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

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

past that Alexander the great passing into the Iland of Tabroban founde a ship of Ceder wood on the borders or coast of the sea whereas it had remayned aboue two hūdreth yeares without rotting And thereof this prouerbe in Lattin came Digna Cedro These Ceders are not so hye neither of such a sauor as those that are in the straight of Magellan although it be of the same highnesse as are these Ilands of Essores Lykewise ther is found many other trées small great bearing faire fruite chiefly in the best most notable Ilande the which they haue named the Iland of S. Michael and it is the best peopled In this Iland there is a very faire towne lately builded with a castle where as the ships aswell of Spayne as Portingal at their retourne from the Indies do harbor before that they sayle home into their countries In one of these Ilands there is a hyll or moūtaine almost as high as that of Teneryf of which we haue spoken where as groweth great plenty of Pastel ▪ of Suger and some wyne there is no rauening beasts to be found but there is certaine wylde Goats many foules in the woods From the heigth of these trées it behoued vs to sayle forwarde vntill we came to the Caape Finistra on the coast of Spayne where as we landed very late for to recouer victuals whereof we had great néed for to sustaine vs vntill that we arriued into Britayn which is a countrey vnder the power and obedience of Fraunce Here haue I louyng readers shewed the discourse of this may farre and long voyage to the Ponent the which I haue set forth as well as God hath gyuen me grace for that I woulde not be founde vnprofytable neither that this my enterprise should be in vayne peraduenture not so eloquently as your delicate eares and ripe iudgement doth require Therefore seing that it hath not bene the pleasure of God that I should bestow my youth in learning nor to obtain so much perfection as others but rather in nauigation I moste heartily beseeche you to excuse me In the meane tyme if that it please you to take in good part this present worke the which I haue gathered together being in the tempests and other discommodities of the sea you shall encourage me after that I haue rested my selfe and reconciled my spirites whiche are as scattered here and there to set forth more fully and at large the lyeng and distāce of places the which I haue obserued by eye as well in Leuant as in the Ponent and in the South the which I hope to shew you by eye represent by liuely figures besides the Carde Marins the which to speake the truthe without offence or hurt of any man do erre and fayle in many things whether it be the faulte of those that pricke them or set them out I leaue you to iudge Furthermore as it is vneasie so is it also vnpossible for any one iustly to represent the most notable places their lyengs and distances without hauing séene them the whiche is the surest knowledge of all as all men may well iudge and vnderstande By this ye may sée how long tyme we haue bene ignorant of many countreys as well Ilands as maine landes beleeuyng onely that whiche oure Elders hadde set forth vntyll that since of late yeares men haue ieoparded them selues in the Nauigation So that nowe all our Hemispherie is discouered and founde inhabited of the which Ptolomeus and others knewe not the halfe FINIS ¶ The Table of the Chapters of this present Boke HOvv the Author toke shipping cap. 1 Of the straight auncienly named Calpe and novv Gebaltary cap. 2 Of Africa generally cap. 3 Of Africa particularly ca. 4 Of the fortunate Ilands now called the Canaries ca. 5 Of the hie mountaine of Pyke properly called Pike hil ca. 6 Of the yle of Yron cap. 7 Of the Ilands of Madera ca. 8 Of the vvyne of Madera ca. 9 Of the Promentary Verd and of his Ilands cap. 10 Of the vvine of Palme trees cap. 11 Of the Riuers of Senega ca. 12 Of the Ilāds Hisperides otherwise named Caape Verd. cap. 13 Of Torterells and of an herbe that they call Orseilla ca. 14 Of the Iland of Fyer cap. 15 Of Ethiopa cap. 16 Of Gynney cap. 17 Of the Equinoctiall lyne and of the Ilandes of S. Homer cap. 18 That not onely all that is vnto the line is inhabited but also all the vvorld is inhabited contrary to the opinion of our Elders cap. 19 Of the multitude and diuers kyndes of fishes being vnder this lyne Equinoctiall ca. 20 Of an Ilande named the Assention cap. 21 Of the Promentary of good hope and of many secrets obserued in the same lykevvise our aryual to the Indians of America or France Antartike cap. 22 Of the Iland of Madagascar otherwise named S. Laurēce cap. 23 Of our aryuall to France Antartike otherwise named America to the place named Caape de Fria cap. 24 Of the Ryuer of Ganabara othervvise named Ianaria how the land where we aryued was named France Antartike cap. 25 Of the fish that is in this great Ryuer before named ca. 26 Of America generally cap. 27 Of the Religion of these Americans cap. 28 The maner and custome of liuing of these Americans asvvell men as women cap. 29 Of their eating and drynking cap. 30 Against the opinion of those that thynck the wylde men to be heary cap. 31 Of a tree named Genipat in the American tong vvith the vvhich they make collours cap. 32 Of a tree named Paquouer cap. 33 How these Americans or wyld men do difforme thēselues esteming it a great glory cap. 34 Of visions dreames and dellusions that these Americans haue and of the persecution that they receiue of vvycked spirits cap. 35 Of false Prophets and Magitians that are in this coūtrey of America the which inuocate and call vpon vvicked spirits and of a tree named Ahouai cap. 36 How these Americans beleue the soule to be immortall cap. 37 Hovv these wylde make warre one agaynst a nother specially against those vvhome they name Margageas Thabaiares Also of a tree which they name Hairy of the which they make their weapons for warre cap. 38 Their maner of fighting aswel on the land as on the water cap. 39 How these barbarous and wild men put their ennimies to death that they haue taken in the warres and howe they eate them cap. 40 Howe these wilde men couet greatly to reuenge their harmes and iniuries cap. 41 How these wild men of America are maried cap. 42 Of the ceremonies burial and funeralls that they vse to the deceased cap. 43 Of Mortugabes and of the charitie that they vse towardes strangers cap. 44 The description of a sicknesse named Pians to the whiche are subiecte those people of America as wel in the Ilan●des as the main land cap. 45 Of the Diseases most ryfe in America