the blades in their pottage and vse them in other meates of pleasing taste and good for appetite When they came in the height of Bermuda they discouered a Monster in the Sea who shewed himselfe three times vnto them from the middle vpwards in which parts he was proportioned like a man of the complexion of a Mâ—llato or tawny Indian The Generall commanded one of his Clerkes to put it in writing to certifie the King thereof Presently after for the space of sixteene dayes the weather proued very foule Offering to make an escape they were descried and seuerely stocked and imprisoned a yeere in the Contractation house in Siuill and breaking prison were taken and by the Inquisition were sentenced Robert Barret and Iohn Gilbert to bee burnt Iob Hortop and Iohn Bone to the Gallies for tenne yeeres and after that to perpetuall prison Others were adiudged to the Gallies some eight some fiue yeeres Hortop serued twelue yeeres in hunger thirst cold and stripes and after foure yeeres imprisonment in his Fooles coat was redeemed to the seruice of Hernando de Sâ—ria from whom after three yeeres seruice more he stole away and landed at Portsmouth in December 1590. after three and twentie yeeres miserable bondage As for Dauid Ingrams perambulation to the North parts Master Hakluyt in his first Edition published the same but it seemeth some incredibilities of his reports caused him to leaue him out in the next Impression the reward oâ— lying being not to be beleeued in truths And for Sir Iohn Hawkins himselfe he had made one Voyage with three ships and three hundred Negros gotten on the Coast of Guinea to Hispaniola 1562. and other Ports and returned with a rich gaine This encouraged him to a second Voyage with the Iesus Salomon Tigre and Swallow 1564. And hauing visited diuers Ports be returned by Florida Anno 1567. their vnfortunate Voyage before mentioned was set forth in which his vniustice to Sauages was chastised by vniustice of Christians in manner as you haue heard Himselfe with his remayning company were first endangered with an extreame storme after that with famine his men dying continually so that the rest being not able to manage the ship and the winds crossing seeking to releeue themselues at Ponte Vedra with fresh meate they grew diseased and many of them died and thereby were also in danger of a second Spanish betraying which they hardly escaping arriued in England Ianuary the twentieth 1568. The Spanish indignities and treacheries were deeply lodged in the wronged minds both of Sir Iohn Hawkins and of Captayne Drake men borne for the honour of the English name and Nation in Marine affaires Sir Iohn Hawkins was sonne to Master William Hawkins of Plimmouth a man much esteemed by King Henry the Eighth as a principall Sea-captaine Hee had long before armed a ship of his owne of two hundred and fifty tunnes called the Paul of Plimmouth wherewith he made two Voyages to Brasill one in the yeere 1530. and the other 1532. in the first of which he brought a Brasilian King as they tearmed him to present him in his wilde accouâ—rements to King Henry It seemed that Sea affaires and arts remayned an Inheritance from the Father to the Sonne and from him also to the Nephew as shall after be seene neither did the West of England yeeld such an Indian Neptuniâ—â— paire as were these two Ocean Peeres Hawkins and Drake A briefe Historie of Sir FRANCIS DRAKES Voyages OF Sir Francis Drake Master Camden reports that he hath heard him say of himselfe that he was borne in the County of Deuon of meane condition his God father was Francis Russell afterwards Earle of Bedford who gaue him his name Francis Whiles he was young his father being called in question for Religion by reason of the sixe Articles set forth by King Henry against the Protestants was driuen to shift and withdrew himselfe into Kent After King Henries death he obtayned a place in the Nauâ—e Royall to reade Seruice and soone after was ordayned Deacon and made Vicar of the Church of Vpnor on the Riuer of Medway where by reason of his pouertie he put this his sonne to serue a Neighbour Mariner which traded with a small Barke into France and Zeland who brought him vp in the Mariners art and tooke such liking of him that at his death he bequeathed being a Bâ—chelour vnto him his Barke This Barke vpon the report of Sir Iohn Hawkins his preparations for that disastrous Voyage 1567. hee sold and ioyned to him in societie aforesaid and at Saint Iohn de Vllua lost all and hardly brought himselfe backe Hereupon seeking by his Mariners practice to repaire his losses and thereby and as a man of warre hauing gotten store of money together he made a second Voyage to recouer in the Spanish Indies what there he had lost quod licere Theologus classiarius facilè persuaserat and with a ship of warre called the Dragon and another ship and a Pinnasse none knowing it but his owne consorts Anno 1572. sayled to Nombre de Dios which Towne he suddenly surprised and lost For hauing landed one hundred and fiftie men and leauing seuentie of them in a Fort with the rest he went to the Market place and there discharged his Calieuers and sounded a Trumpet answered in like manner from the Fort. The Townesmen hereby terrified fled into the Mountaynes But fourteene or fifteene would backe with their Harquebuses to see what the matter was and discouering the Englishmen shot and by hap killed the Trumpeter Hereupon they in the Fort not seeing their Trumpet answered after they had heard the Calieuers supposed all those which had entred were slaine and fled to their Pinnasses The Captayne comming and seeing his men all gone was surprized with a new feare and leauing their furniture they swamme and waded to their Pinnasses and departed the Port. In the Sound of Dariene heehad intelligence by certayne fugitiue Negros of Mules comming Ioden with treasure from Panamâ— to Nombre de Dios and guided by them intercepted two companies of Mules and carried away the Gold only for they were not able to carrie the Siluer thorow the Mountaynes Two dayes after he came to the house of Crosses and burnt aboue 200000. Duckets in Merchandize and so departed When he trauelled ouer those Mountaynes hee beheld thence the South Sea and thereby inflamed with desire of glory and wealth was so rapt with desire of sayling therein that he fell there on his knees and begged of God and besought the fauour of God to assist him in that exploit and made a solemne vow to that purpose one day to sayle on that Sea which euery day and night lay next his heart pricking him forwards to the performance Whiles hee was musing and hatching these haughtie Designes Iohn Oxenham who in the former Nauigations had serued vnder Captayne Drake both Souldier Mariner and Cooke became
Domingo which are fiftie leagues large on condition that he should exact of them no Gold for hee said and hee said the truth that his Subiects had not the skill to draw it out As for the manuring which he said he would procure to be done I know that he could haue done it very easily and with great readiness and that it would haue beene worth vnto the King euery yeere more then three Millions of Castillans besides that it would haue caused that at this houre there had bin aboue fiftie Cities greater then Siuill The paiment that they made to this good King and Lord so gracious and so redoubted was to dishonour him in the person of his wife an euill Christian a Captaine rauishing her This King could haue attended the time and opportunitie to auenge himselfe in leuying some armie but the aduised to withdraw himselfe rather and onely to hide him out of the way thus being banished from his Realme and state into a Prouince of the Cignaios where there was a great Lord his vassall After that the Spaniards were ware of his absence and he could no longer hide himselfe they make warre against the Lord which had giuen him entertainment and make great slaughters through the Countrey as they goe till in the end they found and tooke him thrusting him loden with chaines and irons into a Ship to carry him to Castile which Ship was lost vpon the Sea and there were with him drowned many Spaniards and a great quantity of Gold amongst the which also was the great wedge of Gold like vnto a great loafe weying three thousand six hundreth Castillans Thus it pleased God to wreake vengeance of matters so lewd and so enormous The other Realme was called of Marien where is at this day the Port at one of the bounds of the plaine towards the North and it is farre greater then the Realme of Portugall and much fertiler worthy to be inhabited hauing great Mountaines and Mines of Gold and Copper very rich The King was called Guacanagari which had vnder him many great Lords of the which I haue knowne and seene sundry In this Kings Countrey arriued first the old Admirall when he discouered the Indies whom at that time that he discouered the Ile the said Guacanagari receiued so graciously bountifully and curteously with all the Spaniards who were with him in giuing him all entertainement and succour for at the very instant was the Ship lost which the Admirall was carried in that hee could not haue bin better made off in his owne Countrie of his owne Father This did I vnderstand of the Admirals owne mouth This King dyed in flying the slaughters and cruelties of the Spaniards through the Mountaines being destroyed and depriued of his estate And all the other Lords his subiects dyed in the tyrannie and seruitude that shall be declared hereafter The third Realme and dominion was Maguana a Countrie also admirable very healthfull and very fertile where the best Sugar of the I le at this day is made The King of this Countrie was named Caenabo who surpassed all the others in strength and state in grauitie and in the ceremonies of his seruice The Spaniards tooke this King with great subtiltie and malice euen as he was in his owne house doubting of nothing They conueied him afterwards into a Ship to carry him to Castile but as there attended them six other Ships in the port all ready to hoise vp saile behold how God by his iust iudgement would declare that it with other things was an exceeding great iniquitie and vniust by sending the same night a tempest which sunke and drenched that Nauie with the Spaniards that were within There died also with them the said Caonabo charged with bolts and irons The Prince had three or foure brothers valiant men and couragious like himselfe who considering the imprisonment of their Lord brother so against all equitie together with the wasts and slaughters which the Spaniards made in other Realmes and specially after that they had heard that the King their brother was dead they put themselues in armes to encounter the Spaniards and to auenge the wrong who on the otherside meeting with them on horsebacke so they rage in discomfitures and massacres that the one moytie of this Realme hath beene thereby desolate and displâ—pled The fourth Realme is the same which is named of Xaragua This Realme was as it were the centre or middle point or to speake of as the Court of this Isle the diamond ouer all the other Realmes in language and polished speech in policie and good manners the best composed and ordered For as much as there were many noble Lords and Gentlemen the people also being the best made and most beautifull The King had to name Behechio which had a sister called Anacaona These two the brother and sister had done great seruices to the Kings of Castile and great good turnes to the Spaniards deliuering them from sundry dangers of death After the decease of Behechio Anacaona remained sole Soueraigne of the Realme At a time came into this Realme the Gouernour of this I le with threefcore Horses and more then three hundreth footemen the horsemen alone had beene enough to spoyle and ouerrunne not this I le alone but all the firme land withall And to him came being called more then three hundred Lords vnder assurance of whom the chiefest he fraudulently caused to be conueyed into a house of thatch and commanded to set to fire Now on this wise were these Lords burned all aliue all the rest of the Lords with other folke infinite were smitten to death with their Speares and Swords But the Soueraigne Lady Anacaona to doe her honour they hanged It happened that certaine Spaniards either of pittie or of couetousnesse hauing taken and detained certaine yong striplings to make them their Pages because they would not haue them slaine and setting them behinde them on their horse backes another Spaniard came behinde which stabbed them through with a speare If so be any childe or boy tombled downe to the ground another Spaniard came and cut off his legges Some certaine of these Indians which could escape this crueltie so vnnaturall passed ouer vnto a little I le neere vnto the other within an eight leagues The Gouernour condemned all those which had passed the water to become slaues because they had fled from their butcherie The fifth Realme was called Higney ouer the which raigned an ancient Queene named Hignanama whom the Spaniards hanged vp The people were infinite whom I saw burnt aliue and rent in peeces and tormented diuersly and strangely and whom I saw made slaues euen so many as they tooke aliue And now for as much as there are so many particularities in these Massacres and destruction of those peoples that they cannot conueniently be comprised in writing yea I doe verily beleeue that of a number of things to be spoken of there cannot be
all dead but the next day they were to drinke Wighsakon which would make them mad and they were to bee kept by the last made Blacke boyes in the wildernesse where their Oke did sucke the bloud of those which fell to his lot The truth is as I thinke that many die with the misery which they endure For they lye in all weathers in a little houell naked and they seldome speake or keepe company with any but their Keepers whom they obey so that if they be bidden sit on the frozen snow they will not rise till they be called And if they bid them goe take Fish Flesh or Corne from their mothers or else they are Old me this word is so terrible that they will teare their mothers throat but they will haue it yea it nakes them do whatsoeuer they are commanded and much mischiefe they often doe to such as they find stragling Yet hurt they not each other They continue thus nine months Then are diuers platters of broth set of which some are poysoned and he whose diuination finds out the poysoned is much esteemed and made a Quiyoughcosuck These are the degrees to become Priests or Coniurers This sacrifice they held to be so necessary that if they should omit it their Oke or Deuil and all their other Quiyoughcosughes which are there other Gods would let them haue no Deare Turkies Corne nor Fish and yet besides be would make a great slaughter amongst them They thinke that their Werowances and Priests which they also esteeme Quiyoughcosughes when they are dead goe beyond the Mountaines towards the setting of the Sunne and euer remaine there in forme of their Oke with their heads painted with Oile and Pocones finely trimmed with Feathers and shall haue Beades Hatchets Copper and Tobacco doing nothing but dance and sing with all their Predecessors But the common people they suppose shall not liue after death To diuert them from this blind Idolatry many vsed there best endeauours chiefly with the Werowances of Quiyoughcohanock whose deuotion apprehension and good disposition much exceeded any in those Countries whom though wee could not as yet preuaile withall to forsake his false Gods yet this he did beleeue that our God as much exceeded theirs as our Gunnes did their Bowes and Arrowes and many times did send to the President at Iames Towne men with Presents intreating them to pray to his God for Raine for his Gods would not send him any And in this lamentable ignorance doe these poore soules sacrifice themselues to the Deuill not knowing their Creator Of the manner of the Virginians Gouernment Although the Countrey people be very barbarous yet haue they amongst them such gouernment as that their Magistrates for good commanding and their people for due subiection and obeying excell many places that would be counted verie ciuill The forme of their Common-wealth is a Monarchiall gouernment one as Emperour ruleth ouer many Kings or Gouernours Their chiefe Ruler is called Powhatan and taketh his name of the principall place of dwelling called Powhatan But his proper name is Wahunsonacock Some Countries hee hath which haue beene his Ancestors and came vnto him by Inheritance as the Countrie called Powhatan Arrohateck Appamatuke Pamavuke Youghtanud and Mattapanient All the rest of his Territories expressed in the Map they report haue beene his seuerall conquests In all his ancient Inheritances hee hath houses built after their manner like arbours some thirtie some fortie yards long and at euerie house prouision for his entertainment according to the time At Werowcomoco hee was seated vpon the Northside of the Riuer Pamavuke some fourteene miles from Iames Towne where for the most part hee was resident but hee tooke so little pleasure in our neere neighbourhood that were able to visit him against his will in sixe or seuen houres that he retired himselfe to a place in the Desarts at the top of the Riuer Chickahamania betweene Toughtanund and Powhatan His habitation is called Orapacks where he ordinarily now resideth He is of parsonage a tall well proportioned man with a sower looke his head somewhat gray his beard so thin that it seemeth none at all his age neere sixtie of a verie able and hardie bodie to endure any labour About his person ordinarily attendeth a guard of fortie or fiftie of the tallest men his Countrie doth afford Euerie night vpon the foure quarters of his house are foure Sentinels each standing from other a flight shoot and at euery halfe houre one from the Corps due guard doth hollow vnto whom euerie Sentinell doth answere round from his stand if any faile they presently send forth an officer that beateth him extreamely A mile from Orapakes in a thicket of Wood hee hath a house in which hee keepeth his kind of Treasure as Skins Copper Pearle and Beads which he storeth vp against the time of his death and buriall Here also is store of Red paint for ointment and Bowes and Arrowes This house is fiftie or sixtie yards in length frequented onely by Priests At the foure corners of this house stand foure Images as Sentinels one of a Dragon another a Beare the third like a Leopard and the fourth like a Giant-like man all made euill-fauor'dly according to their best workmanship He hath as many women as he will whereof when he lieth on his bed one sitteth at his head and another at his feet but when he sitteth one sitteth on his right hand another on his left As he is weary of his women he bestoweth them on those that best deserue them at his hands When he dineth or suppeth one of his women before and after meat bringeth him water in a woodden Platter to wash his hands Another waiteth with a bunch of Feathers to wipe them insteed of a Towell and the Feathers when he hath wiped are dried againe His Kingdome descendeth not to his sonnes nor children but first to his brethren whereof hee hath three namely Opitchapan Opechancanough and Catataugh and after their decease to his sisters First to the eldest sister then to the rest and after them to the heire male and female of the eldest sister but neuer to the heires of the males Hee nor any of his people vnderstand any letters whereby to write or read onely the Lawes whereby he ruleth is Custome Yet when hee listeth his will is a law and must be obeyed not only as a King but as halfe a God they esteeme him His inferiour Kings whom they call Werowances are tied to rule by customes and haue power of life and death as their command in that nature But this word Werowance which we call and conster for a King is a common word whereby they call all Commanders for they haue but few words in their language and but few occasions to vse any officers more then one Commander which commonly they call Werowances They all know their seuerall lands and habitations and limits to fish fowle or hunt
