe foꝛſaken his countrey fo; feare of our men, and wande⸗
red in the deſolate mountaynes and woods, hen he had ther
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our chyddzen, and our ſubiectes, to be ledde alway captiues,
and our geodes to be ſpopled euen befoze our faces: A take the
gods to witnelle, that I ſpeake not fo much for mine owne part,
as J do fo pou, whole cate I lamentsfo albeit they haue not pet
touched me, neuertheles by thexample okother. Jought to thinke
that my deſtructid is not karre of, Let vs therloe (if we be men)
trye our ſtrength, x pꝛooue our foꝛtune agaynſt them which haue
dealt thus cruelly with Abcnamacheius and dꝛiuen hin: out of bia
countrey, let vs fet on them with al our power, and vtterly de
ftrop them. And ik we can not flap thé al, yet ſhal we make them
aftaide cither to aſſayle vs agayne, oꝛ at the leaſt diminiſhe their
power: foz whatfocuer (hal befall, nothyng can chaunce wooꝛſe
vnto vs chen that which we nowe ſuffer. CUAhen Abibeibs heard
theſe woꝛds, z ſuch other lyke, he condeſcended to do in al things
as Abraiba woulde require: whereupon they appoynted a day
to bꝛyng thepꝛ tonſpiracie to paſſe, but che thyng chaunced not
accoꝛdyng to their deſyꝛe: fo, of thoſe whiche we layd to haue
paſſed to the Canibals, there returned by chaunce to Nuus Niger.
the night beloꝛe the day appaynted to woonke their feate, thirti
men, tothe ayde of them whiche were left there, pf any ſedition
ſbould rife as they ſuſpecied. Cherfore at the dawning of the day,
the confeverate kyngs, with fpue hundꝛeth of theyꝛ ditionaries
armed after theyꝛ mauer, beſieged the village with a terrible as
larome, knowyng nothing of the newe men whiche came thither
the ſame nyght. Pere our target men came fooꝛch againſt them,
and firſt aſſayled them a farte of with they arrowes, then with
them pykes. and lat with they ſwooꝛdes: but the naked ſeelye
ſoules, perceiuyng a greater munber of theyꝛ aduerfaries then
they looked loꝛ, were ſoone dꝛyuen to flyght, and ſlayne fo2 the
molt parte lyke ſcatteryng ſpeepe. The kynges efcaped, they
fue many, and tooke many captiues, whiche they ſent to Da-
riena, where they vſed them fo labourers to tyll and ſowe they
Grounde, Theſe thpnges thus happyly atcypuev, amd that po.
uince quieted, they returned by the ryuer to Dariena, leauyng
they thyꝛtie men for a garriſon, vnder the gouernance of one Fu-
vatado à cantayne. Chis Furatado therfore,fent from Riwo Nigro, bitte men.
where he was a d gouernour. xx. of his felowes, and one
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one of the byggeſt Canoas of that proutnce . As they rowed
: _ Uetbnc by cherpurr, thete came brei (evenly ouerthwart the
eigbtene Sp dpa, kpüer agapnittyem foure great cena, which ouerthzewe them
— boate, and flue as many of them as they coulde come by, becauſe
| they were vnpꝛepared, ſuſpecting no ſuch thyng Our men were
all dꝛowned and llaine, except two, which hid them {clues among
certepne fagottes that ſwamme on the water, in the whiche they
lape lurkyng, and fo eſcaped to theyꝛ felowes in Dariena: who
by them beyng aduertyſed hereof, beganne to caſt they wyttes
oe chis thyng myght meane, being no leſſe ſolicitate foz them
felues, then meditatyng in what daunger they felowes had ben
in Nuo Nigro, extepte by good foꝛtune, thoſe thirtie newe men
whiche were ſent to them, had come to the vyllage the nyght
before the conſpiracie ſhoulde haue ben mought. Conſultyng
therefore what was beſt to be doone herein, at the length with
diligent ſearchyng, they had intelligence that fpue kynges, that
lene ——, is to wytte, Abibeiba the inhabitour of the tree, and Cemaccus
ten Hen mpuen from his vyllage which our men nowe polleſled, Abraiba
tbe alfo and Abenamacheins, kynſemen, with Dabaiba the kyng of the
| | cine re ager ebay ap ar tala called
Culata, were al aſſembled to conſpire the Chniftian mens deftruc
tion at a daye affigned : whiche thyng had ſurely come to paſſe,
Adraunge fl it had not ben otherwyſe hyndered by Gods pꝛoutdence. It
* is thereloꝛe aſcrybed to a mpꝛacle, and truely not unwoꝛthylp,
if we waye howe chaunte detected and betmapen the counſaylt
okcheſe kynges. And becaule it is woꝛthy to be heard, J wyll
declare it in felwe wooꝛdes . Vaſcus Nunnez therefore, who rae
| ther by power then by election, blurped the gouernance in Dari-
| ena, beyng a maiſter of fence, and rather a raſhe royſter then a
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— captaine although foztune ſomtime fauoureth fooles)
among many women wohiche in diuers of cheſe regions he had
one, which in fauour and beutie excelled all o
other
loued entierly, he bttered thele wooꝛdes,
we (er, gene are to my ſapinges, and ke
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that whiche J wyll declare vnto you, pf pou define your om
wealth and mpne, and the pꝛaſperitie of our countrey and kynſe⸗
folkes. The infolencie and crueltie ofthele men whiche haue
dpuen vs out of our poſſeſſions, is fo that the pꝛin
tes of the lande are determyned no
. — they haue pꝛepared a hunted great Canoas, Bod
with fyne thouſande men 4 fea, wich bts Canoas, and
8 2 in his raſe. And
thus ſhewiug his ſyſter the day alligned to the laughter, he de⸗ i
parted, But the young woman (fo? it is the ſwooꝛde that wos
men feare, and oblerue mope then the grauttie of Cato) whether it “ection cons
were fo? the loue op feare that the had to Y aſc hut, foꝛgetting her iudgement.
parentes, her kynſfolkes, her countrep, and all her freendes, yea
and al the kynges into whole thꝛotes / aſcbus had tutte his
ſwoode, ſhe opened al che matter vnto hym, and concealed none
of chofe thinges which her vndilcrete bꝛother had declared to her.
chen V aſchus therfore had hearde the matter, he cauſed Fuluia,
don io had they named her) to ſende fo, her bꝛother, who came to
her immediatly, was taken, ¢ enforced to tel the whole circum:
tances of the matter: wherupon he playnely confeſſed, that king
Cemacchus his loꝛd and maiſter, ſent thole foure Canoas to the The contpiras
deltruttion of our men, and that thele nem confpiracies were ate l. erte.
tempted by his counfaile : likewiſe that Cemacchas ſought the
— of Vaſcbus him felfe, when he ſent him. xl. men, under
pretence of frendſhyp, to tpl and owe his grounde, aſter the ma-
ner of the countrep, chem in cõmaundement to lay e- nyng cem
chus at Marvis, he relogted to comfont his labourerg, ag chus ent
che maner is of al good hulbandes, een keene of bales.
cute their loꝛdes commaundement vpon hym, becauſe ee
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| a ſwocꝛde by his ſyde. therfore Cemacchxs being fruſtrate of
bis —̃ —„— thing in hande, to his
— 2 owne deſtruction and his neighbours: lan the conſpiracie be:
With threeteae ing detected, / aſcus callen thpeetcoxe and tenne foulpiers, come
and ten men. maunding them to folowe bpm, but declared nothing vnto them
whither he went, op what be entended to do. He went fo: warde
therfore fyꝛſt taward Cemacc l us, which lay from h * only tenne
ve A. ka, the
whom be tooke pꝛyloner, with man oth
frendes both men and women. The lane houre that he (et for:
warde ta ſeeke fo c — — Colmenaris towed bp the
ryuer with foure of they byggeſt Canoas, and thꝛeeſcoze men, by
Sous the conduction of the mapdes bother who brought hym to the
lageof Capt. Village of Tichivi,in j which we ſald al their vitmals to remaine
which were pꝛepared for thepe arinmpe. Colmenaris therfore ſack ·
ed the village, and poſſeſled all their vittuals,and wine of ſundꝛy
colours, likewife tooke the gouernour thereof pꝛiſoner, and
banged him on the tree in whiche he dwelt him ſelle, commaun⸗
dyng hym to be ſhotte eth with arrowes in the ſyght of
Sagen hin thinbabitantes, and with bpm foure other rulers to be banged
— on gibbets, to the example of other rebelles. This punyſhment
arruwen. thus executed vppon the conſpiratours, froke the hartes of all
chinhabitantes of the pꝛouince wich ſuch feare, that there is not
nowe a man that dare — 5 — the wrath of our
men. They lyue nowe therefore quietlp, and the other kyngs by
— they, example do the gladlyer lyue in ſubiectlon, with lelle of:
fence bearyng the poke which they can by no meanes (hake ol.
