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A51053	Travels and voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies, Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-land performed by Mr. John Mocquet ... : divided into six books, and enriched with sculptures / translated from the French by Nathaniel Pullen, Gent.; Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indes Orientales & Occidentales. English	Mocquet, Jean, b. 1575.; Pullen, Nathaniel.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2310; ESTC R787	161,053	430

more Discourse according to Reason and Science than by Experience For in the Torrid Zone the Heat of the Day is gently temperated by the Cold equal with the Night and in the cold Zones the Air is mitigated in Summer by reason of the long Residence of the Sun in their Horizon besides the Cold there is rendred the less insupportable in regard there being very little or no Winds and their Blasts very feeble and weak 'T is true the Countries under the cold Zones are scarcely Inhabited because the Earth does not there fructifie as in the Temperate But as for those of the Torrid Zone there are vast Places wonderfully Peopled as well for the Commodity of the Waters as for the Goodness and Fertility of the Countries which bear Grain or Rice in abundance like the Countries subject to the King Monomotapa towards the Cape of Good-Hope Angoche and the Cape of Currants and the Country of the Ab●ssines or Prester-John which extends in Land from Bombase to the Red-Sea Upon the Eastern Coast you have also very spacious Islands as those of St. Lawrance Zealand Maldives Sumatra the Java's Moluque's and others without Number extream fertile and abounding in whatsoever is delectable and necessary for Human Life Towards the West are the Lands of New-Spain Brasil and Peru and others adjacent near to the Equator which are very good All which clearly shews the Falshood of the Opinions of the Ancients concerning the Habitation of these Zones Now the Extent or Breadth of these Five Zones from the Equinoctial to each Pole is divided into Paralells as their length from East to West into Meridians from whence is taken the Longitudes and Latitudes of divers Countries The Parallels are Circles equally distant one from the other beginning at the Equator and finishing at the Poles The Meridians are Circles passing through the Poles and crossing the Equator or when the Sun is arrived it causeth Noon to those who are above the Horizon and Mid-night to those who are underneath The Latitude of Regions is distinguished by the Parallels from North to South as the Longitude by the Meridians from East to West The Meridians of equal Extent gather together from Two Poles but the Parallels do not so who are always equally distant one from the other tho' sometimes greater or less according to their Approach to the Equator or Poles According to the Extent of these Circles are taken the Longitudes and Latitudes of divers Countries and Places of the Earth The Latitude or Hieght is counted from the Equinoctial to the Poles from one part to another by 90 Degrees And the Longitudes beginning at the Meridian of the Fortunate Islands or Canaries go from West to East 360 Degrees quite round the Earth in which 't is Remarkable that the Regions under the same Degree or Latitude whatsoever have in the same moment the like * Time as those who under divers Weather or Season degrees have Diversity and that in varying in an Hour's time by 15 Degrees sooner or later according as you are more East or West Thus those who are under the same Degree of Latitude tho' several of Longitude have Day and Night equally and Days and Nights divers the same Seasons on the one side the Equinoctial for on the other 't is quite the contrary like as if the Winter is in the Septentrional Part you shall have the Summer in the Meridional tho' in the same Latitude as I have remark'd in the Kingdom of Canary and Goa in the East-Indies where they have their Winter in June July and August contrary to the same Latitude of our Europe But this Winter consists only in Rains and great Winds coming from the South and this Rain is very hot insomuch that the Winter in these Parts of Goa is rather hotter than our Summer here the Trees there being continually green and bearing Fruit in all their Seasons as Jaquebar Anana's Jangomes Carambola's Jambo's and others for all the Winter is hot and moist and then the Sun seldom appears being hid under thick Clouds so that it renders the Days very dark But the Places who have divers Latitudes have inequality of Days and Nights more or less according to their difference and approaches or distance from the Poles The Day beginning from Sun-rising to the setting thereof In the Countries under the Equinoctial they are equal with the Nights of 22 Hours each on the contrary in those Places stretching towards the Poles they lengthen as in the 30th Degree of Latitude the longest Day being 13 Hours 5 Minutes under the 50 Degree 't is 16 Hours 20 Minutes under the 66 and half or in the Artick-Circle 't is 24 Hours intire