next day eight Englishmen prisoners stole from Tercera in a small Boate hauing no other yard for their maine saile then two Pipe staues These told his Lordship that the Carrackes were departed a weeke before which moued him to returne for Fyall with purpose to take that Towne He arriued September the tenth landing his men the Platforme shot at them in their march but they comming vp found it and the Towne ahandoned and tooke thereof possession This Towne containeth 500. housholds well and strongly built of Lime and Stone well stored with fresh water delicate Fruites and Grapes of diuers sorts He set a guard to preserue the Churches and Religious Houses and staid there foure dayes till the ransome was brought him which was 2000 Duckets most of Church Plate He shipped from the Platforme eight and fiftie Peeces of Iron Ordnance The Gouernour of Graciosa sent his Lordship sixtie Butts of Wine but excused his want of fresh water A Ship of Weymoâ—â—h came thither with a Spanish prize worth sixteene thousand pounds and brought newes of the West Indie Fleete shortly to come which after three or foure dayes playing to and fro in rough weather I let passe a Shippe of Saint Malo which he took laden with New-found-land Fish he espied going into the hauen at Angra in Tercera to the number of fifteene saile being too farre to Leeward to come neere them and they being strong and fortified with the Castle and Fort he was forced to giue ouer And although he leâ—t a Pinnace for aduice intending to waite for them at Sea yet she returned with newes that they had taken off their sailes and downe their topmasts with resolution of longer stay Wherefore he sailed to Saint Michaels and being there repelled from watering went to Saint Maries where they found two Brasil Ships laden with Sugar which the Ilanders fought to bring a ground but Captaine Lyster hastning the attempt in the face of the enemie and danger of continuall shoare-shot borded the vttermost cut asunder her Cables and Hawsers and towed her away whiles Captaine Dauies entred the other then a ground and abandoned and was forced to forsake her Two men were slaine and sixteene hurt But a greater losse followed whiles the Earle in person sought to get the other ship Captaine Lyster rashly disvaluing the enemies force the Barre also detayning them on ground in the midst of danger from the enemie to the losse and hurt of eightie men His Lordship receiued three shot vpon his Target and a fourth on the side not deepe his head also broken with stones that the bloud couered his face both it and his legs likewise burned with fire-balls The Meg being leakie was sent with the prize into England and his Lordship held his course for Spaine By the way he tooke a Portugal ship laden from Brasil and after that another which was one of the fifteene which had before entred Angra being a ship of 400. Tunnes laden from Mexico and Saint Iohn de Vlhua with seuen hundred hides sixe chists of Cochenele certaine chists of Sugar and some Siluer The Captaine was an Italian and had in her fiue and twentie thousand Duckets aduenture Thus full of ioy they resolued homewards but Sea-fortunes are variable hauing two inconstant Parents Aire and Water His Lordship sent Captaine Lyster in the Mexican prize for Portsmouth which at Helclâ—ffe in Cornwall was wracked the Captaine and all his companie drowned except fiue or sixe Scarsitie of drinke caused by contrarie windes caused his Lordship to seeke to recouer some part of Ireland for reliefe but wayting for entrance was put off againe their Beere and Water being all spent Three spoonfuls of vineger were allowed to each man at a meale with some small reliefe squeezed out of the lâ—es of their wine vessels which continued fourteene dayes without other supply then the drops of Haile and Raine carefully saued with Sheets and Napkins Some dranke vp the soyled running water at the Scupper-holes others saued by deuise the runnings downe the Masts and â—arred Ropes and many licked the moist Boards Railes and Masts with their tongues like Dogs Yet was that Raine so intermingled with the sprie of the foaming Seas in that extreme storme that it could not be healthfull yea some in their extremitie of thirst dranke themselues to death with their Cannes of salt-water in their hands Notwithstanding this extreme scarsitie his noble charitie caused equall distribution of the small store they had aswell to all his prisoners as to his owne people By this time the lamentable cryes of the sicke and hurt men for drinke was heard in euery corner of the ship for want whereof many perished ten or twelue euery night more then otherwise had miscarried in the whole Voyage The storme continuing added to their misery tearing the ship in such sort as his Lordships Cabbin the dining roome and halfe Decke became all one and he was forced to seeke a new lodging in the hold His minde was yet vndaunted and present his bodily presence and preuentions readie The last of Nouember hee spake with an English ship which promised him the next morning two or three tunnes of Wine but soone after vnfortunately came on ground The next day hee had some supply of Beere but not sufficient to enable him to vndertake for England Hee therefore the winde seruing put into Ventre Hauen in the Westermost part of Ireland where hauing well refreshed the twentieth of December he set sayle for England His Lordship in this Voyage tooke thirteene Prizes but that which was worth more then all the rest was lost yet the profit redoubled his aduentures At his arriuall in London hee met with the vnfortunate newes of the death of his eldest Sonne Francis Lord Clifford which died the twelfth of December 1589. yet was comforted with the birth of the Ladie Anne Clifford borne the last of Ianuary following his Daughter and by the death of Robert Lord Clifford who dyed the fourteenth of May 1591. his heire now the vertuous wife of the Right Honourable Richard Earle of Dorset THis Honourable Sparke was further kindled and enflamed by former disasters and obtayning of her Majestie a new ship called the Garland a ship of sixe hundred tunnes added the Samson Vice-admirall a ship of his Lordships of two hundred and sixtie tunnes the Golden Noble Reare-admirall and to them the Allagarta and a small Pinnasse called the Discouerie With these he set forth 1591. at his owne charge to the Coast of Spaine where hee tooke good purchase a ship laden at Saint Thomas with Sugars which he was forced to cast off by an irrecouerable leake another also which after long contrary winds in her course for England was driuen to put into a Spanish Harbour for want of victuals But in two other hee was more vnfortunate For Captayne Munson being sent to dispatch the goods and the Golden Noble to accompany them
through the liberalitie partly of the Sunnes neighbourhood which prouideth them in that necrenesse to the Sea of exceeding showres partly of many fine Riuers which to requite the shadow and coolenesse they receiue from the Trees giue them backe againe a continuall refreshing of very sweete and tastie water For the Inhabitants of this Countrie A Captaine or two watering neere the place where his Lordship first anchored found a leasure to rowe vp a Riuer with some guard or Pikes and Musketers till they came to a Towne of these poore Saluages and a poore Towne it was of some twenty cottages rather then Houses and yet there was there a King whom they found in a wide hanging garment of rich crimson Taffetie a Spanish Rapier in his hand and the modell of a Lyon in shining Brasse hanging vpon his breast There they saw their women as naked as wee had seene their men and alike attired euen to the boring of their lippes and eares yet in that nakednesse they perceiued some sparkes of modestie not willingly comming in the sight of strange and apparelled men and when they did come busie to couer what should haue bin better couered The Queene they saw not nor any of the Noble wiues but of the vulgar many and the Maidens it should seeme they would not haue so squemish for the King commanded his Daughters presence with whom our Gentlemen did dance after meate was taken away This withdrawing of their wiues seemeth to come of the common ielousie of these people for it is reported that though they admit one man to haue many wiues yet for any man to meddle with another mans wife is punished with death euen among them And no meruaile if the seueritie of law be set instead of many other wanting hinderances It seemeth that themselues are wearie of their nakednesse for besides the Kings apparrell they are exceeding desirous to exchange any of their Commodities for an old Waste-coate or but a Cap yea or but a paire of Gloues It is pretie that they say is the difference twixt the habit of a Wife and a Maide The Maide weareth no garter and indeede she needeth none but the Wife is the first night she is married which is not done without asking at the least the consent of her parents so straightly gartered that in time the flesh will hang ouer the list The haire of men and women are of like length and fashion But of all other things it is most memorable that whereas their Houses are priuate to all other vses yet they haue one common place where all their men at least take their diet nature teaching them that Law which in Licurgus his mouth was thought strange and perhaps needelesse The King sitteth in the same great roome with the rest but withdrawing himselfe into some more louely part accompanied onely with three or foure of the best esteeme their meates are their fine fruites yet haue they Hennes and Pigges but it should seeme rather for delight then victuall their drinke is commonly water but they make drinke of their Caâ—â—ain better of their Pines and it should seeme that might be made an excellent liquor but the best and reserued for the Kings cup onely of Potatoes their Bread is Cassain The last report of them shall bee what I haue seene in experience namely their great desire to vnderstand the English tongue for some of them will point to most parts of his body and hauing told the name