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A11416	The colonies of Bartas VVith the commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the translatour.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1598 (1598)	STC 21670; ESTC S110847	58,951	82

Hochilega and other landes thereabouts Reade Theuet also the latter Card-men For the French Calicuza I haue translated Caliquas according as I finde it written both in others and in Ortellius who also hath for Mechi Terlichi-mechi and therefore I translate it Terlichi 46 They sow'd at'hother side Xalisco nowe called Noua Gallicia is described by Gomara in the 21. Chapter of his 5. booke It is a land very fruitfull and rich in honny waxe and siluer and the people there are Idolaters and Men-eaters Nunnius Gusmannus who seized the countrie for the king of Spain in the yeare 1530. hath written a discourse thereof and it is to be read in the third volume of the Spanish Nauigations The Prouince of Mechuacan from whence not farre lyeth Cusule is about 40. leagues lower southward then Xalisco that also the said Gusmannus conquered after he had most cruelly and traiterously put to death the Prince and Peeres of the countrie as Gomara sheweth in his booke chapter aboue quoted Mexico which some count all one with Themixtetan is the mother Cittie of that kingdome now called Hispania Noua wonderfull rich it is and strong and of high renoume built farre more curiously then Venice vpon a lake salt on the northside because it is there of a Sea-like breadth and on the southside fresh because of a Riuer that empties there into it Greater is the Cittie thought to be then Seuille in Spaine the streetes are passing well set and their channels in such manner cast as can not be mended Diuers places there are to buy and sell-in the needefull and ordinary wares but one there is greater then the rest with many walkes and galleries round about it where euery day may bee seene aboue threescore thousande Chapmen There is the Iudgement hall for common Pleas and were also many temples shrines of Idols before the comming of Ferdinando Cortez who made thereof the first conquest for the K. of Spaine exercising most horrible cruelties vpon all both yong and old in the Citie as Barthelemi de las Casas a Monke Bishoppe of Spaine reports in his historie of the Indies where he stayed a long time Looke the description of Mexico in the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations fol. 300. See also Benzo of Millaine his historie of the newe worlde the 2. booke and 13. Chapter Now from these partes aboue named after report of some wonders of many there seene and worthie a larger discourse by themselues the Poet drawes his Colonies down further towardes Peru by the Land-straight of Panama which parts the South-sea from the Ocean and thereabout is hardly 20. leagues in breadth The fiery mountaine of Nicaragua is by Gomara described in his 5. booke Chap. 203. so are the other wonders which the Poet here notes in his 4. booke chap. 194. 47 Then Chili they possest Gomara in his fourth booke chap. 131. holds opinion that the men of Chili are the right Antipodes or Counter-walkers vnto Spaine and that the countrie there is of the same temper with Andaluzie This Chili lyeth on the shore of el Mar Pacifico so also doth Quintete which I haue put for Chinca both neere the Patagones or Giants whose countrie is full of people and hath certaine riuers that runne by day and stand by night some think because of the snowes which in the day time are melted by the Sun and frozen by the Moone in the night but I take it rather to be some great secret and miracle of nature The cause why here I made exchange of Chinca was first for that the Poet had spoke before of the springs of Chink which I take for the same then because it is so diuersly placed of the Card-men for Ortelius in his Mappe of the new world sets it aboue and Theuet beside Chili in either place it stands well to be taken for the Chink afore-named but Mercator placeth it a great deale lower and on the contrary coast neer the riuer of Plata where indeede is a countrie called Chica that perhaps hath bred this error Lastly Quintete stands so right in way which the Poet followes from Chili to the Patagones that I thought it not amisse to take the same rather then the doubtfull Chinca By the fomy Brack of Magellanus he meanes the sea and Straight of Magellan close by terra Australis Gomara describeth it well in the beginning of the third booke of his Portugall Historie The Poet hath alreadie shewed how people came first on the North America from the kingdome of Anian ouer the maine land to th' Atlantick sea shore then on all the further coasts from Quiuir to the Magellan Straight along th' Archipelago de San Lazaro Mar del Zur Pacifico and now he takes the higher side on the left hand from the Land-Straight of Panama to the riuer of Plata which is not farre from the Magellan noting by the way the most note-worthie places of all this huge reach of ground represented as it is by our late writers in their generall and particular Mappes of the New-found world Huo is a great sweet-water streame rising at Quillacingas that lieth vnder the Equatour and running athwart the countrie now called Carthage into the sea at Garia Vraba is the countrie that lieth betwixt that riuer and Carthagene Concerning Zenu marke what Gomara sayth thereof in his second booke and 69. chapter It is the name of a riuer and citie both and of a Hauen very large and sure The Citie is some 8. leagues from the sea There is a great Mart for Salt and Fish Gould the inhabitants gather all about and when they set themselues to get much they lay fine-wrought nets in the riuer of Zenu and others and oftentimes they draw-vp graines of pure gold as big as egges This countrie is not farre from the Straight of Darien In the sayd second booke chap. 72. he describes also Noua Grenada and the Mount of Emeraudes which is very high bare and peeld without any herbe or tree thereon growing and lieth some fiue degrees on this side the Equatour The Indians when they goe-about to get the stones first vse many enchauntments to know where the best vaine is The first time the Spanyards came there they drew thence great and little 1800. very fayre and of great price but for this commoditie the countrie is so barren that the people were faine to feede on Pismers till of late the Spanish couetousnesse hath made them know the value of their Mountaine Cumana is described in the foresaid booke chap. 79. in the ende whereof Gomara sayth the vapours of the Riuer of Cumana engender a certaine little mist or slime vpon mens eyes so as the people there are very pore-blind Parie is described in the 84 chapter of the said second book Maragnon a Riuer which as Gomara sayth 2. booke 87. chapter is three-score miles ouer It emptieth at the Cape of A●inde three degrees beiond th' Aequator but springeth a great way further

