also other strange Countries make sumptuous buildings therewith The Indians doe draw from these flouds that runne from the Mountaines to the Vallies and Plaines many and great Brookes to water their Land which they vsually doe with such industrie as there are no better in Murcia nor at Millan it selfe the which is also the greatest and onely wealth of the Plaines of Peru and of many other parts of the Indies §. III. Of the qualitie of the Land at the Indies in generall Properties of Peru and of new Spaine and other parts Of Vulcanes and Earthquakes WE may know the qualitie of the Land at the Indies for the greatest part seeing it is the last of the three Elements whereof we haue propounded to treate in this Booke by the discourse we haue made in the former Booke of the burning Zone seeing that the greatest part of the Indies doth lye vnder it But to make it knowne the more particularly I haue obserued three kindes of Lands as I haue passed through those Regions whereof there is one very low another very high and the third which holds the middle of these two extreames The lower is that which lyeth by the Sea coasts whereof there is in all parts of the Indies and it is commonly very hot and moist so as it is not so healthfull and at this day we see it lesse peopled although in former times it hath beene greatly inhabited with Indians as it appeareth by the histories of new Spaine and Peru and where they kept and liued for that the soile was naturall vnto them being bred there They liued of fishing at Sea and of seeds drawing brooks from the Riuers which they vsed for want of raine for that it raines little there and in some places not at all This low Countrie hath many places vnhabitable as well by reason of the Sands which are dangerous for there are whole Mountaines of these Sands as also for the Marishes which grow by reason of the waters that fall from the Mountaines which finding no issue in these flat and low Lands drowne them and make them vnprofitable And in truth the greatest part of all the Indian Sea coast is of this sort chiefly vpon the South Sea the habitation of which coasts is at this present so wasted and contemned that of thirty parts of the people that inhabited it there wants twenty nine and it is likely the rest of the Indians will in short time decay Many according to the varietie of their opinions attribute this to diuers causes some to the great labour which hath beene imposed vpon these Indians others vnto the change and varietie of meates and drinkes they vse since their commerce with the Spaniards others to their great excesse and drinking and to other vices they haue for my part I hold this disorder to be the greatest cause of their decay whereof it is not now time to discourse any more In this low Countrie which I say generally is vnhealthfull ond vnfit for mans habitation there is exception in some places which are temperate and fertile as the greatest part of the Plaines of Peru where there are coole vallies and very fertile The greatest part of the habitation of the coast entertains all the traffike of Spain by Sea whereon all the estate of the Indies dependeth Vpon this coast there are some Towns well peopled as Lima and Truxillo in Peru Panama and Carthagena vpon the maine Land and in the Ilands Saint Dominique Port Ricco and Hauana with many other Towns which are lesse then these as the True Crosse in new Spain Yâ—a Arigua and others in Peru the Ports are commonly inhabited although but slenderly The second sort of Land is contrary very high and by consequent cold and dry as all the Mountaines are commonly This Land is neither fertile nor pleasant but very healthfull which makes it to be peopled and inhabited There are Pastures and great store of Cattle the which for the most part entertaines life and by their Cattell they supply the want they haue of Corne and Graine by trucking and exchange But that which makes these Lands more inhabited and peopled is the riches of the Mines that are found there for that all obeys to Gold and Siluer By reason of the Mines there are some dwellings of Spaniards and Indians which are increased and multiplied as Potozi and Gancanelicqua in Peru and Cacatecas in new Spaine There are also through all these Mountaines great dwellings of the Indians which to this day are maintained yea some will say they increase but that the labour of the Mines doth consume many and some generall diseases haue destroyed a great part as the Cocoliste in new Spaine yet they finde no great diminution In this extremitie of high ground they finde two commodities as I haue said of Pastures and Mines which doe well counteruaile the two other that are in the lower grounds alongst the Sea coast that is the commerce of the Sea and the abundance of Wine which groweth not but in the hot Lands Betwixt these two extreames there is ground of a meane height the which although it be in some parts higher or lower one then other yet doth it not approach neither to the heate of the Sea coast nor the intemperature of the Mountaines In this sort of soyle there groweth many kindes of Graine as Wheate Barley and Mays which growes not at all in the high Countries but well in the lower there is likewise store of Pasture Cattell Fruits and greene Forrests This part is the best habitation of the three for health and recreation and therefore it is best peopled of any part of the Indies the which I haue curiously obserued in many Voyages that I haue vndertaken and haue alwayes found it true that the Prouince best peopled at the Indies be in this scituation Let vs looke neerely into new Spaine the which without doubt is the best Prouince the Sunne doth circle by what part soeuer you doe enter you mount vp and when you haue mounted a good height you begin to descend yet very little and that Land is alwayes much higher then that along the Sea coast All the Land about Mexico is of this nature and scituation and that which is about the Vulcan which is the best soile of the Indies as also in Peru Arequipa Guamangua and Cusco although more in one then in the other But in the end all is high ground although they descend into deepe Vallies and clime vp to high Mountaines the like is spoken of Quitto Saint Foy and of the best of the New Kingdome To conclude I doe beleeue that the wisedome and prouidence of the Creator would haue it so that the greatest part of this Countrie of the Indies should be hillie that it might be of a better temperature for being low it had beene very hot vnder the burning Zone especially being farre from the Sea Also all the Land I haue seene at the Indies is neere
before 1605. Captaine of a Pinnasse of the King of Denmarke for the Discouery of the North-west passage begunne the eighteenth of Aprill 1606. H. pag. 827. CHAP. XVII The fourth Voyage of Iames Hall to Groaneland wherein he was set forth by English Aduenturers Anno 1612. and slaine by a Greenelander Written by William Baffin H. pag. 831. CHAP. XVIII A true Relation of such things as happened in the fourth Voyage for the Discouerie of the North-west Passage performed in the yeere 1615. written by William Baffin H. P. pag. 836. CHAP. XIX A briefe and true Relation of Iournall containing such accidents as happened in the fift Voyage for the discouery of a passage in the North-west set forth at the charges of the right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith Knight Sir Dudly Digges Knight Master Iohn Mostenholme Esquire Master Alderman Iones with others in the goodship called the Discouery of London Robert Bileth Master and my selfe Pilot performed in the yeere of our Lord 1616. pag. 844. CHAP. XX. A briefe Discourse of the probability of a passage to the Westerne or South Sea illustrated with testimonies and a briefe Treatise and Map by Master Brigges H.P. pag. 848. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the Fifth Booke of the second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Description of the West Indies by Antonio de Herrera his Maiesties chiefe Chronicler of the Indies and his Chronicler of Castile H. P. pag. 855 The Presidents Counsellors Secretaries and Attourneys which vnto this present day haue serued and doe serue in the supreme Councell of the Indies from their first Discouerie pag. 916. The Gouernours and Vice-royes which haue gouerned vntill this time the Kingdomes of New-Spaine and of Peru. pag. 917. CHAP. II. Obseruations gathered out of the First Second Third and Fourth Bookes of Iosephus Acosta a learned Iesuite touching the naturall historie of the Heauens Ayre Water and Earth at the West Indies Also of their Beasts Fishes Fowles Plants and other remarkeable rarities of Nature pag. 918. § 1. Of the fashion and forme of Heauen at the new-found World and of the Ayre and Winds ibid. § 2. Of the Ocean that inuirons the Indies and of the North and South Seas their ebbing flowing Fishes fishing Lakes Riuers and Springs pag. 928. § 3. Of the qualitie of the Land at the Indies in generall Properties of Peru and of new Spaine and other parts of Vulcanes and Earthquakes pag. 935. § 4. Of Metals in the Indies and especially of the Gold and Siluer and Quick-siluer pag. 941. § 5. Of Emeralds Pearles Indian Bread Trees Fruits Flowers naturall and carried thither from Spaine pag. 952. § 6. Of Beasts and Fowles in the Indies pag. 962. Of Fowles that are proper to the Indies and Venison pag. 965. CHAP. III. Extracts of Gonzalo Ferdinando de Ouiedo his Summarie and the generall Historie of the Indies pag. 970. Of the Mynes of Gold and the manner of working in them ibid. Of the manner of fishing for Pearles pag. 972. Of the familiaritie which certaine of the Indians haue with the Deuill and how they receiue answere of him of things to come and other superstitions pag. 973. Of diuers particular things as Wormes Serpents Beasts Fowles Trees c. pag. 975. Of Trees Fruits and Plants pag. 981. Of Reedes or Canes pag. 983. Of venemous Apples wherwith they poyson their Arrowes pag. 985. Of Fishes and of the manner of fishing p. 986. Of the increase and decrease that is rising and falling of our Ocean Sea and South Sea called the Sea of Sur. pag. 989. Of the straight or narrow passage of the Land lying betweene the North and South Sea by the which Spices may much sooner and easilier be brought from the Ilands of Molucca into Spaine by the West Ocean then by that way wherby the Portugals saile into the East India ibid. How things that are of one kinde differ in forme and qualitie according to the nature of the place where they are engendred or grow and of the beasts called Tigres pag. 990. Of the manners and customes of the Indians of the Firme Land and of their Women pag. 991. Of the chiefe Ilands Hispaniola and Cuba pag. 993. CHAP. IIII. Mexican Antiquities gathered out of the writings of Iosephus Acosta a learned Iesuite pag. 1000. § 1. Of the ancient Inhabitants of new Spain and of the sixe Linages of the Nauatlacas Of the Mexican Exodus and aduentures by the way the foundation of Mexico their first King and Tribute ibid. § 2. Of the second King Vitzilouitli and of his successours and their Acts vntill the reigne of Motezuma their last King pag. 1009. § 3. Of the election of great Motezuma the last King of Mexico his pompe and manner of gouernment prodigious fore-warnings of his ruine and the Spanish conquest pag. 1018. CHAP. V. Of the ancient superstitions of the Mexicans and Indians of America gathered out of the fifth booke of Iosephus Acosta pag. 1026. CHAP. VI. Ciuill Customes and Arts of the Indians taken out of Acostas 6. Booke pag. 1050. CHAP. VII The Historie of the Mexican Nation described in pictures by the Mexican Author explained in the Mexican language which exposition translated into Spanish and thence into English together with the said Picture-historie are heere presented H. pag. 1066 § 1. The Mexican Chronicle ibid. § 2. The second part of this Booke contayning the particular Tributes which euery Towne subdued payed vnto the Lords of Mexico pag. 1080 § 3. The third part of this Booke contayneth the priuate behauiour in Marriages education of Children and Trades with the Martiall Ecclesiasticke and Ciuill policie of the Mexican people pag. 1102. CHAP. VIII Conquest of Mexico and New Spaine by Hernando Cortes pag. 1118. CHAP. IX Larger Relations of things most remarkeable obserued by the Spaniards at their first comming Cholallas holies Popocatepecs ashes Mutezumas multiforme Magnificence and Maiestie Mexican Citie and Temple with other Antiquities gathered out of the Third part of the Historie of Francis Lopez de Gomara pag. 1123. The Hill called Popocatepec ibid. Description of Mexico as it flourished in those times pag. 1131. Other Mexican Antiquities Letters Numbers Yeeres Dayes Weekes c. pag. 1135. Their reckoning by numbers ibid. The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the sixth Booke of the Second part of Purchas his PILGRIMS CHAP. I. A Briefe Relation of the seuerall Voyages vndertaken and performed by the Right Honourable George Earl of Cumberland in his owne person or at his owne charge and by his direction collected out of the Relations and Iournals of credible persons Actors therein pag. 1141. CHAP. II. The Voyage to Saint Iohn de Porto Rico by the Right Honourable George Earle of Cumberland written by himselfe H. pag. 1150. CHAP. III. A large Relation of Port Ricco Voyage written as is reported by that learned man and reuerend Diuine Doctor Eglambie his Lordships Chaplaine and Attendant in that Expedion very much abbreuiated H. pag.
