Artawischa Sibut Lepin Sossa Obi. Kitaisko Vuogolici Irtische Ierom. Tumen Grustina Kitai Blacke men without speech Serponow Lucomorya Men that yeerely dye and reuyue A straunge trade of marchaundies Obi. Calami Ryuers â–ª Aurea Anus Obdora Cossin Cassima Tachnin People of moÌ„strous shape A fyshe lyke a man Plinie writeth of the lyke fysh Mountaynes The great Chane of Cathay Lucomoria Tumen Petzora Papin Hygh mountaynes supposed to be Hyperborei and Rhiphei Engreonland Stolp Cathay The fruitfull prouince of Rezan Iaroslaw Hony Donco Asoph Capha Constantinople Tanais diuideth Europe from Asia The sprynges of Tanais A great lake The ryuer Schat Casan Astrachan Meotis Tulla Achas Fruitefull regions about Tanais Plentie of wyld beastes Fyre and salt Where Tanais is fyrst nauigable Asoph The marte of Asoph Libertie allureth straungers The altars of Alexander and Cesar. The holy mountaynes Tanais the lesse From Moscouia to Asoph Moscouia in Asia and not in Europe The prouince of Permia Maryshes in sommer Duina Vstiug Tribute Furres and Horses Munkes and Heremites Patentes Marcus Panlus wryteth that these doggs are almost as byg as Asses that they vse six to one sleade Iugaria Hungaria Pannonia Attila The hygher or 〈…〉 called Auâ—tria Polonie Buda Furres Pearles precious stones Sibier Aspreolos I thynke to bee Marternes yet some thinke them to be Squirels Gesnerus wryteth that the kinges of the Tartars haue their tentes couered without with the skimes of Lions within with the skynnes of Sables and Ermines Czeremisse Habitation without houses Salte The Tartars of Casan Horda Besermani The stature of the Tartars They absteine from hogges fleshe Abstinence Voracitie So do the Turkes Iorneing by the pole starre Mares milke Horse fleshe eaten Clenly Horse heades deyntie meates The Tartars horses Saddels and styrrops of wood The Tartars women The Tartars curse No iustice among the Tartars The Tartas are theeues and poore They reioyce in spoylyng The feelde Tartars A meery tale Casan The kynge of Casan Archers Waryners The towne Tartars Moscouia inuaded by the Tartars The prince of Moscouia tributary to the Tartars Duke Basilius army agaynst the Tartars The kyng of Casan submitteth hym selfe The Iland of marchauntes The Caspian sea Persia. Armenia Astrachan The Tartars neare to the Caspian sea Nogai The possession of three bretherne The kynges called Sawolhenses A maruelous frute lyke a lambe Wandeuile Barnacles of the Orkeneys Barack Soltan Cathay Nouogradia Suecia vnder the kyng of Denmarke Dwina Potiwlo Hygh mountaynes neare the north Ocean Finlappia The wylde Lappians The region of Nortpoden The cape called the holy nose A whyrlpoole oâ— swalowing goulfe Such whyrlepooles are cauled vipers The stone called Semes Superstition Sacrifice to the stone Semes The cape Motka The castel of wardhus The region of the wylde Lappones Dront Iourneying on Sleades How the Harts draw Sleades Twentye leagues in one day The citie of Berges in Norway A shorter iourney Rostowe Pereaslaw Castromow Vuolochda Sucâ—ana Dwina Hafnia Koppenhagen Liuonia Werst is almost an Italian myle Paulus Iouius Ryuers fallyng into the frosen sea wynde Ise. I se of many yâ—eres The sea Baltheum Where the Sunne falleth not in .xl. days The wyld Lappones are tributares to the Moscouites Furres and fyshe Expert archers Good felowshyp Necessarie wares No vse of mony Theyr cotages Mountaynes continually burnyng The ryuer Petzora The beast called Mors. The prouidence of nature The frosen sea Engreonland or greonland Iiar I would reade Mair that is in the Sarasen language mixt of Turkish Egiptian February interpreted by them the moneth to set shyps to the sea A werst is theyr myle and is three quarters of an Englyshe myle Media nowe called Sharuan Armenians Christians A marueylous long wall builded by great Alexander The magnificence of Abdalaca kyng of Media Haukyng and huntyng The Turkes Ambassadours resist maister Ienkinson Great holinesse in shooes Christians called Frankes The Turkes sonne beheaded Christians Georgians Hasell Nuttes Casbin The kynges Concubines How straungers are vsed Haly A goodly and well grounded religion Theyr opinion of Christ. Theyr money Theyr bookes and learnyng Such was the lawe of the Macedons for Treason Dissention for religion Shauing Theyr pryestes and preaching Theyr Lent Abstinence froÌ„ wyne but not from drunkennes Theyr saintes and holy men Pilgrimage Theyr prayer and worshiping of God and Mahumet Washyng and outward clenlenesse Their swearing The kynges magnificence Pursiuantes The kynges companie with his wyues and concubines A very Sardanapalus The succession of the kyngdome Mariage Circumcisâ—on Theyr houses maner of eateyng Bond men bond women Women bougth solde and let to hire Abundance of Oyle ishuing out of the ground Oleum Petroleum Two sortes of Kyne Foxes in great plentie Abraham Oâ—tilius Tamerlanes Thamurlanes Tamburlanes or Tamurthlam Georgians Christians Contention for religion betweene Turkes and Persians Persians Turkes Anno. do 1280. Phison is thought to be Ganges Sarasins that is Mahumetans Abraham Ortelius Babilon of Chaldea and not of Egypt Tauris or Teueris Ismael they pronounce Smael Mortus Ali. Enukes or gelded men Londro London The Venetians trafique in England English cloths carses fyne wool Busor men be they that forsake theyr faith and receyue the religion of Mahumet Kyssell Bashe are the gentlemen that weare red cappes The commoditie which Englishe merchants may haue by the trade into Persia. Oxen and kyne beare burdens Ambision Africa The coast of Guinea Tunes Bugia Tripoli Numidia Ilandes of Tunes Malta The desartes of Libia Barbarie Mauritania The kinkdoms of Fes and marrocko Tremisen Oram Massaquiber Salla Azamor The Ilandes of Canarie Guinea Ethiopians Marrocko Fes Tremisen Guinea Africa the great Affricke the leasse Carthage Prester Iohn Cape de Buona Speranza The sea of sande Alcair From whence the queene of Saba came Manicongni The earthly Paradice The trees of the Sunne and Moone The Primrose The Lion The Moone Pinteado Brasile Guinea The flatteryng of fortune The Ilandes of Madera A galeon of the kyng of Portugale The Castell of Mina The Ilandes of Canarie The Ilande of S. Nicolas Guinea The ryuer of Sesto Graynes The thirst of golde The Castell of Mina The quantitie of golde Benin Pepper Furie admitteth no counsayle The Rossia Rottyng heate Scorchyng heate Benin Francisco Nicolas Lamberte The kyng of Banin his courte Reuerence towarde the kyng The communication betweene the kyng of Benin and our men Pepper The kynges gentelnesse towarde our men The disorder and death of our men The death of wyndan Pinteado euyll vsed of the maryners This Lambart was a LoÌ„dener borne whose father had been Lorde mayre of London and this Lambart sometyme a knyght of the rodes one as he was vnmaried so he liued in the feare of God and was the fyrst of that order that forsoke the Pope and claâ—e to Gods holy worde The death of Pinteado Seuen hundred reis are .x. s. Alcayre is halfe a bushell The I le of Madera The I le of palmes Teneriffa The Canaries From Madera
on the grounde praye vnto and then depart to theyr houses and countreys By this meanes they beleeue that all theyr synnes are quite forgeuen them and therefore for the space of three dayes they lyue there in safegarde as if it were in Sanctuarie and for that tyme is it not lawfull for any man to arrest or trouble an other for what so euer quarell Certainely I neuer saw in any place a greater multitude of people assembled except in the citie of Mecha The syxt booke contaynyng the voyage of India Of the Cities of Caicolon and Colon. Cap. 1. MY faythfull companyon Cociazenor the Persian of whom I haue made mention here before consyderyng that by the meanes of warres and imminent daungers there was nowe no place for merchaundies especially for that the Portugales had made sore warres and great slaughter in the citie of Calecut by occasion that the inhabitantes of the citie had conspired with the Mahumetans for the murther of eight and fourtie Portugales whiche was done at my beyng there I thought it best in tyme to depart from thence This facte so greatly moued the kyng of Portugale to reuenge that he hath since that tyme kepte hostile warres agaynst them and greatly consumed them and defaced their citie We therfore departyng from thence by a very fayre ryuer came to a citie named Caicolon distaunte from the citie of Calecut fiftie leagues the inhabitantes are idolaters There is great aboundaunce of merchaundies and great frequentation of merchauntes the soyle beareth plentie of the best kynde of pepper The kyng of the citie is not very rych In apparel and maners they differ litle from them of Calecut Heere we founde certayne merchantes Christians named of the profession of saint Thomas the Apostle They obserue the fastyng of fourtie dayes as we do and beleeue in the death and resurrection of Christ as we do and therfore celebrate Easter after our maner and obserue other solemnities of our religion after the maner of the Greekes They are commonly named by the names of Iohn Iames Matthias and Thomas Departyng from thence in the space of three dayes iorney we came to an other citie named Colon about twentie myles distant from the aforesayde The kyng is an idolater and a prince of great power hauyng euer an armie of twentie thousande horsemen there is a very fayre port Neare to the sea syde the soyle beareth no corne yet great aboundance of fruite and pepper as in the citie of Calecut but by reason of the warres we remayned no longer heere Not farre from hence we sawe men fyshe for pearles in maner as we haue sayde before of the citie and Ilande of Ormus Of Cyromandel a citie of India Cap. 2. THe citie of Cyromandel is by the sea syde and distant from the citie of Colon seuen dayes saylyng The citie is very large but without walles it is subiecte to the kyng of Narsinga and is within the syght of the Iland of Zaylon After that you are past the poynt of Comerin the soyle beareth plentie of Ryse This citie is in the way to diuers great regions and cities It is inhabited with innumerable Mahumetan merchantes resortyng thyther from many countreys There are no spyces but aboundaunce of fruite as in Calecut I founde there certayne Christians who affyrme that the bodye of saint Thomas the Apostle is there in a certayne place about twelue myles from this citie and also that there are certayne Christians whiche relygiously obserue the holy body and that the Christians are euyll vsed because of the warres whiche the kyng of Portugall hath made agaynst the people of these countreys Also that the Christians are sometyme murthered secretly lest it shoulde be knowen to the kyng of Narsinga who is in amitie and frendshyppe with the kyng of Portugall and greatly fauoureth the Christians The cause whereof as they saye is also partly by reason of a certayne myracle whiche was this The Christians on a tyme had a great conflicte with the Mahumetans where one of the Christians beyng sore wounded on his arme resorted incontinent to the sepulchre of saint Thomas where makyng his prayers touchyng the holy place his arme was immediatly healed Whereupon as they saye the kyng of Narsinga euer after greatly fauoured the Christians Here my companion solde muche of his wares But by reason of the warres betweene the kynges of Narsinga and Ternaseri we determined to depart from hence And therefore saylyng ouer a gulfe of .xx. leagues with great daunger we arriued at an Iland named Zailon very large as containing in circuite a thousande myles Of the Ilande of Zailon and the precious stones founde there Cap. 3 IN this Ilande are foure kynges of great dominion by reason of the largenesse of the Ilande But because of the warres among them at my beyng there I coulde not tarye long to haue particular knowledge of the region and maners of the people There are in the Ilande many Elephantes There is also a very long mountayne at the foote whereof are founde many precious stones named Piropi commonly called Rubines or Rubies The merchauntes iewelers come by them by this meanes Fyrst goyng to the kyng they bye of hym a certayne measure of that grounde where suche stones are founde of the largenesse of a cubite euery way The price of this is fyue pieeces of gold yet with suche condition that in dyggyng the grounde there is euer one present for the kyng to the ende that if in dyggyng be founde any of those precious stones exceedyng the weyght of x. Caractes the same to be reserued for the kyng And the rest that are founde vnder that wayght to apparteyne to the merchaunt Not farre from the sayde mountayne are founde diuers other sortes of precious stones as Iasynthes Saphires Topases and suche lyke Harde by the mountayne runneth a great ryuer The soyle bryngeth foorth the sweetest fruites that euer I sawe especially cloues and apples of Assiria of exceedyng sweetnesse and all other as in Calecut Of the tree of Cinamome in the Iland of Zaylon Cap. 4. THe tree of Cinamome is not much vnlike a Baye tree especially the leaues it beareth berryes as doth the Baye tree but lesse and whyte It is doubtlesse therefore none other then the barke of a tree and is geathered in this maner Euery thyrde yeere they cutte the branches of the tree Of this is great plentie in the sayde Ilande When it is fyrste geathered it is not yet so sweete but a moneth after when it waxeth drye A certayne Mahumetan merchaunt of the Ilande tolde my companyon that there in the top of a hygh mountayne is a certayne denne whyther the inhabitantes of the countrey resort to praye in memorye of our fyrst father Adam who they saye after he had synned by breakyng the commaundement of God lyued in that place in continuall penitence Whiche thing they
vp sande with theyr left handes from the bottome of the same they pycked out graynes of golde with theyr ryght handes without any more art or cunnyng and so deliuered it to our men who affirme that many of them thus geathered were as bygge as tares or fytches And I mee selfe sawe a masse of rude golde that is to say suche as was neuer moulten lyke vnto suche stones as are founde in the bottomes of ryuers weighyng niene ounces whiche Hoieda hym selfe founde Beyng contented with these signes they returned to the Admirall to certifie hym hereof For the Admirall had commaunded vnder payne of punyshment that they shoulde meddle no further then theyr commission whiche was only to searche the places with theyr signes For the fame went that there was a certayne kyng of the mountaynes from whence those ryuers had theyr fall whom they cal Cacicus Caunaboa that is the lord of the house of golde for they cal a house Boa golde Cauni and a kyng or lorde Cacicus as we haue sayde before They affirme that there can no where be founde better fyshe nor of more pleasant taste or more holsome then in these riuers also the waters of the same to be moste holsome to drynke Melchior him selfe tolde me that in the moneth of December the dayes nyghtes be of equal length among the Canibales but the sphere or circles of the heauen agreeth not thereunto albeit that in the same moneth some byrdes make theyr nestes and some haue alredye hatched theyr egges by reason of the heate beyng rather continuall then extreme He tolde me also when I questioned with him as concerning y e eleuation of the pole frō the horizontal line that al the starres called Plastrum or charles wayne are hyd vnder the North pole to the Canibales And surely there returned none from thence at this vioage to whom there is more credit to be geuen then to this man But if he had byn skilfull in Astronomie he shoulde haue sayde that the day was almoste equall with the night For in no place towarde the stay of the sonne called Solsticium can the night be equall with the day And as for them they neuer came vnder the Equinoctial forasmuch as they had euer the North pole theyr guyde and euer eleuate in sight aboue the Horizontal Thus haue I briefely written vnto your honour as muche as I thought sufficient at this tyme and shall shortly hereafter by Gods fauoure wryte vnto you more largely of such matters as shal be dayly better knowen For the Admiral hym selfe whom I vse famyerly as my very frende hath promised me by his letters that he wyl geue me knowledge of al such thinges as shall chaunce He hath nowe chosen a strong place where he may build a citie neare vnto a cōmodious hauen and hath alredy buylded many houses and a chapel in the which as in a newe worlde heretofore voyde of all religion God is dayly serued with .xiii. priestes accordyng to the maner of our churches When the tyme nowe approched that he promysed to sende to the king and queene and hauyng prosperous winde for that purpose sent backe the .xii. Carauelles wherof we made mention before which was no smal hynderance and greefe vnto hym especially consyderyng the death of his men whom he lefte in the ilande at the fyrst voyage wherby we are yet ignorant of many places and other secretes wherof we myght otherwyse haue had further knowledge but as tyme shall reueale them agayne so wyll I aduertyse you of the same And that you may the better knowe by conference had with the Apothecaries and marchaunt strangers Sirophenicians what this Regions beare how hot theyr ground is I haue sent you all kyndes of graines with the barke and inner partes of that tree whiche they suppose to be the Cinamome tree And yf it be your pleasure to taste eyther of the graynes or of the smal seedes the whiche you shoulde perceaue to haue fallen from these graynes or of the wood it selfe touch them fyrst softly moouyng them to your lyppes for although they be not hurtfull yet for theyr excesse of heate they are sharpe and byte the tongue yf they remayne any while thereon but yf the tongue be blystered by tastyng of them the same is taken away by drynkyng of water Of the corne also whereof they make theyr bread this brynger shall deliuer some graynes to your lordshyp both whyte and blacke and therwith also a trunke of the tree of Aloes the whiche yf you cut in peeces you shall feele a sweete sauour to proceede from the same Thus fare you hartily well from the Court of Methymna Campi the thyrde day before the Calendes of May. Anno Dom. 1494. The thyrde booke of the first Decade to Lodouike Cardinall of Aragonie and Neuiewe to the kyng YOu desyre that foolyshe Phaeton shoulde agayne rule the chariots of the Sunne and contende to drawe sweete licours out of the harde flynt wheras you require me to discribe vnto you the newe world found in the west by the good fortune and gouernaunce of the Catholique princes Ferdinandus and Elizabeth your Uncle and Aunte shewyng me also the letters of kyng Frederike your Uncle written to me in that behalfe But syth you haue layde this burden on my backe in whose power it is to commaunde me to take vppon me more then I am well able ye both shall receiue this precious stone rudely closed in lead after my manner of workemanshyp Wherefore when you shal perceiue the learned sort frendly the malitious enuiously and the backbyters furiously to bende theyr slaunderous dartes agaynst our fayre Nimphes of the Ocean you shall freely protest in howe short tyme and in the myddest of what troubles and calamities you haue enforced me to wryte of the same Thus fare you wel from Granata the nienth day before the Calendes of May. We haue declared in the booke herebefore how the Admiral passed by the coastes of the Canibales to the ilande of Hispaniola with his whole nauie But nowe we entende further to shewe what he founde as concernyng the nature of this ilande after that he had better searched the secretes of the same Lykewyse of the ilande of Cuba neare vnto it whiche he supposed to be the fyrme lande Hispaniola therefore whiche he affirmeth to be Ophir whereof we reade in the thyrde booke of the kynges is of latitude fyue south degrees hauyng the north pole eleuate on the north syde .xxvii. degrees and on the south syde as they say xxii degrees it reacheth in length from East to West seuen hundred and fourescore myles it is distant from the ilandes of Gades called Cales xlix degrees and more as some say the fourme of the ilande resembleth the leaffe of a Chesnutte tree Upon a hygh hyll on the North syde of the ilande he buylded a citie because this place was most apt for
