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A13665	The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike wherin is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrevve Theuet. And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.; Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique. English	Thevet, André, 1502-1590.; Hacket, Thomas, fl. 1560-1590.	1568 (1568)	STC 23950; ESTC S111418	200,763	298

néere to the North of the which we haue before shewed are peopled and inhabited although according to the saying of Herodita these hills are directly vnder the Pole The first that founde out the lande contayned vnder the two temperat zones to be inhabited as Plutarche writeth was Parmenides Many haue written that not onely the zone Torida may be inhabited but also wel peopled The which Aueroys proueth by the witnessing of Aristotle in the fourth Chapter of his booke intituled of the worlde and of the firmament Auicen in the like case in his second doctrine and Albertus Magnus in his sixte Chapter of the nature of Regions efforcing to proue by naturall reason that this zone is inhabited yea more profitable for our humaine life than those vnder the tropickes So that by this meanes we will conclude and say that it is better more commodious more wholesome for our humayne life than any others For euen as the colde is an enimie so in like case the heate is friendly to our bodies knowing that our life is nothing but heat and moysture to the contrary death is colde and drinesse By this therfore ye may knewe that all the earth is peopled and is neuer without dwellers neither for colde nor heate but for barennesse and whereas it is vnfruitfull it may be inhabited as I haue sene in Arabia and in other countreys Also man was created of God for that he might dwell and lyue in what parte of the worlde he woulde were it hote colde or temperate for he him selfe sayde to our first parentes Growe increase and multiplie The experience furthermore teacheth as many times we haue sayde howe large the worlde is and commendable to all creatures the which we may sée by the continuall Nauigations on the sea and by the long iourneys on the lande Of the multitude and diuers kindes of fishes being vnder this lyne Equinoctial Cap. 20. BEfore the departing out of our lyne I thinke it good to declare particularly of the fish that is found about seuen or eight leagues on this side and beyonde the lyne of diuers colours and such a multitude that it is not possible to number them or to heape them together the which are as a greate heape of corne in a barne And ye shall note that among these fishes many haue folowed our ships more than thrée hundreth leagues specially the Dorades of the which we will speake hereafter more at large The Marsouins or sea Hogs after that they had perceiued our ship from farre dyd swimme a mayne against vs the which gaue to the Mariners a certayne signe and forshewing of that parte from whence the winde ought to come for these Sea beastes say they will swimme against one and in a greate company as foure or fiue hundreth together This fish is named Marsouin of Marissus in Latine which is as much to say as a sea Hog bicause that he is like almoste to Hogs on the earth for he hath the lyke grunt or noyse and hath the snoute lyke the ende of a Canne and on the heade a certayne cundite or opening by the which he yaunneth or purgeth euen as the Whale The Mariners take many of them with certayne gynnes of Iron being sharpe and pointed at the ende and croked and they doe eate but little thereof hauing other better fish but the liuer and lights is very good delicate being bothe like and also in taste to a Hogs harscelet When they are taken drawing towarde their death they caste greate sighes as we sée our countrey Hogs do when they are let bloude The female bringeth but twoo at a tyme. It was therefore a wonderfull thing to sée this greate number of fish making a maruelous greate noyse without comparison the which some peraduenture wil thinke strange and vncredible but I will affirme it to be so for that I sawe it As I sayd before that there is fish found of al colours red as those whō they named Bonnites the others Azure like golde shining brighter than fine Azure as those named Dorades others gréene gray blacke Yet I will not say that out of the sea they shoulde kepe those colours Plinie rehearseth that in Spaine in a fountayne the fish are of the coloure of golde but out of the fountayne they are lyke to others the which may come of the colour of the water being so betwene our eye and the fishe euen as a glasse being of a gréene or blewe colour representeth the things that ar within of the same colour Now to retourn to our Dorade many as wel Ancients as others haue written of the nature of fishes but very homelie for that they haue not sene but hearde say and specially of the Dorade Aristotle writeth that she hath foure finnes two aboue and two vnder and that she maketh her yong ones in sommer y e female remayneth hyd a certaine time but