of it in the language of Dominica he would not rest till he were told the name of it in English which hauing once told he would repeate till he could either name it right or at least till he thought it was right and so commonly it should be sauing that to all words ending in a consonant they alwayes set the second vowell as for chinne they say chin-ne so making most of the monasillables dissillables But it is time to leaue them who are already many leagues of On thursday night his Lordship set saile for the Uirgines and on saturday morning had them in sight and in the afternoone we were come to an ankor On Whitsunday in the morning betimes for there was a fit place sought out the euening before our land forces went on shore and there his Lordshippe tooke a perfect muster of them The Companies indeede were though after much sicknesse goodly in number one might well say not so fewe as a thousand When the Companies had bin trained into all sorts and faces of fights at length his Lordshippe commanded the Drummes to beate a call and the troopes being drawne in the nearest closenesse that conueniently they might be that he might be heard of all his Lordship standing vnder a great cliffe of a rocke his prospect to the Seaward stept vpon one of the greater stones which added to his naturall stature gaue him a pretty height aboue the other company so commanding audience made a speech to them After which the Fleete then within one dayes sailing from Puertoricco his Lordship presently appointed Officers for the field They all made vp a dozen Companies whereof if any wanted the full number of 80. they were plentifully supplied by a large ouerplus of gallant Gentlemen that followed his Lordships colours borne by Captaine Bromley and Sir Iohn also had more then 80. so that the whole Armie appointed to Land was neere vpon a thousand specially seeing the Officers of seuerall Companies were not reckoned in these numbers The Offices thus bestowed his Lordship forth with commanded euery man to be shipped in Boates and to goe aboord where after dinner it was debated whether it were better to passe through the Uirgines a way not clearely vnknowne for diuers of our company both Souldiors and Marriners had gone it before with Sir Francis Drake in his last voyage or else to hold the old course through the Passages It was acknowledged that the Virgines was the neerer way but withall none can denie but that it was the more dangerous for the way is very narrow about the breadth of Thames about London and we durst not promise our selues the continuance of a leading winde The way through the passages was found to be farther about but withall it was without danger and therefore hauing no great haste choose the safer way by the passages for said his Lordship I choose rather to be the first that shall take Puertorico then the second that shall passe the Uirgines The Uirgines are little Ilands not inhabited some thinke for want of water some thinke that is no cause and that there is store of water They are very barren and craggie somewhat like the Burlings but being much more sandie as it is much more hot Among these many scattered Ilands there is one called the Bird-Iland by reason of the incredible store of Fowle So stored is it with plentie of Fowle that neuer was English Doue-coat more willing
what it cost and suddenly cloue his head therewith which his brother perceiuing ranne for his Rapier but the Indian women had stolne it away before and so they killed him also with their Bowes and Arrowes and three or foure Negroes which seemed to resist them and thereupon flied to the Mountaines gathering a great company vnto him promising them that if they would aide him against the Spaniards in Coro he would giue them the Spaniards wiues and daughters in marriage But before they put this conspieacie in practise Captaine Peroso by a Policie tooke him feasting among his fellowe and women and tooke thirtie with him and brought them all to Coro where they were to suffer death with great torments to terrifie the rest And of some they cut off the thumbes and cut the sinewes of their two fore-fingers whereby they wanted the benefit of â—hooting Our entertainment there was such that we could not desire to part from thâ—m to come into our owne Countrey without offending them For a Frigat being readie at Coro 〈◊〉 goe for Carthagena foure of vs made intreatie for passage which were Philip Glastocke Richarâ— Garret William Picks and my selfe Iohn Nicols for all the rest were in the Countrey vpon plâ—sure some in one place and some in another And when the ship was readie to depart they perâ—â—aded the Gouernour not to let vs goe For they told him that there were many ships of Hollandâ—on â—on the Coast and that if we went all in the Frigate we would betray it vnto them causing the Fathers of their Churches to tell vs That if we would stay wee should be as themselues arâ— they would willingly bestow both their daughters and their goods vpon vs. Yet notwithstanding all their allurements our desire was for our owne Countrey and so three of vs procured meâ—es for to goe and William Picks was stayed by meanes his Master told the Gouernour that foâ—e were to many to venter in the Frigat Thus we departed from Core about the twentieth of Aprill leauing all those with whom wee dwelt very sorrowfull for our departure who gaue vs great store of prouision for our Voyage They were very loth to let vs go to Carthagena for feare we should be put into the Gallies And the Gouernour of Coro himselfe wrote vnto the chiefe men of Carthagena in our commendation as to Don Pedro de Barres who was his Sonne in Law but it tooke small effect By the way wee touched at Santa Marta and watered there Within three dayes after we arriued at Carthagena we were committed to Prison by the Teniente for the Gouernour was dead not three dayes before we came in Yet we brought our Letter from Coro from one Sennor Gasper Sanchio Contador or in our behalfe to one Sennor Antonio Cambero who prooued a speciall good friend vnto vs. For we had not beene an houre in Prison but hee came to vs and comforted vs and bade vs not to feare for wee should not want any thing So he went to the Teniente and proffered three of his Negroes to set vs at libertie and if we made an escape he should haue those Negroes for his owne vse The worst of those Negroes was worth three hundred Duckets But hee would not neither would he allow vs any victuals But this Cambero sent vs euery day at noone one very good meales meate Also there were three Englishmen who serued as Mariners in one of the King of Spaines Gallions which carrie his Treasure which after that they were at Sea were by forcible tempest driuen back againe to Carthagena in a great danger to be sunk for she had twelue foot water in her Some escaped to Hauana and fiue of the richest ships were sunke on the shoalds betwixt Carthagena and Hauana These three Englishmen did allow vs twelue pence a day so long as wee remayned in Prison Euery Saturday the Teniente with his Alcaldies doe sit in iudgement within the Prison where the Teniente commanded that we should be sent to the Gallies Then one Alcaldie who was alwayes found to bee a fauourer of Englishmen whose name was Sennor Francisco Lopez de Moralis called for our Examination which when hee had perused hee told him that hee could not with Iustice commit vs. Who answered againe Then let them remayne in Prison vntill the Gallions come from Spaine for the treasure Within two moneths after a Deputie Gouernour was chosen vnto whom we framed a Petition which was deliuered by Iohn Frendgam whose answere was to him that if wee could procure any Spaniards to bayle vs for our forth comming we should be at libertie Which Sennor Francisco Lopez and Antonie Cambero no sooner heard but they entred into bond of a thousand Duckets for our forth comming And at our deliuery the Teniente told vs that although by order of Law they could iustly haue put vs to death yet seeing God had so miraculously saued vs and that we had endured so many miseries to saue our liues and that we came to them for succour and reliefe they were content to set vs at libertie So Francisco Lopez brought a discharge from the Gouernour to the Iaylour for our deliuery out of Prison and brought vs all three to his owne house where was prouided for euery one of vs a seuerall bed For the Countrey is so hot that we cannot lie but one in a bed Our entertainment was very great and all our seruices in plate with great varietie of meates and of all the most delicious Indian fruits and yet he thought we neuer fared well enough without hee sent vs one extraordinary dish or other from his owne Table Also many Gallauts resorted to his house to play at Cards who would bee very liberall vnto vs at their winning and would giue vs sixe or seuen pieces of Eight at a time There we continued vntill the Gallions were readie to goe for Spaine with the treasure then hee procured vs passage euery one in a seuerall ship And the day before wee embarked which was about the first of August there came two more of our company from Coro which were Miles Pet and Richard Ferne who were both placed with Philip Glastocke in the shippe called Saint Baotholomew Richard Garret went in the ship called La Madre de Dios and my selfe in the Santa Cruz. So we were a moneth in sayling to Hauana where wee stayed another moneth to trimme the ships The Gouernour there was Don Pedro de Valdes Prisoner in England 1588. So we liued all on shoare with eighteene pence a day for our diet and about the end of September departed leauing that shippe wherein Philip Glastocke Miles Pet and Richard Ferne were with another ship called the Saint Vincent for want of prouision of bread We shot the channell of Florida in eight dayes against the winde and came along by the I le of Bermuda and were nine weekes in sayling betweene Hauana and the Coast of Spaine The tempests and stomes which