beyng sore troubled in his mynde and in maner at his wyttes ende what he were best to doo for as muche as he wanted al thynges necessarie as wel to restore them to health whiche were yet acrased as also vitayles to mayntayne y e whole multitude where as there was yet no shyppe come from Spayne at the length he determyned to sende abrode the sicke men here and there to sundrye Regyons of the ilande and to the castelles whiche they had erected in the same For directly from the citie of Isabella to saynt Dominikes towre that is from the north to the south through the ilande they had buylded thus many castles Fyrst xxxvi myles distant from Isabella they buylded the castell of Sperantia From Sperantia .xxv. myles was the castell of saynt Katharine From saynt Katharines .xx. myles was saynt Iames towre Other .xx. myles from saynt Iames towre was a stronger fortresse then any of the other whiche they called the towre of Conception which he made the stronger because it was situat at the rootes of the golden mountaynes of Cibana in the great and large playne so fruiteful and well inhabited as we haue before described He buylded also an other in the mydde waye betwene the towre of Conception saynt Dominikes towre the whiche also was stronger then the towre of Conception because it was within the lymittes of a great kyng hauyng vnder his dominion fiue thousande men whose chiefe citie and head of the Realme beyng called Bonauum he wylled that the castell should also be called after the same name Therefore leauyng the sicke men in these castels and other of the ilande houses nere vnto the same he hym selfe repayred to saynt Dominikes exacting trybutes of al the kynges whiche were in his way When he had taryed there a fewe dayes there was a rumour spredde that all the kynges about the borders of the towre of Conception had conspyred with desperate myndes to rebell agaynst the Spaniardes When the Lieutenaunt was certified hereof he tooke his iourney towarde them immediately not beyng discoraged eyther by the length of the waye or feeblenesse of his souldyers beyng in maner foreweried with trauayle As he drewe nere vnto them he had aduertysement that kyng Guarionexius was chosen by other prynces to be the Capitayne of this rebellion and that he was enforsed therto halfe vnwyllyng beyng seduced by perswasions and prouocations the whiche is more lykely to be true for that he had before had experience of the power and policie of our men They came togeather at a daye appoynted accompanyed with .xv. thousande men armed after their manner once agayne to proue the fortune of warre Here the Lieutenaunt consultyng with the Captayne of the fortresse and the other souldiers of whom he had the conducte determyned to sette vpon them vnwares in their owne houses before they coulde prepare theyr army He sent foorth therefore to euery kyng a Centurion that is a captayne of a hundred which were commaunded vpon a sudden to inuade theyr houses in the nyght and to take them sleepyng before the people being scattred here there myght assemble togeather Thus secretly enteryng into their vyllages not fortified with walles trenches or bulwarks they broke in vpon them toke them bound them led away euery man his prisoner according as they were commaunded The Lieuetenant hym selfe with his hundred men assayled kyng Guarionexius as the worthier personage whom he tooke prysoner as did the other captaines theyr kings and at the same houre appoynted Foureteene of them were brought the same nyght to the towre of Conception Shortlye after when he had put to death two of the kynges whiche were the chiefe autours of this newe reuolte and had suborned Guarionexius the other kynges to attempt the same least the people for sorowe of theyr kinges shoulde neglecte or forsake their countrey whiche thyng myght haue ben great incommoditie to our men who by thincrease of theyr seedes and fruites were oftentymes ayded he freely pardoned and dismissed Guarionexius and the other kynges the people in the meane tyme flocking togeather about the towre to the number of fyue thousande without weapons with pitiful houling for the deliuerance of their kinges The ayre thundered the earth trembled through the vehemencie of theyr outcry The Lieutenaunt warned Guarionexius and the other kynges with threatenynges with rewardes and with promyses neuer thereafter to attempt any suche thyng Then Guarionexius made an oration to the people of y e great power of our men of theyr clemencie towarde offenders liberalitie to suche as remaine faithfull desyring them to quiet theyr mindes and from thencefoorth neyther in deede nor thought to interpryse any thyng agaynst the Chrystians but to obeye and serue them excepte they woulde dayly bryng them selues into further calamities When the oration was fynyshed they tooke hym vp and set hym on theyr shoulders and so caryed hym home to his owne pallace and by this meanes this Region was pacifyed for a whyle But our men with heauy countenaunce wandered vp and downe as desolate in a strange countrey lackyng vittailes and worne out of apparell whereas .xv. monethes were nowe passed sence the Admirals departure duryng which tyme they coulde heare nothyng out of Spayne The Lieuetenaunt comforted them all that he coulde with fayre wordes and promyses In the meane tyme Beuchius Anacauchoa the kyng of the West partes of the Region of Xaragua of whom we spake before sent messengers to the Lieuetenaunt to signifye vnto hym that he had in a redynes the gossampine cotton and suche other thynges as he wylled hym to prepare for the payment of his trybute Whereupon the Lieuetenaunt tooke his iourney thyther and was honorably receiued of the kyng and his syster somtyme the wyfe of Caunaboa the kyng of Cibana bearyng no lesse rule in the gouernaunce of her brothers kyngdome then he hym selfe For they affirmed her to be a wyse woman of good maners pleasaunt in company She earnestly perswaded her brother by thexample of her husband to loue and obey the Christians This woman was called Anacaona He founde in the palace of Beuchius Anacauchoa .xxxii. kyngs which had brought theyr tributes with them and abode his comming They brought with them also besyde theyr tribut assigned them further to demerite y e fauour of our men great plentie of vitailes as both kindes of bread cunnies and fishes alredy dried because they should not putrifie Serpentes also of that kynde which we sayd to be estemed among them as most delicate meat and lyke vnto Crocodiles sauing in bygnes These serpentes they cal Iuannas which our men learned somwhat to late to haue ben engendred in the ilande For vnto that day none of them durst aduenture to tast of them by reason of theyr horrible deformitie and lothsomnes Yet the Lieuetenant being entysed by the pleasantnes of the kynges syster determined to tast of the serpentes But when
standyng agaynste the course of the streame and also that by reason of the largenesse of the place and bendyng sydes it is much lyke to the hauen of Spayne called Carthago The inhabytantes call the Ilande Codego as the Spanyardes cal the Ilande of theyr hauen Scombria This region is called of the inhabitantes Caramairi in the whiche they affyrme both the men and women to bee of goodly stature but naked The men haue theyr heare cutte rounde by theyr eares but the women were it long both the men and women are very good archers Our men founde certayne trees in this prouince which bore great plenty of sweete apples but hurtful for they turne into woormes when they are eaten Especially the shadowe of the tree is contagious for such as sleepe vnder it any tyme haue theyr heades swolne and lose their sight but if they sleepe but a while theyr sight commeth agayne after a fewe dayes This porte is distant foure hundred fyftie sixe myles from that port of Hispaniola whiche the Spanyardes call Beata in the whiche also they furnishe them selues when they prepare anye voyage to seeke other newe landes When Fogeda had entred into the hauen he enuaded slue and spoyled the people whom he founde naked and scattered for they were geuen him for a pray by the kynges letters patentes because they had ben before tyme cruell agaynst the Christians and coulde neuer be allured to permytte them quietlye to come within theyr dominions Here they founde golde but in no great quantitie nor yet that pure they make of it certayne brest plates and brooches whiche they weare for comelynesse But Fogeda not content with these spoyles vsyng certayne captiues which he had taken before for guydes entred into a vyllage twelue myles dystant from the sea syde further into the lande into the which they were fled when he fyrst enuaded Here he found a naked people but apte to warre for they were armed with targettes shieldes long swoordes made of wood and bowes with arrowes typt with bone or hardened with fyre As soone as they had espyed our men they with theyr ghestes whō they had receiceyued assayled them with desperate myndes beyng therto more earnestly prouoked beholdyng the calamitie of these whiche fled vnto them by the violence done to theyr women and chyldren in the spoyle and slaughter In this conflyct our men had the ouerthrowe in the which one Iohannes de Lacossa being in aucthoritie next vnto Fogeda the captayne and also the fyrste that geathered gold in the sandes of Vraba was slaine with fiftie souldiers for these people infecte their arrowes with the deadlye poyson of a certayne herbe The other with theyr captayne Fogeda beyng discomfited fledde to the shyppes Whyle they remayned thus in the hauen of Carthago sorowful and pensiue for the losse of theyr companions the other captayne Diego Nicuesa whom they left in Hispaniola preparyng hym selfe towarde the voyage in the hauen Beata came to them with fyue shippes and seuen hundred fourescore and fyfteene men For the greater number of souldyers folowed Nicuesa bothe because free lybertye was geuen them to choose which of the capytaynes them lyst and also that by reason of his age he was of greater aucthorytie But esspetially because the rumoure was that Beragua being by the kyngs commission appoynted to Nicuesa was rycher in golde then Vraba assygned to Alphonsus Fogeda Therfore at the arryual of Nicuesa they consulted what was best to be doone and determyned fyrste to reuenge the deathe of theyr felowes Wheruppon settyng theyr battayle in araye they marched in the nyght towarde them whiche slue Cossa with his companyons Thus stealyng on them vnwares in the laste watche of the nyght and encompassyng the vyllage where they lay consystyng of a hundred houses and more hauyng also in it thryse as many of theyr neyghbours as of them selues they set it on fyre with diligent watche that none myght escape And thus in short time they brought them and theyr houses to ashes and made them paye the raunsome of blood with blood for of a great multitude of men and women they spared only syxe chyldren all other beyng destroyed with fyre or swoord except fewe whiche escaped priuily they learned by these reserued chyldren that Cossa and his felowes were cut in peeces and eaten of them that slue them By reason whereof they suppose that these people of Camairi tooke theyr original of the Caribes otherwyse called Canibales Here they founde some golde among the ashes For the hunger of golde dyd no lesse incourage our men to aduenture these peryls and labours then dyd the possessyng of the landes These thinges thus finished and the death of Cossa and his felowes reuenged they returned to the hauen After this Fogeda whiche came fyrst fyrst lykewyse departyng with his armie to seeke Vraba committed to his gouernaunce sayled by an Ilande called Fortis lying in the mydway betweene Vraba and the hauen of Carthago into the whiche dessending he founde it to be an Ilande of the Canibales bryngyng with hym from thence two men and seuen women for the residue escaped Here he founde in the cotages of them that fledde a hundred fourescore and tenne drammes of golde caste and wrought in dyuers fourmes Saylyng forwarde from hence he came to the East coastes of Vraba whiche the inhabitauntes call Carihana from whence the Caribes or Canibales of the Ilandes are sayd to haue theyr name and originall Here he began to builde a fortresse and a vyllage neere vnto the same therein intendyng to place theyr fyrst habitation Shortly after beyng instructed by certayne captyues that there was about twelue myles further within the lande a certayne vyllage called Tirufi hauyng in it a ryche golde myne he determined to destroy the village to the which when he came he founde the inhabitantes redy to defende theyr ryght and that so stoutlye that encounteryng with them he was repulsed with shame and domage for these people also vse bowes and venemous arrowes Within a fewe dayes after beyng enforced for lacke of vittualles to inuade another village he hym selfe was strycken in the thygh with an arrowe Some of his felowes say that he was thus wounded of one of the inhabitauntes whose wyfe he had ledde away captiue before They say also that he had fyrst frendlye communed with Fogeda for redeeming of his wife and had appoynted a day to bring a portion of golde for her raunsome and that he came at the day assigned not laden with golde but armed with bowes and arrowes with eyght other confederate with hym which had ben before partakers of the iniuries done to them fyrst at the hauen of Carthago and afterward at the burnyng of the vyllage in reuenge wherof they had desperately consecrated them selues to death But the matter beyng knowen the captayne of this conspiracie was slayne of Fogeda his companions and his wyfe deteyned in captiuitie Fogeda
Cabot is my very frend whom I vse famâ—lierlye and delyte to haue hym sometymes keepe me company in my owne house For beyng called out of Englande by the commaundement of the catholique kyng of Castile after the death of Henry kyng of Englande the seuenth of that name he was made one of our counsayle and assistaunce as touching the affayres of the new Indies lookyng dayly for shyppes to be furnished for hym to discouer this hyd secret of nature This voyage is appoynted to be begunne in Marche in the yeere next folowyng beyng the yeere of Christ .1516 What shall succeede your holynesse shal be aduertysed by my letters yf God graunt me lyfe Some of the Spaniardes denye that Cabot was the fyrst fynder of the lande of Bacallaos and affirme that he went not so farre westewarde But it shall suffice to haue sayde thus muche of the gulfes and strayghtes and of Sebastian Cabot Let vs nowe therfore returne to the Spaniardes At this tyme they let passe the hauen of Carthago vntouched with al the Ilandes of the Canibales there aboute whiche they named Insulas Sancti Bernardi leauyng also behind theyr backes al the region of Caramairi Heere by reason of a sodayne tempest they were caste vpon the Ilande Fortis beyng about fyftie leagues distant from the enteraunce of the gulfe of Vraba In this Iland they founde in the houses of thinhabitantes many baskettes made of certayne great sea reedes ful of salt For this Iland hath in it many goodly salt bayes by reason wherof they haue great plentie of salte which they sell to other nations for such thyngs as they stande in neede of Not farre from hence a great Curlew as bygge as a Storke came flying to the gouernours shyp and suffered her selfe to be easely taken whiche beyng carryed aboute among all the shyppes of the nauie dyed shortly after They sawe also a great multitude of the same kynde of foules on the shore a farre of The gouernours shyppe whiche we sayd to haue lost the rudder beyng now sore broosed and in maner vnprofytable they left behynde to folowe at leasure The nauie arryued at Dariena the twelfth day of the Calendes of Iuly and the gouernours shyppe beyng voyde of men was dryuen alande in the same coastes within foure dayes after The Spanyardes whiche now inhabited Dariena with theyr Captayne and Lieuetenaunt Vaschus Nunnez Balboa of whom we haue largelye made mention before beyng certifyed of the arriuall of Petrus Arias and his companye went foorth three myles to meete him and receiued him honorably and religiously with the psalme Te deum laudamus geuyng thankes to god by whose safe conduct they were brought so prosperously thyther to al theyr comfortes They receyued them gladly into theyr houses builded after the maner of those prouinces I may wel cal these regions Prouinces a Procul Victis that is such as are ouercome farre of forasmuche as our men do now inhabite the same al the barbarous kynges and Idolatours beyng eiected They entertayned them with such cheare as they were able to make them as with the fruites of those regions and new bread both made of rootes and the graine Maizium Other delicates to make vp the feast were of theyr own store which they brought with them in theyr ships as poudred flesh salted fyshe and bread made of wheat for they brought with them many barrelles of wheate meale for the same purpose Heere may your holynesse not without iust cause of admiration beholde a kynges nauye and great multitude of Christians inhabiting not only the regions situate vnder the cyrcle of heauen called Tropicus Cancri but also in maner vnder the Equinoctiall line contrary to the opinion of the olde wryters a fewe excepted But after that they are nowe mette togeather let vs further declare what they determined to do Therfore the day after that y e nauie arriued there assembled a company of Spanyards thinhabitours of Dariena to the nuÌ„ber of foure hundred and fiftie men Petrus Arias the gouernour of the nauy and his companye conferred with them both priuilie and openlye of certayne articles whereof it was the kynges pleasure he shoulde enquire and most especially as concernyng suche thynges wherof Vaschus the fyrst fynder and Admirall of the South sea made mention in his large letter sent from Dariena to Spayne In this inquisition they founde althyngs to be true whereof Vaschus had certified the king by his letters and therevpon concluded that in the dominions of Comogra Pocchorrosa Tumanama at the assignement of Vaschus certayne fortresses shoulde be erected foorthwith to thintent there to plant theyr colonie or habitation To the better accomplyshment hereof they sent immediatly one Iohannes Aiora a noble young gentleman of Corduba and vnder Lieuetenant with foure hundred men and foure Carauels and one other lytle shyp Thus departyng he sayled fyrst directly to the hauen of Comogrus distant from Dariena about twentie and fyue leagues as they wryte in theyr last letters From hence he is appoynted to send a hundred and fyftie of his foure hundred towarde the South by a newe and ryghter way founde of late by the whiche as they say it is not past twentie and syxe leagues from the pallace of kyng Comogrus to the entraunce of the gulfe of Sancti Michaelis The residue of the foure hundred shal remayne there to be an ayde and succour to al such as shall iorney to and fro Those hundred and fyftie whiche are assigned to go southward take with them for interpretours certain of our men which had learned the soothern language of the bondmen which were geuen to Vaschus when he ouerranne those regions and also certayne of the bondemen them selues which had nowe learned the Spanyshe tongue They say that the hauen of Pocchorrosa is only seuen leagues distant from the hauen of Comogrus In Pocchorrosa he is assigned to leaue fyftie men with the lightest ship which may be a passinger betwene them that like as we vse post horses by land so may they by this currant shyp in short space certifie the Lieuetenaunt and thinhabitours of Dariena of such thynges as shal chaunce They entend also to build houses in the region of Tumanama The pallace of king Tumanama is distant froÌ„ Pocchorrosa about twenty leagues Of these foure hundred men beyng of the olde souldiers of Dariena men of good experience fyftie were appointed to be as it were Decurians to guide and conduct the new men from place to place to do theyr affayres When they had thus set all thynges in order they thought it good to aduertyse the kyng hereof and therwith to certyfye hym that in those prouinces there is a kyng named Dabaiba whose dominion is verye ryche in gold but the same to be yet vntouched by reason of his great power His kyngdome ioyneth to the second great ryuer named Dabaiba after his name whiche falleth into the sea out
the recordation of such pleasaunt thynges And yet do not such thinges as are sauerie engender tediousnesse so that a pretious matter be adiourned with a pretious vesture A breefe rehearsal of the contentes of the bookes of the fyrst Decade and so folowyng of all the other Decades Folio 8. IN the fyrst booke is declared howe Christophorus Colonus otherwyse called Columbus persuaded Fernando and Elizabeth princes of Spayne to further his attempt in searchyng newe and vnknowen landes in the West Ocean Also of the .vii. Ilandes of Canaria by whom they were found and conquered Howe Colonus founde the Ilandes of Hispaniola and Cuba and of the fierce people called Canibales or Caribes which are accustomed to eate mans fleshe Of the rootes called Ages Iucca and the grayne Maizìum whereof the people of the Ilandes made theyr bread Of the golde found in the sandes of ryuers of the Serpents which are without hurt also of turtle doues ducks popingaies Of Mastix and Aloe with dyuers fruites and trees vnknowen to vs and of the fruitefulnesse of the Ilande of Hispaniola which the Spanyardes call Spagnuola Of the seconde viage of Colonus into these regions and howe he was furnished with .xvii. shyppes and a thousande and two hundred souldiers with all kynde of artillarie artificers and grayne to sowe and of the tree from the which water droppeth continually into a trenche made by mans hande The contentes of the seconde booke Fol. 12. HOwe Colonus departing from the Ilandes of Canarie sayled viii hundred twentie leagues in .xxi. daies came to Dominica an Iland of the Canibales of the fragrant sauoure of spices whiche proceded from the Ilandes Of the Ilandes of Galanta or Galana and Guadalupea and of the trees which beare that kynd of cotton which the Italians call Bombasine and the Spanyardes Algadon Of dyuers kyndes of Popingiayes and of the Ilande of Matinino or Madanino beyng inhabited onely with women also of dyuers other fruitefull Ilandes and of a conflicte whiche the Spanyardes had with the Canibales Of certayne Ilandes in the whiche are seene the mynes of metals and precious stones and of the fruitfull and populous Iland called Burichena or Boriquen or Insula S. Iohannis Howe all the Admirals men whiche at his fyrst viage he left in Hispaniola were slaine in his absence by the rebellion of Guaccanarillus kyng of the region of Xamana and of the free kynde of lyfe whiche they leade that haue not the vse of money Of the seuen maydens which swam three miles in the sea and of the maner of geathering of gold in the sands of riuers The contentes of the thyrd booke Fol. 17. A Particuler discription of the Iland of Hispaniola whiche Colonus thynketh to be Ophir from whence kyng Salomon had his great ryches of golde Of the marueylous fruitfulnesse of Hispaniola and of the suger canes growyng there Of the golden regions of Cipanga or Cibaua of the ryuers in whose sandes is founde great plentie of golde Of certayne graynes of gold of exceeding great quantitie Of wilde vines of plesaunt taste and of grasse which in foure dayes groweth as hygh as wheate Of the Ilande of Iohanna or Cuba being the end of the East and the West and of the fruitfull populous Iland of Iamaica How the Admirall thought that he had sayled about the lowest Hemisphere or half circle of the earth and of a secrete of Astronomie touching the same matter Howe the Admirall gaue names to seuen hundred Ilandes and passed by three thousand vnnamed Of certaine serpentes like vnto Crocodiles of eight foote long whose flesh is delicate to be eaten and of certayne trees whiche beare Gourdes Of the riuer whose water is very hotte and of the huntyng fyshe which taketh other fyshes Of great abundaunce of Tortoyses as bygge as targets and of a fruitfull mountayne well inhabited Of dogges of deformed shape and dumbe and of white and thicke water Of woods of Date trees and Pyneapple trees and of certayne people apparelled lyke whyte fryers Of certaine trees which beare spices and of Cranes of exceedyng bygnesse Of stocke doues of more pleasaunt taste then partriches An oration of a barbarous gouernour as touching the immortalitie of the soule Also of the rewarde of vertue and punishment of vice A similitude of the golden worlde and of prouision without care Howe the Admirall fell sicke by reason of to muche watcheyng and of a sediâ—ion whiche rose among the Spaniardes in the Ilande of Hispaniola The Contentes of the fourth booke Fol. 25. HOw the Kynges of the Ilande of Hispaniola were by the Spaniardes mysbehauiour prouoked to rebellion and howe the Admirall sent for them Howe kyng Counaboa the Lorde of the house of gold that is of the mountaines of Cibaua conspired the Admirals death and how he with his familie were taken prisoners Of a great famine that chaunced in the Ilande of Hispaniola and howe the Admirall builded certayne fortresses Of a peece of rude gold wayghing twentie vnces and of the myne of the rich metall called Elestrum Of the mountayne in the whiche is founde great plentie of Amber and Orpement and of the woodes of Brasyle trees Howe the inhabitantes are put to theyr tribute and how the nature of y e Region disposeth the maners of the people How the brother of kyng Caunaboa came agaynst the Admirall with an armie of fyue thousand naked men and howe he was taken and his armie put to flyght Of the fruitfull vale Magona in the sandes of whose ryuers is founde great plentie of golde and of certayne whirlewindes and tempests How the Admirall sent foorth his brother Bartholomeus Colonus with an armie of men to searche the golde mynes and of the Fosses which he founde to haue been dygged in old tyme. The Contentes of the .v. booke Fol. 27. for 29. HOwe the Lieuetenaunt builded a fortresse in the golde mines and prepared instrumentes for the purging and finyng of the golde Howe certayne shyppes laden with vittayles came from Spayne And howe the Lieuetenaunt sent the kynges whiche rebelled with three hundred captiues into Spayne Howe the Liefetenaunt remoued his habitation and buylded a fortresse whiche he called saint Dominickes towre also howe he passed ouer the ryuer Naiba and entred into the wooddes of Brasyle trees Howe the great kyng Beuchius Anacauchoa frendelye entertayned the Lieuetenaunt and brought hym to his pallace where the kynges wyues and concubines receyued hym honorably with pompes and triumphes Of the fortresses whiche were erected in Hispaniola and howe the Lieuetenaunt exacted tribute of the kynges whiche rebelled agayne Howe the Lieuetenaunt set vppon the kynges vnwares in the nyght season and tooke .xiiii. of them prysoners Howe kyng Guarionexius captayne of the conspiracie was pardoned and howe he persuaded the people to obedience Howe kyng Beuchius Anacauchoa sent messengers to the Lieuetenaunt to repayre to his pallace where he founde .xxxii. kyngs redy with theyr tributes And howe the queene Anacaona entysed hym
