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A05569	Iohn Huighen van Linschoten. his discours of voyages into ye Easte & West Indies Deuided into foure bookes.; Itinerario. English	Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611.; Phillip, William.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver.; Beckit, Robert, engraver.	1598 (1598)	STC 15691; ESTC S111823	767,464	523

harts hindes wild bores hayres coneys and such like in great abundance of all sorts of foules as peacoks hennes doues and such like and for oringes lemons and citrons it hath not onely the best in al India but better then any are found either in Spaine or Portingal to conclude it hath many and almost all things that are found in India through all the seuerall prouinces and places thereof it hath also manie Indian palme trees or nut trees which are called cocken and certane credible persons doe affirme which told it mée that in the same Iland are nutmegges Cloues and Pepper trées although there is no certaintie thereof for that as yet they haue not béene brought or vttered to sell among the Christians but the best Cinamon in all the east countries is there to be had where it groweth in whole woodes and from thence is dispersed into all places of the world The Captaine that kéepeth the fort is forced by stealth in the night time to issue forth fetch this Cinamon into his fort whereof he maketh his principal profite for much more profite hath he not This Iland hath likewise al kindes of precious stones except Diamonds but Saphires Rubies Topas●es Sp●nelen ●ranaden Rob●ssen c. the best in all the East it hath likewise a fishing for Pearles but yet they are not so good as those that are at Bareiin by Ormus it hath likewise mynes of Gold siluer and other metals The Kings of the Iland will not digge it forth but kéepe it for a great state honor I thinke rather it is but Latte● because no man ventureth for it it hath also yron Flaxe Brimstone and such like ware also many Iuorie banes and diuers Elephantes which are accounted for the best in all India and it is by daylie experience found to be true that the Elephantes of all other places and coūtries being brought before them they honour and reuerence those Elephantes the natural borne people or Chingalas are very cunning workmen in Gold Siluer Iuory Yron and all kindes of metal that it is wonderful they are much estéemed for the same through al India and beare the name and prayse aboue all the rest of the Indians they make the fairest barrels for péeces that may be foūd in any place which shine as bright as if they were Siluer My maister the Archbishop had a crucifixe of Iuorie of an elle long presented vnto him by one of the inhabitants of the I le made by him so cunningly ●rkmanly wrought that in the hayre beard and face it séemed to be aliue in al other parts so neatly wrought and proportioned in limmes that the like can not be done in all Europe Whereupon my maister caused it to be put into a case and sent vnto the king of Spaine as a thing to be wōdered at and worthy of so great a Lord to be kept among his costliest Iewels In such things they are very expert and wonderful and maruelous nimble and expert in iugling as well men as women and trauell throughout the countrie of India to get money carying hobbyhorses with thē very strange to behold And this shall suffice at this present for the description of the I le of Seylon now I will procéede to shewe you of the coast of Choramandel where wée left before being at the cape of Negapatan The 15. Chapter Of the coast of Choramandel and the kingdome of Narsinga or Bisnagar THe coast of Choramandel beginneth from the cape of Negapatan and so stretcheth North by East vnto a place called Musulepatan which is 90. miles and lieth vnder 16. degrées and a half Betwéene these two places vpon the same coast lyeth a place called S. Thomas vnder 13. degrées an halfe and is 40. miles distant from Negapatan This place and Negapatan are inhabited by the Portingales and in al the other places along the coast they haue traffique and deali● The aforesaid place called S. Thomas was in time past a towne of great traffique and as then called by the name of Meliapor and belonged to the kingdome of Narsinga whose king is now commonly called king of Bisnagar which is the name of his chief Citie where he kéepeth his court This Towne lieth within the land and is nowe the chief● cittie of Narsinga and of the coast of Choramandel The naturall countrimen are for manners customes ceremonies like those of Ballagate decamin● Canaras for they are al one people but