under the 70. the Sun sets not during 64 Days and 14 Hours as in those Parts of Moscovia as I have heard a Dutch Captain say who has been there that their longest Day without Night was from June to July as in Winter they have Night proportionably so that it is expedient for the Ships which come from those Countries to return in the Month of August except they have a mind to be stopp'd by the Ice The People who inhabit those Countries make during the Winter little Holes in the Ice to take Sea-Wolves tho' sometimes they are deceiv'd and caught themselves as I have been inform'd so that Multitudes of People have been swallowed up the Ice coming to break on a sudden by reason the time or season of the Heat approaches sometimes sooner than ordinary the which has caused these People to be more circumspect for the future 'T is also Remarkable That the Degrees and their Quantity Degrees of Latitude are always every where equal each Degree containing 15 German Leagues or 17 and a half of Spanish 25 of French or 60 Italian Miles But the Degrees of Longitude are equal with those of Latitude under the Equinoctial only and the more they decline there from they diminish until that under the Poles they are reduced into one Point For under the Line the Degree of Longitude contains 60 Miles whenas under the 60 Degree of Latitude 't is no more than Thirty and under the Pole nothing at all So that it shall happen that Two Ships being distant one from the other 150 Miles if they sail from the Equinoctial towards the Septentrion being arrived under the 60 Degree they shall be no more than 75 Miles distant and under the 71 Degree 31 Minutes they shall approach to Fifty and at last under the Pole shall meet The Pilots ought well to observe this in regard of the Currents which are found in certain Parts so that thinking to make one way they take another Also I advise 'em to take heed they be not deceiv'd by certain Cards which commonly are false except they have been experienc'd by good Pilots This happen'd to us in our Voyage to the West-Indies parting from the River of Cayenna where the Caribes are to the Isles of Santa●ucia For we

TRAVELS AND VOYAGES INTO Africa Asia and America THE East and West-Indies Syria Jerusalem and the Holy-Land PERFORMED BY M R. John Mocquet Keeper of the Cabinet of Rarities to the King of France in the Thuilleries Divided into Six BOOKS and Enriched with SCULPTURES Translated from the French By NATHANIEL PULLEN Gent. LONDON Printed for William Newton Bookseller in Little-Britain and Joseph Shelton and William Chandler Booksellers at the Peacock in the Poultry 1696. TO THE KING May it Please Your Majesty ONE of the Principal Graces which it hath pleased Almighty God to shew me in Preserving me from so many Perils and Dangers that I have run through in Travelling about the World is this To see my self at present at Your Majesty's Feet offering in all Humility and Obedience This my Writings as the only Fruit which I have been able to Reap in my Long and Dangerous Travels I know very well that 't is a thing which of its self is not worthy to be presented to Your Majesty But should it please Your Majesty to consider that the late King Your Royal Father of Glorious and Eternal Memory did me formerly the Honour to command me to undertake the most part of these Voyages and to take pleasure in the Relations which I made to him thereof at my Return I dare promise my self that Your Majesty as you follow in all things the Generous Steps of the Greatest King and Best Father that ever was will not also disdain to receive with Your wonted Goodness and Sweetness this little Testimony of my most humble and most devout Affection to Your Majesty's Service the which may encourage me to cause Your Majesty one Day to see God willing something of more Value and to hope that according to Your Royal Design Your Majesty will give me Means to continue and perfect the Cabinet of Rarities which by Your Command I have began to erect in Your Majesty's Palace of the Thuilleries an Enterprize so laudable that it merits to be reckoned amongst so many other Worthy Actions of Honour and Vertue which render Your Majesty Glorious and Commendable for ever And in the mean time I will continue all the rest of my Life to pray to God That it would please him to augment more and more to Your Majesty his Holy Graces and Benediction Your Majesty's Most Humble and Most Obedient Subject and Servant John Mocquet A PREFACE FOR THE Understanding of Circles Zones Parallels Degrees of Longitude and Latitude Climates and other necessary Things in the Description of the Universe BEFORE we come to a particular Recital of the Six Voyages which I have made during 14 or 15 Years in divers Places of Europe Asia Africa and America I think 't will not be much amiss for the more clear Understanding thereof to speak briefly by way of Preface something of the Four Parts of the World and of certain Principles appertaining to the Sphere and Geography to the end that the Reader may the more easily apprehend such things as he shall find dispersed here and there