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A42948	The man in the moone, or, A discourse of a voyage thither by F.G., B. of H. ; to which is added Nuncius inanimatus, written in Latin by the same author, and now Englished by a person of worth.	Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633.	1657 (1657)	Wing G970; ESTC R35701	46,142	175

setting up But fearing I would spend it as lightly as I got it they did never leave importuning me till I must needs marry the daughter of a Portugais a Merchant of Lisbon a man of great wealth and dealings called John Figueres Therein I satisfied their desire and putting ●ot onely my marriage money but also a good part of mine own Stock into the hands of my Father in Law or such as he wished me unto I lived in good sort even like a Gentleman with great content for divers years At last it fell out that some disagreement happened between me and one Pedro Delgades a Gentleman of my kin the causes whereof are needless to be related but so farr this dissention grew between us as when no mediation of friends could appease the s●me into the field we went together alone with our Rapiers where my chance was to kill him being a man of great strength and tall stature But what I wan●ed of him in strength I supplyed with courage and my nimbleness more than countervailed his stature This fact being committed in Carmona I fled with all the speed I could to Lisbone thinking to lurk with some friend of my Father in laws till the matter might be compounded and a course taken for a sentence of Acquittall by consent of the prosecutors This matter fell out in the Year 1596. even at that time that a certain great Count of ours came home from the West Indies in triumphant manner boasting and sending out his declarations in print of a great victory he had obtained against the English near the Isle of Pines Whereas the truth is he got of the English nothing at all in that Voyage but blowes and a great loss Would to God that lying and Vanit●e had been all the faults he had his convetousness was like to by my utter undoing although since it hath proved a means of eternizing my name for ever with all Posterity I verily hope and to the unspeakable good of all mortall men that in succeeding ages the World shall have if at the leastwise it may please God that I do return safe home a●●●● into my Countrie to give perfect instructions how those admirable devices and past all credit of possibility which I have light upon may be imparted unto publique use You shall then see men to flie from place to place in the ayre you shall be able without moving or travelling of any creature to send messages in an instant many Miles off and receive answer again imediately you shall be able to declare your minde presently unto your friend being in some private and remote place of a populous Citie with a number of such like things but that which far surpasseth all the rest you shall have notice of a new World of many most rare and incredible secrets of Nature that all the Philosophers of former ages could never so much as dream off But I must be adv●sed how I be over liberall in publishing these wonderfull mysteryes till the Sages of our State have considered how farr the use of these things may stand with the Policy and good government of our Countrey as also with the Fathers of the Church how the publication of them may not prove prejudiciall to the affairs of the Catholique Faith and Religion which I am taught by those wonders I have seen above any mortall man that hath lived in many ages past with all my best endeavours to advance without all respect of temporall good and so I hope I shall But to go forward with my narration so it was that the bragging Captain above named made shew of great discontentment for the death of the said Delgades who was indeed some kin unto him Howbeit he would have been intreated so that I would have given him no less than 1000. Ducats for his share to have put up his Pipes and surceased all suit in his Kinsmans behalfe I had by this time besides a wife two sonns whom I liked not to beggar by satisfying the desire of this covetous br●ggart and the rest and therefore constrained of necessity to take another course I put my self in a good Carick that went for the East Indies taking with me the worth of 2000. Ducats to traffique withall being yet able to leave so much more for the estate of my wife and children whatsoever might become of me and the goods I carried with me In the Indies I prospered exceeding well bestowing my stock in Jewells namely for the most part in Diamonds Emeraulds and great Pearl of which I had such peniworths as my stock being safely returned into Spain so I heard it was must needs yield ten for one But my self upon my way homeward soone after we had doubled the East of Buena Speranza fell grievously sick for many dayes making account by the same sickness to end my life as undoubtedly I had done had we no even then as we did recovered th● same blessed Isle of S. Hellen the only paradice I think that the Earth yieldeth of the healthfullness of the Aire there the fruitfullness of the soile and the abundance of all manner of things necessary for sustaining the life of man what should I speak seeing there is scant a boy in all Spain that hath not heard of the same I cannot but wonder that our King in his wisdome hath not thought fit to plant a Colony and to fortifie in it being a place so necessary for refreshing of all ●●● vellers out of the Indies so as it ●●● hardly possible to make a Voyage thence without touching there It is situate in the Altitude of 16. degrees to the South and is about 3. leagues in compass having no firm land or continent within 300. leagues nay not so much as an Island within 100. leagues of the same so that it may seeme a miracle of Nature that out of so huge and tempestuous an Ocean such a little piece of ground should arise and discover it self● Upon ●he South side there is a very good harbo●ough and near unto the same divers edifices built by the Portingals to entertain passengers amongst the which there is a pretty Chappell handsomly beautifyed with a Tower having a fair Bell in the same Near unto this housing there is a pretty Brook of excellent fresh water divers faire walkes made b● hand and set along upon both sides with fruit-Trees especially Oranges Limmons Pomgranats Almonds and the like which bear Fruit all the year long as do also the Fig-Trees Vines Pear-Trees whereof there are divers sorts Palmitos Cocos Olives Plumms also I have seen there such as we call Damaxaelas but few as for Apples I dare say there are none at all of garden Hearbs there is good store as of Parsly Cole-worts Rosemary Mellons Gourds Lettice and the like Corn likewise growing of it self incredible plenty as Wheate Pease Barley and almost all kind of Pulse but chiefly it aboundeth with Cattle and Fowle as Goates Swine Sheepe and Horses Partridges wild

