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THE STRANGE

VOYAGE and ADVENTURES

O F

DOMINGO GONSALES,

T O T H E

WORLD in the MOON.

CONTAINING

An Account of the Maud of St. Hellena; thePlacewherp
he refided fome Years in, and where he planned this
Wonderful Voyage ; his entering on Board one of the
Homeward-bound Eaji-India Ships for Spain; their run-
ning on the Rocks near the Pike of lenerffi to avoid
an EngUJh Squadron of Ships, that were in Purfuit of
the Spanijb Fleet ; Gvnfaleshad juftTime to fix his Ma-
chine, which carried him in Safety to the Pike of Tene-
rlffi, having refted his Ganfas on the Mountain, whence
was purfued by the Savages j when giving the Signal to
his Birds, they arofe in the Air with him for their Jour-
ney to the Moon : The wonderful Apparitions and De-
vils he met with in his Progrefs ; their Temptations to
him, which he avoided, and their fuppiying him with
choice Provifions ; his leaving this Helliih Crew, and
proceeding on his Voyage to the Moon ; his fafe Arrival
there ; the Manners, Cuftoms, and Language of the
Emperors, Kings, Princes and People : His fhort Stay
there, to the great Grief of the Lunars ; the ineftimable
Prefents in Jewels the Author received at his Departure ;
his repairing to our Earthly Globe again, and was fet
down in China bji his Birds ; his being taken for a Ma-
gician by the Country People, and preferved from their
Fury by a Chinefe Mandarin ; his going aboard an India
Ship bound to Europe', his fafe Arrival in his own Coun-
try,where he made his Difcoveries to the King of Spain,
who held feveral Cabinet Councils to deliberate on 21
proper Ufe to be made of thefe Difcoveries.

With a Defcription of the Pike of 7enerijf, as travelled up

by fome EngUJh Merchants.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

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THE STRANGE

VOYAGE and ADVENTURES

O F

DOMINGO GO NSALES,

T O T H E

WORLD in the MOON,

B Y T H E

Several Ganza's, or Large Geese.

BEFORE I come to relate our extraordinary
Voyage of Domingo Gonzales to the World
in the Moon, I will make a Halt at St. Hel-
lens, or Hellena, which is now pofleft by the Ho-
nourable Eaft-India Company. It is called the Sea
Inn, becaufe the Englijh and other Nations flop
there as a Place for Watering and Refrefhment in
their long Voyages to India. It was formerly feiz-
ed by the Dutch, but retaken May 6th, 1673, by
Captain Munday, with a Squadron of Englijh Ships,
and three rich Dutch Eafi India Ships made
Prizes in the Harbour ; fincc which the Company
have fortified and fecured it, agaihft any future
Invafion of Dutch, Portuguefe, or Spaniards. It
was called Santa Helena by the Portuguefe, who
difcovered it on St, Hellenes Day, being dpril 2.

B There

4 The Voyage and Adventures

There is no Ifland in the World fo fardiftant from
the Continent or main Land as this. It is about
fixteen Leagues in Compafs, in the Ethiopic Sea ;
in 1 6 Degrees of South Latitude ; about 1500
Miles from the Cape of Good Hope ; 360 from An-
gola in Africa; and 510 from B raffle in America*
It lies high out of the Water, and furrounded on
the Sea-coafts with fteep Rocks, having within
many Cliffs, Mountains and Vallies, of which
one is named Church-Valley ', where behind a fmall
Church they climb up to the Mountains. To the
South is Apple-Dale, fo called from the abundance
of Oranges, Lemons, and Pomegranates enough
to furnifh five or fix Ships. On the Weft- fide of
the Church, Ship's have good Anchorage clofe un-
der the Shore, to prevent the Winds which blow
fiercely from the adjacent high Mountains.

The Air feems temperate and healthful, fo that
fick Men brought afhore there, in a fhort Time
recover •, yet the Heat in the Vallies is as intole-
rable as the Cold upon the Mountains •, it com-
monly rains there five or fix Times a Day, fo that
the Barrennefs of the Hills is not occasioned for
the want of Water, of which it hath twoorthiee
good Springs for furnifliing Ships with frefh Wa-
ter ; the Ground of its own Accord brings forth
wild Peafe and Beans, alfo whole Woods of O-
range, Lemon, and Pomegranate Tr^es, all the
Year long, laden both with Blofibms and Fruit,
good Figs ; abundance of Ebony and Rofe-trees,
Pai-fly, Muftard-feed, Purflain, Sorrel, and the
like j the Woods and Mountains are full of Goats,
large Rams, and wild Swine, bur difficult to be
taken. When the Portuguefe difcovered it, they
found neither four-footed Beafts nor Fruit-trees,
but only frefh Water ; they afterward planted
Fruit-trees, which fo increafed fince, that all the

Vallies

5

Of Domingo Gonsales. 5

Vallies ftand full of them •, Partridges, Pigeons,
Moor-hens, and Peacocks breed here numeroufly,
whereof a good Markfman may foon provide a Din-
ner for his Friends. On the ClifF-IQands, on the
South, are thoufands of grey and black Mews,
or Sea-Pies, and white and coloured Birds, fome
with long, others with fhort Necks, who lay their
Eggs on the Rocks, and fuffer themfelves to be
taken with the Hand, gazing at their Surprizers,
till they are knocked on the Head with Sticks.

From the Salt-water beating againlt the Clifts 3
a Froth or Scum remains in fome Places, which
the Heat of the Sun fo purifies, that it becomes
white and good Salt; fome of the Mountains yield
Bole Armoniac, and a fat Earth like Terra Lemnia. jm£
The Sea will anfwer the Pains of a patient Fifh- ^^
erman, who muft ufe an Angle, not a Net, be-
caufeof the foul Ground and beating of the Waves;,
the chief are Mackrel, Roach, Carp, but diffe-
ring in Colour from thofe among us ; Eels as big.
as a Man's Arm, and well tafted Crabs, Lob-
fters, Oyfters and MufTels as good as Englifh..

It is in this Ifland that the Scene of that notable
Fancy, called, The Man in the Moon, or a Dif-
courfe of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonfales is I
laid, written by a learned Bifhop, faith the inge-
nious Bifhop Wilkins, who calls it a pleafant and *
well contrived Fancy, in his own Book, intituled,,
A Difccurfe of the New World, tending to prove- r7
that it is poffible there may be another habitable World*
in the Moon ; wherein among other curious Argu-
ments he affirms, that this hath been the ffirecr. O- ie
pinion of divers antient, and fome modec&Mathe- !?
maticians, and may probably be deduced from
the Tenets of others, neither does it contradict
any Principle of Reafon nor Faith ;. and that as
their World is our Moon, fo our World is theirs. /
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6 The Voyage and Adventures

Now this fmall Trad having lb worthy a Per-
fon to vouch for it, and many of our Englijh Hif-
torians having publifhed for Truth, what is almoft
as improbable as this, as Sir John Mandavil'm his
Travels and others, and this having what they are
utterly deftitute of, that is, Invention mixed with
Judgment ; and was judged worthy to be Licenfed
fifty years ago, and not fince reprinted, whereby
it would be utterly loft. I have thought fit to
repubiifh the Subftance thereof, wherein the Au-
thor fays he does not defign to difcourfe his Rea-
ders into a Belief of each particular Circumltance,
but expects that his new Difcovery of a new World,
may find little better Entertainment than Columbus
j|had in his firft Difcovery of America, though yet
that poor Efpial betrayed fo much Knowledge as
hath fince increafed to vaft Improvements, and
the then Unknown is now found to be of as large
Extent as all the other known World ; that there
fhould be Antipodes was once thought as great a
Paradox, as now that the Moon mould be habitable.
But the Knowledge of it may be referved for this
our difcovering Age, wherein our Virtuofi can by
their Telefcopes gaze the Sun into Spots, and def-
cry Mountains in the Moon. But this and much
more muft be left to the Critics, as well as the
following Relation of our little Eye-witnefs and
great Difcoverer, which you mail have in his own
Spanijb Stile, and delivered with that Grandeur
and Third of Glory, which is generally imputed
to that Nation.

It is known to all the Countries of Andaluzia,
that I Domingo Gonjales was born of a noble Fa-
mily in the renowned City of Seville. My Fa-
ther's Name being Tberando Gonfales, near Kinfman
on the Mother's Side to Don Pedro Sanches the
worthy Count of Almanera, my Mother was the

Daughter

Of Domingo Gonsales. 7

Daughter of the famous Lawyer Otho Perez de
Sallaveda, Governor of Barcellona, and Corrigidoroi
Bifcay; I being the youngeft of feventecn Chil-
dren, was put to School, and defigned to the
Church ; but Heaven purpofing to ufe my Service
in Matters of far another Nature, infpired me
with fpending fome Time in the Wars ; it was at
the Time that Don Ferando, the renowned Duke
If Alva, was fent into the Low Countries in 1568.
I then following the Current of my Defire, leavino-
the Univerfity of Salamanca, whither my Parents
had fenc me, without giving Notice to any of my
Friends, got through France to Antwerp, where
I arrived in a mean Condition. For having fold
my Books, Bedding, and other Things, which
yielded me about 30 Ducats, and borrowed twenty
more of my Fathers Friends ; I bought a little
Nag, wherewith I travelled more thriftily than
ufually young Gentlemen do, till arriving within a
League of Antwerp, fome of the curfed Guefes fee
upon me, and bereaved me of my Horfe, Money,
and all ; fo I was forced through NeceiTity to enter
into the Service of Marfhal Coffey a French Noble-
man, whom I ferved in an honourable Employ,
though mine Enemies, to my Difgrace affirm, I
was his Horfe-keeper's Boy ; but for that Matter,
I refer myfelf to Count Mansfield, and other Per-
fons of Condition, who have often teftified to many
worthy Men, the very Truth of the Bufinefs, which
indeed was this, Monfieur Coffey being about this
Time fent to the Duke U 'Aha, Governor of the
Low Countries, he informing the Nobility of my
Birth, and my late Misfortune, judging it would
be no fmall Honour to him to have a Spaniard of
that Quality about him, furnifhed me with a
Horfe, Arms and whatever I wanted, ufino- my
Service,- after I had learned French, in writing his

Letters,

8 The Voyage and Adventures

Letters, becaufe my Hand was very fair. In time
of War, if upon NeceflUy, I fometimes drefied my
ou n Horfe, I ought not to be reproached there-
with, fmce I count it the part of a Gentleman to
fubmit to the vikfl Office for the Service of his
Prince.