yeere also the company furnished and sent out a Pinnesse named the Serchthrift to discouer the Harborowes in the North coast from Norway to Wardhouse and so to the Bay of Saint Nicholas There was in her Master and Pilot Stephen Borough with his brother William and eight other Their discouerie was beyond the Bay toward the Samoeds people dwelling neere the Riuer of Ob and found a sound or sea with an Island called Vaigats first by them put into the Card or Map In that place they threw Snow out of their said Pinnesse with shouels in August by which extremitie and lacke of time they came backe to Russia and wintred at Golmogro Anno 1557. The companie with foure good Ships sent backe the said Russe Ambassadour and in companie with him sent as an Agent for further discouerie Master Antonie Ienkinson who afterward Anno 1558. with great fauour of the Prince of Muscouia and his letters passed the riuer Volga to Cazan and meaning to seeke Cathay by Land was by many troupes and companies of vnciuill Tartarians encountred and in danger but keeping companie with Merchants of Bactria or Boghar and Vrgeme trauelling with Camels he with his companie went to Boghar and no further whose entertainment of the King is to be had of Master Ienkinson which returned Anno 1559. to Muscouie And in Anno 1560. hee with Henrie Lane came home into England which yeere was the first safe returne without losse or shipwracke or dead fraight and burnings And at this time was the first trafficke to the Narue in Liuonia which confines with Lituania and all the Dominions of Russia and the Markets Faires Commodities great Townes and Riuers were sent vnto by diuers seruants the reports were taken by Henrie Lane Agent and deliuered to the companie 1561. The trade to Rie and Reuel of old time hath beene long since frequented by our English Nation but this trade to the Narue was hitherto concealed from vs by the Danskers and Lubeckers Anno 1561. the said Master Antonie Ienkinson went Agent into Russia who the next yeere after passing all the riuer of Volga to Astracan and ouer the Caspian sea arriued in Persia and opened the trade thither Also betweene the yeeres of 1568. and 1573. sundry Voyages after Master Ienkinsons were made by Thomas Alcock Arthur Edwards Master Thomas Banister and Master Geffrey Ducket whose returne if spoyle neere Volga had not preuented by rouing Theeues had altogether salued and recouered the Companies called the old Companies great losse charges and damages But the saying is true By vnitie small things grow great and by contention great things become small This may bee vnderstood best by the Companie The frowardnesse of some few and euill doing of some vniust Factors was cause of much of the euill successe Arthur Edwards was sent againe 1579. and dyed in the voyage at Astracan About which matters are to bee remembred the Voyages of Master Thomas Randolph Esquire Ambassadour Anno 1567. And late of Sir Ierome Bowes Anno 1583. both tending and treating for further Discoueries Freedomes and Priuiledges wherewith I meddle not But in conclusion for their paines and aduentures this way as diuers doe now adayes other wayes as worthie Gentlemen sent from Princes to doe their Countrey good I put them in your memorie with my heartie farewell From Saint Margarets neere Dartforth in Kent To the Reader I Haue had much trouble to giue thee this Authour both for his Language being Portugall which for this and some other parts of this worke I was forced to get as I could and for the raritie of his Relations seeming both in themselues so stupendious and not seconded in many things that I say not contraried by other Authours Besides his booke came not out till himselfe was gone out of the world I answere that Ricius the Iesuite his Relations came not to vs till himselfe was likewise gone and that that might rather plead not onely for the Maturitie but the sinceritie by that Cassian rule Cui bono for whom should a dead man flatter or for what should hee lye Yea hee little spares his owne companie and Nation but often and eagerly layeth open their vices and which is more I finde in him little boasting except of other Nations none at all of himselfe but as if he intended to expresse Gods glorie and mans merit of nothing but miserie And howsoeuer it seemes incredible to remember such infinite particulars as this Booke is full of yet an easie memorie holdeth strong impressions of good or bad Scribunt in marmore laesi is said of one and of the other Omnia quae curant senes meminerunt Neither is it likely but that the Authour wrote Notes which in his manifold disaduentures were lost otherwise but by that writing written the firmer in his memorie especially new whetted filed forbushed with so many companions of miserie whom in that state Haec olim meminisse juuabat their best musicke in their chaines and wandrings being the mutuall recountings of things seene done suffered More maruell it is if a lyar that he should not forget himselfe and contradict his owne Relations which somtimes he may seeme to doe in the numbers of the yeere of the Lord yea and other numbers but his leaues were left vnperfect at his death and those numbers perhaps added by others after and besides mine owne experience hath often found figures mistaken from my hand which being by the Compositor set at large haue runne at large by ten times so much and girt in otherwhiles as narrow with the tenth place diminished or one figure set for another And none but the Authour or he which knowes the subiect can easily amend that fault being so great by so small and easie a lapse The graduations of places I doe confesse otherwise then in the Iesuites and as I suppose not so truely as theirs for I thinke that he neither had Arte or Instrument to calculate the same but contented himselfe in the writing of this Booke to looke into the common Maps of China and to follow them in setting downe the degrees and so the blind led the blind into errour no printed Map that I haue seene being true And perhaps the Chronicler to whom the papers were brought vnfinished might out of those Maps doe it erring either of ignorance or which we haue often seene in Cards of remote places East and West purposely to conceale from others that which they haue found sweet and gainfull the Mariner and Merchant not looking with the generous eyes of the ingenious ingenuous Scholer For his repute at home it was dedicated to King Philip the Third of Spaine which impudence would not haue obtruded if altogether a tale on such Maiestie licenced by the Holy Office and printed at Lisbon translated into the Spanish by the Licentiate Francisco de Herrera Maldonado Canon of the Church Riall of Arbas and dedicated to a Clergie-man Senerin de Faria
Counsels of the holy and generall Inquisition and of the supreame Counsell of the Indies for it behoued to place one Counsell of the holy Office in Mexico for the Kingdomes of New Spaine and the rest of the Indies of the North and another in the Citie of the Kings for the Kingdomes of Piru and the adherents which are called the Indies of the South which the authority that the Councels of these Kingdomes haue so that as yet they should not meddle with the cases of the Indians but onely of the Castillanes other Nations that should be found in the Indies and so that the appeals should come to the supreame Counsell that is resident in this Court as it is done in Spaine and in the accomplishing thereof in the yeare 1570. the King Don Phillip the second called the Prudent gaue a generall power to the Towne of Madrid the 16. of August that the Apostolike Inquisitours that should be named for the present and for hereafter against the hereticall peruersnesse Apostacie and the Officers and Ministers necessary for this holy Office which was commanded to be seated in the Cities of Mexico and of the Kings should exercise vse their Offices and royall warrants that Don Martin Euriques and Don Franciscus of Toledo Viceroyes and Captains generall in the Kingdomes of New Spaine and Piru and the Counsels and Iustices Gouernours and other persons should giue all aide and fauour to the holy Officio and the Inquisitors and Officers were nominated as in their owne place shall be spoken more at large THese Catholike Kings most wisely constituted the Supreme Counsell of the Indies that they might helpe them to beare so great a burden as is already the gouernment of that Orbe and the Counsell consisteth in one President and eight or more Counsellors as necessitie requireth with one Atturney Secretaries Clerkes of the Chamber Relators and other Officers and an Office of Accompts where a notice is had of all the goods Royall of those parts And that proceeding might be according to rule and order they declared first that the Counsell should meet three houres euery day in the morning and two in the afternoone three dayes in the weeke that bee no holy dayes and that they should firme the Warrants that should be deliuered for these Kingdoms but that those that were for the Indies should haue the seale Royall and that in those parts it should haue supreme iurisdiction and might make Lawes and Decrees to see and examine whatsoeuer Statutes Constitutions of Prelates Senates Chapters and Conuents of the Religious and of the Vice-royes Courts and Counsels and that in the Indies and in these Kingdoms in matter dependant of them it should bee obeyed that the gouernment of the Indies should bee like this of these Kingdomes and that more in particular the Counsell doe occupie it selfe in the matters of gouernment That in Suites remitted those of the Councell Royall shall come to giue their voyces to that of the Indies and that two voyces shall make a Sentence in suites of 500. Pesos or vnder That there be a second Supplication in a case of 10000. Pesos that they deale not in the repartitions of the Indians in those parts but the Processes well perused in the Courts according to a Law called of Malinas for there it was made they shall come to the Supreme Counsell touching order to be held in matters of seruices that the Counsell doe see them all and in matters of rewards that which the greatest part doth determine shall be done and that in these there be a Supplication and that no expedient suite be seene the third time and that in the matters they doe resolue with breuitie that the charges be giuen to the best deseruing and that they be not giuen to the allied and kinsmen of them of the Counsell neither may such bee Solicitors nor Atturneys in the prouidings of the Offices no price shall be admitted nor that they of the Counsell haue any Indians of repartition and they shall assist in their houses that the Suiters may find them there when they goe not to Counsel and that due secrecy be kept in all things and aboue all that the Counsell haue a particular care of the Conuersion and good Instruction of the Indians and of the spirituall gouernment and that of 600000. Marmediz vpward the appeale shall come to the Counsell that they may appeale from the Sentences in the fiue Cases of naturall death or mayming of a member or other bodily punishment publike shame or racking and the appeales shall come to the Counsell with many other laudable orders which are omitted for breuities sake That the President being a learned man shall haue a voice in matters of Gouernment gratuities and fauours visitations and accompts and not in suits because he may be the more free for the gouernment of the Counsell and being vnlearned he shall haue no voice but in matters of grace gouernment and fauour and that he may assemble