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A35254	A view of the English acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies with an account of the religion, government, wars, strange customs, beasts, serpents, monsters, and other observables in those countries : together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their voyages to the Indies : intermixt with pleasant relations and enlivened with picture / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1686 (1686)	Wing C7356; ESTC R27846	109,445	213

was the Daughter of the Reverend and famous Lawyer Otho Perez de Sallaveda Governour of Barcellona and Corrigidor of Biscay I being the youngest of seventeen Children they had was put to School and designed by them to the Church But Heaven purposing to use my Service in matters of far another Nature and quality inspired me with spending some time in the Wars It was at the time that Don Ferrands the Noble and thrice renowned Duke D' Alva was sent into the Low Countreys in 1568. I then following the current of my desire leaving the University of Salamanca whither my Parents had sent me without giving notice to any of my dearest Friends got through France to Antwerp where in June 1569 I arrived but in a mean condition for having sold my Books Bedding and other things which yielded me about 30 Duckets and borrowed twenty more of my Fathers Friends I bought a little Nag wherewith I travelled more thriftily than usually young Gentlemen do till arriving within a League of Antwerp some of the cursed Geses set upon me and bereaved me of my Horse Money and all whereupon I was forc ' through want and necessity to enter into the Service of Marshal Cossey a French Nobleman whom I served truly in a very honourable imploy though mine Enemies to my disgrace affirm I was his Horse-keepers Boy But fot that matter I refer my self to Count Mansfield Monsieur Tavier and other Persons of Quality and condition who have often testified to many worthy men now living the very truth of the business which indeed was this Monsieur Cossey being about this time sent Ambassador to the Duke D' Alva Governour of the Low Countreys he understanding the Nobility of my Birth and my late misfortune judging it would be no small honour to him to have a Spaniard of that Quality about him furnished me with a Horse Armour and whatever I wanted using my Service in nothing so much after I had learned French as writing his Letters because my Hand was then very fair In time of War if upon necessity I sometime dressed my own Horse I ought not to be reproacht therewith since I count it the part of a Gentleman to submit to the vilest Office for the Service of his Prince The first expedition I was in was when the Marshal 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 Horse with my Pistol who falling upon his Leg could not stir but yielded to my mercy I knowing my own weakness of Body and seeing him a lusty tall Fellow thought it the surest way to dispatch him which having done I plundered him of a Chain Money and other things to the value of 200 Ducats This Money was no sooner in my Pockets but I began to resume the remembrance of my Nobility and taking my audience of leave from Monsieur Cossey I instantly repaired to the Duke D' Alva's Court where divers of my Kindred seeing my Pocket full of good Crowns were ready enough to acknowledge me By their means I was received into pay and in time obtained a good degree of favour with the Duke who would sometimes jest a little more severely at my Personage than I could well bear for though I must acknowledge my Stature is so little as I think no man living is less yet since it is the work of Heaven and not my own he ought not to have upbraided a Gentleman therewith And those glorious things that have happened to me may evince that great and wonderful matters may be performed by very unlikely Bodies if the mind be good and Fortune second our endeavours Though the Dukes joques a little disgusted ●●e yet I endeavoured to conceal my resentments and accommodating my self to some other of his humors I was so far interested in his favour that at his going into Spain in 1573. whither I attended him by his kindness and some other accidents wherein by my Industry I was seldom wanting to my self I was able to carry home 3000 Crowns in my Pocket At my return my Parents who were extreamly disturbed at my departure received me with great joy which was increased because they found I had brought wherewith to maintain my self without being chargable to them so that they need not lessen the Portions of my Brothers and Sisters to provide for me But doubting I would spend it as lightly as I got it they continually sollicited me to marry the Daughter of John Figueres a considerable Merchant of Lisbon to which I complied and putting my Marriage Money and good part of my own into the hands of my Father or such as he advised me to I lived in good fashion and much like a Gentleman for many years very happily At length some quarrels arising between me and one Pedro Delgades a Gentleman and Kinsman of mine the causes whereof are needless to relate this difference grew to such a height that when no mediation of Friends could prevail we two went alone with our Swords into the Field where it was my chance to kill him though a stout proper man but what I wanted in strength I supplied in courage and my agility countervailed for his Stature This being acted in Carmona I fled with all speed to Lisbon thinking to conceal my self with some Friends of my Father in Law till the business might be accommodated and I acquitted by consent of the Prosecutors This happened in 1596 at which time a famous Spanish Count coming from the West-Indies published Triumphant Declarations in Print of a great Victory he had obtained against the English near the Isle of Pines whereas in reality he got nothing at all in that Voyage but blows and a considerable loss It had been well if vanity and lying had been his only crimes His covetousness had like to have been my utter ruin though since it hath proved the occasion of Eternizing my name I verily believe to all Posterity and to the unspeakable benefit of all Mortals for ever hereafter at least if it please Heaven that I return home safe to my Countrey and give perfect Instructions how those almost incredible and impossible Acquirements may be imparted to the World You shall then see men flying in the Air from one place to another you shall then be able to send Messages many hundred miles in an instant and receive answers thereto immediately without the help of any Creature upon Earth You shall then presently impart your mind to your Friend though in the most remote and obscure place of a populous City and a multitude of other notable Experiments But what exceeds all you shall then have the discovery of a New World and abundance of rare and incredible secrets of Nature which the Philosophers of former Ages never so much as dreamt of But I must be cautious in publishing these wonderful mysteries till our Statesmen have