The firft Expedition I was in, was when the
Marfhal my Friend met the Prince of Orange
making a Road into France, and forced him to fly
even to the Walls of Cambray : It was my good
Fortune to defeat a Trooper, by killing his Horfe
with my Piftol, who falling upon his Leg, could
not ftir, but yielded to my Mercy ; I knowing my
own Weaknefs of Body, and feeing him a lufty
tall Fellow, thought it the fureft Way to difpatch.
him, which having done, I plundered him of a
Chain, Money, and other Things to the Value of
200 Ducats. This Money was no fooner in my
Pockets, but I refumed the Remembrance of my
Nobility, and taking my Audience of Leave from
Monfieur Coffey, I inftantly repaired to the Duke
D' diva's Court, where divers of my Kindred fee-
ing my Pocket full of good Crowns, were ready
enough to acknowledge me : By their means I was
received into Pay, and in Time obtained Favour
with the Duke, who would fometimes jeft a little
more feverely at my Perfonage than I could well
bear, for though I muft acknowledge my Stature
is fo little, as I think no Man living is lefs, yet
fmce it is the Work of Heaven and not my own*
he ought not to have upbraided a Gentleman there-
with ■, and thofe glorious Things that have hap-
pened to me may evince, that wonderful Matters
may be performed by very unlikely Bodies, if
the Mind be good, and Fortune fecond our En-
deavours.

Though

Of Domingo GonsaleS; £

Though the Duke's Jokes a little difgufted me,
yet I endeavoured to conceal my Refefitment, and
accommodating myfelf to fome other of his Hu-
mours, I was fo far interefted in his Favour, that
at his going into Spain, whither I attended him,
by his Kindnefs, and other Accidents, wherein
by my Induftry I was feldom wanting to myfelf,
I was able to carry home 3000 Crowns in my
Pocket.

At my Return, my Parents, who were extremely
difturbed at my Departure, received me with Joy,
Which was increafed, becaufe they found 1 had
brought wherewith to maintain myfelf without be-
ing chargeable to them, orlefifeningthe Portions of
my Brothers and Sifters. But doubting I would
fpend it as lightly as I got it, they follicited me td
marry the Daughter of John Figueres, a considera-
ble Merchant of Lifbon, to which I complied, and
putting my Marriage Money, and good Part of
my own into the Hands of my Father, I lived like
a Gentleman many Years very happily: At length
a Quarrel arifing between me and Pedro Delgades,
a Gentleman and Kinfman of mine ; it grew fo
high, that when no Mediation of Friends could pre-
vail, we two went alone with our Swords into the
Field, where it was my Chance to kill him, tho*
a ftout proper Man ; but what I wanted in Strength
I fupplied in Courage, and my Agility counter-
vailed for his Stature. This being acted in Car-
mona, I fled to Lifbon, thinking to conceal myfelf
with fome Friends of my Father-in-Law, till the
Bufinefs might be accommodated ; at which Time,
a famous Spanijh Count coming from the Weft-In-
dies, publifhed triumphant Declarations of a great
Victory he had obtained againft the Engli/h near
the IJle of Pines, whereas in reality he got no-
thing at all in that Voyage but Blows, and a con-

fiderable

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fiderable Lofs. It had been well if Vanity and
Lying had been his only Crimes ; his Covetoufnefs
had like to have been my uttep Ruin, though fmce
it hath proved the Occafion of eternizing my Name
I verily believe to all Pofterity, and to the unfpeak-
able Benefit of all Mortals for ever hereafter, at
lead if it pleafe Heaven that I return home fafe to
my Country, and give perfect Initructions how
thole almoft incredible and impoflible Acquire-
ments may be imparted to the World. You (hall
then fee Men flying in the Air, from one Place to
another, you (hall then be able to fend Mefiages
many hundred Miles in an Inftant, and receive
Anfwers immediately, without the Help of any
Creature upon Earth •, you (hall then prefcntly im-
part your Mind to your Friend, though in the mod
remote and obfcure Place of a populous City, and
a Multitude of other notable Experiments •, but
what exceeds all, you mail then have the Difco-
very of a New World% and Abundance of rare and
incredible Secrets of Nature, which the Philolb-
phers of former Ages never fo much'as dreamt of;
but I muft be cautious in publishing thefe wonder-
ful Myfteries, till our Statefmen have confidered
how they may confirl with the Policy and good
Government of our Country, and whether the Fa-
thers of the Church may not judge the divulging
them prejudicial to the Catholic Faith, which (by
thole Wonders I have feen above any mortal Man
before me) I am inftructed to advance without Ref-
pecl to any temporal Advantage whatfoever.

But to proceed : This huffing Captain pretended
much Difcontent for the Death of Delgades, who
was indeed fome Kin to him ; however, he was wil-
ling to be quiet if I would give him a thoufand
Ducats : I had now, befides a Wife, two Sons,
whom I was not willing to beggar, only to fatisfy

Of Domingo Gonsales. it

the avaritious Humour of this Boafter, and fo was
neceffitated to take fome other Courie. I embark-
ed in a (tout Carrick bound for the Eafi- Indies^
carrying the Value of twothoufand Ducats to trade
with, leaving as much more for the Support of my
Wife and Children behind, whatever Misfortune
might happen to me. In the Indies I thrived ex-
ceedingly, laying out my Stock in Diamonds,
Emeralds, and Pearls, which I bought at fuch eafy
Rates, that my Stock fafely arriving in Spain, (as
I underftood it did) mull needs yield ten for one.
But having doubled Cape Bona 'Efperanza in my
Way home, I fell dangeroufly fick, expecting no-
thing but Death, which had undoubtedly happen-
ed, but that we juft then recovered the bleffed
I fie of St. He lens, the only Paradife I believe on
Earth, for Healthfulnefs of Air, and Fruitfulnefs
of Soil, producing all Neceffaries for the Life of
Man. It is about 16 Leagues in Compafs, and
has no firm Land or Continent within 300 Leagues,
nay not fo much as an Ifland within an hundred
Leagues of it •, fo that it may feem a Miracle of
Nature, , that out of fo vaft and tempertuous an
Ocean, fuch a fmall Rock or Piece of Ground
mould arife and difcover itfelf. On the South is
a good Harbour, and near it divers fmall Houfes
built by the Portuguefe to accommodate Strangers,
with a pretty Chapel handlbmely beautified with a
Tower, and Bell therein. Near it is a Stream of
excellent frefh. Water, divers handfome Walks,
planted on both Sides with Orange, Lemon,
Pomegranate, Almond-Trees and the like, which
bear Fruit all the Year, as do alfo divers others.
There are Store of Garden Herbs, with Wheat,
Peafe, Barley, and moft Kinds of Pulfe ; but it
chiefly aboundeth with Cattle and Fowl, as Goats,
Swine, Sheep, Partridges, wild Hens, Pheafams,
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Pigeons, and wild Fowl beyond Credit \ but eCi
peciaiiy afcout February and March are to be leen
huge Flocks of a kind of wild Swans, (whereof I
fhall have Occafion to fpeak more hereafter) who
like our Cuckows" and Nightingales, go away at a
certain Seafon, and are no more leen that Year.

On this happy Illand did they let me afhore with
a Negro to attend me, wheie I recovered my
Health, and continued a whole Year, lolacing my-
fcif for want of human Society with Birds and
brute Beails -, Diego my Biack moor was forced to
live in a Cave at the Welt End of the Ifle, for had
we dwelt together, Victuals would not have been
fo plenty with us •, but now, if one lucceeded well
in hunting or fowling, the other would find Means
to treat him, and if both miff-d, we were fain to
look out fharply ; but this feldom happened, fince
no Creature there fears a Man more than a Goat
or Cow, whereby I eafily tamed divers Kinds of
Birds and Heads by only muzzling them, fo that
till they came either to me or Diego they could not
feed. At firit I much delighted in a Kind of Far-
fridges, and a tame Fox, whereof I made good
Ule ; for if 1 had Occafion to confer with Diego,
1 would take one of them muzzled and hungry,
and tying a Note about his Neck, beat him from
me, whereupon he would ftrait away to Diego\
Cave, and if he were not there, would beat about
rili he found him •, yet this Conveyance being not
without fome Inconvenience, I perfuaded Diego,
(who tho' a Fellow of good Parts, was content to
be ruled by me) to remove to a Cape on the North-
weft Part of the Ifiand, being though a League
off, yet within Sight of my Houfe and Chapel,
■and fo when- the Weather was fair, we could by
.Signals declare our Minds to each other in an In-
ilant either by Night or Day, wherein we took

much

Of Domingo GgnsaIes. 13

much Pleafure. If in the Night I would fignify
any Thing to him, I fet up a Light in the B. 11
Tower, which was a pretty large Room with a
fair Window well glazed, and the Walls within
plaiftered white, fo that though the Light were
but fmall, it made a great Show ; after this Light
had ftood half an Hour, T covered it, and then if
I faw any Signal of Light again from my Compa-
nion I knew he waited for my Notice, and fo by
hiding and (hewing my Light according to the
Agreement betwixt us, I certified him of what L

E leafed. In the Day J advertifcd him by Smoke,
»uft, and other refined Ways.1
After a while I grew weary of it as too painful,
and again uied my winged Mefiengers •, upon the
Shore, about the Mourh of our River, I found
Store of a kind of wild Swans feeding upon Prey,
both of Fifhand Birds, and wnich is more (trange,
having one Claw like an Eagle, and the other like
a Swan. Thefe Birds breeding here in infinite
Numbers, I took thirty or forty of them young,
and bred them up by Hand for Recreation ; yec
not without lome Thoughts of that Experiment
which I after put in Practice. Thefe being (trong
and able to continue a great Flight, I taught them
firft to come at Call afar off, not ufing any Node,
but only (hewing them a white Cloth •, ar.d here
I found it true what Plutarch affirms, That Crea-
tures which eat Flejh are mere docible than ethers.
'Tis wonderful to think what Tricks I taught them
ere they were a Quaiterold, amongft others I ufed
them by Degrees to fly wirh Burdens, wherein I
found them able beyond Belief, and a white Sheet
being dilplayed to them by Diego, upon the Side
of a Hill, they would carry from me to him Bread,
Flefh, or whatever I plealed, and upon the like
Call come to me again- Having proceeded thus
C 2 far,

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far, I confuked how to join a Number of them
together, fo as to carry a heavier Weight, which
if I could compafs, I might enable a Man to be
carried iafely in the Air from one Place to another.
I puzzled my Wits extremely with this Thought,
and upon Trial found, that if many were put to the
bearing of one great Burthen, by reafon it was im-
poflible all of them mould rife together juft at one
Inftant, the firft that rife finding himfelf flayed by
a Weight heavier than he could ftir, would foon
give over, and fo the (econd, third, and all the
reft. I contrived at laft a Way whereby each might
rife with only his own Proportion of Weight ; I
fattened about each Ganfa a little Pulley of Cork,
and putting a String of a juft Length through it, I
fattened one End to a Block of almoft eight Pounds
Weight, and tied a two Pound Weight to the
other End of the String, and then caufing the Sig-
nal to be ere£ted, they all arofe together, being
four in Number, and carried away my Block to the
Place appointed. This hitting fo luckily, I added
two or three Birds more, and made Trial of their
carrying a Lamb, whole Happinefs I much envied,
that he mould be the firft living Creature to partake
of fuch an excellent Device.