in these my Writings laying down for certain and necessary Maxims several things which I should otherways have been constrain'd too often to repeat tho' but touching as it were upon what might be said of this Science the more exact Research and Knowledge of which I leave to those who make Profession thereof and who are more Learned therein than my self who desire to know no more thereof than what may be necessary for me in the Narration of my Voyages Know then that God hath so dispothe Universe that he hath joined the Earth and the Sea in one round Mass whose Weight reposes in the Centre of the World as being the lowest Place serving for a most sure Retreat and convenient Habitation for Man and Earth for Man and Beast Beast in Parts raised above the Waters which have their limited Place in the Abysms and Depth of the Earth Now these Waters encompass all the Earth and separate it by an admirable Artifice into Three great and spacious Continents or firm Lands upon the which according Three Continents to the order and situation of the superior Parts of the World the Cosmographers place Five principal Circles which are the Equinoctial the Two Tropicks of Capricorn and the Two Polar-Circles Artick and Antartick The first Circle is called Equinoctial Circle of the Sphere upon the Earth because the Sun coming underneath the Circle which happens Twice in the Year about the 21st of March and the 24th of September causes throughout the whole World Day and Night to be of equal length It is equally distant from the Two Poles and divideth the Terrestrial Globe into Two Hemispheres or equal Parts one extending towards the North and the other towards the South The Second Circle is the Tropick of Cancer or Solstice of the Summer because the Sun arriving there causeth Summer to all the Countries on this side the Equinoctial the which happens at such time as the Sun enters into the first degree of Cancer which is about the * Stili novi 22d of June and then we have the longest Days and shortest Nights in the Year The Circle is distant from the Equator 23 Degrees and a half towards the Border of the North. The Third Circle is the Tropick of Capricorn or Solstice of the Winter where the Sun arriving which is about the 23d of December causeth the shortest Days and longest Nights with us for to the other Hemisphere of the South happens the contrary It has the same Declension of the Equator towards the South as the other to wit 23 Degrees The Fourth Circle is the Circle Artick and the Fifth Antartick each of them distant from its Pole 23 Degrees and a half Now by these Four last Circles all the Earth is divided into Five Zones Zones or Girdles which encompass and cover the Face of the Earth one of which is called Torrid or Burnt two Temperate and two Cold. The Torrid is situated betwixt the Two Tropicks 45 Degrees in breadth one of the Temperate Septentrional betwixt the Tropick and Cancer and the Circle-Artick the other Meridional betwixt the Tropick and Capricorn and the Circle-Antartick of 43 Degrees each The two Cold are one betwixt the Circle-Artick and its Pole and the other betwixt the Circle-Antartick and its other Pole each of 23 Degrees The Torrid Zone thus called by the Ancients in regard of the Opinion which they had that because of the Perpendicularity and ordinary Neighbourhood of the Sun all these Countries were uninhabitable because of the excessive Heats also that the cold Zones were so because of the excessive Cold caused by the great distance and lowness of this same Planet But the Navigators of ours and the precedent Ages have by experience found all these Countries Habitable and Peopled so that Torrid Zone Inhabited some of the most Wise and Learned amongst the Ancients have left behind them in their Writings

This was the time that they fasted their Ramadan and would not Eat any thing till night 'T is a great pity to see these People how poor and miserable they are without Bread or-any other Food They Eat nothing but Ostrich Eggs and some dried Fish besides some Flesh of the same He that had stayed alone on Shore was Son to one of these other two and came to receive his Father's coming out of the Boat prostrating himself before him and kissing his Hand Then his Father gave him some of the Bisquet that we had given him of which he was exceeding glad for he was very Hungry and had supped but badly in these Desarts for the most part inhabited by Wild Beasts which are continually there And from our Ship we heard sometimes in the night terrible Cries and Roaring In all this Coast we could not find any fresh Water nor before in the River where we sent our Boat to look for some but in vain all the Country being Desart and quite Barren This Island where we had cast Anchor was directly under the Tropick of Cancer Now having fitted up and put out again our Patache to Sea we set fail the 10th of March and having born South West towards the Isles of Cape Verd Isles of Cape Verd. Sal Santiago Fogo Brava we roved all along by the Isles of Sa● Santiago and Fogo to go to Anchor at that of Brava where we tarried until