the Counsell in his owne house and haue a noate of the businesses and that the Counsellours doe not accompany with the Suitors And because it seemed a necessary thing that one Fiscad or Atturney should assist in Counsell it was commanded he should haue the same stipend that the Counsellours and that they deliuer him the dispatches of the Office that he haue a care to know how that is accomplished which is prouided for the Indies that necessary Papers be giuen him for his Office that he doe see the visitations before Counsell that he haue a book to register all the capitulations that are taken with the King another wherein he may set down the Atturneys Pleas that he delay not the suits that his demands or those that are against him be admitted if the Counsel think it good that he keep a book of that which is concluded for the cases that he haue a care to know the Officers that doe omit to send a relation euery yeere to the Counsell Hauing ordained all that which appertaineth to the Counsell which is the head of this Gouernment with many other orders which are not rehearsed for breuitie they proceeded in ordering all the Prouinces of the Indies in the matters of iustice as neede required and these Catholike Kings desiring the common good of that new world that their subiects that should possesse it hauing a zeale to the seruice of our Lord God good profit ease of the said Subiects to the Peace and quietnesse of the Towns as the King is bound vnto God and to them for to accomplish with the Office that he hath in earth hee thought good to command to place the Courts and Royall Chanceries that as hath beene said are in the Indies with the Statutes and orders that hath beene giuen them that the Ministers may doe their office and iustice be well administred and the Townes obtained the benefit pretended The first Court that was established
Riuers which after become great flouds Vpon the way from Arequippa to Callao there are two Lakes vpon the Mountaines of the one and other side the way from the one flowes a brooke which growes to a floud and fals into the South Sea from the other they say the famous Riuer of Aporima takes her beginning from the which some hold that the renowned Riuer of Amazons otherwise called Maragnon proceedes with so great an assembly and abundance of waters which ioyne in these Mountaines It is a question may be often asked why there is so many Lakes in the tops of these Mountaines into the which no riuer enters but contrariwise many great streames issue forth and yet doe we scarce see these Lakes to diminish any thing at any season of the yeare To imagine that these Lakes grow by the Snow that melts or raine from heauen that doth not wholly satisfie me for there are many that haue not this abundance of Snow nor raine and yet wee see no decrease in them which makes me to beleeue they are Springs which rise there naturally although it be not against reason to thinke that the Snow and raine helpe somewhat in some seasons These Lakes are so common in the highest tops of the Mountaines that you shall hardly finde any famous riuer that takes not his beginning from one of them Their water is very cleere and breedes little store of fish and that little is very small by reason of the cold which is there continually Notwithstanding some of these Lakes be very hot which is another wonder At the end of the Vallie of Tarapaya neere to Potozi there is a Lake in forme round which seemes to haue beene made by compasse whose water is extreamely hot and yet the Land is very cold they are accustomed to bathe themselues neere the banke for else they cannot endure the heate being farther in In the midst of this Lake there is a boiling of aboue twentie foote square which is the very Spring and yet notwithstanding the greatnesse of this Spring it is neuer seene to increase in any sort it seemes that it exhals of it selfe or that it hath some hidden and vnknowne issue neither doe they see it decrease which is another wonder although they haue drawne from it a great streame to make certaine engines grinde for mettall considering the great quantitie of water that issueth forth by reason whereof it should decrease But leauing Peru and passing to new Spaine the Lakes there are no lesse to be obserued especially that most famous of Mexico where we finde two sorts of waters one salt Lake like to that of the Sea and the other cleere and sweete by reason of the Riuers that enter into it In the midst of this Lake is a rocke very delightfull and pleasant where there are bathes of hot water that issue forth the which they greatly esteeme for their health There are Gardens in the middest of this Lake framed and fleeting vpon the water where you may see plots full of a thousand sorts of hearbes and flowers they are in such sort as a man cannot well conceiue them without sight The Citie of Mexico is seated in the same Lake although the Spaniards haue filled vp the place of the scituation with earth leauing onely some currents of water great and small which enter into the Citie to carrie such things as they haue neede of as wood hearbs stone fruites of the Countrie and all other things When Cortez conquered Mexico hee caused Brigandins to be made yet afterwards he thought it more safe not to vse them therefore they vse Canoes whereof there is great store There is great store of fish in this Lake yet haue I not seene any of price notwithstanding they say the reuenue of this Lake is worth three-hundred thousand Duckets a yeere There are many other Lakes not farre from this whence they bring much fish to Mexico The Prouince of Mechonacan is so called for that it aboundeth greatly with fish There are goodly and great Lakes in the which there is much fish and this Prouince is coole and healthfull There are many other Lakes whereof it is not possible to make mention nor to know them in particular onely wee may note by that which hath beene discoursed in the former Booke that vnder the burning Zone there is greater abundance of Lakes then in any other part of the world There is at the Indies as in other parts of the world great diuersitie of Springs Fountaines and Riuers and some haue strange properties In Guancauilica of Peru where the Mines of Quick-siluer be there is a Fountaine that casts forth hot water and in running the water turnes to rocke of which rocke or stone they build in a manner all the houses of the Village This stone is soft and easie to cut for they cut it as easily with Iron as if it were wood it is light and lasting If men or beasts drinke thereof they dye for that it congeales in the very entrailes and turnes into stone and for that cause some Horses haue died As this water turnes into stone the which flowes stoppes the passage to the rest so as of necessitie it changeth the course and for this reason it runnes in diuers places as the rocke increaseth At the point of Cape Saint Helaine there is a Spring or Fountaine of Pitch which at Peru they call Coppey This should be like to that which the Scripture speakes of the sauage Valley where they did finde pits of Pitch The Marriners vse these Fountaines of Pitch or Coppey to pitch their ropes and tackling for that it serues them as Pitch and Tarre in Spaine When I sailed into new Spaine by the coast of Peru the Pilot shewed me an Iland which they call the I le of Wolues where there is another Fountaine or Pit of Coppey or Pitch with the which they anoint their tackling There are other Fountaines and Springs of Gouliranrozen which the Pilot an excellent man in his charge told me he had seene and that sometimes sailing that waies being so farre into the Sea as he had lost the sight of Land yet did he know by the smell of the Coppey where he was as well as if he had knowne the Land such is the fauour that issues continually from that Fountaine At the Bathes which they call the Bathes of Ingua there is a course of water which comes forth all hot and boiling and ioyning vnto it there is another whose water is as cold as Ice The Ingua was accustomed to temper the one with the other and it is a wonderfull thing to see Springs of so contrarie qualities so neere one to the other There are an infinite number of other hot Springs specially in the Prouince of Charcas in the water whereof you cannot indure to hold your hand the space of an Aue Maria as I haue seene tried by wager In a Farme neere to Cusco
springs a Fountaine of Salt which as it runnes turnes into Salt very white and exceeding good the which if it were in another Countrie were no small riches yet they make very small account thereof for the store they haue there The waters which runne in Guayaquel which is in Peru almost vnder the Equinoctiall Line are held to be healthfull for the French disease and other such like so as they come from many places farre off to be cured And they say the cause thereof is for that in that Countrie there is great aboundance of rootes which they call Salepareille the vertue and operation whereof is so knowne that it communicates her propertie to the waters wherein it is put to cure this disease Bilcanota is a Mountaine the which according to common opinion is in the highest part of Peru the top whereof is all couered with Snow and in some places is blacke like coale There issueth forth of it two Springs in contrary places which presently grow to be very great brooks and so by little and little become great flouds the one goes to Calloa into the great Lake Tâ—â—caca the other goes to the Lands and is that which they call Yucay which ioyning with another runnes into the North Sea with a violent and furious course This Spring when it comes out of the rocke Bilcanota as I haue said is of the colour of lie hauing an ashie colour and casts a fâ—me as a thing burnt the which runs far in this sort vntil the multitude of waters that run into it quench this smoak and fire which it drawes from the Spring In new Spain I haue seene a Spring as it were Ink somewhat blew in Peru another of color red like blood where vpon they cal it the red Riuer Amongst all Riuers not onely at the Indies but generally through the world the Riuer Maragnon or of Amazons is the chiefe whereof we haue spoken in the former Booke The Spaniards haue often sailed it pretending to discouer the Lands which by report are very rich especially those they call Dorado and Paytiti Iean de Salnies the Adelantade made a memorable entrie though of small effect There is a passage which they call Pongo one of the most dangerous in all the world for the Riuer being there straightned and forced betwixt two high steepe Rocks the water fals directly downe with so great a violence that comming steepe downe it causeth such a boyling as it seemeth impossible to passe it without drowning yet the courage of men durst attempt to passe it for the desire of this renowmed Dorado they slipt downe from the top to the bottome thrust on with the violence and currant of the floud holding themselues fast in their Canoes or barkes and although in falling they were turned topsie turuie and both they and their Canoes plunged into the deepe yet by their care and industrie they recouered themselues againe and in this sort the whole armie escaped except some few that were drowned And that which is more admirable they carried themselues so cunningly that they neither lost their Powder nor Munition In their returne hauing suffered many troubles and dangers they were forced in the end to passe backe that same way mounting by one of those high Rocks sticking their Ponyards in the Rocke Captaine Peter d'Orsua made another entrie by