At length after divers Trials, I was furprized
with a great Longing to caufe myielf to be carried
3n the fame Manner, Diego my Moor was likewife
pofTelTed with the fame Defire, and had I not loved
him well, and wanted his Service, I mould have
refented his ambitious Thought ; for I count it
greater Honour to have been the firft Flying Man,
than to be another Neptune who firft adventured to
fail on the Sea. Yet feeming not to underftand
his Intention, I only told him, that all my Ganjas
were not ftrong enough to carry him, being a Man
fchough of no great Bulk, yet twice heavier than

myfelf.

Of Domingo Gonsales. 15

myfelf. Having prepared all NecefTaries, I one
Time placed myfelf and all my Utenfils on the
Top of a Rock at che River's Mouth, and putting
myfelf upon my Engine at full Sea, I caufed Diego
to advance the Signal, whereupon my Birds, twen-
ty five in Number, rofe all at once, and carried
me over luftily to the Rock on the other Side, being
about a Quarter of a League ; I chofe this Time
and Place, becaufe if any Thing had fallen out
contrary to Expectation, the worft that could hap-
pen was only falling into the Water, and being
able to fwim well, I hoped to receive little Hurt
in my Fall. When I was once fafe over, O how did
my Heart even fwell with Joy and Admiration at
my own Invention •, how often did I wifh myfelf
in the Midft of Spain, that I might fill the World
with the Fame of my Glory and Renown ? Every
Hour 1 had a longing Defire for the coming of the
Indian Fleet to take me home with them, which
then ftaid three Months beyond their ufual Time :
At length they arrived, being three Carricks much
weather-beaten, the Men fick and weak, and ib
were conftrained to refrefh themfelves in ourlfland
a whole Month. The Admiral was called Alphonfo
de Xima, a valiant, wife Man, defirous of Glory,
and worthy better Fortune than afterwards befel
him ; to him I difcovered my Device of the Ganfast
being fatisfied, that it was impoflible otherwife to
perfuade him to take f& many Birds into his Ship,
who for the Nicenefs 6? their Provifion would be
moretroublelbme than iVmany Men; yet I adjured
him by Oaths and Perfuafions to be fecret in the
Bufinefs, though I did not much doubt it, afTurino-
myfelf he durft not impart the Experiment to anv
before our King were acquainted therewith. I had
more Apprehenfion left Ambition, and the Defire
of gaining to himfelf the Honour of fa admirable

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an Invention, mould tempt him to difpacch me.
However I was forced to run the Rifque unlels I
would adventure the Lofs af my Birds, the like
whereof for my Purpofe were not to be had in
Chrittendom, nor was I fure ever to bring op o-
thers to ferve my Turn.

It happened ail thefe Doubts were ■caufelels, the
Man 1 believe was honeft, bur the Misfortune we
met with prevented all thefe Thoughts. TburfJc.y,
June 21, 1599, we fet Sail for Spain, I having al-
lowed me a convenient Cabin tor my Birds, and
Engine, which the Captain would have perfuaded
me to have left behind, and it was a Wonder I did
not, but my good Fortune laved my Lift*, for al-
ter two Months Sail we met with an Eng'iPo Fleet
about 10 Leagues from the lfiand ot 'lerurtff, one
of the Canarks, famous for a Hill therein called
Pico^ which is feen at Sea' above an hundred
Leagues off. We had aboard five Times their
number of Men, all in Health, and were well pro-
vided with Ammunition ; yet finding them reibl-
ved to fight, and knowing what infinite Riches we
carried, concluded it better if poilible to efcape,
than by encountering a Crew of defperate Fel-
lows, to hazard not only our Lives, which a Man
of Courage does not value, but the Eftates of
many poor Merchants, who I am afraid were un-
done by the Mifcarriage of this Bufiners. Our
Fleet confided of five bail, that is, three Carricks,
a Bark, and a Caravel, who coming from St.
Thomas I/le, had in an ill Hour overtaken us fome
Days before. The Englijh had three Ships well
provided, who no fooner fpied but prefent-iy enga-
ged us, and changing their Courie, endeavoured
to bring us under their Lee, which they might ea-
fily do as the Wind then flood, they being light
nimble Veffels, as Englifli Ships generally are;

ours

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olirS heavy, deep laden, and foul with the Sea :
So our Captain refolved, wilely enough it may be,
not neither valiantly nor fortunately, to fly, com-
manding us to dilperfe ourfelves. The Caravel
by too much Hafte fell upon one of the Carricks
and bruifed her lb, that one of the Englifb eafily
fetched her up and entered her, the, Caravel unk-
ing before our Eyes. The Bark efcaped unpur-
lucd, and another of our Carricks after iome
Chafe was given over by the Enemy, who expec-
ting a fufficient Booty of us, and getting us be-
tween them, fell upon us with much Fury; our
Captain hereupon gave Direction to run afhore
upon Teneriff, the Port whereof we could not re-
cover, faying, " That he hoped to lave Part of
the Goods, and fome of our Lives, and he had
rather the reft mould be loft, than all fall into
the Mercy of our Foes."

When I heard this Refolution, obferving the
Sea to work high, and knowing all the Coaft to
be fo full of Rocks and Shoals, that it was impof-
fible our Ship mould come near the Land, unlefs
broken into a thoufand Pieces, I reprefented to
the Captain the DeTperatenefs of the Attempt,
w i[hing him rather to try the Kindnefs of the E-
nemy, than throw away himfelfand fo many brave
Men ; but he would by no Remonftrances be re-
moved from his Refolution, therefore finding it
high Time to (hi ft for myfelf, I locked up my
lirtle Cafket of Jewels, which putting into my
Sleeve, I then betook me to my Ganfas, and ha-
ving harnefled them to my Engine, and put my-
felf thereon, fuppofing, as indeed it happened,
that when the Ship mould fplit, my Birds, though
they wanted their Signal, yet tor faving their own
Lives, which Nature hath taught all Creatures. to
preferve, would make toward Land, which fell

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out according to my Expectation ; the People rn
the Ship wondered what 1 was doing, none being
acquainted with the ufe of my Birds but the Cop-
tain, Diego being in the other Ship which tied a-
way unpurl'ued -, we were about half a League
from Land, when our Carrick ftruck upon a
Rock, and lplit to Pieces, upon which I let ioofe
the Reins to my Birds, having firlt placed myfelf
upon the Top of the Deck, and with the Shock
they all arofe carrying me fortunately to the Land,
of which you need not doubt but I was very
joyful, though it was a miierable Sight to behold
my Friends and Acquaintance in that woful Dii-
trefs, of whom yet many efcaped better than they
expe&ed, for the EngliJJj launching out their Cock-
boats, dilcovered more generous Tempers than
we are pleafed to allow them, taking Companion
of their Calamity, and endeavouring with all Di-
ligence to fave them trom the Fury of the Waves,
though with muc h Danger to themfelves •, among
others they took up our Captain, who, as Father
Pacio fmce told me, having put himfelf with
twelve others into the Cock-boat, was forced to
vield to one Captain Raymund, who carried him
and our Pilot along with them in their Voyage to
the Eaft-lndies, whither they were bound, but it
was their hard Fate, by a Breach of the Sea near
Cape Buona Efperanca* to be fwallowed of the
mercilefs Waves, whole Rage they awhile before
had fo hardly efcaped ; the reit as 1 likewife heard,
who were about twenty fix Perfons they took into
their Ship, and let them on Land at Cape Verde.

As for myfelf, being now afliore in an Ifland
inhabited by Spaniards, I reckoned I was late,
but found myfelf miftaken, for it was my hap to
pitch upon that Part of the Ifle where the Pike
begins to rife, which is inhabited by a Savage

People

0/ Domingo Gonsales. 19

People who live upon the Sides of that Hill, the
Top whereof is for the moil Part covered with
Snow, and formerly accounted, for its Steepnefs,
inacceffible, either for Man or Bead, yet thefe
Savages fearing the Spaniards keep as near the Top
as they can, never coming down into the fruitful
Vallies but to feek for Booty ; a Crew of thefe
Out laws happened to fpy me foon after 1 landed,
and thinking they had got a Prize, approached
me with all Speed i I gueft their Defign before
they came within half a Mile, when perceiving
them come down the Hill directly toward me,
with long Staves and other Weapons, I thought it
neceffary to fecure myfelf from thefe Villains, who
out of Hatred to us Spaniards^ would have cut me
to Pieces ; the Country was fandy, but the Pike
beginning to lift up itfelf, I efpied in the Side a
white Cliff", which I hoped my Ganzas would
take for a Mark, and being put up, would make
all that way, whereby I might be carried fo far,
that thofe barbarous Rafcals fkould not overtake
me, before I got to fome Spaniard's Houfe, or hid
myfelf, till by the Covert of the Night I might
travel to Laguna, the chief City of the Ifland,
three Miles off. So I fettled myfelf upon my En-
gine, and let loofe the Reins to my Ganfas, who
by good Fortune took all one Courfe, tho' not
juft the Way I aimed at. But what of that! O
Reader prick up thy Ears, and prepare thyfelf to
hear the flrangeft Chance that ever happened to
any Mortal, and which I know thou wilt not* have
the Grace to believe till thou feeft the like Expe-
riment, which I doubt not in afhort Time may be
performed. My Cfanfas, like fo many Horfes that
had gotten the Bit between their Teeth, made not
their Flight toward the Cliff I intended, though
J ufed mv wonted Means to direct the Leader of

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the Flock that Way, but with Might and Main
took up toward the Top of the Pikey and never
ftopt till tney came there, a Place in vulgar Es-
timation (though fince experimentally contradic-
ted) fifteen Miles in Height. What kind of
Place this was I would gladly relate, but that I
Jiaften to Matters of greater Importance : When
I was fet down there, my poor Ganfas fell to pant-
ing, blowing, and gaping for Breath as if they
would all have died, fo I did not trouble them
awhile, forbearing to draw them in, which they
never ufed to endure without ftruggling, but little
did I expect what followed.

It was now the Seafon that thefe Birds take their
Flight away, as our Cuckows and Swallows do in
Spain towards Autumn, and as I afterwards found,
being mindful of their ufual Voyage, juft when I
began to fettle myfelf to take them in, they with
one Confent rofe up, and having no other higher
Place to make toward, to my unfpeakable Fear
and Amazement, (truck bolt upright, and never
left towring upward, (till higher and higher, for
the Space, as I gueit, of an Hour, after which I
thought they laboured lefs than before, till at
length, ah wonderful ! they remained immoveable,
as iteadily as if they had lat upon fo many Perches ;
the Lines flacked, neither I, nor the Engine moved
at all, but continued dill, as having no Manner
of Weight. I found then by Experience, what no
Philofopher ever dreamt of, namely, that thofe
Things we call heavy do not fall towards the
Center of the Earth as their natural Place, but are
drawn by a fecret Property of the Globe of the
Earth, or rather ibmething within it, as the Load-
ftone draweth Iron, which is within the Compafs
of its attractive Beams. For though my Ganfas
♦ould continue unmoved, without being fuftained

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by any Thing but the Air, as eafily and quietly as
a Fifh in the Water, yet if they forced themfglves
fcever fo little, it is impoflible to imagine with what
Swiftnefs they were carried, either Upward, Down-
ward, or Sideways ; I mud ingenuouQy confefs
my Horror and Amazement in this Place was fuch,
that had I not been armed with a true Spanijh Re-
folution, I mould certainly have died for Fear.

