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A71306	Purchas his pilgrimes. part 4 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 20509_pt4; ESTC S111862	1,854,238	887

is held by the Spaniards may bee perceiued by their imploying him in time of so great necessitie Once it is confessed that hee almost onely was hee that held the rest from present yeelding and who after yeelding which yet they say was without his consent taketh the losse of the Spaniards most of all to heart He seemeth truly to be wise aboue the common pitch of Souldiers which is his profession yet hath he beene heard say and protest by the faith of a Souldier that there is not so rich and good a myne in all the Kings Dominions to the Westward as that of Puerto Rico. Others whose fathers were imployed in the workes report what their dying fathers told them But that which maketh most of all to the purpose is the present preparation which the King is euen now a making for the reuiuing of these workes afresh in Puerto Rico by setting two hundreth Negroes to worke and for that purpose had sent great store of Mattocks and Spades thither there found in his store-house and for what other vse they should haue needed is not well conceiueable Much time was spent in taking order how the Spaniards might be dispatched to Carthagena for thither it was resolued they should bee sent being a place so farre to the leeward of Puerto Rico as that they neither could in haste themselues make any head nor send newes to Spaine to procure the le●●ing of any forces thence and in prouiding victuals for this place and repayring ships that were first to come for England Vpon Thursday being Saint Peters day there was a saile discryed at Sea in the morning and by noone shee was come into the Harbour which with much astonishment shee found turned English The Spaniards had some few dayes before reported that they looked for a ship to bring from the Hauana much of the Souldiers pay that was behinde This held vs for the time in great suspence of hope and doubt whether this might bee shee or no the rather because this seemed to bee of the same bignesse that they had spoken of but when shee was fallen into the trap it was found indeed to bee a very Mouse where we looked for a Mountaine For her lading was a number of poore naked Negroes from Angola to bee sold there Yet was shee a pretie Boat and of her lading likely to bee made of good vse Within few dayes after there was another saile almost taken after the same manner yet perceiuing a greater fleete riding there then shee could hope to finde Spanish shee got her tack aboard and went away lasking so that though the Affection was sent away in chace after her yet shee escaped Vpon Friday being the seuenth of Iuly all things being made readie for their passage the Spaniards were imbarked in a Caruell and in another ship which during the time the ships rode without the Harbour for feare of them whom shee could not passe or enuie that they should receiue good by her ranne her selfe desperately ashoare but shee and most things in her were saued and here shee saued the sending away of a better ship With these two wherein the baser Spaniards were put there were two other ships sent to waft them wherein also went the Gouernour and some few others who deserued some respect And for themselues it was permitted them to come directly home for England The next day being the eighth of Iuly there came to his Lordship two Negroes from the mayne Iland with a flagge of truce and a letter from one Seralta an ancient Commander in that Iland and who vpon a wound receiued in the first fight at the bridge had with-drawne himselfe into the Countrie The effect of his desire was that being in great distresse through feare of the English that daily marched vp and downe the Countrie he desired his Lordship to grant him and his protection to trauell without danger Whereunto his Lordship made this answere to be written and sent him That he must absolutely denie his request but yet if himselfe or any of his Nation or any dwelling with him or them would within eight dayes come vnto him to Puerto Rico he should by the vertue of that his Letter bee protected from being taken or spoyled by any of his Souldiers and this hee willed him to signifie to them neere about him that they might giue notice of the same throughout the whole Iland And further his Lordship promised that to as many as would come that they should both come safely and if they so would should bee imbarked and sent away as the Gouernour with the rest of the Spaniards were alreadie His Lordships honorable resolution and intendment was not to come so farre from home to take onely or spoile some place in this other world and then run home againe but hee had determined by the leaue of God to keepe Puerto Rico if it pleased God to giue it into his hands That was the place he meant to carry whatsoeuer it might cost him being the very key of the West Indies which locketh and shutteth all the gold and siluer in the Continent of America and Brasilia He knew that Saint Domingo might