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ſyꝛlt to the Admiral and gouernour of the Jlande, and afterward
to the Kyng ol Spayne, and to perſwade hym to lende thoſe
thoulande men whiche young c omog rus ſayde to be expedient to
paſſe ouer the mountaynes ping betwene them and the goiney a
toward the South. /a/chus hyni ſelft dyd greatiye af
fect this embaſſage: but neither would the reſidue of his felowes
clecte bpm therto, nop his factionaries ſuffer bpm to departe,
aſwell fog that thereby they thought they ſhauld be let delolate,
as allo that they murmured, that if / /c hus ſhould once go from
them, he woulde neuer returne to ſuche turmoyles and calami⸗
ties, by the example of / aldinia and æamudius, who had ben now
abfent fence the moneth uf Januarp, in ſo much that they thought
they woulde neuer come agayne: but the matter was other⸗
tuple then they tooke it, as I wyll theme in his place, fo they
were periſhed. At the length after manp ſcrutinies, they elected
one John Quicedus, a graue man, wel in yeeres, and treaſourer Johan. quicer
of the kynges Erchequer in thoſe prouinces: they had conceiued S . 15
a goodopinion of thts Quicedus, that all thynges ſhoulde be well
bought to paſſe by bis meanes, afwell for his wyldame, as alſa
that they were in good hape of his return, becaule be had bꝛought
bis wife with hym ta thofe regions, whom he left with his fre
lowes fo a pledge of his comming againe. Ahen they had thus
elected Quicedus, they were againe of diuers opinions whom
they might ioyne with him fo alſiſtance, affirming that it were
a daungerous thing to committe fo weightie a matter to one
nuns handes, not that they miſtruſted Quic edus, but be cauſe the
life of man is fraile,¢ che change ol the apie perillous, eſperially
to ol long time ben
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myght get much gold by ſelling the ſame to his felowes, He left
therfore the charge of al his affapres in Dariena with his partner
Alpbonfus Nannex, à iudge of the lawe, wha alſo was lykte to
Miviteisapin, baue ben cholen procuratour of this voyage before Colimenaris yf
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tritis, fearing left being ouercome with her teares, he waulde no
moꝛe returne. colmenaris therfqe, a free man, x at libertie, being
allociate aſſyſtant with Quice dus, they tooke ſhyppyng together
in a Bꝛigandine, the fourth day of the Calendes of Nouember,
in che peere of Cipifte.151 2. In this voyage, beyng toſſed wich
ſundꝛy tempeſtes, chey were by the violence of the winde cal ups
on the Neft coaſtes of that large Nland, which in the kyꝛſt De:
cade we called c aba, ſuppoſed to haue ben firme land. They were
fone oppꝛeſſen with hunger, for it was nowe thee monethes
(pnce they departed from they: felowes: by reaſon whereof,thep
were enforced to take lande, to pꝛooue what ayde they coulde get
among the inhabitauntes. Thepz chaunce cherefope was to
arryue in that part of the Jlande, where V aldinia was dꝛyuen
aland by tempeſt. But oh pou wretched men of Dariena, tarp for
Valdiuia, uhom pou ſent to pꝛouide to helpe pour neceffities,
proupde for pour ſelues rather, and truſt not to them whole
foxtune ye knowe not. Foz when he arrpued in C aba, the inhabi⸗
tantes flue hym with al his felowes,and left the Carauel wherin
they were carped, toꝛne in peeces, and halle couered with ſande
an the ſhoꝛe, where Quicedus and Colmenarit fynding the frag ·
mentes thereof, bewayled them felowes myſſoꝛtune: but chey
founde none of cep? cartaſſes, ſuppoſyng that they were eyther
mowned, o; deuoured of the Cambales, which oftentimes make
mogꝛe greedily attempted the ſame, fc that they had heard by the
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and in vayne ſeekyng reuenge for they iniurcka, determined to
foꝛlake that vnfoꝛtunate lande, depattyng from thoſe couetous
naked barbarians, with moze ſoꝛowe and nereſſitie then they
were in before. Oz euer they had paſſed the South ſyde of Cuba,
they fel into a thoulande myſtoꝛtunes, and had intelligence that |
Fog ela arcpued therabout, leadyng a miſerable Ipfe, talſed and “De eg
turmoyled with tempeſtes, and bexed with a thoulande perplert? Fogeda.
ties: ſo that departyng from thence almoſt alone, his felowes
beyng lo the moſt part al conſumed with maladies and famine, 1
he came with much difſicultie to Hifpaniola, where he dyen by Laune a
force of the poyſon of his venemous wounde which he had res
ceiued in Vraba as we haue ſayde befnne, But Anciſus elected 1
Lieutenant, lapled by al thoſe coattes with much better ſoztunt: Oln, Protoes
for as he hym ſelfe tolde me, he founde pꝛoſperous wyndes in of Ancifus, -
thofe parties, and was wel enterteyned of thinhabitantes of Cu-
ba, but this ſpecially in the dominion ofa certayne kyng whole
name was Commendator: fi wheras he deſyꝛed of the Chill ian
men whiche paſſed by, to be baptiſed, demaundyng the name ol
the gouernour of the Nande next vnto E iſpaniola, beyng a noble |
mam and a knpabtofthe oper af Galarraua, of whiche opera Lis e cuba
axe called Commendatores, this kings deſyꝛe was to be named af name of Com⸗
ter him. Kyng Commendator therefore frendly receiued Anciſus, “eA
€ gaue him great abundance of al thinges neteſlarte. But what
Anciſus learned of cheyꝛ religion during the tyme of his remay⸗
mans koꝛtune was fo good, that al thynges well that
be tovke in hande: and albeit that he were not yet was
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Kong, that this holynes was the tauſe of al his bictozien : pet
ſwading him to doo the like, and to caſt away all his Zemes,
which were none other then the ſimilitudes of ewill ſpirites, molt
cruell enimies and deuourers of our foules, and to take bute
him the holy virgin and mother of God to be his patroneſſe, if
be deſpꝛen all his affapzes aſiuel in wart as in peace to ſutceebe
profperouflp : allo that the bleſſed virgyn woulde at no tyme
faple hym, but be euer tedye to helpe hum and his, if they woulde
wich deudout hartes call bppon her name. The maryner had
foone perſwaded the naked nation , and therevppon gaue the
king (who demaunded the fame) his ppeture of the virgin, ta
Chappell iohom he buylded and dedicated a chapeil aud an altet, euer al⸗
pehurf uche ter contemning and reiecting his Z eme. Oftheſe Zcmes made of
Marie. goſſampine cotton, ta the finulitudes of ſpirites walking in the
nygbt, which they oftentimes fre, and fpeake with them familys
erly, we haue ſpoken ſufficiently in the nnench booke of the fir
Decade. Furthermoꝛe, according to the inſlitution of this mas
xyner, when the ſonne dꝛaweth to warde the fall, this king Com-
mendator with al his famylp, boch men and wornen, refopt daylye
to the ſaide chapell of the virgin Marie, where kuceling on they?
knees, and reuerently bowing Downe they heades, holdyng
chepꝛ hands topned together, they ſalute the image of the virgin
mich theſe woazdes, Aue Maria, Aue Maria, fc; fewe of them
can reheatſe any moze woꝛdes of this pꝛayer. At Anciſus his bes
— they tooke hym and his felowes by the handes, and
ledde them to this chapell with reioyſing, laying that they
tred, they poynted with they kyngers tothe Image of the vive
gyn, al ta be fet and banged about with ouches and ie wels. and
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uthing tedoꝛthy ta be heard, and molt alluttdly to ber taken lu
attueih: — of cur men, there is fichferuent god e without
ly loue and ʒeale in cheſe ſumple men toward the holy birgin, that knowledge is
to them being in the daunger of warre agaynſt theyz eninnes, cuer godip.
they doo in maner (pf I may fo terme it) compel her to deſcende mare this
from heauen to helpe them in theyꝛ neceflities .. Yz ſuch is the vipnducite,
goodnes of God, that he hath ieft vnto men in manera pꝛyce
whereby we map purchaſe bym with his bolp angels ¢ lapntes, This ignorance
that is to witte, burnyng loue, charitie, and seale . Dowe ther: isto be lamen⸗
fone can the bleſſed virgin at any time be ablent from them which ted.
tall for her helpe with pure faith and feruent loue + Commendator
him felfe, with al his noble men and men, doo teſtiſie with
one voyce, that in a fought battayle in the whiche this maryner
was capitaine, bearing with him this picture of the virgin Ma⸗
ric, the Zemes ofthem enimies turned their backes and trem⸗ heine
bled in the pꝛeſence of the birgins image, and in the fight ol them weepe bis m
all : fop euere ot them layng theyꝛ Zemes to the battaile, ho⸗ as
ping by thepr helpe to obteine the victoꝛie. Dea they fay further,
that during the time of che battaile, they ſaw not only an Image,
but a liueſy woman clothed in fayꝛe and white apparel, ayding
them againſt they: enimies: which thing alſo the eninues them
ſelues acknowledged, confeſlyng that on the contrary part, the
appeared to them ſhakyng a ſcepter in her hande wich ihꝛeate⸗ u notabte fr
nung countenance, uh iche tauſed then hartes to ſhake and faint pre
tu feare: but after that this Marpner departed from them, being
taken into a ſhyppe of certapne Clniſtians paſſyng by thole
toaſtes, Commendator declared that he with al his ſubiectes, con
tinuallp obſerued his inſtitutions: inſomuch that beyng at con d
tention with another prince , whiche ol they Z emes were moſt
boly and of greateſt power, the matter grewe to ſuch extremitie,
chat they tryed it with hande ſtrokes: and that in all theſe at⸗ One blaphe⸗
temptes, the blelſed virgin neuer fapled hym, but vas euer pꝛe · 1
ſent in the byunt of the battayle, and grave hym enſie bicto is
with a ſmal power of men, againſt a maine armie of his enumies.
Beyng demaunded with what wooꝛdes they erped bpon the bir⸗
gin Paty when they allayled they? enimies, they that
they had earned no other wandes of the Maryners dactrine bu b
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Warle helpe vs, holy Marie helpe vs, arp this allo in the Spa-
niſhe tongue: for he had left chefe woꝛdes in the mouthes of all
men, Mhyle they murthered and deſtroyed them ſelues thus on
boch lydes, they fell to entreatie of peace, and agreed to trye the
matter, not hande to bande by combatte ok certayne choſen
fo2 both parties, as che maner was among che Romanes and
diuers other nations in the old tyme, oꝛ bp any eight oz police,
but that two poung men ſhoulde be choſen, for eche partie one,
with ther: handes bounde fafte behynde them in the
fpelve, bothe parties beyng ſwoꝛne to acknowledge that Zemes
to be the better. which fyꝛlt looſed the bandes ol the young man
which ſtoode bounde for the tryall of his religion. Thus diut-
dyng them ſelues, and plaryng the ſayd young men before them
4 ok chem all, with they; handes fat bounde by they
— 1 enimies, the contrarp parte called kyꝛſt ontheyz Zemes (that is
— r. the deuyl, to whofe ſumilitude they Images are made) who im⸗
wpat lihenes: Mediately appeared in his lykeneſſe aboute the poung man
that ſtoode bounve in che defence ok Satans kyngdome.