Saâ—ages 1299 Tuquema a Prouince subiect to Peru its seuerall townes of gouernment 1419 Turkes taken by the Spaniards and made Gally-slaues rescued by the English and set at liberty 1933 Turky-stenes in New France 1621 1622 Turneps a remedy against the scurâ—ie 1880 Master Turners relation of Brasile c 1243 Turners relation voyage successe at large 1265 1266 Turtles innumerable 1306 Tutelpinco a forsaken towne in Florida left by the inhabitants and destitute of prouision 1551 Tygers worshipped 1457 V. VAcupa a Prouince in America 1560 Vahuar huacac an Emperour in Peru his acts and conquest hee wept blood at his natiuity 1457 1458 Valenzuola a golden place in America 1419 Valpariso a plaâ—e in the south Sea 1416 Valuation of the voyages of fishing Boats to the coast of New found Land 1886 Varaua a fish in Brasile as big as an Oxe 1239 Vaytacasses a kinde of Sauages 1219 Vbra Riuer 1248 Vcita a towne in Florida its description and commodities 1530 Vela Pampilona an American place 1419 A Venetian ship taken by the English 1906 Venter-hauen a place in the west parts of Ireland 1144 Veragua a towne in the West Indies plenteous of gold 1419. it neuer raines there an vnhealthy country 1433 Vâ—â—u Cruz a new towne 1418 Verginia its hopefull commodities the inhabitants idolatry and worship of the Sunne their othes and fidelity thereupon 1690. 〈…〉 their customes 1690. plantation there and mortality accompanied with famine 1689. 1690. Virginias bounds temperature winds entrance mountaines soile 1691. vallies and 5 faire delicate nauigable Riuers neere the English Plantation 1692. its seuerall and different languages thereabout 1694. Vide Virginia Via tuna Indians in Brasile deâ—â—â—red by the Portingals 1298 Victuals verie scarce in Plimouth in New England 1856. Victuals of the Spanish Fleet sent for England Anno 1588. 1901 Vigo a towne taken by the English in the Portingall voyage 1926 Villa de Praya a towne in Tercera one of the Ilands of Azores 1668 Villa Franca a towne of St Michels one of the Azores Iles 1963. the situation fertility of the soyle and fruits of the Land 1964 Vines store in Canada Ilands 1612 vines naturally growing in New England 1844 St Vincent a port in the West Indies 1190. called by the Inâ—ians Warapuimama its description 1242 1438 Virachocha an Emperour of Peru his first conquest 1458 his seuerall acts and death with his successor 1459 The V 〈…〉 gines Ilands not inhabited and description 1159 Virginia Companies aduentures in fiâ—â—ing ships one of them being taken by the Turkes 1836. Vâ—rginia despised of the very abiects 1841. fruitfulnesse of the Land store of fish and Fowle ibid. Virginia why so called the praise thereof the first voyages and discoueries there with their colonies 1645 1646. Virginias healthinesse ibid. a Virginian yellow haird and faire 1689. Virginias naturall commodities trees among which cypresse vines wines fruits gums sassafras nourishable roots raw they are poyson roasted not so but otherwise vsed for bread medicinable plants beasts in variety 1694. 1695. birds fishes and minerals 1696. fruits that are plantedin Virginia the seasons there their vse of corne of flesh the ayres mildnesse and commodities for trafficke with France Swethland Spain Holland 1696 1697. the commodities that may redound thence to the industrious ibid. Virginians number nations languages their description constitution Barbers apparell women shamefastnesse attire ornaments 1697 1698. their building lodging bedding gardens exercise for men or women child-birth naming children easie deliuery their manner of striking fire of making bowes and arrowes 1698 their swords and targets boats fishing spinning fish-hookes hunting either in companyes or alone consultations before battell 1699. Virginians neere the English Plantation their enemies their manner of embattelling stratagems ambusâ—adoes painting to make themselues looke terrible singing and yelling in their combate musicke and entertainment of great men 1700. their trade Physicke Chirurgery charming 1701. their Religion and adoration of any thing that can hurt them without their preuention worshipping the Deuil called Oke buriall of their Kings their ordinary burialls and mourning for the dead their Temples their supposed sanctitie Priests and their habite times for solemnities ibid. their coniuration altars sacrifices to the water their solemne customes for the making Southsayers their opinion of their Kings and Priests soules and the common peoples after death their opinion of the Christians God 1702. manner of gouernment which is monarchicall their Kings pompe described 1703 1704. Virginian punishment of offenders 1703. Virginia by whom discommended the miserie it sustained by effeminate idlers 1704. Virginian dissentions in the English plantationers 1706. The Planters nominated and their first imployment ibid. their miserie famine and sicknesse with mortality caused by the Presidents auarice 1706 1707. with vnexpected remedy ibid seconded by the care of Captaine Smith ibid. Virginian plots for the leauing the Plantation 1707 1709. Virginian plantation and trading endamaged by the ambition of the Company 1710. by desire of gaine in some priuate persons 1711. Virginias golden hopes frustrate ibid. Virginia its want of a good President 1712. Virginias plantation supposed ouerthrow 1717. Virgina Tauerne the abuse of trading among Saylors there 1719. Virginian first mariage of the English 1720. Virginian Plantations supply 1708 1716 1719. Gold as easie to bee gotten as corne there from the needy Sauages 1725. Virginian planters losse of armes by the trecherie of Dutchmen 1725. Virginias buildings repaired but by want of prouision not prosecuted the cause of such want 1727. and the miserie sustained by lazinesse ibid. Virginias vnprofitable planters checked by the Presidents speech 1728. Virginias healthinesse and the care taken for sicke men there by the English 1728. the Plantations third supply 1729. the change of gouernment and Captaines the preiudice of the plantation and mutiny seconding the supply 1729. Virginia Plantation at the Falls and Nanâ—amund 1729. Virginia planters breake peace with the Sauages 1730. Virg 〈…〉 〈◊〉 of Presidents losing Captaine Smith the miserie famine and diâ—comfort it sustained by his absence 1732. its supply by the ariuall of the Lord La Ware Sir Thomas Dale 1732 1733. Virginias innouation in gouernment whether mutinous or no 1734. Viâ—ginias dispraise by idle fellowes 1743. the Presidency of Virginia assumed by St Thomas Gates 1749 the miserie of it at that time ibid. the causes thereof ibid. 1750. Virginias hopes and aduancement 1750. other causes of its distresse and the distresse it selfe 1751. more at large 1756 1757. its commodities 1757. Virginians triumphs after victory feasting simâ—licity feare horrible and prodigious rites of southsaying their iudgement of powder and other customes 1708 1709. Virginians are al of all occupations 1709 a Virginian exchanged for a Christian 1710. Virginia Sauages strange mortality 1712. Virginians courtesie to the English 1713. and trecherous proiects ibid. exceeding feare of Muskets ibid. how Virginian Sauages may be dealt withall 1714. Virginia Sauages fight disguised like bushes 1716. Virginians made proud not awed by courtesie
tarry at a Conduit which is in the maine Iland but from whence men might be landed betwixt the point or the Bridge and the red fort called Mata-diabolo Our men were safely landed some pretty distance beyond the red Fort where the Spaniards were ready to receiue them and a while they skirmished gallantly but finding themselues ouer-weake they made an honorable retreat till they were fallen into the wood in the edge whereof they made their first stand Ours marched directly to the Fort which they found quitted and there lodged all that night By that time that the Boates were come backe to his Lordship the Moone was growne so light and the water fallen to so dead an ebbe that there was no hope of passge till the next floud There was not so much as a candle or a match to be seene in the Fort whereupon his Lordship told Sir Iohn Barkeley that he tooke that Fort also to be quitted the rather because some were seene passing from the Fort to the Frigat Hereupon himselfe accompanied with Sir Iohn Barkeley went to the Cawsey to see if they could perceiue any more certaintie and Captaine Rukesby was sent and brought certaine intelligence that the enemy was gone By this time it was growne very late and our men needed some refreshing the Companies therefore were drawne vp to the place where we had lodged the last night where hauing eaten something they were within a while brought downe to the point where meeting with Captaine Coach and Captaine Orrell all began to march directly towards the Towne And now our men made but little doubt of all hauing once set safe footing in the lesser Iland It was night when we began to march and by breake of day we were at the Towne This day was thursday Iun. 8. The passage is wooddie on either side and so narrow that not passiâ—g three at the most can march in ranke and from the Towne this Fort is a mile and a halfe yet all this way being so fit for Ambâ—skadoes or for the Irish manner of charging by sudden comming on and off there was not a Dogge that barked at vs so that in great quietnesse wee came to the Towne and found it quitted of all able to make resistance fo besides women and men whom either age or wounds had disabled for the warres all the rest had quitted the Towne and betaken themselues as to their last hope to one of their Forts to the Sea-wards called Mora. §. III. The Fort Mora beseeged and taken The Towne described the Mines Purpose to hold the place altered by the death and sickenesse of many AFter that the place was assured with sufficient guards and euery Company quartered first of all the Spaniards that were left were deliuered to the Prouost and then his Lordship sent a Drum to summon the Fort to be deliuered to him for the Queene of England who had sent him thither to take it The Gouernour made answere â—hat the King of Spaine had sent him thither to keepe it and that so long as he liued it should not be deliuered After this summons his Lordship tooke exceeding care for the taking in of this hold with the least losse of men that possibly might be for he considered that he was to leaue a strong Garrison there and that he must himselfe goe home well guarded His purpose therefore was to take it without fight onely with a straight siedge to force them to yeelding his Lordships speciall purpose and desire was by hunger to driue them to a yeelding as in the end hee did but withall he prouided a batterie if their victualls should last longer then he wished and hoped At one time therefore he tooke order to cut off all possible meanes of reliefe of victualls by senâ—ing Boates which continually lay twixt the Fort and their Mayne and withall hee prouided two plat-formes and seuerall Gabions that from two placeâ— at once their wall might bee beaten To this purpose there was brought from the Scourge two whole Culuerings and two Demiculuerings and about the Towne were found foure other peeces that would serue for batterie among the which one was that which had slain Sir Nicholas Clifford there not long before By Saturday the seuenteenth of Iune the Ordnance was readie to batter But his Lordship would not haue them begin on the Sabbath day so that it was deferred till Monday All this while the noise of warre was not so great among vs but that the still voice of Iustice was well heard It is no newes that in such companies there will bee outrages committed and so was it there for his Lordship publikely disarmed a very good Souldier for ouer-violent spoyling a Gentlewoman of her jewels But because this was not terrible enough to the rest and he was desirous to arme Iustice with the authoritie of all the Commanders forthwith hee caused a martiall Court to bee called Whereupon the Article of defacing Churches or Houses of Religion and of offering force to Women there were two condemned to die Hee that had done violence to a Spaniards wife was a Souldier and had giuen very good proofe of his valour so farre that his Lordship had taken speciall notice of him but being conuicted of this crime there was no place left for mercy but hanged hee was in the market place the Spaniards as many as would come being suffered to be present at the execution The other fellow was a Sayler and an Officer in the Vice-admirall for defacing some things in the Church without order from the Generall hee was brought thrice to the Gibbet and at length his Lordship was intreated to grant him mercy These few but indeed notable examples of justice haue since held vs in much better termes of ruly obedience Vpon Monday the batterie began to speake very loud both the Gabions beat vpon a Caualero which they had made vpon the Point next to the Towne The Ordnance which they had planted thereon by dinner time was iudged to bee dismounted and though that were the thing specially respected in the batterie yet because the Wall and the Caualero that stood vpon it began to nod they beat that place till towards the euening All this while scarce was there a Spaniard to be seene vpon any part of their wall whereas before the Ordnance began to play there could not within the sight and reach of the Fort foure or fiue of the Souldiers come together but there would a shot of great Ordnance be sent to scatter them In the euening the Canoneers found that they had spent all the Culuering shot and therefore shut vp that day with the lesser peeces Against the morning there was more prouided but in the meane season it was perceiued that the Caualero was alreadie sufficiently beaten and that with the next raine which in that Countrie and time of the yeere is neither seldome nor little it would fall being
to seeke the Portugall Christians out and peaceably to put my selfe into their hands Hereupon the Gouernor and his assistants consulted and concluded together that I should be committed to the house of Antonio de Payue there remaine vntill they might write into Portugall to know the Kings pleasure concerning me Within one yeare they receiued answer from Lisbon concerning me that I should be forth comming and that hereafter the King would send further order for my transporting into Portugall But aboue two yeares passed before this order came In which meane space first I spent part of my time in going into the fields as ouerseer of my friends Negros and Sauages in their planting and dressing of their Sugar Canes and in planting of Gingers which grow there exceeding well but is a forbidden trade to be transported out for hindering of other places and in cutting downe of Brasil-wood and in bringing it downe by Riuers vpon rafts vnto the Port where the Ships doe lade it and in seeing them gather their Cotten wooll and picking the seedes out of it and packing the same and in gathering of the long Pepper both white and red After I had spent some yeare and an halfe in this businesse my friend Antonio de Payue hauing a small Barke of his owne which he employed in carrying of wares from Port to Port and for bringing of Sugars to places where Ships should lade vsed me knowing I had bin brought vp to the Sea in these his businesses Our first Voyage was to Ilheos where we left some wares and staied there some moneth then we went to Puerto Seguro and there tooke in some Sugars for Linnen Cloath Bayes Wine and Oyle Then returning home shortly after we were set forth againe in the same Barke to Spirito Sancto and Saint Vincent and the Riuer Ienero where discharging our wares to certaine Factors and receiuing Sugars and Cotten Wooll aboord we returned safely home In my first Voyage one Master Dauid Leake an English Surgeon lost there out of an English Shippe in the Countrie being much sought for because of his skill had passage with vs from Bahia to Spirito Sancto Vpon my returne of my second voyage my good friend Antonio de Payue aduertised me that a Shippe was shortly to arriue there to carry me into Portugall prisoner telling me that he should not be able any longer to helpe me and therefore wished me to looke to my selfe but kindely offered me his helpe to conuay me away whereupon I tooke his Boate and foure of his Negros pretending to goe on fishing to the Sea and so of purpose going much to Leeward of the place I put in to Feruambuc where the Negroes being examined whence we came and for what cause being vtterly ignorant of mine intent answered that they were drawn thither by force of weather and for their Masters sake were well intreated and returned home with the next winde my selfe remaining secretly behinde them Within certaine moneths there came thither a Hulke with eight English men and foureteene Portugals who after some three moneths had laden the same with English and Portugall goods to come for England The English goods belonged to M. Cordal M. Beecher and M. Sadler worshipfull Merchants of the Citie of London which had bin left in the Countrie before by the Merchant Royall Thus passing homeward in our course as far as the Iles of the Açores within sight of the I le of Pike being fiue Portugall Ships in consort we met with Cap. Raymond and Cap. George Drake of Exeter with two English Ships of warre who because the peace betweene England and Spaine was broken the yeare before commanded vs to yeelde our selues to them as their lawfull prises which we did al fiue accordingly without any resistance But by contrary weather we were driuen into Baltimore in Ireland and within a while after we arriued in the narrow Seas in the hauen of Chichister in the end of Nouember 1586. nine yeares and foureteene dayes after my departure out of England with Sir Francis Drake in his Voyage about the World My strange aduentures and long liuing among cruell Sauages being known to the right honorable the Lord Charles Howard Lord high Admirall of England he certified the Queenes Maiesty thereof with speede and brought me to her presence at White-hall where it pleased her to talke with me a long houres space of my trauailes and wonderfull escape and among other things of the manner of M. Dowties execution and afterward bestowed 22. angels on me willing my Lord to haue consideration of me with many gracious words I was dismissed humbly thanking the Almighty for my miraculous preseruation and safe returne into my natiue Countrie To the Reader HEre maâ—st thou read that dismall and fatall voyage of Master Thomas Candish in which he consummated his earthly peregrination In the former voyage of his which amongst our Circumâ—auigations of the Globe we haue presented thee thou findest a perpetuall Sunshine no man euer hauing in neere so little time compassed that huge circumference or taken his choise of so much more wealth then he could bring home or reuisited his natiue soile with greater pompe and triumph The clearest day hath a night nor doth Summer last alway the Sea hath his â—bbing as well as flowing the Aire hath calmes and stormes the Moone â—â—deth sometimes the Suns lustre from vs by her interposition sometimes is her selfe meerely darkened by the Earths shadow And if the Elements Seasons and Heauens two Eyes be subiect to such vicissitâ—des what is this little mâ—lchill of earth this modell of clay this moueable circumference of constant inconstancie immutable mutability this vanishing centre of diuersified vanitie which we call Man that herein also he should not resemble this samplar of the vniuerse as becommeth a littls map to be like that larger Prototype This we see all and feele daily in our selues this in Master Candish here in Sir Francis Drakes before the Seas two darlings there and thence both liuing and dying if dissolution of the body may be called a death where the soule arriueth in heauen the name fils the earth the deedes are presidents to posteritie and England their Countrie hath the glory alone that she hath brought forth two illustrious Captaâ—â—es and Generals which haue fortunately embraced the round waste of their vaste mother without waste of life reputation and substance yea victorious ouer elements and enemies illustrious in wealth and honour they haue comne home like the Sunne in a Summers day seeming greatest neerest his euening home the whole skie entertaining and welcoming him in festiuall scarless and displayed colours of triumph No Nation else hath yeelded one which in all these respects may be matchable Magalianes hath left himselfe odious to his Portugals for offered seruice to the Spaniard and like Phaeton thinking with Phebus his Chariot to compasse the World perished mid-way Midway was