the faith so it hapneth by their ignorance that not only they receiue not the grace of Baptisme but also sometimes not the character It is pittie to see the little regard that is had in this being the principall dutie of the King our Lord. The Fathers of the company since they entred in to Brassll tooke this matter effectually and in all places where they haue houses there is alwaies a particular Masse said for the slaues all Sundayes and Feast dayes catechising them euery day and sometime Morning and Euening They labour to learne the Countrey Language and instruct them in the matters of faith and law of God they baptize marrie and doe shrieue and administer other Sacraments vnweariedly But because they cannot accomplish all and many doe perish in want for the Curates take no care of them as if they were not their sheepe it is necessary that his Majestie doe prouide in this some more effectuall remedies The first remedie offered was that his Majestie should command to make a Catechisme in thaâ— Brasilian Language which is vniuersall from the Riuer Marauyon vnto the Riuer of Plate and should be imprinted at his Majesties cost and to enjoyne euery Curate to haue it and to teach by it For though the most of them haue not the language they may notwithstanding learne to read it very well and to teach by the Booke as at the beginning and euen now some Fathers of the company doe that the Indians hearing him reade will vnderstand c. It is very necessary that his Majestie doe command to examine the Iustice that these Portugals haue to serue themselues of these free Indians they bring from the Maine in the manner abouesaid for although they hold them with a title of free they haue no libertie but in name for in truth they are more then Captiues according to the vsage they haue For first as touching the soules they care not for their doctrine nor that they bee baptized married or liue like Christians they haue no other respect but of their seruice as of any other brute beast and so let them liue in adulterie without hearing Masse or shrieuing and many die without Baptisme As touching their bodies their labours are immoderate and perpetuall by night and by day contrarie to the nature of the Indians which are sustained with very little labour in their Countries If they fall sicke they haue then lesse care of them then of their slaues for of these because they cost them their money they haue more regard as the Masters themselues doe confesse Those that haue them in their power are serued of them as of slaues all their liues not letâ—ing them goe to another Master or place though it be to the Churches of their kinsmen that are Christians where they may be better instructed in matters of the faith and of their saluation and if they doe goe to aâ—y place though it be to the said Churches they labour by themselues and by the Iustices to bring them againe as indeede they doe bring and put them in Irons as though they were slaues Whence ariseth a great scandall to the Indians Christian their kinsmen some of the which as yet are tender Plants in the faith forsake the Churches and flee with their familie about the woods grieued with the iniuries that are done to theirs especially in matter of lâ—bertie which they so much esteeme and for feare they will doe the like with them and so wandering are lost and neuer seene againe and truth it is that if it were not for the continuall care and vigilancie that the Fathers of the companie haue ouer them and the loue the Indians doe beare them because they are their masters and seeing that for their defence they are hated of the Portugals and murmured at they had not continued no not these three small towns oâ— Christians of the Baye wherein may be about 2500. soules which onely escaped of eleuen Câ—urches that there were wherein were gathered more then 40000. nor other Townes likewise of Christians that are about the Captaine shippes Neither had Gouernors nor Captaines sufficed for to haue sustained them as the experience hath showen for they would not haue suffered such vexation though they had died for it as others did already at the beginning running away and dying wherewith the coast was disinhabited Not onely doe the Portugals serue themselues of the free Indians aboue said which they bring from the maine but they â—â—ll them also to others and they say with title of free but the price is such that a lawfull slaue is sold no deerer and so the goods that without them was worth I put the case 2000. Duckets with them they giue it for 4000. and these that doe buy it doe take already mastership of them as of slaues that cost them their money and so from hand to hand their captiuitie increaseth and though they say that they are serued of them as of hired men the pay for their seruice is nothing for it they giue a cotten garment to one or two of the principallest of them which they weare in their seruice they doe not neither is it possible to giue it to 100. or 200. that they keepe as they themsâ—lues confesse with the like vsages many of the said Indians either eate earth till they kill themselues or let themselues dye verie easily with meere griefe and sadnesse And because iointly with this the punishments they giue them are like the slaues and these buyings and sâ—llings are not vsed particularly betweeene one or two persons secretly but it is an vse and custome in all the Countrie without any iustice looking into it Finally they are not onely serued of them all their life but they giue them also in mariages to Sonnes and Daughters as a dowrie and at their deaths they remaine in their wils with the name of free but bound to serue their children perpetually whom they leaue them vnto as â—aereditario iure and so the heires goe to law about them and haue iudgements as if they were lawfull slâ—ues As touching the iustice that is vsed with the Indians the King our Lord is to vnderstand that although his Maiestie as all the Kings his predecessors doe recommend alwaies this matter of the Indians to the Gouernours aboue all as their principall duetie with very effectuall words notwithstanding the iustice that vntill now hath beene in Brasil toward them was none or verie little as it is plainely seene by the assaults robberies captiuities and other vexations that alwaies wâ—re done to them and euen now are done Against the Indians was alwaies a rigorous iustice they haue already beene hanged hewen in peeces quartered their hands cut nipped with hot pâ—ncers and set in the mouth of peeces and shot away the Indians for killing or helping to kill some Portugall which peraduenture had well deserued it at their hands but hauing persons not a few in
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
children I cannot precisely say we hold that it is aboue 400. yeares Our Inca was called Manco Capac and our Coya Mama Ocllo Huaco brother and sister children of the same Sunne and the Moone our progenitors I thinke I haue giuen thee large account of that which thou desiredst and because I would not make thee cry I haue not recited this storie with teares of bloud shed by the eyes as I shed them in my grieued heart to see our Incas come to an end and our Empire lost This relation I haue faithfully translated from my mother tongue which is that of the Inca to the Spanish which is farre short of the Maiestie of the stile nor so significantly as that language affordeth and haue abbreuiated some things which might make odious the discourse It is enough that I haue deliuered the truth of their conceit as befits an Historian Other like things the said Inca told me in those visitings and discourses at my mothers house which I shall recite in their due places The common people of Peru recite other fables of their Originals the Collasuyu which dwell to the South from Cozco and the Cuntisuyu which dwell to the West fabling that after the floud the waters ceasing there appeared a man in Tiahuacanâ— Southwards from Cusco so mightie that he diuided the World into foure parts and gaue them to foure men which hee called Kings to Manco Capac the North the South to Colla to Tocay and Pinahua the East and West and sent each of them to their gouernments c. Those of the East and North haue another tale that foure men and foure women in the beginning of the world came out of a rocke by Paucartampu all brethren and sisters the first of which was Manco Capac and his wife Mama Ocllo which founded Cosco which signifieth a nauell and subiected those Nations the second Ayar Cachi or salt the third Ayai Vâ—hu a kinde of Pepper the fourth Ayar Sanca that is mirth and content These fables they allegorise also and some Spaniards would here finde the eight persons which came forth of Noahs Arke wherewith I meddle not nor with the other fables which other Indian Nations haue of their progenitors there being no honourable stocke which is not deriued from some Fountaine or Lake or Lyon Tigre Beare Eagle Cuntur or other Birds of pray or Hils Caues c. But I by the said Incas relation and of many other Incas and Indians of those townes which the said Inca Manco Capac peopled in the space of twenty yeares which I there liued receiued notice of all that I writ for as much as in my childehood they related their stories to me as they vse to tell tales to children and after being grown in age they gaue me large notice of their Lawes and gouernment comparing this Spanish with the old telling me how their Kings proceeded in peace and warre and how they handled their subiects and as to their owne Sonne they recounted to me all their Idolatrie Rites Ceremonies Sacrifices Feasts â—â—d Superstitions much whereof I haue seene with mine eyes it being not wholly left when I was twelue or thirteene yeares old who was borne eight yeares after the Spaniards had gotten my Countrie I also purposing to write a storie of these things did write to my Schoolefellowes for their helpe to giue me particular information of the seuerall Prouinces of their Mothers each Countrie keeping their annals and traditions which reporting my intent to their Mothers and kindred that an Indian a childe of their owne land ment to write a Historie thereof searched their antiquities and sent them to me whereby I had notice of the conquests and acts of euery