But as ſoone as Commendator with his companpe crped Sancta
Maria adiuua nor, Sankta Maria adiuua nos, foythwith there aps
Marangemp, peared a fapre virgin clothed inwahpre, at whole prelence the des
racle nut to be pl vanquiſhed innnediatly. But the virgin, hauing along rod in
5 ber hande, ¢ putting the fame on the bandes of che paung man
. that ſtoode for Commendator, his handes were loofed immediatly
* in the ſyght of them all, and his bandes found about the handes
tasle, ol hym that ſtoode fop the other partpe, inſomuch chat they chem
N ſelues founde hym double bounde. But foz all this, were not the
enimies ſatiſtyed, quarelling that chis chyng was done by fome
ſleyght oz deuiſe of man, ¢ not bp the power ol the better Zemes,
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fea at the ſyght ofbis maiſter Chyilt. Theſe young men therfore
were bounde in the pretence of theſe eight graue men, and were
placed within they lyſtes in the lyght of boch parties. Thus
bpon a ſigne geuen, when they called vpon theyz Zemes, there The deuyl aps
appeared in the light ol them al, a deuil wich a long taile, a wide Pate ag aint
mouth, great teeth, and hoꝛnes, reſemblyng the ſumilitude of
the image whiche the kyng beyng enimie to Commendator hono⸗
red for his Zemes, As the deuyl attempted to looſe the bandes of
his client: the blelled virgin was immediatly pꝛeſent as before at
the cal of Commendator ¢ his ſubiects, ⁊ wich her rodde looled the 7
bandes okher lupplyant, whiche were agayne like wyſe founde 2 ber
kaſt tyed about the handes of hym that ode fo? the contrarpe owe perfon
part. The enimies therfore of commendater, being ſtricken with the Depot.
at feare, and amaſed by reaſon of this great myꝛacle, confel .
that the Zemes of the virgin was better chen theyꝛ Zemes : for
the better pꝛoole whereol, theſe pagans being boꝛderers to Com-
mendator uhiche had euer before ben at continuall warre and ens
mitie with bpm, when they han knowledge that Anci/us was are,
ryued in thole coaſtes, they ſent Ambaſladours vnto hym, to
deſire him to ſende them pꝛieſtes, of whom they might be bayti⸗
fed; wherupon be ſent them two which he had there with hym
at that pꝛeſent. They baptiſed in one day an hundꝛed and thyꝛtie
of thinhabitantes, ſometime enimies to Commendator,but nome
bis frendes, and ioyned with hym in aliance. All ſuche as came cue pnegeg
be baptiſed, gaue the pꝛieſtes of they owe liberalitie, ef: tewarde,
ther a cocke oz a henne, but no capons, for they can not pet (kill nanny name
bowe to carue them cocke chickens to make them capons. Ala g νσ
certapne falted fiſhes, and newe fpne cakes made of they? bꝛead:
likewiſe certayne foules franked and made latte. TLiben the
pꝛieſtes relſoꝛtedto the ſhyppes. ſyxe of theſe newe baptiſed men
a them laden with vittuals, wherewith they ledde
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they departed from Dariena at that tyme
mangle of Cubd, necre onto the Catt ſyde of Hif-
ola. At the requeſt of c omnendaror. Anciſus left with him one
: | teache hym and his ſubiectes,
ſauration ok the angel, whiche
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boiage More Woopdes of chat paper, Thus. Ancifus his leaue of
ne kpng Commendator,directed his courle to Hiſpaniola, rum which
L be was not farre. Shortly after, he tooke his voyage to payne,
f . and came to V alledoleto ta the kyng, to whom he made greeuous
G complaynt of the inſolencie of / aſc hus Nunnez, inſomuche that
plapneth of by his pꝛocurement the kyng gaue ſentente agaynſt hym. Thus
muche haue J thought good ( moſt holy father) whereof to ad⸗
— whe uertiſe pour bolpnetie, as concernyng the religion of theſe nati⸗
An fapned uns, not only as J haue ben enſtructed of Ancifus (with whom 7
was muas dayly conuerſaunt in che Court, and bſed hym familiarlye)
but alſo as I was enfourmed of diners other men of great auc:
* thopitie, to the intent that pour extellencie may vnderſtande
howe docible this kynd of men are, and with what facilitie they
may be allured to embꝛace our religion: but this can not be
done ſodenly, — join ett ana
they wyl be al dꝛawen by litle and litle, to the Euangelical lawe
of Chpitte,to the great encreaſe of his flocke. But let vs nowe
teunne tothe meflengers oz procuratours as concernpng the
allayꝛes ol Dariena,
The ſeuenth booke of the ſeconde Decade, of the ſup-
poſed continent.
Nom Dariens to Hiſpaniola, is epght dayes
cou lyng, and fometimes leſſe with a pꝛulpe
5 5 rous winde: pet Qwicedus and Colmenaris
aN : Ste oars at wn bp reafon of
tempeſlles e contrary windes, could (carces
Uebel atungeD apes. Chen they
— =3 had tarped a fewe min Hiſpaniola, and
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affapꝛes was committed, — 1 uce to- oy.
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the wares agapnit the Pores) receiued them honourably, as fiena we Pos
tenaunces do declare the intemperatneſſe of the ape and region
Of Dariena, fop they are pelowe, ſpke unto them that haue the ye N
lowe gaundies, and alſo ſwolne: but they aſcribe the cauſe heres
ol, to the hunger whiche they lulteyned in tymes palt. J haue
ben aduertiled of the affapꝛes of this newe woꝛlde, not only by
thele pꝛocuratours of Oariena, and Ancifus, and Zamudius, but
allo by conference with Baccia che lawyer, who ran ouer a great
part ofthoſe cuaſtes: lykewyſe by relation of V incentius. Annex,
the patrone of the ſhyys, and h honſus Nig nus, both being men
of great experience, and wel trauailed in thole parties, belide mas
ny other, of whom we haue made mention in other places, foz
chere came neuer any from thence ta the court, but tooke great
plealure to certiſie me of al thynges, eyther by worde of mouth oꝛ
by unptyng. Ok many thynges therefore whiche J learned ol
them, J haue geathered ſuch as to my iudgment feme molt woz
thy to ſatiſtie them that take delyte in hiſtadies. But let vs nowe
declare what folowed alter the cammyng of the pꝛacuratours of
Dariena. Therfoꝛe, befoe they arryual there was a rum; {pred
in the court, that the cheefe gouernours and Lieuetenantes N-
a cucſa and Fogeda, alfo Iobannes de la Coffata man of ſuch reputa⸗ The great ma⸗
tion, chat bp the kinges letters patenten he was named the great fe of tbekings
maler of the kyngs fhpppes) were al peryſhed by miſchaunce: v.
n e fewe uhiche vet remayned alyue in Par iena. were
dt contention and diſcoꝛde among them ſelues, lo that they nei⸗
cher endeuoured they, diligence to allure chole ſymple na⸗
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termined tofende a newe captapne thyther, which lh ould reſtoꝛe
and ſet al thynges in goon oꝛder, and put them out of aucthoꝛitie
* wuhiche had vſurped che Empire of thoſe pꝛouinces without the
. kynges ſpeciall commaundement. To this office, was one Pe-
1 da- kus Ariss alligned,a man of gre at pꝛoweſſe, and a citizen of Se-
— orf goa, but when the pꝛocuratours of Dæriena had publyſhed in
. the courte owe great a matter it was, and of what moment,
many laboured eu nec to the kyng, to take the office out of his
handes : but the Biſhop of Burger, beyng the kyngs cheele chaps
layne, and one of the Commiſſtoners appoynted by hym in thele
matters, beyng aduertiſed hercof, came immediatly to the king,
the ovation ot and ſpake to hym in this cffect : May it pleale pour hughnelſe
the Bychop of to bnderſtande (moſt catholique pꝛynce) that wheras Petrus A-
derne t pee "455A man of valiant courage and great feruice, hath offred him
tus Arias. ſelle to aduenture his lie in pour maieſties affaires, vnder vncer⸗
tayne hope of gayne, and moſt certayne peryls, pet that notwith ·
ſtandyng, ſome other haue ambiciouſiy maliced his felicitie and
pꝛeferment, laboꝛing for the office wherto he is elected. It may
pleaſe pour grace herein ſo to ſhew him pour kauour, and permit
hym to eniop his ſayde office, as pour maieſtie do knowe hym
to be a woopthp and meete man fo, the fame, hauyng in tyme
paſt had great experience of his pꝛoweſſe and valpantneſſe, ab
wel in behauyng him ſelfe, as oꝛde ryng his ſouldiers, as pour
hyghnelle may the better conſyder, yl it ſhal pleale pou to call ta
The warres of remembꝛaunce his dooynges in the warres of Aphꝛyca, where
he ſhewed him ſelfe both a wife Captaine, and a valiant ſouldiecr.
As concernyng his manners and vlages otherwayes, they are
not vnknowen to pour maieſtie, vnder whofe wyng he hath of a
chylde ben bꝛought vp in the Courte, and euer founde faythfull
toward pour higbneſſe. CAherfoze, to declare my opinion, on ·
der pour graces fauour (whom it hath plealed to appoynt mea
Commilſioner in theſe affayꝛes) I thpnke it were bngovip that
he ſhoulde be put from his office at the ſuite of anp other, eſpeci⸗
ally beyng thereto mooued by ambition and couctouſneiſe, who
perchaunee would pꝛooue the m ſelues to be the fame men in the
office, ir they ſhould obteyne it, as they now ſhew them ſelues in
he ambitions deſpꝛyng of the fame, Cihen the Bithop had lay
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tualles, and other neceſlaries parteynyng to fo great a matter:
for the kyng hath in this citie erected a houle, ſeruyng only for f
che affaxies of the Ocean, tothe whiche al they that goe oy come ea
from the newe landes and landes, refopte to geue accomptes, tae tpe altars
alwel what they carp thpther, as what they bꝛyng from thence, °
chat the kyng may be truely anfwered of bus cultome of he fe
part, both of golde and other thynges, as we haue ſayde before.