contentes of the fyrst booke Fol. 57. HOw after the death of Colonus the Admirall the kyng gaue free lycence to all such as would attempt any vyages and of the nauigations of Diego Nicuesa and Alphonsus Fogeda Of the Ilande Codego and the region of Caramairi and of certayne sweete apples which turne into woormes when they are eaten whose trees are also contagious How Alphonsus Fogeda the Lieuetenaunt of Vraba encouÌ„tring with the Barbarians had the ouerthrowe and howe in this conflicte fyftie of his men were slayne with Iohannes de la Cossa their captayne Howe Fogeda and Nicuesa the Lieuetenaunt of Beragua reuenged the death of theyr companyons and howe Fogeda came to the Ilande Fortis and the region of Caribana where he was repulsed from the golde mynes by the fiercenesse of the Barbarians vsyng arrowes infected with poyson Howe Fogeda was wounded in the thygh with a venemous arrowe and his men almost consumed with famyne Howe a Brigantyne was drowned with the stroke of a Fyshe and of the nauigation of Ancisus from Hispaniola to Vraba Of the lamentable shypwracke of Ancisus and of the Date trees and wylde Bores which he founde Of the fruites or apples of the trees called Cedars of Libane which beare olde fruites and new all the yeere Howe onely three of the Caniballes with their bowes and inuenomed arrowes assayled Ancisus with a hundred of his men in which conflict they wounded and slue manyâ—alsâ— of their swiftnesse of foote Of the great ryuer of Dariena and howe Ancisus encountred with fyue hundred of thinhabitauntes of the gulfe of Vraba and put them to flyght also how he founde great plentie of wrought golde and housholde stuffe in a thycket of reedes The contentes of the second booke Fol. 63. HOwe Nicuesa lost his felowes in the darke nyght and went past the mouth of the ryuer Beragua which he sought howe the captaynes of the other shyppes consulted howe to fynde him also of the ryuer Lagartos in the which great Lisartes are found much lyke vnto the Crocodiles of Nilus Howe the captaynes forsooke theyr shyppes that the souldyers myght bee without hope of departure and of the miserable chaunce of Petrus de Vmbria and his felowes By what chaunce Nicuesa was founde and of the calamities which he and his company susteyned also of the region of Gracia Dei or Cerabaro and of the ryuer of Sansti Matthei Howe Nicuesa caused them to remoue theyr habitation from Beragua to point Marmor where he buylded a fortresse and how his men by warre and famyne were consumed from seuen hundred and odde to scarsely one hundred Howe one Vaschus Nunnez vsurped thaucthoritie of the Lieuetenauntshyp of Vraba in thabsence of Fogeda and of the nauigation of Rodericus Colmenaris from Hispaniola to Vraba Of the ryuer Baira discendyng from the toppe of a high mountayne couered with snow and how Rodericus Colmenaris in a conflicte agaynst the Barbarians lost .xlvii. of his men by reason of theyr inuenomed arrowes Of the force of the poyson wherewith the Barbarians infecte theyr arrowes and a remedie for the same also howe Colmenaris by gunshot and kyndlyng fyers on the high toppes of the rockes came to the Spanyardes left desolate in Dariena The contentes of the thyrd booke Fol. 67. HOwe Nicuesa was sought foorth to acquict the contentions of Vraba and howe he was agayne reiected Howe Vaschus Nunnez inuaded tooke prysoners and spoyled the kynges borderyng about the region of Vraba and howe Ancisus Lieuetenaunt for Fogeda was cast in pryson and afterwarde set at libertie Howe Ancisus tooke his viage from Vraba to Spayne to accuse Vaschus who also at the same tyme sent Valdiuia aswell to speake in his defence as also to certifie the kyng of their doyngs Howe kyng Careta conspired with the Spanyardes agaynst kyng Poncha whom they put to flyght and spoyled his village Howe kyng Comogrus friendly enterteyned the Spanyardes and brought them to his pallace where he shewed them the dryed carkases of his auncestours reserued and sumptuously apparelled and how the kynges elder sonne gaue Vaschus and Colmenaris foure thousande ounces of wrought golde and fyftie slaues also a wyttie oration which he made to the Spanyardes wherin he certifyed them of a countrey exceedyng rych in golde c. The contentes of the fourth booke Fol. 72. OF horryble thunder lyghtnyng in the moneth of Nouember and of grayne which waxeth rype thryse a yeere also howe digestion is strengthened by outwarde colde Howe Valdiuia is sent agayne into Hispaniola to moue the gouernour and counsayle there to sende into Spayne to the kyng for a supplie of a thousande souldyers to make way to the golden mountaynes and howe he caryed with him the kynges portion that is the fyft part of golde and other thinges Howe Vaschus inuaded the kynges inhabytyng the regions about the gulfe of Vraba and howe he put kyng Dabaiba to flyght in whose village hee founde wrought golde amountyng to the weyght of seuen thousande Castellans Of Battes as byg as Turtle dooues which sometyme byte men in the nyght in theyr sleepe whose byting is also venomous but is healed with water of the sea or by cauterization as are also the woundes of venomous arrowes Of the Ilande of Cannafistula and a towne of fyue hundred houses whose kyng Abenamachei was taken and his arme cutte of in the fyght Of trees of exceedyng bygnesse and heyght and howe kyng Abibeiba had his pallace in the toppe of a tree from the which he was inforced to discend and entreate of peace The contentes of the fyfth booke Fol. 75. HOwe kyng Abraiba slue a captayne of the Spanyardes and caused the kynges to rebell also how they were put to flight and many of theyr men slayne Of fyue kynges which attempted a newe conspiracie with a hundred great Canoas and fyue thousande men and howe theyr intent was bewrayed by a woman and preuented also howe Rodericus Colmenaris sacked the village of Tichiri hung the kyng thereof with foure of his chiefe rulers and commaunded them to be shotte through with arrowes The contentes of the sixt booke Fol. 77. HOwe Vaschus with his confederates sent Iohannes Quicedus and Colmenaris from Dariena to Hispaniola and from thence to Spayne to the kyng for a thousand men to passe ouer the mountaynes to the golden regions and what miseries they susteyned in that viage also of the death of Valdiuia Zamudius and Fogeda Of the prosperous viage of Ancisus and howe God wrought miracles by the simple fayth of a mariner also how God respecteth thinfancie of fayth for zeales sake and howe one religion turned into another holdeth styll many thinges of the fyrst Howe many of the Barbarians were baptised by reason of the miracles and howe they rewarded the priestes by whom they were baptised Howe Ancisus shortly after his arryuall in Spayne resorted to the court and made his complaynt to the kyng of thinsolencie of Vaschus wherevppon the kyng gaue
of the habitable regions vnder the Equinoctiall and of the ryche golde mynes of the Ilande of Cuba Of the Gumme called Animae Album and of the Canibales also wherby it was thought that there were Ilandes of women Of hony founde in trees and rockes and of the generation of great Tortoyses and of theyr egges The contentes of the tenth booke Fol. 146. OF the expedition agaynst the kyng of the Ilande Dites in the South sea and howe after foure conflictes submitting hym selfe he gaue our men an hundred ten pounde weyght of great pearles also howe he agreed to paye yeerely a hundred pounde weyght of pearles for a tribute Howe axes and hatchettes are more esteemed then golde or pearles and of great plentie of Hartes and Cunnies also howe the kyng of Dites and his familie were baptised Of pearles of great pryse and howe Paule the Bishop of Rome bought a pearle for foure and fortie thousand ducades Diuers opinions of the generation of pearles and of a hundred pearles founde in one shel fyshe also of the birth of pearles Of the regions of the East syde of the gulfe of Vraba and of the originall of the Canibales Of certayne circumcised people which haue the knoweledge of letters and vse of bookes and what chaunced of the captaynes which Petrus Arias sent foorth diuers wayes also howe Iohn Solisius was slayne of the Canibales and of theyr fiercenesse Howe Iohn Pontius was repulsed of the Canibales and of the lewde behauiour of Iohn Aiora Of the variable fortune of Gonsalus Badaiocius and howe after he had geathered great ryches of gold he had the ouerthrow and was spoyled of all Of the golden region of Coiba Dites and how theyr slaues are marked in the face Of the Ilandes of the South sea and of the regions from whence the Portingales fetche theyr spyces Of a straunge kynde of fowlyng and of the trees that beare Gourdes Of the later opinions as touching the swift course of the Ocean towarde the West and of the continent or fyrme lande also of the viage from the newe landes to Spayne Of the golde mynes of Dariena and of the maner of geatheryng of golde in the same also of the dropsie of couetousnesse which is not satisfied with ryches For the contentes of the booke of the Ilandes of the West Indies seas reade the margent notes of the same FINIS ⧠Gonzalus Ferdinandus Ouiedus of the west Indies R. E. To the Reader ALthough among dyuers which haue written of the Ocean and VVest Indies there is none to be compared to Peter Martyr of Angleria in declaryng by philosophicall discourses the secrete causes of naturall affectes both as touchyng the lande the sea the starres and other straunge workes of nature yet forasmuch as of later dayes those countreys haue been better knowne and searched and dyuers such particuler and notable thinges founde as are conteyned in the histories of later writers among the number of whom Conzalus Ferdinandus Ouiedus whom learned Cardanus compareth to the ancient writers is doubtlesse the chiefe I haue therefore thought good to ioyne to the Decades of Peter Martyr certayne notable thinges which I haue geathered out of his booke intituled the Summarie or abridgement of his generall hystorie of the west Indies written in the firme lande of the same in the citie of Sancti Maria Antiqua in Dariena where he dwelt was gouernor many yeeres and dedicated to Themperours maiestie as may appeare by the Epistle folowyng To the most hygh and myghtie prince Charles the fyft o◠that name Emperor of Rome Kyng of Spaine of the two Cicilies of both the sydes of the streyght of Faro Kyng of Hierusalem and Hungarie Duke of Burgonie and Earle of Flaunders Lord and inheritour of the firme lande and Ilandes of the VVest Ocean c. Gonzalus Ferdinandus Ouiedus his most humble seruaunt wysheth health and perpetuall felicitie THe thinges which principally preserue and mayntayne the workes of nature in the memories of men are hystories and bookes composed of the same among the whiche certes those are esteemed most true and autentyke which haue been wrytten by wyttie and expert men well traueyled in the world as faythfull witnesses of such thinges as they haue partly seene and been partly informed by credible persons Of this mynde and opinion was Plinie who better then any other aucthor hath written in .xxxvii. bookes all that parteyneth to the naturall historie conteyned all in one volume dedicated to Vespasian Themperour Wherin as a prudent historiographer he declareth such thinges as hee had heard attributing the second authoritie to such as he had redde in aucthours that wrote before him And thyrdly ioyned to the same hystorie such thinges as he him selfe had seene as most certayne testimonie Whose example I folowyng will in this my breefe summarie reduce and represent to your maiesties memorie such thinges as I haue seene in your Empyre of the West Indies aswell in the Ilandes as in the firme lande of the Ocean sea where I haue serued now more then twelue yeeres in the place of surueyer of the golde mynes by the commaundement of the Catholyke kyng Don Fernando the fyft of that name and graundfather vnto your maiestie to whom God gaue great fame and glorie Since whose death also I haue lykewyse serued and trust whyle the rest of my lyfe yet remayneth to serue your maiestie as shall please you to commaunde As touchyng whiche thinges and suche other lyke I haue more largely written in an hystorie begun assoone as my age was rype to take such matters in hande Wherein furthermore I haue made mention of suche thinges as haue chaunced in Spayne from the yeere .1494 vnto this tyme addyng also therevnto suche thinges woorthy memorie as I haue obserued in other realmes and prouinces where I haue trauayled and haue lykewyse particulerly wrytten the lyues and worthy actes of the catholyke Princes of famous memorie Don Ferdinando and Lady Elizabeth his wyfe to theyr last dayes After whose fruition of heauenly Paradyse I haue noted such thinges as haue chaunced in your most fortunate succession not omittyng particulerly to wryte a large booke of suche thinges as haue seemed most woorthy to bee noted as touchyng your maiesties Indies But forasmuch as that volume remayneth in the citie of San. Dominico in the Ilande of Hispaniola where I dwell and am placed in housholde with wyfe chyldren and famylie I haue brought no more with me of that my writyng then I beare in memorie determynyng notwithstandyng for your maiesties recreation to make a breefe rehearsall of certayne notable thinges wherof I haue more largely entreated in my sayd generall historie and such as may seeme most woorthy to be redde of your maiestie Of the which although a great parte haue been written by other who haue also seene the same yet perhappes they are not so exactly and particulerly described as of mee forasmuche as in maner all that trauayle into these Indies haue
and calleth the spirite with loude voyce by certayne names whiche no man vnderstandeth but hee and his disciples After he hath done thus a whyle if the spirite yet deferre his commyng hee drynketh of the sayde water and therewith waxeth hotte and furious and inuerteth and turneth his inchauntment and letteth him selfe blood with a thorne marueilously turmoylyng him selfe as wee reade of the furious Sybilles not ceassyng vntyl the spirit be come who at his comming entreth into him and ouerthroweth him as it were a greyhound should ouerturne a Squerell then for a space hee seemeth to lye as though hee were in great payne or in a rapte woonderfully tormentyng him selfe duryng whiche agonie the other disciple shaketh the siluer bell continually Thus when the agonie is past and he lyeth quietly yet without any sense or feelyng the kyng or some other in his stead demaundeth of him what he desireth to know and the spirit answereth by the mouth of the rapte Piaces with a directe and perfecte answere to all poyntes Insomuche that on a tyme certayne Spanyardes beyng present at these mysteries with one of the kynges and in the Spanyshe tounge demaundyng the Piaces of their shyppes which they looked for out of Spayne the spirite answered in the Indian tounge and tolde them what day and houre the shyppes departed from Spayne how many they were and what they brought without fayling in any poynte If he be also demaunded of the eclypse of the Sunne or Moone which they greatly feare and abhorre he giueth a perfect answere and the lyke of tempestes famin plentie warre or peace and such other thinges When all the demaundes are finished his disciples call him aloude ryngyng the siluer bell at his eare and blowyng a certayne powder into his nosethrilles whereby he is raysed as it were from a dead sâ—eape beyng yet somewhat heauy headed and faynte a good whyle after Thus beyng agayne rewarded of the kyng with more bread hee departeth agayne to the desartes with his disciples But since the Christian fayth hath been dispearsed throughout the Ilande these deuyllyshe practises haue ceassed and they of the members of the deuyll are made the members of Christ by baptisme forsakyng the deuyll and his workes with the vayne curiositie of desyre of knowledge of thinges to come whereof for the most parte it is better to be ignorant then with vexation to know that which can not be auoyded Furthermore in many places of the firme lande when any of the kynges dye all his householde seruauntes aswell women as men whiche haue continually serued him kyll them selues beleeuyng as they are taught by the deuyll Tuyra that they whiche kyll them selues when the kyng dyeth goe with him to heauen and serue him in the same place and offyce as they dyd before on the earth whyle hee lyued and that all that refuse so to doe when after they dye by theyr naturall death or otherwyse theyr soules to dye with theyr bodyes and to bee dissolued into ayre and become nothyng as doe the soules of Hogges Byrdes Fyshes or other bruite beastes and that only the other may enioy the priuiledge of immortalitie for euer to serue the kyng in heauen And of this false opinion commeth it that they which sowe corne or set rootes for the kynges bread and geather the same are accustomed to kyll them selues that they may enioy this priuiledge in heauen and for the same purpose cause a portion of the graine of Maizium and a bundle of Iucca whereof theyr bread is made to be buryed with them in their graues that the same may serue them in heauen if perhappes there should lacke seedes to sowe and therefore they take this with them to begyn withall vntil Tuyra who maketh them all these fayre promises prouyde them of greater quantitie This haue I my selfe seene in the toppe of the mountaynes of Guaturo where hauing in pryson the kyng of that prouince who rebelled from thâ—bedience of your maiestie and demaundyng of him to whom parteyned those sepultures or graues which I sawe in his house hee answered that they were of certayne Indians which slue them selues at the death of his father And because they are oftentimes accustomed to bury great quantities of wrought gold with them I caused twoo graues to be opened wherein was nothyng founde but a vessell full of the graine of Maizium a bundle of Iucca as I haue sayde And demaundyng the cause hereof of the kyng and the other Indians they answered that they that were buryed there were the labourers of the grounde and men skylfull in sowyng of seedes and makyng of bread and seruauntes to the kynges father and to the ende that their soules should not dye with theyr bodyes they slue them selues at the death of the kyng theyr maister to lyue with hym in heauen and to the intent that they myght serue him there in the same offyce they reserued that Maizium and Iucca to sowe it in heauen Wherevnto I aunswered them in this maner Beholde howe your Tuyra deceyueth you and howe all that hee teacheth you is false You see howe in so long a tyme since they are dead they haue not yet taken away this Maizium and Iucca which is nowe putrified and woorth nothyng and not lyke to bee sowen in heauen To this the kyng replyed saying in that they haue not taken it away nor sowen it in heauen the cause is that they chaunced to fynde enough there by reason whereof they had no neede of this To this errour many thinges were sayd which seemed of litle force to remoue him from his false opinion and especially any such as at that age are occupyed of the deuyl whom they paynt of the selfe same fourme and colour as hee appeareth vnto them in dyuers shapes and fourmes They make also Images of golde copper and wood to the same similitudes in terrible shapes and so variable as the paynters are accustomed to paynt them at the feete of sainct Michaell tharchangell or in any other place where they paynte them of most horrible portiture Lykewyse when the deuyll greatly intendeth to feare them hee threatneth to sende them great tempestes whiche they call Furacanas or Haurachanas and are so vehement that they ouerthrow many houses and great trees And I haue seene in mountaynes full of many and great trees that for the space of three quarters of a league the mountayne hath been subuerted and the trees ouerthrowen and plucked out of the earth with the rootes a thing doubtlesse so fearefull and terrible to beholde that it may veryly appeare to bee done by the hande of the deuyll And in this case the Christian men ought to consider with good reason that in all places where the holy sacrament is reserued the sayde tempestes are no more so outragious or so perilous as they were wont to bee Of the temperature of the regions vnder or neare to the burnt lyne called Torrida Zona or the Equinoctiall and of the dyuers seasons of