and the great knowledge he had in his Masters business he gained so far on the Affections of his Mistress that upon the death of Abdal she made him her Husband Possessed of all his Masters Wealth he affected ease and being till-then of no Religion or at least a Pagan he began to hearken to Sergius a Nestorian Monk who flying out of Syria for fear of punishment the Heresies of Nestorius being newly both revived and censured came into Arabia where he found Entertainment in the House of Mahomet By his perswasions who found him a fit Instrument for the Devil to work on he began to entertain thoughts of hammering out a new Religion which might unite all Parties in some common Principles and bring the Christians Jews and Gentiles into which the World was then divided under one Profession Resolv'd on this he retired to a Cave not far from Mecca as if he there attended only Contemplation Sergius in the mean time Trumpetting in the Ears of the People both his Parts and Piety who being thus prepared to behold the Pageant out comes the principal Actor with some parts of his Alcoran pleasing enough to sensual minds which he professed to have received from the Angel Gabriel And finding that this edified to his expectation he next proclaimed Liberty to all Slaves and Servants as a thing commanded him by God by whom the natural Liberty of Mankind was most dearly tendred which drew to him such a Rabble of unruly People that without fear or opposition he dispersed his Doctrines reducing them at last to a Book or Method The Book of this Religion he calleth the Alcoran or Collection of Precepts the original whereof they feign is written on a Table kept in Heaven and the Copy brought to Mahomet by the Angel Gabriel A Book so highly reverenced by the Mahometans that they write upon the cover of it Let none touch this but he that is clean The Body of it as it now standeth was composed by Osman the fourth Caliph or Governour who seeing the Saracens daily inclining to divers Heresies by reason of some false Copies of Mahomets Law and that the Empire by the same means was likely to fall into civil dissention by the help of his Wife who was Mahomets Daughter he got a sight of all Mahomets Papers which he reduced into four Volumes and divided into 124 Chapters commanding expresly upon pain of death that that Book and that only should be received as Canonical through his Dominions The whole body of it being only a Gloss and Exposition on Eight of the Commandments First Every one ought to believe that God is a great God and one only God and Mahomet is his Prophet They hold Abraham to be the Friend of God Moses the Messenger of God and Christ the Breath of God whom they deny to be conceived of the Holy Ghost affirming that the Virgin Mary grew with Child of him by smelling to a Rose and was delivered of him at her Breasts They deny the Mystery of the Trinity but punish such as speak against Christ whose Religion was not say they taken away but amended by Mahomet and whoever in his Pilgrimage to Mecca doth not visit the Sepulchre of Christ either going or coming is reputed not to have merited or bettered himself by his Journey 2. Every man must marry to increase the Disciples of Mahomet Four Wives he allows to every man and as many Concubines as he will between whom the Husband makes no difference either in Affection or Apparel but that the first Wife only enjoys his Sabbath days Benevolence The Women are not admitted while alive into their Churches nor after death into Paradise And whereas in most other Countreys Fathers give some Portions with their Daughters the Mahometans give Money for their Wives which being once paid the Contract is Registred in the Cadies Book and this is all their formality of Marriage 3. Every one must give of his Wealth to the Poor Hence some buy Slaves and set them free others buy Birds and let them fly They use commonly to release Prisoners and Bond-slaves To build Caves or Lodgings in the ways for relief of Passengers Repair Bridges and mend High ways But there most ordinary Almes consists in Sacrifices of Sheep and Oxen which when the Solemnity is perform'd they distribute amongst the Poor to whom also on the first day of every year they are bound to give the Tyth or Tenth part of their profits the year past so that there are scarce any Beggars among them 4. Every one must make his Prayers five times a day When they pray they turn their Bodies toward Mecca but their Faces sometimes one way and sometimes another believing that Mahomet shall come behind them while at their Devotions The first time is an hour before Sun-rising the second at noon-day the third at three a Clock Afternoon the fourth at Sun-setting the fift and last before they go to sleep At all these times the Cryers bawl in the Steeples for the Turks and Saracens have no Bells for the people to come to Church and such as cannot must when they hear the voice of the Cryers fall down in the place where they are do their Devotions and kiss the ground thrice 5. Every one must keep a Lent one month in a year This Lent is called Ramazan in which they suppose the Alcoran was given to Mahomet by the Angel Gabriel This Fast is only in the day time their Law allowing them to be as Frolick in the night as they please so they abstain from Wine and Swines Flesh which is prohibited in their Law at all times but never so strictly abstained from as in Lent 6. Be Obedient to thy Parents Which Law is most neglected of any in all the Alcoran never any Children being generally so unnatural as the Turkish 7. Thou shalt not Kill This they keep inviolate amongst themselves but the poor Christians are sure to feel their sury And as if by this Law the actual shedding of Blood only were prohibited they have invented punishments for their Offenders worse than death it self As first the Strappado which is hanging them by the Arms drawn backwark and then drawn up on high and letting down again with a violent swing which unjointeth all their Back and Arms. Secondly they sometimes hoise up their Heels and with a great Cudgel give them three or four hundred blows on the Soles of their Feet Thirdly It is ordinary to draw them naked up to the top of a Gibbet or Tower full of Hooks and cutting the Rope to let them fall down again and by the way they are caught by some of the Hooks where they commonly hang till they die for hunger 8. Do unto others as thou wouldst be done unto thy self Cruel Executions in India Their Opinions of the end of the World are very rediculous as that at the Winding of an Horn not all Flesh only but the Angels themselves shall dye That the Earth with an