This houſe they cal the houſe of the Contractes of Indi. Pe- Peralaria.
trus Arias founde in Ciuile aboue two thouſand poung men, whi⸗
che made great ſuite to goe with hym, lyke wyſe no ſmal nunber
of couetous olde men, ok the whiche, many offered them ſelues to
goe with him of their owne charges without the kings ſtipende.
But lett che ſhips ſhoulde be peſtered with to great a multitude,
o left vittuals ſhoulde them, the libertie of free paffage
was reſtraynt. It was alto decreed that no ſtranger myght paſſe
without the kynges licence, Therefore J doo not a lytle mars
uayle at Aloifius Cadamuſtus a Uenetian, and vnpter of the Yor
tugales voyages, that he was not alhamed to myte chus of the
nauigations: we went, we ſawe, we dyd: whereas
he neuer went, no any Uenetian lawe, but he tole certayne ans
notations out the nee Gt bookes of my fyꝛſt Decade, myt⸗
ten to Cardinal Iſcanius ¢ Arcimboldus ſuppolyng that I would
neuer haue che ſame. It alſo happen that he
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Okthe inuentions of the Pontugales (whiche fterelp are woon⸗
dertul) whether he haue wpitten that which he bach feene (as he
ſaith)oꝛ like wiſe bereaued other men of che iuſt commendations
ol they trauayles, I wy! not iudge, but am content to let hym
lyue after his manner. Among the company of thele ſouldiers,
there were none embarked but luch as were licẽ ced by the king,
except a few Italiana, Genues, who by frendſhyn and ſuite were
admitted for the Admiralles ſake young Colonus fonne att heyꝛe
to Chriftopborus Colonus, the fyꝛ ſt fynder of thoſe landes. Petrus
Arias therfore toke ſh ipping in the riuer Betis (now called Gua-
dalpueuir) running bp the citte of Ciuile, about the begynnyng of
the peere of Cipt,1514. But he looled anker in an euyl houre,
for ſuch a tempeſt folowed ſhoꝛtly after his departure, that it rent
in peeces two of his ſhips, and ſo toſſed the other, that they were
enforced to heaue ouerbooꝛde part of they vyttualles to lyghten
them. All ſuche as efcaped, ſapled backe agayne tothe coaſtes
ol Spayne, where, beyng newly furnyſhed and retreſhed by the
kyngs offiters, they went foꝛward on they; voyage. The matter
Pylote of the gouernours (hyp, was Lobannes Veſputius a Flos
rentine, the neuiew of Americus V efputius ho left him as it were
by diſcent of inheritance, thexperience of the Maryners facultic,
and knowledge of the (ea, carde, and compaſſe. But we were ad⸗
uertiſed of late by certapne whiche came from Hiſpaniola, that
they had paſſed the Ocean with more pꝛoſperous winde: foꝛ this
marchaunt ſhyppe commyng fram Hiſpaniola, founde them lan ·
ding at certaine Nands neere therabout. But in the meane time,
whyle my impoꝛtunate callers on,Galeacens Butrig avius,and lo-
hannes Can ſius, men ſtuidious by al meanes to gratifie pour holy⸗
neſſe, ceaſſed not to. put me in remembꝛance that they had one in
a redines to Depart into Italy, taried only to carp with him vn⸗
to pour holines theſe my fapze Nereides, although rudely decked,
left I ſhoulde beſtom much tyme in bayne, J haue let palſe many
things, x wil reherſe only ſuch as ſeeme in my iudgement motte
worthy memopp, although ſomwhat diſoꝛdered, as occafion hath
ſerued. Do it is therefoꝛe, that this Petrus Arias hath a wife na⸗
Mnotable ers med Helifabetha Boadilla, beyng nieſe by the bꝛothers ſyde to the
Tant h amn. marques of Boadilla, whiche renzen the citie of Segouia to Fer.
nando and Helilabeth princes of Spayne, at luche time as the
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ene Peliſabeth had geathered
geather there. This marquefle, while the liued, did euer theme
à mani and ſtoute mynde, both in peace and warre, fo that bp
ber counfaple, many noble thinges were by to good effecte
in Caſtile: onto this noble woman the wyfe of Petrus Arias was
nieſe by her brothers ſyde. She, folowyng the magnanimitie ol
her aunt, perteiuyng her hul band nowe furnyſhyng hym felfe to
depart to the bnknowen coaſtes of the newe woꝛlde, and thoſe
large tractes of lande and ſea, ſpake thele woꝛdes buto hym: My
molt deare and welbeloued hufbande, we ought not nowe to foß⸗ Fönig eg,
geat that from our young peeres we haue ben ioyned togeather
with the poke of holy matrimonie, to thintent that we ſhoulde fa
ipue togeather, and not aſunder, duryng the tyme of our natural
lyfe: wherefoꝛe for my part, to declare my affection herein, pou
fhal vnderſtande, that whither ſoeuer pour katall deſtenie thall
dzyue pou, epther by the furious waues of the great Ocean, oʒ
bp the manytolde and hoꝛrible daungers of the lande, J wyl ſure⸗
ly beare pou company: there can no peryll chaunce to me ſa
terrible, noz any kynde ol death fo cruell, that (hal not be muche
ealperfor me to abyde, then to liue fo farre ſeparate from pou,
It were muche better for me to dye, and cyther to be caſt into
the ſea, to be deuoured of the kylhes, o on the lande to the Cae
auen, opeiupng, pe cue ieder
ty mp blaine — felfe. This is my ful de
er e eee ee eee bas ict tng
> ch long
deliberation and good aduiſement. Nowe therefore choofe to
whether of theſe avo pou wyll aſſent, epther to thnuſte your
Cuore in my thꝛote, 02 to graunt me my tegueſt. As for the
childꝛen which god hath genen vs as pledges of our inſeparable
doue ( foꝛ they had fourefonnes, and ag many daughters) ſhail
hot fap me a moment: let vs leaue vnto them ſuch goodes and
— — lett vs by our parentes and freendes,
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t ocher thynges tate no cave. Nahen this noble matrone of
manip vertue had finithed theſe r hulbande ſeeyng
the conſtant mynde of his wyle, and — 25 a redyneſſe to do ace
comdyng to her woopdes, had no hart to Denpe her louyng petiti⸗
on, but embꝛacing her in his armes, commended ber intent,
and conſented to her requett, She folowed hym therfore, as did
Ipficratea her MA ithridates, with her heare hangyng looſe about
her ſhoulders: foꝛ the loued her huſband, as dyd H alicaruaſſea of
Caria hers,. being dead, and as dyd Artemiſia her M aufolus, Ce
haue alfo had aduertiſment fince they, departure, chat ſhe ( beyng
nought vp as it were amõg ſoft fethers) hath with no lelle Route
courage ſuſteyned the ropinges and rages of the Ocean, then dyd
eyther her hulbande, oz any of the Maryners bꝛought vp euen ae
mong the ſourges of che fea. But to haue layde thus muche here
al, this (hall futfile : let vs nawe ſpeake of other thynges no leſle
woꝛthy memoꝛie Therkoꝛe, wheras in the fir Decade we haue
made mention of Vincentius Annex Pingonus, ye ſhal vnderſtand.
that he accõpanied Chriftopborus Colonus the Admiral in his firſt
voyage, and afterwarde made an other voyage of his owne chars
ges wich only one ſhyppe. Agayne, the kyꝛſt peere after the ve-
partyng ofthe Captaynes Nicueſa and Fog edaqhe ran ouer thole
coattes from Hiſpaniola, and ſearched al the South ſyde of Cuba.
from the Eaſt to the Meſt, and ſayled rounde about that Jland,
whiche to that day, for the napa thereof, was thought to
haue ben part of the continent o2 firme land, although ſome other
lay that they dyd the lyke. Vincentius Annex therefore, knowyng
nowe by experience that Cuba was an Jlande, ſayled on further,
and found other landes TUeſtwarde from Cuba, but ſuche as the
Admiral had firk touches. TAberloꝛe, beyng in manner encom
with this newe lande, turning his courſe towarde the left
and taling the coaſtes of that lande by the Eaſt, ouerpal⸗
ä— ——V— and Cuchi-
bac boa, he arryued at the region mhiche in the lirſt Decade we
re ere VE a and ronan. atta
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booke of the fyꝛſt Decade we fap to be regions of the
* manpatfpume tobe to qreatet penne St
of thele re⸗
(whom chey cal Chiacones, ag they of Hiſpaniola cal them
En ik cng fa ft rae
to new nation was arrpued
what they bꝛought, and what they would haue, and in the meane
tyme furnpthed a number of they Canoas ( whiche they call Chi-
chos) with men armed after theyꝛ manner: for they were not
a lytle aſtonyſhed to beholde our ſhippes with the faples ſpꝛead,
whereas they vſe no ſayles, no can ble but ſmall ones pf they
woulde, by realon of the narowneſſe of they Canoas. Swar⸗
— therefore about the ſhyppe with theyꝛ Canoas (whiche
we may wel cal Monoxyla, becaufe they are made of one whole
tree) they feared not to ſhoote at our men, beyng pet within their
ſhyppes, — — as fafelp
as yr they had ben defended witch ſtone walles. But when our
men had thotte of certayne peeces of oꝛdinaunce agaynſt them, The ble of
they were fo diſcomſited wich the noyſe and laughter thereok, gunnes.
that they dꝛoue them ſelues to flyght. Being thus diſparcled, our
men chaſed them wih the thip boate, toke many, and flue many,
—— .