of Snakes called by the Canibals Boaâ—yua After we had passed this desart we came into a champaine Countrie where we had great store of Pine nuts Wandring vp and downe in this Countrie one morning we espyed smoke in a wood not farre from vs. Then wee trauelled that wayes and comming neere I knew where we were and presently I told Quarisisacupa that the Towne was called Pianita and that this was the place where Iawaripipo had vsed mee so well when Wanaâ—buth would haue killed me Now come we to the Towne where we are very kindly receiued especially of mine old friend Iawaripipo After we had rested a little while among these Canibals I desired them that they would ioyne themselues together for in publike I would rehearse somwhat vnto them of my comming into their Countrie Now when they were all together I began to rehearse vnto them how cruelly the Portugals did vse their Nation in making them bond-slaues marking them like Dogs whipping and tormenting them as if they were not of flesh and bloud I rehearsed vnto them the course of mine owne life and desired them to remember how my Countrimen had vsed them in former times encouraging them to bee valiant and to pull vp their spirits and perswading to defend themselues against such Tyrants who vnder the colour of friendship vsed them most villainously Then I told them that I had killed a Portugall and that I was determined to end my life with them if they would promise to defend mee and themselues from the Portugals With that many of them embraced me all together giuing a great hoope saying as long as their liues lasted and their Bowes brake not that they would defend themselues and me Here I continued nine moneths till it happened that Martin de Saa came againe to buy more slaues He came to a Towne hard by the Iland of San Sebastian called Iaquerequere where vsing the Canibals kindly and giuing them Kniues and Hatchets and Beades hee won their hearts so much vnto him that they gaue him their Sonnes and Daughters to bee his slaues and moreouer told him that I and Quarisisacupa was at a Towne hard by Then Martin de Saa sent foure Portugals and twentie Sauages for me to the Towne When the Sauages of Iaquerequere came to Pianita they gaue such report in all the Towne of the liberalitie of Martin de Saa that without any deliberation they bound my hands and brought me backe againe to my Masters sonne When the Canibals brought mee before Martin de Saâ— all those that protested before most friendship vnto mee are now become my greatest and most mortall enemies and with hooping and hollowing deride mee striking mee on the head and declaring to the Portugals how I vsed great perswasions to haue them become their enemies Martin de Saa made no answere to all their exclamations but commanded certaine Portugals and Indians to see that I runne not away Being brought the next morning before him hee told mee that hee did pittie my hard fortune to come to so bad an end as I was like to come to making mee beleeue that the Factor was dead and therefore hee thought that the Law would condemne mee When hee had spoken I desired him to bee fauourable vnto mee and that hee would consider what seruice I had done him and his father and to thinke how vnreasonably the Factor had vsed mee a long time Then hee promised mee that wherein hee might hee would stand my friend then I entreated him to giue mee leaue in that desart to end my life amongst the Canibals where hee might well bee assured I could neuer hurt him nor any of his Nation hee would not condescend thereunto but promised hee would saue my life if I would but goe to a place in that Countrie called Paraeyua Wereob and there to trafficke with the Canibals for Women Boyes and Girles Although the danger of going into the Countrie of wild Man-eaters where I neuer had beene was no lesse then the value of my life yet considering with my selfe that my offence deserued death among the Portugals I chose once againe rather to stand to the Heathen mercy of â—auage Man-eaters then at the bloudie crueltie of Christian Portugals And seeing my selfe in such extremitie I shewed my selfe very willing and diligent to doe the Captaine seruice but God knowes my hope was neuer to haue seene him againe Now goe I alongst in the Wildernesse with twelue Sauages I know not whither but as they guide mee ouer huge Mountaines and many great Riuers passing many dangers of our liues by land of Lions Leopards diuers great Snakes in the Riuers Crocodiles Iararaquas and Capucaras with many other Serpents that vse the water After wee had trauelled fiue and twentie dayes in the Wildernesse wee came to a faire Riuer as broad as the Thames and the Canibals that went with mee said that the Towne stood by that Riuer side where wee were to trafficke but certaintie they knew not where about Then wee made vs a Boat of the barke of a Cedar Tree going downe the streame in it Wee had not beene there long a going with the swiftnesse of the Current before wee espyed a Boate of the same fashion that ours was with two Canibals in it who as soone as they had espyed vs would haue runne away but wee beeing better manned then they ouertooke them before they got to the shoare With mee there went one of their owne Nation by name Morosoeij who had beene taken by the Wayanasses and they sold him to the Portugals This Morosoeij spake the language of the Taymayas which I vnderstood very well The two Canibals that wee tooke in the Boate were amazed to see men apparelled insomuch that they knew not their owne Countriman that was with mee when they saw him apparelled like a Portugall if they were amazed at vs I was no lesse at them for in all my trauell I neuer saw the like fashion of Canibals For when I saw them first I thought they had beene borne with feathers on their heads and bodies like fowles of the aire they had anoâ—nted their bodies with gumme of the oiletusees of Balsome and couered themselues so artifiâ—â—â—lly with fâ—athers of diuers colours in such order that you could not haue seene a spot of their skins but their legs after wee had beholden them well and they vs I commanded Morosoeij their Countriman to disclose himselfe to his Countrimen and to tell them the cause of our comming desiring them to goe to their Towne and tell of our being there lest our sudden comming should raise an vprore among them the which they were very willing to doe so giuing either of them a knife and a few bâ—ades they departed very ioyfully Two houres after that they were departed from vs there came at the least fiue hundred of them singing and rejoycing shewing themselues very glad of our comming
to traffick with them entreating vs to goe to then Towne the which we did where wee were receiued with dancing and singing of great and small and in euery house I was receiued with great ceremonies and long speeches of the chiefest that were in the Towne The next day I began to traffiâ—k with them for slaues and I bought ninetie all which I brought to Martin de Saa who remayned at Ilha Grande till I returned â—gaine Assoone as I came vnto him I deliuered all vnto him desiring him to stand my friend and to giue mee leaue to taâ—rie among the Canibals till such time as hee had spoken with his fatâ—er in my behalfe Laughing hee answered that I neede to feare to goe home for the man was recouered and gone to the Râ—uer of Plate and that his father was very sorry thinking I had beene eaten by some Serpent Leopard or Lion When I came before the Gouernour he blessed himselfe to see mee meruailing where I had beene so long and sent me againe to his Sugar mill where I continued a twelue-moneth and I had the charge to châ—stall the Sugar in which time I got two hundred crownes I determined to goe to Angola in Aethiopia and the Gouernour gaue me his word that I shoulâ— and that what fauour he could-shew me I should bee sure to haue but when the ship was readie to depart the Gouernour sent mee out of Towne on a sleeuelesse errand and I remayned ashoare and lost all that I had scraped together for my voyage A monetâ— or two after this it happened that the Wayanasses were set on by a kind of Canibals called Taymayas the Wayanasses haue traffâ—ck and friendship with the Portugals and the most mortall enemies that the Portugals haue in all America are the Taymayas The Wayanasses hauing lost a great many men in a battell not being able to make any head againe of themselues craued succour againe of the Portugals My Master being Gouernour of the Towne sent his sonne Martin de Saa with seuen hundred Portugals and two thousand Indians The Wayanasses certified vnto vs that the most that wee should bee before wee come to the Taymayas would bee a moneth Thus the fourteenth day of October 1597. we departed on our way with sixe Canoas by Sea some thirtie miles from the Riuer of Ianuarie for a Port called Paratee The first day that we departed we had a great storme where we thought we should all haue beene drowned but it was the will of God to saue our liues with the generall losse of all we had the Canoas turned vpside downe with the storme wee holding fast on the bottom of them were driuen on shoare with great hazard of our liues From the place where we droue on shoare to the Riuer of Wareteena it was three miles which we went by land and sent the Canoas to the Riuer of Ianuarie for victuals We tarried two dayes at Wareteena till the aforesaid Canoas returned the third day wee went to a place of Great Iland called Ippoa where there dwelt two or three Portugals Here we had great store of Poâ—atoâ—s Plantons to eat At this place we remayned fiue dayes for fiue hundred Canibals that were to come from an Iland called Iawaripipo When these Indians were come we depâ—rted in our Canoas for our desired Port called Paratee As we went in the night wee cut a great Bay of the Sea where a Whale did ouerturne one of our Canoas notwithstanding wee tooke the men that were in the Sea and went on for the Harbour aforesaid The next day the Captaine commanded all the Canoas to be pulled out of the water and to couer them well with boughes determining immediately to depart by land That night that we came to Paratee there came a Caniball to vs called Alecio from a Towne called Iequerequere this Town lyeth by the Sea-side right ouer against the Iland of San Sebastian This Inâ—ian brought eightie Bow-men with him offering himselfe with all his companie to goe with our Captaine The next day we departed on our voyage through the Mountaines at night the Captaine seeing Alecio the Caniball lying on the ground tooke away the Net that I had to sleepe in and gaue it to the Caniball I being faine to lie vpon the earth I complayned to some of the Portugals of the wrong that the Captaine did vse vnto mee they answered that his father sent me in that voyage onely to be made away I replyed Gods will be done After wee had gone on our iourney three dayes we came to the bottom of a great Mountaine called by the Indians Paranapeacano that is in our language The sight of the Sea this Mountaine is so high that wee were three dayes going vp and three dayes also going downe Two dayes after wee were descended we came into a faire champaine Countrie like meadow ground with long grasse and great store of Pine trees where we lodged that night in a bottom in which we killed aboue sixe hundred Snakes it was the will of God that one Indian called Ieronimo was bit by them and not any more This Indian presently swelled and his bloud sprung out of his eyes and his nailes and so he died After that we came to trauell againe through the Mountaynes some forty dayes then wee came to a great Riuer called Paracuona which Riuer wee passed with things made of Canes tyed together with withes which the Portugals call Iangathas We were foure dayes before we passed ouer this Riuer it was so great and ranne so swift After that wee trâ—uelled againe some 20. dayes till we came to a great Mountayne called Panaç◠yâ—awâ—â—paconâ— we were foure dayes going vp this Mountayne by reason of the great showres of raine that we had besides wee were very weake and all our victuals were done But hoping to find our enemies very soone we did our best â—o hold out comming vp this hill from sixe of the clocke in the morning till it was two of the clocke in the afternoone on a rainie day the Captaine commanded euery man to make his abode for that night whereupon I set downe my burthen and went into the Mountaynes to cut some boughes of a Tree called Saâ—â—ambaya to couer vs from the raine the weather was so cold and I hauing trauelled all day without meate was so feeble that going to cut a bough my sword fell out of my hand and I sate vnder a Tree where I had made mine end if it had not bin for my deere friend Henry Barrawell who seeing that I tarried long came to seeke me and found me in such case that I was not able neither to speake nor stand After he had brought me to the Campe he layed me by the fire I recouered and was very well After we had passed this Mountayne of Pareena wee trauelled in a kind of low wash ground there were great store of Canibals called Pories Vpon
wee were aware and there split our Boat to the middest and all our men were turned out saue my selfe which held the helme thinking the next waue would set her off againe not knowing her to be split But the breach was so great that it turned me vnder putting me in great danger to be grinded to pieces with her weight lying vpon me against the great Rocks yet at the last wee all recouered our selues some sitting vpon the Rocks others on the rootes of great Trees thinking there to saue our selues vntill the morning William Picks and my selfe went and haled the Boat on shoare which was split to the very middest and so farre with our Swords we cut off and put in an head in the middest and fastened it with our Daggers Kniues and Bodkins stopping all the leakes with our shirts and sent fiue of our companie ouer to the mayne land which were Miles Pet William Picks Francis Brace William Kettleby and William Butcher They haled their Boat foure or fiue dayes along the shoare crossing diuers Riuers with their Boat being sometimes pursued by Alligatos or Crocodiles and Sharkes God pittying their poore estate guided them to a place where they found a great earthen Iarre full of wheat flower set in a little Caue which they boyled in the Iarre with fresh water and satisfied their hungrie appetites with thanks vnto God for the same And within two dayes after they met with three Spaniards with halfe a dosen Indians and Negroes trauelling from Caracas to Coro driuing Horses and Mules laden with merchandise who seeing their weaknesse for want of victuals vnloded their Horses to feede on the grasse while they refreshed our hungrie men with plentie of their good cheere and shewed themselues very courteous suffering them to ride and went themselues on foot two or three dayes till they came to a Towne of ciuill Indians called Tocoya where they stayed to refresh them for they were very weake And there they let the Spaniards know in what miserable case they left vs in a desolate Iland where we endured the greatest miserie that euer men did with life For wee continued fifteene dayes hauing no kinde of meat but Wilks falt Water and Tabacco which did nothing at all nourish vs yet neuerthelesse it tooke away the desire of hunger and saued vs from eating one another In those fifteene dayes fiue of our companie pined to death because they could not take Tabacco Iohn Parkins Edward Greene Thomas Siubbes Andrew Swash and an old man called Iohn By noting two or three of our men to die we knew by those tokens when we drew neere our death which were these first they would swell very bigge and shortly after fall to the very bones and wanting strength to hold vp their heads they would fall downe and droope into their bosomes and in twelue houres after yeeld vp the Ghost At the fifteene dayes end Francis Brace hauing more strength then the rest guided the three Spaniards with sixe Indians to the Iland where we were and they brought victuals with them which when we had eaten had almost killed vs by reason of the weaknesse of our stomacks being so farre spent that we could not digest it although we fed thereof very sparingly The next day they carried vs to the mayne land where wee had horses brought vs to carry vs and the goods wee had they tooke all to the King of Spaines vse and so conueyed vs to Tocoya where wee which were weake remayned fifteene dayes and those which were strong went with the three Spaniards to Coro which is some fiftie leagues from Tocoya and at the fifteene dayes end one of the Spaniards whose name was Sennor Coraianal came for vs with horses who shewed himselfe as carefull of vs as if we had beene his owne Countrimen and friends and brought vs to Coro to our fellowes where we were brought before the Gouernour and by a Flemming which could speake a little English which had beene a prisoner there sixteene yeeres we were examined of the cause of our comming thither who excused vs very well For hee knew that if we had confessed whether we were determined to goe they would haue either put vs to death or condemned vs to the Gallies But he told them that we neuer purposed to come thither but were by misfortune and tempest of winde and weather driuen on that Coast and told them of all the dangers which we had endured which draue them into such great admiration that some said verily wee were Deuils and not Men others that we deserued to bee canonized but that wee were Lutherans All the chiefe Sennors of the Towne beeing there euery man was desirous to take one of vs. After we were deuided among them they did not vse vs like prisoners but were as carefull of vs as of their owne children not suffering vs to want any thing necessarie for the procuring of our healths My lot fell out to bee entertained by one whose name was Sentor Francisco Lopez and being extreamely sicke of a Calenture or hot Feuer one Captaine Peroso which had married his daughter hauing good skill in Phisicke came daily to my Chamber and there let me bloud dieted me and purged me giuing his owne Wife in charge not to let me want any thing that was there to be had Thus by the will of God and their tender care ouer vs wee recouered our healths and strengths againe only two dyed there which were Thomas Fletcher and Fulke Iones a shoomaker In Coro eleuen of vs remayned aliue being all that were left of sixtie seuen which were put on shore in the Iland of Santa Luzia for the space of fiue moneths euery day going to one another when wee pleased and wee rid often into the Countrey where the Indians tooke great delight in our company For against our comming they would prouide all kind of delicious fruits which were in most abundance in that Countrey and would kill Deere and wild Hogs for vs and would bring vs Apes Monkeyes Parrots and any thing that they thought wee delighted in The Countrey about Coro doth yeeld abundance of Sugar Honey Ginger and Pitch Also they haue very good Wheate growing there but the bread is for the most part made of Maiz whereof they haue great plentie for they reape it three times in one yeere This Maiz they do mingle with the iuyce of the Sugar-cane which maketh an excellent kinde of bread and it will keepe like Bisket Also they make their drinke of this Maiz and of Potatoes which is very sweet and strong for the Indians will be quickly drunke with it While we were there a Spaniard rode to a Farme of his in the Countrey with his brother where he had many Indians dwelling to make Tabacco One of his chiefe Indians which vsed to be familiar with him tooke vp a new Hatchet which his Master had brought him asking him
of them in a Pinnasse that was built by one named Howard the Keele whereof hee made of a Canoa which prooued a very fitting Pinnasse for those parts and Riuers This Pinnasse after our Generals death the Indians did breake a pieces because they thought wee would haue stolne away from them in her vnto the Spaniards And the rest of our company were placed in their Canoas all of vs furnished with our Caleeuers and so wee departed on our Iourney and Voyage on the sixe and twentieth of February on which day at night wee came to a place which wee named Mount Huntly where wee lodged in the Woods that night our Generall commanding vs to keepe a good watch which wee need not to haue done for the Indians themselues were very watchfull and wonderfull carefull of our Caleeuers and for to keepe our Powder drie after we had beene acquainted with them and very diligent for to please vs. The next day at night we came to a place called the Cou and there wee lodged and the next day following we came into the Riuer of Wia and there we found two or three of the Caribes Canoas but all their men were runne vp into the Woodes and from thence our Generall went vp farther into the Riuer where wee burned certaine of their houses not finding any people in them From whence our Generall purposed to haue gone farther into the Riuer of Caliane But the Indians did aduertize him that there was an English ship there whom the Generall knew to bee one Iohnson of Plimmouth that had beene some fourteene dayes before at Wiapoco and came thither in the way of Trade But our Generall would not suffer him so to doe for that he would not hinder himselfe and his company which our Generall at that time called to minde and therefore thought it not good to proceed in the Riuer because hee doubted that there would haue risen contention betwixt his company and Iohnsons and for that hee also misdoubted wee should haue wanted Bread and Drinke if hee should haue proceeded in his iourney and therefore returned to Wiapoco where we arriued all except one Canoa About the fourteenth day of March. Our Generall sent with foure of our Nation named Blake Owen Goldwell William Crandall and Henry Powell with commodities vp into the Countrey some thirtie leagues to a place called Urake to the Inhabitants there named Arwakes to trade with them And after our iourney by reason of such Raine and foule weather as wee had in the same most of our company fell sicke and for that they had no comfortable drinkes nor any comforts thaâ— sicke persons doe want diuers of them died of the Fluxe which the Indians as also the Disease called the Calenture know right well for to cure yet concealed it from our Generall But vnto vs after his death they did reueale which sicknesse amongst the company caused no small griefe vnto our Generall and chiefly to see such wants amongst them wherefore hee resolued with himselfe to goe for England which hee acquainted the company with promising them to returne as speedily as hee could with prouision Presently after he had shipped his prouision and such Commodities as hee had gathered together in the Countrey and was in a readinesse to depart for England he sickned of the Fluxe and died aboord his ship and was by Captaine Huntly secretly buried on the Land the twentieth of March whose death was so secretly kept by the Captaine and the Master of the ship that most of the company knew not thereof The reason was because there was prouision too little for them which were shipped and others of the company if they had knowne thereof would haue pressed to haue come with them Wherefore Captaine Huntly with Master Tederington our Preacher and others set saile from Wiapoco towards England on the second of Aprill 1605. promising a ship to returne vnto vs within seuen moneths God not hindering their intents which had happened for Sir Olaue Leigh to his great charge had prouided a great Fly-boat of the burthen of one hundred and seuenty tunnes furnished for to haue come for Wiapoco as I haue heard since my being here in London before Captaine Huntly his arriuall in England but it pleased God that she neuer came to Wiapoco so that we had no comfort of her being in number left at Captaine Huntlies departure out of the Countrey thirtie fiue persons of whom one named Richard Sacksie was by Captaine Leigh in his life time appointed to bee chiefe amongst vs who shipped himselfe into a ship of Middleborough who came into the Riuer about the first of May 1605. and fourteene more of our company with him and more that Zelander would haue carried if Sacksie would haue suffered him such was his kindnesse towards our Nation Hee gaue vnto vs such wine and other comforts as he had vnto our great reliefes His comming vnto vs to Wiapoco was to haue sold vnto our Generall Negroes whose kindnesse we did requite in helping him to such commodities as wee had and did get the Indians to prouide Cassaui and Guinea Wheate for bread with Potato Roots for his Negroes to eat who departed on the one and twentieth of May after he had bin some three weekes in the Riuer of Wiapoco for Point de Ray where he shipped of our company into his Countrimens ships some in one ship and some into others for Holland of which ships we heard that some of them were taken by the Spaniards and they were cast ouer-boord with the Hollanders The same day the Hollander departed which was the one and twentieth of May came vnto vs a French ship of Saint Mallors who dealt very kindly with vs wherefore wee did suffer him to trade with the Indians who did remayne there some two moneths vnto whom many strange Indians did bring their commodities and at his departure hee shipped ten of our men hee tooke Powder and other commodities of vs which we had for their passage into France leauing tenne of vs behind him of which two died before the ship was out of ken of vs Nicholas Wilkins and Andrew Vnderhill But within some fourteene dayes after two of those foure which our Generall had sent to trade vnto Urake came vnto vs not expecting euer to haue seene them the other two were drowned by the way These two named Owen Goldwell and William Candall which came to vs reported they had beene some fortie miles vp into the Land in a very plaine pleasant Countrey and brought commodities hereafter written of About the middle of Iuly our number of ten were all in good health spending our time in planting of Carow called Flaxe whereof we planted about twentie English Acres of Land and some Tabacco obseruing the manners and conditions of the people the nature of the Land and what commodities it yeeldeth and what commodities of ours are in most request with them