the same Riuer who being dead in the same Voyage and the Souldiers mutinied other Captaines followed the enterprise by an arme that comes into the North Sea A religious man of our company told vs that being then a secular man he was present in a manner at all that enterprise and that the tides did flow almost a hundred leagues vp the Riuer and whereas it enters into the Sea the which is vnder the Line or very neere it hath seuenty leagues breadth at the mouth of it a matter incredible and which exceeds the breadth of the Mediterranean Sea though there be some others who in their descriptions giue it but twenty fiue or thirty leagues breadth at the mouth Next to this Riuer that of Plata or of Siluer holds the second place which is otherwise called Paraguay which runs from the Mountains of Peru into the Sea in thirty fiue degrees of altitude to the South it riseth as they say like to the Riuer of Nile but much more without comparison and makes the fields it ouerflowes like vnto a Sea for the space of three moneths and after returneth againe to his course in the which Shippes doe saile many leagues against the streame There are many other Riuers that are not of that greatnesse and yet are equall yea they surpasse the greatest of Europe as that of Magdalaine neere to Saint Marthe called the great Riuer and that of Aluarado in new Spaine and an infinite number of others Of the South side on the Mountaines of Peru the Riuers are not vsually so great for that their current is not long and that many waters cannot ioyne together but they are very swift descending from the Mountaines and haue sodaine fals by reason whereof they are very dangerous and many men haue perished there They increase and ouerflow most in the time of heate I haue gone ouer twenty and seuen Riuers vpon that coast yet did I neuer passe any one by a foord The Indians vse a thousand deuises to passe their Riuers In some places they haue a long cord that runnes from one side to th' other and thereon hangs a basket into the which he puts himselfe that meanes to passe and then they draw it from the banke with another cord so as he passeth in this basket In other places the Indian passeth as it were on Horse-backe vpon a bottle of straw and behinde him he that desires to passe and so rowing with a peece of a boord carries him ouer In other places they make a floate of gourds or pompions vpon which they set men with their stuffe to carry ouer and the Indians hauing cords fastned to them goe swimming before and draw this floate of pompions after them as Horses doe a Coach others goe behinde thrusting it forward Hauing passed they take their barke of pompions vpon their backe and returne swimming this they doe in the Riuer of Saint at Peru. We passed that of Aluarado in new Spain vpon a table which the Indians carried vpon their shoulders and when they lost their footing they swamme These deuises with a thousand other wherewith they vse to passe their Riuers breede a terrour in the beholders helping themselues with such weake and vnsure meanes and yet they are very confident They doe vse no other bridges but of haire or of straw There are now vpon some Riuers bridges of Stone built by the diligence of some Gouernours but many fewer then were needefull in such a Countrie where so many men are drowned by default thereof and the which yeeldes so much Siluer as not onely Spaine but
is the Realme of Chille which is without the generall rule of these other Prouinces being seated without the burning Zone and the Tropicke of Capricorne This Land of it selfe is coole and fertile and brings forth all kindes of fruits that bee in Spaine it yeelds great abundance of bread and wine and abounds in Pastures and Cattell The aire is wholsome and cleere temperate betwixt heat and cold Winter and Summer are very distinct and there they finde great store of very fine gold Yet this Land is poore and smally peopled by reason of their continuall warre with the Auricanos and their Associates being a rough people and friends to libertie There are great coniectures that in the temperate Zone at the Antartike Pole there are great and fertile Lands but to this day they are not discouered neither doe they know any other Land in this Zone but that of Chille and some part of that Land which runnes from Ethiopia to the Cape of Good Hope as hath beene said in the first Booke neither is it knowne if there bee any habitations in the other two Zones of the Poles and whether the Land continues and stretcheth to that which is towards the Antartike or South Pole Neither doe we know the Land that lyes beyond the Straight of Magellan for that the greatest height yet discouered is in fiftie sixe degrees as hath beene formerly said and toward the Artike or Northerne Pole it is not known how farre the Land extends which runnes beyond the Cape of Mendoçin and the Caliphornes nor the bounds and end of Florida neither yet how farre it extends to the West Of late they haue discouered a new Land which they call New Mexico where they say is much people that speake the Mexican tongue The Philippines and the following Ilands as some report that know it by experience ranne aboue nine hundred leagues But to intreat of China Cochinchina Siam and other Regions which are of the East Indies were contrarie to my purpose which is onely to discourse of the West nay they are ignorant of the greatest part of America which lyes betwixt Peru and Bresil although the bounds be knowne of all sides wherein there is diuersitie of opinions some say it is a drowned Land full of Lakes and waterie places others affirme there are great and flourishing Kingdomes imagining there be the Paytiti the Dorado and the Caesars where they say are wonderfull things I haue heard one of our companie say a man worthy of credit that he had seene great dwellings there and the wayes as much beaten as those betwixt Salamanca and Villadillit the which he did see when as Peter d'Orsua and after those that succeeded him made their entrie and discouerie by the great Riuer of Amazons who beleeuing that the Dorado which they sought was farther off cared not to inhabit there and after went both without the Dorado which they could not finde and this great Prouince which they left To speake the truth the habitations of America are to this day vnknowne except the extremities which are Peru Bresil and that part where the Land begins to straighten which is the Riuer of Siluer then Tucuman which makes the round to Chille and Charcas Of late we haue vnderstood by Letters from some of ours which goe to Saint Croix in the Sierre that they goe discouering of great Prouinces and dwellings betwixt Bresil and Peru. Time will reueile them for as at this day the care and courage of men is great to compasse the World from one part to another so we may beleeue that as they haue discouered that which is now knowne they may likewise lay open that which remaynes to the end the Gospell may bee preached to the whole World seeing the two Crownes of Portugal and Castile haue met by the East and West ioyning their discoueries together which in truth is a matter to be obserued that the one is come to China and Iapan by the East and the other to the Philippines which are neighbours and almost ioyning vnto China by the West for from the Ilands of Lusson which is the chiefe of the Philippines in the which is the Citie of Manille vnto Macaeo which is in the I le of Canton are but foure score or a hundred leagues and yet we finde it strange that notwithstanding this small distance from the one to the other yet according to their account there is a dayes difference betwixt them so as it is Sunday at Macao when as it is but Saturday at Manille and so of the rest Those of Macao and of China haue one day aduanced before the Philippines It happened to father Alonse Sanches of whom mention is made before that parting from the Philippines hee arriued at Macao the second day of May according to their computation and going to say the Masse of Saint Athanasim he found they did celebrate the feast of the Inuention of the holy Crosse for that they did then reckon the third of May. The like happened vnto him in another voyage beyond it Some haue found this alteration and diuersitie strange supposing that the fault proceedes from the one or the other the which is not so but it is a true and well obserued computation for according to the difference of wayes where they haue beene we must necessarily say that when they meet there must be difference of a day the reason is for that sayling from West to East they alwayes gaine of the day finding the Sunne rising sooner and contrariwise those that saile from East to West doe alwayes lose of the day for that the Sunne riseth later vnto them and as they approach neerer the East or the West they haue the day longer or shorter In Peru which is Westward in respect of Spaine they are aboue sixe houres behinde so as when it is noone in Spaine it is morning at Peru and when it is morning here it is mid-night there I haue made certaine proofe thereof by the computation of Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone Now that the Portugals haue made their nauigations from West to East and the Castillans from East to West when they came to ioyne and meet at the Philippines and Macao the one haue gayned twelue houres and the other hath lost as much so as at one instant and in one time they finde the difference of foure and twentie houres which is a whole day Although we finde vents of fire in other places as Mount Aetna and Vesunio which now they call Mount Soma yet is that notable which is found at the Indies Ordinarily these Volcans be Rocks or Pikes of most high Mountaines which raise themselues aboue the tops of all other Mountaines vpon their tops they haue a Playne and in the midst thereof a pit or great mouth which descends euen vnto the foote thereof a thing very terrible to behold Out of these mouthes there issues smoake and sometimes fire some cast little smoake and haue in a manner no force