Inca. Manco Capac to the East of Cosco peopled thirteene townes of the nation called Poques to the West thirtie with the Nations Masca Chilqui Papuri twentie to the North of foure peoples Mayu Cancu Chinchapucyu Rimac tampu 38. or 40. to the South 18. of which were of the Nation Ayarmaca the others of the Quespicancha Mugna Vrcos Quehuar Huaruc Cauinna This Nation Cauinna beleeued that their first Parents came out of a certaine Lake to which they say the soules of the dead haue recourse and thence return into the bodies which are borne They had an Idoll of dreadfull shape which Manco Capac caused them to leaue and to worship the Sun as did his other vassals These townes from 100. housholds the greater and 30. or 25. the lesse grew to 1000. families and the lesse to 3. or 400. The tirant Atauhuallpa for their priuiledges which the first Inca and his descendents had giuen them destroyed them some in part others wholly Now a Viceroy hath remoued them out of their ancient scituation ioyning fiue or sixe townes together in one place and seuen or eight in another a thing so odious and inconuenient that I cease to mention it Manco Capac to reduce the abuses of their women ordained that adultery should be punished with death as likewise murther and robberie hee enioyned them to keepe but one wise and to marrie in their kindred or tribe that they should not be confounded and that they should marrie from twenty yeares vpwards He caused them to gather together tame and harmelesse cattle in flockes and heards to cloath them the Queene teaching these women to spin and weaue Hee taught them to make the shooe which they call Vsuta He set a Curaca or Cacique ouer each seuerall Nation chusing them to that dignitie which had taken most paines in reducing the Sauages the mildest and best minded to the common good to instruct the rest as fathers He ordained that the fruits which were gathered in each towne should be kept together to giue to each man as he had neede till lands were disposed to each in proprietie Hee taught them how to build a Temple to the Sunne where to sacrifice and doe him worship as the principall God and to adore him as the Sun and Moone which had sent them to reduce them to ciuilitie He caused them to make a house of women for the Sunne when there should be women sufficient of the bloud royall to inhabit it and propounded all things to them in the name of the Sun as inioyned by him which the Indians simply beleeued adoring them for his children and men diuine come from heauen Manco and his successours wore their haire poled vsing to that purpose Rasors of flint a thing so trouble some that one of our Schoolefellowes seeing the readinesse of Scissers said that if your Fathers the Spaniards had onely brought vs Scissers Looking-glasses and Combes wee would haue giuen them all the Gold and Siluer in our Land They weare their eares with wide holes caused by art to grow into a strange and incredible widenesse whereupon the Spaniards called them Oreiones or men with gteat eares Hee ware on his head as a Diadem or royall ensigne a kinde
said to bee but a Male and a Female in one place only called Villacanuta These they weare vpon their fringe and euery new Successor must haue new When the Prince is Knighted all of the bloud Royall adore him as their Prince INca Yupanqui bestowed three yeeres in visiting his Kingdome and afterwards resolued on a difficult designe namely to passe the Antis Eastward from Cozco that hauing trauersed those higâ— Hils he might find passage by some Riuers running thence Eastward for the Hils themselues still couered with Snow falne and falling were impassable mooued by a tradition of many Habitations and Countries in those parts One of which was called Musu by the Spaniards Moxos to which he might enter by a Riuer in the Antis diuided into fiue which all make the Riuer Amarumayis which I suspect to fall into the Riuer of Plate the greatest Riuer knowne after Orellana With this determination he sent to cut a great quantity of that stuffe which the Spaniards call Higuera wherein they spent two yeeres making thereof a kind of Boats so many as receiued ten thousand Souldiers with their prouisions each holding thirtie fortie fiftie more or lesse with their prouisions in the midst Thus went they downe the Riuer and had great encounter with the Chanchu which liued on both sides the Riuer all painted and naked with feathers on their heads armed with Bowes and Arrowes They were reduced to subiection and sent presents of Poppenjayes Monkies and Huacamayas Waxe and Honey which they continued till the death of Tupac Amara the last of the Incas whom the Vice-roy Francis de Toledo beheaded A Colonie of these was planted neere Tono some sixe and twenty leagues from Cozco They proceeded in their Conquest till they came at Musu two hundred leagues from Cozco These hearing their Relations of the Iucas conquests and deuotions and Viracochas vision were content to accept of their friendship and confederacie but not to acknowledge vassallage They permitted them to make a plantation there and gaue them their Daughters for Wiues being now not aboue a thousand left the rest wasted in the ill wayes and warres They sent an Embassage also to Cozco which were well entertained and instructed in all their Rites These Peruans would haue returned into their Countrey about the time of Huayna Capacs death but hearing of the Spanish conquest stayed Anno 1564. one Diego Aleman a Spaniard hearing of Gold in those parts with twelue others went on foote with an Indian Curaca for his guide the ill wayes admitted no Horses and hauing trauelled into the Musus Countrey after eight and twentie dayes were set vpon and tenne Spaniards killed Diego himselfe taken and two only escaped in the darknesse of the night The Indians made Diego their Captaine of a Captiue against their enemies About this Golden prize the Spaniards after fell into contention diuers hauing gotten the grant and many were slaine by their emulous Competitors and so made an easie prey to the Chunchus Three they took and after two yeeres dismissed them One of them was a Frier and Priest whom they requested at his departure to send for their conuersion which was not done But let vs returne to Inca Yupanqui After this Expedition to the Musus hee resolued on the Conquest of the great Prouince Chirihuana which is vpon the Antis Eastward from Charcas And because the Countrey was vnknowne he sent Spies which brought word that it was a wretched Countrey wilde Mountaynes mâ—ry Marishes Lakes and Bogs vnprofitable for Seed and Husbandry and the Naturals brutish worse then beasts without Religion or worship of any thing without Law Townes or Houses and eating mans flesh hunting to that end the Neighbour Prouinces and drinking their bloud without difference of sexe or age eating also their owne when they dyed and wâ—en they had eaten their flesh they layd the bones together and mourned for them burying those Relikes in Rockes or hollow Trees They were clothed in skinnes and abstayned not from sisters mothers daughters Good Inca Yupanqui so they vsed to call him hearing this said they were more bound to the Conquest to the end to ciuilize them for therefore our Father the Sun hath sent vs. Hee sent tenne thousand men which spent two yeeres and returned without hauing effected their Designe by reason of the ill condition of the Countrey Neyther had the Vâ—ce-roy Doâ— Francis de Toledo any better successe in the like attempt Anno 1572. in which by reason of the badnesse of the wayes vnpassable for Mules his Litter was carried on mens shoulders whom the Chiribuanas followed with cryes threatniâ—g to eate them Such terrour they cause to the borderers that an hundred of them will flee from ten yet this little conuersation with those which the Inca sent instructed them to leaue eating their dead friends and to dwell in houses in common The good King Inca Yupanqui after this proceeded to another purpose of conquering Chili and from Atacama sent Spies to discouer it and the difficulty of the wayes which passed the Deserts and left markes in the way left they should loose it at their returne there beeing eighty leagues of Wildernesse from Atacama to Copayapu which is a little Prouince well peopled from which to Cuquimpu are other eightie leagues vnpeopled These hauing giuen aduice to the Inca he sent ten thousand men of warre vnder the command of Sinchiruca with prouisions necessary and after them sent ten thousand others both to succour them and to terrifie the enemy When words would not perswade the men of Copayapu to receiue the command of the Lord of the foure parts of the World they came to skirmishes and after to composition vpon the comming of the second Army The Inca hereupon leuied other ten thousand and sent them to follow the former which marched eighty leagues and after many troubles came to another Valley or Prouince called Cuquimpu which they subdued And so proceeded conquering all the Nations which are till you come to the Valley of Chili whereof that whole Kingdome takes the name This exploit was sixe yeeres in hand the Inca still sending fresh supplies of men and prouisions of armes clothes and other necessaries so that he had fiftie thousand men of warre in Chili They went fifty leagues further Southwards to the Riuer of Maulli stil vsing faire meanes rather then crueltie to reduce them And thus the Empire was aduanced aboue two hundred and sixty leagues beyond Atacama yet ambition looking further they passed the Riuer Maulli with twenty thousand men Three dayes they fought cruelly till halfe of both sides were slaine the three dayes following they were content to sit still in expectation and after that departed from each other without further accomplishment Maulli was now the Southerne boundarie and the Inca hauing intelligence sent them word rather to cultiuate and order what they had gotten then to seeke new Conquests Thus they fortified the