for many purposes this gumme is black and brittle much like in shew to common pitch if you put a little of it vpon burning coales it filleth all the roome with a most sweet and pleasant sauour He further reporteth of it that certainly if you hold your head ouer the fume thereof three or foure times a day it cureth the giddinesse of the head and is also a most excellent comfort and remedie for a cold moist and rheumatike braine it is also good against the resolution or as the common sort call it the dead palsie whereof the giddinesse of the head is often a messenger and the fore-teller of that most pernicious griefe It is also of great vse for the paine that many women haue in the lower part of their backs which is very common to such as haue had children for remedie whereof it is to be melted in a pewter vessell with a gentle fire then with a knife it must be spread lightly vpon a piece of leather and laid warme to the place grieued vntill it come off of it selfe This plaister is also very good for aches and doth greatly comfort and strengthen the sinewes Thus much hath Master Cary written and reported of it and hath proued by his owne experience This gumme is also approued to bee an excellent remedie against the gowt and of singular vertue in the cure of wounds The Barratta is a most soueraigne Balsamum farre excelling all others yet knowne which by the same Gentlemans experience is of admirable operation in the cure of greene wounds and being burned vpon coales is of a sweet and odoriferous sauour There bee many other sweet gummes of great vse for perfumes whereoâ— one doth make a very rare perfume much like vnto the sent of sweete Margerum very pleasant and delectable For physick there be also many excellent Drugs namely Spiknard Cassia Fistula Sene and the earth yeeldeth Bole-Armoniack and Terra-Lemnia all which are knowne vnto vs. There be other Drugs and Simples also of strange and rare vertue in these parts vnknowne of which sort there is a little greene Apple by the Indians called in their language The sleeping Apple which in operation is so violent that one little bit thereof doth cause a man to sleepe to death the least drop of the juyce of it will purge in vehement and excessiue manner as dangerously was proued by my cousin Vnton Fisher who first found it for biting a little of it for a taste and finding it to burne his mouth in some extremitie did sodainly spit it out againe but some small quantitie of the juyce against his will went downe into his stomack which for two or three dayes space did prouoke in him an extraordinarie sleepinesse and purged him with sixtie seates This Apple for the purging vertue in so small a quantitie is like to bee of good price and great estimation in the practice of physick for the learned Physicians doe well know how to correct the sleeping qualitie thereof wherein the danger resteth There is a berrie in those parts very excellent against the bloudie-fluxe by the Indians it is called Kellette The juyce of the leafe called Vppee cureth the wounds of the poysoned arrowes The juyce of the leafe called Icari is good against the head-ache Many other Drugs and Simples are there found of singular properties both in physick and chirurgerie which if they should bee seuerally described according to their value and worthinesse would containe a large Volume Moreouer the Tree wherewith they take their fish is not a little to be esteemed but chiefly the great goodnesse of God therein is highly to bee praysed and admired who amongst so many admirable things by him created and planted in those parts hath vouchsafed to bestow vpon those barbarous people so great a benefit and naturall helpe for the present getting of their food and sustenance These trees are commonly growing neere vnto the places of their habitation for their present vse for when at any time they goe to fish they take three or foure little sticks of this tree and bruise them vpon a stone and then go into certain smal creeks by the Sea-shoare which at a high water are vsually full of very good fish of diuers kindes which come in with the tyde and there they wade vp and downe the water and betweene their hands rub those small bruised sticks therein which are of such vertue that they will cause the fish to turne vp their bellies and lye still aboue the water for a certaine time In which space they presently take as many as they please and lade them into their Canoes and so with little labour returne home sufficiently prouided There is also a red speckled wood in that Countrie called Pira timinere which is worth thirtie or fortie pounds a Tun It is excellent for Ioyners worke as chaires stonles bed-steds presses cupboords and for wainscot There are diuers kindes of stone of great vse and good price as Iasper Porphyrie and the Spleene-sione There is yet another profitable commoditie to bee reaped in Guiana and that is by Tabacco which albeit some dislike yet the generalitie of men in this Kingdome doth with great affection entertaine it It is not only in request in this our Countrey of England but also in Ireland the Neatherlands in all the Easterly Countreyes and Germany and most of all amongst the Turkes and in Barbary The price it holdeth is great the benefit our Merchants gaine thereby is-infinite and the Kings rent for the custome thereof is not a little The Tabacco that was brought into this Kingdome in the yeare of our Lord 1610. was at the least worth 60. thousand pounds And since that time the store that yeerely hath come in was little lesse It is planted gathered seasoned and made vp fit for the Merchant in short time and with easie labour But when we first arriued in those parts wee altogether wanted the true skill and knowledge how to order it which now of late we happily haue learned of the Spaniards themselues whereby I dare presume to say and hope to proue within few moneths as others also of sound iudgement and great experience doe hold opinion that onely this commoditie Tabacco so much sought after and desired will bring as great a benefite and profit to the vndertakers as euer the Spaniards gained by the best and richest Siluer Myne in all their Indies considering the charge of both The things which the Indians desire from vs by way of trade in exchange for the aboue named commodities whereby wee hold societie and commerce with them are Axes Hatchets Billhookes Kniues all kinde of Edge-tooles Nailes great Fish-hookes Harping-irons Iewes Trumps Looking-glasses blue and white Beads Christall Beades Hats Pinnes Needles Salt Shirts Bands linnen and woollen Clothes Swords Muskets Caleeuers Powder and Shot but of these last mentioned we are very sparing and part not with many vnlesse vpon
his Canoas Further hee knew Toparimacca and sayth hee is yet liuing and Captaine of Arawaca a Napoy who likewise doth expect Sir Walter his comming and had drawne a companie of Indians for the aide and assistance of Sir Waltor Likewise how Putimay is yet liuing and how the Spaniards haue layd great waite for him but could neuer finger him to bee reuenged for his part of killing the nine Spaniards Further he addeth how the Spaniards were killed at a Mountaine called Riconeri in Putimay's Countrie and how Putimay expected long for Sir Walter Raleigh Likewise he saith how the Epeuremei haue now two very faire Townes one called Aruburguary and the other Corburrimore and saith they are not good people yet they dare not warre with them He further affirmeth of the men whose shoulders are higher then their heads which he called Wywaypanamy and offereth to goe with me thither if I come vp in their high Countrie For since the death of Topiawary they are friends and bend their forces against the Spaniards He further spake of a white cleare high and huge Rocke vnder a Mountaines side which is called Mattuick that on a Sun-shine day if a man looked on it it would dazle his eyes exceedingly Hee shewed mee before his departure from me a piece of metall fashioned like an Eagle and as I ghesse it was about the weight of eight or nine ounces troy weight it seemed to be Gold or at leastwise two parts Gold and one Copper I offered him an Axe which he refused to which I added foure Kniues but could not get it of him but I imagine the Dutch at Selinama haue bought it of him for their only comming was for Axes as he said hearing that the Dutch were at Selinama I demanded where hee had that Eagle his answere was hee had it of his Vncle who dwelt among the Weearaapoyns in the Countrie called Sherumerrimary neere the Cassipagotos Countrie where is great store of these Images Further he said that at the head of Selinama and Marwin there were great store of the halfe Moones which hee called by the name of Vnnaton He likewise spake of a very faire and large Citie in Guiana which hee called Monooan which I take to be that which Sir Walter calleth Manoa which standeth by a salt Lake which he called Parroowan Parrocare Monoan in the Prouince of Asaccona the chiefe Captaine or Acariwanuora as he called him was called Pepodallapa He further said that after that a man is vp at the head of the Riuer and some ten dayes iourney within the Land euery childe can tell of the riches of Monooan Further he addeth how that once in euery third yeere all the Cassiques or Lords and Captaines some seuen dayes iourney from Manooan doe come to a great drinking which continueth for the space of ten dayes together in which time they goe sometimes a fishing fowling and hunting their fishing is in the salt Lake where is abundance of Canoas and those very great They haue many fish-pooles of standing water wherein they haue aboundance of Fish They haue store of wilde Porkes and Deere and other beasts which are very good meate Their Houses be made with many lofts and partitions in them but not boorded but with barres of wood onely the lower floore on the ground is spread with clay very smooth and with fires hardned as they doe their pots then presently they build their houses as is before spoken of Also he affirmeth that within the Citie at the entring in of their houses they hang Carocoore on the posts which I take to be Images of gold Directions to the Towne of Cooropan from Marrawin FRom the head of Marrawin to Itshuerwa a Chareeb Towne from thence to Caperocca a Chareeb Towne from thence to a Mountaine called Payen from thence to Una a Mountaine from thence to Youwalprenay a Charech Towne from thence to Tetatttecoomoyneto a Chareeb Towne from thence to Tunstoorito a Chareeb Towne from thence to Soynoon a Parawag Towne from thence to Crooroorere a Suppay Towne from thence to Macatana a Suppay Towne from thence to Pipicorwarra a Mountaine from thence to Shadden an Arwacca Towne from thence to Lonnoo an Arwacca Towne from thence to Horurra a Mountaine from thence to Habittebin a Plaine from thence to Warooca an Arwac Towne from thence to Hardoo an Arwacca and from thence to Coorepon where he dwelleth which he saith is but ten dayes iourney from the head of Marrawin Directions from the head of Selinama to Cooropan which is but seuen dayes iourney FRom the head of Selinama to Kiarno a Chareeb Towne from thence to Pommaro a Chareeb Towne from thence to Scooadoddepon an Arwac Towne from thence to Sickene a Mountaine from thence to Shuhurway an Arwac Towne from thence to Hadarinner a Suppay Towne from thence to Weeatoopona Arwac from thence to Ruttrahar Arwac from thence to Caboyetitte Arwac from thence to Heeanannerre Suppay from thence to Wabockeyaway Arwac from thence to Hanamob Arwac from thence to Muttuggabee a Mountaine and so to Cooropon which is but seuen dayes iourney from the head of Selinama He likewise saith it is but a moneths iourney by land from the head of Marrawin to the head of Dissikeebee and from the head of Dissikeebee to the head of Orenoque a moneths trauell Riuers from Brabisse to the Amazones RIVERS NATIONS Brabisse Chareebees Winniepa Chareebes Arew Napoys Mannapoo Napoys Mucca 〈…〉 reu not inhabited Morecoose Napoys Arawon not inhabited Orenoco Yaios Arwac Emataccoo Chareebes Eparramoo Chareebes Aratooree Chareebes Amockooroo Chareeb Pareema Chareeb Wine Chareeb Moroka Yaios Paurooma Arwaccas Wacapwhou Arwaccas Dissikeebee Arwac Quiowinne Matooronee Chareeb Marrawin Para. Ya Cha. Arwa Amanna Chareeb Vraco Arwac Coonannoma Arwac Oorassowinni not inhabited Sinomarra Chareeb Mannomanury Chareeb Ecaurwa Chareeb Canrooroo Chareeb Muccurrie Chareeb Kiam Chareeb Wia. Chareeb Kowo not inhabited Apoorwacca Chareeb Wannase Yaios Wiapoco Yaios Aroocona Areecola Casippooroo Areecoole Connawin Yaio Miocaree Areecool Demeerare Arwac Miconine Arwac Wapary Arwac Mauhica Arwac Keribisse Arwac Coretine Chareeb Arw Eneecare Chareeb Coopanomi Chareeb Soorammo Chareeb Surennamo alias Selinama Chareeb Camouree alias Commawin  Arowaree Chareeb Arapoco  Amazone  Topaniwinni a Branch of Marwin at the head thereof going toward Oronoque in which dwell a wilde People called Vrokere which are swift in running The Chareebees with long eares are called Nooraco Ekinnicke a kinde of worme which poisoneth the water And thus much of Guianian affaires Some other Voyages thither haue beene at large published by by Sir W. R. and Master Keymis recorded by Master Hakl A later also with great noise preparation and expectation hath happened written alreadie in bloud therefore and for the latenesse needlesse and vnworthie that I say not too dismall and fatall for our Relations CHAP. XVIII A Description and Discouery of the Riuer of Amazons by WILLIAM DAVIES Barber Surgeon
hundred men of the Carios but of the enemies almost innumerable were slaine for there was so great a multitude of them that they spread almost a whole league in length But the Carios sending a messenger to the towne where we were earnestly entreated our Generall that they would come with some supply of Souldiers to helpe them for the Maigenos had so beset them round in a wood that they could neither goe forward nor returne backe againe Which when our Generall vnderstood he presently commandeth the Horses to be made ready and to send away and dispatch one hundred and fiftie Christians but of the Carios assembled a thousand men leauing the rest of the Souldiers in the tents to guard them that wee being absent the Maigenos our enemies might inuade them We went forth therefore with this force to wit the said horse one hundred and fiftie Christians and one thousand Carios to helpe the Carios our friends But so soone as the Maigenos perceiued our comming remouing their tents they committed themselues to flight and albeit we pursued them with as much speede as wee could yet could we neuer ouer take them Returning therefore to our tents we abode there three daies for we had found in this towne of the Maiegenos great plentie of foode and other things Hauing trauailed a continuall iourney of thirteene daies that is to say in our iudgement and theirs who are skilfull in the celestiall motions two and fiftie leagues we came to a Nation whose people are called Carcokies and hauing trauailed further the space of nine daies we came into a certaine little Countrie sixe leagues long and broad which was all so thicke ouerspread with excellent Salt as if it had â—owed Salt in great abundance and this Salt is not corrupted winter nor summer We rested two daies in this Salt Countrie going forward at length after foure daies iourney we came to the foresaid Nation Carcokies But when we were yet foure leagues from their towne our Generall sent fiftie Christians fiftie Carios to prouide vs lodgings Hauing entred the towne we found such an innumerable multitude of men gathered together as in all this iourney we had not seene the like wherefore being very pensiue and carefull aboue measure sending a messenger presently backe vnto our Generall who taking his iourney the very same euening came vnto vs betweene three and foure of the clocke in the morning But the Carcokies supposing there had bin no more men there then we whom they had seene before had now promised themselues the victorie But when they vnderstood that our Generall followed vs with a greater force they were very sad and sorrowfull and performed all friendly offices and kindenesse vnto vs for they could doe none other seeing they were afraid of their wiues children and their towne They brought vs therefore flesh of Deere Geese Hens Sheepe Estridges Conies and whatsoeuer else of this kinde of Venison and also of Birds they had also Turkish Come Wheate Rise and certaine Rootes of all which things there was great plentie in this Countrie The men of this Countrie weare a blew stone in their lippes as broad as a Dye Their weapons are Darts the staues of Speares and round Targets made ef the skins of the Indian Sheepe called Amidas Their women haue a little hole in their lips in the which they put Christall either of a greene or blew colour they haue garments of Cotten like to a shirt but without sleeues they are beautifull enough they doe nothing else but spinne and order things appertaining to the houshold for tillage of the ground and other things necessarie for the maintenance of the familie are looked vnto by the men 48. When we had gone three daies iourney from this towne we came to a certaine Riuer called Machcasies a league and a halfe broad and when we saw not how we might passe safely ouer without danger at length we found out this meanes that for euery two persons wee should make a Boate of twigs and timber whereon being carried downe the Riuer they might come to the other side of the banke but in this passage foure of our men were drowned This Riuer hath most sauourie Fish Many Tygars also are found about these places and this Riuer is but foure leagues onely distant from the towne Machcasies The Inhabitants comming forth to meete vs entertained vs curteously speaking to vs in the Spanish tongue whereat being astonished and sore afraid at the first wee demanded of them to what Lord they were subiect and who was their supreame Gouernour They therefore answered vs and our Captaine that they were subiect to a certaine Noble man in Spaine whose name was Petro Ausuetes Entring into this Towne we found certaine men and women and little Infants also swarming with very little vermin like our fleas These little vermin if they lay hold of the toes of the feete or any other part of the body they gnaw and enter alwaies more and more deepely in and at length become wormes such as are found in our filberds yet if it be done in time this mischiefe may be preuented that it shall not hurt but if deferring the cure it be neglected at length by eating and gnawing it consumeth and corrupteth whole toes From the often named Citie of the Assumption of Mary to this Towne are numbered according to the account of the Astronomers three hundred seuentie two leagues And when we had staied there about twentie daies a Letter was brought vs from a Citie of the Kingdome of Peru called Lima where the Viceroy or Lieutenant of Caesars Maiestie who at that time was Liecutiatus Lagasca had an house The Letter contained that our Generall Martin Don Fiottas should goe no further forward vpon paine of death but abiding in the Towne Machcasies should expect his further commandement But after this our Generall sent away foure persons to the Gonernor to Peru. These foure persons iournying sixe weekes in Peru came first to that Nation called Potasi next to another called Rueskem The third Nation to which they came was called Plata and the fourth which was the Metropolis or the chiefe Citie was called Lima. 49. This also is worthie of obseruation That the Countrie of Machcasies is so fruitfull that we neither found not saw any like it in fruitfulnesse in all this our Iourney For if an Indian going forth into the Wood make an hole or a cleft in the first tree that commeth to hand smiting an Hatchet into it fiue or sixe measures of so pure Honie flowe out as if it were sweete Wine or Muskadell The Bees that make this Honie are without stings and are very small This Honie being eaten with Bread or mingled with other food yeeldeth pleasant meate They make also Drinke thereof or Wine of the same taste that Muskadell hath but sweeter Our Generall Eyollas so wrought with the people that wee could stay no longer here