tofore it hath been sayde in it therefore the Gouernours and Rulers muche lyke vnto our Shyryffes be so appoynted sodenly and speedely discharged agayne that they haue no tyme to growe naught Furthermore to keepe the state in more securitie the Louteas that gouerne one shyre are chosen out of some other shyre distaunt farre of where they must leaue theyr wyues chyldren and goodes carryeng nothyng with them but them selues True it is that at theyr commyng thyther they do fynde in a redinesse all thynges necessarie theyr house furniture seruantes and all other thynges in suche perfection and plentie that they want nothyng Thus the kyng is well serued without all feare of treason In the principall cities of the shyres be foure cheefe Louteas before whom are brought all matters of the inferiour townes throughout the whole realme Diuers other Louteas haue the maneagyng of iustice and receyuyng of rentes bounde to yeeld an accompte thereof vnto the greater officers Other doo see that there be no euyll rule keept in the citie eache one as it behoueth hym Generally al these do impryson malefactours cause them to be whypped racked hoysing them vp downe by the armes with a corde a thyng very vsuall there and accompted no shame These Louteas do vse great diligence in y e apprehending of theeues so that it is a wonder to see a theefe escape away in any towne citie or village Upon the sea neere vnto the shore many are taken and looke euen as they are taken so be they fyrst whypped and afterward layd in prison where shortly after they all dye for hunger and colde At that tyme when we were in pryson there died of them aboue threscore and ten Yf happely any one hauyng the meanes to geat foode do escape he is set with the condemned persones and prouided for as they be by the kyng in such wyse as hereafter it shal be sayde Theyr whyps be certayne peeces of canes cleft in the middle in such sort that they seeme rather playne then sharpe He that is to be whipped lieth grouelong on the ground Upon his thighes the Hangman layeth on blowes myghtely with these canes that the standers by tremble at theyr crueltie Ten sâ—rypes drawe a great deale of blood twentie or thyrtie spoyle the fleshe altogeather fyftie or threescore wyll require long tyme to be healed and yf they come to the number of one hundred then are they incurable The Louteas obserue moreouer this when any man is brought before them to be examined they aske hym openly in the hearing of as many as be present be y e offence neuer so great Thus did they also behaue them selues with vs. For this cause amongst them can there be no false witnes as dayly amongst vs it falleth out This good commeth therof that many being alwaies about the iudge to heare the euidence and beare witnesse the processe can not be falsifyed as it happeneth sometymes with vs. The Mores Gentiles Iewes haue al their sundry othes y e Mores doo sweare by theyr Mossafos the Brachmans by theyr Fili the rest likewise by the thynges they do worshyppe The Chineans though they be wonte to sweare by heauen by the Moone by the Sunne and by all theyr Idolles in iudgement neuerthelesse they sweare not at all If for some offence an othe be vsed of any one by and by with the least euidence he is tormented so be the wytnesses he bryngeth if they tell not the truth or do in any poynt disagree except they be men of worshyppe and credyte who are beleeued without any farther matter the rest are made to confesse the trueth by force of tormentes and whyppes Besydes this order obserued of them in examinations they do feare so muche theyr kyng and he where he maketh his abode keepeth them so lowe that they dare not once styrre Agayne these Louteas as great as they be notwithstanding the multitude of Notaries they haue not trusting any others do write al great processes and matters of importance them selues Moreouer one vertue they haue worthy of great prayse and that is being men so well regarded and accompted of as though they were princes they be patient aboue measure in geuyng audience We poore straungers brought before them myght saye what we woulde as all to be lyes and falaces that they dyd wryte ne dyd we stande before them with the vsuall cerimonies of that countrey yet dyd they beare with vs so patiently that they caused vs to wonder knowyng specially howe litle any aduocate or iudge is wonte in our countrey to beare with vs. For where so euer in any towne of Christendome shoulde be accused vnknowen men as we were I knowe not what ende the very innocentes cause woulde haue but we in a Heathen countrey hauyng our great ennimies two of the chiefest men in a whole towne wantyng an interpreter ignorant of that countrey language dyd in the ende see our great aduersaryes cast into pryson for our sake and depriued of theyr offices and honoure for not doyng iustice yea not to escape death for as the rumor goeth they shal be beheadded Somewhat is nowe to be sayde of the lawes that I haue been hable to knowe in this countrey and fyrst no thefte or murther is at any tyme pardoned adulterers are put in pryson and the facte once proued condemned to dye the womans husbande must accuse them this order is keapt with men and women found in that fault but theeues and murtherers are inprisoned as I haue sayd where they shortly dye for hunger and colde If any one happely escape by brybyng the gayler to geue hym meate his processe goeth farther and commeth to the courte where he is condemned to dye Sentence beyng geuen the prysoner is brought in publyke with a terrible bande of men that laye hym in Irons hande and foote with a boorde at his necke one handefull broade in length reachyng downe to his knees clefte in two partes and with a hole one handefull downewarde in the table fyt for his necke the whiche they enclose vp therein naylyng the boorde fast togeather one handefull of the boorde standeth vp behynde in the necke the sentence and cause wherefore the fellon was condemned to dye is wryten in that parte of the table that standeth before This cerimonie ended he is laid in a great prison in the companie of some other condemned persons the which are found by the king as long as they do liue The boord aforsaid so made tormenteth the prysoners very much keeping them both from rest eke lettyng them to eate commodyously theyr handes beyng manecled in Irons vnder that bord so y t in fine there is no remedy but death In y e chiefe cities of euery shire as we haue erst said there be foure principal houses in ech of them a prison but in one of them where the Taissu maketh his abode there is a greater a more principal prison theÌ„ in any of y e rest although
his abode For as many tymes I haue erst sayd all this countrey is full of riuers Desirous to see those Parai we got into some of them where we found some chambers set foorth with gilded beds very richly other furnished with tables and seates all other thinges so neate and in perfection that it was wonderfull Quiacim shyre as farre as I can perceiue lyeth vpon the south On that syde we kept at our first entry thereinto traueyling not far from the high mountaynes we saw there Asking what people dwelleth beyond those mountaynes it was told me that they be theeues men of a strange language And bycause that vnto sundry places neare this riuer y e mountaynes do approch whence the people issuing downe do many tymes great harme this order is taken at y e entry into Quiacim shyre To gard this riuer wheron continually go to fro Parai great small fraught with salt fish poudred with pepper and other necessaries for that countrey they do lay in diuers places certain Parai great barges armed wherin watch warde is kept day night in both sides of the riuer for the safetie of the passage securitie of suche Parai as doe remayne there though the traueylers neuer go but many in company In euery rode there be at the least thirtie in some two hundred men as the passage requyreth This garde is kept vsually vntyll you come to the citie Onchio where continually the Tutan of this shyre and eke of Cantan maketh his abode From that citie vpwarde where the ryuer waxeth more narrow and the passage more daungerous there be alwayes armed one hundred and fiftie Parai to accompany other vesselles fraught with marchandyse and all this at the king his charges This seemed vnto me one of the strangest thinges I dyd see in this countrey Whan we laye at Fuquien we dyd see certayne Moores who knewe so litle of theyr secte that they could say nothyng els but that Machomet was a Moore my father was a Moore and I am a Moore with some other wordes of theyr Alcorane wherewithall in abstinence from Swynes fleshe they lyue vntyll the deuyll take them all This whan I sawe beyng sure that in many Chinish cities the reliques of Machomet are kept as soone as we came to the citie where these felowes be I enfourmed my selfe of them and learned the trueth These Moores as they tolde me in tymes past came in great shippes fraught with marchandise from Pachin ward to a Porte graunted vnto them by the kyng as hee is wont to all them that traffike into this countrey where they beyng arriued at a litle towne standyng in the hauens mouth in tyme conuerted vnto their secte the greatest Loutea there Whan that Loutea with all his family was become Moorysh the rest began lykewyse to doe the same In this part of China the people be at libertie euery one to worshyp and folow what him lyketh best Wherefore no body tooke heede thereto vntyll such tyme as the Moores perceyuyng that many folowed them in superstition and that the Loutea fauoured them they began to forbyd wholy the eatyng of Swines flesh But all this countrymen and women chosing rather to forsake father and mother than to leaue of eatyng of porke by no meanes would yelde to that proclamation For besides the great desyre they all haue to eate that kynde of meate many of them doe lyue thereby and therefore the people complayned vnto the Magistrates accusing the Moores of a conspiracy pretended betwixt them and the Loutea agaynst theyr kyng In this countrey as no suspicion no not one trayterous worde is long borne withall so was the kyng speedily aduertised thereof who gaue comcommaundement out of hande that the aforesayde Loutea should be put to death and with hym the Moores of most importance the other to be layde fyrst in pryson and afterwarde to be sent abrode into certayne cities where they remayned perpetuall slaues vnto the kyng To this citie came by happe men and women threescore and odde who at this day are brought to fiue men and foure women for it is nowe twentie yeeres agoe this happened Theyr ofspryng passeth the number of .200 and they in this citie as the rest in other cities whyther they were sent haue theyr Moscheas wherunto they al resorte euery fryday to kepe theyr holydaye But as I thynke that wyll no longer endure then whiles they do lyue that came from thence for theyr posteritie is so confused that they haue nothing of a Moore in them but abstinence from Swynes fleshe and yet many of them do eate thereof priuilie They tell me that theyr natiue countrey hath name Camarian a fyrme lande wherein be many kynges and the Indishe countrey well knowen vnto them It may so be for as sone as they dyd see our seruauntes our seruauntes were Preuzaretes they iudged them to be Indians many of theyr woordes sounded vppon the Persike tongue but none of vs coulde vnderstand them I asked them whether they conuerted any of the Chinishe nation vnto theyr secte they answeared me that with much a do they conuerted the women with whom they do marry yeldyng me no other cause thereof but the difficultie they find in them to be brought from eating swines fleshe and drynking of wine I am perswaded therfore that if this countrey were in league with vs forbyddyng them neyther of both it would be an easy matter to draw them to our religion from theyr superstition wherat they them selues do laugth when they do their Idolatrie I haue learned moreouer that the sea wherby these Moores that came to China were woont to trauaile is a very great gulfe that falleth into this countrey out from Tartaria and Persia leauing on the other syde all the countrey of China and lande of the Mogorites drawyng alwayes towarde the south and of all lykelyhood it is euen so because that these Moores the whiche we haue seene be rather browne then white wherby they shewe them selues to come from some warmer countrey then China is neere to Pachin where the ryuers are frosen in the wynter for colde and many of them so vehemently that cartes may passe ouer them We dyd see in this citie many Tartares Mogorites Bremes and Laoynes both men women The Tartares are men very white good horsemen and archers confinyng with China on that side where Pachin standeth separated from thence by great mountaines that are betwyxt these kingdomes Ouer them be certaine wayes to passe and for both sydes Castelles continually keapte with souldiers in tyme past the Tartares were woont alwayes to haue warrs with the Chineans but these fourescore yeeres past they were quiete vntyll the seconde yeere of our imprysonment The Mogorites be in lyke maner whyte and heathen we are aduertised that of one syde they border vppon these Tartares and confine with the Persike Tartares on the other syde whereof we sawe in them some tokens
these aforesayde causes is sufficient to put hym to death Theyr thyrd cheefe officer is a Iudge his office is to take vp to end matters in controuersie to determine of warres peace that which he thynketh ryght to punyshe rebelles wherein he may commaunde the noble men to assist hym vpon paine of forfettyng theyr goodes neuerthelesse at all tymes he is not obeyed for that many matters are ended rather by might and armes than determined by law Other controuersies are decided either in the Temporal Court as it seemeth good vnto the Princes or in the Spiritual consistorie before the Tundi Rebelles are executed in this maner especially yf they be noble men or officers The kyng looke what daye he geueth sentence agaynst any one the same day the partie wheresoeuer he be is aduertised thereof and the day tolde him of his execution The condempned person asketh of the messenger where that it may be lawfull for him to kyll him selfe the which thing whan the kyng doeth graunt the partie takyng it for an honour putteth on his best apparell and launcyng his body a crosse from the brest downe all the belly murdreth him selfe This kynde of death they take to be without infamy ne doe their children for theyr fathers crime so punished lose theyr goods But if the king reserue them to be executed by the Hangman than flocketh hee togeather his children his seruantes and friendes home to his house to preserue his lyfe by force The kyng committeth the fetchyng of him out vnto his chiefe Iudge who first setteth vppon him with bow and arrowes afterward with pykes swoords vntyll the rebell and all his family be slayne to theyr perpetuall ignominie and shame The Indyshe wryters make mention of sundry great cities in this Iland as Cangoxima a Hauen towne in the South parte therof and Meaco distant from thence .300 leagues northward the royall seat of the kyng and most wealthy of all other townes in that Ilande The people thereabout is very noble and theyr language the best Iaponishe In Meaco are sayde to be nienetie thousande houses inhabited and vpwarde a famous Uniuersitie and in it fyue principall Colledges besydes closes and cloysters of Bonzi Leguixil and Hamacata that is Priestes Monkes and Nunnes Other fyue notable Uniuersities there be in Giapan namely Coia Negru Homi Frenoi and Bandu The fyrst foure haue in them at the least .3500 schollers in the fyft are many moe For Bandu prouince is very great and possessed by sixe princes fyue whereof are vassalles vnto the sixt yet he him selfe subiecte vnto the Iaponish kyng vsually called the great king of Meaco lesser scholes there be many in diuers places of this Ilande And thus muche specially concernyng this glorious Ilande among so many barbarous nations and rude regions haue I geathered together in one summe out of sundry letters written from thence into Europe by no lesse faithful reporters thā famous traueylers For confirmation whereof as also for the knowledge of other thinges not conteyned in the premisses the curious readers may peruse these foure volumes of Indishe matters written long agoe in Italian and of late compendiously made latin by Petrus Maffeius my olde acquaynted friend entitulyng the same De rebus Iaponicis One whole letter out of the fyft booke thereof specially entreatyng of that countrey haue I done into Englyshe word for word in suche wyse as foloweth Aloisius Froes ▪ to his companyons in Iesus Christ that remayne in China and Indie THe last yeere deare brethren I wrote vnto you from Firando howe Cosmus Turrianus had appoynted me to traueyle to Meaco to help Gaspar Vilela for that there the haruest was great the labourers fewe and that I should haue for my companyon in that iourney Aloisius Almeida It seemeth now my parte hauing by the helpe of God ended so long a voyage to signifie vnto you by letter suche thinges specially as I myght thinke you woulde most delyght to knowe And because at the begynnyng Almeida and I so parted the whole labour of wrytyng letters betwixt vs that he should speake of our voyage and suche thinges as happened therein I should make relation of the Meachians estate and wryte what I could well learne of the Giapans maners and conditions settyng asyde all discourses of our voyage that whiche standeth me vppon I wil discharge in this Epistle that you consideryng howe artificially how cunningly vnder the pretexte of religion that craftie aduersary of mankynde leadeth and draweth vnto perdition the Giaponish myndes blynded with many superstitions and cerimonies may the more pitie this nation The inhabiters of Giapan as men that neuer had greatly to doe with other nations in their Geography diuided the whole world into three partes Giapan Sian and China And albeit the Giapans receyued out of Sian and China their superstitions and cerimonies yet doe they neuerthelesse contemne all other nations in comparison of them selues standyng in their owne conceite doe far preferre them selues before all other sortes of people in wisedome and policie Touching the situation of the countrey nature of the soyle vnto the thinges eftsones erft written this one thing wil I adde in these Ilandes the sommer to be most hot the winter extreame colde In the kyngdome of Canga as we call it falleth so muche snow that the houses being buried in it y e inhabiters keepe within doores certaine moneths of the yeere hauing no way to come foorth except they breake vp the tiles Whirlewyndes most vehement Earthquakes so common that the Giapans dreade suche kinde of feares litle or nothing at all The countrey is full of siluer mines otherwyse barren not so much by fault of nature as through the slouthfulnes of the inhabiters howebeit Oxen they keepe that for tillage sake onely The ayre is wholsome y e waters good the people very fayre well bodied bare headed commonly they go procuring baldnes with sorow teares eftsoones rooting vp w t pinsars al the heare of their heads as it groweth except it be a litle behind the which they knot and keepe with al diligence Euen from their chyldehood they weare daggers and swoords the which they vse to lay vnder their pillows whan they goe to bedde in shew curteous and affable in deede haughty and proude They delight most in warlyke affayres and their greatest studie is armes Mennes apparell dyuersly coloured is worne downe halfe the legges and to the elbowes womens attyre made hansomely lyke vnto a vayle is somewhat longer all maner of dysyng and theft they doe eschue The merchant although he bee wealthie is not accompted of Gentlemen be they neuer so poore retayne theyr place most precysely they stande vppon theyr honour and woorthynesse cerimoniously stryuyng among them selues in curtesies and fayre speaches Wherein if any one happely bee lesse carefull than hee should bee euen for a trifle many tymes hee getteth euyll will Want though it trouble most of them so muche they doe deteste that
al their merchandise and wares for India Ethiope and Arabie as appeareth by the wrytyng first of Strabo who wryteth that he was in Egypt and then by Plinie who was in the tyme of Domitian Strabo also speaking of the saide fosse or trenche whiche was made towarde the redde sea wryteth thus There is a trenche that goeth towarde the red sea the gulfe of Arabie and to the citie of Arsinoe whiche some call Cleopatrida and passeth by the lakes named Amari that is bytter because in deede they were fyrste bytter but after that this trenche was made and the ryuer entred in they became sweete and are at this present ful of foules of the water by reason of their pleasantnesse This trenche was fyrste begunne by king Sesostre before the battaile of Troy Some say that it was begunne by king Psammiticus while he was a childe and that by reason of his death it was left imperfect also that afterwarde king Darius succeeded in the same enterprise who woulde haue finished it but yet brought it not to the ende because he was enfourmed that the redde sea was higher then Egypt and that if this lande diuiding both the seas were opened all Egypt shoulde be drowned thereby King Ptolomeus woulde in deede haue finished it but yet left it shut at the head that he myght when he woulde sayle to the other sea and returne without peryll Here is the citie of Arsinoe and neare vnto that the citie called Heroum in the vttermost parte of the gulfe of Arabie towarde Egypt with many portes and habitations Plinie likewise speaking of this trenche sayth In the furthest part of the gulfe of Arabie is a porte called Danco from whence they determined to bryng a nauigable trenche vnto the riuer of Nilus whereas is the firste Delta Betweene the saide sea and Nilus there is a streict of lande of the length of .lxii. miles The firste that attempted this thing was Sesostre king of Egypt after him Darius king of the Persians whom Ptolomeus folowed who made a trenche a hundred foote large and thirtie foote deepe being CCC miles in length vnto the lakes named Amari and durst proceede no further for feare of inundation hauing knowledge that the red sea was higher by three cubites then all the countrey of Egypt Other say that this was not the cause but that he doubted that yf he shoulde haue let the sea come any further all the water of Nilus shoulde haue been thereby corrupted whiche onely ministreth drynke to all Egypt But notwithstanding all these thinges aforesayde all this viage is frequented by lande from Egypt to the redde sea in whiche passage are three Causeyes or hygh wayes The fyrst begynneth at the mouth of Nilus named Pelutio All whiche way is by the sandes insomuche that if there were not certayne hygh Reedes fyxt in the earth to shew the ryght way the Causey could not be found by reason the wynde euer couereth it with sand The seconde Causey is two myles from the mountayne Cassius And this also in the ende of threescore myles commeth vpon the way or Causey of Pelusius inhabited with certayne Arabians called Antei The thyrde begynneth at Gerro named Adipson and passeth by the same Arabians for the space of threescore miles somewhat shortter but full of rough mountaynes and great scarcenesse of water Al these Causeyes leade the way to the citie of Arsinoe builded by Ptolomeus Philadelphus in the gulfe Carandra by the redde sea This Ptolomeus was the fyrst that searched all that part of the red sea whiche is called Trogloditica Of this trench described of Strabo and Plinie there are seene certeyne tokens remaynyng at this present as they do affyrme whiche haue been at Sues beyonde the citie of Alcayr otherwyse called Babylon in Egypt But the merchauntes that of later dayes trauayle this viage by lande ryde through the drye and barren desartes on Camels both by day and by nyght directyng theyr waye by the starres and compasse as do mariners on the sea and carying with them water sufficient for many dayes iorneys The places of Arabie and India named of Strabo and Plinie are the selfe same where the Portugales practyse theyr trade at this day as the maners and customes of the Indians doo yet declare for euen at this present their women vse to burne them selues alyue with the dead bodyes of their husbandes Whiche thyng as wryteth Strabo in his .xv. booke they dyd in olde time by a lawe for this consyderation that sometyme being in loue with other they forsooke or poysoned their husbandes And for as muche as accordyng to this custome the olde Poet Propertius who lyued about an hundred yeeres before the incarnation of Christ hath in his booke made mention of the contention that was among the Indian women whiche of them shoulde be burned aliue with theyr husbandes I haue thought good to subscribe his verses whiche are these Faelix Eois lex funeris vna maritis Quos aurora suis rubra colorat equis Namque vbi mortifero iacta est fax vltima lecto Vxorum fusis stat pia turba comis Et certamen habent lethi quae viua sequatur Coniugium pudor est non licuisse mori Ardent victrices flammae pectora praebent Imponuntque suis ora perusta viris As touchyng these viages both by sea and by lande to East India and Cathay many thinges are wrytten very largly by diuers autours which I omit because they parteyne not so much vnto vs as doth the viage attempted to Cathay by the north seas and the coastes of Moscouia discouered in our tyme by the viage of that excellent young man Rychard Chaunceller no lesse learned in al mathematicall sciences then an expert pilotte in the yeere of our Lorde .1554 As concernyng this viage I haue thought good to declare y e communication which was betweene the sayd learned man Galeatius Butrigarius and that great philosopher and noble gentleman of Italie named Hieronimus Fracastor as I fynd written in the Italian histories of nauigations As they were therefore conferryng in matters of learnyng and reasoning of the science of Cosmographie the saide learned man hauyng in his hand an instrument of Astronomie declared with a large oration howe much the worlde was bound to the kinges of Portugale rehearsing the noble factes done by them in India and what landes and Ilandes they had discouered and howe by theyr nauigations they made the whole worlde to hang in the ayre He further declared of what partes of the ball the earth remayned yet vndiscouered and sayde that of the landes of the inferior hemispherie or halfe compase of the ball towarde the pole Antartike there was nothyng knowen but that litle of the coaste of Brasilia vnto the streyght of Magellanus also a part of Peru also a litle aboue Affrike towarde the cape of Bona Speranza Also