The next Thing that difturbed me was the Swift-
nefs of the Motion, which was fo extraordinary,
that it almoft ftopt my Breath, if I mould liken it
to an Arrow out of a Bow, or a Stone thrown
down from the Top of an high Tower, it would
come vaftly fhortof it j another Thing was exceed-
ing troublefome to me, that is the Illufions of
Devils and wicked Spirits, who the firft Day of
my Arrival came about me in great Numbers in
the Likenefs of Men and Women, wondering at
me like fo many Birds about an Owl, and fpeaking.
feveral Languages which I underftood not, till at
laft I met with fome that fpoke good Spanijh, fome
Dutcb^ and others Italian, all which I underllood ;
and here 1 had only a Touch of the Sun's Abfence
once for a fhort Time, having him ever after in
my Sight. Now though my Ganjas were entan-
gled in my Lines, yet they eafily feized upon divers
Kinds of Flies and Birds, efpecially Swallows and
Cuckows, whereof there were Multitudes, even
like Motes in the Sun, though I never faw them
eat any Thing ar all. I was much obliged to thofe,
whether Men or Devils I know not, who among
divers Difcourfes told me, " If I would follow
" their Directions, I fhould not only be carried
'* fafe Home, but be allured to command at all
** Times all the Pleafures of that Place." To
which Motion, not daring to give a flat Denial, I
defired Time to confider, and withal indebted
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them, (though I felt no Hunger at all, which may
feem Itrange) to help me to fome Victuals, leaft I
jfhould tlarve in my Journey, fo they readily
brought me very good FleOi and Fifh of feveral
Sorts, and well drefTed, but that it was extreme
frefh without any Relifh of Salt. Wines likewife
I tafted of divers Kinds as good as any in Spain*
and Beer no better in all Antwerp. They advifed
me, that while I had Opportunity I fhould make
my ProvifionF, telling me, that till the next Thurs-
day they could help me to no more, at which Time
they would find Means to carry me back, and fet
me fare in Spain, in any Place I would defire, pro-
vided I would become one of their Fraternity, and
enter into fuch Covenants as they had made to their
Captain and Matter, whom they would not name :
1 anfwered civil y, " I faw little Reafon to rejoice
*' in fuch an Offer, defiring them to be mindful
" of me as Occafion ferved ; fo for that Time I
was rid of them •, having firft, furnifhed my Pockets
with as much Victual* as I could thruft in, among
which I '*ould be fure to find a Place for a imall
Bottle of good Canary.

1 (hall no// declare the Quality of the Place
v;herein I was : The Clouds I perceived to be all
under between me and the Earth. The Stars, be-
caufe it was always Day, I faw at all Times alike,
not fhining bright, as we fee in the Night upon
Earth, but of i whitifh Colour, like the Moon
with us in the Day-Time, thofe that were feen,
which were not many, fhewed far greater than with
us, yea, as I guefifed no lefs than ten Times bigger :
As for the Moon, being then within two Days of
the Change, fhe appeared of an huge and dreadful
Greatru-fs. It is not to be forgot, that no Stars ap-
peared but on that Part of the Hemifphere next the
P loon, ar.d the nearer to her, the larger they ap-
peared

Of Domingo Gonsales. 23

peared again ; whether I lay quiet and reded, or
were carried in the Air, I perceived myfelf to be al-
ways directly between the Moon and the Earth,
whereby 'tis plain, that my Ganjas took their Way
directly toward the Moon, and that when we refted,
as we did at firft for many Hours, either we were
infenfibly carried round about the Globe of the
Earth, though I perceived no fuch Motion, orelfe
that, according to the Opinion of Copernicus, the
Earth is carried about, and turneth round perpe-
tually from Weft to Eaft, leaving to the Planets
only that Motion which the Aftronomers call natu-
ral, and is not upon the Poles of the Equinoctial,
commonly called the Poles of the World, but
upon thofe of the Zodiac ; the Air in that Place
I found without any Wind, and exceeding tem-
perate, neither Hot nor Cold, where neither the
Sun Beams had any Object to reflect upon, nor
the Earth and Water appear to affect the Air
with their natural Quality of Coldnefs ; as for the
Philofophers attributing Heat and Moifture to the
Air, I always efteemed it a Fancy : Laftly, I re-
member that after my Departure from the Earth,
I never felt either Hunger or Thirft, whether the
Purity of the Air, freed from the Vapours of the
Earth and Water, might yield Nature fufficient
Nourifhment, or what elfe might be the Caufe I
cannot determine, but fo I found it, though 1 was
perfectly in Health both of Body and Mind, even
above my ufual Vigour.

Some Hours after the Departure of that Devilifli
Company, my Ganfas began to beftir themfelves,
ftill directing their Courle toward the Globe or Body
of the Moon, making their Way with fuch incre-
dible Swiftnefs, that I conceive they advanced little
lefs than fifty Leagues in an Hour* in which Paf-
fage I obferved three Things very remarkable, one

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that the farther we went the lefs the Globe of the
Earth appeared to us, and that of the Moon ftill
larger : Again the Earth, which I had ever in
mine Eye, leemed to made itfelf wiih a kind of
Brightaefs like another Moon, and as we difcern
certain Spots or Clouds as it were in the Moon, fo
did I then fee the like in the Earth ; but whereas
the Eorm of thefe Spots in the Moon are always
the fame, thefe on the Earth feemed by Degrees to
change every Hour •, the Reafon where of feems to
be, that whereas the Earth according to his na-
tural Motion (for fuch a Motion I am now fatis-
fied (he hath according to the Opinion of Coper-
nicus) turns round upon her own Axis every four
and twenty Hours from Weft to EaftJ I fhould at
firlt fee in the Middle of the Body of this new Star
the Earth, a Spot like a Pear, with a Morfel bit out
on one Side, in fome Hours I mould obferve this
Spot move 2* ay toward the Eaft : This no doubt
was the main Land of Africa j then might I per-
ceive a great mining Brightnefs in that Place which
continued about the lame Time, and wasqueftion-
lefs the vaft Atlantick Ocean : After this fucceeded
a Spot aim oft Oval, juft as we fee America def-
cribed in our Maps, then another immenfe Clear-
nefs, reprefentmg Mare del zar or the South Sea ;
laltly, a number of Spots like the Countries and
Jflands in the Eaji- Indies, fo that it feemed to me
no other than an huge mathematical Globe turned
round leifurely before me, wherein fucceflively all
the Countries of our earthly World were within
twenty-four Hours reprefented to my View, and
this was all the Means I now had to number
the Days, and reckon the Time.

I could now wifh that Philofophers and Mathe-
maticians would confefs their own Blindnefs, who
have hitherto made the World believe that the

Earth

0/ Domingo Gonsales. 25

Earth hath no Motion, and to confirm it, arc
forced to attribute to every one of the celeftial
Bodies two Motions dire&ly contrary to each other,
one from the Eaft to the Weft, to be performed in
twenty-four Hours with an impetuous rapid Mo-
tion ; the other from Weft to Eaft in feveral Pro-
portions : O incredible Suppofition ! that thofe
huge Bodies of the fixed Stairs in the higheft Orb,
whereof they confefs divers, are above an hun-
dred Times bigger than the whole Earth, mould
like fo many Nails in a Cart-wheel be whirled a-
bout in fo fhorta Time ; whereas it is many thou-
fand Years, no lefs (fay they,) than thirty thoufand,
before that Orb finilhes his Courfe from Weft to
Eaft, which they call his natural Motion; now
whereas they allow their natural Courfe from* Weft
to Eaft to every one of them, therein they do well ;
the Moon performs it in feven and twenty Days,
the Sun, Venus and Mercury in a Year or thereabout,
Mars in three Years, Jupiter in twelve, and Saturn
in thirty. But to attribute to thefe celeftial Bo-
dies contrary Motions at once, is an abfurd Con-
ceit, and much more to imagine, that the fame
Orb wherein the fixed Stars are, whofe natural
Courfe takes up fo many thoufands of Years,
fhould be turned about every twenty-four Hours.
I will not go fo far as Copernicus, who makes the
Sun the Center of the Earth and immoveable, nei-
ther will I be pofitive in any Thing, only this I
fay, allow the Earth its Motion, which thefe Eyes
of mine can teftify to be true, and all thofe Ab-
furdities are removed, every one having only his
own fingle and proper Motion.

But where ami? I promifed an Hiftory, and
am unawares turned Difputer. One Accident more
befell me worth mentioning, that during my Stay
I faw a kind of a reddifh Cloud coming toward

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me, and continually approaching nearer, which at
Jail I perceived was nothing but a huge Swarm
of Locufts. He that reads the Difcourfes of learn-
ed Men concerning them, as John Leo of Africa,
and others who relate that they are feen in the Air
feveral Days before they fall on the Earth, and adds
thereto this Experience of mine, will eafily con-
clude, that they can come from no other Place
than the Globe of the Moon. But now give me
leave to go on quietly in my Journey for eleven or
twelve Days, during all which Time I was carried
directly toward the Globe or Body of the Moon,
with iuch a violent Whirling as is inexprefiible,
for I cannot imagine a Bullet out of a Cannon
could make Way through the vaporous and mud-
dy Air near the Earth with half that Celerity ;
which is the more ftrange, fmce my G an/as mo-
ved their Wings but now and then, and fome-
times for a quarter of an Hour not at all, only
holding them (tretched out, as we fee Kites, and
Eagles fometimes do for a fhort Space ; during
which Paufes, I fuppofe they took their Naps, and
Times of Sleeping, for other Times I could per-
ceive they never had any •, for myfelf I was fo faf-
tened to mine Engine, that I durft (lumber enough
to ferve my Turn, which I took with as great
Eafe, as if I had lain on the bed Down-bcd in
Spain.