their Daggers as also they sloe all the Captains friends and they made a great crie saying Liue the King liue the King wherwith all the Campe was in an vprore Then Lope de Agira made vnto the Souldiers a long Oration got them all to consent with him some by force some because they durst not say to the contrarie and others with their good will in the end they all agreed vnto his determined purpose So they made the gentleman their head and Lope de Agire was made Captaine this done and because the people should the better hold their opinion hee did as great a villanie as euer any Spaniard did for hee made an Altar on which hee and all the Souldiers did denie their seruice vnto the King of Spaine and so as people without a King they chose the said Don Fernando to be their King and did vnto him homage These matters being finished they agreed among themselues which should be the best way for them to goe to Peru for they could not goe vp the Riuer from whence they came for the great currant and also if they should goe thorough the land they should be very weake for want of Horsemen therefore they determined to goe downe the Riuer Then said this Lope de Agire that they would carry nothing with them but the Pinnaces and Souldiers which should fight and that it were best to leaue behinde them all the Indians that they brought from Peru with the women and sicke men vnto which their Generall Don Fernando would not agree for that he knew that when they were gone the people of the Countrie would kill them all Lope de Agire hearing this and longing to be chiefe Gouernour himselfe ouer all and taking vnto him thirtie of his owne Countrie men of his own disposition he sodainly killed Don Fernando whom not twentie daies before hee had sworne to obey But now by his subtile working and being withall eloquent in his talke he caused the people to make himselfe Gouernour and made the people beleeue that all these cruelties were done to saue themselues but the tyrannie of this man did not end here he was of the Countrie of Bisca a land ioyning vnto France therefore I rather beleeue that he was a Frenchman then a Spaniard for that in the heart of a Spaniard there is not so much crueltie as this man had Now he being ready to goe his way he determined not to carrie with him any Gentleman or other of high degree and therefore hee slew all those which hee did know to be of high degree or Gentlemen and then departed onely with the common Souldiers and left behinde him all the Spanish women and sicke men with all other creatures If I should rehearse all the cruell murders of this wicked man one by one I should be ouer much tedious vnto you onely I say in as few words as I may that this man proceeded downe the Riuer and had with him onely foure hundred men but before he passed this Riuer and came to Margareta he had no more left but two hundred and thirtie men for the rest hee had done to death and left ashore among the people of the Countrie he vsed this tirannie because hee alwaies stood in feare of his life for that if he had seene but two Souldiers talke together hee thought that he had alwaies consulted on his death and therefore hee vsed the order aboue said now he neuer went any way but that they had in his companie thirtie Biscains of his owne will and minde for to execute his cruell desire As these Souldiers with their Captaine came downe the Riuer they saw many Canoas with Gold in them going to and fro and people on both sides the Riuer where in their passage many times they landed and got good store of Gold and victuals Now did they see also that which Oryllana had reported which was that there were Amazones women that fight in the warre with Bowes and Arrowes but these women fight to helpe their husbands and not by them selues as Orillana reported from the company of men there were of these women in diuers parts of the Riuer and saw the Spaniards fight with their husbands and came and helped them and shewed themselues more valiant then their husbands and therefore is named the Riuer of the Amazones the Spaniards intent onely was to passe downe the Riuer and therefore neuer sought to know the Countrie within the land yet tooke they good store of Gold and put it into one of the Pinnaces where he went himselfe which Pinnace at the mouth of the Riuer was cast away but he himselfe escaped because as yet he had not made an end of his bloudie minde But comming to the Iland of Margareta the Gouernour thereof thought he had beene one of the Kings Captaines receiued him with Pinnaces and brought to him good store of victuals but he put him to death presently and landed on the Ilands and tooke it and two Shippes that were in the Ilands and tooke perforce one hundred and fiftie men to goe with him and others that went willingly with good store of victuals and many Horses and then returned to the maine land saying that with his small force hee would subdue the whole Indies thinking that all the old Souldiers and poore people in seeing of him would all turne to his side and take his part and so hee went deceiued in his owne conceit for he had not gone two dayes Iourney vp in the Land when the Captaine of new Granado came against him with a power of men but Lope de Agire hoping that the other Souldiers would haue come all vnto him whereby his strength might bee the more but hee was deceiued for his owne men left him and tooke the Kings Captaines part Now seeing himselfe destitute of his Souldiers and voide of all helpe he then shewed himselfe more cruell then did the tyrant Nero for this man killed his owne daughter being but sixteene yeeres of age which he brought with him from Peru for that she should not be made the bed of Villains nor be called the daughter of a Traitor these words he vsed vnto her after he had giuen her her deaths wound but before hee could finish this cruell deed the Souldiers came vpon him and cuchim in pieces yet his daughter did die of her wound in that place and thus you haue heard the euill end of this cruell man for hee was the cause likewise that the King would neuer suffer to haue this Riuer discouered so that the riches resteth to this day vnknowne that is in this Riuer Now hauing ended with this Riuer of Marannon all the Coast between this Riuer and the Riuer of Plate is called the Coast of Brasill taking the name of the wood in the Countrie which is called Brasill wood for there is great store of it Brasill was first found by Pedro Arnales Cabrall in the second time that
for a bastard-sonne of Diego de Almagro to bee reuenged of his fathers death slue Pizarro for which act he lost his head In this controuersie betweene these two partners were slaine also two brothers of Pizarro and the third was carried prisoner into Spaine and there died in Prison but the fourth called Gonsaluo Pizarro rebelled with the whole Countrie and became a cruell Tyrant vanquishing many of the Emperours Captaines in battell and possessing the Countrie in peace for two yeeres howbeit being in the end ouercome hee lost his head like a Traitour And thus died they all an euill death that were causes of the death of that innocent King Atabalipa And yet there are mutinies raised oftentimes by the Spaniards but the Indians neuer rebelled after they had once peace granted vnto them The Indian people of this Land are parted among the Spaniards some being slaues vnto the Gentlemen that conquered their Land other some to others and the residue to the King and these Indians pay each man for his tribute seuen Pezos of fine Gold which is about ten Ducats and an halfe There are in this Countrie aboue fortie Cities and Townes inhabited by the Spaniards also they haue here erected nine Bishopricks and one Archbishopricke Now after this Countrie was fully conquered and brought in good order certaine Spaniards being desirous to discouer the land on the other side of the snowie Mountaines found a very wholesome Countrie and there inhabited The said Prouince situate behinde the Mountaines is called The Prouince of Tucuman wherein are fiue townes inhabited by the Spaniards the last of them called Cordoua from which towne vnto Santa Fee situate vpon the Riuer of Plate it is seuentie leagues This towne of Santa Fee was built in that place to seeke a way to Peru by the Riuer of Plate And from hence downe the said Riuer to Buenos Ayres are 120. leagues and from Buenos Ayres vnto Seal-Island you haue 40. leagues Now hauing put down all that I know concerning the Countrie of Peru and of the way from the Riuer of Plate vnto Tucuman I will returne vnto Atacama the Southermost town vpon the coast of Peru where I left From this towne of Atacama till you come to Arica all the coast is inhabited by Indians subiect vnto the Spaniards But since Captain Drake was here they haue built Towers by the Sea side whereon seeing any saile that they doe mistrust they presently make smoakes and so from Tower to Tower they warne all the Countrey Hauing before spoken of Arica all that I can I will now proceede to the next Port called Camana being a Towne of Spaniards and containing about two hundred houses Here they make store of Wine and haue abundance of Figges and Reisins The next Towne called Acari containeth about three hundred houses and here is made the best and greatest store of Wine in all Peru. From hence passing along the coast you come to El Calao the Port of Lima consisting of about two hundred houses and here was a strong Fort built since Captaine Drake was vpon the coast The Citie of Lima standing two leagues within the land and containing two thousand houses is very rich and of more trade then all the Cities of Peru besides and this Citie is the seate of the Viceroy the Archbishop and the Inquisition Next vnto this standeth a small towne of the Spaniards by the Sea side called Santa and next vnto Santa is another small towne of Christians called Cannete From hence they saile vnto a rich Citie called Truxillo being one of the principall townes of Peru and containing about fiue hundred houses Then followeth Paita which hath to the number of two hundred houses Leauing this towne they passe to Guaiaquil which standeth fortie leagues vp into a great Bay or Riuer at the entrance of which Riuer standeth Tumbez a towne of the Indians All this coast along from Atacama to Tumbez it neuer raineth as I haue before said so that all the houses in their townes are not tyled but couered with boords to keepe off the heate of the Sunne for they feare no raine at all Guaiaquil is the first place where it raineth and here they gather Salsaperilla Here is also great store of timber and at this place they build many Ships Hence they saile along the coast to a small and poore towne called Puerto Vieio which in times past hath beene rich with Emralds but now since these stones in regard of their plenty are growne nothing worth this towne likewise is waxen very poore Below this Village standeth another called La Buena Uentura but whosoeuer goe thither must needes meete with euill fortune the place it selfe is so waterish and vnholesome Here abide not aboue twentie men who serue onely to transport goods into a Citie standing fiftie leagues within the maine in a Prouince called La gouernacion de Popaian From Buena ventura and Popaian till you come to Panama there is no other towne by reason of the high Mountaines the manifold Riuers and the vnholesomenesse of the Countrie In this place doe inhabit the Negros that run from their Masters and vpon these Mountaines was Oxenham the English Captaine and his men taken as is before mentioned Beyond these Mountains standeth the Citie of Panama being a rich place by reason that all the treasure which commeth from Peru is brought thither and it consisteth of about foure hundred houses The coast running along betweene this Citie and Nueua Espanna is called Costa rica Next vnto Costa rica which is a Mountainous and desolate place lieth the coast of Nicaragua being inhabited by the Spaniards and hauing many good ports belonging to it and is frequented with trade of Merchandize but hauing no knowledge of the situation thereof nor of the towns therein contained I surcease to speake any more of it A certaine Viceroy of Nueua Espanna called Don Luis de Velasco caused certaine Ships to be built for the discouery of the Malucos and of the coast of China which Ships in sailing thitherward from certaine Islands eightie leagues distant from the maine land which the Spaniards according to the name of their King called The Philippinas and hauing conquered one of these Ilands called Manilla inhabited with a barbarous kinde of people they built a fort and a towne thereupon from whence they haue trade with the people of China Vnto these Islands they haue foure great Ships that vsually trade two of them continually going and two comming so that such Spices and Silkes as the Portugals bring home out of the East Indies the very same doe the Spaniards bring from these Islands and from China for Mexico the chiefe Citie of Nueua Espanna The principall Port townes of the coast of Nueua Espanna are Guatulco and Acapulco All the Viceroyes and Gouernours that the King of Spaine sendeth for Peru and Nuena Espanna haue a custome for the obtaining of his
of Ribben of many colours which compassed his head foure or fiue times a finger breadth and almost a finger thicke These three were Mancos deuises the llautu or ribband the wide hole in the eare and polling as a kinde of Royaltie and the first Priuiledge which the Inca gaue to his Vassals was to weare the fillet or ribband like the Inca but theirs of one colour only his of many After some time hee vouchsafed as a great fauour the polling diuersified in Prouinciall differences of the Eare-fashions which was a later and greater fauour both for the boaring and Earing or Iewell there worne The Inca growing old assembled his principall Vassals in Cusco and in a solemne speech told them that he intended to returne to Heauen and to rest with his Father the Sunne which called him which was practised by all his successors when they perceiued themselues neere death and now at his departure he minded to leaue them his chiefe fauour to wit his Royall Title commanding that they and their Descendants should be Incas without difference as hauing beene his first subiects which he loued as children and hee hoped that they would likewise serue his Sâ—ccessor and augment the Empire that their wiues also should be called Pallas as those of the Royall bloud Only he reserâ—ed the Royall Head-â—ire to himselfe and his Descendents the Kings which was a fringe or lace coloureâ— extending from one side of the fore-head to the other His sirname Capac signifieth rich which they vnderstood of the mindes vertues and mightie in armes The name Inca signifieth Lord or generally those of the Royall bloud For the Curacas though great Lords might not vse that Title The King is distinguished from all others by the appellation Capa Capa Inca signifying the only Lord as the Grand Signior among the Turkes They stiled him also Huacchacuyak that is Benefactor to the poore They called them also Intip charin the Sonnes of the Sunne Manco Capac reigned some say thirtie yeeres others fortie Hee had many children by his Wife Mama Ocllo Huaco and by his Concubines saying it was good to multiply children to the Sunne He called his Vassâ—ls also of the better sort and recommended his Heire as by Testument in way of discourse to them and to the rest of his children their loue and seruice of the Vassals and to the Vassals their loyaltie to their King and obedience to the Lawes Then dismissing the Vassals hee made another speech in secret to his children that they should alway remember that they were children of the Sun to worship him as their God and to maintaine his Lawes giuing others examples therein also to be gentle to the Indians to vphold them in Iustice without oppression that they should recommend these things to their posterities in all generations saying that they were the people of the Sunne which he left vnto them as his Testament to whom he was now going to rest with him in peace and from Heauen would haue a care to succour them Thus died Manco Capac and left his Heire Sinchi Roca the eldest brother and begotten of Coya Mama Ocllo Huaco his wife and sister Besides the Heire those Kings left other sonnes and daughters which married amongst themselues to keepe the Royall blouâ— entire which they fabulously beleeued to be diuine and of others humane although they were great Lords of Vassals called Curacas The Inca Sinchi Roca married with his eldest sister after the manner of his parents and of the Sunne and Moone thinking the Moone to be sister and wife to the Sunne The Inca Manco was lamented by his Vassals very heauily the Obsâ—quies continuing many moneths They embalmed his corps to preserue it amongst them and worshipped him for a God Sonne of the Sunne offering many Sacrifices of Rammes Lambes Birds Graines c. conâ—essing him Lord of all those things which he had left The name Inca descended to all the posteritie by the Male Line not by the Female all of this ranke were also called Yntip churin children of the Sunne and Auqui or Infanta which Title they kept till their Marriage and then were called Inca. The lawfull Queene was called Coya also Mamanchic that is Our Mother Her daughters were likewise called Coya the Concubines and other wiues of the bloud Royall were called Palla which signifieth a woman of Royall bloud Concubines which were not of Royall bloud were called Mamacuna Mother All the Royall Daughters were called Nusta and if not of Royall Mothers the name of the Prouince was added as Colla Nusta Quitu Nusta The name Nusta continued till they were married and then they were stiled Palla THe first Incas and their Amautas which were their Philosophers by light of Nature acknowledged God the Creator of all things which they called Pachacamac the Sunne they held to be a visible God Pacha signifieth the World and Camac to quicken of Cama the Soule as if Pachacamac were the soule or quickner of the Vniuerse This name they had in such veneration that they durst not mention it and if they were by occaâ—â—on forced thereto they did â—t with holding downe the head and bowing the bodie lifting vp their eyes to Heauen and casting them downe to the ground lifting vp their hands open straite from the shoulders giuing smacks or lip-motions to the ayre Rites perâ—ormed only to him and the Sunne holding Pachacamac in more internall reuerence then the Sunne whom they named commonly on any occasion They said that he gaue life to the World but they knew him not for they had neuer seene him and therefore neither built Temples nor offered Sacrifice to hâ—m but said they worshipped him in their minds and held him for the vnknowne God The Spaniards which tooke him for a Deuill and knew not the generall Language found out another name for God Tici Uira-cocha which neither I nor they know what it meaneth and if any should aske mee how I in my Language would call God I would answre Pachacamac nor is there in that generall Language any other name for him And all those which Authors report are corrupted of other Languages or deuised by them The Incas in Cozco kept a Crosse of Marble White and Garnation which they call Iaspe Cristaline They know not how long they had it Anno 1560. I left it in the Vestry of the Cathedrall Church of that Citie The Crosse was square three quarters of a yard lond and three fingers thâ—â—ke and so much in brâ—adth all of one piece well wrought They kept it in one of their Houses Royall in 〈◊〉 roome which they call Hnaca a holy place They did not ado 〈…〉 but held it in venerable esteeme either for the goodlinesse or for some other respect which they knew not The Iâ—â—as and all Nations subiect to them knew not what it was to sweare you haue heard of their respect to the name Pachacamâ—c The Witnesses