dismissed So that the murderer by the losse of a vyle Horse or a Bowe is discharged of the Iudge with these woordes Get thee hence and goe about thy businesse They haue no vse of gold and syluer except only a few merchauntes but exercyse exchaunge of ware for ware And yf it so chaunce that by sellyng of suche thynges as they haue stolne they get anye money of theyr borderers they bye therewith certayne apparrell and other necessaries of the Moscouites The regions of theyr habitations the feelde Tartars I meane are not lymitted with any boundes or borders There was on a tyme a certayne fatte Tarter taken prysoner of the Moscouites to whom when the Prince sayde howe art thou so fat thou dogge syth thou hast not to eate the Tartar aunswered Why should not I haue to eate syth I possesse so large a lande from the East to the West whereby I may be abundantly nouryshed But thou mayest rather seeme to lacke syth thou inhabytest so small a portion of the woorlde and dooest dayly stryue for the same Casan is a kyngdome also a citie and a castle of the same name scituate by the riuer Volga on the further banke almoste threescore and tenne leagues beneath Nouogradia the lower Along by the course of Volga towarde the East and South it is termined with desart feeldes towarde the Sommer East it confineth with the Tartars called Schibanski â–ª and Kosatzki The kyng of this prouince is able to make an armie of thyrtie thousande men especially footmen of the which the Czeremisse and Czubaschi are moste expert Archers The Czubaschi are also cunnyng Mariners The citie of Casan is threescore leagues distant from the principall castle Vuiathka Furthermore Casan in the Tartars language signifieth a brasen pot boylyng These Tartars are more ciuill then the other for they dwell in houses tyl the grounde and exercise the trade of marchandies They were of late subdued by Basilius the great Duke of Moscouia â–ª and had their Kyng assigned them at his arbitrement But shortlye after they rebelled agayne and associate with other Tartars inuaded the region of Moscouia spoyled and wasted many cities and townes and ledde away innumerable captiues euen from the citie of Moscouia which they possessed for a tyme and had vtterly destroyed the same yf it had not been for the valeauntnesse of the Almaine Gunnners whiche kept the castle with great ordinaunce They also put Duke Basilius to flyght and caused hym to make a letter of his owne hand to Machmetgirei theyr Kyng to acknowledge hym selfe for a perpetuall tributarie to them wherevpon they dissolued the siege and gaue the Moscouites free libertie to redeeme their captiues goods and so departed But Basilius not long able to abyde this contumelie and dishonour after that he had put to death suche as by flying at the first encountryng were the cause of this ouerthrow assembled an armie of an hundred and fourescore thousande men shortly after in the yeere .1523 and sent forwarde his armie vnder the conduct of his Lieuetenant and therewith an Heralde at armes to bydde battell to Machmetgirei the Kyng of Casan with woordes in this effecte The last yeere lyke a theefe and robber without byddyng of battel thou dyddest priuily oppresse mee wherefore I nowe chalenge thee once agayne to proue the fortune of warre if thou mystruste not thyne owne power To this the Kyng answered that there were manye wayes open for him to inuade Moscouia and that the warres haue no lesse respecte to the commoditie of tyme and place then of armure or strength and that hee would take the aduauntage thereof when and where it should seeme best to him and not to other With whiche woordes Basilius beyng greatly accensed and burnyng with desyre of reuenge inuaded the kingdome of Casan whose Kyng beyng stryken with sodayne feare at the approche of so terrible an army assigned the gouernaunce of his kyngdome to the yong Kyng of Taurica his Nâ—uie whyle he him selfe went to requyre ayde of the Emperour of the Turkes But in â—ine the Kyng of Casan submytted him selfe vppon certayne conditions of peace which the Moscouites dyd the gladlyer accept for that tyme because their victualles fayled them to mayneteyne so great a multitude But whereas Duke Basilius him selfe was not present at this last expedition hee greatly suspected Palitzki the Lieuetenant of the army to bee corrupted with brybes to proceede no further In this meane tyme the Kyng of Casan sent Ambassadours to Basilius to intreate of peace whom I sawe in the Dukes courte at my beyng there but I coulde perceyue no hope of peace to be betweene them For euen then Basilius to endomage the Casans translated the marte to Nouogradia whiche before was accustomed to be kepte in the Ilande of marchauntes neare vnto the citie of Casan Commaunding also vnder payne of greeuous punyshement that none of his subiectes shoulde resorte to the Ilande of marchauntes thynkyng that this translation of the marte shoulde greatly haue endomaged the Casans and that only by takyng away their trade of salte which they were accustomed to buye of the Moscouites at that marte they should haue been compelled to submyssion But the Moscouites them selues felte no lesse inconuenience heereby then dyd the Casans by reason of the dearth and scarsenesse that folowed heereof of all suche thinges as the Tartars were accustomed to bryng thyther by the ryuer of Volga from the Caspian sea the kyngdomes of Persia and Armenia and the marte towne of Astrachan especially the great number of most excellent fyshes that are taken in Volga both on the hyther and further syde of Casan But hauyng sayde thus muche of the warres betweene the prince of Moscouia and the Tartars of Casan we will nowe proceede to speake somewhat of the other Tartars inhabiting the regions towarde the Southeast and the Caspian sea Next beyond the Tartars of Casan are the Tartars called Nagai or Nogai which inhabite the regions beyonde Volga about the Caspian sea at the ryuer Iaick runnyng out of the prouince of Sibier These haue no kynges but Dukes In our tyme three brethren deuydyng the prouinces equally betweene them possessed those Dukedomes The first of them named Schidack possesseth the citie of Scharaitzick beyonde the ryuer of Rha or Volga toward the East with the region confinyng with the ryuer Iaick The seconde called Cossum enioyeth all the lande that lyeth betweene the ryuers of Kaman Iaick and Volga The third brother named Schichmamai possesseth parte of the prouince of Sibier and all the region about the same Schichmamai is as much to say by interpretation as holy or myghtie And in maner all these regions are ful of woods except that that lieth toward Scharaitz which consisteth of playnes and fieldes Betweene the riuers of Volga and Iaick about the Caspian sea there sometimes inhabited the kinges called Sawolhenses Demetrius Danielis a man among
spices The last and basest sort named Neraui are they that sowe and geather Ryse These as the inferiour tribe of men are in such subiection to the Bramini and Naeri that in payne of death they may approche no nearer vnto them then .l. pases And therefore they lye lurkyng in certayne shadowes and darke places and maryshes lest they shoulde suddenly chaunce to meete with them Wherefore when they come abrode that they may be hearde a farre of they crye with loude voice I wotte neare what that they may be hearde of the sayde Bramini and Naeri least beyng soddenly betrapped they shoulde be put to death Of the apparell of the kyng queene and Inhabitantes of the citie of Calecut And of their maner of feedyng Cap. 6. THe apparell of the kyng and queene is litle or nothyng differyng from the other Idolaters among the whiche the Mahumetans as strangers are not to be accompted They couer onely theyr priuie partes with bombasine cloth or sylke and are besyde all naked barefooted also and beareheadded But the Mahumetans weare single apparell reachyng only vnto the nauel The women are apparelled euen as are the men sauyng onely that they lette theyr heare growe very longe The kyng and nobilitie of the citie eate no fleshe except they fyrst aske counsayle of the Priestes But the common people may eate what fleshe they wyll excepte the fleshe of Kyne Bin they of the basest sorte named Nirani and Poliar may eate onely fyshes dryed at the Sunne Of theyr custome after the death of the kyng Cap. 7. AFter the death of the kyng if he haue any male chyldren lyuyng or brethren or brothers chyldren they succeede not in the kyngdome For of auncient lawe and custome the septer pertayneth to the kynges systers sonnes of whiche if there be none it commeth to the next of the blood And this for none other cause as they saye but that the priestes haue defloured the queene When the kyng goeth abrode or on huntyng the priestes be they neuer so young keepe the queene at home and remayne neere about her For there is nothyng more acceptable to the kyng then that the priestes shoulde so keepe companye with the queene And therefore the kyng may well thynke that the chyldren borne of her are not to be numbred amongst his chyldren and therefore taketh the chyldren of his systers to be neerest of his blood and ryght inheritours to the crowne When the kyng is dead all his subiectes by cuttyng theyr beardes and shauyng theyr headdes testifie how greeuously they take his death Yet hearein they vse not all one fashion for some cutte onely part of the heare of theyr chynne and some parte of the heare of theyr head and other all and so euery man as he doth phantasie Duryng the tyme that they celebrate the funerals of the kyng they that lyue by fyshyng forbeare fyshyng for the space of eyght dayes And when any of the kynges wyues dye they obserue the lyke ceremonyes as for the death of the kyng The kyng sometyme by a certayne supersticion absteyneth from venery or the company of women for the space of a yeere and lykewyse forbeareth to eate certayne leaues whiche they call Betolas beyng the leaues of Assyrian apples whiche they vse not onely for dilicates but also because theyr propertie is to moue men greatly to wanton lustes For the same purpose also they eate a certayne fruite named Coffolo somewhat lyke vnto Dates Of theyr chaungyng of wyues Cap. 8. THe gentelmen merchauntes to shew great curtesie and frendshyp one to the other vse somtime to chaunge wiues and therein vse this maner of speache My freende we haue nowe of long tyme lyued togeather as faythfull frendes and therefore for the laste accomplyshement of our frendeshyppe if it so please thee lette vs chaunge wyues Content sayth the other for I beare thee euen as good wyll The wyues refuse not to agree to the condition herein also to please theyr husbandes Then the one bryngeth his wyfe to the other saying Woman this man shall hereafter be thy husbande The other sayth the lyke to his wyfe also Thus all partes beyng agreed they depart with frendly embrasyng But the chyldren remayne with the fyrst husbande These Idolatars haue also diuers other customes For among some of them one woman is maryed to seuen husbandes of the whiche euery of them hath his nyght by course appoynted to lye with her And when she hath brought foorth a chylde she may geue it or father it to whiche of them she lysteth Who may in no case refuse it The maner of feedyng of the common people of the Idolatars and of theyr Iustice. Cap. 8. LYing along on the grounde they eate theyr meate out of a traye of copper For spoones they vse certayne leaues of trees Theyr meate commonly is Ryse fyshe spices and fruites of the commoner sort The labouryng men or ruder sorte eate so fylthyly that puttyng theyr foule handes in the potte they take out ryse by handfuls and so thrust it in theyr mouthes They vse this kynde of Iustice for homicide Where any hath slayne a man he is thus punyshed They haue a kynde of galows made in maner of a double crosse where whyle the murtherer is tyed fast one thrusteth a stake through his bodye where the poore wretche so hangeth vntyl he be dead But they that wounde or hurt any man redeeme the faulte for mony payde to the kyng They that are in debte are thus enforced to paye the same The creditour fyrst demaundeth his monye and if it be founde that the debitour breake promysse then he to whom the mony is owyng goeth to one of the kynges scriueners whiche are sayde to be a hundred and before hym makyng dewe proofe of the debte receiueth of hym a greene wande of a tree with aucthoritie to prosecute his debitour vntil he haue found hym where when he hath arrested him with these woordes go no further before thou paye me thryse rehearsed he sayth furthermore thus I charge thee by the head of Bramini and by the head of the kyng not to sturre from this place before thou paye me There is no shyfte but eyther to paye incontinent or there to loose his lyfe But if he be found alone and escape after the sayd woords he is euer after adiudged a rebell and therefore shall it be lawefull for any man to kyll hym whersoeuer he is founde within the kynges dominions Of the honoring of Idolles Cap. 9. WHen they praye to theyr Idolles in the mornyng before the Sunne ryse they resorte to the pooles or ryuers to washe them And so at their commyng home to theyr houses where they keepe theyr Idolles they touch nothyng before they praye to the Idolles prostrate on the grounde secreatly while they praye they make certayne deuylyshe gesticulations lyke mad men so maruelously defourmyng theyr faces eyes and mouthes
breast These ceremonies are done the seconde watche of the nyght Within fyfteene dayes after the wyfe biddeth to a banquette all her husbandes kynsfolkes and when they come at a daye appoynted they go al to the place where her husbande was burnt and at the same houre of the nyght then commeth foorth the wyfe garnyshed with all her iewells and best apparell vsyng therein the helpe of all her kynsfolkes In the same place is made a pytte no deeper then may serue to receiue the woman This pytte is sette about with reedes and the reedes are couered with a cloth of sylke that the pytte may not be seene In the meane tyme also a fyre is made in the pyt with sundry sorts of sweet woods the wife after that her gestes haue well banqueted eateth very muche of a certayne meate whiche they call Betola whiche troubleth her mynde as though she were halfe madde or drunken In the meane whyle a great company of suche theyr musitions as we haue spoken of before apparelled like deuyls with burnyng stickes in theyr mouthes daunce fyrst about the pytte and then make sacrifice to the great deuyl Deumo The wyfe also in y e meane season runneth vp and downe lyke a madde body with countenaunces of dauncyng and reioycyng Then turnyng her to them that are disguised lyke deuyls she commendeth her selfe to theyr deuoute prayers desiryng them for her to make intercession to the great Deumo that after this transitorie lyfe it may please him to receyue her into the company of his Angelles After the ceremonies are fynished shee taketh her leaue of all her kynsfolkes whiche stande rounde about her and neare vnto the pitte then with sodaine outrage and a loude crye liftyng vp her handes she hurleth her selfe into the burnyng pit which done her kynsfolkes standing neare vnto the fyre couer her with litle fagottes of sweete wood hurlyng also thereon much pitche that the bodie may the sooner be consumed and except the wyfe shoulde doe this after the death of her husbande she should euer after be esteemed an euyll woman be hated of all men and in fine in danger to be slayne both of her owne kynsfolkes and her husbandes and therefore shee goeth to it the more willingly The kyng him selfe is present at these pompes which are not commonly vsed for all men but only for the kynges priestes and noble men Of the iustice which the inhabitantes of Tarnassari obserue Cap. 10. IF any kyll a man he is adiudged to death as in the citie of Calecut Of giuyng and receyuyng iustice is ministred as proofe may be made by writing or witnesse They wryte in parchement lyke vnto ours and not in barkes of trees as doe they of Calecut When they contende for any thyng they resorte to the gouernour of the citie to whom the kyng hath giuen full aucthoritie of iurisdiction and if any merchaunt straunger dye there without children he may make no inheritour but all his goods is due to the kyng when the kyng is dead his chyldren succeede in the kyngdome When the inhabitantes dye theyr goods are equally diuided among theyr children Howe the Mahumetans are buried in the citie of Tarnassari Cap. 11. WHen any of the Mahumetan merchantes dye they are embaulmed with many spices and sweete gummes and theyr bodies put in Coffins of wood with chiefe regarde that theyr heades lye towarde the citie of Mecha which is from thence Northwarde Of the dyuers sortes of theyr shyppes or other vesselles Cap. 12. THey haue Brigantines very shalowe and with flatte bottoms which drawe but small depth of water Some also vse Foistes hauyng two or double forepartes and two Mastes and are open without any couerture There is an other kynde of shyppes of burden Of the which some beare the burden of a thousande tunnes In these they carry Botes and other smaller vesselles to the citie of Melacha when they goe for spices Of Bangella a great and riche citie of India and of the great power of the kyng Cap. 13. IT is now tyme to speake further of our viage and of our proceedyng therein Therefore packyng vp our wares and commityng vs to the sea we came in twelue dayes saylyng to a citie named Bangella distant from Tarnassari seuen hundred myles This citie in fruitfulnesse and plentifulnesse of all thinges may in maner contende with any citie in the worlde The kyngdome and dominion of this citie is exceedyng large The kyng hath an army of two hundred thousande footemen and horsemen Mahumetans and is of so great power that he keepeth sore warres with the kyng of Narsinga The region is so plentifull in all thynges that there lacketh nothyng that may serue to the necessarie vses or pleasures of men for there are in maner all sortes of beastes good and holesome fruites and plentie of corne Spices also of all sortes Lykewyse of bombasine and silke so exceedyng great aboundance that in these thinges I thinke there is none other region comparable with this and therefore here are very many riche merchantes For euery yeere departe from hence fyftie shyppes laden with clothe of bombasine and silke into the cities and countreys of Turchia Syria Arabia Persia Ethiopia and India There are also many merchaunt straungers whiche buye precious stones of the inhabitauntes Of certayne Christian merchauntes which exercise merchandies there Cap. 14. HEre we founde many Christian merchantes which were borne in the citie of Sarnau as they tolde vs. They resorte thyther as to a great marte with cloth of silke and wood of Aloes Laser which yeldeth the sweete gumme named Laserpitium commonly called Belzoi beyng a kynde of myrre They bryng also Castoreum and diuers other sweete sauours The sayde Christians tolde vs also that there be in that kyngdome many Christian Princes subiect to the great Cham of the citie of Cathai The apparell of these Christians was Chamlet loose and very full of pleytes and lyned with bombasine cloth On theyr heads they weare certayne coppen or sharpe poynted cappes of two handfull hygh of scarlet colour They are white men They acknowledge one God in Trinitie are baptised after our maner They beleeue the doctrine of the Apostles and Euangelistes They wryte backewarde after the maner of the Armenians They celebrate the birth and buriall of Christ and obserue fastyng the fourtie dayes of Lent as we doe They celebrate also certayne sainctes dayes They vse no shooes but weare loose hose of silke garnished with dyuers Iewels On theyr fingers they weare Ringes with stones of incomparable splendour At meate they vse no table but eate lying on the grounde and feede of all sortes of fleshe They affyrmed also that there are certayne Christian kynges whiche they call Rumi of great power confinyng or borderyng on the dominions of the great Turke When these Christians had seene the precious merchaundies of my companion and