wil behold the wonders of his vnsearchable wisedome and they are here some of them by the Poet well pointed-out And a wonderfull thing indeed it is that among so many men as haue beene since the beginning are or shall be to the worldes end there neuer was nor is nor can be any one but differing much from all the rest both in body and minde and in many thinges else that ensue thereon This I am content to note but in a world leauing all the particulars of this miracle for the reader priuatly to consider that he may wonder the more thereat and praise there according th' almightie Creator the Soueraigne Good neither will I now take in hand to dispute against those that in searching the causes of this diuersitie ascribe all to Fortune or Nature as they call it meaning a secret propertie and power of the creatures or to the starres and other heauenly bodies to mans lawes custome or nourishment in stead of God who is indeed the first and onely working cause of all things in whome wee liue moue and are This matter woulde require a long discourse and though the Poet here beside the chiefe and onely true cause reckoneth certaine vnder-causes as custome growing to Nature Th' example of Elders prouinciall Lawes and the influence of Starres it is not his meaning to take from the Lord of Nature this honor due vnto him for the diuersitie of his wonderfull works but onely to lay open vnto vs a few such instruments as his incomprehensible wisedome vseth to make vs the better conceiue the manner of his heauenly working The Philosophers Astronomers Physicians and Politickes discourse at large vpon these differences he that would see them well handled let him reade the 5. chapter of Bodines methode entituled de recto historiarum iudicio and the first chapter of his fift booke de Republica which is the summe of all that hee writes thereof in his Methode Peucer also in the 13. and 14. bookes of his discourse vpon the principall sorts of diuinations and Hippocrates in his booke de Aere aquis locis but especially Bodin may serue to expound our Poet who in very fewe lines hath penned matter of so long discourse 59 The Northen man He entreth consideration of many pointes wherein the North and Southerne people differ Bodin in the places aforequoted shewes the causes thereof according to philosophie and physicke because his bookes are common specially his politickes I will not here set downe what he saith nor examine his opinions but leaue that wholy to the diligent reader Concerning that the Poet noteth the best histories auerre the same and namely for the Southerne people Iohannes Leo and Franciscus Aluares for the Northen Olaus Magnus the Baron of Herbestan in his Moscouie Buchanan in the historie of Scotland and diuers others 60 The Middle Man Bodin in the 5. booke of his Politickes the first chap. deuideth all people dwelling on this side the Aequator into 3. kindes to witte the hotte and Southerne people from the Aequator 30. degrees vpward the Meane and temperate in the next 30. and th' Extreame cold and Northen people from the 60. degree to the Pole And so of the nations and countries beyond the Aequator The reason hereof he setteth downe in his Method chap. 5. 61 For in the sacred close The poet goes on according to the said deuision and in few wordes emplies all that discourse of Bodin who saith among other matters there that the people dwelling in the middle Regions haue more strength lesse wit then the Southerne better partes of minde lesse bodily force then the Northen are moreouer the fittest for gouernement of Common-wealthes and iustest in their actions And if a man doe marke well the histories of the world he shall find that the greatest most valiant Armies came euer out of the North the deepest and subtilest knowledge of Philosophie Mathematickes and all other contemplatiue Artes from the south and the best gouernement the best lawes lawyers and Orators from the Middle countries and that the greatest Empyres were founded and established there c. What reason there is for this he sheweth also in his fift chap. of his Meth. Looke more thereof in L. Regius de vicissitudine et varietate rerum For my parte I am of opinion that Almightie God as he hath knit and bound together the Elementes and Creatures made of them with a marueilous compasse in number waight and measure best for continuance of the whole worke and mutuall agreement of the partes so he hath also placed the chiefe subtiltie and liuelyhood of spirit farthest from the greatest bodily force either in beast or man for the better maintenance of humaine societie in a iust counterpoys and gaue the middle kinde of people a nature of eyther tempered though if a man enter into particular discourse hee may easily finde the northerne southerne and middle Nature in euery Nation What say I euery Nation nay I dare say in euery one of vs so fitly is Man called a little world But the southerne men for the most part hauing so quick and liuely partes of minde in a body lesse charged with fieshe they represent the contemplatiue and studious kinde of life the northerne that haue their wit in their fingers endes that is that are so cunning craftesmen inuenters of warlike engins artillerie and all sortes of needefull instrumentes they may well bee likened vnto the actiue and trading life and the middle sort vnto the ciuill gouernement and politicke life which is a meane betwixt the other two Yet this the Poet well restraineth saying that the northerne people also in these latter dayes haue bin renoumed for the Tongues the Lawes the Mathematickes Poesie Oratorie all good learning as well as in times past they were and are still for warlike valour and cunning hand-works Not without cause for in England Scotland Polonie Denmarke and other such countries are and haue bene diuers very learned men flourishing and Germany especially which is as it were Vulcans forge and the Campe of Mars hath brought forth many men excellent well seene in all kinde of learning it were needelesse to name them they are so wellknowne 62 But eu'n among our selues The more to magnifie the vnsoundable wisedome of God appearing in the creation of so diuers-disposed people he noteth out many pointes of great difference eu'n among those nations that liue neere together and are seuered onely by certaine hilles riuers and forrests as the French Dutch Italian and Spanish He paintes them out all in their kinde for such properties as are dayly seene in them and may be easily gathered out of their owne histories for there are not the like-differing neighbour-nations in all Europe no not in the world Let me consider and all my Countrymen with me what he saith of the French the other three may doe the like by themselues if they list The French he saith is in warre impatient in