rather to please him causing to vndermine and cut the Hills to execute that dismall fate more terribly After some bickerings with the Spaniards hee fled to the Antis and there perished miserably Manco Inca Brother of Huascar came to the Spaniards at Cozco to demand the repossession of the Empire by inheritance due to him They made him faire semblance and he offered to promote the Gospell according to his Fathers testament as a better Law and the Spanish affaires Articles were agreed on and they granted him a Diadem with great solemnitie buâ— so farre short of the wonted that the old men cried as fast for the want of that as the yong boyes shouted for ioy of this When afterwards he propounded the accomplishment of those Articles which had beene made betwixt the Spaniards and the Indians that the Naturals might liue in quiet and knowe what seruice to performe to the Spaniards with the reall restitution of his Empire the Gouernour Pizarro and his brethren excused themselues by the broyles and stirres which had growne amongst themselues which hither to permitted not the accomplishment They further expected answer from the Emperor their Lord of whom he might hope for al good the Articles being good for both parts to whom they had giuen account of the capitulations his brother Hernando being shortly to returne with answere But when he was aâ—riued at Tumpiz the Maâ—quesse tooke occasion to rid himselfe of the Incas importunitie and with many faire words intreated him to returne to his Fortresse till things might be perfected which he doing they held him there Prisoner fearing his haughty courage The Indians seeing their Inca Prisoner were much grieued but he comforted them saying that he and they ought to obey the Spaniards for so Huayna Capac had commanded in his Testament and that they should not be weary till they had seene the last issue of these things Hee hoped that this his imprisonment would turne into greater liberalitie with him these Utracochas being a Nation comne from Heauen The Marquesse dismissed himselfe of the Inca whose person and guard hee commended to his brethren Iuan and Gonzalo and went to the Citie of Kings to people and eâ—large it The Inca Manco with much obsequiousnesse to all the Spaniards and many presents of Gold Siluer Gemmes Fruits c. making no shew of griefe for his imprisonment obtayned his libertie which he had laboured the rather hearing that Hernando Pizarro was comming to gouerne in Cozco Hee gate leaue to goe to Yucay which was the Garden of the Kings to which place he summoned his Captaines and complained of the Spaniards breach of promise in not performing the Capitulations which they had made with Titu Autauchi his brother and that they had laid him in prison with Iron fetters that he had perceiued their ill mindes from the beginning but suffered it to iustifie his cause with God and with the world that none might obiect to him the disturbing of the peace But now he could no further relie on their vaine promises well knowing that the Spaniards shared the Land amongst themselues in Cusco Rimac and Tumpiz whereby it well appeared that they intended not the restitution of the Empire to him and that he was loth to make further triall of their fetters and therefore required their best aduice intending with Armes to recouer his right trusting in Pachacamac and his father the Sun that they would not herein forsake him They told him that he might looke for like reward at the hands of those strangers as Atahuallpa had found notwithstanding the payment of his ransome and it was Pachacamacs great grace they had not dealt with his Royall Person likewise c. Thus Manco raised forces so that 200000. Indians came to Cozco and shot Arrowes with fire on them on all the houses of the Citie generally without respect of the Royall houses only they reserued the Temple of the Sunne with the Chappels within it and the house of the Virgins which two they spared thogh their wealth was gone not to commit any sacrilegious act against their Religion Three Hals also they reserued wherein to make their feasts in time of raine one of which was in the house that had belonged to the first Inca Manco Capac The author proceedes in the particular fights and seege of the Spaniards too long here to rehearse In diuers places they killed seuen hundred Spaniards But at last Manco was driuen to forsake the Countrey by the inequality of the Spaniards horses Guns and other offensiue and defensiue armes against which they had no experiments to make resistance In the ciuill-vnciuill broiles and warres of the Spaniards in Peru some of them fled to Manco Inca to auoide the Viceroies seuerity one of which was Gomez Perez a cholericke man which playing at Bowles with the Inca would stand so stiffely on measuring of his cast and the earnest folly of play that forgetting all good manners he one day vsed the Inca as if he had beene an Indian slaue wherewith the Inca prouoked gaue him a blow with his fist on the breast whereupon Gomez with his Bowle strooke the Inca on the head so great a blowe that hee fell downe dead Whereupon the Indians set on the Spaniards which first fled into the house to defend themselues there but were fired out and the Indians hauing killed them with enraged furie had purposed to eate vp their flesh raw but after left them to the birds and wilde beasts for foode Thus died Manco by the hands of those whom hee had preserued from death and had kindly vsed in those wilde Mountaines of Uillca campa which hee had chosen for his securitie I was present when some Incaâ— present at the act with teares recounted this to my Mother which came afterwards from these Mountaines with the Inca Sayri Tupac the sonne of that vnfortunate Prince by order of the Viceroy Mendoza Marquesse of Canete This Vice-roy vsed to perswade that comming in of the Inca the Ladie Beatriz his Fathers Sister which so wrought with his Guard hee being then too young to take the Diademe that vpon promise of certaine conditions hee came and rendted himselfe to the Vice-roy and after went to Cusco and was baptised by the name of Don Diego together with his wife Cusci Huarcay grandchilde to Huascar Inca Anno 1558. Shee was a faire woman but somewhat pale as are all the women of that Countrie about sixteene yeeres olde I went in my mothers name to visite the Inca and to kisse his hand which vsed mee courteously and two small vessels of gilt Plate were brought forth of which he dranke one I the other He spent his time one day visiting one part and another another part of the Citie Hee adored the Sacrament calling it Pachacamac Pachacamac He went thence to the Valley of Yucay and there remayned till his death which was about three yeeres after leauing no issue but a daughter which
signes how that we went to Apalachen and by those signes which he made vs it seemed he ment to signifie that hee was an enemy to them of Apalachen and would aide vs against them We gaue him Crownes Bels and such other things and he gaue the Gouernour the skin which he wore vpon him and so turned backe againe and we followed presently after him That euening we came vnto a Riuer which was very deepe and very broad and ran very furiously and not presuming to passe ouer it vpon rafts we made a Canoa and staied one whole day to passe ouer it so that if the Indians would haue iniured vs they might easily haue disturbed our passage and yet although they holped vs the best they could wee had much trouble One of our Horsemen called Iohn Velasquez a natiue of Cuellar because he would not stay tooke the Riuer with his Horse and the current of the Riuer being very strong cast him from his Horse who catching hold on the raines of the bridle drowned himselfe together with the Horse And those Indians of that Lord called Dulcancellin found the Horse and told vs where we should finde him in the Riuer below and so they went to search for him whose death much discontented vs because vntill that time there was not one man of our company wanting The Horse gaue many their suppers that night And so hauing passed that Riuer the day following we came vnto the people of that Lord who sent vs some of their Maiz. The next day we departed the Indians being fled The Gouernour left by the way an ambuscado of certaine Horsemen which as those Indians passed by issued out vpon them and tooke three or foure who before serued vs for guides and they brought vs through a very troublesome Countrey to trauaile and maruelous to behold where were huge Mountaines and very high Trees whereof so many were fallen to the ground that they intangled and stopped the way in such sort that we could not passe without going farre about to our great trouble and of those trees that were fallen the greater part were cleft from one end to the other through the thunderbolts that fall there great tempests being alwayes in that place with this trouble wee marched vntill the six and twentieth day of Iune at which day we came within the sight of Apalachen before they of the Towne perceiued vs. We rendered great thankes vnto God seeing our selues so neere vnto that place and supposing that to be true which had been spoken and hoping we should there end our great trauailes which wee had passed as well for the long and euill iourney as for the great famine which we had sustained Because although we sometimes found Maiz yet for the most part we went six or eight leagues without finding any And there were many amongst vs that through hunger and wearinesse had wounded their shoulders with continuall wearing of their armes besides the other calamities they daily incountered The Gouernour commanded me to take with me nine horse and fiftie foote and enter the towne which the Controler and I did and found none but little children and women because at that time the men were not there but going a little way from those places the Indians came and began to fight and shoot at vs and slew the Controulers horse but in the end they fled and left vs There we found great quantity of Maiz which stood ready to be gathered and had sufficient of which was dry romeining We found there many skinnes of wilde beasts taken by hunting and some garments of thred little and nought worth wherewith the women couer some parts of their person They had many Mils to grinde Maiz. Among these people there were forty little houses low built and in close places for feare of the great tempests to which that Countrey continually is accustomed The houses are made of straw of stubble and compassed about with Mountaynes standing thicke together and great Trees and many Seas of water where so many and so great Trees are falne that they trouble euery thing and cause that no man is able to trauell there without great incumberance The land from the place where we di barked vnto this people of Apalachen for the most part is plaine and the soyle consisteth of hard and solid sand and throughout all the same many great Trees and famous Mountaines are found where Nut trees are and Labrani and other which they call Laquidambares there are also Cedars Sauine-trees Holme-trees Pines Okes and low Palme-trees like those of Castile Throughout all that Countrey there are many great and little Lakes and some are very troublesome to passe as well for the great depth thereof as also by reason of the many trees which are fallen there The ground or bottome of them is sand and those Lakes which we found in the Prouince of Apalachen are much greater then all the other which we had found vntill then There are many fields of their Maiz in this Prouince and the houses are scattered through the Plaine like those of Gerbe The beasts which we saw there are Deere of three sorts Conies Hares Beares and Lions and other among which we saw one that carrieth her young in a bagge which shee hath in her belly where shee carrieth them all the time that they are little vntill they be able to goe and seeke their meate themselues And if by chance the young stand seeking food without the damme and people come vpon them shee flyeth not before she haue gathered them into her bagge The Countrey is very cold there and there are many good pastures for flockes There are also many sorts of Fowle Goâ—â—ings in great abundance Geese Duckes Herons Black-birds and others of diuers sorts and there we saw many Falcons Ger-falcons Sparrow-hawkes and many other sorts of Birds Two dayes after we came to Apalachen the Indians that were fled returned vnto vs in peace demanding their children and we gaue them all except one Cazique of theirs whom the Gouernour retayned which was the occasion to cause them to depart offended who the day following returned as enemies and assailed vs with such fury and suddennesse that they came to set fire to the house where we were but so soone as wee came forth they fled and retired themselues vnto the Lakes which were very neere thereunto Whereupon by reason of them and the Corne which was very thicke there we could not doe them any hurt saue that we killed one man only The day following other Indians of another people which was on the other side came to vs and assailed vs after the same manner that the other had done before and fled likewise and one of them also was slaine We abode there fiue and twentie dayes in the which we caused three to enter within the Land and found it very poorely peopled and hard trauelling in respect of the troublesome passages
receiued their senses againe and seeing vs so neere vnto the Land beganne to arise and goe on their hands and feete And hauing landed wee made fire in certaine trenches and boyled some of the Maiz which wee had brought and found raine-water and with the heate of the fire the men beganne to recouer and take strength and the day that we arriued there was the sixth of Nouember After the men had eaten I commanded Lopez de Ouiedo who was the best able and strongest of all the rest that he should goe close to any tree of them that were there at hand and climing vp into one of them he should discouer the Land where we were and see if hee could haue any knowledge thereof He did so and saw that we were in an Iland and found certaine poore Cottages of the Indians which stood solitary because those Indians were gone vnto the field And so he tooke a pot a young whelpe and a little Thorn-backe and returned vnto vs. About halfe an houre after an hundred Indian Archers came suddenly vpon vs who though they were great yet feare made them seeme to be Giants and they stood round about vs where the first three were It had beene a vaine thing amongst vs to thinke that there were any to defend vs because there were scarce sixe that were able to rise from the ground The Controller and I came towards them and called vnto them and they came neere vnto vs and wee endeauoured the best we could to secure them so we gaue them Crownes and Bells and euery one of them gaue mee an Arrow which is a token of friendship and they told vs by signes that they would returne vnto vs in the morning and bring vs somewhat to eate because at that time they had nothing The next morning at the breake of day which was the houre whereof the Indians had spoken they came vnto vs and brought vs much fish and certaine Roots which they eate and are like vnto Nuts some bigger and some lesse which they digge vnder the water with much trouble At the euening they returned againe and brought vs more fish and some of the same Roots and brought also their wiues and little children with them that they might see vs and so they returned rich in Crownes and Bells which we gaue them and the next day they returned to visite vs with the same things which they had done before Then seeing we were now prouided of fish of those roots and water and other things which we could get we agreed to embarke our selues and proceed on our Voyage so wee digged the Boat out of the sand where it was fast moored and were constrained to strippe our selues naked and indured great labour to launch her into the water Being embarked about two Cros-bow shots within the Sea there came such a waue of water that it washed vs all and being naked and the cold extreme wee let goe the Oares and another blowe which the Sea gaue vs ouerturned the Boat whereupon the Controller and two other went out to escape by swimming but the cleane contrary befell them because the Boat strucke them vnder water and drowned them That Coast being very faire the Sea cast vs all aland on the same Coast all tumbled in the water and halfe drowned so that we lost not a man but those three whom the Boat smote vnder water Wee which remained aliue were all naked hauing lost all that which wee had which although it were but a little yet was it much for vs at that time and being then Nouember and the cold very extreme and being in such case that a man might easily tell all our bones we seemed to be the proper and true figure of Death As for my selfe I am well able to say that from the moneth of May past I had not eaten any other thing then parched Maiz and sometimes I was in so great necessitie that I haue eaten it raw because although the Horses were killed while they made the Boats yet I could neuer eate them and I did not eate fish ten times I speake this that euery one might consider how we could continue in that case and aboue all the North wind blew that day so that we were neerer vnto death then life It pleased God that seeking the brands of the fire which we had made before wee embarked wee found light there and so making great fires we stood crauing mercy from our Lord God and pardon of our sinnes with many teares euery one of vs grieuing not onely for himselfe but for all the rest that hee saw in the same state At the setting of the Sunne the Indians supposing that we had not beene gone came to finde vs and brought vs somewhat to eate but when they saw vs thus in so differing an habite from the first and in such strange manner they were so afraid that they turned backe againe but I went towards them and called them who beheld mee with much feare Hereupon I gaue them to vnderstand by signes that the Boat was caft away and three men drowned and there they themselues saw two dead and the rest of vs that were now remayning were going the high way to death The Indians seeing the misfortune which had befallen vs and the lamentable case wherein we were with so great calamitie and miserie came amongst vs and through great griefe and compassion which they had of vs beganne mightily to weepe and lament and that from the heart insomuch that they might be heard farre from thence and they thus lamented more then halfe an houre And surely seeing these men so depriued of reason and so cruell after the manner of brute beasts so bewayled our miseries it caused that in me and all the rest of our men the compassion and consideration of our miseries should be much more increased The mournfull lamentation being somewhat appeased I demanded of the Christians whether they thought it fit that I should intreate those Indians to bring vs to their houses whereunto some of them that were of Noua Spagna answered me that I should not speake a word thereof because if they brought vs home to their houses they would haue sacrificed vs to their Idols Now seeing there was no other remedie and that what other way soeuer death was more certaine and more neere I cared not for that which they said but prayed the Indians that they would bring vs to their houses and they shewed vs that it pleased them very well and that wee should tarrie a little and they would doe as much as wee desired presently thirty of them laded themselues with wood and went vnto their houses which were farre from thence and wee remained with the rest vntill it was almost night and then they tooke vs and conducting vs we went with much anguish and heauinesse vnto their houses And because they feared lest through the extreme coldnesse of the way any of vs should die or swound and faint they
came to visite him many times and sometimes the Gouernour sent to call him and sent him an Horse to goe and come He complained vnto him that a Subiect of his was risen against him and depriued him of tribute requesting his aide against him for he meant to seeke him in his Countrie and to punish him according to his desert Which was nothing else but a fained plot For they determined as soone as the Gouernour was gone with him and the Campe was diuided into two parts the one part of them to set vpon the Gouernour and the other vpon them that remained in Chicaça Hee went to the Towne where he vsed to keepe his residence and brought with him two hundred Indians with their Bowes and Arrowes The Gouernour tooke thirtie Horsemen and eightie Footmen and they went to Saquecâ—uma for so was the Prouince called of that Chiefe man which he said had rebelled They found a walled Towne without any men and those which went with the Cacique set fire on the houses to dissemble their treason But by reason of the great care and heedfulnesse that was as well in the Gouernours people which hee carried with him as of those which remained in Chieaça they durst not assault them at that time The Gouernour inuited the Cacique and certaine principall Indians and gaue them Hogs flesh to eate And though they did not commonly vse it yet they were so greedy of it that euery night there came Indians to certaine houses a Cros-bow shot from the Campe where the Hogs lay and killed and carried away as many as they could And three Indians were taken in the manner Two of them the Gouernour commanded to be shot to death with Arrowes and to cut off the hands of the other and he sent him so handled to the Cacique Who made as though it grieued him that they had offended the Gouernour and that he was glad that he had executed that punishment on them He lay in a plaine Countrie halfe a league from the place where the Christians lodged Foure Horsemen went a stragling thither to wit Francisco Osorio and a seruant of the Marquesse of Astorga called Reynoso and two seruants of the Gouernour the one his Page called Ribera and the other Fuentes his Chamberlaine and these had taken from the Indians some Mantles wherewith they were offended and forsooke their houses The Gouernour knew of it and commanded them to be apprehended and condemned to death Francisco Osorio and the Chamberlaine as principals and all of them to losse of goods The Friers and Priests and other principall persons were earnest with him to pardon Francisco Osorio his life and to moderate his sentence which he would not grant for any of them While he was ready to command them to be drawne to the Market place to cut off their heads there came certaine Indians from the Cacique to complaine of them Iohn Ortiz at the request of Baltasar de Gallegos and other persons changed their words and told the Gouernour that the Caciquo said hee had notice how his Lordship held those Christians in prison for his sake and that they were in no fault neither had they done him any wrong and that if hee would doe him any fauour hee should set them free And he told the Indians that the Gouernour said he had them in prison and that he would punish them in such sort that they should be an example to others Hereupon the Gouernour commanded the prisoners to be loosed As soone as March was come he determined to depart from Chicaça and demanded of the Cacique two hundred men for carriages Hee sent him enswere that he would speake with his principall men Vpon Tuesday the eighth of March the Gouernour went to the Towne where he was to aske him for the men he told him he would send the next day As soone as the Gouernour was come to Chicaç◠he told Luys de Moscoso the Camp-master that hee misliked the Indians and that hee should keepe a strong watch that night which he remembred but a little The Indians came at the second watch in foure squadrons euery one by it selfe and as soone as they were descried they sounded a Drum and gaue the assault with a great crie and with so great celeritie that presently they entred with the scouts that were somewhat distant from the Campe. And when they were perceiued of them which were in the Towne halfe the houses were on fire which they had kindled That night three Horsemen chanced to be scouts two of them were of base callings and the worst men in all the Campe and the other which was a Nephew of the Gouernour which vntill then was held for a tall man shewed himselfe there as great a coward as any of them for all of them ranne away And the Indians without any resistance came and set the Towne on fire and taried behind the doores for the Christians which ranne out of the houses not hauing any leasore to arme themselues and as they ranne hither and thither amazed with the noise and blindeâ— with the smoke and flame of the fire they knew not which way they went neither could they light vpon their weapons nor saddle their Horses neither saw they the Indians that shot a 〈…〉 them Many of the Horses were burned in the Stables and those which could breake their Ha 〈…〉 gat loose The disorder and flight was such that euery man fled which way he could without leauing any to resist the Indians But God which chastiseth his according to his pleasure and in the greatest necessities and dangers sustaineth them with his hand so blinded the Indians that they saw not what they had done and thought that the Horses which ranne loose were men on Horsebacke that gathered themselues together to set vpon them The Gouernour onely rode on Horsebacke and with him a Souldier called Tapia and set vpon the Indians and striking the first he met with his Lance the Saddle fell with him which with haste was euill girded and so hee fell from his Horse And all the people that were on foot were fled to a Wood out of the Towne and there assembled themselues together And because it was night and that the Indians thought the Horses were men on horsebacke which came to set vpon them as I said before they fled and one onely remayned dead and that was hee whom the Gouernour slue with his Lance. The Towne lay all burnt to ashes There died in this hurlibuâ—lie eleuen Christians and fiftie Horses and there remayned an hundred Hogges and foure hundred were burned If any perchance had saued any clothes from the fire of Mauilla here they were burned and many were clad in skinnes for they had no leasure to take their Coates They indured much cold in this place and the chiefest remedie were great fires They spent all night in turnings without sleepe for if they warmed one side they freezed on the other Some