him Take these I pray thee for thou shalt not refuse them He gaue also to eche of the Christians two Rubies whiche were woorth a thousand crownes to be solde but those which he gaue the Persian were esteemed woorth a hundred thousand crownes This kyng therefore doubtlesse in munificence passeth all the kynges of the worlde and in maner no lesse in richesse for he receyueth yeerely of his subiectes two hundred thousand peeces of golde This region bryngeth foorth all sortes of colours and great plentie of bombasine and silke but these great riches the kyng consumeth on his souldiers Not long after newes were brought that the kyng of Aua was commyng with a myghtie force whom the kyng in maner with an innumerable army went to resist Here also in certayne places we sawe women burned aftâ—r the maner of Tarnassari Of the citie of Melacha and the great ryuer of Gaza Cap. 17. VVIthin two dayes after taking ship we sailed westwarde towarde the citie of Melacha and arryued there in eight dayes saylyng Not farre from this citie is a famous ryuer named Gaza the largest that euer I sawe conteynyng xxv myles in breadth On the other syde is seene a very great Ilande whiche they call Sumetra and is of olde writers named Traprobana The inhabitauntes say that it conteyneth in circuite fyue hundred myles When wee came to the citie of Melacha which some call Melcha we were incontinent commaunded to come to the Soltan being a Mahumetan and subiecte to the great Soltan of Chini and payeth him tribute Of whiche tribute they say the cause is that more then fourescore yeeres past that citie was buylded by the kyng of Chini for none other cause then only for the commoditie of the hauen being doubtlesse one of the fayrest in that Ocean and therefore it is lykely that many shyppes should resorte thyther for merchandies The region is not euery where fruitefull yet hath it sufficient of wheate and fleshe and but little wood They haue plentie of foules as in Calecut but the Popingays are much fayrer There is also founde Sandalum and Tynne Lykewyse Elephantes horses sheepe kyne Pardalles Bufles Peacockes and many other beastes and foules They haue but fewe fruites and therefore there is no merchandies to be solde but spices and silke The people are of blackyshe ashe colour Theyr apparell is like to the Mahumetans of the citie Memphis otherwise named Cayr Alchayr or Babylon of Nilus They haue very large foreheades rounde eyes and flatte noses It is dangerous there to goe abrode in the night the inhabitantes are so giuen to murder and robbery for they kill one another lyke dogges and therefore the merchantes remayne in their shyppes all the nyght The people are fierce of euyll condition and vnruly for they will obey to no gouernour being altogeather giuen to sedition and rebellion and therefore say vnto theyr gouernours that they will forsake the countrey if they stryue to bynde them to order whiche they say the more boldly bycause they are neare vnto the sea and may easily departe into other places For these causes we spent no long tyme here but hyring a Brigantine we sayled to the Ilande of Sumatra where in fewe dayes saylyng we arryued at a citie of the Ilande named Pyder distaunt about fourescore myles from the continent or firme lande Of the Ilande of Sumatra or Taprobana Cap. 18. WE haue sayd here before that the Ilande of Sumatra conteyneth in circuite fyue hundred myles The citie where we fyrst arryued in the Iland is named Pider hauyng a very fayre port I beleeue veryly this Ilande to be Taprobana as also most autours do agree It is gouerned by foure kynges and all Idolaters in fashions apparell and maner of lyuyng not muche differyng from the kyng of Tarnassari The women burne them selues after the death of theyr husbandes as do they of whom we haue spoken before They are of whityshe coloure with large forheades rounde eyes and of brasyll colour They weare theyr heare long and haue very brode and flatte noses and are of despicable stature Iustice is there well obserued Their mony is of golde syluer and tynne The golde coyne hath on the one syde the grauen head of a deuyl and on the other syde a wagon or charrette drawen with Elephantes The syluer mony hath the lyke coyne tenne of these are valued for one of golde But of the tynne coyne .xxv. make the value of one of golde Here are seene more Elephantes bygger and fayrer then in any other place that I haue been This people hath no experience of warres but are geuen altogeather to gaynes and merchandies They are hospitable and enterteyne strangers frendly Of an other kynde of Pepper Also of sylke and the precious gumme called Laserpitium or Belzoe Cap. 19. IN the sayde Iland is a kynde of long Pepper in great abundance Pepper in theyr language is called Molaga is much longer whiter then that which is brought hither yet lighter hotter it is sold there not by weight but bi measure as wheat with vs. It is there in so great abundaunce that there is caryed from hence yeerely twentie shyppes laden with Pepper This is caryed to Cathay and is there well solde by reason of the coldnesse of the region The tree that beareth this kynde of pepper hath a greater body and larger and fatter leaues then the pepper tree of Calecut This Ilande beareth also plentie of sylke whiche for the most parte is made after our maner There is an other sorte which the trees bryng foorth of them selues in the wooddes and feeldes without menage or dressyng but this is woorse then the other Here also groweth the Laser tree whiche bryngeth forth the precious gumme named Laserpitium or Belzoe as the inhabitantes and merchauntes tolde vs but because I haue not seene it I wyll speake no more of it Of three sortes of the tree of Aloes Cap. 20. FOrasmuch as varietie delighteth and the wel disposed mind can neuer be satiate with contemplation of the marueylous and sundry woorkes of God in nature therfore that the reader may take the more pleasure or at the least feele lesse tediousnesse in the reading of these thyngs I haue thought good to wryte somewhat more of suche thynges as I haue seene You shall therefore vnderstande that there is no great plentie of true Aloes or Laserpitium brought to vs because it is brought hyther from the furthest partes of the worlde Understande furthermore that there are three kyndes or sortes of Aloes greatly differyng in goodnesse The perfectest they call Calampat whiche the aforesaide Ilande bryngeth not forth But it is brought from the citie of Sarnau not farre from the place where the sayde Aloes Calampat is engendred as the Christian merchauntes or companions tolde vs. There is an other kynde of Aloes named Iuba or Luba brought hyther by this ryuer
beganne a sturre and mutinie in maner of a tumulte Whiche when the gouernour vnderstoode commauÌ„ded al his Captaines souldiers other officers to plaâ—â— their artilerie order all thynges in redynesse least the 〈◊〉 sudden rage should attempte any thing agaynst the 〈…〉 al thynges were pacified in shorte tyme. Then 〈…〉 takyng me by the hande brought me into 〈…〉 and there demaunded of me what the kyng 〈…〉 of Calecut imagined or deuised to do 〈…〉 I infourmed hym of all thynges as 〈…〉 hauyng diligently searched to vnderstand all 〈…〉 When the gouernour was thus by me 〈…〉 secretes he appoynted a galley to bryng 〈…〉 who was then in the citie of Cusin The 〈…〉 the gallie was named Iohannes Seranus â–ª When 〈…〉 saw me he receiued me very fauourably I 〈…〉 also of al thynges Saying furthermore vnto hym 〈◊〉 myght by his fauoure obteyne pardon and assurance for 〈◊〉 sayde two Italians Peter Antonie and Iohn Maria which 〈…〉 made artillarie for the infidel princes I woulde procure that they shoulde returne to the Christians and do them ryght good seruice and that I was well assured that they dyd that by constraint Also y t they desyred none other thing then safe conduct and mony for theyr charges He was glad of this and graunted my request Whereuppon within three dayes after he sent me with letters to his sonne the gouernour in the citie of Canonor with commaundement to deliuer me as muche mony as shoulde suffice for the charges of the Christian exploratours or espions of the citie of Calecut I went therefore incontinent to Canonor where I agreed with one of the idolatours who for pouertie had gaged his wife children to cary letters to Calecut to Iohn Maria and Peter Antonie The content of which letters was that the Uiceroye had graunted them pardon and safe conducte and also mony for theyr charges Aduertisyng them to make none priuie of this thyng and especially to beware least it shoulde be knowen to theyr slaues or concubines For eche of them had a concubine a child a slaue Furthermore to leaue al their goods behynd them except thynges of great price as mony iewelles For they had a very fayre Diamond of the weyght of .xxxii. caractes esteemed to be woorth .xxxv. thousande crownes They had also a pearle of the weyght of .xxiiii. caractes Furthermore 〈◊〉 thousande rubies of the whiche some were of the weyght 〈…〉 and some of one and a halfe They had also .lxiiii. 〈…〉 garnyshed with many iewelles lykewyse in redye 〈…〉 and fyue hundred peeces of golde But see 〈…〉 much couetousnesse Whyle they thought to haue 〈…〉 all and theyr lyues therewith For not contentyng 〈…〉 with the aforesayde ryches they woulde needes also 〈…〉 notwithstandyng the aduertisement we had geuen 〈…〉 Gunnes three Munkeis two Muskecattes and two of 〈…〉 wherwith precious stones are polyshed All whiche 〈…〉 the onely cause of theyr death For whereas so many 〈…〉 not be secretly conueyed one of theyr slaues 〈…〉 〈…〉 of Calecut heereof who at the fyrst woulde scarsely 〈…〉 〈…〉 for the good opinion he had conceyued of them Yet sent foure 〈◊〉 his garde of them whiche are called Naery to 〈…〉 true But the slaue perceyuyng that the kyng woulde 〈◊〉 fauourably with them went to the hygh priest or Bishop of the fayth of the Mahumetans whom they call Cady and tolde hym all that before he had tolde the kyng of Calecut Addyng moreouer that the sayde Christians had disclosed theyr secretes to the Portugales When the Bishop vnderstode these thynges he called a counsayle of all the Mahumetan merchauntes wyllyng them of the common treasurie to geue a hundred peeces of golde to the kyng of Gioghi who was then at Calecut and to speake to hym in this maner It is not vnknowen to you most noble prince howe a fewe yeeres past when your maiestie came hither we receiued you with more honorable enterteinement then we are nowe able to do The cause whereof is no lacke of good wyl or knowledge of our deuetie towarde your hyghnesse but rather the great and manyfolde iniuries and oppressions whiche we haue susteyned and do dayely susteyne by our mortal enimies the Christians whereof we haue at this present example of two Christian traytors of this citie whiche haue disclosed to the Portugales al our secretes and therefore we make most humble petition vnto you to take of vs a hundred peeces of golde to commaund them to be slayne When the kyng of Gioghi hearde these woords he consented to theyr petition and forthwith appoynted two hundred men to commyt the murder And that they might be the lesse suspected of the Christians meanyng soddenly to kyll them in theyr house came by tenne and tenne as though they came to demaunde theyr accustomed rewarde But when the Christians sawe so great a company assembled about theyr house they suspected that they sought somewhat elles then theyr rewarde or offeryng and therefore incontinent takyng theyr weapons they fought so manfully at the wyndowes and doores of theyr house that they slue syxe men and woounded fourtie But at the length some of y e Gioghi shot at them certaine iron arrowes out of crosse bowes with the which they were both slayne the one beyng sore wounded in the head the other in the bodie As soone as they sawe them fall downe they cutte theyr throtes and takyng the hotte blood in the palmes of theyr handes drunke it vp with contumelious woordes agaynst the Christians After this murder the concubine of Iohn Maria came to Canonor with her young sonne whom I bought of her for eyght peeces of golde and causyng hym to be baptysed named hym Laurence because it was saint Laurence daye But within a yeere after he dyed of the frenche poxe whiche disease had then dispersed almost through all the worlde For I haue seene many infected with it foure hundred myles beyonde Calecut They call it Pua And they affyrme that this disease was neuer seene there past xvii yeeres before It is there more greeuous and outragious then with vs. Of the Nauie of the citie of Calecut and of the memorable conflicte betwene the Christians and Mahumetans In the whiche the Portugales with incredible valiantnesse gaue theyr enimies the ouerthrowe And howe the kyng of Canonor reioyced at their victorie Cap. 38. IN the yeere of our Lorde .1506 the fourth daye of March woorde was brought vs of the death of the sayde Christians The same daye from the cities of Calecut Pauan Capagot Pandaram Trompatam departed a great nauie of two hundred and eyght shippes of the whiche fourescore and foure were great shippes or shippes of burden and the rest were dryuen with Ores after the maner of Foystes whiche they call Parao The Nauie was manned with in maner innumerable Mahumetans shewyng themselues very braue in apparel of purple sylke and Bombasine with also theyr hygh and sharpe cappes after
A man would thynke they were all dombe in the presence of the kyng suche is theyr silence No man dare turne his backe to the kyng but departyng from hym eche one goeth backewarde No man dare go out of his place when the kyng passeth by At his goyng abrode he is folowed with a great troupe of his nobles and gentelmen and hath three rods borne before hym one whereof he taketh in his owne hand when he commeth foorth out of his lytter wherin commonly he is caryed abrode In conclusion no heathen prince hath so many cerimonies as this kyng of Mexico Quietly in this citie from the .8 of September the yeere of our lorde .1520 vntyll Maie folowing remayned Cortesius with al honour enioying his pictorye and rulyng so myghty a kyngdome conquered by hym with al prosperitie When Velasque a Spanyarde then Lieuetenaunt of Cuba that euer enuied at his good hap sent Naruaez a lusty young captayne with eyghtene sayle wel appointed to commaund Cortesius out of Mexico and to geue ouer the rule of that countrey which he him selfe had paynefully conquered vnto their pleasure by forged patents from the Spanyshe kyng Muche amazed at the fyrst was Cortesius with this tydinges consideryng that if he went agaynst Naruaez the Mexicanes not yet throughly brought in subiection might in the meane time reuolte againe if he staied Naruaez might put his conquest in ioperdy violently forcing y e countrey euerywhere as he came The matter was thorowly knowen to the barbares of Themistitan The king himselfe had brought hym by his vassalles paynted in a table the ships theyr number artillarye horsemen and footemen landed In the ende Cortesius resolued hym selfe to go agaynst Naruaez Wherfore leauyng at Themistitan a Garryson of Spaniardes the whiche he hyghly commended vnto Muteezuma marched forward with .170 footemen sendyng other .80 that way before hym Naruaez lykewyse came on agaynst Cortesius and had nowe taken Cempoal and styrred vp agaynst hym those citizens Cortesius hauyng intelligence of Naruaez certayne beyng there in an hygh towre garded with .800 souldiers and .19 Canons set at the steyre foote thynkyng neuerthelesse nothyng at all of his commyng set vppon Naruaez with .250 men and there tooke hym on Witsunday night the rest of his company yelded them selues In the meane while the citizens of Themistitan reuolted against theyr prince and the Spanyshe gouernement as by a messenger dispatched thither from Cempoal to declare Cortesius good hap and Naruaes imprisoment it was vnderstoode The castle of Themistitan besieged in many places set a fyre and vndermyned the Spanyshe Gartyson to be in great ieopardye the flye boates they made burnt the messenger him selfe greeuously wounded Muteezuma the kyng onely to fauoure them and hym nowe scarsely obeyed the nobles to choose death rather then to obey suche geastes that keepe theyr kyng lyke a warde that dispossesse them of their owne citie that meyntayne therin theyr enimies the Tascaltecans Guazuingoes euen before theyr face at theyr owne charges to despight them that deuoure theyr vittaylles harde to come by in that citie so situated in the water that iniurie them that lay on tributes that by hooke aâ—d by crooke make away from them whatsoeuer good there is to â—e had that breake downe theyr Idolles and suppresse theyr auncient rytes and cerimonies Cortesius therefore speedily with .70 horses and fyue hundred footemen and as muche artillery as he could returneth againe to Themistitan whyther he came about mydsommer daye At Cortesius entrie into the citie agayne the Spanyardes throughly beaten by the Barbares with dartes and stones from hygh pine-apple trees an hygh tower that was neere began to take hart and to hope for good happe after theyr great troubles The Barbares lykewyse vnderstandyng of Cortesius commyng grew to be more cruel and fyrce â–ª with horrible cryes shootyng of theyr arrowes and throwyng an infinite number of dartes and stones for the company of them was innumerable that the ayre seemed darke and cloudie therewith Cortesius sent out a captaine with two hundred to rescue the Spanyardes in the palace This captayne slue many of the Barbares but the multitude was so great that he dyd litle good Foure of his souldyers were slayne he hym selfe greeuousely wounded had much a do to retyre agayne Cortesius set vppon them at an other syde litle harme dyd he them likewyse for that as sone as the Barbares had spent theyr dartes and stones eche one gat vp into the turrette of his house to saue hym selfe The fyght helde on fyrcely a good while Cortesius was forced in the ende to retyre with some daunger and losse of many of his soldiers The whiche thyng when the Barbares had espied they begane to geue a newe assalte on euery syde of the palace to fyre the gates and stoutely to continue batterye fyghtyng euen vppon theyr felowes dead carcasses and wyshyng with them rather to be slayne then to lyue in bondage vnder the Spanyardes Thus spent they in armes the whole daye yeeldyng a newe supply of men the multitude was so great foure tymes an houre and raysyng clamors all the nyght long to the Spanyardes great annoy that then coulde take no rest after theyr paynefull and daungerous conflycte the daye tyme fewe in number fyghtyng from mornyng to nyght without intermission and .80 of theyr companye wounded The next day the Barbares set vppon the Spanyardes agayne Cortesius planteth .xiii. feelde peeces and furnysheth his vangarde with harquebuziers and archers but theyr enimies so litle esteemed death that seyng at one shoot a dozen of theyr felowes torne in peeces all feare set a syde they supplyed styll the voyde places The day folowyng the Spanyardes wanting victuals issued out in open feelde they slue many Barbares they ouerthrew the houses neare y e pallace they tooke certaine draught bridges but at night they returned with their Generall and 50. of their company wounded as hungry as they went foorth Wherefore they caused warlike engines to be made of boords in fourme of a fouresquare house going on wheeles placing in ech one therof .20 shot whom many rascall souldiers folowed with pikeaxes and hatchets to do harme that way in destroying their buildings but stones dartes came so mightily so thicke about the Spaniardes eares that such as went thus foorth were faine to creepe home againe out of their engines torne in peeces they that taried at home could not once looke out but they were domaged Kyng Muteezuma desirous to dissuade his citizens from the assalt shewyng him selfe vnto them out of the Pallace had a blowe with a stone whereof in three dayes he dyed This Prince was of a very good nature wyse and very patient his body the Spaniardes lefte vnto the Mexicans to bury for that they them selues had little other leasure then to thinke how to saue their liues rather than to bury the dead The next day the nobles of the countrey came to a parle with Cortesius
Priuilegio Kyng of Portugale Algarbs Lorde of Guinea of the coÌ„quest nauigation and trafike into Ethiopia Arabia Persia India The first part the first Decadâ— The second Decade The third Decade The fourth Decade The seconde part The thyrde part The fourth part A harde begynyng The Pylot that fyrst founde the Indies Mina Colon was not much learned Colon conferred with learned men Kyng Henry the seuenth Barnarde knewe not all thynges The conquest of Granada The archbâ—shop of Toledo The colour of the East Indians The coloure of the west Indians Gods wysedome power is seene in his workes Thyle is Islande The largenesse of the Ocean vnknowen to this day Cardinal Ascanius The warres at Granatum agaynst the Moores Italy disquieted with warres The sequeles of warre Kyng Frederike Spayne subdued from the Moores The kyngdome of Naples The temperatnesse of the Equinoctiall vnknowen to the olde wryters Continent or fyrme lande as bygge as three Europes Riches are the instruments of conquestes The rewardâ— of vertue The Ilandes of the West Ocean Christophorus Colonus India The fyrst voyage of Colonus The Ilandes of Canarie Gades or Calsmals A league what it conteyneth by sea The fortunate Ilandes Capo Verde The .vii. Ilandes of Canarie Betanchor a Frenche man subdued the Ilandes of Canarie c. Alphonsus Lugo Colonus men rebel agaynst hym Fayre woordes and promises Hispaniola Iohanna Nightingales syng in Nouember The Ilande of Ophir The Ilandes of Antilia A shypwracke The people of the Ilande Naked people Expert swymmers Gold for earth and glasse Many kynges Religious and humane people Canoas Monoxyla They haue no iron Canibales or Caribes Anthâ—opophagi The crueltie of the Canibales Ages Rootes in the steede of meate Iucca Bread of rootes In hearbe of strange nature Maizium Golde in estimation Golde in the sandes of riuers Serpentes without venime Turtle doues Duckes Popiniayes Plini These Ilandes are part of India The Indians are Antipodes to the Spanyardes Aristotle Seneca India not farre from Spayne Mastyx Aloe Gossampine cotton or bombase Seres The language of these Indians Trees fruites vnknoweÌ„ to vs Fat and moyst grounde Heate continual temperate The fruitefulnesse of Hispaniola The seconde voyage of Colonus Corne seedes to sowe Tooles and artyllerie Water droppyng from a tree continuallye Methymna Campi Castella Vetus Gades The Ilandâ— of Ferrea Ilandes of the Canibales The Ilande of Dominica Lysartes The Ilande of Galanta The Iland of Guadalupea Villages of .xx. or .xxx. houses The buildyng of theyr houses Gossampine cotton Bombase Hangyng beddes Images Fine cookerie Arrowheades of bones The mount Guadalupus Carucueria Popiniayes bygger then Phesantes The Canibales driueÌ„ to flyght Matinino an Ilande of women The Ilandes of Mons Serratus Huntyng for men Sancta Maria Rotunda Sanctus Martinus Sancta Maria Antiqua Insula crucis an Ilande of the Canibales The Canibales are expert Archers Arrowes inâ—ected with â—enime A conflict with the Canibales The fiercenesse terrible countenance of the Canibales Methymna Campi Innumerable Ilandes The mynes of mettals precious stones The sea called Archipelagus Insula S. Iohannes or Buchena Death for death â—he mounâ—â—ynes are colâ—er then the â—â—aynes â—rom Domiâ—â—ca to Hispaâ—â—ola fiue hunâ—â—ed leagues â—he Spaniarâ—s left in the â—ande are â—yne â—yng Guaccaâ—â—rillus reâ—â—leth Two images of golde Libertie and idlenesse A happie kinde of lyfe Superfluitie Many haue to much and none yenough The golden worde Naked men troubled with ambition Geue place The Admirall sendeth for the kyng No horses in the Ilandes A tyme for all â—ynges A desperate aduenture of a woman Cloelia of Rome Guaccanarillus is sought Melchior Popyngiayes and byrdes Taini Haukes belles A large house Reedes of sundry colours Caccius Hoiedus and Gorualanus Gold in riuers â—allyng from mountaynes The manner of gathering gold Graynes of golde A masse of rude gold weyghing ix ounces Caunaboa â–ª kyng of the house of golde Holsome water and plentie of fyshe The day and nyght of equall length in December Byrdes breede in December The eleuation of the pole The starres are called guardens of the pole The Equinoctial line A chappell and priestes Marchantes Syrophenicians The Cinamome tree Xiloaloes or Lignum Aloes Hispaniola Ophir whither Solomons shyps sayled for Golde Isabella A token of marueilous fruitefulnesse Hearbes greene al the whole yeere Suger reedes Plantes and vines Corne grayne ripe twyse a yeere The region of Cipanga or Cibana Golde The golden region of Cibana The vale of Cibana Golde for haukes bels Graynes and pibble stones of golde They passe not for golde in that it is golde onely but. c. Stones of golde as big as the head of a childe Spices Wilde vines of plesaunte taste Fruitful mountaynes Golde in the lande of ryuers falling from the mountaynes Libertie and idlenes The mountaynes are colde The ilande of Cuba Least any other prince c. Discention betweene the Portiugales and Spaniardes The ilandes of cobouerde or Hesperides The Portugales vâ—ages The ende of the easte and weste Note India not far from Spaine Sainte Nicolas porte The iland of Iamaica Quicke witted people The compassing of the earth Aurea Chersonesus or Malaccha A secreate of Astronomie The riuer of Ganges Daungerous streightes by reason of many Ilandes A large hauen Rosted fishe and serpents of viii foote longe Crocodiles of Egipte The kinges fishers Serpentes esteemed for delicate meaâ—â— Blossomes fruites both at one time Trees which beare gourds A multitude of Ilandes Hotte water A straunge kinde of fisshing Abundance of Tortoyses Fisher men The fishe Guaicanum Humane people A mountayne fruitfull and well inhabited Dogges of strange shape and dumme white and thicke water Wooddes of â—ate trees Men appareâ—â—d like white â—â—yers â—pparelled â—en Natiue vines Trees bearyng spices sweete fruites Diuers languages in the Ilande of Cuba Pearles in shelfyshes The sea entangled with Ilandes A multitude of great Tortoyses A gulfe of white water The humanitie of a reuerende olde gouernour An oration of the naked gouernour Theyr opinion of the soule of man Desyre of gold founde that which religion coulde not â—ynde Virtus post nummos c. The lande as common as â–ª the sunne and water Simple dyet Hispaniola The Canibales Sickenesse of to much Watching Easte India The Spaniardes rebell in the Admirals absence The kinges of the ilande rebell The Spaniardes misbehauiour A iust reuenge Capitayne Hoieda Caunaboa conspireth the Admirals death Famine in the ilande of hispaniola The hunger of golde causeth greate famine The tower of conception Electrum is a metall naturally mixt of one portion of golde an other of siluer being of propertie to bewraye poyson and was therfore in olde time in greater estimation then golde The mine of Electrum An other kinde of amber is taken out of greate whale fishes Orpement oâ— oker Wooddes of brasile trees Licentiusnes of to much libertie And this only geathered and not dygged out of the bodye of the mine The nature of the region disposeth the maner of