from place to place by the winde or course of the water Quintus Curtius writeth in his Historie that great Alexander came to the Citie of Memi where is a great Caue or Denne in the which is a Spring or Fountaine that continually auoideth a great quantitie of Bitumen in such sort that it is an easie thing to beleeue that the stones of the wals of Babylon might be laid therewith according as the said Author writeth I haue seene this Mine of Bitumen not onely in the Iland of Cuba but also such another in new Spaine in the Prouince of Panuco Thus farre I haue giuen you from Master Eden his Edition wherein because many things necessary to the naturall History of the Indies are in the Authors Summarie and in his 20. Books of a larger Historie I haue added hither such things as I thought fittest The Vâ—ias are like great Rats and the Cories like Conies of which the people in Hispaniola eate as also of the Yuanas Chemi and Mohni are little creatures also in that Iland which and their little mute Dogges were all the foure footed Beasts they had saue that of Rats there is some question The Indians of Iamaica and Cuba vse to catch fish with the fish Rouerso as Huntsmen or Falconers vse Hounds or Haukes in their game The Indians take it sometimes in their Nets of which I haue eaten and when they will bring vp one of them they feede it in the Sea and carrie it tied to their Canar by a strong line which when they see a fish fit for pray they loosen and vse words to excite courage and valour in this fish which presently flies like an arrow at that fish and fastens thereon and the Indian lets the line runne out at length being oiled of many fadomes and hauing a peece of wood at the end to buoy it till the fish be wearied this little fish little aboue a spanne long vnsightly to looke on still holding fast till the Indian gathering in his cord prepares to shoare to take the greater fish with much commendation and words of encouragement to this chase-fish perswading him to let goe his hold which otherwise should sooner by violence breake in peeces this Huntsman then force him to vnfasten Thus will he fasten on the belly of a Tortoise so great that two Indians and sometimes sixe haue enough to doe to carrie the same to their houses This fish Rouerso hath scailes Staire fashioned or like the roofe of a mans mouth and on them certain prickles very sharpe and strong whereby he fastens himselfe to what fish him pleaseth and these prickly scales he hath on the most part of his body They haue likewise a cunning wild-goose-chase in a great Lake casting in certaine great emptie Pompons in the season when Geese resort thither wherewith they being accustomed grow out of feare and will sit on them to bee carried Being thus acquainted the Indian puts one of these emptie Pompons on his head and with much dexteritie of swimming enters amongst the Geese and when one hath made him his Porter no part of his body being seene he swimmes from the rest and then with his hand pulls her in and hangs her thus strangled at his girdle and begins a fresh game When their Caciques are dead they lay them on a piece of wood or stone and make a fire about the same which may not burne them but by degrees draw forth all the moysture in sweat leauing onely the skin and bones and then in a place separate repose the same with the Ancestors which before had beene so dealt with this being their best Booke of Heraldrie to recount the Names and seuerall Descents in that Pedegree If any die in battell or so that they cannot recouer his body they compose Songs which the Children learne touching him and the manner of his death to supply that memoriall These Songs they call Areytos As for Letters they were so ignorant that seeing the intercourse of Spaniards by Letters they thought that Letters could speake and were very cautelous in their carriage of them lest the Letters might accuse them of ill demeanor by the way When they will disport themselues the Men and Women meet and take each other by the hand and one goeth before which is called Tequina or their Master with certaine paces measured to his singing in a low voice what commeth in his minde and after him all the multitude answereth in a higher voice with like measures proportioned to the tune and so continue they three or foure houres with Chicha or Mayz-wine among sometimes also changing the Tequina and taking another with a new tune and song Their Houses are commonly round like a Tent and sometimes with a double water passage which they call Buhio of good Timber thatched with Straw or long Grasse the Walls of Reed pitched into the ground In the Prouince of Abrayne in Golden Castile and thereabouts there are many Villages of Indians which dwell on the tops of Trees in Houses or Roomes there made to which they ascend by certaine staires of Besuco which growes about Trees and is vsed to binde their Walls and Timbers in their houses before mentioned Beneath the ground is fenny and couered with water not so high as a man and where it is deeper they vse Canoas and therewith passe to drie Land to sow their Mays and Iucca Battatas and Aies In those houses they are secured from wild Beasts Enemies and Fire They are not Archers and vse Clubs In the Gulfe of Vraba where Rio Grande enters the Sea are many Palme trees in the middest of the Riuer growing neere together on the tops whereof are houses made as the former and much bigger in which many Inhabitants dwell together and haue their beds tyed to the lower parts of the said Palme trees These beds they call Hamacas being couerlets of Cotten of good threed and well wouen of two or three braces long but narrower with cordes at the ends The cordes are of Cotton or of Henequen or Cabuya this the courser threed that the finer and able to cut Iron made of the leafe of a certaine herbe These Indians fight also with Clubs and did much harme to Captaine Vasco Nunes di Balboa his men which returned with losse not able to ouer-come them I haue also obserued that these Indians haue the bones of their skulls foure times as thicke as those of the Christians so that to strike them with a Sword must be warily done the Swords being thereby often broken Besides the Tigre and other beasts before mentioned in the firme Land are the Beori the Christians call them Dants not that they are such but for some resemblance as is also said of the Tigre of the bignesse of a meane Mule without hornes ash-coloured they know not to dresse and tanne their hides They take them with Dogs but if they take water they are fierce and
The variation of the Compasse 10. deg 40. min. Zere Iland The English suffer shipwracke The Armenian Village The latitude of Derbent 41. degrees 52. minutes The variation of the Compasse Nezauoo The particulars of their returne are omitted A strange accident of prouision for their reliefe Trauell vpon the Ice Chetera Babbas The English ship cut in pieces with Ice December Assaulted by Tartars Their returne to Astracan The breaking vp of the Ice Anno 1553. Master William Burrough was thâ—n young and with his brother in this first voyage Newnox is from the road of S. Nicholas Westward 35. miles Note Anno 1554. Anno 1555. The King and Queenes letters Entertainment by the Duke Master Killingworths beard of a maruellous length Anno 1556. the disastrous voyage Serchthrift Stephen Borough Anno 1557. Boghar voyage Muscouie trade long vnfortunate 1560. The first trade to the Narue 1560. Alcock slaine in Persia. Banister dyed in Media Edwards dyed at Astracan Note for numbers if great care bee not had how easily how dangerously mistaken * So it seemes by those words of his fol. 122. Aind a que confesso que me falta o milhor que be saber engenho para dar a entender o clima a Altura dâ—s graos c. False graduations a common thing in Maps of East and West Indies Valignanus a great Iesuite wrote a booke with that title * See of Gama tom 1. pag. 26. Straight of Mecca or the Red Sea Portugall Fortresse in Socatora before the Arabs Conquest A Martyr of Mahomet Martyrem non poena sed causa Xael or Iaâ—l insurrection Bralapisaon Tosa Span Lossa A strange answere Pullo Cambim Catimparù Lake Pinator Quitiruan Xincaleu 22. Millions Duckets Gold mines iron minds Rocke of Diamonds Similau a Pirate taken Tinacoreu or Taurlachim or Varella Truck for gold Pilaucacem Bird-wonder Cunebetee or Chiammay Pullo Champeiloo * Gauias Quiay Taiam a Pirate Thomas Mastangue his aduentures Pearle-fishers Guamboy and other Coast Cities of China Sonne of the Sunne title of the King of China Aynam or Hainam a great Iland S. from China Tanauquir Xicaulem another Pyrate A Renegado China Robber Mutipinan Benan Quangepaaru Hinimilau an Ethnike-Christianâ—Moore Pyrate Quangiparu â—lha dâ—s ladrones Miserable wracke and their fortnights miseries Reliefe almost miraculous * Milhano Wonderfull prouision Admirable escape Quoaman Comhay New Moone Tempests in China Guintoo Pullo Quirim Quiay Panian a China Pyrate Chincheo Goto Newes of Coia Acem Lailoo Opima spolia Coia Acem slaine The Caciz hatred of Christians Faria wracked the second time Violent wind Nouday China perillous Coast. Nouday assaulted Thomas Perez The Mandarine slaine Prisoners loosed The Towne sacked Comolem Ilands Premata Gundel a Pirate Another sea-fight Panians Iunke and another sunke Farias victorie 120000 Cruzados Buncalon Liampoo a Portugall Towne on the coast of China seuen leagues from Liampoo Ciuill warres in â—hina Fabulous â—umour Quouasy Farias triumph Calempluy Currents in in the Bay of Nanquin Angitur Nanganfu Sileupaquim Bay of Nanquin Buxipalem Strange Fishes Calnidan Moscumbia Alimania * A leste à lessueste Paatebenam Botinafau Gangitanou Giants Their wilde dance A Corge is 20. Sileupamor Tanamadel The wonderfull wall Statues 360. Hermitages Steples-pinacles He goeth on land Iesus made a patron of theeues He enters an Hermitage The speech betwixt Faria and an Hermit Absolons vowes Compleat hypocrisie The Hermitages Hermits attendants as Lay brethren Papall power They are discouered Xalingau Conxinacau Faria drowned and â—oth the Barkes wrâ—cked Foure other drowned An Hospitall * Malaca is said to stand in the Kingdome of Siam though now not yeelding subiection Siley iacau Suzanganee Strange oath Xiangulee hard vsage Chautir Taypor Nanquim Talagrepos The Iesuites place this Citie in 32. and in other places they likewise disagree in their calculation The reason I suppose is that Pâ—nto neuer obserued the height by Instâ—ument nor perhaps had skill thereby this he confesseth cap 105. pag. 222. but followed the Maps which at his returne he saw which haue placed Nanquin in that height falsly as I conceiue to keepe others from the true knowledge of these parts a thing vsuall in the old Maps of the East and West parts of the World and sometimes they did graduate places falsly of ignorance Nanquin described See of it in Pantoia Their iourney by water from Nanquin to Pequin * This gilding perhaps is but a kind of earth which the Chinois haue looking like gold Pocasser The Tartar Prisoner A pensile Palace 360. Pillars to the 360. dayes of the yeere Queens siluer Chappell and the riches and 〈…〉 The Iesuits say his armes are golden Dragons Monstrous statues Xinligau Leuquinau God of Sea fish Silke-loomes Huge pastures Iunquileu Alboquerque See tom 1. lib. 2. pag. 32. The Spanish hath the Palsy and it seemes a kind of Palsie gotten by stroke or blasting of the Aire Two monstrous statues and their deuotions Frequenâ—ie of China people Sampitay See Maff. l. 6. these Portugall Rebels had possessed Tamus and raised a Fort in the Iland whence followed that out rage to Perez after foure moneths trauell from Canton to the Court Lopez Soarez which sent Peirez to China went Vice-roy A. 1515. China Christians and Christianitie Loquimpau Mynes of Tuxenguim * 1000. Picoes is a Million of Taeis Pacan and Nacau China Chronicles and Legends Beginning of th◠〈…〉 Legend of Pequim No stranger may enter China The wall of China Seis brasas dalto quarenta palmos de largo Vâ—ion todas chanfradas ao picao Fiue Riuers interrupting the wall Wall-forts Thus in Spaine Malefactors aâ— sentenced to the Gallies or Garrisons of Oran Penon c Huge Prison Chaens of the wall Mindoo The customes 300000. Cruzados 3840. Hammer-men A Pico is 1000. Taeis Bigaypotim China ruled ouer India Cohilouzaa A Christian martyred Lucena hath this storie A Crosse. Mat. Escandel an Hungarian Earthquake The China Pluto Iunquilâ—nau Sem colares nem algemas How such infinite numbers liue Sugar-houses Infinite prouisions and store houses Pastures of beasts Dogs for meat Moueable Cities on the water Beauties and glories of this Riuer-Citie Bridges and high-wayes admirable Filâ—hy charity The Authors opinion Pequim Their hard vsage Their Cause heard The Fiscall set on worke it seemes by the Iudge which had senâ—enced them punished Tribunal and pompe Quansy works The Kings almâ—s Description of Paquim or as the Chinois call it Pequim Aquesendoo a Booke written of Pequin 1600. houses for Deputies 24000. sepulchers Hospitals 500. 24000. Bargemen 14000. Purueyors Curtesan street 100000. Landerers 1300. Monasteries * By letting the houses to other men 360. Gates and Castles 3800. Temples Foure chiefe Sects 120. Riuerets 1800. Bridges 120. Market-places 160. Shambles Prison of the exiled to the Tartarian wall almost eight leagues compasse * Or 18. to 45. Multitudes of Prisoners and men employed in the wall * Before hee sayd 200000. Huge Faires Another admirable Fabrike * Terreyro and so after Fire-blowers of Hell