they dare then to enter our Ports and trucke with vs as they counterfeited vnderhand when indeede they came but as Spies to discouer our strength trucking with vs vpon such hard conditions that our Gouernour might very well see their subtiltie and therefore neither could well indure nor would continue it And I may truely say beside so had our men abased and to such a contempt had they brought the value of our Copper that a peece which would haue bought a bushell of their Corne in former time would not now buy a little Cade or Basket of a Pottle And for this misgouernment chiefely our Colony is much bound to the Mariners who neuer yet in any Voyage hither but haue made a prey of our poore people in want insomuch as vnlesse they might aduance foure or fiue for one how assured soeuer of the payments of their Bils of Exchange they would not spare them a dust of Corne nor a pinte of Beere to giue vnto them the least comfort or reliefe although that Beere purloyned and stolne perhaps either from some particular supply or from the generall store so vncharitable a parcell of people they be and ill conditioned I my selfe haue heard the Master of a Shippe say euen vpon the arriuall of this Fleete with the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall when the said Master was treated with for such Commodities as hee brought to fell that vnlesse hee might haue an East Indian increase foure for one all charges cleered hee would not part with a Can of Beere Besides to doe vs more villany and mischiefe they would send of their long Boates still by night and well guarded make out to the neighbour Villages and Townes and there contrary to the Articles of the Fort which now pronounce death for a trespasse of that qualiâ—ie trucke with the Indians giuing for their trifles Otter skinnes Beuers Rokoone Furres Beares skinnes c. so large a quantity and meâ—sure of Copper as when the Trucke-Master for the Colony in the day time offered trade the Indians would laugh and scorne the same telling what bargains they met withall by night from our Mangot Quintons so calling our great Shippes by which meanes the Market with them forestalled thus by these dishonest men I may boldly say they haue bin a consequent cause this last yeare to the death and staruing of many a worthy spirit but I hope to see a true amendment and reformation as well of those as of diuers other intollerable abuses thrust vpon the Colony by these shamelesse people as also for the transportation of such prouisions and supplies as are sent hither and come vnder the charge of pursers a parcell fragment and odde ends of fellowes dependancies to the others a better course thought vpon of which supplies neuer yet came into the Store or to the Parties vnto whom such supplies were sent by relation hitherto a moitie or third part for the speedy redresse of this being so soueraigne a point I vnderstand how the Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall hath aduise vnto the Counsell that there may be no more prouisions at all deliuered vnto Pursers but hath intreated to haue the prouision thus ordered He would haue a Commissary Generall of the Victuals to be appointed who receiuing the store for the Colony by Indenture from the Treasurer and Victuallers in England may keepe a iust accompt what the grosse amounteth vnto and what is transported euery Voyage in seuerall kindes as of Bread Meate Beere Wine c. which said Commissary shall deliuer ouer the same to the Master of euery Ship and take an Indenture from the said Master of what he hath in charge and what he is to deliuer to the Treasurer of the store in Virginia of which if any be wanting he the said Master shall make it good out of his owne intertainment otherwise the Pursers Stewards Coopers and quarter Masters will be sure still not onely to giue themselues and their friends double allowances but thinke it all well gotten that they can purloine and steale away Besides that the Indian thus euill intreated vs the Riuer which were wont before this time of the yeare to be plentifull of Sturgion had not now a Fish to be seene in it and albeit we laboured and hold our Net twenty times day and night yet we tooke not so much as would content halfe the Fishermen Our Gouernour therefore sent away his long Boate to coast the Riuer downward as farre as Point Comfort and from thence to Cape Henry and Cape Charles and all within the Bay which after a seuen nights triall and trauaile returned without any fruites of their labours scarse getting so much Fish as serued their owne Company And to take any thing from the Indian by force we neuer vsed nor willingly euer will and though they had well deserued it yet it was not now time for they did as I said before but then set their Corne and at their best they had but from hand to mouth so as what now remained such as we found in the Fort had wee staid but foure dayes had doubtâ—esse bin the most part of them starued for their best reliefe was onely Mushrums and some hearbes which sod together made but a thin and vnsauory broath and swelled them much The pitty hereof moued our Gouernour to draw forth such prouision as he had brought proportioning a measure equally to euery one a like But then our Gouernor began to examine how long this his store would hold out and found it husbanded to the best aduantage not possible to serue longer then sixteene dayes after which nothing was to be possibly supposed out of the Countrey as before remembred nor remained there then any meanes to transport him elsewhere Whereupon hee then entred into the consultation with Sir George Summers and Captaine Newport calling vnto the same the Gentlemen and Counsell of the former Gouernment intreating both the one and the other to aduise with him what was best to be done The prouision which they both had aboord himselfe and Sir George Summers was examined and deliuered how it being rackt to the vttermost extended not aboue as I said sixteene dayes after two Cakes a day The Gentlemen of the Town who knew better of the Country could not giue him any hope or wayes how to improue it from the Indian It soone then appeared most fit by a generall approbation that to preserue and saue all from staruing there could be no readier course thought on then to abandon the Country and accommodating themselues the best that they might in the present Pinnaces then in the road namely in the Discouery and the Uirginia and in the two brought from and builded at the Bermudas the Delinerance and the Patience with all speede conuenient to make for the New found Land where being the fishing time they might meete with many English Ships into which happily they might disperse most of the Company This Consultation
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 deâ—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
of Virginia hauing but 30 fighting men 1692 Sr. Arthur Gorge his relation of a voyage to the Iles of Azores 1938 Articles offered to Port Ricco-men by the Earle of Cumberland 1163. And receiued 1164 Articles propounded by Mr. More to the Company planted in the Bermudas to hee subscribed to generally 1795 Arraroopana an entrance into the riuer Orenoco 1248 Armes vsed by the Indians 1261 Aruba Iland described 1146 1246 Aruburguary a town of the Epeuremii in the Indies 1285 Arwarcas certaine Indians so called that dwell in the Wyapoco 1253 Assapana the first Iland in Orenoque 1â—48 Assaccona a Prouince in Guiana 1285 Assawais certaine Indianâ— inhabiting the Plaines of Samia 1â—48 Ashamabaga a riuer in Mawooshen westward from Sagodok 1875 Asshaw a town on the riuer Aponeg in Mawooshen 1874 Aspiner a Gouernor in Nausset vnder the great Massasoye his good entertainment of our English forces 1853 Assumption a place erected by the Spaniards in the West Indies 1352 Asticon a great Lord in Mawooshen 1874 Atabalipa Prince of Peru craftily taken by the Spaniards and afterwards perfidiously slaine 1445 1452 1490 1491 Atacames Bay the situation thereof 1401 Atacama a towne in Peru 1443 Athul a pleasant Country neere the Riuer Orenoco 1248 Atuhualpa or Atabalipa Emperer of Peru his warres with his brother his victory crueltie c. 1483 1484 1485 Ataios-Indians 1516 Atriâ—co a place fiue leagues from Mexico 1414 Attoca-Riuer 1248 Atturari certaine inhabitauts of the West Indies 1299 Anasalii spirits possessing and vexing the inhabitants of West India 1213 Auauares certaine Indians so called 1514 Aubri a French Priest lost in New France and after many dayes found againe being almost starued all his food being a fruit worse then wild cherries 1623 Audacity of the English Admirall in the voyage to the Azores 1943 Augurari Brasilians 1299 Autiamque a Prouince in Florida described with the commodiâ—iâ—s thereof 1550 1551 Axa a place in America 1561 Aximocuntla a place in New Spaine 1558 Azores Ilands their number and nomination in particular why called Azores and why the Flemmish Ilands 1667 1668. Azores Iles situated in the Atlanticke and Westerne Oceans betweene 37 and 40 Degrees 1938. the inhabitant Port 〈…〉 hate the Sp 〈…〉 ds and would bee freed from them if they might fall with a Gouernour that could protect them from the Sp 〈…〉 1952 Aztatlan a Prouince neere New-Spaine 1559 Ayard Indian wood so called 1251 Ayer a disease in Tereeta 1671 Aygas Indians then nature and commodities described 1351 Ay 〈…〉 y a Towne in Florida called by the Spaniards The towne of reliefe the commodities and description thereof 1537 B BAgres a very strange Fish in RioGrand in Florida 1548 Bahia a Towne in the West-Indies neere the Line 1189 Baldiuia his death by a cup of molten Gold which the Indiaâ—â— forced him to drinke saying Now glut thy selfe with gold 1443 Baldiuia a places name neere the South-sea 1391. Baldiuia Port 1442. 1443 Balparizo a place in America 1399 Balsamum of three sorts in Tâ—ppan Basse neere Brasile white red blacke all very odoriâ—erous 1189 Bancke in the New-found Land knowne by Mariners to bee neere by the testimony of Birds 1628. The description of it and the fishing there ibid. Banner of a Spanish ship hung vp in one of the Churches of Leyden in token of triumph 1909 Baptisme of Spaniards leaueth no character in the Indians 1323 Baptisme forbidden by the Deuill to the Sauages 1564 Baratta a delicate perfume and admirable in curing greene wounds 1276 Barbudos Iland the description and commodities thereof 1255 1256 Baâ—ede an Indian towne 1364 Bareras Mermethues hils in Pareyna 1237 Capt. Barker of Bristowes nauigations 1180 Capt. Barker slaine in Brasile 1195 Barkley viz. Sir Iohn Barkley his noble resolution ambition and courage 1151 Baroti an India towne 1364 Barrennesse of women how dispelled by the Indians 1303 Bartennis Indian inhabitants 1349 Bartholomew de las Casas his discouerie of Spanish cruelties in the Indies 1569 sequ his disputations with Doctor Sepulueda concerning the same point 1631. Saint Bartholmew Valley in New Biscany 1562 Bascherepos Indians 1357 Basenesse of the Spaniards in refusing the Earle of Essex his challenge 1924 Basse great plenty summer and winter taken at Mattachiest 1859 Bastimento Ilands 1244 A Bath temperately hot in Dominica 1158 A Bath caring diuers diseases 1281 1282. Bathes boyling meat 1685 Batiscan-Riuer in Canada 1611 Battell of Sauages 1218 1224 1272 1272 1273 1348. Battell of Sauages with Spanâ—ards 1360 1361 Batts very great and noxious 1284 Baximete a place fertile with fine gold 1413 Bay of Cods in Canada 1616 Bay of heate ibid. Bayâ— a towne in Brasile 1142 1438 Bayama a Gulfe in the West Indies 1241 Bayamond a riuer in Port-Ricco 1169 Bayas de Sant Antonio sands on the coasts of Brasile 1238 Bayshas de Ambrobrio certaine clifts so called 1223 Beares tame taught by Sauages in stead of Ladders to cary the climbers vp on trees 1644 Beares that swim 14 Leagues from the Continent to feed on Birds 1605 Beasts with armed scales repelling Iron in America 1326 A Beast called Hay that liueth vpon haire 1328 A Beast with a monstrous snout ibid. Beasts hideously howling 1381 Beasts that carie their young ones in a bag vnder their belly 1502. A beasts hide of strange forms and fashion 1560 Beds of what kind vsed among the Sauages 1188 Beefe how kept in the Ilands of Mona and Sauona c. 1146 Beeues infinitely plentifull 1171 1421 Bees without stings 1364 Belle a voire a riuer of Florida discouered by the French 1603 Belligods 1202 Bengula in Affrica 1234 Saint Bent an Iland in Brasile 1240 Bermuda plantation distrest by Rats in infinite number 1796. Their deuouring their fruits ibid. The weaknesse and mortality succeeding ibid. 1797. The prediction thereof portended by Rauens 1797. Bermudas Plantation vnder the gouernment of Master Moore ibid. Vnder Captaine Tucker ibid. Its growth in benefit and commodities 1798. It s gouernment by Captaine Kendall and Captaine Butler ibid. Its Forts built by Master Moore 1802. It s gouernment by a Triumuirate ibid. A Church built with supplies of all necessaries ib. Bermudas plantation-affaires vnder diuers Gouernours and the fortification therof at large 1804 1805 1811. Beâ—mudas impregnability 1823. Englands naturall and nationall right to plant in Bermudas 1811 Bermuda Ilands infamous for storms and thunder their situation 1169. Called the Deuils Ilands 1737. Opinions of their number magnitude circuit and latitude seasons and climate 1738 Pearle-fishing there ibid. The danger of ariuall thither by ships their soile want of venemous beasts fruits Cedars 1739. Palmes there and their commodities trees Silke-wormes ibid. The reason why they were not formerly inhabited ibid. Their want of fresh water fish great store mâ—king of salt there 1740 The wholesomnesse of the fish and its cauâ—e store of Whales Fowles ibid. Wild Hogs and Tortoises 1741. Bermudas liked by Sir Thomas Gates and other Mariners and preferred before Virginia
sands 1500 Curenda a populous Indian nation in the River Parana described their apparell ornament and commodities 1350 Cutes wrought by prayers 1515 Curewapori Ilands 1279 Curiadan a place in Trinidad the inhabitants called Saluages 1247 Curiapan a place neere Orenoque 1247 A Current in the Sea vnder thirty two degrees 1174 Currents that set East or West may breed mistake in Navigators ibid. Other vncertaine currents 1400 1373 A Current setting to the Northward in forty degrees 1759 Curucucu Snakes in Brasile of 15 spans long very venemous 1304 Curupija Indians of Brasile 1299 Cusco a place in the South Sea 1416. A Citie as bigge as Rome it hath in it a thousand Spaniards 1420 Customes of fishing of wonderfull gaine to the townes of Lubecke Hamborough and Embden 1837 Customes paiá yearely to the Prince of the Indians 1869 Cutifa-chiqui a Province in Florida 1537 Caynaccaro a Province 1558 D. DAinty a Ship of Sir Richard Hawkins fortunate in voyage for her Maiestie vnfortunate for the owners 1367 Dale viz Sir Tho Dales ariuali at Virginia 1733. His relation of the passages there and how the affaires stood An. 1614. p. 1768 seq His commendation 1770 Damarius Coue a place neere Munhiggen forty leagues from Plimouth in New-England North-east-ward 1856 Dancing distinguishing nations in the Indies 1480 Dancing of the Virginians 1687 1573 1574 Dariene a Sound in the Indies 1180 Sir Ber. Drake his ariue at the New-found-land 1883 Captaine Darmers fishing voyage his coasting the shore till hee came to Virginia his men fall sicke his returne to the New-found-land his discouerie of many fruitfull Coasts and pleasant Rivers from Hudsons River to Cape Iames. 1830 The prosperous successe hee had in pâ—â—curing a truce betweene vs and the Savages is treacherously betrayed wounded and flyeth to Virginia for succour and there dyeth 1831 Capt. Davies voyage to the South Sea 1191. seq His losse of Cap. Candish successe ibid. seq Accused for treacherie 1193 Candishes opinion of him 1194 Daycao a riuer in Florida 1554 Dayes of publike Thanks giving instituted in New-England 1867 Dayes length in New-England 1871 Dead not lamented by some Indians 1523 Deaws very vnhealthy to Englishmen and Indians 1250 Deere worshipped by some Indians 1479. Deere of severall sorts bringing forth two three or foure at once 1831. Decre good store in New-England and the manner of taking them 1845. Deeres-flesh dried in the winde food of the Indians 1881 Dermers resolution by letter of some passages in Virginia 1778 1779 Description of the King of Spaines invincible Armada 1897 De Todos los Santos a towne in the West Indies neere the line 1189 Dâ—vill consulted withall by â—he Indians of Wyâ—poco they call him Peyar 1263. As also Watupâ— who beatâ— them sometimes blacke and blew 1274. The Brasilians cal him Curupira Taguain Pigtanguâ— Machchera Anhanga they feare him much and think their soules after death are tured into Devils 1290 The Devils illuding wounding and tormenting the Savages of Florida 1516 1517. The Devill worshipped by New-Spaniards that is in Noua Hispania their delusion by him 1558. Temples built for him and an oratory made and meat given him by them of new Mexico 1561 The Divell forbids Baptisme to the Indians 1564 The deuils policy in keeping the Indians poore 1868. His try all of those which are dedicated to him ibid. His being worshipped by the Virginians his images feare and name of Oke 1701 Dyals how admired by the Virginian Savages 1708 Dâ—amonds in Brasile 1230 In Canada 1612. in New France 1611 Difference betweene Campe and garison Souldiers 1944 Diego Flores de Valdes a Spaniard sent with a Fleet to Brasile and the successe 1440 1441 Diego de Almagro the first Spanish discouerer of Chili 1475. The next Pedro de Maldiuia 1476 Discoveries of divers Ilands and Lakes in Canada 1614. seq A Discoverie of the English full of danger Discoveries proue best when least discouered 1955 First discoveries of America the new World by English and Spanish 1812 Diseases very strange 1191 1214 1258 Disorder the fore-runner of ill successe in Candâ—shes Fleet 1202 Disorder more weakencth the English then the enemy 1966 Dispâ—â—ations touching Spanish crueltie in the Indies 1601 1602 1603 Dissequebe an Indian River 1269 Dogs worshipped 1471. Ravenous dogs 1172. Terrible to the Indians 1327 1328 Great dogs that fight with Buls and carie fifty pound on their backe in hunting 1561 Dogs that devoure men first taught by Spaniards 1582 Dogs that cannot barke 1696 Dolphin described his loue to mankinde 1375 Saint Domingo 1146. The description riches and fortification thereof 1418 Dominica 1152. The inhabitants described with their brutishnesse 1685. The inhabitants hate the Spaniards loue the English their presents tradings and commodities ibid. Want of cloathes ornaments Canons Merchandise and red painting 1158. More copious description of the soyle woods mountaines towne wo 〈…〉 modestie King familiaritie of their maids chastitie desire of cloathes 1158 1159. Their common fare state meat haire desire to learne English 1159. Distinction of maids and wiues 1159 Dominica assaulted and taken by Sir Francis Drake 1182. Inhabited by Spaniards the sand of the Rivers mixed with gold great plenty of Roots and Sugar Canes 1833 Don Alfonso Perez de Guzman Commander of the Spanish Fleet in 88. 1901 Don Antonio de Mendoza his strife with Cortez for most discoveries and sending forth divers by sea and land for that purpose 1560 Don Diego de Pâ—mentell taken prisoner in Zeland 1911 Don Iohn of Austria defeated of his intended treachery to get to himselfe Mary Queene of Scots his wife 1893 Dos Patos a River in America 1218 Don Pedro and his company taken prisoners by Sir Francis Dâ—ake 1905 Douer-cliff-sound on the North of Virginia 1648 A Doue lighted on the Mastes of English Ships 1967 Dragnanes a certaine kind of Indians in Florida 1510 Drake viz. Sir Francis Drakes first discovery of the Southermost land 1391. His treacherous vsage by the Indians 1392. His expedition with a great Fleet 1434. His riches gotten by his voyages 1439 Sir Fraâ— Drakes original parentage education progresse first voyage surprising of the towne of Nombre de Dios 1179. His burning 200000 Duckets in Merchandize and protestation for the South sea 1180. His circumnauigation the opinion of his riches ibid. Which were sequestred to the Queen his voyage to Domingo company and ships ariues at Saint Iago and takes it 1181. His comming to Dominica and Saint Christopher 1181. Takes Saint Domingo 1182. And Cartagena ib. Fireth two Spanish fortresses ibid. His returne benefit losse of men ibid. His voyage at Calz his Fleet and Prizes ibid. Takes a Carrack 1183. His going for the Azores ibid. His last voyage His fellow Commissioner his taking Rio de la Hacha Rancheria Tapia S. Martha and Nombre de Dios his death successor and Fleets arivall at Plimouth 1183. His disagreeing with Sir Iohn Hawkins 1184. His comparison with him 1185. 1186. His buriall 1245. His clemency to