ab●sed to ill purposes and that was all I could get of them Now after it was known that Irdonozur the great Monarch had done me this honour it is strange how much al● men respected me more than before my Guardians which hitherto were very nice in relating any thing to me concerning the government of that world now became somewhat more open so as I could learne partly of them and partly of Pylonas what I shall deliver unto you concerning that matter whereof I will onely give you a taste at this time referring you unto a more ample discourse in my second part which at my returne into Spaine you shall have at large but not till then for causes heretofore related In a thousand years it is not found that there is either Whoremonger amongst them whereof these reasons are to be yielded There is no want of any thing necessary for the use of man Food groweth every where without labour and that of all sorts to be desired For rayment howsing or any thing els that you may imagine possible for a man to want or desire it is provide by the command of Superiors though not without labour yet so little as they do nothing but as it were playing with pleasure Againe their Females are all of an absolute beauty and I know not how it commeth to passe by a secret disposition of nature there that a man having once known a Woman never desireth any other As for murther it was never heard of amongst them neither is it a thing almost possible to be committed for there is no wound to be given which may not be cured they assured me and I for my part doe believe it that although a mans head be cut off yet if any time within the space of Three Moons it be put together and joyned to the Carkasse againe with the appointment of the Juice of a certaine hearbe there growng it will be joyned together againe so as the partie wounded shall become perfectly whole in a few houres But the chief cause is that through an excellent disposition of that stature of people there all young and old do hate all manner of vice and do live in such love peace and amitie as it seemeth to be another Paradise True it is that some are better disposed than other but that they discerne immediately at the time of their birth And because it is an inviolable decree amongst them never to put any one to death perceiving by the stature and some other notes they have who are likely to be of a wicked or imperfect disposition they send them away I know not by what means into the Earth and change them for other children before they shall have either abilitie or opportunitie to do amisse among them But first they say they are faine to keepe them there for a certain space till that the Aire of the Earth may alter their colour to be like unto ours And their ordinary vent for them is a certain high hill in the North of America whose people I can easily believe to be wholly descended of them partly in regard of their colour partly also in regard of the continuall use of Tob●cco which the Lunars use exceeding much as living in a place abounding wonderfully with moysture as also for the pleasure they take in it and partly in some other respects too long now to be rehearsed Sometimes they mistake their aime and fall upon Christendome Asia or Affricke marry that is but seldome I remember some years since that I read certain stories tending to the confirmation of these things delivered by these Lunars as especially one Chapter of Guil. Neubrigensis de reb Angl. it is towards the end of his first book but the chapter I cannot particularly resign Then see Inigo Mondejar in his description of Nueva Granata the second book as also Joseph Desia de Carana in his history of Mexico if my memory faile me not you will find that in these which will make my report much the more credible But for testimonies I care not May I once have the happinesse to return home in safety I will yield such demonstrations of all I deliver as shall quickly make void all doubt of the truth hereof If you will aske me further of the manner of government amongst the Lunars and how Justice is executed Alas what need is there of Exemplary punishment where there are no offences committed they need there no Lawyers for there is never any contention the seeds thereof if any begin to sprout being presently by the wisedom of the next Superior puld up by the roots And as little need is there of Physicians they never misdiet themselves their Aire is alwayes temperate and pure neither is there any occasion at all of sicknes as to me it seemed at least for I could not hear that ever any of them were sicke But the time that nature hath assigned unto them being spent without any paine at all they die or rather I should say cease to live as a candle to give light when that which nourisheth it is consumed I was once at the departure of one of them which I wondred much to behold for notwithstanding the happy life ●e led and multitude of friends and children he should forsake as soone as certainly he understood and perceived his end to approach he prepared a great feast and c●●●ing about him all those he especially esteemed of he bids them be merry and rejoyce with him for that the time was come he should now leave the counterfeit pleasures of that world and be made partaker of all true joyes and perfect happinesse I wondred not so much at his constancy as the behaviour of those his friends with us in the like case all seeme to mourne when often some of them do but laugh in their sleeves or as one sayes under a visard They all on the other side young and old both seemingly and in my conscience sincerely ●●id rejoyce thereat so as if any dissembled it was but their own griefe conceived for their own particular losse Their bodies being dead putrifie not and therefore are not buried but kept in certaine Roomes ordained for that purpose so as most of them can shew their Ancestors bodies uncorrupt for many generations There is never any raine wind or change of the Aire never either Summer or Winter but as it were a perpetuall Spring yeelding all pleasure all content and that free from any annoyance at all O my Wife and Children what wrong have you done me to bereave me of the happinesse of that place but it maketh no matter for by this voyage am I sufficiently assured that ere long the race of my mortall life being run I shall attain a greater happiness elsewhere and that everlasting It was the Ninth day of September that I began to ascend from El Pico twelve dayes I was upon my Voyage and arrived in that Region of the Moon that they call Simiri September the 21.