After eleven Days PafTage in this violent Flight,
I perceived we began to approach to another Earth
(if I may fo call it) being the Globe or very Bo-
dy of that Star which we call the Moon. The firft
Difference I found between this and our Earth was,
that it appeared in its natural Colours, as foon as
ever I was free from the Attraction of the Earth ;
whereas with us, a Thing a League or two from
us, puts on that deadly Colour of Blue. I then

perceived

Of Domingo Gonsales. 27

perceived alio that this World was the greateft
Part covered with a huge mighty Sea, thofe Parts
oniy being dry Land which are to us fomewhat
darker than the reft of her Body, I mean, what
the Country People call, The Man in the Moon,
and that Part which mines fo bright is another O-
cean befprinkled with Iflands, which for their
Smallnefs we cannot difcern fo far off-, fo that the
Splendor which appears to us in the Night, is no-
thing but the Reflection of the Sun-beams return-
ed to us out of the Water as from a Lookinglafs.
'How much this difagrees with what our Philofo-
phers teach in the Schools is evident : But alas, how
many of their Errors hath Time and Experience
in this our Age, and among other vain Conjec-
tures, who hath not hitherto believed the upper
Region of the Air to be very hot ; as being next,
forlboth, to the natural Place of the Element of
Fire ; meer Vanities, Fancies and Dreams : For
after I was once free from the attractive Beams
of that tyrannous Load-ftone the Earth, I found
the Air altogether ferene, without Winds, Rain,
Mills or Clouds, neither hot nor cold, but con-
ftantly pleafant, calm and comfortable, till my Ar-
rival in that New World of the Moon% as for that
Region of Fire, our Philofophers talk of, I heard
no News of it, mine Eyes have fufEciently inform-
ed me there is no fuch Thing.

The Earth had now by turning about (hewed
me all her Parts twelve Times, when I finilhed my
Courfe ; for when my Reckoning it feemed to be
(as indeed it was) Tuejday, September 1 1, at which
Time the Moon being two Days old was in the
twentieth Degree of Libra) my Ganfas feemed by
one Confent to ftay their Courfe, and refted for
certain Hours, after which they took their Flight,
and in lefs than an Hour fet me on the Top of an
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high Hill in that Other Worlds where many won-
derful Things were prefented to my Sight. For I
oblerved firft, that though the Globe of the Earth
appeared much greater there than the Moon doth
to us even three Times bigger, yet all Things
there were ten, twenty, yea thirty Times larger
than ours ; their Trees were thrice as high,
and above five Times broader and •• thicker •, ib
were their Herbs, Birds, and Beafts, though I
cannot well compare them to ours, becaufe I round
not any kind of Bead or Bird there which any
way reiembled ours, except Swallows, Nightin-
gales, Cuckoos, Woodcocks, Batts, and fome
kind of Wild Fowl : And likewife fuch Birds as
my Ganfas, all which, as I now perceived, fpend
their Time in their Ablence from us, in that
World, neither do they differ in any Thing from
ours, but are the very fame kind.

No fooner was I upon the Ground, but I found
rnyfelf extreme hungry •, ftepping then to the next
Tree, I fattened my Engine and Ganzas thereto,
and in great Hafte fell to examining my Pockets
for the Victuals I had referved there •, but to my
great Sut prize and Vexation, inftead of Partridges
and Capons, which I thought I had hoarded there,
I found nothing but a Medley of dry Leaves,
Goats Hair, Sheep or Goats Dung, Mofs, and
the like ; my Canary-wine was turned, and ftunk
Hlce Horfe-pifs: O the Villainy and Cheats of
thefe curfed Spirits, whofe Afliftance if I had de-
pended on, in what a Condition had I been !
While I ftood mufing at this ftrange Matamor-
phofis, on a fudden I heard my Ganfas fluttering
behind me, and looking back, I fpied them fall-
ing greedily upon a Snrub within the Reach of
their Lines, whofe Leaves they fed earneftly upon,
whereas before I had never feen them eat any

green

Of Domingo Gonsales. 29.

green Thing whatever; fo ftepping to the Shrub*
I put a Leaf to my Mouth ; the Tafte was fo ex-
cellent, that I cannot exprefs it, and if I had not
with Difcretion moderated my Appetite, I mould
have furfeited thereon ; yet it happened to be a
good Bair both for me and my Birds, when we
had raoft Need of Refrefhment.

Scarce had we ended our Banquet, when I faw
myfelf furrounded with a ftrange kind of People
both in Feature, Manners, and Apparel ; their
Stature was very different, but trfty were general-
ly twice as high as ours ; their Shape and Counte-
nance pleafant, and their Habit hardly to be def-
cribed ; for I never faw either Cloth, Silk, nor
other Stuff, like that whereof their Cloths were
made; neither can I poflibly relate their Colour,
they being in a manner all cloathed alike ; it was
neither Black, White, Yellow, Red nor Blue, nor
any Colour compoled of thefe : If you afk what
was it then ? I muft tell you, it was a Colour ne-
ver feen in our earthly World, and fo neither to
be defcribed nor conceived by us ; for as it is hard
to make a Man born blind underftand the Diffe-
rence between Green and Blue, fo neither can I
decvpher this Moon-colour, as having no Affinity
with any I ever beheld ; I can only fay it was the
moil glorious and delightful that can be imagined,
neither was any Thing more pleafant to me during
my Stay there.

Being furprized at the Appearance of thefe Peo-
ple fo fuddenly and in fuch Accoutrements, I crof-
fed myfelf, and cried our, Jefu Maria : No foon-
er was the Word Jefu pronounced, but Young
and Old fell all on their Knees ('whereat I not a
little rejoiced) holding up their Hands on high-,
and repeating certain Words which 1 underftood
not ; and j relendy rifing again, one much taller
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than the reft came and kindly embraced me, and
ordering, as I perceived, fome of the reft to at-
tend my Birds, he took me by the Hand, and led
me to his Dwelling, down toward the Foot of the
Hiil, which was a Building fo great and beautiful,
as nothing in our "World is comparable thereto ;
yet afterward I faw fuch as this feemed but a Cot-
tage in refpect of them •, there was no Door a-
bout the Houfe lefs than thirty Foot high, and
twelve broad, the Rooms were forty or fifty Foot
in Height, and anfwerable in Proportion ; neither
could they be much lefs, the Matter thereof being
full twenty-eight high, and I fuppoie his Body
would weigh twenty-five or thirty of ours : After
I had relied with him about one of our Days, he
led me five Leagues off to the Palace of the Prince
of the Country, the Statelinefs whereof I have
not now Leifure to defcribe •, this Prince was much
taller than the former, and called (as near as I can
by Letters declare it, for their Sounds are not
perfectly to be exprefTed by our Characters) Pyio-
nas% which in their Language is Firjl or Chief, if it
doth not rather denote his Authority and Digni-
ty, as being the Principal Man in all thofe Parts ;
though yet there is one Supreme Monarch amongft
them, much greater of Stature than he, com-
manding over all that whole World, having under
him twenty-nine other Princes of great Power;
and every one of rhefe has twenty-four inferior Go-
vernors, whereof this Pjknas was one. The firft
Anceftor of this great Monarch came out of the
Earth, as they relate, and by marrying the Hei-
refs of that vaft Monarchy obtaining the Govern-
ment, left it to his Pofterity, who have enjoyed
it ever fince, even forty thoufand Moons, which
is 3077 Years : His Name was Irdonoxur, whofe
Heirs to this Day afiume the fame Name \ he, they

fay,

Of Domingo Gonsales. 31

fay, having continued there about four hundred
Moons, and begot divers Children, returned
(though by what Means they know not) to the
Earth again. I doubt they have their Fables as
well as we, fince our Hiftorians never mention
any earthly Man to have been in that World be-
fore myielf, and much lefs to have returned again.
I cannot therefore but condemn this Tradition as
falfe and romantick, though I found Learning was
in great Efteem among them, and they feem to
deteft Lying and Falfhood, which is there fev&rely
punifhed, and which may yield fome Credit to
their hittorical Narrations. Many of them live
wonderful long, even beyond Belief, affirming to
me, that fome furvived thirry thoufand Moons,
■which is above a thoufand Years, fothat the Ages
of three or four Men might eaOly reach to the
Time of the firft Irdonozur, and this is generally
noted, that the taller People are of Stature, the
more excellent are their Endowments of. Mind,
and the longer Time they live ; for their Stature
is very different, great Numbers not much exceed-
ing ours, who feldom live above a thottfthd Moons,
which is fourfcore of our Years i thefe they account
bafe, unworthy Creatures, but on»e Degree above
brute Beafts, and employ in mean and fervile Of-
fices, calling them Baftards,. Counterfeits or
Changlings : Thofe whom they account true Na-
tural Lunars or Moon Men* exceed ours generally
thirty Times, both in Quantity of Body, and
Length of Life, proportionable to the Quality of
the Day in both Worlds, theirs containing almoll
thirty of our Days.

The manner of our Travel to the Palace of Pylo-
nas was more ftrange and incredible than anything
we have related, for at our firft fetting forth there
were delivered to each of us two Feather Fans,

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like thofe our Ladies in Spain cool themfelves with
in Summer: You muft understand, that the Globe
of the Moon has likewife an attractive Power, yet
fo much weaker than the Earth, that if a Man do
but ipring upward with all his Strength, as Dan-
cers do in (hewing their Tricks, he will be able to
mount fifty or fixcy Foot high; and being then
above all Attraction from the Moon's Earth, he
falls down no more, but by the Help of thefe Fans,
as with Wings, they convey themfelves in the Air
in a fhort Space, (though not quite fo fwift as BirdsN.
whither they pleaie. In two hours Time (as I
could guefs) by the Help of thefe Fans, we were
carried through the Air thofe five Leagues, in all
about fixty Perfons. Being arrived at the Palace
of Pylonas, after our Conductor had declared what
manner of Prefent he had brought, J was called
in to him by his Attendants: By the Statelinefs of
his Palace, and the Reverence done him, I foon
perceived his Greatnefs, and managed my Affairs
in order to procure his Favour accordingly ; and
having, as you may remember, a certain little Box
or Cafket of Jewels, the Remainder of thofe I
brought from the Eafi- Indies, before I was intro-
duced I fecretly took them out of my Pocket, and
chufing fome of each fort, I made them ready to
be prefented as I mould think convenient.

I found him fitting in a magnificent Chair of
State, with his Wife or Queen on one Hand, and
his Eldeit Son on the other, one attended by a
Troop of Ladies, and the other of young Men,
and all along the Side of the Room ftood a great
Number of handfome Perfonages, whereof fcarce
one was lower of Stature than Pylonas, whofe Age
they report is now one and twenty thoufand Moons.
At my Entrance I fell on my Knees, and taking
out my Jewels, I prefented to the King kvtn

Stones

Of Domingo Gonsales." 33

Stones of feveral Sorts, a Diamond, a Ruby, an
Emerald, a Saphire, a Topaz and an Opal, which
he accepted with Joy and Admiration-. Then I
offered the Queen and Prince fome others, and de-
figned to have bellowed divers more upon his At-
tendants-, but Pylonas forbid them to accept any,
fuppofing, as I heard, they were all I had, which,
he would have me referve for Irdonozur his Sove-
reign : He then embraced me with much Endeared-
nets, and enquired divers Things by Signs, which
I anfwered in the fame manner to the belt of my
Skill; which not contenting him, he delivered
me to the Guard of 100 of his Giants as I may well
call them, ftrictly charging them, that I mould
want nothing fit for me ; that they mould fuffcr
none of the Dwarf Lunars, or little Moon Men> to
come near me. That I fliould be instructed in
their Language, and laftly, that they mould by no
Means impart to me the Knowledge of feveral
Things by him fpecified, what they were 1 could
never understand. It may be you long to know
what Pylonas enquired of me : Why, what fliould
it be but, whence I came, how I arrived there,
what was my Name and Bufinefs, with the like \
to all which I anfwered as near the Truth as pof-
fible.