tifien of the loſſe of they men, they ſent ambaſſadours to Vincen-
tins Agnes to entreate bee — fearpng the ſpoyle of theyꝛ
goodes, and deſtruction of they: people, vf our men ſhould come
alande in they math and furie. They deſpꝛed peace therefore,
ag coulde be coniectured by they ſignes and poyntynges: for
out men vnderſtoode not one wood of theyꝛ language. And fo Great abun⸗
the better moole that they defpred peace, hey pꝛelented our men danse orgoln
Pea Pt Pa eel eae rate ome Olibanuns
ardes call Ca/tellanum Aurenm, whiche they commonly call
ſum. Alſo a great barrel of wood ful of motte excellent “ie
been ee ine eso erde;
died poundes weight, ounces ta che pounder wheres any
by they knewe that that lande brought fooꝛth —— plentie of tren in Arabia,
they fe, fo? there is no entertourſe which binigeth
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they: owne cuaſtes. With the golde and F rankencenſe whiche
pꝛeſented to our men, they gaue them alſo a great multitude
peacockes, boch
of
they twoulde afke: foz in Paria there is no leſſe plentie of popyn⸗
gapes, then with vs ol doues op ſparows. Thinhabitants of theſe
regions, both men ¢ women, are apparelled with veſtures made
of goſſampine cotton, the men to the knees, and the women to
che calfe of the legge. The fachion of they apparel is ſimple and
plapne, muche lyke vnta the Turkes: but the mens is double,
and quilted, like that which the Turkes vſe in the warres. The
princes of Paria are rulers but for one peere: but theyꝛ auctoꝛitie
is no leſſe among the people both in peace and warre, then is
chauctopitic of other kyngs in thoſe regions. Their villages are
Fyue of theyꝛ princes came to our men with theyz pꝛeſentes,
whole names I thought wooꝛchy to be put in this hiſtoꝛie. in ree
membꝛance of ſo notable a ching, Chiaconus Chiauaccha (that is,
the prince of Chisuaccha.fop they cal princes op kings Chiaconus)
Chiaconus Pintiguanus,Cbiaconus Chamailaba,Cbiaconus F olomus,
and Chiaconus Potto. The qulfe beyng ſirſt found of the Admiral
Colamus they cal Baia Natinitasis betauſe he entred into the fame
in che day of p natiuitie ol Chꝛilt, but at that time he only paſled
bp it without any further ſearchyng, and Bais in the Spanyche
fd el pence, oy bs appopmnn cant, be fume
s appoynted he founde
many regions toward 5; Eat, deſolate by rraſon of diuers floods
and ouerflowyngs of waters: allo many ſtandyng pooles in dis
ners places, and thoſe of exceeding largeneſſe. Pe craſſed not ta
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| out of Paria, builvedin compaſſe, along by the bankes of al that great gulfe.
bolowe this tracte, untyl he came to the popnt a; cape of that
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molt long lande. Chis poynt feemeth as though it wauld intads
the mount Atlas in Aphnc a: fo it pꝛoſpecteth towarde that part
ol Aphꝛike. which the Poꝛtugales cal Caput bone Sperantiæ. The
poynte s o capes of the mount 4¢/as,are rough and lauage, nere
vnto the fea, The cape of Bons Speranza, gtathereth thyꝛtie and
foure degrees of the South pole, called the pole Antartike, but
that poynt only ſeuen degrees. J ſuppoſe this lande to be that,
whiche J fynde in olde wꝛpters ol Coſmographie to be called the
great Mande Atlantike, without any further declaryng epther
ofthe liuntion, m of the natuce thereat —
The eight booke of the ſeconde Decade, of
the ſuppoſed continent.
ben John the king of Pantugale liued,
whiche was pꝛedetellour to him that nowe
raigneths chere arole a great contention be ; contention bes
fx, tweene the Caftilians and the Poztugales, tweene the Cas
as conternpng the vominion of thele newe nagales f Por
fearche the Ocean lea ſynce the memoꝛie of man, affirmed that
al the nauigations of the Ocean, ought to parteyne to them on ·
ly. The Caſtilians argued on the contrarp part, that whatſoeuer
God by the miniſtration of nature bath created on the earth, was
the
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iwidhout the paralels of tole Manves whiche are called Capas
Viride, oꝛ Cabouerde, within the of chis lyne (although
denye it) falleth the poynt of slanbe thereat we haue
they cal Caput Santti Auguſtini, otherwyſe called
Santti Auguftini, that is, —— 28
— and therefore it is not lamful foꝛ the Caſtilians to fatten
in che begynnyng of that land. Vincentius Annex, therefore
| — — pes 7 ng aduertiſed of the ——
mountaynes towarde the Sou
N. nt lying beloꝛe his eyes, there was a region called Ciamba,whiche
brought forth great plentie ol golde. Ok certayne captiues wi:
che he tooke in the gulle ol Paria ( whiche certaynely patteyneth
to the dominion of Caſtile) he bꝛought ſome with him to Hi/pa-
niola, and left — — prod oe Admirall to learne our lan⸗
guage : but he by: apꝛed ta the court, to make earnelt
| — ang ome 3
Spe Pande of the Wand of Sancti Iohannis(othertuiſe called Buric hena, being di
Saban. dam from d dene bonne bce east
finder of golde in that Jlande. Before V incentius made ſuite for
this office, one Don Chiſtopher, a portugale,the fonne of the
tountie of Camigna,was gouernour ofthe Fibs Sant, hon the Cas
— — the Chiſttan men that
| were inthe fame, except the Biſhop and his familiers, whiche
ſled and ſhyfted for them ſelues, foꝛſakyng the churche and al the
— 1 amamentes thereof : for pour holyneſſe hath conſecrated fine by⸗
p
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. — — of the moft catholique king.
— — — of Hiſpaniola. Garſia de Padilla,
oꝛder of faint Frauncis, is byſhop. In the
talune of Conception, voctor Petrus Xuares of Dexa, and in the
Alande of faint John oz Burichena, Alpbon{us Manfus a licenci⸗
ate, being bach obleruantes of che inſtitution of faint Peter. The
— — à man ok noble parentage,
hogne in Toledo, a preacher, ¢ bithop of the Jlanve of Cuba, The
fift is Lohannes Cabedus, afeper preacher, whom pour holyneſſe
| annopnees miniſter of Chritte, to teache the Chritttan fayth a
ss) mongyehetnbabieantes of Dariena, Che Cantbales thal thorttve
„ eepentthem, and che blood of aur men ſhalbe reuenged, and
— they had ae
—-— —
The ſeconde Decade.
this abontinable laughter of our men, they came agnyne front
them uwne lande of Santta cr (other miſe ralled: y. Ay)to the ch. oy
Slade of Sanéti [obanvis and flue a kyne whicbe was afreende d.nca cru,
to our men, and ate hym, and al his family, vtterly ſubuertyng |
his village, vpon this occaſion, that violating the law of hoſtage,
he had ſlayne ſeuen Canibales whiche were left wich hym by
compofition to make certapne Canoas, becaule the Jlande of
Santi lobannis beareth greater trees, and apter fop that
thendoth the Jland of Sancti crux, the cheefe habitatié of the Cas
nibales. Theſe Canibales pet remaynyug in the Jland, certaine
of our men ſaplyng from H ſpanisla, chaunced vpon them. The
thyng beyng vnderſtoode by the interpꝛetours, our men quarel
ling with them, and calling them to accompt fop chat miſcheuous
derde, they immediatly directed theyꝛ bowes and benemous ats
rowes againſt them, and with cruell countenances thꝛeatned
them to be quiet, left it ſpoulde repent them of theyꝛ
thyther. Dur men fearyng theyꝛ venemous arrowes (top they
were not prepared to fyght) gaue them ſignes of peace. Beyng
v. maunded why they deſtroped the vpllage and where the king
was with his familie, they anſwered, that they raſed the byllage,
and cut the kyng with his familie in peeces, and ate them in the
reuenge of thep2 ſeuen wooꝛkmen: and that they had made fag⸗
gottes of theyz bones, to cary them to the wiues and childꝛen ol
they) ſlayne wooꝛkemen, in wytnelle that the bodyes of they
hulbandes and parentes lay not vnreuenged, and therewith
ſhewed the faggottes of bones to our men, who beyng aftonps
bed at theyꝛ lierteneſſe and crueltie, were enfoꝛced to diſſemble
the matter, and holde they; peace, quarellyug no further wich
them at that tyme. Thele and ſuche other thynges dos dauly
chaunce, the whiche A da let paſſe, leſt A ſhould offende the cares
of pour holpneſſe with ſuch blooddy narrations, Thus haue we
lutfitiently digreſled from the regions of Bera gua and Vraba,bes
ng the cheefeſt funvations of our purpoſe. Me wyll now ther⸗
‘fore entreatefometobatof the largenelle anu depth of the rp: Spang. 58 0t
C — ne pe oa
runne thꝛough do bꝛyng fooꝛth: lykewyſe greatueſſe
of the lande from the Catt to the elt, ind of the breadth theres
Atom the Spout) to the Nozth and iht wa
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mete,
fruiteful⸗
8
Tbe feconde decade,
—— — Me wil therefine
begyn at the newe names, wherwith the Spanyardes haue na
8
The nienth booke of the ſecond Decade of
the ſuppoſed continent.
RON | Eragua therfore they called Caftella Aurea.