he telleth not how long Plinie to my iudgement hath borowed or lerned this of Aristotle speaking of this fishe saying that she hideth hir self in the sea a certayne time but in passing further he hath defined this tyme to be when it is extreme hot for that it cannot endure so greate a heate There are founde great ones like Samons others that are lesser from the head to the tayle it hath a creste and all that parte coloured lyke fine Azure in such sorte that it is vnpossible to excogitate or thinke a more fayrer colour the inferior or lower parte shineth like fire golde and for this cause it was named Dorade also of Aristotle in his lāguage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the interpretors call Aurata and it is very fierce on the flying fish the which she foloweth and chaseth in the water as the hounde chaseth a haare in the fieldes for she liueth by pray casting hir selfe hye aboue water after this flying fish and if that she fayleth at one time she recouereth at another tyme. This fish folowed our shippes the space of seuen wekes without once forsaking of them yea night and day vntill that she founde the sea vnsauery or not for hir nature I knowe wel that this fish hath ben much celebrated and estemed in tymes paste among Noble men for that she is very delicate and pleasant to eat For we reade of Sergius that founde the meanes to haue one brought to Rome the which was serued at a bancket to the Emperour whereas it was meruelously estemed And since that tyme hath this fish Dorade bene greatly estemed among the Romaynes so that there was no sumptuous banket but that it was serued for a greate dayntie dish And whereas this fish is scant in sommer harde to come by Sergius the Senator founde the meanes to kepe it with foode aliue to the ende that this fish shoulde not fayle them in no season and for this curiositie it was named Aurata or golden fish This fish is in much better sauor in Winter

haue not vsed such forme and meane as the thing and your néedefull iudgement doeth deserue I beséech you to hold me excused considering that it is very harde for one man alone without the fauor and maintenance of some Prince or great Lord for to sayle and discouer far countries obseruing the things singular nor to execute greate enterprises although y t of him selfe he might And to my remembrance Aristotle agréeth well to this purpose that it is vnpossible and very harde that he should do any thing of great excellencie and worthy of prayse when the meane that is to say riches wanteth knowing that the life of man is shorte and subiect to a thousand fortunes and aduersities Of the streight aunciently named Calpe and now Gibaltary Cap. ij COasting Spaine on the lefte hand with a calme and fauorable winde we came ouer against Gibaltar not striking our sayle nor casting anker very nere for many causes In y t which place we stayed certaine dayes This streight is on the borders of Spaine deuiding Europe with Africa as Constantinople doeth Europe and Asia Many thinke this to be the originall of our sea Meditareum as if the great sea being to full shoulde by this place poure out vpon the earth of the which writeth Aristotle in his booke of the World in this maner the Occeā that of all sides doeth compasse vs toward the west neare to the columnes or pillers of Hercules doeth poure out by the earth into oure sea as in a porte or hauen by a narow straight neare to this straight are twoo Ilands neare one to the other inhabited with slaues and others the which labor to make salte and therefore there is good trade and traffike of these Ilandes the one is southwarde and the greatest made in maner of a triangle if that ye beholde it from far named by the elders Ebusus and by the modernesse Ieniza the other is towarde the north and named Frumentaria and for to saile thether it is very dangerous bicause of certayne rockes that are there with other inconueniences Furthermore there entereth diuerse nauigable Riuers that bringeth greate riches as one named Malue separating Mauritania frō Cesariensia another yet named Sala taking his spring in Mountayne Dure the which trauessing the Kingdome of Fes diuideth in forme of this Greke letter Δ and then runneth into this streight likewise of many others the which at this time I omit this much I will say by the way that this straight passeth ouer the coast of Afrike to the troppike of Cancer where as the sea doeth very little ebbe and flowe but in those partes so sone as one draweth néere to this greate floude Niger 11. degrées from the lyne the course of this Riuer is not perceiued In this straight of the sea Meditareum there be twoo Moūtaynes of a wonderful height one on the coste or side of Africa in tymes paste named Calpe and now Gibaltar the other Abyle the which both together are called the Colūnes or pillers of Hercules for that according to some writers he diuided them in twain that before was but one mountaine named Briarei and there retourning into Grecia by this straight finished and ended his labors esteming