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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68132	The discouery of a new world or A description of the South Indies Hetherto vnknowne by an English Mercury.; Mundus alter et idem. English	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Gentili, Alberico, 1552-1608.; Healey, John, d. 1610.	1613 (1613)	STC 12686.3; ESTC S103684	102,841	283

from one another and by my faith sir the whole world fares the better by it for should these rogish improouers once lay their heads together against our world we might put vp our pipes the case is be-shitt and go cast our capps at the Moone for any state that we should holde long O sir vnderstand me the case is plaine we were sure of ruine I grant ye that and so were all that could not stand in defence against them but the wiser sort of them-selues preuent that by nousling priuate dissentions at home It is a great commendation of towardnesse in their children as Caesar said of the Germaines to bee cunning filtchers in their young yeares for this arte they teach them euen from their infancies in precepts which they call Hermeticall ye shall haue the little theeuelings euen while they suck their mothers brests to steale needles pence from out of their purses but if they either ouer-shoote themselues be taken in the maner by being either too slowe handed or too boisterous vp goes their bums incontinent Now as they grow to yeares so must they augment their practise by stealing of Geese Ducks or any such like prouant nor doth any day passe them wherein they do not increase their stock by one lift or other If their plot chance to haue any dangerous induction about it then do they content themselues with stealing a clod from your neighbors land or a stake from his hedge least their hands should grow out of vse this is the ordinary practise of y● borderers of Liegerdumaine betweene it Robberswaldt lieth a large heath called e Lyers-buy plaine of which you shall heare more here-after when we haue passed the maritimall coasts of Robberswalat The Pyrates and sea-borderers of Robbers-waldt CHAP. 3. THese Pirates disperse themselues all along the shores of Magellanus his straite on the bankes of Theeuingen and in the Iles of Filtching-fennes Now they know that no ship that passeth the straite can possibly returne back the current is so swift and therefore they stoppe the passage with chaines and shallops and so make prize of all that should passe whereby they that goe this voyage doe seldome or neuer returne more by reason of the multitude of these Pyrates then the strength of the opposed streame Europe affoords not any sea-man that knowes his bayes creekes tides shelfes rockes and channells better then these doe generally besides that they swim as nimbly and as perfectly as the fishes themselues doe Their chiefe hauen is called Kirk-dun a towne of no great strength nor compasse but fraught with as hardie Pirates as Christendome affordes and with as great store of stolne ritches It is situate in that angle of Robberswaldt that lyeth iust vpon the head of Filtching-fennes ouer-against a part of Tenter-belly The shores here-abouts as it is reported are all ledged with Rocks of the Loade-stone which drawe the ships vnto these coasts that are an incredible distance off and heere they hold them But the Kirk-duners that sayle out into the maine and fetch in the merchants they gette the cash And strange it is to see how many purchases their bolde valour hath borne from strengths some-times trebbling theirs some ascribe this vnto the Magicall Ensignes they haue from Fooliana let the reader choose whether hee will beleeue them or no. The Citties armes is the vulture that feedes as shee flyes the word Fruor nec quiesco Ritch and yet restlesse Mantled Geules doubled ermines A little within the mouth of the riuer Filtching is there another towne called Port van Berghen the Queene and Lady of all those Iles and waters it taketh tribute of all vessells that passe that way whatsoeuer they cannot passe ere they paye and besides it layeth out great hookes with loade-stones vpon them where-with it angleth for shipps iust as wee doe for Pikes Troutes and other fishes and where it once seazeth there keepeth it sure hold In these fens and in this broade riuer filled all with Iles you shall not finde one cottage nor one boate partly in that the people doe choose rather to make themselues and their families nests in Reeds which growe heere in a farre larger size then those of India and partly because they are commixt with the Foolianders lying one so neere another whereof there is none but had rather swim then sayle so that they are so perfect in that arte that like to the Crocodiles they liue as much in the water as in the land and mooue as swiftly as the swifted whirry And of these doe the Nauigators stand more in feare then of the other Pyrates by much for these come suddenly vpon them and many of them clap to them to the ship at once stay her as fast as if a Remora stuck to her keele and then they tumble her with the bottome vpwards and sinke her or traile her to a rock and there wrack her How the Author got into this country Of the Harpies CHAP. 4. BVt the reader may well maruell how I came to learne thus much and make a question whether any man that were wise would expose himselfe to such a barbarous nations curtesie well sir I preuented all that Vnderstand that the Foolianders the deuout I meane and these people hold a Iubylee both together euery fiftie yeare during the which yeare they are at peace with all the world all men are free from feare of the rankest theefe that breathes At these times doe men come hether from all parts of this continent yet at their comming they do giue such gifts to the inhabitants that this one yeares peace is more profitable vnto them then foure yeares filching Now it was my chance to light here vpon this very yeare and so I and my fellow trauellers had the better meanes to take an exact view of the country Onely we were in some feare of the Harpies as we trauelled our gold got no peace at their hands They are by my troth I know not what either fowles or diuels haue kept here by report euer since Zethes Calais chased them out of Europe they build their nests with strong beames laying them a thwart ouer the forked armes of huge growne trees they are faced like owles backt bodied like Estridges fethered like Porcupines beakt and pounced like Eagles Truely they made me remember the birds that as one writeth do keepe in the Diomedaean Iles which would sawne vpon vpon the Greekes and flie at the faces of all men besides Iust so did the Harpyes vse vs that were stangers they would not touch an inhabitant but were as familiar with them as tame Pidgeons but when any of vs came neere them they would flie vpon vs like fiends nor can any man passe Booty Forest but they teare him all to peeces vnlesse hee haue a Carauan of Robberswalders for his conuoie Of Lyers-bury plaine The natures of the Legerdumaynians Of Free-purlogne and Baggs-death two Citties CHAP.