N that is, golden Caſtile, and Y raba they nas
8 Nn med Andalufia noua, that is, newe Andalu⸗
ne NOS fia, Andiphe as of many Handes whiche
2 > thep ſubdued, they choſe Hifpaniola for the
decke place of they habitation : foin the
large tracte of Paria, they appoynted they
colonie 07 biding place in the two regions of Vraba and Beragua,
that al ſuche as attempt anp voyages in thoſe coaſtes, may
reſoꝛt to them, as to ſafe poꝛtes to be refrefhen when they are
weerie oꝛ dꝛyuen to necellitie. Al our ſeedes and plantes do now
marueplouflp encreaſe in / aba. ykewyſe blades, ſettes, ſlippes,
graffes, ſuger canes, and ſuche other as are bꝛaught from other
to thole regions, as alſo beaſtes and faules, as we haue
before: O marueylous fruitefulneſſe. Twentie dayes after
eee lpke,
but Colwooꝛtes, Beetes, Lettuſe, Gorge, are rype within the
ſpace often dayes. Gourdes, Melones, and Pompions, within
the (pace ol xxbiit. dayes . Dariena hath many natiue trees and
kruites, of diuers kinds, with fundpp taſtes, x holſome foꝛ the vie
ol men, ofthe which J haue thought it good to deſcrtbe certaine
ol the beſt. They nouryſhe a tree whiche they call Guaiana, chat
— afruite muche reſemblyng the kinde ol Citrones which
are commonly called Limones, of taſte fomtubat ſharpe, mprt
with lweetenes. They haue diſo abundance of nuts of pinetrees,
and great plentie of Date trees, which beare fruites bigger then
che Dates that are knowen to vs, but they are not apt to be caten
| en hasnt ps Mulde e barren Date trees grow
e hanches wherof they vic for
buddes of the ſame. Guarauana be ing
——
“Vegher am tener then the ange ter, eee
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like to a chettnut tree, whofe fruite is like to the ‘of
— adie adaceteamaes
a fruite lefle then any of the other, but of fweete ſauour like ſpice,
—— — — —— in
ape and taſte is muche lyke to prunes, but ſomewhat bygger:
they are ſurely perſwaded that this is the Myrobalane tree, Theſe
growe ſo abundantly in Hiſpaniola, that the hogges are fedde
wich thefruite therofjas with malt among va. Che hogges like
this kynde of feedyng fo wel, that when thele fruites ware ripe,
the fwinebeards can by no meanes keepe them out ol the woods
of cheſe trees, by realon whereof, a great multitude of them are
become wilde. They alſo affirme, that in E iſpaniola ſwines fleſh Swynes de che
is ol muche better taſte and moze wholſome then mutton: foz it of beiter ans
is not to be doubted, but that diuers kindes ok meates doo en- then matten
gender ſundꝛy taſtes and qualities in ſuch as are nouriſhed thers
with. The molt puiſlant prince Ferdinandus declared that he had
eaten of another fruite bꝛought from thole landes, being full of
ſcales. with keyes, much lyke a pineapple in fourme and colour,
but in tendernes equal to melow pepons, and in taſte exceedyng
al garden kruites: fop it is no tree, but an hearbe, much like vnto
an archichoke, oꝛ Acantho: The king him ſelle gaue the cheelfeſt
tonnnendation to this. I haue eaten none of thele fruits: for ofa
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red ol wylde and terrible braſte z, as Liana, Tygetz, and ſucht
other monſters as we nume kame, and haue ben deſeribed of
olve auctours in tyme paſt. But there is ſpectallp one beaſt en.
gendꝛed here, in which nature bath endeuauren to ſhelw her com:
nyng: This beaſt is as bygge as an Dre, armed with a long
ſuoute lyke an Elephant, and pet no Elephant, of che cdlour of
an ore, and pet no ore, with the hoofe of a hoꝛle, and pet no hole,
with eaves alfa muche lyke bute an Elephant, but not fo open,
noꝛ ſo much hangyng downe, yet muche wyder then the eares of
any other beaſt. Ok the beat which beareth her wielpes about
wich her in her ſecond belly as in a purſecbeyng knowen to none
of the olde unters) J haue ſpoken in che fpr Decade, which J
doubt not to haue come to the handes of pour holyneſſe. Let us
nowe therefoꝛe declare what reſteth of the flonddes and ryuerg
ol Vraba. The riuer of Dariena falleth into the gulle of Vraba,
with a narow chanel, ſcarcelp able to beare the Canoas o; Ligh:
ters ol that pꝛouince, and runneth by the village where they chole
they dwellyng place, but the ryuer in the coꝛner of the gulle
whiche we ſayde that Va/chus palſed by, they founde to be. xxiiii.
furlonges in bꝛeadth ( which they call a league) and ol excerdyng
deapth, as of two buttered cubits, fallyng into the gulle by divers
mouthes. They lap that this riuer falleth into 88 Vraba.
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fore geather out of the e ofa many many learned aucthours
as concernynꝑ the riuer of Nas, N knowe not: fo they fay that
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moone oz che ſunne, oz out of the tops of che rotigh mon
of Esbiopis, alfymyng one ofthe fame to fall E⸗
gypt toward the Noxth, and the other into the len.
Clibat thal we lap in this place ? Ok that Nilas in Egypt thete
is no doubt. The Poztugales allo which ſayle by the doattes ol ce
the Ethiopians called Ngrita, amm bythe kyngdome of Afelin- ng. 24
ds, paflpng under p Cquinoctial iyne, among they: marueylous
inuentions haue found another toward the South, and earneſtiy i
affirme the fame to be alſo deriued from the mountaynes of the
moone, and that it is another chanel of Nur, betatiſe tt hꝛingeth 8
forty Crocodiles, whereas it hath not ben read before time, that
any other riuer nouriſhed Crocodiles ſauing oniy Nilus, This |
riuer the Boꝛtugales cal Senega, It runneth through the region
of the Nigricas beyng very kruiteful toward the Moꝛth ſhoꝛe, but
on the South {poe landie and rough. Crocodiles are allo ; 72
dco herein. Chat thal we then fap of this thirde : yea A mag ö
wel lay the fourth: lo J ſuppoſe them alſo ta be Crocodiles, wht:
che Colonus with his company found, armed with ſcales as hard
ag ſhelles, in the ryuer called Oelag artos, wherof we haue made
mention befoꝛe. Shal we fap that thele ryuers of Dariena alſo and
Vraba, haue thep2 oꝛiginal from the mountaynes of the moone,
wheras they ſpꝛyng out of the next mountapnes, and can by no
meanes haue the ſame oꝛiginal with lar in Egypt, op that in
Negrita, o els that in the kyngdome of Melinda, from thence fa
euer they are derpued, whereas theſe other (as we haue ſayde)
ſpꝛing out of the next mountapnes, which diuide another South
fea, with no great diſtance from the Noꝛth Ocean. Tiherefore,
it appeareth by experience ol ſuch as haue trauatlen the woꝛld in
our tyme, that other waters beſyde the riuer of Nilus in Egypt,
may — bs fooꝛth ba pone In the 3
and fennes regions of Dariena, are fou
tie of Pheſantes and Peacockes (but not of —
with manye other kyndes of byꝛdes and foules vnlyke vnto
ours, afwel apt to be eaten, as allo to delyte the eares of men
with plealaunt noyſe. But our Spanpardes, becauſe they
ate ignoꝛaunt in fowlyng, take but ewe. Allo innumerable po-
pingayes of ſundꝛy kyndes are formde chattering in the groues
of thole ennie places. Ol thele there a ee
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the lande, bzyng me into fuche doubt howe it can come to paſſe,
that info lytle a ſpate of three dayes iournep, meaſiryng from
the high toppes of thofe mountaynes, J doo not underſtande
howe fo many and fo great rpuers may haue recourle vuto this
Noꝛth ſea: for it is to be thought that as many do flow toward
thinhabitants of the ſouth. Theſe riuers of / raba are but mall,
in compariſon of manp other in thoſe coaſtes: for the Span
ardes ſay, that in the tyme of Colonus.thep found and palſed by an
other riuer after this, whole gulle fallpng into p ſea, they affirme
to be litle leſſe then a hundꝛed myles in the fyꝛſt coaſtes of Paria,
as we haue ſayde elſe where : fon they fay, that it falleth from the
toppes of high mountapnes wich fo [wyft and furious a courſe,
that by the violence and greatnelſe thereof, it dyueth backe the
lea, although it be rough ¢ enfopced with a contraty wynd. Cley
al affirme lyle wyſe, that in al the large tracte therol, they eit no
ſowe 0) ſalt water, but that all the water mas freeſhe, fweete,
and apt to be dʒunke. Chinhabitaumtes call this tyuer M crag-
nonam, and the regions adiacent to the fame, Af ariatambal, Ca-
mamorus and Paricora: beſyde thole tiuers twhiche J haue na:
med before, as Darien, Grandis, Oabaiba, Beragua, Santti A atbei,
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narowe and neare vnto the fea on both ſydes, hate ſuche great
holowe caues oꝛ dennes of ſuch capacitie, and from whence they
are kylled, to caſt fooꝛth ſuche abundance of water: hereof alfo afe
kyng them the opinions of the inhabitauntes, they affirme chem
to be of diuers iudgementes herein, alleaging kyꝛſt che greatnes
of the mountayncs to be the cauſe, whiche they fap to be berye
high, luhiche thyng alſo Colo nus the lirſt fpnder thereof aflirmeth
to be true, addyng thereunto that the paradiſe ot pleaftre is in
the tops of thole mountaynes whiche appeare from the gulte of
Paria ſ Os Draconis, as he is fully petſwaded. They agree theres
fore that there are great caues within theſe mountaynes, but it
reſteth to conſyder from whence they are kylled. If therfore al the
riuers of freſhe waters, by the opinion of mam, da ſo flowe out
okthe fea, as dꝛpuen and compelled through the pallages op The &%
pores ofthe earth, by the ponderous weyght of the ſea it ſelfe,
as we fee them bꝛeake fooꝛth of the ſpꝛynges, and directe theyꝛ
rourſe to the ſea agayne, then the thyng is leſſe to be maruey⸗
led at here, then in other places: for we haue not read that in
anp other place, two ſuche feas haue enuironed any lande with The lande ep
ſo narowe lympttes: for it hath on the ryght (pve the great Oce⸗ cioled with
an, where che ſunne goeth downe on the left hande, and anuther n eas.