with much lesse losse bee taken and would bring much greater profit for the present in regard whereof and of the desire hee had his Aduenturers should become gayners his thoughts sometime tooke that way but finally they stayed at Puerto Rico and there setled themselues As this was his resolution before hee had it so was it also after he had it and then not onely his but euery man of worth or spirit saw such reason in his Lordships designments that some thought themselues not so graciously dealt withall that they were passed ouer when others were named to stay But God had otherwise disposed For within a while that his Lordship had beene in Puerto Rico many of our men fell sicke and at the very first not very many dyed The Spanish as well as the English were both sicke and dyed of the sicknesse as besides Seralta was seene in diuers others O h●rs suspected their bodily labours to haue procured it and both seeme to haue concurred In Iuly and August is their Winter so called for their great raines at those times which to bodies alreadie rarified by the heat of the Sunne then ouer them and yet rather where vehement exercise hath more opened the pores whereby inward heat is exhaled must needes be very dangerous It was an extreme loosenesse of the body which within few dayes would grow into a flux of bloud sometimes in the beginning accompanyed with a hot Ague but alwayes in the end attended by an extreme debillitie and waste of spirits so that some two dayes before death the armes and legs of the sicke would be wonderfull cold And that was held for a certaine signe of neere departure This sicknesse vsually within few dayes for it was very extreme to the number of sixtie eightie and an hundred stooles

same all in Pearle and the fourteenth day came in their Lientenant for the deliuery But in the valuing their quantity and quality would not be taken wherefore departed they with foure houres respite for further answere from their Gouernour Don Francisco Manso his answere was himselfe would come to conference which hee did the sixteenth day After dinner our Generall and Colonell Generall with the Spaniards had secret conference about this Ransoms whereupon concluding they absolutely broke of and therefore in all haste was fire put 〈◊〉 some of the houses and the Gouernour had two houres time to cleere him of our Army Thus hauing burnt Rio dela Hatcha Rancharia and Tapia The eighteenth day wee weighed and stood alongst for Sancta Marta to which we came thetwentieth day here we onely tooke some fiue Prisoners whereof one was the Lieutenant there The one and twentieth it was put to fire and we set sayle for Nombre de Dios to which we came the seuen and twentieth day where in like manner the people had acquited the Towne yet here was found by intelligence of some Negros as I heard two and twentie Sowes of Siluer Gold in Bullion some Iewels great store of Plate and Riall of Plate with much other luggage The nine and twentieth day Sir Thomas Baskeruile Colonell Generall with all his ablest Captaines and Souldiers tooke their iourney for Panama now the marke of our Voyage who neere the mid-way being empea●hed by some Spaniards and Negros made their retreite to the Ships at Nombre de Dios at this encounter were few of our men slaine some hurt some of the which there left to the mercie of the Spaniards The fifth day of Ianuary all our men being shipped the towne and Galliots put to fire we set sayle then by the aduice of a Spaniard for the Riuer Nicorago in which way we fell with one Iland called Escudo a place which affordeth nothing good yet here wee stayed from the tenth day vntill the three and twentieth when we set sayle and plied to the Eastward which by Gods speciall fauour the eight and twentieth day we came in with Porta la●bella This morning died our Generall Sir Francis Drake This is the place where the people of Nombre de Dios meaneth to dwell at Here found we a beginning of a strong platforme with three Brasse Peeces vnmounted In my opinion this was our best remoue for if God had not preuented our Generals purpose for the Riuer Nicorago it would haue hazarded all her Maiesties Ships farre with the rest Here tooke we in ballast water mended our sayles and calked our ships such as had need The eight of February Sir Thomas Baskeruile taking vpon him Generall we all set saile for Santa Marca homewards but not able to recouer higher then Carthagena as wee ghesse in the Bonauenture with the splittng of all our sayles put ouer for Iamaica In this course lost we the Fore-sight the Susan Parnell the Helpe and the Gregory The fiue and twentieth day came we faire by Canaria granda which bore ouer vs in the morning East North-east and this day was all our flesh and fish spent The second of March making this our miserie like to be known to Sir Thomas Baskeruile who hath giuen mee his promise to relieue mee at my need his answere was carelesly for vs and with all said hee would goe in with the Iland Pinos to water which I vtterly misliked the winde then being good to stand alongst very ill to lose and more for that