Being difmift, I was provided with all Necef-
faries as my Heart could wifh, fo- that I feemed
to be in a Paradife, the Pleafures whereof did not
yet fo tranfport me, but I was much concerned with
the Thoughts of my Wife and Children, and (till
retaining fome Hope that I might again return to
them •, I tended my Ganfas daily with much Care j
which yet had fignified little, if other Men had not
done more than I could : For now the Time came
when of Neceflity all People of our Stature, and
myfelf likewife, muft needs deep thirteen or four-
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34 The Voyage and Adventures

teen whole Days together ; for by a Secret and irre-
fiftible Decree of Nature, when the Day begins to ap-
pear, and the Moon to be enlightened by the Sun
Beams, which is in the firft Quarter of the Moon,
all People of our Stature inhabiting thefe Parts fall
into a dead Sleep, and are not poflibly to be awak-
ened till the Sun fet, and is withdrawn ; for as
Owls and Bats with us cannot endure the Light, fo
at the firft Approach of Day we begin to be amazed
therewith, and fall into a Slumber, which grows
by Degrees into a dead Sleep till the Light be gone,
which is in fourteen or fifteen Days, that is till the
laft Quarter. During the Sun's Abfence, there is
a twofold Light, one of the Sun, which I could not
endure to behold, and another of the Earth : Now
that of the Earth was at the Height, for when the
Moon is at the Change, then is the Earth a full Moon
to them, and as the Moon increafeth with us, fo the
Light of the Earth decreafeth with them. I found
the" Light, though the Sun was abfent, eqjal to
that with us in the Day when the Sun is clouded ;
but toward the Quarter it daily diminilheth, yet
leaving ftill a competent Light, which feems very
ftrange ; though not fo remarkable as what they
there report, that in the other Hemifphere of the
Moon, contrary to that 1 fell upon, where during
half the Moon they fee not the Sun, and the Earth
never appears to them, they have yet a kind of
Light, not unlike our Moon-Light, which it.
feems the Nearnefs of the Stars, and other Planets
that are at a far lefs Diftance than from us, affords
them.

You muft underftand, that of the true Lunars or
Moon Men there are three Kinds, fome a little tal-
ler than we, as perhaps ten or twelve Foot high,
thefe can endure the Day of the Moon, when the
Earth fliines but little, but not the Beams of

both,

Of Domingo Gonsales. %$

both, and fo then muft be laid afleep : Others are
twenty Foot high or above, who can fuffcr all the
Light both of the Earth and bun. There are in a
certain Ifland (the Myfteries whereof are carefully
concealed ; Men whofe Stature is at lead twenty-
feven Foot high : If any other come to land there
in the Moon's Day time, they inftantly fall afleep :
This is called Injula Martini, and hath a particular
Governor, who as they report is fixty five thoufand
Moons old, which makes five thoufand of our
Years ; His Name is faid to be Hiruchy and he in
a manner commands lrdonozur himfelf, efpecially
in that Ifland out of which he never removes:
There is another comes often thither, who they fay
is not above half his Age, that is about thirty-three
thoufand Moons, or two thoufand fix hundred of
our Years, ahd he orders all Things through the
Globe of the Moon in Matters or Religion, as ab-
folutely as the Pope doth in any Part of Italy ; I
would fain have feen this Man, but was not per-
mitted to come near him, his Name is lmozes.

Now let me fettle myfelf to a long Night's Sleep,
to which End my Attendants take Charge of my
Birds, prepare my Lodging, and fignify to me by
Signs how I muft order myfelf. It was then about
the Middle ot September, when I perceived the Air
more clear than ordinary, and with the Increafe of
the Light I began to feel myfelf firft dull and then
heavy toSleep, thoughl hadnot been lately difturbed
of my Reft : At length I delivered myfelf into the
Cuftody of this Sifter of Death, whofe Prifbner I
was for almoft a Fortnight after, and then awak-
ing, it is not to be believed how brilk and vigorous
I found the Faculties both of my Body and Mind j
I then applied myfelf to learning the Language,
which is the fame throughout all the Regions of
the Moon, yet not lb wonderful, fince I believe all
F the

36 'The Voyage and Adventures •

the Earth of the Moon does not amount to the
fortieth Part of our inhabited Earth, partly be-
caufe the Globe of the Moon is far lefs, and be-
fides the Sea or Ocean covers very nigh- three Parts
of four, whereas the Land and Sea in our World
may be judged of an equal Meafure. Their Lan-
guage is very difficult, fince it hath no Affinity
with any other I ever heard, and confifts not \'o much
of Words and Letters, as Tunes and ftrange Sounds
which no Letters can exprefs, for there are few
Words but fignify feveral Things, and are diftin-
guifhed only by their Sounds, which arefung as it
were in uttering; yea many Words confift of i'unes
only, without Words : By Occafion whereof I find
a Language may be framed, and eafily learned, as
copious as any other in the World only of Tunes,
which is an Experiment worth fearching after:
Notwithrtanding thefe Difficulties, within two
Months I attained tofuch Knowledge therein, that
I underftbou mod Queftions demanded of me, and
with Signs and Words made reafonable Shift to ut-
ter my Mind ; which Pylonas having Notice of, he
oft-times fent for me, and was pleafed to inform me
of many Things my Guardians durft not difclofe,
though I muft needs fay I never found they abufed
me with an Untruth, but if I afked a Queftion
they were unwilling to refolve, they would fhake
their Heads, and with a Spanijh Shrug divert to
fome other Difcourfe.

After feven Months Time the great lrdonozur,
making his Progrefs to a Place about two hundred
Leagues from the Palace of Pylonas, fent for me,
yet would not admit me into his Prefence, but dif-
courfed me throngh a Window, where I might hear
him, and he hear and fee me at Pieafure. I pre-
fented him the Remainder of my Jewels, which he
thankfully accepted, faying, he would requite them

with

Of Domingo Gonsales.: $7

frith Gifts of a far more confiderable Value. I
flayed there above a Quarter of a Moon, when I
was again fent back to Pylonas, for if we had ftayed
a Day or two longer the Sun would have overtaken
us before we could have recovered our Home.
The Gifts he beftowed on me were fuch, that a Man
would part with Mountains of Gold to purchafe ;
they were all Stones, nine only in Number, of three
Sorts, one called Poleajiis, another Machrus, and
the third Ebelus, of each Sort three; the firft are
about the Bignefs of an Hazle-nut, very like Jet,
which among many other incredible Virtues hath
this Property, that being once put in the Fire they
ever after retain their Heat, though without any
outward Appearance, till quenched with fome kind
of Liquor, which no way endamages them, though
heated and cooled therein a thouland Times •, their
Heat is fo vehement, that it will make any Metal
within a Foot of it red hot, and being in a Chim-
ney warms the Room as if a great Fire were kindled
therein. The Machrus is yet more precious, in
Colour like a Topaz, fo clear and refplendent, as
though not above the Bignefs of a Bean, yet being
placed in the Night in the midft of a large Church,
it makes all as light as if an hundred Lamps were
hanged round •, can any Man wifh for more ufeful
Properties in a Stone than thefe ? Yet my Ebelus
is fo excellent, that it may be much preferred before
them, yea prized above all the Diamonds, Sap-
phires, Rubies, and Emeralds that our World can
afford. The Lunar Colour is fo exceeding beautiful,
that a Man would travel a thoufand Leagues to
behold it, the Shape is fomewhat flat, of the
Breadth of a Piece of Eight, and twice the Thick-
nefs, one Side is of a more orient Colour than the
other, which being clapt to a Man's bare Skin,
takes away all the Weight and Ponderoufnefsof his
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38 The Voyage and Adventures

Body, but turning the other Side, it adds Force to
the attractive Beams of the Earth either in this
World or that, and makes the Body halt as heavy
again: Do you wonder now, vvhy I fhoul>i fo over-
prize this Stone? Before you lee me on Earth again,
you will find I have Reafon to value this invaluable
Jewel. 1 enquired, whether thev had not any kind
of Jem, or other Means to make a Man invifible,
which I judged a Thing or admirable Ufe, and
could mention divers of our learned Men who had
written to this Purpofe •, they anfwered, that if
it were pofiible, yet they were fure Heaven would
not fufrer it to be revealed to us Creatures fubject
to fo many I m perfections, and which might be
eafily abukd to ill Purpofes, and this was all I could
get of them.

Now after it was known that lrdonozur the great
Monarch had done me this Honour, it is ftrange
how much all refpeded me more than before ; my
Guardians, who had been hitherto cautious in re-
lating any thing of the Government of that World,
grew now more open, fo that from them and Pylo-
nas together I underftood many notable Particu-
lars ; as that in a thouland Years there is found
neither Thief nor Whore-monger, for firft there
is no want of any thing neceffary for the Ufe of
Man, Food growing every where without Labour,
of all Sorts that can be defired. As for Cloths,
Houfes, or whatever elfe a Man may be fuppofed
to want, it is provided by their Superiors, though
not without fome Labour, but yet fo eafy as if
they did it for Plealure : Again, their Females are
all abfclute Beauties, and by a fecret Difpofition of
Nature, a Man there having once known a Wo-
man never deiires any othet : Murther was never
heard of amongft them, neither is it hardly pof-
fible to be committed, for there can be no Wound

made

Of Domingo Gonsales. 39

made but what is curable -, yea they affured me,
and for my Part I believe it, that though a Man's
Head be cut off, yet if within three Moons ir be
joined to the Cat cafe again, and the Juice of a cer-
tain Herb there growing applied, it vv ill be fo con-
iblidated, as the wounded Party (hall be perfectly
cured. But the chief Caufe of their good Govern-
ment is an excellent Difpofition in the Nature of
the People, fo that all both Old and Young ha e
all manner of Vice, and live in fuch Love, Peace,
and Amity, as it feems to be another Paradife :
Though it is true likewife that fome are of a better
Difpofition than others, which they difcern imme-
diately at their Birth •, and becaufe ir i<; an inviolable
Law amongft them that none mail be put to Death ;
thereiore perceiving by their Stature or fome other
Signs, who are like to be of a wicked and debauched
Humour, they lend them, I know not by what
Means, into the Earth, and change them for other
Children, before they have either Opportunity or
Ability to do a mils among them ; but firft, they
fay, they are fain to keep them there for fome
Time, till the Air of the Earth alters their Colour
like ours. Their ordinary Vent for them is. a cer-
tain high Hill in the North of America, whole
People, I am apt to believe, are wholly defcended
from them, both in regard of their Colour, and
their continual ufe of Tobacco, which the Lunars
or Moon Men fmoak exceedingly, the Place abound-
ing much with Moifture, together with the Plea-
fure they take therein, and fome other Refpects too
long to rehearfe: Sometimes, though but feldom,
they miftake their Aim, and fall upon Europe* Afia%
or Africa. I remember fome Years fince I read
certain Stories tending to confirm what is related by
thefe Lunars, and efpeciaily one Chapter of Neu-
brigenfis. Inigo Mondejar, in his Defcription or No-
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va Granata. Alfo Jofeph Defia de Caranay in bfo
Hiltory of Mexico, if my Memory fail not, recount
what will make my Report more creditable ; but [
value not Teftimonies.