and thincking that he coulde passe no further bicause of the Amplitude and spreading of the sea which extended euen to his orizon end of his sight Others do affirme that the said Hercules for that he woulde leaue a memorial of his happie conquests caused ther to be erected two columnes or pillers of a meruelous height on the cost of Europe For the old ancient custome hath ben that the Noble great Lords did reare set vp a piller or columne in that place whereas they did finishe their voyages high enterprises or else at their toombes or sepulturs thereby to shew and manifest their might famous actes aboue others As we reade of Alexander which did leaue certaine markes in Asia the great wheras he had bene For the like cause the like was erected at Rhodes As much may be said of Mausolia numbred amōg the seuen wonders of the world made edified by Artemisia in the honour for the loue that she bare to hir husband the like of the Pyramides of Memphis vnder y t which are embalmed the Kings of Egypte Furthermore at the entrie of the great sea Iulius Caesar reared vp a hye piller of white marbell And for bicause that many haue bene of this name of Hercules we wil say with Arian y e Historiographer this Hercules to be he that the Tyriens haue celebrated for bicause that they haue edified Tartesse on the borders of Spaine whereas are the pillers of the which we haue spoken and there is consecrated to him a temple according to y e maner of the Phenicians with such sacrifices and ceremonies as was vsed in times paste Also it hath ben named the place of Hercules This straight at this day is the refuge and succor of theues pirates and rouers on the sea as Turkes Moores and Barbarians enimies of our Christian Religion who lurking and flotting there with their Galleys and barkes rob and spoyle marchāts that come to trade as well of Africa and Spayne as of Fraunce Englande and other places and that which is more to be lamented the captiuitie of diuers Christians whom they vse most cruelly yea worse than brute beastes in all their affaires beside the losse of soules in denying their Christendome bicause of their horrible and dreadful torments Of Africa generally Chapter .3 SAyling beyond this straight for that we had costed the countrey of Africa the space of eight dayes on the left hand euen right to the Cape of Canti being distant frō the Equinoctial .33 degrées we wil write therof generally Africa as Ptolomeus writeth is one of y e third parts of y e world or else the fourth according as certayne writers haue affirmed that haue writen sine tchat by nauigatiōs many countries in times past being vnknowē haue ben discouered as India America of the which we pretende to write named as Ioseph witnesseth Africa of Affer who as we reade in the Gréeke and Latine Histories for that he ouercame it raigned him self named it after his own name for before it was called Libia as some think of this Gréeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the which signifieth the South winde that there is frequented and familiar or of Lybs that raigned or else Africa hath ben named of this article A and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifieth colde and before called Hisperia As touching his lying it beginneth truely at the Weaste Atlantike and endeth in the straight of Arabia or at the sea of Egypte as Apian witnesseth as in like case in fewe woordes Aristotle doeth very well write Others make it to beginne at Nyll towardes the North at the sea Meditareum furthermore Africa hath bene called as Iosephus writeth in

water will they or not and by this meanes they are taken It is otherwise sayd that in the night they come out of the Sea seking their repast and after they are full and weary they fall a sléepe on the water neare to the shore wheras they are easily taken for they are heard how they snort in sléeping beside many other wayes and meanes which were to long to rehearse As touching their couer and shell I leaue you to iudge of what thicknesse it may be proportioned to his greatnesse Also in y e coast of the straight of Magelan and of the riuer of plate the Indians make thē shieldes which serue them for to receiue the blowes of arrowes of their enimies Likewise the Amazones on the coast of the peaceable Sea make their Bulwarkes when that they are assailed of the enimies And for my parte I may boldely say that I haue séene suche a shell of a Torterell that a hande gun could in no wise pierce We néede not to aske how many the Insulares or Ilande dwellers of Caape verde doe take and eate as we woulde doe héere Béefe or Mutton Also it is like to Veale and almost of the same taste The wilde man of India America will in no wise eate of them persuading with them selues that it would make them heauy as it is an heauy meat which wold be a great let or hinderaunce to them in the warres for that being heauy they cannot pursue lightly their enimies in the warre neither escape them selues To conclude I wil rehearse a Historie of a Gentleman Portingalls that was a Leper who