on the other (poe where the ſunne ryſeth, nothyng inferiour to the
fyꝛſte in greatneſſe, for ther luppole it to be mprte and ioynen
a3 al one with the fea of Eaſt India. This lande therfore beyng
burdened with fo great a weyght on the one ſyde, x on the other,
(vf this opinion be of any value) is enforced to fwalowe vp ſuch
Deuoured waters, and agayne to caſt foorth the fame in open
ſpꝛinges and ſtreames. But yt we thall denye that the earth
dꝛawech humours of the fea, and agree that all foumtaynes oꝛ
fapnges are engendzed of the conuerfion op furnyng of ape Ine inte wa-
into iſtilling within the holo w places or the mountaines term the ta ⸗
(ts the moſt part thinke) we wyll geue place rather to thauctho —
is latiſtied of the ful trueth thereof. Pet do J not repagne, that in
fone caues of mountaynes, water is turned into apꝛe : fa 1
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tertapnt uuers by the pve of the mountaynes, where with all
ſuche trees as are planted on the ſteepe 02 foote of the mountay⸗
nes, as vines, oliue trees, and ſuche other, are watered, and this
efpeciallp in one place: as the right 2
Cardinal of Aragonie, molt obſequious to pour holyneſſe, and
two other biſhops of Italy, whereof the one is Siluius Pandonus,
and the other an Archbiſhop( whole name and title J do not re⸗
member) can beare me witnefle: for when we were togeacher at
Granat a, lately deliuered from the dominion of the Mooꝛes, and
walked foz our paſtyme to certaine pleaſant hilles (by the whiche
there ranne a fayꝛe ryuer) while Cardinal Lodouike occupied
hym felfe in ſhootyng at byꝛdes whiche were in the buſhes neere
vnto the ryuer, J thother two biſhops determined to clime the
mountaynes, to ſearche the opiginal and ſpꝛyng of the ryuer: for
we were not karre from the toppes thereof, Folowyng therfore ©
the courſe of che ryuer, we founde a great caue, in which was a
continual fal of water, as it had ben a ſhowꝛe ofrapne, the wa
ter whereof, kallyng into a trenche made with mans hande, en⸗
creaſech to a rpuer, and runneth Bowne by the ſydes of the moun⸗
taynes. The lyke is allo ſeene in this famous towne of / allado-
leto( where we nowe ſoiourne) in a certaine greene clole, not paſt
à furlong diſtant from the walles of the towne, J graunt there:
fore, that in certapne places, by conuerſion of the appie deawe in:
to water, within the caues ol ſuche mountaynes, many ſpꝛinges
and riuers are engendꝛed: but J ſuppoſe that nature was not ſol⸗
licitate to bꝛvng kaoꝛth ſuche great floods by this fo fall indu⸗
ſtrie. Two reaſons therfore do ſounde beſt to my iudgement:
she often fal of wherof the one is, the often fal ol rayne: the other, the cantinual
San . autume oꝛ ſpꝛyng tyme which is in thole regions, being fo nere
— vnta the Equinoctial, that che connnon people can perceiue no
‘be €quinor: difference betweene the length of the day and the nygbt thꝛough⸗
| out all the pecre, wi ere as thele two ſeaſons are moze apt to en
gender abundance ol rayne, then eyther extreme wynter, oꝛ fer⸗
uent ſommer. An other reaſon in effect much like vnto theft,
Ce poics of is this: If the fea be ful of popes, and that by the pores therot,be-
| the (ea, an the ing opened by the fouth wyndes, we thal conſent that vapours
fouthwende. are ſyfted vn, whereol the watery doudes are engendzed, this
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ther, pf it be as narowe as they fap, andenaironed with to
mapne {eas collaterally beatyng on the fame: howwloeuer it be,
I can not but geue credite to the report of ſuche moꝛthy men as
haue recourſe to thoſe regions, and can no leſſe then declare che
fame, albeit it may ſeeme incredible to ſome ignoꝛant perfons,
not knowing the power of nature, to whom, linie was perſwa ·
ded, that nothing was impollible. Wie haue therefore thought it
good to make this diſcourſe by the way of argument, let on
the one foe, men of good learnyng and iudgement, and on
"ye other fone, fiche as are ſtudious to finde occaſions of quarels
ag in oe on nens wyytynges, ſhoulde iudge vs to be fo bndile
crete, lighüly to geue credite to euerp tale, not being conſonant
to reaſon: but ofthe force and great violence of thoſe frethe was
ters, uhiche repulſyng the ſea, make ſo great a gulfe (as we haue
ſapde) I thynke the caule thereof to be the great multitude of
floods and riuers. hiche beyng geathered togeather, make fo
great a poole, and not one ryuer, as they ſuppoſe. And forafe
much as the mountaineꝝ are exceeding high and ſteepe, Jthinke
the violence of the fall of che waters to be of ſuche force, that this
conflict betweene the waters, is cauſed by thimpulſton of the
poole, that the fale water can not enter into the guife, But here
perhaps ſome wyll marueyle at me, why J ſhould marueple (a
muche hereat, ſpeakyng unto me ſcoꝛnefully, after this manner:
Thy noth he fo marueple at the great riuers of thoſe regions?
Hath not Italie his Eridanus, named the kyng of ryuers of the —
old wppters · Haue not other regions alfo the lykeꝛ as we reade
of Lanais, Ganges, and Danubius, which are ſayde foto ouercome
the ſea, chat frethe water map be dꝛawen fourtic myles within
the ſame. Theſe men J would latiſtte with this aunſwere. The
famous rpuer of Padus in Italie (whiche they nowe call Po,
and was ofthe Greekes called Eridanus) hath the great moun:
tapnes called Alpes, diuiding Fraunce, Germanie, and Panno⸗
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and dome there are whiche allume this lande to be very large in
other places, alchaugh it be but narowe here, There commeth
alſo to my remembꝛaunce another cauſe, the whiche although
it be of no great foꝛce, pet do J entende to wypte it. Perhaps
therefore the length of the lande reachyng farre from the Eat
to the Neſt, if it be narowe, may be a helpe hereunto: for as we
reade, that the ryuer Alpheus palſeth though the holowe places
under the (ea, from the citie of Elis in Pelopone/o, and bꝛeakech
fopth at the fountapne oꝛ ſpꝛyng A rethuſa in the Jland of Sicillia,
| ‘aonge — fo is it poſſible that theſe mountaines may haue ſuch long ca · ie.
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the water palling though the landes beyng karre dittant , ant
that the fame waters commyng by ſo long a tracte, may it the
way be greatly encreaſed, by the conuerſion of apre ino water,
as we haue ſayde. Thus much haue J ſpoken freely, permitting
both to them which do frendly interpꝛete o mens dooyngs,
and alſo to the malitious ſroꝛners, to take the thiug euen s them
lyſteth, for hytherto J can make no further declaration yereof,
but when the trueth ſhalbe better knowen, J wil do my diligence
to commit the fame to wꝛytyng. Nowe therfore, foꝛaſmuch as
we haue ſpoken thus muche of the bꝛeadth of this lande, we en:
tende to delcribe the length and fourme of the fame,
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the ſuppoſed continent.
Hat lande reacheth forth into the fea, euen
las doth Italp, although not lyke the legge
ofa man, as it doth. But nowe J compare
a Pigmean oz a dwarfe, to a Giant: foꝛ
chat part thereof whiche the Sppanpardes
baue ouer runne, from the ſayd Eaſt poynt
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thinges Inthe Latine tongue, I did my endenour that al things
myght come fooꝛch with due tryal and experience: whereupon
J repayꝛed to the Bithop of Burzes, beyng thecheefe refuge of
this nauigation Is we were therfoꝛe ſecretely togeather in one
chamber, we had many inſtruments patteining to chele aftares,
as globes, and many ok thoſe maps whtche are commonly called pt yg of
the ſhipmans cardes, oꝛ cardes of the fea. Df the which, one was 1
prawen by the Moꝛtugales, uherunto Americus Veſputius is ſaid the tarde of
to haue put to his hande, beyng a man moft expert in this fa⸗ —
tultie, and a Florentine boꝛne, who allo vnder the itipende of the a
Poꝛtugales, had faplen towarde the South pole many degrees
beyonde the Cquinoctiall In this carve we fonnde the firit trout
of this lande to be bꝛoder then the kynges of Vraba had per⸗
ſwaded our men of they: mountaynes. To another, Colonus the The tarde of
Admiral, while he yet lyued, and ſearched thofe places, had ge⸗ Colonns.
uen the begimuing with his owne handes: whereunto Bart holo-
meus Colonus his hnother and Lieuetenaumt had added his iudge⸗
ment, for he alſo had ſayled about thoſe coaltes. Of the Spany⸗
ardes lyke wyſe, as many as thought them ſelues to haue anye
knowledge what parteyned to mealure the land ¢ the fea, dꝛewe
tertayne cardes in parchment as concernyng theſe nauigations.
OF all other, they motte elteeme them whiche Jobannes dela Tah anne 51
Coffe the companion of Fogeda (whom we fapde to be ſlayne of Coca.
the people of Caramairi in the hauen of Carthago) and another ex⸗
pert pylote called Andreas Aoralis, had fet foorth. And this al: The carde of
wel for. the great experience which they both had to whom theſe Audꝛeas mos
— — as the chambers of theyꝛ owne hou⸗
les) as allo that they lutte thought i be cunninger in that part
ol Coſmographie, which teacheth che dilcription and meaſuring
ol the fea, Conlerring therfore al thele cardes togeather, in euery
of the whiche was dawen a lyne, expelling not the myles; but
leagues after che maler bf the Spanpardes, we tnoke our cant; anor op
palſes v began to meaſitre che fea coaltes alter this oder. From meatringt —
that — be inchwed within the cardes.