in China Ciaracar Paruam the extreme border of the Mogoll Aingharan Calcia Gialalabath Cheman Samarhan or Samarcand Bogbar Tengi Badascian Ciarciunar Serpanil Sarcil Snowie way Tangbetar Iaconich Hiarchan Catay-Carauan Precious Marble Mahamet Câ—â— King of Cascar Cialis * To vse as it seemes those words La illah illalah Mehumed resullalah the Characteristical note of Mahumetan profession * To Meccâ— ward Carauan Bassa See before in Chaggi Memet the like Iourney and the same places Voyage to Catay from Hiarchan Places in the way Goez danceth Caracathai the first place of the Tartars Conquest See before in F. Bacoâ— Rubâ— c. Acsir Cialis Musulmans that is right beleeuers Newes of F. M. Ricius and the Iesuits * In Pantoia and Ricius Names changed by the Iesuites Cambalu Pucian Turphan Aremuth Camul The wals of China Chiaicuon Sociâ—u in China Borderers theeuish Tartars customes in the borders * This 200. iâ— to bee vnderstood of the Westerne partâ— or perhaps all but so much is naturall of rockes or hils or Trigautius a Dutchman might meane Dutch miles The Map expresseth about 1000. miles The reports are diuers as from reports for who could see it all and what good would 200. miles doe which horsemen in few dayes might passe Diuers Embassages counterfeited Reports of trauellers to bee weighed Nouem 1606. Carauan commeth Singhan Goez dyeth Tartarean Tartars Isaacs iourney Chaul 1615. Ignatius and Francis canonized by Greg. 15. March 12. 1622. This happened in Capt. Saris his ship See to 1. l. 4. c. 1. p. 367. * See sup l. 9. c. 12. §. 5. and the last Chapter of my Pilgrimage 2. Cor. 10.4 See Sir T. Roe and M. Terry sup p. 1482. and 586. This Storie shewes that with Mogols Chinois gifts are best Conuertâ—rs * Adol Schulkenius Colon. A. 1622. Iun. 26. See before in Polo Conti c. the truth hereof Apoc. 18. Acts 20. Cit. pro Milâ—nâ— How little in comparison was Pauls from Ierusalem to Illyricum Letter of Xauier Deuill worshipped by the Chinois Canton Cangoxima in Iapon Paul had beene in India and was Baptised Seas tempestuous and Piraticall Xauiers zeale Sancian thirtie leagues from the China shoare Xauiers death See Vita Xauerij F. Pinto Eman. Acosta Mafferius Ricius c. * Since the Expedition of the Westerne Christians the chiefe of which were Franks to the conquest of Ierusalem A Peninsula is compasted with water except on one part Beginnings of Amacao Melchiâ—r Nuns Canton leâ—st Metropolitan Citie I take but a liâ—tle of his relation because you haue so much before Aiton Aitao or Haitao * So Pinto alâ—o but this is the Prouinces Armes not the Kings * Some Sects ackâ—owledge more others 〈◊〉 Valignanus Admiranda regni Sinensis extant with the Iesuites Epistles published by Io. Hayus Plaut Mich. Ruggerius Portugall trade at Canton by day and extrusion at night Rugg first entrance Ruggerius freed by the Hai-tao Ambassage of Siam Zumpim or Chumbim Mat. Ricius Fraternitie of Iesus Vice-roy of Canton Quamsi Sciauquin Bribe trickes Mat. Ricius Clocke-watch Iesuites first China station Three cornered Glasse Quam-cheu the true name of Canton Pasius dieth long after Iaponian Embassage to the Pope Edâ—dit Hen. Cuickius King of Bungos Letter * But that Hortus deâ—iciarum Anâ—lia was more worth then both Indies to the Pope See sup lib. 8. c. 6. c. This the most acceptable mysterie of Papall Faith Extract è literit Roma missis See the last chap. of my Pilg. l. 9. Popes presents Papall fauours with little cost buying much esteeme Pompe prescribed See of these Iaponian Kings and Rites my Pilg. l. 5. c. 15. Nabunanga Frenoiama The Bonzian Quanon and Popish Corpus Christi Playes like by Iesuites testimoniâ— Shauâ—lings Faxiba made Quabacondono Quabacu signifies the Chist of treasure Cos. Turrianus The 3. chiefe men in Iapon The Vo High Priest and Quingue A greater then they Meaco the chiefe Citie of Iapon Corai Organtinus Brixiensis Quiâ— tulerit Gracchos c. * The Dairi the titular King China inuasion Reckoning without his Host. Iaponian Theologie * The Iesuits Christian Religion alway by the Deuill and his accuâ—ed for a State-disturber Iesuites banished Iaponian workmanship Preparation for inuasion of Corai Corai described see my China Map * This is that Fâ—reisama of whom you reade in Capt. Saris and Master Cocke depriued by Ogoshosama 1592. Wide Riuer betwixt China and Corai 190. Iesuites China Embassage Huge Palace and preparation for entertainment of the Chinois Noximandono a Iaponian Pirat Prodigious raines Earth-quakes * Iaponian policy to keepe all the Lords about the Court for securitie seldome suffered to visite their Kingdomes China Presents and Letters * Chia an herb vsed in warme water in all entertaynments in Iapon and China Bish. of Iapon â—â—an Pastus Alex Vaâ—gnanus P. Pilo lib. 5. c. 1◠§. 4. See of his death tom 1. p. 407. Tâ—mâ—le of Scinfaciman Câ—pâ— Saris told mee hee saw it Sup. l. 7. in fines Ci-hien a Goueâ—nour of a Hien or Citie Iesuites supplication Ciai-yuen or Chaen Prouinciall Visitour Money brings the Iesuites to China and procures them residence Liuqueceo Viegas bountie Friars in China see cap. 3. Anno 1583. Sciauquin tower Temple and statue to Gouernours Ignoto Deo Wilde Christianitie Iesuites build a house at first meane after greater D. wanting to Chinois Images worshipped First Baptisme Fancies of the vulgar Tables of honour Chinois in Hospitall Portugals called Deuils Tenderdâ—n steeple Conspiracie False accuses truely rewarded Mathematicks and Map of the world introduction to the Gospell Chinois ignorant of the world Ricius his Map The world vshers the Iesuits Gospell Ruggers râ—turn Spheâ—res and Globes Linsitau Ruler of two or three Diuisions or Hundreds See that Bull. sup l. 2. c. 1. Gaine separates the subiects of one Crowne without separation of state Apply this to the quarrell twixt the English and Dutch in the Indies And hereby you see the Iesuites instruments of secular affaires Edw. Menese whose Booke you haue in the 9. booke tom 1. F. Edw Sande Antonie Almeida License for Cequian Strange course for names Iesuites change their names Almeidas Letter to Ed. Sande Rector at Xauchin or Sciauchin contracted Moilin The Linsitaus brother aforesayd Another riuer Way paued and populous Seats and Porters in the high-wayes Faquen Great Cities thicke Metropolitan Citie of Chiansi All this way is apparent in the new Map New Riuer Nine Tatis * These miles seeme to bee intended Spanâ—sh leagues Cold Region Papists and Paynims Ceremonies alike Ciquion Cuixion New Riuer Steâ—ilitie Sciaubin or Ciquion like Venice Prouincials Letter Fortie Chinois compared to 40000. Iaponian Conuerts Coellius first teacher to paint Vutan a holy place haunted by Pilgrimes New Conuert a false Knaue Martin whipped to death Manner of honouring good Magistrates R. goeth into Europe Priuiledged old men Their elegant Petition is whole in Ricius too long for this place Iesuites merit their exhibition by seruice to
c. must be vnspeakably more then here there can be and yet here is more variation then about Iapan or Brasil Peru c. Caries Ilands * This Map of the authour for this and the former Voyage with the Tables of his iournall and sayling were somewhat troublesome and too costly to insert Alderman Iones Sound Sir Iames Lancasters Sound They see Land and find themselues embaied Cumberlands Iles. Cockin Sound Scuruy Grasse Six men Plenty of Salmon Baffins death The King satisfied touching the passage Hubbarts hope * This easily appeareth in obseruing his Voiage comparing that before of 〈◊〉 Gaul therewith Some of our Merchants are said not to be so willing for like causes with this discouerie Captaine Candish Land trending in 47. degrees The mouth of the Straight where he entred 30. or 40. leagues broad The straight to be discouered in 30. dayes The Ship Santa Anna. The Streight of Noua Spania thirtie dayes iourney in the Streight * I found this Worke translated in M. Hakluyts Papers but I can scarsly call it English it had so much of the Spanish garbe in lieterall and verball affectation and obscuritie I haue examined it with the Spanish Originall and compared it also with the Latine Translation with great paines for thy greater pleasure profit correcting and illustrating the phrase and sence being before very rude obscure and in very many places vtterly sencelesse But hauing none to write for mee but my owne hands I rather chose to amend this as I could then to translate it anew I haue seene it also in French The Latine is exceeding false in some numbers as 2000. for 20000. diuers times c. which I note for their sakes which reade that and haue not the Spanish I haue not contracted â—â—is as I haue done diuers other Relations because it is a briefe contraction of the Spanish-Indian Contractation presenting the Spanish Proceedings Colonies Townes Officers and Gouernment Spiritual and Temporall in the Indies This Author hath written eight Decades of the Spanish Acts in the West Indies which giue great light to those parts but would be too long for this Worke. Ramusio vncharitably taxed for he doth but blame the folly of Spanish Authors which are more curious to set downe the names c. of those which haue there done any thing though but rebellions then the description of the beasts fishes fowles plants Earth Heauen c. in the Indies for which hee there commends Ouiedo Chap. 1. Of the bounds and diuision of the West Indies l The Spaniards haue surpassed all Nations of the World in Nauigation of high built ships Remember that a Spaniard speakes it Pallos is to say staues or stickes m The Spaniards did not or would not know any Passage n How the degrees of longitude are reckoned What is discouered and nauigated The English haue discouered far more From 81. in Greenland and from 78. in Groinland to 57. of South latitude A maruellous effect of the Loadstone Don Antonie Ossorio discouereth a great secret of the Loadstone Chap. 2. Of the Nauigation of the Indies How many Nauigations there bee to these Indies Difficultie in going out of the Barre of Saint Lucar In what times these Nauigations are to be made Monsons The voyage of the Fleets till they come to the place wher they goe What thing the Brises are They take water alreadie in the I le of Guadalupe where the Courses are diuided Which is the best Nauigation from that Cape of S. Antonie to S. Iohn de Vlua a Of little Venice b Or of the Needle The voyage of Hunduras and Guatemala c Or little black Moore Chap. 3. Wherein hee prosecuteth the Nauigations of the Indies The Fleets doe returne to Castile by another way When the fleets ought to depart to come for Castile Whither the Fleets doe goe from Cartagena d Or take away sleepe The ships of Hunduras reknowledge the Cape of Saint Antonie When the Fleets of Noua Espanna doe depart thence The voyage of them of Santa Martha and Venezuela Nauigation from the Auana to Castile Nauigation from the Ilands of Azores vnto Saint Lucar Nauigation to the Riuer of Plata Nauigation of the South Sea Nauigation of Panama to the Citie de los Reyes Nauigation of thâ— West Indies Chap. 4. Of the Indies of the North. Here was inserted a Map of the North parâ—s of America But Master Briggs hath in the former booke giuen you a