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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28304	A description of the province and bay of Darian giving an full account of all it's situation, inhabitants, way and manner of living and religion, solemnities, ceremonies and product, being vastly rich with gold and silver, and various other commodities / by I.B., a well-wisher to the company who lived there seventeen years.	I. B. (Isaac Blackwell)	1699 (1699)	Wing B3091; ESTC R37075	12,095	21

A Description OF THE PROVINCE and BAY OF DARIAN Giving an full Account of all it's Situation Inhabitants Way and Manner of Living and Religion Solemnities Ceremonies and Product Being vastly rich with Gold and Silver and various other Commodities By I. B. a Well-wisher to the COMPANY who lived there Seventeen Years EDINBVRGH Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty Anno Dom. 1699. Reader BEing desired by a Friend to set out this following Description of the Province and Bay of DARIAN my Friend knowing that I lived there and thereabouts some years ago What I have written is both what I have seen and heard in the Place and I have not perused one word of Mr. Dampeir or Mr. Wafer's Books Neither do I know what Description they have given of this Province of Darian they were both my Ship-maits near six years in the South-Sea I went from Golden Island over the Isthumus that separats the North-Sea from the South-Sea and there I entered aboard of the Ship which they were then in lying in the Bay of Panama so that I never did see any of them in the Province of DARIAN For their Ship came round Cap-Horn in the South-Seas therefore if that they and I do not agree in our Description is none of my fault for what I have written is the real Truth of what I have seen and heard for the Incouragement of my Countrey-men By your much obliged Servant Isaac Blackwell A Description OF THE PROVINCE and BAY OF DARIAN DARIAN is a Province lying in the Isthmus that separats the North-Sea from the South-Sea in the Latitude of 8 Degrees and 25 Minuts North-Latitude The Entry of the River lyeth near 30 Miles from Darian-City which is the Metropolitan of it's Province The Word Darian signifies in the Indian Speech a Shady City or Town And it was never Conquered by any in Man's Memory It 's called a shadowed Town because it 's Situated betwixt two great Ranges of high Hills lying on the East and West and running North and South with a River called by it's own Name Darian River And it lying so near the Line they are not priviledged with the Sun-shine but at 12 a Clock of the Day which is near right over their Heads at that time And then the Reflects of the Sun from off the River and Hill-sides causes such an extream Heat But sufferable The Bay of Darian begins from Cap de Samblas on the West and ends at Cap de Caenu on the East this is by the Indians own allowance tho' other Draughts makes it three times Broader To the North lyes off these Islands Isle de Pinos or Isle of Pinos and some other Islands that lyes near to the Shoar called Isl de Orr or Golden Island As also Tortuga or Tortois Isl because of the Plenty of these most delicate wholsome Amphibius Creatures for Man's Use for they participate of Fish Fl●sh Fowl they Swim in the Sea as a Fish feeds upon Grass that growes upon Rocks like a Bull or Cow they lay Eggs like a Fowll that incredible Numbers for I have taken out of an hole in the Sand 300 and oddsat a time In short it 's an excellent wholsome Food any manner of way dressed I would say more of it were it not known to all to be true that it would exceed the bounds of thir few Sheets There is another Island called Furte which lyeth off of the Mouth of the Le-goun of Vraba which signifieth Safe Anchorage and indeed so it may be called for 1000 Sail of Ships can Ride in it with much Freedom There 's from 5 to 10 Fathome deep Water with good white chynely ground mixed with white Coryll at the Bottom in which there is vast variety of several good wholsom Fishes But especially that much admired Creature called Manaty which signifies Sea-Cow in the Indian Speech and many other great and small Fishes The Mouth of this Le-goun is about 80 Yairds over and groweth Wider the further you Sale in it It s in Form like a Semi-Circle The Word Le-goun signifies a Lake or Loch All this whole Province of Darian Soile is of a good Strong and fertile Soile and very wholsome strong bodied People possesse it which they themselves think that it 's the wholsomness of the Air and Climate that makes them such well bodied Men and Women There is good store of good Water Springs which flow down from off these high Ranges of Mountains in the time of their Rainy Moneths viz. from the middle of November to the middle or end of January And then all the rest of the year is fair pleasant and Serene Weather as can be but Hot with all which occasions their ground generally to be so Fertile but especially all about the Lake or Legoun of Vraba For in the time of these Rains all their Savanas or Salinas id est Meadows are so over flown with Dirt and Rubbish which is washed down from the high Mountains that when it comes to settle upon the low Grounds it 's like to Nilus in a manner For what they have to Sow or Plant they do it while the Mud is yet Soft and in 28 days time I have seen Mellons Cucumbers and Gourds and many such like Roots come to Maturity in the said time which I ever imputed to these Rains and the Reflex of the Sun off of the Water and Hill-sides down upon the Vallies or Meadow Grounds It 's an continued Summer for all things are Green there all the year over Trees of some sort of Fruit will have upon them all atone time Blossoms budded or set Fruit and some half Ripe others wind-shaken various are the Numbers of all sorts of Fruit Trees and other stately Trees for Food and Building As also all manner of wild Fowl especially Turkies and Partriges Turtle doves Parats with various other sorts of Fowles both small and great As also that smal insect Cuchaniel Here groweth that famous Tree called the Cocur-nute-tree which affords all at one time Food Rayment all other necessaries fitting for Houshold Use Here groweth also the much talked of Cabadge-Tree which I have measured when blown down with the Wind above 100 Foot betwixt the Root above Ground and the bottom of the Cabadge that grows upon the top of it Here grows also that much esteemed Nut called Coco-Nut of which the Chacolat is made And here also groweth that Rair and most Fragrant and Odoriferous Apple called Pinn-Apple which I am sure many of your fine Ladies would give their Silk Gown for one of them to play with a while In short I have not now Time nor Bounds to set down all the most excellent Species of Fruits such as Mammi and Mammi Suportas and Guovas c. and Roots and other Herbs which are all very Medicinal as well as wholsome for Food to Man and Beast There is likewayes found in these