no Englishman in our fleete either knew or euer heard of any watering or other good there In this reasoning betwixt vs we descried twentie sayle of ships a head vs who were the Kings men of Warre wayting our home comming it was my fortune in the Bonauenture to take to taske the Vice-admirall one of the twelue Apostles of the Kings for so I thought by a great golden Saint which manned her Poope The manner of our fight and my deseruing I leaue euen to the report of mine enemies yet thus much vnderstand their Admirall with the rest all the next day being in the winde was content we should passe in peace Thus being quietly and we all disimbogued some two hundred leagues I made a second demand of Sir Thomas his promise for victuals which he vtterly refused wherefore aswell in regard of our Generals lacke as mine owne danger with a shot in our fight wherein it was indifferent with mee to liue or die I told him I must make more haste home then I presumed hee would yet wee stayed with him two dayes longer when in a storme I left him and this was the fourteenth day of March. Now for these two English Sea-worthies as wee haue begunne their American Aduentures and ended them together so I haue thought good to insert this following censure of a Gentleman in a Letter of his touching them both as an Epitaph dedicated to their memory SIr I haue according to your request and my owne plainnesse sent you here the comparison betweene those two Commanders Sir Francis Drake and Sir Iohn Hawkins They were both much giuen to trauell in their youth and age attempting many honourable Voyages alike as that of Sir Iohn Hawkins to Guiny to the Iles of America to Saint Iohn de Vlua So likewise Sir Francis Drake after many Discoueries of the West Indies and other parts was the first Englishman that did euer compasse the World wherein as also in his deepe iudgement in Sea causes he did farre exceed not Sir Iohn Hawkins alone but all others whomsoeuer In their owne natures and disposition they did as much differ as in the managing matters of the Warres Sir Francis beeing of a liuely spirit resolute quicke and sufficiently valiant The other slow iealous and hardly brought to resolution In Councell Sir Iohn Hawkins did often differ from the iudgement of others seeming thereby to know more in doubtfull things then he would vtter Sir Francis was a willing hearer of euery mans opinion but commonly a follower of his owne he neuer attempted any action wherein he was an absolute Commander but hee performed the same with great reputation and did easily dispatch great matters Contrariwise Sir Iohn Hawkins did only giue the bare attempt of things for the most part without any Fortune or good successe therein Sir Iohn Hawkins did naturally hate the Land-souldier and though hee were very popular yet he affected more the common sort then his equals Sir Francis contrarily did much loue the Land-souldier and greatly aduanced good parts wheresoeuer he found them Hee was also affable to all men and of easie accesse They were both of many vertues and agreeing in some As patience in enduring labours and hardnesse Obseruation and Memory of things past and great discretion in sudden dangers in which neither of them was much distempered and in some other vertues they differed Sir Iohn Hawkins had in him mercie and aptnesse

are inuited to praise the name of the Lord for hee hath commanded and they were created How much more should the tongue of man be the Pen of a readie writer and as it is called The glory of the man so imploy it selfe in setting forth the glory of God in his Workes of Creation Prouidence Redemption God is a Glorious Circle whose Center is euery where his circumference no where himselfe to himselfe is Circle and Circumference the Ocean of Entitie that very vbique from whom to whom the Centre of vnitie all diuersified lines of varietie issue and returne And although we euery where feele his present Deitie yet the difference of heauenly climate and influence causing such discording concord of dayes nights seasons such varietie of meteors elements aliments such noueltie in Beasts Fishes Fowles such luxuriant plentie and admirable raritie of Trees Shrubs Hearbs such fertilitie of soyle insinuation of Seas multiplicitie of Riuers safetie of Ports healthfulnesse of ayre opportunities of habitation materialls for action obiects for contemplation haps in present hopes of future worlds of varietie in that diuersified world doe quicken our mindes to apprehend whet our tongues to declare and fill both with arguments of diuine praise On the other side considering so good a Countrey so bad people hauing little of Humanitie but shape ignorant of Ciuilitie of Arts of Religion more brutish then the beasts they hunt more wild and vnmanly then that vnmanned wild Countrey which they range rather then inhabite captiuated also to Satans tyranny in foolish pieties mad impieties wicked idlenesse busie and bloudy wickednesse hence haue wee fit obiects of zeale and pitie to deliuer from the power of darknesse that where it was said Yee are not my people they