If you enquire how Juftice is executed, alas, what
need is there of examplary Punifhment where no
Offences are committed •, neither need they any
Lawyers, for there is no Contention, the Seeds
whereof, when they begin to fprout, are by the
Wifdom of the next Superior pluckt up by the
Roots. And as little Want is there of Phyilcians,
they never furfeit themfelves ; the Air is always
pure and temperate, neither is there any Caufe of
Sicknefs, I could never hear of any that were dif-
tempered. But the Time afiigned them by Nature
being fpent, they die without the lead Pain, or
rather ceafe to live, as a Candle does to give Light
when what nourifhes it is confumed. I was once
at the Departure of one of them, and was much
furprized, that notwithstanding the happy Life he
lived, and the Multitude of Friends and Children
he mould forfake, yet as foon as he underftood his
End to approach, he prepared a great Feaft, and
inviting all whom " he efteemed, exhorts them,
" to be merry and rejoice with him, fince the
" Time was come he mould now leave the coun-
" terfeit Pleafures of that World, and be made
" Partaker of all true Joy and perfect Happinefs."
I did not fo much admire his own Conftancy, as
the Behaviour of his Friends : With us in the like
Cafe all feem to mourn, when many of them do
oft but laugh in their Sleeves, or under a Vizard.
But here all both Young and Old did, in my Con-
fidence, not pretendedly, but really rejoice thereat,
and if any diflembled, it was only Grief for their
own particular Lofs. Being dead their Bodies pu-
trify not, and fo are not buried, but kept in certain.

Rooms

Of Domingo Gonsales. 41

Rooms appointed to that Purpofe, fo that moil of
them can (hew their Anceftors Bodies uncorrupt for
many Generations: There is never any Rain,
Wind, or change of Weather, never either Sum-
mer or Winter, but as it were a perpetual Spring,
yielding all Pleafure and Content, free from the
leaft Trouble or Annoyance i O my Wife and
Children, what Wrong have you done me to bereave
me of the Happinefs of that Place ! But it is no
great Matter, for by this Voyage I am iufficiently
allured, that when the Race of my mortal Life is
run, I mall attain a greater Happinefs elfewhere.

It was the ninth of September that I be^an to
afcend from the Pike of feneriff; twelve Days I
was upon my Voyage, and arrived in that Province
of the Moon called Simiri, Sept. 21. May 12, we
came to the Court of the great Irdonozur, and re-
turned back the 1 7th to the Palace of Pylonas, where
I continued till March 1601. When I earneftly
requefted Pylonas, as I had oft done before, to give
me Leave to depart, tho' with Hazard of my Life,
back into the Earth again. He difluaded me,'in-
fifting on the Danger of the Voyage, the Mifery of
that Place from whence I came, and the abundant
Happinels I now enjoyed ; but the Remembrance
of my Wife and Children, outweighed all thefe
Reafons, and to fay the Truth, I wa°s fo elated with
a Defire of the Glory I mould purchafe at my Re-
turn, as methought I deferved not the Name of a
Spaniard, if I would not hazard twenty Lives rather
than lofe the leaft Particle thereof. I replied I
had fo ftrong a Defire to fee my Children, that I
could not poflibly live any longer without goincr t0
them : He then requefted me to ftay one Year fond-
er •, I told him, I mult needs depart now or neve^r
my Birds began to droop for want of their ufual
Voyage, three were already dead, and if a few more

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failed, I -.vas deditute of all Poffibility of Return.
At length with much Sollicking I prevailed, having
fir It acquainted the great Iraonozur with my Inten-
tions, and perceiving by the often baying of my
Birds agreat Longing in them to be gone, 1 trimmed
up my Engine, and took my Leave of Pylonas, and
March 29, three Days after my waking from the
latt Moon's J >ight, I fattened myfelf to my Engine,
not forgetting to take the Jewels Irdonozur had
given me, with the Virtues and Ule whereof Py/o-
nas had acquainted me at large, wiih a fmall Quan-
tity of' Victuals, whereof afterward I had great Oc-
cafi n. A valt Multitude of People being prefent,
and among them Pyionas himfelf, after I had given
thorn all the laft Farewel, I let loofe the Reins to
my Birds, who with much Greedinejs taking Wing,
quickly carried me out of Sight •, it happened to me
as in my fiift PalTage, for I never felt either Hun-
ger or Third till I fell upon an high Mountain in
China, about five Leagues from the High and
Mighcy City oiPcquin. This Voyage was perform-
ed in leis than nine Days, neither heard 1 any News
of tfVfe airy Men I met with in my afcending -,
nothing dayed me in my Journey, whether becaufe
of the earned Defire of my Birds to return to the
Earth, having already miffed their Scafon, or that
the Attraction of the Earth was fo much dronger
than that of the Moon, and fo made it eafier, yet
fo it was. though I had three Birds lefs than before.
For the fird eight Days my Birds flew before me,
and I on the Engine was as it were drawn after ; but
the ninth Day, when 1 began to approach the
Cl uds, I perceived myfelf and Engine to fink to-
ward ihe Earth, and go before them. I was then
horribly afraid, lead my Birds unable to bear our
Weighr, being fo few,' fhould be condrained to
precipitate both me and themfelves headlong to the

Earths

Of Domingo Gonsa^s. 43

Earth, and thought it very neceflary to make ufe of
my Stone Ebelus, which I clapt to my bare Skin with-
in my Clothes, and inftantly I perceived my Birds
made way with greater Eafe than before, as Teeming
freed from a great Burthen, neither do I think
they could podibly have let me down fafely to the
Earth without that Help.

China is a Country fo populous, that I think
there is fcarce a Piece of Ground thrice a Man's
Length which is not carefully manured : I being
yet in the Air, fome of the Country People fpying
me came running by Troops, and feized me, woujd
needs carry me before a Magiftrate, and feeing no
other Remedy I yielded to them. But when I
tried to go I found myfelf fo light, that one Foot
being on the Ground I had much ado to kt down
?he other, which was by reafon my Ebelus took all
Weight away from my Body, therefore I pretended
a Defire of performing the Neceflities of Nature j
which being made known to them by Signs, for
they underftood not a Word of any Language I
could fpeak, they permitted me to go afide among
a few Bufhes, alluring themfelves it was impoilible
I fhould efcape from them ; being there, 1 remem-
bred Pylonas his Directions about the Ufe of my
Stones, and knit them up, with a few remaining
jewels, into an Handkerchief, all except the leaft
and worft Ebelus, -which I found Means to apply
in fuch Manner to my Body, that but the half or its
Side touched my Skin; this done I drew toward
my Guardians, till coming fo near that they could
not crofs my Way, I (hewed them a fair Pair of
Heels, that I might have Time to hide my Jewels,
which I knew they would have robbed me of if noc
prevented. Being thus lightened I led them fuch a
Dance, that had they been all upon the Backs of
fo many Race-Horfes they could never have over-

G jaken

44 fbc Voyage and Adventures

taken me •, I directed my Courfe to a thick Wood,
wherein I entered about a Quarter of a League, and
there finding a fine Spring, which I took for my
Mark, I thruft my Jewels into a Hole made by a
Mole hard by.

I then took my Victuals out of my Pocket, to
which till now in all my Voyage I had not the leaft
Appetite, and refrefhed myfelf therewith, till the
People who purfued overtook me, into whole Hands
1 quietly furrendered myfelf; they led me to an
inferior Officer, who underftanding that I efcaped
from thofe who firft apprehended me, caufed an
Inclofure of Boards to be made, wherein they pu:
me, fo that only my Head was at Liberty, and then
carried me upon the Shoulders of four Slaves, like
fome notorious Malefactor, before a Perfon of great
Authority, who in their Language I learnt, was
called a Mandarin, and refided a League off the
famous City of Pequin. I could not underftand
them, but found I was accufed for fomething with
much Vehemence, the Subftance of this Accufation
it feems was, that I was a Magician, as appeared by
my being fo (Irangely carried in the Air, and that
being a Stranger, as both my Language and Habic
did declare, I contrary to the Laws of China had
entered the Kingdom without a Warrant, and pro-
bably for no good Intent. The Mandarin heard
them with a great deal of Gravity, and being a
Man of quick Apprehenfion, and ftudious of No-
velties, he told them he would take fuch Order as
the Cafe required, and my bold Attempt mould
not go unpuniflied : Having difmift them, he or-
dered his Servants I mould be kept in a remote Part
of his vaft Palace, be ftrictly guarded, and kindly
ufed ; this I conjecture by my Treatment, and what
followed, for my Accommodation was much bet-
ter than I could expect, I lodged well, eat well,

W°3

Of Domingo Gonsales* 45

was well attended, and could complain of nothing
but my Reftraint; Thus continued I many Months*,
afflicted more with the Thoughts of my G an/as than,
any Thing elfe, who I knew muft be irrecoverably
loit, as indeed they were.

In this Time by my own Induftry, and the Af-
fiftance of thofe who accompanied me, I learnt to
fpeak indifferently the Language of that Province,
(for almoft every Province in China hath its pro-
per Tongue) whereat I perceived they were much
pleafed : At length I was permitted to take the
Air, and brought into the fpacious Garden of that
Palace, a Place of extraordinary Pleafure and De-
light, adorned with Herbs and Flowers of admi-
ble Sweetnefs and Beauty, with almoft infinite Va-
riety of Fruits, European and others, all compofed
with that rare Curiofity, as even ravifhed my Senfes
in the Contemplation of fuch delightful Objects; I
had not long recreated myfelf here, when thz Man-
darin entered the Garden on that Side I was walk-
ing, of which having Notice by his Servants, and
that I ought to kneel to him (a ufual Reverence I
found toward great Officers) I did fo, and humbly
intreated his Favour toward a poor Stranger, who
arrived in thefe Parts not defignedly, but by the fe-
cret Difpofal of the Heavens •, he anfwered in a
different Language which I hear all the Mandarins
ufe, and like that of the Lunars confiding chiefly of
Tunes, which was interpreted by one of his At-
tendants, wifhing me to be of good Comfort, fince
he intended no Harm to me. Next Day I was or-
dered to come before him, and being conducted
into a noble Dining-room exquifitely painted, the
Mandarin commanding all to avoid, vouchfafed to
confer with me in the vulvar Language, enquiring
into the State of my Country, the Power of my
Prince, and the Religion and Manners of the Peo-
, G 2 pie i.