only separate by seueral places kingdoms and y e better to vnderstand wherefore this place was named S. Thomas the Indians say that in the time when the Apostles were sent spread abroad to preach the Gospell of our sauiour Christ throughout the whole world that S. Thomas the apostle came into that kingdome of Narsinga after he had bene in diuers places of India teaching preaching the word of God vnto those Indians and vnbeleuing people but litle profited therein for so say the Christians that are come of those same Countriemen which S. Thomas conuerted and baptised in the faith of Christ whom the Portingals found there at such time as they entered into the country and yet find many of them obseruing the ceremonies of the Gréek Church in the Chaldean tong that by no meanes will ioine with the Portingales in their ceremonies but not long sithence at the time of my béeing in India there was one of their Bishops that by land trauelled to Rome and there submitted himself to the Romish Church yet obseruing and holding their ancient ceremonies and customes which by the Pope was still permitted vnto them and when my Lord the Archbishop held a prouinciall counsell within the citie of Goa where his suffraganes were assembled that is to say y e bishops of Cochin Malacca and China to authorize the same the aforesayd Bishop was likewise called thether who as then was newlie come from Rome being made an Archbishop and was personally in the counsell but would not in any sort consent vnto the altering or changing of anie points of his Religion or ceremonies from the suffraganes from his Christians which were commonly called S. Thomas Christians But returning to our matter they say that when S. Thomas had long preached and taught in the kingdome of Narsinga From Musulepatan the coast runneth again Northeast and by East to the kingdom of Bengalen which is 120. miles and it is the lande and kingdome of Orixa which stretcheth along the same coast vnto the Riuer of Ganges the beginning of the kingdom of Bengalen This coast of Narsinga Bisnagar and Orixa are by the Portingalles commonly called as also the coast of Negapatan and Saint Thomas Choramandel vntil you come to Bengalen where the Portingalles haue great traffique for that it is a very rich and plentiful Country of all things as Ryce and all manner of fowles and beasts in great abundance It is also a holesome countrey and a good ayre for strange nations for that

to all that countrey This land is great and hath many people and countries vnder it but the principall and chiefe prouince which the Spanyardes holde therein is Mexicana also ●enustiran or Culhuacan as I saide before the other prouinces are Guatimala Xaliscus Hondura Cha'cos Taic● Chamo●la Claortomaca Hu●cacholla and the kingdomes of Michuacan Tescuco Utazcalia Tenuacan Maxcalcinco and Mix●e●apan Mexico or Culhuacan was brought vnder the subiection of the kings of Spaine by Fernando Cortes Merches deila Valo in the yeere of our Lorde one thousand fiue hundred and eighteene which countrey is very rich of golde and siluer for that many riuers haue golde in the sand The Sea shore in those Countries yeeldeth manye pearles mustles or oysters wherein they finde the pearles whereof there is a great fishing and much traffike for them There are likewise in this countrey many lakes or meeres that are stil and haue no issue which by the heate of the Sunne tourne into salt There is likewise no lesse aboundance of Cassia Fistul● then in Egypt growing on trees with leaues like walnuts and yellow blossoms from whence the pipes or cases of Cassia do issue forth which are vsed to purge in hote feuers to coole and cleanse the gall and heart blood as also very good against the stone in the bladder and kidneys and other diseases There is likewise in that countrie a kinde of fruit that groweth in great abundance called Cacao altogether like an almond which is taken out of the huske and couered with a thinne skinne whereof the kernel is diuided into three or foure partes of a darke yellow with blacke veines being harsh in the mouth and of an euill taste but with them is much esteemed whereof being beaten with some of their countrey pepper they make a certaine drinke which they esteeme of great price giuing it vnto great Lordes and such as are their especiall friends as we esteeme of muscadel or maluesie The sea bordering vpon this countrey as also the riuers running through it are ful of fish wherein also they finde diuers Crocodiles as in Egypt the flesh whereof is so much esteemed before al other meates that they account it for a princely dish