end of those fiue yeeres the King of Quituâ—â—ed â—â—ed and the people subiected them to Huayna Capac which vsed them gently He passed on to Quillacenca that is Iron-nose Prouince so called for their boring the nostrils and wearing Iewels thereat a vile brutish lousy People without Religion eating any carion They were easily subiected as likewise the next Prouince of like condition Pastu and Otauallu a People more ciuill and warlike and Caranque a barbarous Nation which worshipped Tigres and Lions and great Snakes in their Sacrifices offering the hearts and bloud of men which they ouercame in warre these he ciuillized also Tupac Inca was busie in his Fortresse at Cozco keeping twenty thousand men at worke therein with great order and emulation of each Nation to exceed other Huayna Capac returning was receiued with great triumph and because he had no children by his eldest Sister Pillcu Huaco he was secondly married to his second Sister Raua Ocllo the Incas still vsing that marriage in imitation of Manco Capac and for certainty of the bloud on both sides King Tupac and his Councell ordained that both should be lawfull Wiues and holden for Queenes and not for Concubins Hee married also Mama Rucu his Vncle Amara Tupacs eldest daughter the next in bloud to the former hauing no third Sister of whole bloud By Raua Ocllo he had Huascar Inca and by his Cousin-german Manco Inca. Tupac Inca drawing neere to death called together his children which were aboue two hundred and made the wonted discourse or Testament commending peace and iustice and care of their vassals to them and to shew themselues indeed the children of the Sunne recommending to the Prince the reducing and conquest of the Sauages to the seruice of the Sunne and a politike life and to follow the example of his Fore-fathers and to chastise the Huallcauilcas which had slaine his Captaines in rebellion Hee said hâ— was now going to another life his father the Sunne calling him to rest with him Thus died Tupac Inca famous for the benefits done to his Countrie therefore called Tupac Yaya Illustrious Father By Mama Ocllo he had sixe sonnes the eldest Huayna Capac the second Auqui Amaru Tupac Inca the third Quehuar Tupac the fourth Huallpa Tupac Inca Yupanqui my mothers grandfather the fiâ—th Titu Inca Rimachi the sixth Aâ—qui Mayta They embalmed his body which I saw Anno 1559. as if it had beene aliue The rest of this eighth Booke the Authour hath spent in description of the creatures of principall note of those parts in which out of Acosta and others hauing beene tedious already we will not here trouble the Reader THe mighty Huayna Capac after other things set in order hauing a sonne Huascar borne for whom he made twenty dayes feast began to propound great and rare deuises to himselfe One was a Chaine of gold much sought but neuer seene by the Spaniards The Indians vse much dancing and are as easily distinguished one Nation from another by their dances as by their head-tires The Incas had a graue kinde of dancing in measures men alone without women hand in hand singing in their soft paces three hundred or more in a solemne feast the Inca himselfe sometimes dancing with them at other times they danced about still comming neerer to that Royall centre This holding of hands in a ring gaue occasion to make the golden Chaine that they might dance by it without touching hands as I haue heard the fore-mentioned old Inca my mothers Vncle discourse Hee told mee that it contained the length and bredth of the great street of Cozco which is seuen hundred foot and the bignesse of euery linke thereof was he said as bigge as his wrest Augustin de Zarate calls it Maroma a Cable from the report of Indians then liuing and sayth it was as much as two hundred Indians could lift Much haue the Spaniards sought for this and other treasures whereof they could neuer finde any foot-print Prince Ynti Cusi Huallpa that was his name before and signifieth Huallpa the Sunne of reioycing was in memorie of that which was made to honour his birth called Huascar an r added to Huasca which signifieth a Rope their Language not differencing a Chaine from a Rope by which addition Huascar might be without signification and auoyde the ill sound of a Rope which was added to his former name at his waining and polling Feast when hee was two yeeres old After that hee leuied fortie thousand Souldiers and went to Quitu in which Voyage hee tooke for his Concubine the eldest daughter of King Quitu aforesaid which was there kept in the House of the chosen or Nunnerie and by her had Atahuallpa and other children Thence he went to the Plaines and made conquest of the Valley of Chimu now Trugillo and Chacma Pacasmayn Canna Collque Cintu Tucmi Sayanca Mutupi Puchiu Sallana bestowing much cost to conuey water and benefit his new conquests After some time spent at Quitu hee leuied another Armie of fifty thousand and conquered Tumpiz a vicious luxurious People and Sodomiticall which adored Tigres and Lions and sacrificed the hearts and bloud of Men and Chunana Chintuy Collonche and other confining places Hee made a faire Fortresse in Tumpiz and set there a Garrison he built a House of the Sunne and another of Virgins and after that entred into the Prouince Huancauillca which had killed those Masters which his Father Tupac Inca Yupanqui had sent to instruct them Hee commanded all the Curacas to come before him which durst doe no other with all the chiefe men to whom one of the Masters of the Campe made a Speech of their treason and bad demerits Notwithstanding the Inca vsing his naturall clemency and making account of his title Huacchacuyac The benefactor or louer of the poore both pardoned all the common people and would so farre remit the better sort which had beene doers in that businesse that though all had deserued death yet one onely of tenne whom the lot should designe to execution should die and of the Curacas and Captaines each should lose two teeth in the vpper iaw and as many in the lower both they and their descendants in memorie of falsifying their promise to his father They which feared that all should passe the sword were content and the whole Nation would needs both men and women participate in that tooth-losse and did likewise to their sonnes and daughters as if it had beene a fauour One of that Nation I knew in my fathers house at Cozco which largely recounted the premisses The Inca spent much time in visiting his Kingdome from Quitu to Charcas aboue seuen hundred leagues and sent Visitors to Chili whence his father had drawne much Gold This done he raised an Armie of fifty thousand men of the Northerne Prouinces and hauing visited the Temple of Pachacamac and caused the Priests to consult with
These words which our Inca said vnto vs being the last that euer he spake to vs were more powerfull to subiect vs and quite our Empire then the armes which thy Father and his companions brought into this Land Thus died Huayna Capac his body was embalmed and carried to Cozco his heart interred in Quitu His funerall solemnities and mourning continued a yeare according to the custome of the Inca Kings Hee left aboue two hundred sonnes and daughters some Incas affirme aboue three hundred to exaggerate the crueltie of Atahuallpa which slew them almost all who therefore was so odious that the Spaniards hauing put him to death were thought men sent from their God the Sun to take vengeance on the destroyer of his seede And when they brought Cockes and Hens with them into Peru they hearing the Cockes crowing said that in perpetuall infamie of that tyrant and abhominable memory of his name they pronounced it in their crowing saying Atabuallpa and would answer the Cockes crowing with reckoning the name Atahuallpa wherein the children imitated them in those times so that if they had heard a Cocke crowe they would recrow in like tune the name of Atuhallpa a thing which I my selfe and other boyes my Schoolefellowes children of Spaniards by Indian women haue often done together with the Indian children They named likewise on such occasion his principall Captains whose names were of so many syllables Challcuchima Quilliscacha and Ruminnaui The Spaniards thought they did this for his honour saying the Cockes made this honorable mention of him so Blas Valera writeth which receiued it of the Indians of Quitu his naturall subiects which applied to a good mention that which those of Cozco deuised in euill for his cruelties there done Huayna Capac being dead his two Sonnes Huascar and Atahuallpa raigned quietly for the space of foure or fiue yeares one in Cozco the other in Quitu After which Huascar began to thinke with himselfe that he had done ill in consenting to his father in the matter of Quitu which now was his brothers whereby he was barred vp also from further conquests the other three waies being locked vp by the Antis the Sea and Chili so that his brother might by new conquests make himselfe greater then he and whereas now his stile was Capa Inca onely Lord in time the other might both equall and exceede him These things more and more troubling him hee sent a Messenger to his brother saying that by the ancient constitution of the first Inca Manco Capac the Kingdome of Quitu and all the Prouinces which he possessed belonged to the crowne and Empire of Cozco which howsoeuer he had quitted to him vpon his Fathers command yet was it more by force then iustice being to the losse of the crowne and preiudice of the successors and therefore neither ought his Father to command it nor was he obliged to fulfill it Yet seeing he had giuen consent he was content vpon these two conditions first that he should adde nothing to his Empire secondly that hee should doe him homage and fealtie as his vassall and feudatarie Atahuallpa receiued this message with great humilitie and seeming submission and three dayes after returned answere that in his heart he had alwayes reknowledged vassallage being returned to the Inca by Post he was much content sending reply that he againe confirmed that estate to his Brother conditionally that by such a time he should make his personall homage at Cozco Atahuallpa answered hee was a happy man to vnderstand such the Incas pleasure that he would doe it by the time