46" The Voyage and Adventures

pie-, wherein having fatisfied him, he afked rnc
about my Education, and what brought me into
this remote Country •, I then declared to him the
Adventures of my Life, omitting what I thought
convenient, and efpecially forbearing to mention
the Stones given me by Irdonozur.

The Strangenefs of my Story did much amaze
him, and finding in all my Difcourfe nothing tend-
ing to Magick, wherein he hoped by my Means to
be inftructed, he began to admire the Excellency of
my Wit, applauding me for the happieft Man
that this World ever faw, and wiming me to re-
pofe myfelf after my long Narration, he for that
Time difmifTed me. Alter which the Mandarin
took fo much Delight in me, that no Day parTed
wherein he did not fend for me : At length he ad-
viied me to cloath myfelf in the Habit of that Coun-
try, which i willingly did, and gave me not only
the Liberty of his Houfe, but took me aifo with
him when he went to Pequin, whereby I had Op-
portunity to learn the Pifpofition of the People,
and the Policy of the Country, neither did I by my
Attendance on him, gain only the Knowledge of
thefe Thing?, but the Poffibility likewife of being
refioi ed to my native Soil, and to thofe dear Pledges
which I value above the World, even my Wife
and Children : For by often frequenting Peqitin, I
at length heard of fome Fathers of the Society of
Jefus, who were become famous for their extraor-
dinary Favour with the King, to whom rhey had
prelented fome European, as Clocks, Watches,
Dials, and the like, which by them were counted
exquifite Curiofities. To thefe by the Mandarin's
Leave I repaired, and was welcomed by them, they
much wondering to fee a Lay Spaniard there, whi-
ther they had with fo much Diiiiculty obtained
I .vavt to arrive. There did I relate to Father Pen-

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Of Domingo Gonsales. 47

toja and others of the Society the forementioned
Adventures, by whofe Directions I put them in
"Writing, and ient this Story of my Fortunes to
Mac&a, from thence to be conveyed to Spain, as a
Forerunner of my Return; and the Mandarin being
indulgent to me, I came often to the Fathers, with
whom I confulted about many Secrets, and with them
alfo laid the Foundation of my Return, the bleffed
Hour whereof I do with Patience expect, that by
enriching my Country with the Knowledge of thefe
hidden Myfteries, I may at laft reap the Glory of
my fortunate Misfortunes.

A Journey of fever al Englim Merchants from Ora-
tava in TenerifF, one of the Canary Iflands on the
Coafi 0/ Africa, to the top of the Pike in that
Jflandy with the Obfervations they made there.

MEntion being made in the preceding Story
of the Pike of Teneriff, it may be fome Di-
version to infert the following little Journey per-
formed by divers Engliflomen a few Years fince to
the Top, who publilhed the following Account
thereof.

The Pike of Tenerijf'is thought not to have its
Equal in the World tor Height, its Top being fo
much above the Clouds, that in clear Weather it
may be feen fixty Dutch Leagues at Sea.

It cannot be afcended but in July and Augufty
lying all the other Months covered with Snow,
though upon this and the near adjacent Iflands
none is to be feen : It requires three Days travel
to come to the top : The Merchants and other
worthy Perfons who undertook this Journey pro-
ceed thus. Having furnifhed ourfelves with a Guide,
Servants, and Horfes to carry our Wine and Pro-

vifion,

48 The Voyage and Adventures

vifion, we let forth from Oratava, a Port Town in
the Ifland of Teneriff^ fituate on the North Side,
two Mile diftant from the main bea, and travelled
from twelve at Night till eight in the Morning, by
which 'lime we got to the Top of the firft Moun-
tain toward the Pico de Terraira ; there under a
very large and confpicuous Pine Tree we took our
Breakfaft, dined, and refrelht ourfeives till two in
the Afternoon. Then we p ;iTed through many
fandy Ways, over many Jofty Mountains, but
naked and bare, and not covered with Pine Trees
as our fir ft Night's Paflage was ; this expo Ted us
to exceflive Heat, till we arrived to the Foot of the
Pico, where we found divers huge Stones, which
feemed to have fallen from fome upper Part : About
fix in the Evening we began to afcend up the Pico,
but were fcarce advanced a Mile, when the Way
being no more paffable for Horfes, we left them
with our Servants. In the Afcent of one Mile, fome
of our Company grew very faint and fick, difor-
dered by Fluxes, Vomitings, and agueifh Diftem?
pers, our Horfes Hair (landing up like Bridles, and
calling for fome of our Wine carried in fmall Bar-
rels on an Horfe, we found it fb wonderfully cold,
that we could not drink it till we had made a Fire
to warm it, notwithftanding the Air was very calm
and moderate, but when the Sun was let, it began
to blow with fuch Violence, and grew fo cold,
that taking up our Lodging among the hollow
Rocks, we were neceffitated to keep Fires in the
Mouths of them all Night. .

About four in the Morning we began to mount
again, and being come another Mile up, one of
our Company failed and was able to proceed no
further : Here began the black Rocks ; the reft of
us purfued our Journey till we came to the Sugar
Loaf, where we began to travel again in a white

Sand,

0/ Domingo Gonsal£s; 49

Sand, being fitted with Shoes, whofe fingle Soles
are made a Finger broader than the upper Lea-
thers, to encounter this difficult PafTage : Having
afcended as far the black Rocks, which lay all flat
like, a plain Floor, we climbed within a Mile of
the very Top of the Pico, and at lad we attained
the Summit, where we found no fuch Smoak as
appeared a little below, but a continual Perfpira-
tion of a hot and fulphureous Vapour that made
our Faces extremely fore -, all this way we found
no confiderable Alteration of the Air, and very
little Wind, but on the Top it was fo impetuous,
that we had much ado to ftand againft it whilft we
drank K. Charles II. Health, and fired each of us a
Gun. Here alfo we took our Dinner, but found
that our ftrong Waters had loft their Virtue, and
were almoft infipid, while our Wine was more brifk
and fpirituous than before : The Top on which we
flood being not above a Yard broad, is the Brink of
a Pit called the Caldera, which we judged to be a
Mufket Shot over, and near fourfcore Yards deep, in
form of a Cone, hollow within like a Kettle, and
covered over with fmall loofe Stones mixed with
Sulphur and Sand, from among which iflued di-
vers Spiracles of Smoak and Heat, which being
ftirred with any Thing puffs and makes a Noife,
and is fo offenfive, that we were even fuffocated
with the fudden rifing of Vapors, upon removing
one of thefe Stones, which were fo hot as not ea^
fily to be handled ; we defcended not above four or
five Yards into the Caldera or Caldron, becaufe of
the Slipperinefs under Foot, and the Difficulty;
but fome have adventured to the Bottom : Other
Matters obfervable we difcovered none, befides a
clear fort of Sulphur which lay like Salt upon the
Stones : From this renowned Pico we could fee the
Grand Canaries fourteen Leagues, diftant, Palma
eighteen, and Gomera feven, which Interval of Sea

feemed

50 The Voyace and Adventures

feemed not much wider than the Thames about
London; we difcerned alfo the Herro, being di(tant
about twenty Leagues, and fo to the utmoit Limits
of the Sea much farther : As foon as the Sun ap-
peared, the Shadow of the Pico feemed to cover not
only the whole Ifland and the Grand Canaries, but
the Sea to the very Horizon, where the Top of
the Sugar -Loaf or Pico vifibly appeared to turn up,
and call its Shade into the Air itfelf, at which we
were much furprized.

But the Sun was not far afcended when the Clouds
began to rife fo fait, as intercepted our Profpecl
both of the Sea and the whole Ifland, except the
Tops only of the fubjacent Mountains, which feemed
to pierce them through ; whether thefe Clouds do
ever furmount the Pico we cannot fay, but to fuch
as are far below they leem fometimes to hang above
it, or rather wrap themfelves about it, constantly
when the Weft Winds blow; this they call the Cap,
and is an infallible Prognoftick of enluing Storms :
One of our Company who made this Journey again
two Years after, arriving at the Top of the Pico
before Day, and creeping under a great Stone to
fhroud himfelf from the cold Air, after a little
Space found himfelf all wet, and perceived it to
come from a perpetual trickling of trie Water from
the Rocks above him : Many excellent and exu-
berant Springs we found ifluing from the Tops of
mod of the other Mountains, gufhing out in great
Spouts, almoft as far as the huge Fine Tree we men-
tioned before ; having ftayed a while at the Top,
we all defcended the fandy Way till we came to
the Foot of the Sugar-Loaf, which being fteep even
almoft to a Perpendicular we foon paired, and here
we met with a Cave about ten Yards deep and fif-
teen broad, being in Shape like an Oven or Cu-
pola, having a Hole at the Top near eight Yards

over ;

Of DOMINGO Gonsales. 49

Over ; this we defcended by a Rope that our Ser-
vants held faft on the Top, while with the other
End being fattened about our Middles we fwung
ourfelves, till being over a Bank of Snow we Hid
down, lighting upon it •, we were forced to fwing
thus in the Defcent, becaufe in the Midft of the
Bottom of this Cave oppofite to the Overture at the
Top, is a round Pit of Water like a Well, the fur-
face whereof is about a Yard lower, but as wide
as the Mouth at Top, and about fix Fathom deep ;
we fuppofed this Water was not a Spring, but dif-
folved Snow blown in, or Water trickling through,
the Rocks ; about the Sides of the Grott for fome
Height there is Ice and Ificles hanging down to
the Snow.

But being quickly weary of this excefilve cold
Place, and drawn up again, we continued our
Defcent from the Mountains by the fame PaiTage
we went up the Day before, and fo about five in
the Evening arrived at Oratava, from whence we
let forth •, our Faces were fo red and fore that to cool
them we were forced to wafh and bathe them in
whites of Eggs : The whole Height of the Pico in.
Perpendicular is vulgarly efteemed to be two Miles
and an half. No Trees, Herbs nor Shrubs did we
find in all the PafTage, but Pines* and among the
whiter Sands a kind of Broom being a bufhy Plant :
It is the Opinion of fome ingenious Perfons who
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burnt, which appear all over this Ifland, efpecially
in the South-Weft Part of it, were cad up and
raifed out of the Bowels, of the Earth at the Time
of that general Conflagration •, and that the greateft
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Torrents and Rivers of it did with a fudden Erup-
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the Rocks; efpecially to the South- Weft, where
from the Top of the Pico to the Sea coaft lie huge
Heaps of thefe burnt Rocks one under another,
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