farre farre better to which I referre you Which bee the Indies of the North and which of the South Wherefore it was called New Spaine Great pastures in New Spaine * The weathermost or vpper Ilands Chap. 5. Of the bounds of the iurisdiction of Saint Dominicke Chap. 6. Of the Iland Hispaniola and of Cuba Cazabi bread Ten Spanish Townes The Citie of Saint Domingo * Peso is foure shillings English Salualyon of Yguey The Village of Zeybo El Cotuy Azua Who carried to the Indies the sugar Canes La Yaguana Concecion de la Vega. The wood of the Crosse of the Valley Saint Iago de los Caualleros Puerto de Plata Monte Christe La Isabella La Verapaz Saluatierra The Maguana Villanueua El Bonao La Buenauentura 14000. Spaniâ—rds there were in the Hispaniola at her beginning Ports Points most notable Puerto Hermoso * Or Gnats Where they tooke armes the first time against Indians Cuba S. Iago Baracoa Bayamâ— Puerto del Principe Sancti Spiritus El Albana or the Hauana Puerto de Carennas Wherefore it was called the Slaughters * Or Slaughters f Or Red. Chap. 7. Of the Ilands of Iamayca S. Iohn the Lucayos the Caniballs Siuill Melilla Oriston inhabitings of Iamayca Cape of Moranta The first ciuill warre among the Spaniards was in Iamayca n Or Lizards o Or Negrillo p Or open the eye S. Iuan de puerto Rico. S. Iohn The Arrecibo Guadianilla S. German The tree Tabernacle The hauens of this Iland Who carried the Ginger to the Ilands of Barlouento The Ilands of the Lucayos Where the Channell of Bahama is Admirable Current Baxos de Bimini Guanahani the first Land that was discouered in the Indies * Or Indian â—anibals What a Caniball signifieth The Canibaâ—â— Men hunters Frier vnwholsome food The discouery of the Iland of the Trinitie the yeare 1498 Arrogancie of Americus Vespucius Wherfore men do say that the fishing of the Pearles passed from the Iland of Cubagua to the Margarita Iland of Cubagua * Or the Friers Chap. 8. Of Venezuela riuer of Hacha new Florida and Gulfe of Noua Hispania which is the rest that remaineth of the limits of this Counsell Wherefore it was called Venezuela or little Venice The Citie of Coro Our Lady of Carualleda S. Iago de Leon. Xerez Segouia Tucuyo Trucillo The Lake Maracaybo The ports and points of the Gouernment of Venezuela Riuer Morauion The Iland of Cubagua Strange Hogs An earthquake in the coast of Terra firme the yeare 1530. very admirable
Shewing the reason why the Sunne without the Tropicks causeth greatest quantitie of waters when it is farthest off and contrariwise within them it breedeth most when it is neerest l. 2. chap. 7. Exceptions to generall rules The Authors experience Various and diuersified tempers of the Torrid Zone Causes of temperatenâ—sse vnder the Line and within the Tropicks Second cause That there bee other reasons besides the former mentioned which shew that the burning Zone is temperate especially alongst the Ocean Chap. 11. Arist. 〈◊〉 Dionys. c. 15. 〈◊〉 câ—â—l â—ierar That the cold windes bee the principal cause to make the burning Zone temperate Chap. 13. It is noted by trauellers that there is a hot winde sometimes neere to Balsara and Ormus which swalloweth mens breath and suddenly kils them Linschoten obserue at Goa the wind to blow twelue houres from the Sea and other twelue constantly from the land Temper of the Indies Of the windes their differences properties and causes in generall lib. 3. cap. 2. * We haue abbreuiated and to preuent tediousnesse cut off a great part of Acostas obseruations in the two former bookes as hauing handled the same in our Pilgrimage l. 8. where we haue shewed whence men and beasts might come thither and that the opinion of the worlds vnhabitablenesse betwixt the Tropicks is false for the daily raines when the Sunne is neerest the long nights therein great dewes the breezes and constant course of the windes the great Lakes Riuers height of Hills c. make those parts not onely habitable but more temperate then others and fitter for mans life there being more heat at and on this side the Tropicks then vnder the Line We here doe but cull ouâ— choise things for better vnderstanding the naturall historie of those parts for other things referring the Reader to the Authour himselfe Occasionally our notes shall elucidate those things also which are in the Text omitted * Vulcans as Aetâ—â— Hecla c. sulphurous earth whence â—â—re issueth Generall windes Monsoâ—â— Windes receiue their qualities from the places by which they passe Psalme 134. Ieremie 10. Herera hath shewed the height of the Hills to bee the cause of the windes constancy and raines raritie Eastern winde raineth betwixt the Tropicks That the burning Zone the Brises or Easterly windes doe continually blow and without the Zone the Westerne and that the Easterly are ordinarie alwayes there Chap. 4. Iuan de Gacos in Decade 1. lib. 4. cap. 6. They goe one way to the Indies and return another why Sayling 2700. leagues without sight of Land in two moneths See Candishes voyage Cause of the Brises Motion of the Primum Mobile carrieth the inferiour aire with it The Comet 1577. seene eight dayes sooner in Peru then in Spaine The Brize or motion of the air with the heauens is a winde Why withouâ— the Zone in a greater altâ—tude we finde alwaies Westerly windes Chap. 7. 〈◊〉 windes Of the exceptions to the foresaid Rules of the winds and calmes both at Land and at Sea Chap. 8. Cause of the variety of windes Simile Note Of some maruellous effects of the windes which are in some parts of the Indies Chap. 9. Silkewormes killed with South-west windes Exo. c. 10. 14. Iob 17. Ioan 4. Osâ—e 13. Dan. 3. The like Linschoten obserueth in the Terceras Sea sicknesse whence Agitation and Sea ayre Strange passion at Pariacaca by the ayre there Height of Pariacaca 〈◊〉 too subtile for mens bodies So we see Horses to beate the water with their feete to make it more grosse and thereby more agreeable to their bodies Vicunos Great Desart Punas ayre kilâ—ing Strange Story The same confirmed by a Iesuites report and a Dominicans Such effects of cold wâ— haue obserued in Russia and other Northern parts and the like Master Kniuet will tell vs at the Maggelan Straits No Mediterranean Sea of great note in America Terra firme Straight of land but eight leag betwixt North South Seas Herodotus Iouius Experience in Drakes and Maires voyage haue found them no straights but broken Ilands to the South contrary to our Author here See of this Sir Francis Drakes Voyage to 1. l. 2 I haue omitted Sarmientoes voiage c. The supposed Straight in Florida Of the ebbing and flowing of the Indian Ocean Chap. 14. The Philosophers in searching the cause of ebbing and flowing haue easily erred following the Greekes and Latines which knew not the Ocean and could not therfore know the cause * Hernando Alonso which with Sarmiento had gone to the Straights to seeke Captaine Drake At the Downes on our coast two tides meet one from the Westerne Sea or slewe the other from the North which there cause much varietie Of sundry Fishers and their manner of fishing at the Indies The Manati a strange fish The Whales also bring forth their yong aliue and nourish them with their brests being in that huge creature scarce twice so big as the breasts of a woman and farre lesse then those of many women Their foode is also Sea weedes Sharking sharkes They haue rough heads whereby they cleaue and sticke fast to the Sharke which thus are forced to caâ—ry them with their swift motion of whose off all also they liue Crocodiles * Yet so as euer and anon hee dips it in the water his tongue being so short that otherwise he could not swallow it Tigre kils a Crocodile Indians exploit on a Crocodile Whale killed by the Sauages Of Lakes and Pooles that be at the Indies Chap. 16. Thicke water Fishes and fishing Originall of Lakes Greatest riuers flow from Lakes Hot Lake and many wonders thereof Lakes of Mexico salt and fresh Râ—ch Lake Of many and diuers Springs and Fountains Chap. 17. Hot Spring turning into Stone Fountaine of Pitch Cold and hot Springs together Salt Spring which yeeldes Salâ— without boiling Pocke-â—pring Smoak Spring Inke c. Of Riuers Chap. 18. Maragnon or Amazons Water-fall Golden thirst Riuer of Plata increasing as Nilus How they passe their Riuers Haire and Straw Bridges L. 3. C. 19 Decay of people in the Indies by the Spaniards Corn groundâ— The Indies mountainous and thereby temperate Of the properties of the land of Peru. Chap. 20 One winde onely The Plaines the hils and the Andes See sup in Herera Raine almost euer and almost neuer Diuers Beasts Their bread The reason why it raines on the Lanos along the Sea coast Chap. 21. Of the propertie of new Spaine of the Ilands and of other Lands Chap. 22. Peru wine Sugar workes and Hides Indians wasted Of the vnknowne Land and the diuersitie of a whole day betwixt them of the East and the West Chap. 23. Of the Volcans or Vents of fire Chap. 24. Terrible earthquake at Guatimala Couetous Priest Causes of this burning Basil. Psal. 28. in exaâ— Of Earthquakes Cap. 26. Great earthquakes Noyse before the earthquake Why the Sea coast is subiect to earthquakes Earthquake at Ferrara terrible Aâ— Angoango Metals grow as
Dante 's Armadillos Yguanas Chinchilles Cuyes Viscachas Light-Dogge Of Micos or Indian Monkeys Chap. 39. Lustie leape Strange sight Monkey learned Zealous Of Vicugnes and Tarugnes of Peru Chap 40. Aristot. lib. 3. de partib animal c. 2. lib. 10. c. 7â— Indian hunting Experiment for the eyes Bezar stone Tarugues Of Pacos Guanacos and Indian Muttons Chap. 41. Two kindes Sixe Arobes is a hundred and fiftie pounds weight Of the Bezaars stone Chap. 42. Plin. l. 10. c. 72. Gold of Indians base Manner of mynes and searching for gold Gold in mynes Spanish customes for vsage of mynes Water a good neighbour Women gold-washers Other Labourers Fiue to a tray Gold in Riuers or poulder Gold engendred on hill tops His reason Some may thinke that coles shels other ludibria naturae naturally grow there Gold in graines One huge piece of gold A Marke is a pound of 8. ounces summa 16. pound weight eight ounces 〈◊〉 12. ounces to the pound Indian gilding Men continue an houre vnder water Naturall succession Of this read more largely in the Decads Huge Pearle By the computation of Venice foure graines make a Caract Peare-pearles Deuils Imposture Pythagoreaâ— Pâ—aces Indian coniurings or consultations Eclipses and Prognostications Reason why men kill themselues to serue their Masters in the other world Images of the Diuell Tempests Small Wormes troublesome Lice forsake them Lice finde them againe Nigua Vipers Adders Dragons Spiders huge Toades Their renuing Singing Crabs or rather Tortoises Serpents called Iuanni Nâ—te Small Birds Tâ—mineios Bardati or Armadillos a kinde of Moles Beareâ— Anteâ— Iohson mentions the like neere Gambâ—a Great wonders in least creatures A strange beast which seemeth a kind of Camelion Foules and Birds Alcatraz Panama Pilchards Passere sempie Picuti Birds with bils heauier then bodies Foolish Sparowes wisely prouident Gazzuole Pintadelli Great Fowles Cocos I haue seene one of these Fruits opened the which when it was whole if it were shaken the water was hard shogge therein as it were in a Bottle but in time it consumed was partly congealed into a salt substance Good against the wind and stone Collick Great Trees Great Canoas A maruellous Tree Kindling of fire without fire Putrified wood shining in the night Plinie Almost â—ll Indian trees continue euer greene Cassia Eâ—rth hot lower then a fadome A secret thing Radicall moisture Reed-springs or fountaines of water Platani