set him but for greater solemnitie he did beseech his Maiestie to giue him leaue that all the Prouinces of his estate should come with him to celebrate in Cozco the obsequies of Huayna Capac his Father with rites agreeable to those of Quitu and the other Prouinces which ended hee and his would doe their due homage All this did Huascar grant and Atahuallpa made vse of to his proiect of soueraigntie He sent proclamation to all his Prouinces that all men seruiceable should in such a space make ready to goe to Cozco to celebrate his Fathers obsequies and to performe the homage to the Monarch Huascar Inca and that therefore they should set forth in their best ornaments and brauery for greater solemnitie But priuily he sent to his Captaines to leuie the best Souldiers which should carry their armes closely for he more minded executions then exequies He commanded them â—o march in bands fiue or sixe hundred together one band two or three leagues after the other and when they came within ten or twelues dayes iourney of Cozca that they should ioyne together the last doubling their iournies to ouertake the former In this manner Atahuallpa sent aboue 30000. men most of them old Soldiers of his Fathers with choise Captaines and appointed two Camp-masters or Generals Challcuchima and Quizquiz Huascar relying on the loyaltie of his Subiects and his Brothers faire promises not onely suspected no treason but prouided them necessaries Atahuallpa vsed this dissimulation knowing himselfe of vnsufficient power to warre openly on his brother But some of the experimented Gouernors and Captaines as they passed could not but resent and disgust this course and signified so much to the Inca who thus awakened out of his dreame sent to gather forces in the South parts and East and West to Chinchasuyu he sent not which were the best Soldiers because of these forces marching thorow their Countrie The other through long peace were vnaccustomed to armes of which were leuied aboue 30000. the rest being too remote for a sudden businesse Atahuallpas men passed the Riuer Apurimac without contradiction and embattelled themselues in three squadrons so marching to Villacunca within six leagues of Cozco He himselfe abode still in the confines of his Kingdome there to obserue the successe of this battel wherein he placed his chiefe trust by reason of the negligence of the other side the courage of his old souldiers These thought the shortest way the surest before more forces might be assembled by Huascar and within two or three leagues Westwards from the Citie was the battell fought in which one side fought to get the other to keepe the Inca whose vnhappy fate made him prisoner to Atahuallpas men as he was fleeing thence with 5000. which were all in manner slaine in presence some by the enemies some by themselues seeing their Lord prisoner Many also not willing to enioy liberty after he was taken offered themselues prisoners They set a sure guard about the Emperours person and sent to proclaime his taking thorow all the Empire lest other forces should come to his succour sending word also to their Master Atahuallpa Hee vsed his victory most cruelly for dissembling that he would restore Huascar to the Kingdom he summoned all the Incas in the Empire and all the Rulers and Officers
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
was married to Martin Garcia de Loyola His brother Tupac Amaru tooke the Mountaines Francisco de Toledo second sonne to the Earle of Oropesa being Vice-roy determined to bring from the Mountaines of Uillca campa the Prince Tupac Amaru the lawfull Heire of that Empire after his said brothers death without issue male Hee sought to doe it by faire and gentle perswasions sending Messengers to that purpose promising him maintenance from his Maiestie for his person and familie His kindred and friends told him that his brother had receiued small recompense from them or society with them and therefore counselled him not to goe it being better for him to liue there then to die with his enemies The Spaniards counselled the Vice-roy to force him alledging that his Indians robbed the Merchants hoping also by his imprisonment to recouer the treasures which his progenitours had hidden Such robberies were indeed committed in his father Mancos time but seldome they being forced thereto of necessitie for want of victuals which the Mountaines yeeld not But after his death there was no such matter The Vice-roy sent Martin Garcia Loyola with two hundred and fiftie Souldiers well prouided agâ—inst the 〈◊〉 â—he strength of those passages was abated and the wayes plained after the issue of Sayri Tupac so that the Prince Tupac Amaru fled and the Spaniards pursued and hee being guilty to himselfe of no crime yeelded himselfe with his wife two sonnes and a daughter and all his Indians looking for no ill measure but maintenance at their hands The Vice-roy framed a processe against the Prince and against all the Incas of his kindred and against the Mestizos begotten of that stocke by the Spaniards some of which were condemned to be tortured that so they might finde some clearer matter against them One of their mothers came to the prison and cried out that they had got that reward for that their Fathers had conquered the Countrey for which their Children should be all hanged Why did they not as well kill their Mothers for whose sinnes Pachacamac had suffered this which had beene traytors to the Inca for loue of the Spaniards with other outcries of vengeance in this world and the next from Gods hand Thus went shee crying in the street which made the Vice-roy surcease his purpose he proceeded not to put any to death but banished them to liue a lingring death in diuers parts of the world out of that which their Fathers had conquered Some he sent to Chili one of which was the sonne of Barco aforesaid which had beene with Huascar others to the new Kingdome of Granada to the Iles of Barlouent to Panama to Nicaragua and some hee sent to Spaine one of which was Iuan Arias Maldonado who liued there an exile ten yeeres and recounted these things to mee hee after got leaue of the supreme Councell of the Indies to returne to Peru for three yeeres to recouer his goods and then to returne to Spaine there to end his dayes All the rest perished in banishment The Indians of the bloud Royall which were sixe and thirtie of the principall of the bloud Royall he exiled and confined to the Citie of Kings and with them the two sonnes and daughter of the poore Prince the eldest not ten yeeres old the Archbishop of Rimac or The Kings pitied the young gâ—â—le and brought her vp the two sonnes with three and thirtie more died in little aboue two yeeres comming out of a cold hilly Countrie to the hot Plaines by the Sea The three remayning were Don Carlos my School-fellow sonne of Don Christouall Paullu and two others which were sent home to their houses but died all in a yeere and halfe after Of Don Carlos sonne we haue said before that hee came into Spaine in hope of great rewards which in Peru were promised him He died Anno 1610. at Alcala de Henares of griefe to see him selfe shut vp in a Monastery and left one sonne with three daughters The sonne died being a childe of little more then a yeere old and so the Rent granted by the Contractation house at Siuill to his father ceassed Now for the Prince Tupac aforesaid to returne to him they sentenced him to lose his head which was executed the Crier proclayming his treason and tyrannies against the Catholike Maiestie of King Philip the second King of Spaine and Emperour of the New Word They told the Inca that he was sentenced to lose his head without any particular cause mentioned hee answered hee had done nothing worthie of death that the Vice-roy might send him prisoner to Spaine to kisse the hands of his Soueraigne King Philip which would be securitie enough And if his father were not able with 200000. Indians to subiect 200. Spaniards in Cozco what needed the Vice-roy now feare any new commotion The religious hastened to instruct him for baptisme to which he was willing he said his Grandfather Huayna Capac hauing commended the Christian Law as better then theirs He was Christened by the name of Don Philip with as much griefe of those which were present as was ioy made at the baptising of Saiti Tupac The Spaniards did not imagine that the sentence should be executed being so contrarie to humanitie and disagreeable to the Maiestie of King Philip. It was performed on a Scaffold in the chiefe Street of Cozco Many sought to petition the Vice-roy which knowing their errand would admit none to audience They set the Prince on a Mule with a rope about his necke his hands tied one going before to proclaime his treason He not vnderstanding Spanish asked the Friers and hearing that he proclaimed him Auca called him to him and said to him Say not so for thou knowest it is a lye and I neuer did or thought treason as all the world knoweth but â—ar that I must die for the Vice-roys pleasure and not for my faults against him or the King I appeale to Pachacamac that this is true The multitude crying and lamenting they feared some stirre there being 300000. soules assembled in the streets they hasted to set him on the Scaffold The Priests prayed him to still the clamours and out-cries of the people Hee stretched out his arme with his hand open which hee layd on his eare thence letting it fall by degrees to his thigh whereupon followed a sudden silence as if there had not beene a man left in the Citie Which made the Spaniards to wonder and the Vice-roy amongst others which stood at a window to see the execution Thus died the Inca with great magnanimitie as the Incas haue beene in such cases accustomed he worshipping the Images of our Sauiour and of the Vargin as the Priests taught him The Vice-roy returned with great wealth and with 500000. Pezos in gold and siluer and going to kisse the Kings hand he had him get him to his house he had not sent him to Peru to kill Kings but to serue Kings The