the people Kyng Caunaboa in captiuitie Caunaboa his brother rebelleth A conflict betwene the Cibanians and the Spaniards A greate tempest in the moneth of Iune Whirle windes Furacanes The death of king Caunaboa and his brother The golde mines of Salomon Gold in the superficiall partes of the earth The golden tower Lacke of vitayles Vittualles brought from Spayne Saint Domiâ—ikes towre Isabella The Riuer of Naiba Wooddes of Brasile trees Mountaynes without golde The kinges wiues Well fauored women Driades A pretie pastyme Foure men slayne in sport Prouision for diseased men The castels or towers of hispaniola The golden mountaynes of Cibana The kinges rebell An army of xv thousand Barbarians The kinges are taken prisoners king Guarionexius is pardoned Lacke of vytayles xxxii kinges Serpentes eaten The dressing of serpentes to be eaten Serpentes egges eaten Gossopine cotton Queene Anacaona The treasurie of Queene Anacaona Hebene wood The Ilande of Guanabba Cunnyng Artificers A stone in the steede of Iron Gunnes Musical instrumentes Ignorance causeth admiration The intemperancie malice of a seruile wit aduaunced Ciguanians Licenciousnesse in libertie Hercules pyllers A violent perswasion The furie of Guarionexius The thyrd voyage of Colonus the Admiral Frenche men pyrates The iland of Madera Healing of the leper Contagious ayre and extreeme heate The iland of Puta People of comly corporature and long heare neere the Equinoctial The higher the colder Musical instrumentes The violent course of the water from the East to the West The gulfe called Os Draconis A sea of fresh water Marmasets Monkeyes The fayre and large region of Paria Humane people Chayers and stooles of Hebene Whyte men neere the Equinoctiall Shalownesse of the sea The vse of Carauels or Brigandines A riuer of marueylous deapth and breadth The eleuation of the Pole aâ— Paria Note a secrete as concernyng the Pole starre An experience A marueylous secrete Time reuealeth â—l thynges The Spaniardes rebell in the Admiralles absence The Spaniardes accuse the Admiral The Admiralâ— answere These had the custodies of the temples A cruel deuillyshe pastyme Heare made long blacke by arte Kyng Maiobanexius An army of eight thousand Ciguauians Kyng Guarionexius Naturall hatred of vyce The Lieuetenaunts gentelnesse toward Maiobanexius A rare faithfulnesse in a barbarous kyng The Lieuetenauntes messengers are slayne The Spaniardes are painfull in the warres A desperate aduenture with thirtie men A pollicie A beautifull woman The kynges submit them selues to the Lieuetenaunt A newe gouernour of the Ilande The Ocean sea heretofore vnknowen The nauigation of Petrus Alphonsus Pearles for tryfles Great plentie of pearles Shel fyshes in which pearles are engendred Theyr manner of bargayning The vse of pynnes Haukes belles in great estimation Roring of wild beastes Hartes and wylde bores Cunnyng artificers Base golde Tokens of the continent or firme lande The golden region of Canchieta The Equinoctial line Gossampine trees Canibales in the gulfes of Paria Death for death Howe the Canibales fortifie their campe Haraia Springes of salt water The bodyes of prynces dryed and reserued Orient pearles â—s bygge as â—asel nuts The Ilande of Margarita The nauigation of Vincentius and Aries Pinzonus The Ilandes of Canarie Cabouerde S. Iames Ilande The north pole out of sight Habitable regions vnder the Equinoctial lyne People of high stature A vagabounde kynde of men Giantes Desperate â—oldnesse A sea of freshe water Many fruitful Ilandes Humane people Regions of Paria Gold pearles The commodities of the regions Ilands about Paria Brasile Canibales Trees of Cassia fistula A monstrous beast Extreme remedie in a desperate case Cinamome and Ginger Topases Men of noble courage Another voyage Animae album The superstitions of Hispaniola The errours of the olde gentilitie Idolatrie and idolles Illusions of euil spirites Images of gossampine catton Young deuyls Fables muche lyke Ouide his transformations The Nyghtyngale The Ilande of Mathinino Children turned into Frogs A special grace Holy reliques A holy caue The original of the sunne and moone Walkyng spirites A remedie agayest walking spirites Priestes and diuines Phisitions Ignorance is norished with superstition A powder of marueylous effect A strange maner of curyng Angry gods They make the dead to speake Fayries or spirites of the gentiles much like to the papistes The pouder of the herbe Cohobba Secrete mysteries Reuelations The spirite of Apollo The Sibylles Children with two crownes Wandering images A woman Zemes of great power Mediatours A marueylous illusion of the deuyll The idolles abolyshed Millane in the handes of the french men The history folowyng conteyneth the actes of ten yeeres Paria part of the fyrme lande of East India Golde Frankencense The fiercenesse of the naked people A man deuoured of a monster of the sea Note the largenesse of the new Ilandes Antipodes The nature of the place altereth the formes and qualities of thynges Plentie of beastes and foule Cuba is an Ilande The 〈◊〉 of Cuba The Ilande of Burichema of S. Iohannis Golde mynes Tyllage They abhorre labour They are docible The kynges chyldren The two cheefe golde mynes of Hispaniola A costly shypwracke Pesus The fynyng and distributing of gold Three hundred thousaÌ„d weight of gold molten yeerely in Hispaniola The newe landes Enlargyng of the Christian religion The original of true nobilitie The Ilande of Guanassa The voyage of Iohannes Diaz West Antipodes The encrease of the Christian congregation Of landes distant from the Equinoctiall from fyue degrees to ten The death of Colonus A generall licence The nauigation of Alphonsus Fogeda The region of Caramairi Apples whiche turne into wormes A tree whose shadowe is hurtful Warlyke people Arrowes infected with poyson The nauigation of Diego Nicuesa The regions of Vraba and Beragua The Spanyardes reuenge the death of theyr companions A great slaughter Canibales The hunger of golde The Ilande Fortis Wrought gold Nicuesa The gulfe Coiba Barnardino de Calauera Fogeda returneth to Hispaniola Famine A Brigandine drowned with the stroke of a fyshe The region of Cuchibacoa Serra Neuata Os Draconis Riche in golde and poore in bread The vse of targets agaynst venemous arrowes The barbarians haue respect to iustice Salted fyshe Wine of fruites and seedes Artyllerie Ancisus shypwracke A groue of date trees Wylde bores Apples of a strange kyndâ— Cedars of Libanus Men of desperate boldenesse The gulfe of Vraba The great riuer of Darien The souldiers make an othe The barbarians are dryuen to flyght The riuer of Darien but vii degrees from the Equinoctial lyne Golde founde in a thycket of reedes Brest plates of golde The golden regions are for the most part barren Lupus Olanus Petrus de Vmbria The ryuer Lagartos The golden ryuer of Beragua The enterpryse death of Petrus de Vmbria The daungerous place of Scilla in the sea of Cicile The miserable case of Nicuesa The riuer of S. Matthei The rigocousnesse of Nicuesa Corne waxeth rype euerye fourth moneth The commendation of a young man brought vp with Colonus Portus Bellus
Weakenesse of hunger Cape Marmor Nomen Dei The nauigation of Rodericus Colmenaris An exceedyng high mountayne couered with snowe Apparelled men Spanyardes slayne with venemous arrowes A remedie agaynst venemous arrowes The hauen of Vraba Nicuesa is founde in a miserable case Insolencie oftâ— muche felicitie The death of Nicuesa Famine enforseth them to fal to spaylyng Careta kyng of Coiba Kyng Careta is taken and spoyled Mine thine the seedes of al myscheefe Ancisus Lieuetenant for Fogeda is cast in pryson Ancisus taketh his voyage to Hispaniola The reuengâ— of God The inconueniences of discorde King Poncha Swordes of wood Kyng Careta conspireth with the Spaniards agaynst kyng Poncha The region of Comogra distant from Dariena .xxx. leagues Kyng Comogrus The kynges pallace Wine syder Blacke wine The carcasses of men dâ—yed The distribution of golde Young Comogrus his oration The hunger of golde A region flowing with golde Kyng Tumanama Canibales The golde mines of the mountaynes Vnwrought golde not estemed Abundance of golde Housholde stuffe of golde Naked people tormented with ambition A vehement perswasion A token of hunger Kyng Comogrus is baptised with his familie Horrible thunder and lyghtnyng in the moneth of Nouember Maryshe grounde Ancisus bitten of a Batte A tempest King Turui The Ilande of Cannafistula King Abibeiba dwelleth in a tree The rysyng of the Ocean sea Trees of marueilous height Plinie Fruitefull grounde Abibeiba the kyng of the tree yeeldeth to Vaschus Golde no more esteemed then stones Canibales Men good yenough yf they had iron Captiues A garryson of thirtie men Eightene Spanyardes slayne and drowned The kinges which conspired the death of the Christians A straunge chaunce Women can keepe no counsayle An armie of an hundred Canoas and fyue M. men Triumph before victorie Affection corrupteth true iudgement The conspiracie of the kyngs is detected Kyng Cemaechus conspireth the death of Vaschus Vaschus pursueth the kings with threescore and ten men Colmenaris sacketh the vyllage of Tichiri Fyue rulers hanged shot through with arrowes Iohan. Quicedus is sent to Spayne A wife is a hinderaunce The death of aldiuia Hurt of lauyshnesse of the tongue The calamities and death of Fogeda Maladies and famine The prosperous voyage of Ancisus A king of Cuba baptised by the name of Commendator A marueylous hystorie howe God wrought myracles by the simple faith of a Maryner Be not rashe in iudgement A Chappell builded to the pycture of the virgin Marie One superstititious religion turned into an other holdeth stil many thinges of the fyrst Zeale without knowledge is neuer godly Marke this blyndnesse This ignorance is to be lamented The deuil dissembleth to keepe his in blyndnesse styll A notable lye of a papistical heretike One blasphemie vpon another The deuyll appeareth in his lykenesse What likenes A strange myracle not to be credited Another myracle Wise men Math. xiiii This is another matter The deuyl appeareth againe The virgin Mary in her owne person ouercommeth the deuyl The priestes rewarde Why name you Capons Ancisus voiage to Spayne Ancisus complayneth of Vaschus Marke to whoÌ„ this fayned myraculous storie was written The procuratours of Dariena are honourably receiued at the court The great master of the kings ships Petrus Arias is elected gouernour of Dariena The oration of the Byshop of Burges in the defence of Petrus Arias The warres of Aphryca A house in Ciuile appoynted to the affayres of India Perulariae The Portugales inuentions The nauigation of Petrus Arias A shipwracke Americus Vesputius A notable example of a valiant woman The wyfe of Petrus Arias Plentie of pearles The vse of gunnes Great abundance of gold frankencense â–ª Olibanum Sabea is a couÌ„trey in â—rabia which bringeth foorth Frankencense Rulers for one yeere The great gulfe of Paria The great Iland Atlantike Contention betweene the Castilians Portugales for the newe landes The bishop of Rome diuideth the lande The golden regioÌ„ of Ciamba The Ilande of S. Iohannis Fyue byshops of the Ilande made by the bishop of Rome The Canibales of the Iland of Sancta Crux The ryuers of Vraba The fruitfulnesse of Vraba The fruitefulnes of Dariena Swynes fleshe of better taste more holsome then mutton Fruites putrified on the sea Betatas Lions and Tygers A strange beast The ryuers of Vraba A league is xxiiii furlonges Danubius A Crocodile is muche lyke a Neute but of exceedyng kygnesse The Portugales nauigations A philosophical discourse as concerning thoriginal of springes and ryuers The breadth of the lande at Vraba from the North Ocean to the South sea The sea The lande enclosed with two seas Conuersion of ayre into water in the caues of mountaynes The often fal of rayne and continuall spryng tyme. The Equinoctiall The pores of the sea and the south wynde The fludde Eridanus The ryuer Alpheus Longe caues in the mountaines The length and forme of the Iland Cardes of the sea The carde of Americus Vesputius The carde of Colouns The carde of Iohannes de la Cossa The carde of Andreas moralis The maner of measuring the cardes A league The nauigation of Iohannes Dias The eleuation of the pole The iurisdiction of the Portugales Hercules pyllers The Ilande Boiuca or Agnaneo The renouation of age A water of marueilous vertue The accidentes of age may be hydden Extreme hunger This was at the siege of Hierusalem Many dogges eaten A mangie dog â—â—are solde Broth of a mangie dogs skynne Toades eaten A dead man eaten Note Petrus Arias whoÌ„ the Spanyardâ—s call Pedâ—arias Vaschus Nunnez gouernor of Dariena The new south Ocean Commendation of the Spanyardes A valiant mynd can not be ydle Vaschus his voyage toward the golden mountaynes â–ª Careta kyng of Coiba King Poncha Strange thinges are counted precious Lacke of Iron A stone in the steede of Iron Superfluities hynder libertie Carpenters Brydges The region of Quarequa kyng Quarequa is dryuen to flyght Hargabusies Crossebowes vi C. Barbarians are slaine The vse of dogges in the warre agaynst the naked Barbarians Natural hatred of vnnatural sinne I woulde al men were of this opinion The haruest is great and the woorkemen but fewe Warlyke people The higher the colder A region of blacke Moores Diseases of change of ayre and dyet The south sea Prayer God rayseth the poore from the dounghyl Hanniball of Carthage King Chiapes A battayle Chiapes is driuen to flyght Vaschus sendeth for kyng Chiapes Chiapes submitteth hym selâ—e to Vaschus A gulfe of threescore myles Saint Michaels gulfe The manly corage and godly zeale of Vaschus Ryches are the synewes of warre The faythfulnes of kyng Chiapes A tempest on the sea The increasing of the South sea The Northe Ocean Hard shyft in necessitie The region Tumacca Kyng Tumaccus is driuen to flyght Golde and pearles Muscles of the sea Fyshyng for pearles The thyrst of golde Ambition among naked men A kyng of greaâ— power Byg pearles Cleopatra queene of Egypt resolued a pearle in vineger drunke it Price fiue
substaunce Great trees A marueylous tree Kyndlyng of fyre without fyre Putrified woodde shynyng in the nyght Plinie Trees whiche continue euer greene Cassia A secrete thyng Radycall moysture Platani Fygges Tunas Bihaos Hauas Dying of cotton A strange thyng Note Caniballes archers Wherwith they inuenome theyr arrowes Petrus Arias The water of the sea The gulfe of Uraba Xagua Hohi Some thinke these to be mirobalanes Date trees Thinhabitauntes of the sea of Sur. An hearbe that beareth cordes Cabuia and Henequen A strange thing Leaues A leafe of great vertue Tiburons Manates Great Tortoyses Tiburons Plinie Crocodiles Manates The fyshe Manate A remedy agaynst the stone The swoorde fyshe Tunnye Turbut Note Fleeyng fyshes The Iland of Bermuda Not to hie for the Pye nor to lowe for the Crowe Beragua The west Ocean The sea Mediterraneum Hispaniola Cuba The South sea The power and wysedome of God is sene in his creatures Esquegua and Vrraca Nomen Dei Panama The ryuer of Chagre The Ilande Bastimento The marueylous brydge The Ilandes of Molucca The commoditie of this viage Tigers Plantes and hearbes Birdes Men. Sheepe Bulles Iucca Battes Plinie The Tiger The huntyng of Tigers A rewarde for kyllyng of Tygers Colonus compared to Hercules The pyllers of Hercules The strayghtes of Gibilterra Note Plus Vltra Howe farre the Emperours maiestie excelleth Hercules A Tyger made tame The Indian women The men of India The kyng is borne on mens backes Lettyng of blood They haue no beardes They paynte their bodies The Canibals Armure of golde Their galantnesse in the Warres Theyr Iuelles Howe the women beare vp theyr teates with barres of golde The stature colour of the Indians The Indians called Coronati The Ilande of Giantes Iucatos The sculles of the Indians heades Newe Spaine The houses of the Christians in India Dariena Gardens Men are desirous of newe thynges The commodities of Hispaniola Englande and Sicilie Golde mynes Cotton Cassia Suger Plantes and hearbes Great thynges hyndred by respect of present gaynes Oranges Pomegranats Fygges all the yeere Dates Beastes Great heardes of cattayle Good pasture The effect of continuall and moderate heate The cause of fat nouryshment Beastes of long lyfe in regions about the Equinoctial line Trees whose leaues do not wyther The canker of the tree Long lyued men in India Paradise neare the Equinoctiall line Sheepe and Hogges Dogges and Cattes become wylde The situation of Hispaniola The citi of San Domenico The ryuer Ozama The Hauen A cathadrall churche and monasteris in Hispaniola An Hospitall The people Glowormes Crowes stinkyng sweete Sainct Iohn his Ilande â–ª Iamaica Partriches Pellettes for Gunnes wrought by nature A fountayne of the pytche of Bitumen Quintus Cursius Bitumen of Babylon Panuco Baccalaos Indians Ryche furres and syluer Idolaters The citie of Mexico or Temixtitan Golde and syluer Sylke Cotton Alame Woade Suger Shelles for mony Corne. Beastes Haukyng and huntyng Payntyng WomeÌ„ sumptuously appareled A warlyke nation Captiues sacrificed to Idoles Peru is the rychest land that is knowen A house couered with golde Harnesse of golde A fruitfull region Great sheepe The dutie of Christian Princes Paraue Iohn Dias Solis The Iland Martinus Gratias The viage of Sebastian Cabot to the riuer of Plata Charlis Ophir Cipango Cathay The ryuer of Plata Marueylous fruitefulnes Mountaynes conteynyng golde and syluer Great sheepe Theyr colour Men with deformed legges The way to the Ilandes of Molucca by the north sea The Spanyardes Gasper Cortesreales Insula Cortesreales Snowe and Ise. Furres Fyshe Gryfes Beares The Britons Sebebastian Cabot The lande of Baccallaos The viage of Cabot in the dayes of king Henry the seuenth I se in Iuly Baccallaos Brytons Danes Iaques Cartyre The people of Baccallaos Fyshing for Tunnies Laborador Iohn Ponce Water of great vertue of this reade in the Decades Bemini Guaccana The Canibales Boriquen The death of Iohn Ponce The lande of Florida Ferdinando de Soto The valiant myndes of the Spanyardes The thyrd attempt of the conquest of Florida Certayne Fryers attempt the conquest onely with wordes but with euyll successe The Fryers are slayne and eaten A newe kynde of disgradyng 1. By the southeast 2. By the southwest 3. By the northeast Ortel tab Asiae 3. 4. By the Northwest Ob. 1. In Theatro Ob. 2. Ob. 3. Ob. 4. 5. Ob. Ob. 6. Cic. i. de orat Arist. pri Metaph. Lib. i. Geog. Cap. 2. Sol. i. Sol. 2. Oued 1. Meta. Sol. 3. Sol. 4. Lib. Geog. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 2. Meteor Cap. 1. Plin. lib. 2. Cap. 67. Sol. 5. Sol. 6. Luc. lib. 1. Pharsal VVhat the easterne currant is Lib. 1. Geog. Cap. 2. Fuquien Cinceo Cantan Chequeam Xutiamfu Chelim Quianci rather Quinzi Pachin al. Pochang Theyr monethes Loutea Chian al. Chaen Ponchiassi Anchiassi al. Hexasi Tuzi Taissu Licentiates Doctors Dutch lyke We that is the Italians and Spaniardes After the Dutch fation Pithigorian lyke The Italians call it the strapadâ— A pylleâ—â— boorde Of like the first lenders be the more welthier Fuquieo Hereof to fore Parai Tamen the proper name of China Pochang al. Theyr enemies Maryage of the kynges children He speaketh not here of all China but of the cities for in other places there be beggers as you haue seene already swarmyng out of trees He speaketh of Fuquien shyre Aliis Cenchi The kynges reuenues Parai That is theyr temples It shoulde seeme by their voyage to be Cardandan in Ortelius It seemeth they came vp the riuer from the Caspian sea At cacan Ali. Auoins Tartares Mounte Vsont Mogorites Bremes Southwarde from Chenchi to the sea Auoins Chenchi Goa is a citie of the Portugales in East Indie Theyr gouernement Tundi P. 231. But his almes are very good Inambuxu Genguis The Giaponish Funerals Ainan 〈…〉 Santianum The Romane Empyre 4. hundreth yeeres of ignoraunce East India well knowen in olde time Strabo The great rychesse of Egypt The citie of Alexandria Marueylous rychesse The gouernaunce and reuenues of the Romanes Trogloditica and India The gulfe of Arabia Ethiope Rych customs The rychesse whiche were brought in olde time from India and the redde sea The commision of Themperours Marcus and Comodus The great riches the kings of Egypt had by customes The noble enterpryses of the kings of Egypt Arsinoe Damiata Pelusio Nilus Copto Berenice A nauigable trenche made from Egypt to the red sea Lacus amari King Sesostre King Psammiticus Kyng Darius Kyng Ptolomeus The citie Heroum What Plinie writeth of the nauigable trenche The largenesse and length of the trenche The viage by land from Egypt to the red sea What kyng Ptolomeus discouered Alcayre The viage to East India frequented in olde tyme. The customes and maners of the Indians The voyage to Cathay Rycharde Chaunceler A learned descourse of dyuers voyages The voyages of the Portugales The worlde hangyng in the ayre What is knowen of the lower hemispherie The lande of Brasile Peru. The charg and dutie of Christian princes Note