or Plantans Figges Tunas Bihaos Hauas Dying of Cotton A strange thing * It was not a venemous iuce of the fruit but spirâ—â—uall disobedience in eaâ—ing contrarie to Gods commâ—nâ—ement whiâ—h poysoned Adams soule with sinne the wages whereof is death Canibals inuenome their Arrowes Petrus Arrias The water of the Sea The gulfe of Vraba Xagua Blacke â—â—aines Hohi Some thinke these to be mirobalanes Date trees The Inhabitanâ—s of the Sea of Sur. An herbe that beareth cordes Cabuia and Henequen A strange thing Leaues Thistle trees A leafe of great vertue Tiburons Manates Great Tortoises Tiburons of Sharkes Plinie Crocodiles Manates The fish Manate A remedie against the stone The Sword fish Tunny Turbut Note The Sea somewhere fertile somewhere barren Flying fishes The Iland of Bermuda Not too hie for the Pie Nor too low for the Crow Beragua The West Ocean The Sea Meditarraneum Hispaniola Cuba Ocean without ebbing and flowing The ebbe at Panama falleth two leagues or sixe miles The South Sea Esquegua and Vrraca The Riuer of Chagre The Iland Bastimento The maruellous Bridge Naturall stone Bridge Tigres Plants and herbes Birds Men. Sheepe Bulls Iucca Bats Plinie The Tigre The hunting of Tigres A Tigre made tame The Indian women Vnnaturall abortions Large breasts Child-birth The men of India The King is borne on mens backes Letting of bloud They haue no beards They paint their bodies The Canibals Trumpets Armor of gold Their gallantnesse in the warres Their Iewels How the women beare vp their teates with bars of Gold The stature colour of the Indians The Indians called Coronati The Iland of Giants Iucatos The sculs of Indians heads Men are desirous of new things The commodities of Hispaniola England and Sicilie Gold Mines Cotton Cassia Sheepe and Hogs Dogs and Cats become wilde The scituation of Hispaniola A Cathedrall Church and Monasteries in Hispaniola An Hospitall The people Cienas a kinde of Glowormes Crowes stinking and sweet partridges Bullets for Guns wrought by nature A Fountaine of thâ— Pitch of Bitumen Quintus Curtius Bitumen of Babylon The Rouerso a strange fish to hunt with Perhaps this Rouerso is the little fish which cleaueth to the Sharke and is by him carried in all his Chases feeding on the scrapâ— Memorials of the dead Ignorance of Letters Areytos songs and dances Houses of three sorts * Besuco seemes to be as bind-weed or Iuie but stronger and more pliant The beasts of those parts Dants Gatto Ceruiero Leopards Foxes Red and fallow Deere Marterns Monkeys Dogs Churchia Fowles Parrots Night-sparrows Bats Peacocks and Turkeys Sea-crowes Wilde Hennes Partriches Pheasants Flies and Wasps Bees Ants c. Hist. â— l. 15. c. 1. vid. inf Historia Gen. l. 2. c. 14. Beginnings of thâ— foule disease Lib. 3. c. 6. * Those before mâ—ntioned out of Ramuâ—io Friars quarrels Lib. 4. c. 2. Lib 3. c. 11. Ouiedos fift Booke is of their religion c. Lib. 6. c. 3. Superstâ—tious conceit of the Sacrament It was ordayned against the Huraâ—ans of the conscience not of the weather Lib. 7. c. 10. Cockâ— Cats differing from the Spanish wherein our English doe much agree with the Indian Strange water-spout Lib. 13. c. 2. Sea Monster stupendious * 25. passa which sometimes signifieth fathoms * An Italian fowle Lib. 14. c. 7. Water hawkes L. 15. c. 1. Greatest harme by least creatures Vncertainty of Superstition Gal. 4. Rom. 4. Eph. 4. Rom. 8. Ioh. 14. â— Tim. 4. Col. 1. Col. 2. Col. 3. Heb. 13. Eph. 5. 1. Ioâ— 4. Mat. 11. Num. 11. Ier. 2.13 Mat. 25. Ioh. 1. L. 16. c. 15. Lawyers dangerous in the Spanish Indies L. 17. c. 4. Filthy Marriages Ouiedâ—s testimony of Indian Christianity He thinkes it a Fable that is told of Crosses found in Iucaâ—an Strange passages of Fowles L. 17. c. 15. L. 17. c. 18. Abomâ—nâ—ble deuoâ—ions L. 18. c. 2. L 19 c. 2. Piâ—ch Fountaine C. 9. Two shel-fishes which yeeld Pearles * He cals him a Pirate but sheweth no reason of that name Pewter English voyage to the Wâ—st Indies A. 1517. L. 19. c. 13. L. 20. * Ouiedo writ other Bookes of the firme Land which are not extant L. 7. Eccles. 1. L. 7. c. 2. Chichimecas Their sauage course of life Ottomies New Mexico Aztlan Tuculhuacan Their beginnings 900. yeeres agoe A.D. 720. How the six Linages of Nauatalcas peopled the Land of Mexico Chap. 3. Suchimilcos Chalchas Tepanecans Azcapuzalco Tescuco Culhua Tlalluicans Quabunachua Tlascaltecans Giants Note of Giants Beginnings of ciuilitie Of the Mexicans departure of their iourney and peopling the Prouince
of Idolatry practised amongst the Mexicans Ch. 10 How the Deuil hath laboured to make himselfe equall vnto God and to imitate him in his Sacrifices Religion and Sacraments Chap. 11. Of the Temples that were found at the Indies Chap. 12. Flu lib. de tract Iust. in apol pro christ Of the proud 〈◊〉 at Mexico Cha. 13. Mexican Popes Of the Priests and their offices Ch. 14. The Deuill had his Popes or Vicars at Mexico for the new World as at Rome for the old and now for both Mid-night Mattins Of the Monasterie of Virgins which the Deuill hath inuented for his seruice Chap. 15. Vestall Virgins or Nunns of Peru. Dan. 14. Of the Monasteries of religious men that the Deuil heth inuented for superstition Chap. 16. Indian shauen Friars their show of sanctitie wiâ—h pouerty chastity c. Of Penance the strictnesse the Indians haue vsed at the Deuils perswasion Ch. 17. Their seuere Fasts Monsters of Wil-worship Of the Sacrifices the Indians made to the Deuill whereof Chap. 18. Sacrifices of things insensible Sacrifices of beasts Sacrifices of Birds Blacke sheepe Extispicia Blacke Dogs Fasting till stars appeared Shel-offerings Of the Sacrifices they made of men Cha. 19. Two hundred children sacrificed Paâ—ricide Of the horrible Sacrifices of men which the Mexicaas vsed Chap 20. Captiues only sacrificed Victima hostia Manner of humane immane sacrificing Bloudie Rites Their Papa The other fiue Priests Deuillish dexteritie Fume of the heart offered to the Sunne Of other kinds of Sacrifices of men which the Mexicans vsed Chap. 21. Flaying Sacrifices Challenge-sacrifices Idols-Idol-sacrifice Incredible numbers sacrificed Deuill hungry for mans flesh How the Indians grew weary and could not endure the crueltie of Satan Chap. 22. Spaniards sacrificed A man speakes after his heart is out Galen lib. 2. de Hiâ— Platon placit cap. 4. How the Deuill hath laboured to imitate and counterfait the SacrameÌ„ts of the holy Church Chap. 25. Indian Communion In what manner the Deuill hath laboured in Mexico to counterfait the feast of the holy Sacrament vsed in the Popish Church Chap. 24. The Deuill liking that vnchristian Antichristian prodigious opinion of transubstantiation and the consequents eleuation adoration reseruation Corpus Christi mad solemnities and idolatrous processions with rites beyond any former paganisme in disgrace of the true Sacrament falsly calling this their Idoll an vnbloudy sacrifice which hath cost so many thousands their bloud in fire and otherwise the Papists at once disputing of Christs naturall body and despiting and renting his mysticall body hath found nothing fitter to transport into the Indies nothing more contrarie to sense reason religion humanitie or wherein more to triumph ouer mankinde in all these then this brutish opinion and bloudie solemnitie here described Communicating Idol sermon Of Confessors and Confession which the Indians vsed Chap. 25. Reserued eases as in Papall penance Sinnes of omission Wicked effect of deuillish diuinations Penances Iapon confession Of the abominable Vnction which the Mexican Priests and other Nations vsed and of their witch craâ—ts Chap. 26. Haire-superstition Vision ointment Like lips like Lettuce Benumming force of Tobacco Diuinationâ— Strange Sorcerers Of other Ceremoniâ—s aâ—d Customes of thâ— Indians which are like vnto ours Chap. 27. Mexican Baptisme Marriage ceremonies 300. Mexican Idols Mangos mangled deuotions Feasts ceâ—ebrated by them of Cusco and nâ—w the Deuilâ— would imitate the mystery of the holy Trinitiâ— Chap. 28. Rayme feast Indian Trinity Camey-feast Aymorey-feast Intiraymi-feast Corpus Christi day resembled Situa-feast Of the feast of Iubilee which the Mexicans celebrated Chap. 29. No feare but of temporall punishment Of the Feast of Marchants which those of Cholutecas did celebrate Ch. 30 Stately Temple Drums vsed in stead of Bels. Comedies Of the supputation of times and the Kalendeâ—â—h Mexicans vsed Cha. 2. Mexican yeare 18. moneths New yeares day Their Kalender Weeke of 13. daies or years See this in the Mexican Chronicle in their owne figures New Age. How the Kings Inguas accounted the yeares and moneths Better computation of times in Peru. 12. Pillars of the Sunne That no Nation of â—he Indies hath beene found to haue had the vse of Letters Chap. 4 Three wayes of remembrance to posterity letters as we haue pictures as the Mexicans charactâ—rs as in China Such foolâ—s did that wise counsell make the ChristiaÌ„ Church in decreeing Images not onely to be bookes for such as cannot readâ— but obiects of worship to learned and vnlearned Of the fashion of Letters and writings which the Mexicans vsed Chap. 7. Bookes of leaues of trees heere folium liber or codex from the rinde in which the Ancients writ Blind zeale Confession by picture Of Registers and the manner of reâ—koning which the Indians of Peru vsed Chap. 8. Quippos Writing with small stones Accounts by graines of Mayâ— Of the order the Indians hold in their Writings Ch. 9. Diuers manners of writing Diuers formes of gouernment Whether the Mexican or Peru Kingdome was greater Of the gouernment of the Kings and Inguas of Peru. Chap. 12. Incestuous Marriages Diadem Exact Iustice. No idlenesse permitted Transmigration Of the distribution the Inguas made of their Vassals Chap. 13. Gouernours Tribute yeerely paid at Cusco Fourefold prouinciall partition Of the Edifices and manner of building of the Inguas Chap. 14. Neat art in ioyning huge stones Arches Bridges Straw Bridge Of the Inguas reuenues and the order of Tributes they imposed vpon the Indians Chap. 15. All slaues and none Lands sacred Order in their Religion Royall dâ—mâ—snes Lands of the comminaltie in common No proprietiâ— of Lands Their Tribute what Cattell distrâ—buted Hunter laweâ— Prouisions for cattell Negligence punished Of Arts and offices which the Indians did exercise Ch. 16. All men of all trades Diuersitie of head-â—â—re Vâ—iformity of habit Of the Posts and Chasquis the Indians did vse Chap. 17. Of the Iustice Lawes and punuishments which the Inguas haue establâ—shed and of their mariages Chap. 18. Adultery Marriage solemnitie Incest forbidden Of the Originall of the Inguas Lords of Peru with their Conquests and Victories Chap. 19. Continuance of their Monarchy Strife twixt Inguas and Canaries 400. Oratoriâ—â— in Cusco Of the first Ingua and his Successors Chap. 20. Of the greatest and most famous Ingua called Guaynacapa Ch. 22. Guaynacapa worshipped for a god His 300. sonnes c. Spaniards esteemed men sent from God Peru could not haue beene conquered but â—y diuision of themselues Of the last Successors Inguas Chap. 23. Pedegree of Vrincusco Of the manner of the Mexicans Commonweale Chap. 24. Royall Diadem See the picture storie House of liuing Creatures His Palaces Of the Titles and Dignities the Indians vsed Chap. 25. Foure Electors Men-cutters Bloud-shedders Lord of darkenesse Other Officers See the picture historie Priests and Teachers of the Law How the Mexicans made war and of the Orders of knighthood Chap. 26. Their Armes Eagle-order Order of Lions and Tigres Gray Knights Knights priâ—â—lidges