may bee called the children of the liuing God that Iustice may so proceed in rooting out those murtherers that yet in iudgement imitating Gods de●ling with vs wee may remember Mercy to such as their owne innocence shall protect and Hope shall in Charitie iudge capable of Christian Faith And let men know that hee which conuerteth a sinner from the errour of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes And Sauiours shall thus come on Mount Zion to iudge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdome of Virginia shall be Lord. Thus shall wee at once ouercome both Men and Deuills and espouse Virginia to one husband presenting her as a chast Uirgin to Christ. If the eye of Aduenturers were thus single how soone and all the body should be light But the louing our selues more then God hath detained so great blessings from vs to Virginia and from Virginia to vs. Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and that which is to come And if wee be carefull to doe Gods will he will be ready to doe ours All the rich endowments of Uirginia her Virgin-portion from the creation nothing lessened are wages for all this worke God in wisedome hauing enriched the Sauage Countries that those riches might be attractiues for Christian suters which there may sowe spirituals and reape temporals But what are those riches where we heare of no Gold nor Siluer and see more impouerished here then thence enriched and for Mines we heare of none but Iron Iron mindes Iron age of the world who gaue Gold or Siluer the Monopoly of wealth or made them the Almighties fauorites Precious perils specious punishments whose originall is neerest hell whose house is darknesse which haue no eye to see the heauens nor admit heauens eye guilty malefactors to see them neuer produced to light but by violence and conuinced vpon records written in bloud the occasioners of violence in the World which haue infected the surface of their natiue earth with deformity and sterility these Mines being fit emblemes of mindes couetous stored with want and euer wanting their owne store her bowels with darknesse damps deaths causing trouble to the neighbour Regions and mischiefe to the remotest Penurious mindes Is there no riches but Gold Mines Are Iron Mines neglected reiected for hopes of Siluer What and who else is the Alchymist and impostor which turnes the World and Men and all into Iron And how much Iron-workes in Warres and Massacres hath American Gold and Siluer wrought thorow all Christendome Neither speake I this as if our hopes were blasted and growne deplorate and desperate this way the Country being so little searched and the remote in-land-Mountaines vnknowne but to shew the fordid tincture and base alloy of these Mine-mindes Did not the Spanish Iron tell me you that contemne Iron-mines draw to it the Indian Siluer and Gold I will not be a Prophet for Spaine from Virginia But I cannot forget the wily apophthegme of the Pilots Boy in the Cacafuego a great Ship laden with treasure taken in the South Sea by Sir Francis Drake who seeing the English Ordnance command such treasure from the Spanish Cacafuego Our Ship said he shall be called the Cacaplata and the English may be named the Cacafuego I will not be so vnmannerly to giue you the homely English it is enough that English Iron brought home the Spanish-Indian Siluer and Gold But let vs consult with the wisest Councellour Canaan Abrahams promise Israels inheritance type of heauen and ioy of the earth What were her riches were they not the Grapes of Eshcol the balme of Gilead the Cedary neighbourhood of Libanus the pastury vale of Ierieho the dewes of heauen fertility of soile temper of climat the flowing not with Golden Sands but with Milke and Hony necessaries and pleasures of life not bottomelesse gulfes of lust the commodious scituation for two Seas and other things like in how many inferiour to this of Virginia What golden Country euer nourished with her naturall store the hundreth part of men in so small a proportion of earth as Dauid there mustered being 1100000. of Israel and 500000. of Iuda not reckoning the Tribes of Leui and Beniamin all able men for warres And after him in a little part of that little Iehoshaphat More I dare say then the Spaniards can finde in one hundred times so much of their Mine lands and choose their best in Peru New Spaine and the Ilands the Scriptures containing an infallible muster-booke of 1160000. able Souldiers in his small territories That then is the richest Land which can feede most men Man being a mortall God the best part of the best earth and visible end of the visible World What remarkeable Gold or Siluer Mines hath France Belgia Lumbardy or other the richest peeces of Europe what hath Babylonia Mauritania or other the best of Asia and Africke What this our fertile Mother England Aske our late Trauellers which saw so much of Spaine the most famous part of Europe for Mynes of old and inriched with the Mynes of the New World if an Englishman needs to enuy a Spaniard or prefer a Spanish life and happinesse to his owne Their old