eight hundred thousand inhabitants made away by Spanish cruelty the women there were murdered which the Indians thought great cowardise 1575 1576 Tetitlan a Prouinâ—e in New Spain 1559 Teulnicham-Prouince 1559 Tharletons perfidie 1382 1383 Testogos a place so called 1242 Tetattecoumoynetto a towne of the Charibes neere the riuer Marwin in America 1285 Thefts basenesse 1153 Theft seuerely punished by the Indians 1870 Theft punished in the English army 1921 Thimogoa Inhahitants of Florida 1604 Thirst in great extremity 1505. Thirst breeding faintnesse and death 1686 Thirty sayle of Ships sent to fit ther the plantation in New England 1832 Thought slayeth a man 1878 St Thomas fabled by the Indians to preach to their ancestors his Chappell and miracle 1219 Three Spanish ships taken by the English Admirall 1960 Three Armadaes of the King of Spaine cast away on the shoald called Osca copos or Catch-chops 1836 Three Spanish ships surprised by the English 1908 Thunders strange effects 1405 Thunders horrid and predigious in the Bermudas 1738 Thunderbolts frequent in the Indies they often cleane great trees 150â— Tiembos fierce and populous Indians neere the riuer of Plate their nature fashion description 1349 Tiguez a Prouince in America 1561 Tillage more necessary then mynes for a new Plantation 1631 Timimino Indians consumed by the Portingals in Brasile 1298 Tipi Indians in Brasile that fight with venomed arrowes 1299 Titicaca an Iland in Peru of infinite riches their precious Temple worship and conceit of the Sunne 1465 Tiuitinas Inhabitants neere Orenoco two sorts of them 1247 1285 Toads and Frogs eaten 1214 1229 1230 1327 The Toad fish 1315 Toalli a Floridan towne and its description its inhabitants and their disposition 1536 Tobaccoes first bringers in vse 1182. Tobacco 1228 1230 1264 1271. Tobacco saue mens liues 1258. Tobacco store 1276 1277. its effects in Physicke and abuse its name of the Holy herbe and the manner how the Indians drinke it 1311. how they blow it in canes one on another to encrease valour 1238. a strange kind of tobacco 1392. Tobacco not profitable in New England the cause why 1871. Tobacco pipe of a Lobsters claw 1662. Tobacco of Virginia how disparaged by Tobacco-mongers 1775 Tobacco worth to Spaine 100000 pound yearly 1821 Tobosos Indians 1561 Tobyas Bay in the Straits of Magellane 1205 1388 Tockwhogh riuer in Virginia 1694 Tocaste towne in America 1531 Tocoman a place in the Indies inhabited by Pigmies 1231. t is esteemed to be the vttâ—rmost part of Brasile where it ioynes to Peru ibid. 1242 Tocoya a towne in the Indies 1258 Tocuâ— a place of America fertile with gold 1419 Tolisbay straits 1233 Tohanna Indians so called 1363 Tonola a prouince in New Spaine 1558 Tomomimos Sauages so called 1217. they liue at Moregoge their townes and warres with the Portingals 1227 Tooth ache cured 1308 Toâ—ira an Indian prouince abounding with gold and emeraulds armour made of siluer the inhabitants worship birds and hearbes they sacrifice to a serpent 1560 Tortoyse its description in Bermudas it liues 24 houres after its head is off 1800 a Tortoyse with 700 egges in his belly taken and eaten 1255. they lay two or three hundred egges at once 1314 Tortoyse nor fish nor flesh 1741 Topinan bazes Sauages like the Petiuares their caruing haire singing 1227. Vide Petiuares Toupin Indians neere the riuer Ienero 1347 Trauelling very easie and strange for a small vallew in the Indies 1242. Trauell-direction in the Indies 1285. more directions for trauell 1286. Trauelling in hot water 1359 A Tree that yeeldeth the inhabitants most of the water they haue 1370 Trees their nature and abundance in Dominica 1158. T 〈…〉 es strange and vnknowne in Port-Ricco 1165. Trees that beare buds greene fruit and ripe fruit with seeds all together 1173. Trees hauing the sense of feeling 1280. Trees good against bruiseâ— and distilling Balsome 1239 trees of exceeding hard wood exceeding great 1256. Trees that haue alwayes greene leaues that beare fruit twice in a yeare called Mangaba trees flowing with milk that might serue for hara Waxe called Marveâ—ge Trees that cause thâ—ir fruit being eaten teeth to fall Trees whose fruit makes haire fall their strange nature and severall names in Brasile 1307 1308 1309. Trees that serue to cure greene wounds having good Balme 1308. For the Colicke for the bloody Fluxe for cold diseases for the Poxe for the Toothake ibid. Trees fruit that killeth any fish in the water that change leaues euery moneth that make Inke that hath in it a riuer of water such strangenesse of trees seâ— 1309. and their names ibid. Trees in Salt-water 1316. vide Plant. â—ase Treacherie in an Irishman 1200. man Englishman 1â—20 Whose miserable end 1221. In a Savage 1251. In the Indians 1256 1258. To themselues 1361. Treachâ—râ—e the losse of a voyage 1â—83 Treacâ—erie in the Indians 1392. vide P 〈…〉 fidie Triana a towne taken and fired by Capt. Parker 1244 Trinity I le pestered with Spanish cruelty and robbea of inhabitants 1584 1585 Trinity harbour Ahanan in the New-found Land 1882 Tripassey a harbour commodious and temperate in the latitude of 46 degrees 1885 Trinidada 1186. the Indians there haue 4 names their commanders now called Captaines inhabited by the Spaniards 1247 Trinity a hauen in Cuba 1500 Trugillo the vtmost towne of the Prouince Valenzuola in America 1419 Truxillo a place in America 1399 Triumphall Uerses of the English deliuerie in 88 1912 Cap Tuberone 11â—6 Tuberones the name of Dog-fish by the Portingals 1209 Tucana a bird like a Pye with a bill a span long very big 1306 Tucanucu Sauage Brasilians 1299 Tuccaman a towne in the river of Plate 230 miles from the entrance its fruitfulnesse its want of gold 1141 Tuckers-terror a shoale on the coast of Uirginia 1648 Capt. Tucker gouernour of the plantation in the Bermudas his acts there 1803 Tulahe a fruitfull country neere Guiana 1248 Tulla a place in Florida 1550 Tullumuchase a great Towne in Florida 1541 Tu'u a place inhabited by the Spaniards neere Cartagena its force 1419 Tumbez a plaine country in Peru 1444. its inhabitants are vitious and luxurious people that idolize Tygers and Lyons 1480 Tune a fruit in Florida on which onely the inhabitants liue three moneths in a yeare 1511 Tunsteroito a towne of Sauages in the West Indies 1285 Tunza a place in America 1419 Tupiguae Brasilians deuoured by the slauery of the Portingals 1298 Tupinaba Indians so called 1298 Tupinaquin Indians inhabiting Brasile 1298 Tuppac Inca Yupanqui Emperor sometime of Peru his valiant acts and attempts conquests and enlarging his Empire ciuilizing many sauage nations his progeny death and successor 1478 1479 Tuppan Bass Sauages so called neere Brasile 1188. their mirth habit life and lodging ibid. Tupac Amaru heire to the Empire of Peru falsly accused and cruelly executed by the Spanish Uiceroy 1488. his well deserued issue ibid. Tupan-boyera a place inhabited by Canibals in Brasile 1227. the Portingals call it Organes ibid. Tupijo Brasilian
Peter of Candy Cap. 2. Fifth Voyage Puna now Saint Iago Cap. 3. Atabaliba of Atabualpa Saint Michaels Frier Vincents embassage not in Gods name * So he calls his Breuiary Cap. 4. Atabalibas ransome Cap. 5. Pizarros perfidious cruelty Quisquiz Cap. 6. Chili Mango Inga his acts * The Citie some say they held the Castle Spanish disasters Cap. 7. Almagro put to death Cap. 8. Ferd. sent to Spaine where he is thought to haue died in prison The Marquesse slaine Cap. 9. Vacca de Castro cuts off Diego Cap. 10. Vice-roy Vela Cap. 11. Cap. 12 Cap. 13. Gascas acts in Peru. Cap. 14. Cap. 15. Cap. 1â— Peru â—onceit of S 〈…〉 rds Cap. 21. L. 8. c. 2. Ex Praesatione O 〈…〉 e cusco Tongue Three pronunciations Accent b. d. f. g. i. x. l. rr wanting Monie Pâ—zos The first Book of the first part This Spanish report some of themselues conceale others deny see sup ca. 1. §. 4. To. 1. l. 2. I haue here giuenthis voyage or fable because the particulars are so full and plaine in this author whereas Gomara saith neither in the man nor time hor place c. is agreed on see Gâ—m p 2. c. 13. Name of Peru whence and how The like you may before read of China a name noâ— ther knowne c. Iucatan Sir F. Drake teacher of nauigating the S. Seato the Span. C. 15. Atahualpa or Atabalipa his cruelties Indian fables of their Originals Temple to the Sunne Cusco or Cozco first inhabited Vse of Arts. Vse of Armes The Incas Empire dured about 400. years Valera hath 5. or 600. The Floud See sup p. 1060. Fables and allegorisers Conceits of the originals of all chiefe families c. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Spanish alterations Mancos lawes Suns Nunnery Poled heads Wide bored eares Fillets Ensignes of dignitie Cusco and the Neighbours Incas by priuiledge which none elsewere except of the Royall bloud Royall Diademe Câ—â—a and Huaccharuyak peculiar titles to the King Manco dieth Sinchi Roca succeedeth Curacas Mancos Funerall Titles of honour The second Booke Amautas the learned Peruans Pachacamac the name of God Ignoto 〈◊〉 August in Zâ—râ—t l. 〈◊〉 〈…〉 i th that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vâ—â—cent de valle virâ—â—i that they held the Sun for God the earth for Mother Pachacamac for Creator of all Acosta cals him Uiraroâ—ha and saith â—hey had no proper name for God A Crosse in Cozco before the Spaniards came No swearing Acosta by this will bee better vnderstood corrected Huaca and the diuers significations thereof vnknowne to the Spaniards occasione 〈…〉 〈◊〉 in their stories Twins rare * He seemeth also to make a difference twixt the adoration to the Sunne worship or reuerence of the Inca. Acosta taxed See before in Acosta pag. 1041. c. Their beliefe of the soule Three Worlds Resurâ—â—ctioâ— Ha 〈…〉 superstition Sacrifices Peru diet * Dauâ—â— dos o tres besos â—l ayre Peruans no Man-eaters or Officers Acosta and others taxed Incas conceit of sicknesse Eybrow-rite Priests of Peru. Cozco Metropolitan others had as it were 7 Bishops and Priests All Ordinances attributed to Manco Diuision of the Empire Anti called by Acostâ— Arides Tithings and Tithingmen See the like with vs in Lamb. peramb. of Kent Orders of Officers Chunca Camayu Penalties No fines Nothing more merciâ—ull then seueritie vnpartiall which makes all to feare so Guns haue prooued sauers oâ— mens liues the generall feare of Ordnance causing few battels and consequently â—â—wer slâ—ine in warres then when where they haue not beene No auricular confessiâ—n in Peru as Acosta c. Iudgements examined Quippos Monethly and yeerely accounts But foure priuy Counsellors Roca Inca his acts Indian credulitie Lloque Yupanqui the third Inca. Strange Grammer See Acosta Of the Peruan Aâ—â—s Astrologie Dreames of Ecclipses Thunder and lightning Rainbow Dream-diuinations Medicine Geometry Chorography Arithmeticke Musicke Poetry A Peruan hym in spondaike verses Handicrafts Goldsmiths Carpenters Masons Note The third Booke * This lesson the Spaniards haue learned too well since Admirable buildings Pedro de Câ—eaza c. â—05 han 〈…〉 th this 〈…〉 m his owne 〈…〉 t more largely Men-stones Capac Yupaâ—qui the fiâ—th Inca. Osyer Bridge Bul-rush bridg See Acosta of their waies to passe Riuers Remouing of people from one place to another Many children Religious reputation of Cozco and the superstitious holies therein The Temple of the Sunne Rich hangings Sunnes image Bodies of Kings deceased Huayna Capac A rich Cloister Fiue Chappels Moone Chappell Chappell of Venus Stars Chappell of Starrie skie Chappell of thunder lightning and bolt Chappell of Rainebow Priests Women might not enter Moueable weekes Seruitors Sacrifices Fountaines Garden of gold and siluer Golden counterfeits All vessels and instruments of Gold Rich Temple at Titicaca Spanish vndertaking for treasure Supâ—â—stâ—tious corne The fourth Bâ—â—kâ— Hoâ—â—es of Virgins 1500. Nuns Exceeding stâ—â—ktnesse Men Porters Nunâ—workes Robes for perfume Golden Garden Pâ—rpetuall virginitie Other Nunneries Mamacumas when Spanish authors deceiued Another sorâ— of Nunnes Widowes Marriages Tribes towns wards not intermarrying Lawes of Inheritance Diuers customes Care of Infants Inca Roca the six King 〈◊〉 conquests Acosta and other say that it was thorow griâ—â—e of captiuiâ—ie Cuca Steep deepe descent of fiue leagues Yahuar Huaeac the seuenth Inca. Apophthegâ—â—es Yahuarhuâ—â—ac acts Feare of his Sonne A vision of the Prince The fift Book Great battle Aduantage by Faâ—les Acosta taxed See sup 1060. Their dealing with the Sun Why the Spaniards were called Viracocha b Acosta saith they were so called because they came by Sea Benzo as the froth or scumme of the Sea in contempâ— Viracochas Temple Condores or Contors huge birds * Cuero perhaps it should be cuerâ—â— the borne Huge Aquaeducts Tucma Bodies of 〈◊〉 Kings seene See sup Acostâ—â— Manner of iâ— prouing and allotting lands The Sunne Inca and pâ—ople sharers Andenes Order of tillage Care of Widowes Poore and Souldiers Workes in common done with festiuall alacritic Incas labour Spade Women Tributes of labour Lowse-tribute Scotfree-men Gold and Siluer no money Presents Repositories No beggars Innes and trauellers Hospitals Course in new conquests The Sixth Booke Sâ—upendious buildings and riches of the Incas Their houses Garments Cieça Zarate Gomera and oâ—her Spanish writers testifiâ— the same of thâ—se prodigious tâ—easures in Peru. Gardens Orchards and Bathes Seruants and Officers Huntings Posts Pachacutec the ninth Inca. Sausa Dogworshippers Benefite and prerogatiue of Nunneries anâ— Sun-temples Peruan Knight Forme of Peruan triumph Shoo câ—remonie Riuer turned out of the courâ—e Sea worshipped Pachacamacs Tâ—mple and Oracle â—t 〈◊〉 â—ac o◠〈◊〉 Rites of Pachacamacs Temple Exchâ—nge and succâ—ssion of Idols Other Vallies subdued Common Tongue See of their Feasts in Acosta Cozco as Reme mother of superstitions Raymi that is the Feast Generall assembly The King was chiefe Priest at that Feast Brauerie and Deuises Fast of three dayes Bread festiual Adoration of the rising Sun Festiuall and consccrsted Drinke Procession bare-foot Oblations Strange
Offerings Sacrifices and Auguries Black fairest Soothsaying vsuall Rites thereof Holy fire Festiual eating and drinking Manner of making Knights The seuenth Booke Inca Yupanqui the tenth Inca. The Musus inuaded The Chunchus suâ—dued Peruan Colony in the Musus Countrie Spanish attempts frustrate Chirihuana A Sauage beastly Nation Inuasions of the Incas and Sâ—aniardsâ—â—ostrate â—â—ostrate Chili dis 〈…〉 red Sudued B 〈…〉 le at Purumancu Spanish acts in Chiâ—i Almagros Diâ—couery Pâ—dâ— Valdiuia An old â—â—ili Captaine his policie whereby Arauco hath beaten the Spaniards Philipâ—etrayeth â—etrayeth his Master Others say they powred molten gold downe his throate Later accidents in Peru and Chili Prodigious showres of sand ashes 1600. They tell also of fearefull Earthquakes at Arequepa 1582. See suâ— p. 940. 941. A Letter written by a Citizen of Iago in Chili * Note the Avaucans armes gotten from the Spaniards Valdiuia destroyed Ymperiall famished Another letter 1601. Indians Valour Gouernour Loyola slaine Dearth 1604. Sixe Townes destroyed Osorno Fort taken Villarrica taken Yupanqui Inca his acts and death Fortresse of Cozco a rare worke See sup 1056. Acostas Relation The wonders of the world not so wonderfull as Cozco Fortresse One round Fort and two square House of the Sun for warre Labyrinth Spanish acts The eighâ—h Booke Tupac Inca Yupanqui the 11. King of Peru. Cassamarca Huacrachucus subdued Chachapuya Muyupampa Raymipampa Huancapampa Three ciuill Prouinces subdued Huanacu or 〈◊〉 Pedrode Cieç◠saâ—th 3000â— c. 80. hâ— calls it Guanuco and saiâ—h there was a Royall houâ—e very admirable of great stones cunningly placed neere to which was the Temple c. Cannari Quillacu Louse-tribute Cieça cap. 44 p. x calls it Thomebamba and is large in this point See Ciâ—ça c. 46. Quitu Huayna Capacs bounty to women Quitu subdued Quillacena Huayna Capaâ—â— marriages Tupa Incaâ— death and progenie The ninth Booke Huayna Capac the twelfth A gold chaine of incredible length and greatnesse Huascar as Roper Atahuallpas mother Further conquests Vallies in the Plaines subdued Tumpiz or Tumbez subdued Huancauilca punished Huacchacuyac a title of the Incas Tooth-rite 1. Puna subiected Their treason Diâ—ry songs Chachapuyas rebellion and pardon Thankfulnesse Marta Puerto Vieco Their foolish deuctions Emeraldgoddesse a huge gemme Platter-faced Barbarous people Giants See sup in Acosta pag. 1002. c. Bituminous Springs Reuerence to the Sunne Wife apophthegme See sup 1028. * Caranques rebell 〈…〉 a saiâ—h 20000. perhaps including all which were slâ—ine in the waâ—re Atabuallâ—a put in posiâ—ssion of Quitu and othâ—r Prouinces subdued by his fâ—thâ—r High way workes grâ—ater theÌ„ the worlds seuen wonders oâ— A 〈…〉 s Alpe-way Spanâ—sh Ship Prophesies and Prodigies fore-signifying the lâ—ssâ— of the Incas Empire 〈◊〉 a diuiner Huayna Capacs sicknesse and last will or speech before his death The Prophesie of the Incas Empire Cusihuallpa his comment on that speech Huayna Capacs death Indians hate to Atahuallpa for causes following Cock conceit whrreby it appeareth that they had no Cocks before in Peru. Huascar the thirteenth and last Inca Emperour Huascars message to Atabuallpa Hisanswer and pretended humilitie Atahuallpa leuieth forces to assault Huascar vnder pretèce of obsequies to Huayna Capac Huascars securitie Seâ—o medicina â—aratur The battell betwixt Atahuallpas men and Huascar Huascar taken Atahualpas cruelty and dissimulation Ill conscience fearefull and therefore tyrannically cruell See of it in Viâ—acochâ— A Catalogue of the posterity of the Incas Don Melchior next in bloud kept in Spaine At 〈…〉 son and second daughters His wholâ— posterity wâ—sted Hatred of thè Incas and Indians to Atahuallpas Sonne Miscrable state of the Incas in Peru. Tree Royall of Incas and their posteritie liuing in April 1603. Frier Vincents speech to Atahuallpa Note the latter part of this Friers Oration for which cause I haue inserted it at large Strange Preaching of Christianitiâ— Aâ—â—huallpas answer Easie victorie anâ— cruell Spaniards which kill â—o mâ—ny not resisting * So they which were there and Gomâ—ra Benzo Herer c. but the later Inquifiâ—ors seem ashamed of Vincents fuâ—ie * See contra cap. vlt. Huascars promises to the Spaniards Huascar slaine Atahuallpa slaine Ruminnauia cruelties Manco Inca. The Incas began and ended with Manco as the Empire of Rome with Augustus and Augustuâ—uâ— and of Constantinople with two 〈…〉 onstantines Manco imprisoned Mancos enlargement and taking Armes An Armie of 200000. Indi 〈…〉 Cozco burnt b When Almagro returned out of Chili and Aluâ—rado with other Spaniards came in Gomez an vngrateful proud Sp 〈…〉 d. Manc◠〈◊〉 slaine Sayri Tupac his sonne Tupac Amarâ— his tragedie * Hinc ill◠〈◊〉 cryâ—â—â— Bloudy Vice-roy What became of the Incas race Don Melchiâ—â—s the last Incas death Tupac Amâ—ru executed He is baptised Philip. Vice-roys iust reward Leyolas death Araucans policy Caxâ—malca or Cassamarca described Chicha is a kind of Drinke made of Maiz. Frier Vincent This is denied by Inca Vega because it seemes the thing seemes odious rather then false and he might not tell tales offensiue to Spanish eares epsecially to the Friers which authorized his Booke to the presse Atabalipa taken description of his person A Marke is in these discourses 8. ounces * These first entrers of Peru call both Huayna Capac and Huascar by the name of their chiefe Citie Cusco Iourney to Cusco and gold there * In the inside c. See sup in the Inca Vegas relation Huayna Capacs Sepulchre Poore shifts for horse shooes * This was the Temple of Pachacamac in the former relation This Idoll perhaps was that which the Natiues had kept from before the Incas conquest for then they worshipped none Estetâ—s treatise of this Voyage is in Râ—musio * Cantari * Others say 100000. Atabalipas pretended treaâ—on * Manco Pizarros beginning Land of Hungre Pizarro wounded Almagro wounded Three yeares troubles Cock Iland Vnderstand of pounds by weight as by mâ—rkâ—s eight ounces by Castellines Pezos Puna * Perhaps they had done this before the Incâ—â— conquest But our Inca author deâ—ieth this and Casas tels that the Spaniards deuised such imputations of sodomy and humane sacrifices c to couer and colour their cruelties in all places Saint Michaels founded Cacike and others burned Pizarros army Long high-way Atabalipas presents Caxamalca For diâ—and Pizarro and Soto sent to Atabalipâ— Atabalipa taken without fight of the Indians Braue bragge * Spanish miracle none wouÌ„ded where non striketh as he saith before Atabalipas ransom which was paid and be acquitied as Pizarro himselfe w 〈…〉 es in the next chap. yet was he murthered that after they had made him a Christian Câ—â—za c. 119 saith that God â—unishâ—d the Spaniards for their cruelties to the Indians and few died naturall deaths all that had hand in Atabalipas death died miserably For this God suffered the wars c. he na meth also Caruaias Robledo Belalcazar Touar Martin c. whom God plaged for tyrannies to the Indians * He had been at Pachacamac