for the great paine that he receiued of his disease séeking all the meanes he could to absent himselfe from his Countrey as one being in extreame dispaire after he had knowledge of the conquest of these faire Ilands by those of his countrey was bent for recreation to goe thither so that he prepared himselfe in the best order he coulde with ships men and artillery and beastes aliue specially Goates of the which they haue quantitie And in the ende he landed in one of the Ilandes who for the taste that his disease caused him to haue or for that he was weary of eating of fleshe the which they vse customably in their Countrey he had a desire to eate egges of Torterels the which he did for the space of two yeares in suche sorte that in the ende he was healed of his Leprosie Now I would gladly aske whether that by the temperatenesse of the aire he recouered his healthe which he had chaunged or the meate that he eate I thinke verily that bothe the one and the other was the cause As touching the Torterell Plinie who speaking as well for sustenaunce as for medicine maketh no mention that it should be good against the Leprosie Neuerthelesse he sayeth that it is good against many poysons specially against the Salmander by a Antipathia that is betwéene them two and mortall enmitie Whether that this beast hath any hid propertie against this euill I leaue to the Phylosophers and Physitions and so ye may sée that experience hath geuen the knowledge of many medicines Of the which none cā giue any certaine reason wherfore I wold that some wold proue the experience of these of our Countrey the which to my iudgement shold be more better more sure than Vipers so much commended in this affection and of which is cōposed and made the great Theriaque knowing that it is not sure to vse Vipers bicause of the poyson y t they bear what so euer they say the which thing was also firste known by experience It is also sayd that many vpon the example of this Portingall haue gone thither to whom it hath also wel succeded This much therfore shall suffice for Torterels and as for the Goates that this gētleman bare thither they haue there so well multiplied that at this present there are an infinite nūber some holde opinion that their original commeth from thence that before there was none séene Nowe there resteth to speake of an herbe that they name in their lāguage Orselie this herbe groweth on the tops of high and accessible rockes without any earthe of the which there is great aboundaunce and for to gather it they fasten ropes on these Mountaines or rockes then they clime vpwarde by the lower ende of this corde or rope and scraping the rocke with certaine instruments that they haue make it to fall as a chimney swéeper doeth the which they reserue and let it down by a rope in baskets or other vessels The vse of this herbe is for to make coloures as héere before we haue shewed Of the Ilande of Fire Cap. 15. AMong other secretes I wil not leaue out y e ile of fire so named for that it casteth cōtinually a flame of fire suche a one that if the elders had had thereof any knowledge they wold haue written it among other things aswel as of the Mountaine of Vesuue and of the hill Etna of the which for a truthe they rehearse maruels As touching Etna in Sicilie it hath cast the fire sometimes with a meruellous noise as in the time of Marcus Emilius T. Flaminus as writeth Orosa the which many other Historiographers doe affirme as Strabo the which affirmeth to haue séene it and diligently considered The which maketh me to beleue somewhat also in the respecte of these men that haue spoken thereof Also they are not so farre off but y t we may proue whether it be true or no. I know well that some of our writers would say that one of the Ilandes of Canaria casteth continually fire but let him take héede that he take not that of which we speake for the other Aristotle in his boke of maruels speaketh of an Ilande discouered by the Carthaginiens not inhabited which did cast flames of fire beside many other wonderfull things Notwithstanding I cannot thinke that they haue knowen this muche lesse the hill Etna for it was knowen before the raigne of the Carthaginiens As for the hil of Pussola it lieth on the maine land and if any one wil say otherwise I will notwithstand them as for my parte I cannot finde that euer it was found out but since a M. D. and .xxx. with others as well néere as farre There is also an other hill in Hirland named Hecla the which at certaine times casteth stones as thought they had come out of a fiery furnace so that the ground within .v. or .vj. leagues about is barren and vnprofitable bicause of the ashes that procéede out of this hill wherwith the ground is couered This Ilande of which we speake containeth vij leagues compasse by good right called the Ile of fire for the Mountaine hauing of Circuite .679 paces and of height a thousand and fiftie fadome or there about casteth continually fire at the top the which may be séene thirty or forty leagues on the sea much more clearer