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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

all as you have heard already the way how that they fight and how that the use their Prisoners They Hunt with several sorts of Arrows according as they design their Sport some small and sharp pointed with a Fish Tooth others bigger and blunt at the end like to a Rammer and that is to Stun or Stupifie certain Creatures that that they keep about their House after that they recover Breath again I have seen them shoot an Arrow 50 paces even out from them and make it stick in a Beasts Head or Mans Head if in time of War They go a Fishing in small Dores or Cannous or Barkloggs or sometimes upon Blown dressed Selh's skins tyed together with which they go oft to Sea and shoots with their Arrows some sorts of Fish and others they strick with their Harpoon Irons and so when they are Loaden they come home and delivers their Fishes to the Women who dresses them according as they have occasion and that is various ways for their own use and also to keep to complement Strangers with all when that they come amongst them as I may self have been especially near to the City Darian where we had several Dishes of the aforementioned Tortoisses and Manaty with several other rare Fishes and Fowls which are very plenty near to the Lake or Loch or Le-goun of Vraba I have spoken with old men that have described to me a great Fowl in shape like the Griffen but they are all banisht of late years As also are all the Lyons Tygers Leopards and Bears that used to haunt the Mountains and in sted of them there is great plenty of all sorts of Munkies delicat Fowls as is aforementioned which Munkies are very good Meat to them that know them I have eaten 40 times of them and would do it yet before I would eat Mager or Lean-flesh They are generally kind to all Strangers except Spainiards whom they hate with a perfect hatred as they have good cause to do considering their horrid and inhumane Murder that they committed upon these poor silly harmless Heathens It 's not many Years ago since I saw upon the Coast of Peru 100 Carcages of murdered Indians turned into Mumy tho' a long time since These sandy hot Countreys keeps their Carcages from consuming I call them Carcages because they are lying like as many dead dryed Sheep only they want the Wool that Sheep bear in these parts of the World But I will not talk of Peru till I have finished the History of Darian I say that they are kind to Strangers for if that they know that you are designed to go up the Countrey they will carry you in Ham makers upon their shoulders with two Men one on each side of you carrying Water or Wine and Fire and Tobacco if that you have occasion for either of them and when that ye come to the Place where their King or chief Man liveth ye are made welcome by him and all the rest of his Court by hugging of you in their Arms and scratching of your Back or Shoulders with their Fingers the which you must do the like to them then you are set down upon a Strawmatt or some such like thing by the King or next best Man to him and if that you have an Interpreter to acquaint them with your Business they will all hear him or your self if that you can speak the Language until that you have made an end and then the King tells it to all his Court round about him which if that it be a thing that pleases him he claps his right Hand a cross his Heart and gives two or three Nods with his Head which all signifie he likes the News or your Discourse with his Heart and so if that he do not like it shakes his Head and looks of a sower Countenance and crys out aloud Zeto patae id est I am not well pleased But if that he is well pleased then he crys aloud Yatabala Comorada that is ye are welcome to him as a Friend and so in confirmation of this he drinks to you clapping his Heart first and afterwards takes you by the Hand and Drinks to you that is a sign that ye are as welcome to him as his Heart and so ye drink all round in this Fashion till it comes to the King again and then to Victuals ye go to such as I have spoken of already and the way of dressing of it And farder to to complement you with the Kindness they give you either their own or their Wifes Sister to wait upon you while that you stay in Countrey which if you except of them it is taken by them as an extraordinary piece of Favour conferred upon the Family in accepting of their Relation ye may use her if that you please which if that you do I am sure it must either be for rarities Cause or else extream Necessity But be sure that you take her not with you when that you return either to your Store-house or yet a Shipboard by conveying her secretly away as some hath done to the great Damage of these that may perhaps come into the same Place for Trade as I knew it once fall out not many years ago But that if ye leave her with them as also a few Beeds or such like Toyes then besure that they shall convoy you down in State with Musick before you and some of the best of the Place will go at your side and others holding an Subumbrera as the Spainiards call it over your Head others carrying Palm-wine and Tobacco for fire they can make it out of a green and dry Stick by Frixation presently to you if need require When that ye are come home either to the Store-house or the Ship ye cause compliment those that conveyed you down with Beeds Coper or Brass-Rings and Whistles of all sorts a few of them and they will return you 1000 times the worth of it either in Gold or in Silver besides what Provisions of Barbekewed-Fish and Flesh they will send down to you At your departure from them ye must shake hands and scart their Back as I told you before and then they will cry out Zata faca Balla Comerada that is many bold and hearty success to you my Friend so away they march home and show all their Wealth they have gotten from you If ye have given them any small Looking-Glasses that is two or three days Work for them to behold their beautiful Faces into and sometimes looking upon the back side of the Glass to see if the Party be there that they saw in the foreside of the Glass Now for their Religion you must know that all the Heathens in these Parts have some sort of a god or other that they worship either for fear of Love viz. There is a Palm-tree which affords them Wine every day and there is a Root that they call Api they worship because its good for to make Bread of There