daies going vp with the tide euerie day a little brought them vp vnto the Towne Assoone as the people were come on shore he pitched his Campe on the Sea side hard vpon the Bay which went vp vnto the Towne And presently the Captaine Generall Vasques Porcallo with other seuen Horsemen foraged the Countrie halfe a league round about and found sixe Indians which resisted him with their Arrowes which are the weapons which they vse to fight withall The Horsemen killed two of them and the other foure escaped because the Countrie is cumbersome with Woods and Bogs where the Horses stacke fast and fell with their Riders because they were weake with trauelling vpon the Sea The same night following the Gouernour with an hundred men in the Brigantines lighted vpon a Towne which he found without people because that assoone as the Christians had sight of Land they were descried and saw along the Coast many smokes which the Indians had made to giue aduice the one to the other The next day Luys de Moscoso Master of the Campe set the men in order the Horsemen in three Squadrons the Vantgard the Batalion and the Râ—reward and so they marched that day and the day following compassing great Creekes which came out of the Bay They came to the Towne of Vcita where the Gouernour was on Sunday the first of Iune being Trinitie Sunday The Towne was of seuen or eight houses The Lords house stood neere the shoare vpon a very high Mount made by hand for strength At another end of the Towne stood the Church and on the top of it stood a fowle made of wood with gilded eies Here we found some Pearles of small value spoiled with the fire which the Indians doe pierce and string them like Beads and weare them about their neckes and hand-wrists and they esteeme them very much The houses were made of Timber and couered with Palme leanes From the Towne of Vcita the Gouernour sent Alcalde Maior Baltasar de Gallegos with fortie Horsemen and eightie Footmen into the Countrie to see if they could take any Indians and the Captaine Iohn Rodriguez Lâ—billo another way with fiftie Footmen Iohn Rodriguez Lobillo returned to the Campe with sixe men wounded whereof one died and brought the foure Indian women which Baltasar Gallegos had taken in the Cabbins or Cottages Two leagues from the Towne comming into the plaine field he espied ten or eleuen Indians among whom was a Christian which was naked and scorched with the Sunne and had his armes razed after the manner of the Indians and differed nothing at all from them And assoone as the Horsemen saw them they ranne toward them The Indians fled and some of them hid themselues in a Wood and they ouertooke two or three of them which were wounded and the Christian seeing an Horseman runne vpon him with his Lance began to crie out Sirs I am a Christian slay mee not nor these Indians for they haue saued my life And straight way hee called them and put them out of feare and they came forth of the Wood vnto them The Horsemen tooke both the Christian and the Indians vp behind them and toward night came into the Campe with much ioy which thing being knowne by the Gouernour and them that remained in the Campe they were receiued with the like This Christians name was Iohn Ortiz and hee was borne in Siuill of Worshipfull Parentage He was twelue yeeres in the hands of the Indians He came into this Countrie with Pamphilo de Naruaez and returned in the ships to the Iland of Cuba where the Wife of the Gouernour Pamphilo de Naruaez was and by his commandement with twentie or thirtie other in a Brigandine returned backe againe to Florida and comming to the Port in the sight of the Towne on the shoare they saw a Cane sticking in the ground and riuen at the top and a Letter in it and they beleeued that the Gouernour had left it there to giue aduertisement of himselfe when hee resolued to goe vp into the Land and they demanded it of foure or fiue Indians which walked along the Sea shoare and they bad them by signes to come on shoare for it which against the will of the rest Iohn Ortiz and another did And assoone as they were on the Land from the houses of the Towne issued a great number of Indians which compassed them about and tooke them in a place where they could not flee and the other which sought to defend himselfe they presently killed vpon the place and tooke Iohn Ortiz aliue and carried him to Vcita their Lord. And those of the Brigandine sought not to land but put themselues to Sea and returned to the the Iland of Cuba Vcita commanded to bind Iohn Ortiz hand and foot vpon foure stakes aloft vpon a raft and to make a fire vnder him that there he might bee burned But a daughter of his desired him that he would not put him to death alleaging that one only Christian could do him neither hurt nor good telling him that it was more for his honour to keepe him as a Captiue And Ucita granted her request and commanded him to bee cured of his wounds and assoone as he was whole he gaue him the charge of the keeping of the Temple because that by night the Wolues did carrie away the dead corpses out of the same who commended himselfe to God and tooke vpon him the charge of his Temple One night the Wolues gate from him the corpses of a little child the Sonne of a principall Indian and going after them he threw a Dart at one of the Wolues and strooke him that carried away the corps who feeling himselfe wounded left it and fell downe dead neere the place and hee not woting what he had done because it was night went backe againe to the Temple the morning being come and finding not the bodie of the childe he was very sad Assoone as Vcita knew thereof he resolued to put him to death and sent by the tract which hee said the Wolues went and found the bodie of the childe and the Wolfe dead a little beyond whereat Vcita was much contented with the Christian and with the watch which hee kept in the Temple and from thence forward esteemed him much Three yeeres after he fell into his hands there came another Lord called Mocoço who dwelleth two daies iourney from the Port and burned his Towne Vcita fled to another Towne that he had in another Sea Port. Thus Iohn Ortiz lost his office and fauour that he had with him These people being worshippers of the Deuill are wont to offer vp vnto him the liues and bloud of their Indians or of any other people they can come by and they report that when hee will haue them doe that Sacrifice vnto him he speaketh with them and telleth them that hee is athirst and willeth them to sacrifice vnto him Iohn Ortiz had notice by the Damosell that
entertained him with strange coniurations Earely in a morning a great fire was made in a long house a Mat spred on each side on one of which he was set the guard went out and in came a great grim fellow skipping all painted with cole mingled with Oyle many Snakes and Weesels skins stuffed with Mosse their tailes tied together and meeting on the crowne of his head round about the tassell was a coronet of Fethers the skins hung round about his head shoulders backe and face With a hellish voyce strange gestures and passions with a Rattle in his hand hee began his inuocation and enuironed the fire with a circle of Meale After this three such other diuels rushed in with like trickes painted halfe blacke halfe red all their eyes painted white with some red stroakes along their cheekes These hauing danced a prettie while three more came in as vgly as the rest with red eyes and white stroakes ouer their blacke faces At last they all sat downe right against him the chiefe Priest in the midst and three on each hand All then with their Rattles began a song which ended the chiefe Priest laid downe fiue Wheate cornes and straining his armes and hand with such violence that he swet and his veines swelled hee began a short Oration at the conclusion whereof they gaue a short groane and then laid downe three graiues more Now they began their Song againe and then another Oration euer laying downe so many cornes as before till they had twice encircled the fire That done they take a bunch of little stickes prepared for that purpose and at the end of euery Song and Oration laid downe a sticke betwixt the diuisions of the Corne. Till night neither he nor they did eate or drinke and then they feasted merrily with their best prouisions Three dayes they vsed this Ceremonie thereby to know as they said whether hee intended them well or no. The circle of meale signified their Countrey the two circles of Corne the Sea-bounds and the stickes his Countrey They imagined the World to be flat and round like a trencher and themselues in the midst After this they brought him a bigge of Powder which they carefully preserued till the next spring to plant as they did their Corne because they would be acquainted with the nature of that sâ—ede Opitchapam the Kings brother inuited him to his house where hee welcommed him with as many Platters of Bread Fowle and wilde Beasts as did encompasse him but not any would eate with him reseruing the remainders in Baskets At his returne to Opechankanoughs all the Kings women and their children flocked about him as for their customary due to be merry with such fragments At last they brought him to Werowocomoco to Pohatan where aboue two hundred of his Courtiers stood wondring on him till Pohatan and his traine had put themselues in their greatest brauery Before a fire hee sat on a seate like a bedsted couered with a great robe made of Rarowcun Skinnes all the tailes hanging by on each hand did sit a yong wench of sixteene or eighteene yeeres of age along on each side the house two rowes of men and behinde them as many women with all their heads and shoulders painted red many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds euery one adorned with some thing a great chaine also of white Beades about their neckes At his entrance before the King all the people gaue a great shout The Queene of Appanatucke was appointed to bring water to wash his hands another brought him a bunch of Feathers instead of a Towell to drie them Hauing feasted him in their best manner the held a consultation in conclusion whereof two great stones were brought before Pohatan and as many as