whereof some are aboue 20. foote long The country is full of hilles and stony rockes and great difference in their speeche so that they hardly vnderstand each other without Interpreters The places wherein the Spaniardes first placed their men were Compostella where the Bishop and the Kings counsell are resident and Colima which they call the Purification in new Galicia is the chiefe Guadalahara and the head or principall part of the kingdome Mecheocan also a Bishops sea Cacatula the towne of Angels a chiefe towne and bishopricke M●x● a kingly citie and Queene of al cities in the new world lyeth vpon the border or side of a lake the market place of the Towne lying ful vpon the lake whereby they can not come at it but they must passe ouer bridges This lake is l●●t and is in length sixe lucas or twelue miles and is in breadth tenne miles without fish onely a smal kind that may rather be called wormes than fishes from the which lake in summer time there ariseth such a sti●ke and infecteth the ayre in such manner that it is vnwholesome to dwel there notwithstanding it is inhabited by as many marchants as any towne in Europe the cittie is great at the least three miles in compasse wherein are so many temples that it is incredible the particularitte whereof before it be long shal be translated out of Spanish into our mother tongue by the author therof whereunto I referre you Not farre from this cittie lieth an other fresh lake very ful of fish whereon as also vpon the shore lie many townes When this towne was first taken by the Spaniards there raigned a king called M●ntez●m● being the ninth in degree and as then the towne was but 140. yeares old which is to bee wondered at howe it is possible that so great a citie in so few yeers should be so famous The marchandises that are most carried out of this countrey are golde siluer pearle balsam cochenilia the white roote Macheocan which is good to purge Salla Pariglia and an other roote which maketh men sweate brimstone beasts skinnes and fish And thus much for new Spaine in generall and of Mexico in particular Not minding at this present time to make any longer discourse because that our Carde sheweth little thereof and now returning to our owne Carde you must vnderstand that the lower ende of Cuba hath an out Hooke called P. de Santa Anthonio which is very fitte for to take in fresh water and to calke and mend the shippes Sailing from this hooke sixtie fiue miles to the firme land you come to the hooke of Iucatan which runneth into the sea like a halfe Island Iectetan is in Indian speech I vnderstand you not for that vpon a time when certaine Spaniards put out of the hauen of Saint Anthony to discouer newe countries and arriued in that Island they made signes vnto the people to knowe the name of the country whereuppon the Indians answered them and saide O Tectetan Tectetan that is We vnderstand ye not and so the Spaniards corrupting the name Tectetan call that land Iucatan yet the furthest point therof in their spéech was called ●ecampi This point of Iucatan lyeth vnder 21. degrees vnder the which name a great countrey is comprehended by some called Peinsula that is a place almost compassed about with water for that the further this point reacheth into the sea the broader it is being in the narrowest part 80. or 90. Spanish miles broad for so farre it is from Xicalanco Therefore the sea Cardes that place this land nearer or smaller do erre much for that it is in length from East to West twoo hundred miles being discouered by Francisco Hernandez of Cordua in the yeare of our Lord 1517. but not al of it for that sailing from out of Cuba from Saint Iacobs to discouer new countries or as some say to fetch labourers to trauell in his mines he came about the Island Guanaxos herein called Caguan x● to the cape di Honduras where good honest ciuill and simple people dwelt being fishermen hauing no weapons nor vsed to the warres and proceeding further sayled to an vnknowne point of land where hee found certaine salt pannes whereunto he gaue the name of Donne that is women for that there were certaine stone towers with staires chappels couered with wood and straw wherein were placed diuerse Idols that shewed like women whereat the Spaniardes maruelled to finde stone houses which till then they had not seene and that the inhabitants were rich and well apparelled with shirtes and mantles of cotten white and coloured with plumes of feathers and iewels of precious stones sette in golde and siluer their women likewise appareled from the middle downewardes as also on the head and breast which