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entraunte of che riuer Mara gnonum: and from thence to Os Dra.
conis ſeuen hundzed leagues, but ſomwhat leſle by the dilcription
1 of ſome, for they doo not agree in al poyntes exquilitely. The
ue. Sypanpards wyl that a league conteyne foure myles by fea, and
but thꝛee by lande From Os Draconis, to the cape oꝛ poynt of Cu-
chibacoa, whiche being palled, there is a gulſe on the left hande,
we meaſured thꝛee hundzed leagues in one Carde, x much theres
about in another, From this poynt of Cucbibacoa, to the region
of Caramairi, in whiche is the hauen Carthago ( whiche ſome cal
Cart hag ena) we found about a hundzed x ſeuentie leagues. From
Caramairi tothe Iland Fortis, fpftie leagues, From thence to the
gulfes of /raba, among the whiche ts the byllage called Sancte
Maria Antiqua,where the Spanpards haue appoynted theyz ba:
bitation, onlp.xxxiii.leagues. From the ryuer of /’raba in the pꝛo⸗
wince of Dariena,to p riuer of Beragua,where Nicueſa had intens
ded to haue fattened his foote, if God had not ocherwple decreed,
we mealured a hundzed and thirtie leagues, From Beragua, to
that riuer, which we laid of Colonus to be called Sancti A atthei,
in the which alſo Nicwe/a looſing his Carauel, wandered in great
calamities , we founde in our Cardes only a hundꝛed and fourtie
leagues: Het manp other whiche of late tyme haue come fromm
theſe partes, haue deſcribed many mo lcagues in this tract from
the ryuer of Santti Matthei, in whiche alſo they place diucrs rp:
uers, as Aburema, with the Tland called Scutum Cate ballying bee
fore it, whofe kyngs name is Facies combuſta. Likewiſe another
rpuer called Zobraba, after that, / rida, and then Duraba, in the
which golde is founde. Furthermoꝛe, many goodly hauens, as
cer abaro and Hiebra, ſo calleu of the inhabitauntes · And thus pf
pour holyneſſe wyll conkerre theſe numbers togeather, pou ſhall
kynde in this accompt,a thouſand, fyue hundꝛed, twentie and fiue
qrenanigaris £02 after this,one 4% Ouetenfis othertople named Iobannes Di-
onofgopans as de Solis, boyne in Nebriffa (whiche byynaeth foorth many tea:
mie Dias ned men) ſapling from this riuer towarde the CClelt, ouerranne
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with the dther, pet may we geather by a diameter op right Ipne,
about three hundꝛed leagues. Derebp may pou geather what is
the length of this lande, but of the bꝛeadth, perhaps tue thal here⸗
after haue further knowledge. Let vs nowe ſpeake ſome what of
the varietie of the degrees of the eleuation ofthe pole ſtarres. eye cleuation
This lande therefore, although it reache fooꝛth from the Eaſt ofthe pole.
into the Melt, pet is it crooked, and hath the poynt bendynz fo
towarde the South, that it looſeth the ſyght of the Moꝛth pole,
and is extended beyonde the Equinoctial lyne ſeuen degrees to⸗
warde the South pole: but the poynt hereof, parteyneth to
the iuriſdiction of the Poꝛtugales, as we haue ſayde. Leauing The iurildicts
this poynt, and faplpne towarde Paria, the North Carre is ſeene Sorupates,
againe, x is fo much the more lifted bp, in how much the region
tuclineth moze to warde the Melt. The Spanpardes therfore
haue diuers degrees of eleuations, vntyll they come to Dariena.
being theyꝛ cheefe ſtation and Dwelling place in thofe landes: fo
they haue fozſaken Beragua, where they founde the Moꝛth pole
eleuate. viii. degrees, but from hence, the land doth fo much bend
towarde the Moꝛth, that it is there in manner equal with the des
grees of the ſtrayghtes of Hercules ppllers, elpecially yl we Vereules prs
mealure certaine landes founde by them toward the Noꝛth {pve
of Hiſpaniola, among the which there is an Jland about thꝛee. C.
and. xxv. leagues frõ Hifpaniola, as the fap which haue ſearcheed
the ſame, named Boiuc a, oꝛ Ag nanel, in the which is a continuall ——
(pring ok running water, ol luch marueilous vertue, that p water Agnanes.
thereofbeing dunke, perhaps with ſome diet, maketh olde men rage
poung agayne. And here muſt J make pꝛoteſtation to pour ho⸗A water of mars
neſſe, not to thynke this to be ſayde lyghtly oꝛ raſhly, foz they ueuous bertus.
haue fo ſpꝛead this rumour for a trueth thꝛoughout al the courte,
that not onlye al the people, but alfo many of them whom wyſe⸗
dome oꝝ foptime hath diuided from the common ſoꝛt, thynke it to
be true: but pf pou thal aſke my opinion herein, J wyl anſwere,
that J wyll not attribute fo great power to nature, but that
God hath no leſle reſerued this prerogatiue to hym ſellt, then to
fearche the hartes of men, oz to geue ſubſtaunce to pꝛiuation,
(that is) beyng, to no beyng, except we ſhall belecue the fae
ble of Colcbit of Eſon renouate, to be as true as the uytyn —
ges of Sil Erytbrea, Albeit perhaps the ſcooles *
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ant natural philoſophers, wyll not muche Epcke to alfryme;
by the vſe of certayne ſecrete medicines and dyet, che accidente⸗
cto wg of age (as they cal them) may be long hydden and deferred, whi⸗
pydden. che they wyl to be vnderſtoode by the renauation of age. Andt o
haue ſapde thus much ofthe length and bꝛeadth of theſe regions,
and ofthe rough and hugious mountaynes, with theyꝛ waterye
caues, alſo of the diuers degrees of that lande, J thinke it ſul⸗
ficient. But J thought it not good to let palſe what chaunced
to theſe miſerable men among cheyꝛ generall calamities. J res
member that when J was a chylde, me thought my bowelles
grated, and that my ſpirites were marueylouſſy troubled foꝛ very
pitie, when J read in the poete Uirgyl, howe Achemenides as
left of / y ſes vpon the fea bankes among y giantes called Cyclo
g pes, where fo the ſpace of many dayes from the departyng ok
| V lyffes.ontpl the comming of Ene, he eate none other meate,
<rtreme hun / hut only berries and hawes. But our bnfoꝛtunate Spanyaros,
5 whiche folowed cue / a to inhabite Per agua, would haue elkce:
f med hawes ¢ berries for great delicates. CAhat ſhould Jheare
Seeger Bie ſpeake of the head ofan alle bought for a great pꝛyce, and of luch
ufalem, other extremities as men haue fuffered in townes beſieged:
After that Nicue /a had determined to leaue Beragua foꝛ the bar⸗
g renneſſe of the ſoyle, he attempted to ſearche Portum Bellum, and
f then the coaſtes ofthe poynt called AA armor, pf he myght there
f kynde a place moꝛe fortunate to inhabite. In this meane tyme,
Ls fo greeuous famine oppꝛeſſed his ſouldiers, that they neyther ab:
auen bosses ſteined frõ eating of mangie dogges, which they had with chem,
75 . al wel for they defence as for huntyng (oz in the warre agaynſt
the naked people, dogges ſtoode them in great ſteade) nop pet
ſometyme from the llaine inhabitauntes: foꝛ they found not there
any fruitful trees, oꝛ plentie of foules, as in Dariena, hut a barren
ground, and not meete to be inhabited. Pere certaine of the foul-
a mangie dog diers made a bargapne with one of their felowes for the pꝛyce of
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ted to fynde the fkynne being nowe full of maggottes and ftpnke
png . De bought it home with hym ſadde it, and cate it. Many oo ora
reſoꝛted to hym with theyꝛ dyllhes fop the hothe of the lodde mangie dogs
ſkynne, profering bpm for euerye a of golde. Senne.
An other founde two toades, and ſodde them, which a ſycke man Toades eaten.
bought of hym fog two fine ſhurtes, curiouſiy tought ot lynnen
intermyxed with golde. Certapne other wanderyng about to
ſeeke fo bittuals, taund in a pathway in the myddeſt of a feelde,
a dead man, of the inhabitantes, which had ben llaine of his owne
company, and was nowe rotten and ſtynkyng. They dꝛewe
lem a (pde, dilmembzed hym ſecretelp, roſted hym, and ate end man
hy, therewith allwagyng theyꝛ hunger, as yk they had ben
kedde with pheaſauntes . One allo, whiche departing from his
companions in the nyght feafon, went a fyſhyng among the
recbes of the maryſſhes, lyued only with ſlyme oꝛ mudde for the
{pace of certayne dayes, vntyl at the length creepyng, e almoſt
deade, he founde the way to his felawes. And thus thele mile
rable men ot Zeragua,bered with theſe and ſuche other affictions,
wert bought from the number ol ſeuen hundꝛeth, thꝛeeſcoꝛe and
ten ſouldiers, ſcarſely to fourtie, beyng nowe allo added to the
company of them in Darjena. Fewe were ſlayne of thinhabi⸗
tauntes, but the reſydue conſumed by famine, bꝛeathed out
they? wery ſoules, openyng a way to the newe Lines for fiche
as ſhal conve after them, appealyng the fury of the barbarous na⸗
tions, with the price of they blood. Conſyderyng therfoze, alter Rote. ü
thele formes, with what cafe other men (hall auerrunne and in⸗
habite theſe landes, in reſpect to the calamities that theſe men
haue fuffered, they ſhall ſeeme to goe to bꝛyde feaſtes, where all a
thynges are redy prepared agaynſt they connnyng. But where Petrus Arias
Petrus Arias arrpued with the kynges nauie and newe ſupplx of who the pas
men, to this houre J knotwe no ecttamie, TLihat (hal chaunce eoeas
hearealter, I wyl make diligent inquifition, if A chal vnderſtansd he
this to be acceptable to pour holynes. Thus J byd pou farewel: eT
from the courte ol the moſt Catholpke kyng, the dape before the
hones ol December, in the peere ol Chill. 15 14. Is
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