could lay hold on him dragged him to them and thereon laid his head being ready with their clubbes to beate out his braines Pocahuntas the Kings dearest Daughter when no intreatie would preuaile got his head into her armes and laid her owne vpon his to saue him from death whereupon the Emperour was contented hee should liue to make him Hatchets and Beads Bels and Copper for her For they thought him like themselues of all occupations the King himselfe making his owne Robes Shooes Bowes Arrowes Pots Planting also Hunting and doing Offices no lesse then the rest Two dayes after Pohatan hauing disguised himselfe in the dreadfullest manner caused Captaine Smith to be brought forth to a great house in the woods and there vpon a Mat by the fire to bee left alone Not long after from behinde a Mat which diuided the house was made the dolefullest noise that euer hee had heard After this Pohatan with twenty more as blacke as himselfe came vnto him and told him that they were now friends and presently hee should goe to Iames Towne to send him two great Gunnes and a Grindstone for which hee would giue him the Countrey of Capahowolick and for euer esteeme hiâ— as his Sonne Nantaquaus Hee sent him thither with twelue guides When they came to the Fort Smith vsed the Sauages kindely and shewed Rawhunt Pohatans trusty seruant two Demiculuerius and a Milstone to carry to Pohatan somewhat too heauie for their carriage But when they saw him discharge them loden with stones on the boughes of a great tree hanging full of isickles the Ice and boughes comming downe with such furie the Sauages were halfe dead with feare and at last returning contented with toies and presents for Pohatan his women and childred This his returning safe to the Port once more staied the Pinnace her flight for England which till his returne could not set saile so extreame was the weather and so great the Frost His relation of the plenty he had seene especially at Werowocomoco where inhabited Powhatan that till that time was vnknowne so reuiued againe their dead spirits as all mens feare was abandoned Powhatan hauing sent with this Captaine diuers of his men loaded with prouision hee had conditioned and so appointed his trustie Messengers to bring but two or three of our great Ordnances but the Messengers being satisfied with the sight of one of them discharged ran away amazed with feare till meanes were vsed with gifts to assure them our loues ALL this time our cares were not so much to abandon the Countrie but the Treasurer and Counsell in England were as diligent and carefull to supply vs. Two tall Shippes they sent vs with neere one hundred men well furnished with all things could be imagined necessary both for them and vs. The one commanded by Captaine Newport the other by Captaine Nelson an honest man and an expert Marriner but such was the leewardnesse of his Ship that though he were within sight of Cape Henry by stormy contrary windes was forced so farre to Sea as the West Indies was the next land for the repaire of his Masts and reliefe of wood and water But Captaine
fifteene miles in length out of the top whereof issue often flames of fire like Aetna and is thought to bee higher then the Pike of the Canaries 1672 Pigs without tayles 1189 Pigmies of Brasile dwelling in Caues 1231 1300 Pigru certaine Indians of Brasile 1299 Pillars of stone which are worshipped by certaine Indians 1603 Pines an excellent and delicious fruit 1172 Pinos an Iland on the South side of Cuba 1836 1185 Pipicorwarra Mountaine 1285 Pirats English and Spanish 1412. Misprision of that terme Pirats and what a Pirat is ibid. Pitch plentifull and how made 1556 1281 Plantines a fruit growing on a shrub betwixt an hearb and a tree in tast like an Apple Iohn 1173 1371 Plants adored by Indians 1479 1560. Plants that haue the sense of feeling 1280. Venemous plants 1525 Plantations in New-England 1832. In New-Plimouth 1842. The necessaries required for plantation 1621 1631 Plate River 1141 12â—2 Plumbe-drinke 1784 Plumbs that are venemous 1230 Pocahontas daughter to King Powhatan her being baptized and maried to an English-man 1841 1760. Her vertuous life and death 1774 Poeticall Savages 1292 Polizado a Port in New-England 1844 Pome-citrons so great as that two or three of them will load a horse 1173 Pomegranats medicinable 1794 Popaian Province 1446 Popes authoritie derided by the King of Peru 1445 1452 Porco a place plentifull for Gold 1419 Pories certaine Sauages so called 1213. Their stature diet complexion habitation lodging c. 1229 Portingals their cruelty to the Savages 1297 1321. seq Divers of them massacred by Savages 1189 1117. Portingall Ships surprizâ—d by Sir Bernard Dâ—ake and brought into England laden with Fish 1883. The Portingals exquisitenesse in steering 1379 Port-Ricco the situation and description thereof 1153 1169. seq 1415. It is the key of the West-Indies 1166. The fortification thereof 1161. Fight betwixt the inhabitants thereof and the English 1162 Port St Iulian 1187 1194 1383 Port-Famine lying at the mouth of the Straits of Magellane 1204 1233. The inhabitants their commodities coldnesse of the climate c. 1232 1233 Porto Bello the situation and description thereof 1601 1245. The surprizing thereof by Captaine Parker 1245 Porta la Spaniola 1247 Port de la Heue 1640 Poâ—t Saualet 1640 Port-desire 1193 1194 1232 1391 Port-Royal 1621 1631 163â— The French plantation remoued from Saint Croix thither 1626 Porto Sequero 1438. Porto oâ— Plata 1418. Port Fortune 1635 Porto Reale 1418. Port Calua 1224. Port Negro 1873. Port Valparizo 1393. Porto Docalno 12â—8 Port du Rossignoll 1630. Port du Mouton 1630. Port-Folly 1873 Possession Bay 1261 Possowne a strange beast which reassumes her yong ones into her belly at pleasure 1772 Potosâ—i a mountaine in Peru the inhabitants thereof rich mines multitude of Spanish treasure and Spaniards there 1214 1420 1421 1365 Potossi a place rich in Mines yeelding great store of treasure to the King of Spaine 1419 Powah an Indian Priest 1868. The Powahs inuocation of the Diuell and offering sacrifices to him ibid. Powels voyage from the Summer-Ilands to the Indies 1804 Powder and shot how abominable to some Savages 1854. Straw-powder eaten by some Indians and needy Spaniards 1524 Powhatan River 1689 Powhatan the Virginian Empero 〈…〉 his subtiltie flatterie practices c. 1721 1722. Hee becomes subiect to the English governour 1841. His person attendance guard treasure wines authority lawes 1703 1704. His policy and Coronation 1778. His diuers treacherous practices against the English 1711 1722 1724 1725 1756. His enuy to the English plantation 1750. His death 1775 Poxe how cured 1308 1310 Point of St Matthew 1606. Point of all the Divels Point-Care 1648. Point-Comfort 1687 Poison on trees 1525. Poison cured by a certaine leafe 1276. by a plant 1310 1311 Prayer made by Q. Elizabeth after her deliuery from the Spanish inuasion 1928 Pretious-stones variety and abundance 1224 1231 Priests and Iesuits alwayes chiefe actors in projecting and effecting treasons 1894. Virginian Priests 1358 1701 1274. their authority and manner of life 1771 President of Siuill his cruelty to the English Captiues 1835 Priguica a beast like a shag-haird dog in face like a woman the laziest of all beasts 1303 Pringe his voyage set forth by the Merchants of Bristoll to Uirginia 1654 sequ his discouery of Fox-Island Whitson-Bay and Mount Aldworth 1654 1655. his danger by Sauages and safe returne 1656 Prodigies portending desolation of the ancient inhabitaÌ„ts of Peru 1482 Prophecy amongst the Indians concerning the destruction of their country 1482 Prosperity the effects thereof 1192 Prouidence of the English in New England in hoarding vp corne vnder ground 1844 Prouisions soundnesse or defect proueth the furtherance or ouerthrow of a voyage 1396. the mischiefe of corrupt or scanty prouisions 1396 1397 Pueblo de los Angelos 1418 Puerto Viciâ— 1400 Puerto Seguro 1190 Puerto Santo 1186 Puerto Vieio 1446 1481 Puma Iland the place where the Spaniards build their principall shipping in the Indies 1400. Neere it is the River Lima which is medicinable ibid. The inhabitants grosse Idolaters worshiping Lyons Tygers and other beasts 1480 Punta de Olynda 1238. Punta de laraya 1242. Punta de Santa Elena 1400. Punta de Augussa ibid. Purging plants in the Bermudas 1801. A purge for the Ague 1311 1379 Purification of Mary a River so called in New-Spaine 1556 Putapayma an Iland farre vp within the River of Orenoco 1248 Q. QVebec strait 1611. Along the coa 〈…〉 of Quebec are Diamonds in the Rocks of Slate ibid. Quereiuâ— a Bird of admirable beauty and great esteeme amongst the Indians 1305 1306 Querna Vaca a towne in the Marquesado of Hernan Cortes thirteene leagues from Mexico 1418 Quibiquesson a famous Riuer in Mawooshen 1873 Quigaute a great Province and a very plentifull Countrey 1548 Quillacu the most miserable of all Nations neither having good land nor Aire nor water whence growes a Proverbe applyed to couetous Misers Hee is a veâ—y Quillacu 1479 Quillacena or Iron-nose Province a vile brutish lousie people without Religion eating any Carrion 1479 Quintera Bay a place of good anchoring but an open Bay 1394 Quipana a towne fiue dayes iourney from Tulla 1550 Quires Province 1561 Quiriciguig and Quirigma certaine Indians of Brasile so called 1300 Quito the first Citie of the Kingdome of Peru 1419 1420 1479 Quiuira Province the situation and description thereof 1561 Quiyoughcohanocke two Rivers so called and how situate 1692 Quizquiz Province 1546 R. RAines very vnwholsome happening in the way betwixt the Canaries and West-Indies 1157. Continuall raines at some times of the yeare vpon the coast of Guiana 1270. Countreys where it never raineth 1420. Prodigious raines of sand and ashes 1476. Exceeding cold raines 1554 A Rainbow appearing by Moone-light and differing in colour from those of the Sunne 1949 1951. The forme of a Rainbow vnder a Caue 1631 Ramassoc a great River in Mawooshen 1874 Rancheria an excellent place for Pearle-fishing 1146. It is assaulted and taken by the English ibid. Rapahanna a