the 22th of the same month All these Islands are much subject to Storms and Boisterous Winds as it happened to us at this Isle of Brava where we lost an Anchor being oblig'd to weigh and drop Anchor so frequently there when the Wind would drive us sometimes towards Land presently again to the Sea 'T is supposed that these Winds are shut up there in some Gulf as they come out at certain hours of the day And what is more strange is that a League from thence the Sea was calm and without Wind which made me believe that these Winds being so shut up and come out with such violence have not the force to penetrate far being struck back and repulsed by the Winds which come from the Sea We could not find out the Habitations of these Islanders who are Portuguese Mestices and Blacks The Island bears Tobacco abundance of Mace and other Fruits The Country is very Mountainous and there are some Fig-Trees to be seen with Mulbery-Trees and others After we had well refreshed our selves with sweet Water dried Fish and other things which the Islanders sold us we weighed Anchor to Steer our Course and had the Wind so favourable that we arrived at the Mouth of the River of the Amazons on Palm River of the Amazons Sunday about three hours before day There are great Streams there about the Sea side which run with a strange swiftness and horrible noise carrying along with them Trees and Plants which they pluck up by the Roots along the Coast We seeing our selves as soon as it was morning intangled amongst these roaring Streams and Currents having scarce any Wind they who were up on the Watch began to cry out that we were all lost thinking we had been upon the the Shelves At this noise every one began to stir himself to look out for help and I hearing this word Lost mounted presently upon the Deck to see if there was any way to swim and if we were near Land having no other way to save our selves but by Swiming till day hoping to have sight of Land from which according to our Heights we were not far off Hereupon the Pilot well advis'd took the Plummet in Hand and found in Sounding 25 Fathom whereof being very glad he cried out that we were in the River River of the Amazons of the Amazons which is almost one Degree on this side the Line We made but little Sail in expectation of the day that we might see Land which we saw the next morning and Sounding again we found but nine Fathoms and so lessening to three or four and yet we saw no Land which was a great trouble to us On Monday we descried Land very low towards the South West and by little and little we app●oached the Coast to have knowledge of the Country but with fear to run a ground for there the bottom is nothing but Mud which we touched every moment As we were thus wandring about by good chance we perceived a Canoe Encounter with Indians with 17 Indians who came towards us and went to our Patache which was before us after that they came on board us They were all naked and Painted as they go in these Countries with their Crowns of Feathers and told us that they came from War off the Cape of Caypour one of the Capes near to the River of the Amazons and they had some Booty in their Canoe Their Captain seemed to be a Man of good fashion yet he was stark naked and had only a Langoutin which is a little piece of painted Cotton to cover his Privities He spake with such a Grace that he might have been taken for a Man of Counsel for he spake softly and gave a grace to all his Words and Gestures After we had discoursed with him Country of Yapoco about the Country and where we should Anchor he left us two Indians for Guides who conducted us to the Land of Yapaco in the Mouth of the River or very near and caused us to shelter our Ship in a private corner so that when the Tide went out she stuck upon the Mud but the Tide coming in again raised her up Arriving then in this Country of Yapaco we left the River of the Amazons on the left Hand on the other side of which towards the South is the great Country of Brasil and on this side towards the North are the Caripons and Caribes Thirty or forty Leagues off from this great River we found along the Coast a certain Rock which had Veins of the colour of Slate with some silver mixed amongst it out of which I took a little Stone I since lost We saw there also the marks of some English or Dutch Ship that had passed by that way We arrived there on Monday night Arrival in the Land of Yapoco and afterwards on Tuesday morning the 10th of April desiring to know what profit we might make in this Country we went on Shore to Exchange Hatchets Bills Knives and Glass-Beads of several colours with divers other such like things We saw these Indians with two Wood to strike Fire little pieces of Wood strike fire I made the Experiment of it since to the late King Henry the Great at Fontainbleau in the year 1605. All the Indians were run there from their Habitations and had trimed up their Hammocks or hanging Beds made with Wreaths of Palm-Trees and were in great numbers Men Women and Children all as naked as when they came out of their Mothers Bellies except