Abyssins Iustice good lawes Sheepe with great tayles Palearia Kyne with Hartes hornes Kyne with only one horne â–ª Diuobanderrumi The Soltan of Cambaia Goa Giulfar Meschet Ormus Pearles Fyshyng for Pearles Dyuers vnder the water Chorazani or Chorashan Great abundaunce of silke Plentie of corne Rubarbe of smal price The riuen Euphrates Schira Precious stons The stone Eranon â–ª A Turques Balascam Castoreum The profe of true CastoreuÌ„ Comendation of the Persians Squilaâ— Sainct Bragant An armie of threescore thousand horsemen War betweene the Sophieâ— of Persia and the Turke for their religion The Turkes holde of Mahumet and his felowes The Persians hold of Mahumet and Hali or Mortus Hali. A sure friend in necessitie Cheo The ryuer Indus The citie of Cambaia Note the increse of ryuers contrarye to ours xl shippes ladeÌ„ with sylke and bombasine Pithagorici Good people They may see me the successours of Darius and Poâ—us The great pompe of the kyng of Cambaia Elephantes Monstruos great lyppes A straunge historie of a kyng accustomed to eate poyson A venomus kyng Belyke he getteth no chyldren Great fruitfulnesse abundance of merchandies Plentie of sylke The kyng of Ioga an Idolatour Continuall progresse Wyues and concubines The colour of the Indians Hornes Wanderyng nations Feelde men Guzerat Idolatours Dabuly Idolaters Tribute Coyne Mamalukes white men A fayre palace Great pompe and magnificence Where Diamuntes are founde Womens faces couered White men The kyng of Decham hateth the Christians The citie Bathacala Centacola Idolatars Barthacal The Ilande of Onor A kyng a pirate Naked men Ryse Beastes Byrdes and foules Flowers all the yeere longe â–ª Longe lyfe Myngolor Ryse Afterwarde he became frende to the Portugales 〈…〉 â—ranges Ryse Spyces Straunge fruites An army of fyftie thousand gentelmen Gunnes Dromedares Elephantes A triple wall Hawkyng and huntyng An army of foure thousand horsemen Horses of great price Foure hundred Elephantes Dromedary Camelles Howe the Elephantes are prepared to the warres Seuen men fyght vpon one Elephant Howe the Elephant is armed The Elephant vnderstandeth the voyce of his keeper The Elephant can not abyde fyre The strength of the Elephant The Elephants haue ioyntes in their legges The hande of the Elephant The teeth of the Elephant is Iuery The bygnesse of the Elephant The naturall shamefastnesse of Elephantes The pissell of an Elephant Men of lesse vnderstandyng then Elephantes The riches of the kyng of Narsinga A great tribute by the day Idolaters A riche cloke The magnificence of the kyng of Narsinga Coyne of golde and siluer Daunger of Lyons The kyng of Narsinga friend to the kyng of Portugale The citie of Trompata Mahumetans Pandara Capagot Calecut The kyng of Calecut a God on the earth The citie of Calecut Houses diuided Uery lowe houses Houses of small price Idolatry and seruyng of the deuyll One God Pseudoplatonici The deuyll Prince of this worlde Deumo quasi Daemon The Chapell of the deuyll The deuyls chayre of maiestie Difference betweene the Popes crowne and the deuylles A well fauoured Prince The deuylles ordinary dyet and deâ—tie meate Bramini Brachmani The maner of sacrifice to the deuyll Gallus Esculapio A goodly priest the deuylles Chaplen A counterfeete Aaron Offeryng of wheate The deuyll is serued before the Kyng Chaplens of honour I thinke the Priestes take parte with the Crowes Crowes esteemed holy The priestes euer prouide for them selues A goodly office for a byshop Priestes and gentelmen Poore men haue no soules They are not troubled with garderobes or makyng them redye mornyng and euenyng The kynges children succeed not to inherite the kyngdome What paynes the priestes take for theyr liuyng and what seruice they do the kyng Bastordes Moornyng for the death of the kyng Chastitie and abstinence Meates that moue to echerie Great frendshyppe Diogenistae The punyshement of murtherers Beatyng A straunge maner to demauÌ„d debte Death for debte Outward clenlynesse 〈…〉 Clenly women Maisters of fence The kynges army Their weapons The kynges ensigne The priestes â–ª are haroldes A chalenge to cumbatte A great battayle and litle bloodshed â–ª Minstrells Blacke teeth The dead gentelmen are burnt but the poore men are buryed Coyned mony Merchauntes resorte to Calecut Mahumetans of Calecut Theyr shippes Ankers of marble on euery syde two Seasons of the yeere contrarie to ours Dyuers fashions of shippes and other vessells A goodly palaice Images of the deuyll to garnysh the kinges palaice The ryche iewels which the king weareth The kyng of Portugales warres agaynst the kyng of Calecut The frenche Poxe among precious iewells Unestimable treasure Pepper The pepper tree Clusters of pepper Genger Fruites vnlyke ours A philosophical consideration of the difference of thinges of one kynde A great fruite growyng out of the body of the tree Rype fruites in December A fruite of sundry tastes One fruite within an other A tree with very brode leaues A very goodly fruite Two hundred fruites on euery slyppe A tree that neuer beareth fruit but once Fruites and floures geathered at all tymes of the yeere This tree in the west India is called Coccus Ten commodities of one tree Nux Indica They are as big as a mans fyâ—t and some bygger Very sweete and cleare water within a Nutte Oile made of water Wyne of cutte branches of a tree A tree that beareth fruite continually all the whole yeere Oile Ploughing of the grounde A daunce of deuylles Solem suum oriri facit super bonos et malos c. The deuyll a Phisitian Such a Phisitian such phisicke A remedie 〈◊〉 surfetyng Fyne weightes and balances A straunge experiment to know the fyne golde from base Proxeneta A superstitious maner of buying and selling Litle payne or cost for noursing of children Funambuli Popingayes or Parottes A great noyse of birdes An earthly Paradyse Continuall spring and temperate ayre Monkeys doe much hurte Crocodiles without poison Three kyndes of Serpentes Serpentes superstitiously kepte and nourished Death for kyllyng a Serpent or a Cowe Bycause they goe naked Superstition Goodly candelstickes of laton Polyxines et Polychni Innumerable lyghtes and Lampes The deuyll serueth in the kynges chamber Mourning the space of a yeere The Temple of sacrifyce to Idolles Trees behanged with Lampes Washyng before sacrifice Holy oyle in the steade of holy water Sacrifice to the deuyll for forgeuenesse of synnes Sanctuary Large is the way that leadeth to perdition c. The kyng of Portugals warres in the citie of Calecut Caicolon Pepper Christians of the profession of saint Thomas Colon. An armie of .xx. thousande horsmen Pearles Zeilon Comerin The bodie of Thomas the Apostle The kyng of Narsinga frende to the Portugalls A miracle at the sepulchre of S. Thomas Foure kynges in one Iland Elephantes Rubie stones Precious stones Howe Cinamome is geathered A denne where Adam lyued in penance Temperate regions vnder the Equinoctiall lyne Saffran and Corall Elephants An armie of a hundred thousende footmen Fruites Wylde beastes Peacockes Falcons Popingayes A great and fayre foule Cocke
fyghting Fruitefull Gotes Rammes with buckes hornes Canonisyng of saintes The wyfe burneth her selfe after the death of her husband Daunsyng deuylles Sacrifice to the deuyll The hygh way to hell Great respecte of fame and honestie Writyng Mecha The citie of Bangella An army of two hundred thousand men Spices and silke Riche merchantes Precious stones Christians Lignum Aloes Laserpitium Belzoi Castoreum Christian Princes vnder the great Cham of Cathay Christian Princes neare the Turkes dominions Corall of great pryce Rubies Pego. Idolaters White men Christians Great Reedâ—â— â–ª Muske catteâ— â–ª Precious stones and spices Capela Smaragdes or Emeraldes Great riches of Iewelles and precious stones A kyng shinyng with earthly starres The kyng sacrifyceth to the deuyll Corall The kyng and the merchant contende of liberalitie Commendation of the Persians A casket full of Rubies A Princely gyfte Colours A ryuer of .xxv. myles brode The Ilande of Sumetra or Taprobana Chini or China Popingayes Sandalum Tyn. Spices and silke Vnruly people Anarchia The Ilande of Samatra or Samotra Foure kynges in one Iland Women burns them selues Iustice. Coyned mony of golde syluer and tynne Elephantes Long Pepper Cathay or Catai a colde region Sylke of the trees Laserpitium or Belzoe Litle true Aloes or Laserpitium Sarnau Cathay and other rych countreys Aloes of very sweete sauour The proofe of Laserpitium Lacca merchantes waxe Shyppes of a straunge fashion Swymmers Great hydes of fyshes Great teeth of Elephantes Great Serpentes The name of Hierusalem in reuerence Anarchia Lawlesse people Idolaters The Nuttemegge tree Mace All thynges common Nuttemegges of small price The lawe of nature These Ilandes of spyces are called Moluccdae and in them is seene the rare byrde named Manucodiata or paradisea The Cloue tree Cloues dearer then Nutmegs The Ilande of Gyaua Bornei â–ª Veronica or Vernacle The headdes of Peter and Paule The Ilande of Bornei Idolaters Camphora The north star The starres about the pole Antartike The lode stone serueth in the south regions beyonde the Equinoctiall line Antipodes Idolaters The Image of the deuyll Sylke of trees Smaragdes Golde Copper Whyte men good people Byrdes and foules Impoysoned arrowes Trunkes Anthropophagi eate mans fleshe In the West India they are called Caniballes A straunge pittie Rather to butchers then woormes Emeraldes of great price Gelded children Sana Seuen thousande Ilandes Malacha or Melacha Colon. Portugales Two Christians of Milan in Calecut The Christians haue made a rodde for their owne arsse The Nauie of Portugale A great peece of ordinaunce A Iewe that made Gunnes and shyppes was drowned Repentaunce Predestination A fortresse of the Portugales in the citie of Canonor Hipocrisie A Sainct by hipocrisie A glister A straunge ministring of a glister More good happe then cunnyng Sely soules Trumpettes in the steede of belles Not all thac say Lord Lord. c. Some of them say that he is rysen God the father The virgin Marie Merchantes of Calecut Noeros are gentlemen of the kynges garde The Gouernoure of Portugales fortresse The Viceroy of the kyng of Portugall in India Concubineâ— and slaues 〈…〉 Beware of couetousnesse The Byshop of the Mahumetans The Mahumetans conspire the death of the Christians An Oration The death of Iohn Maria and Peter Antonye The frenche poxe The nauie of the kyng of Calecut agaynst the Portugals â–ª The Mahumetan soldiers The oration of the gouernour to the Christian soldiers The nauie of the Mahumetans The Admirall of the Christians The quarel and occasion of the warre The Mahumetans geue the onset The valyantnesse of the Admirall A great slaughter of the mahumetans The valiantnesse of Iohn Seranus Fewe Chrians slayne The valiantnesse of Simon Martin A Stratageme Tenne Mahumetan shyps soonke with the shot of great artillerie The Christians had the victorie An other great conflicte The Mahumetans slayne in swimming The Mahumetans experte in swimmyng The kyng of Canonor The valiantnesse of the Portugales The death of the kyng of Canonor A newe expedition against the Christians Long warres Great oddes The Mahumetans artillerie The order of the Mahumetans Campe. Instrumentes Outragious out crye The arryuyng of a newe Nauie of Portugales The Mahumetans seeke to make peace with the Christians The peace concluded A pleasaunt fable Sainct Christopher the Christian Giant The enemyes confesse that God gaue the victorie Simple and ignorant people Messis multa sed operarii pauci c. The Masse No more can wyser men then they Inchaunters and of great agilitie The Ilande of Monzambrich Melinda The kyng of Portugales dominion in Ethiopia The conquestes of Tristan dè Cugna Sacutara Cumeris Pendè Zaphala Golde Blacke Mahumetans Trogloditae Ethiopes Heardes of Elephantes Elephantes are afrayde of fyre An Apyshe language Rych merchandies for golde Kyne very good cheape Trogloditae Cabo dè Buena Speranza The Ilande of Sainct Laurence or Madagascar The kyng of Portugale The Christian religion spreadâ—th in India Tempest An exceedyng great shyppe and great ryches of spyces Great Whale fyshes The Ilande of Ascention Saylyng by the north starre in regioÌ„s beneath the Equinoctiall lyne Malacha Tachola The Ilandes of Malucha The Alande of Samotra Spices Calecut Ceilam Cathay China Pretious stones Sylke Cantan One caratte is iiii graynes â–ª Which is one crowne of golde Which are .iii. crownes of golde A Marcell is a siluer coyne of Venice of .xi. vnâ—es iii.d with 〈◊〉 wherof .x. make an ounce Don Peter Martyr Rome sacked A daye lost in three yeeres one moneth It is now found with one master Harold a prebend in wyndsor Antonie Pigafetta Iacobus Faber Maximilian Transiluane The rewarde of noble enterprise The antiquitie had no such knowledge of the world as we haue The Ilandes of Molucca Aurea Chersonesus Malaccha Spices The Ilandes of Spices vnknowen in olde tyme. The Phenix Plinie The nauigations of great Alexander Ethiope Trogloditi The nauigation about the worlde The olde autours Monsters The wages of the Spanyards and Portugales Sebastian Munster The Ilandes of Molucca Controuersie betweene the Spanyardes and Portugales Ferdinando Magalianes The Cape of saint Vicent The Ilandes of Canarie Water engendred of a clude The Iland of S. Thomas Capo verde Guinea in Ethiope Fyshes and monsters of the sea The fyre of S. Helene and S. Nicolas A tempest The natural cause of suche fyres as fall in the shyppes Cardanus Two kyndes of fiers engendred of exhalations True fyre and false fyre Castor and Pollux The lightes of Sainct Peter and Sainct Nicolas They lost the sight of the North starre The Ilande of Brasile The South pole Suger The greatnesse of the lande of Brasile Caniballes Giantes Insulae gemmarum Cap. S. Marie The pole Antartike Geese Sea woolues The .xlix. degree of the South pole Giantes The bygnesse of the Giantes An other Giant Foure other Giantes Two Giantes are taken by a pollicie The deuyll Setebos Deuyls appeare to the Giantes when they dye Patagoni The Giantes feeding They conspire against theyr Captayne Confession The straight of Magellanus The South sea
ryuer Tanais Fol. 308 The way out of Moscouia to Cathayo Fol. 309 Of the Tartars Fol. 311 The nauigation by the frostye sea Fol. 315 K. Edwarde the .6 letters to the northeasterne princes by Sir Hugh wylloughbye in latine and Englyshe Fol. 318 Our Englyshe merchauntes voyage into Persia. Fol. 321 Of maister Ienkensons voyage into Persia. Fol. 322 Of the last vyage into Persia in the yeere of our lorde 1568. Fol. 324 Of the kyng of Persia his name Fol. 330. Of the Persians religione and other their fashions Fol. 325 Of the Persian Empire and the originall thereof Fol. 329 Of Persia out of M. P Uenetus Fol. 329 Of the Persian kyngdome out of Haytthon Fol. 330 Of Ormius kyngdome ioynyng vnto Persia. Fol. 331 Of the Sophi or kyng of Persia accordyng to the late writers Fol. 331 The trafique of Persia with other countreys Fol. 332 Of the Persian gulfe Fol. 332 The preuileages graunted by the Sophi to our merchauntes Fol. 332 Arthur Edwardes vyage into Persia with the continuance of the former priuileages Fol. 333 The commodities that Engglyshe merchauntes may haue by the trade into Persia. Fol. 335 The maner howe Christians become Busormen Fol. 335 Of the Bombasine or Cotton tree Fol. 336 The writyng of the Persians Fol. 336 Of two voyages made out of Englande into Guinea in Afrike Fol. 336. A briefe description of Afrike Fol. 337. The fyrst voyage to Guinea Fol. 338. Pinteado his letters patentes made hym by the kyng of Portugale his maister for his returne Fol. 341. The seconde voyage to Guinea with a more full description of Africa Ethiopia and the blacke Moores countrey Fol. 342. The Doues of the Ilande Madera Fol. 353. Of S. Thomas Ilande vnder the Equinoctiall line Fol. 353. Lewes Uertomannus nauigation into Arabia Egypte Persia Syria Ethiopia and East India Fol. 354. The contentes of the whiche voyages are these folowyng The contentes of the .vii. bookes of nauigations and voyages of Lodovicus Vartomannus to the regions of Arabia Egypte Persia Siria east India and Ethiopia The contentes of the fyrst booke The fyrst Chaptere is of the nauigation from Uenice to Alexandria in Egypte Fol. 355. Of the citie named Cayrus Alcayr Memphis or Babylon in Egypte vppon the ryuer of Nilus Cap. 2. Fol. 355. Of the cities of Beryntho Tripoli and Antioch Cap. 3. Fol. 356. Of the cities of Aman and Menin Cap. 4. Fol. 356. Of the citie of Damasco Cap. 5. Fol. 357. Of such thinges as are seene in the citie of Damasco Cap. 6. Fol. 358. Of the Mamalukes of Damasco Cap. 7. Fol. 358. The iorney from Damasco to Mecha And of the maners of the Arabians Cap. 8. Fol. 359. Of the strength and valiantnesse of the Mamalukes Cap. 9. Fol. 361. Of the cities of Sodoma and Gomorrha Cap. 10. Fol. 361. Of a mountayne inhabited with Iewes And of the citie named Medinathalhabi where Mahumet was buryed Cap. 11. Fol. 362. Of the Temple or Chapell and Sepulchre of Mahumet and his felowes Cap. 12. Fol. 362. Of the Secte of Mahumet Cap. 13. Fol. 363. The iorney to Mecha Cap. 14. Fol. 364. The fourme and situation of the citie of Mecha And why the Mahumetans resort thyther Cap. 15. Fol. 365. Of the Merchaundies of Mecha Cap. 16. Fol. 366. The pardons and Indulgenses of Mecha Cap. 17. Fol. 366. The maner of Sacrificyng in Mecha Cap. 18. Fol. 367. Of the Unicornes of the Temple of Mecha whiche are not seene in any other place Cap. 19. Fol. 368. Of dyuers thynges whiche chaunced to the autour in Mecha Cap. 20. Fol. 368. Of the red sea and why it can not be sayled in the nyght Cap. 21. Fol 370. The contentes of the secounde booke Of the citie Gezan in Arabia Foelix That is the blessed or happie Arabia Cap. 1. Fol. 371 Of certayne people named Banduin Cap. 2. Fol. 371 Of an Ilande of the red sea named Camaran Cap. 3. Fol. 371 Of the citie of Aden and theyr maners and customes towarde straungers Cap. 4. Fol. 372 Howe the women of Arabia are greatly in loue with white men Cap. 5. Fol. 373 Of the liberalitie of the queene toward the autour Cap. 6. Fol. 375 Of the cities of Lagi and Aiaz in Arabia Foelyx And of the towne of Dante Cap. 7. Fol. 375 Of Almacharan a citie of Arabia Foelyx And of the fruitefulnesse thereof Cap. 8. Fol. 375 Of Reame a citie of Arabia Foelyr And the Temperatenesse thereof Cap. 9. Fol. 376 Of Sana a citie of Arabia Foelyx Cap. 10. Fol. 376 Of Taessa Zibith and Damar great cities of Arabia Foelyx Cap. 11. Fol. 376 Of the Soltan of the forsayde cities And why he is named Sechamir Cap. 12. Fol. 377 Of Monkeys and Marmasettes and other beastes noysome to men Cap. 13. Fol. 377 Of certayne places of Ethiope Cap. 14 Fol. 377 Of the citie of Zoila in Ethiope And the great fruitefelnesse thereof And of certayne straunge beastes seene there Cap. 15. Fol. 377 Of Barbara an Ilande of Ethiope Cap. 16. Fol. 378 Of Ethiope reade more in the last nauigation in the ende of the booke The contentes of the thyrde booke Of Persia and of certayne townes and portes of Persia. Cap. 1. Fol. 378 Of the Ilande and citie of Ormus or Armusium And of an Iland of Persia where pearles are founde Cap. 2. Fol. 378 Of the citie named Eri in Corozani a region of Persia and of the ryches thereof Also of Reubarbarum Cap. 3. Fol. 379 Of a ryuer thought to be Euphrates and of Castoreum Cap. 4. Fol. 379 Of the citie of Saint Bragant bygger then Babylon And of the kyng of Persia named the Sophi Cap. 5. Fol. 380 The contentes of the fourth booke Of India and of the cities and notable thynges seene there And fyrst of the citie of Cambaia most fruitefull Cap. 1. Fol. 381 The maners of the people of Cambaia And of the Soltan of that citie Cap. 2. Fol. 381 Of the citie of Ceul and the maners of thinhabitantes Cap. 3. Fol. 382 Of Goga an Ilande of India Cap. 4. Fol. 383 Of Decham a very fayre citie of India Cap. 5. Fol. 383 Of certayne other goodly cities of India Cap. 6. Fol. 384 Of Canonor and Narsinga great cities of India Cap. 7. Fol. 384 Of the fruiteful citie of Bisinagar in the kyngdome of Narsinga Cap. 8. Fol. 384 Of the Docilitie agilitie and wytte of Elephantes Cap. 9. Fol. 385 Of the ingendryng of Elephantes And of the magnificence and ryches of the kyng of Narsinga Cap. 10. Fol. 386 The contentes of the fyfth booke Of the famous and ryche citie of Calecut Cap. 1. Fol. 387 Of the kyng of Calecut And of theyr Idolatrye Cap. 2. Fol. 387 Of the maner whiche the kyng vseth at his meate Cap. 3. Fol. 388 Of the Priestes of Calecut named Bramini Cap. 4. Fol. 388 Of the diuers sectes of Idolatours in the citie of Calecut Cap. 5. Fol. 398 The apparell of the kyng queene and
the inhabitantes of the citie of Calecut And of theyr maner of feedyng Cap. 6. Fol. 389 Of theyr custome after the death of the kyng Cap. 7. Fol. 389 Of theyr changyng of wyues Cap. 8. Fol 390 The maner of feedyng of the common people of the Idolaters And of these Iustice. Cap 9. Fol. 390 Of their honouryng of Idoles Cap. 10. Fol. 390 Of their maner of warre Cap. 11. Fol. 391 Of theyr shyppes and maner of saylyng on the sea Cap. 12. Fol. 391 The palace and courte of the kyng of Calecut Cap. 13. Fol. 392 The Spices of Calecut Cap. 14. Fol. 392 The foules and byrdes of Calecut Cap. 15. Fol. 393 Of a most fruitefull tree of all the worlde Cap. 16. Fol. 393 Howe they sowe Ryse Cap. 17. Fol. 394 Howe theyr Phisitions visit the sicke folkes Cap. 18. Fol. 394 Of theyr exchaungers bankers and brokers Cap. 19. Fol. 395 Of thinhabitantes of Poltar and Hiraua Cap. 20. Fol. 395 Of foure fouted beastes foules and byrdes of Calecut Cap. 21. Fol. 395 Of certayne Serpentes whiche are seene in Calecut Cap. 22. Fol. 396 Of the lyghtes and lampes whiche are seene in the palace of the kyng of Calecut Cap. 23. Fol. 396 The great multitude of Idolaters whiche resorte to Calecut for pardon of theyr sinnes Cap. 24. Fol. 396 ¶ The contentes of the syxth booke of the Nauigation of India Of the citie of Calcolon and Colon. Cap. 1. Fol. 397 Of Cyromandel a citie of India Cap. 2. Fol. 397 Of the Ilande of Zailon and the precious stones founde there Cap. 3. Fol. 398 Of the tree of Cinamome in the Ilande of Zailon Cap. 4. Fol. 398 Of Paleachet a citie of India Cap. 5. Fol. 399 Of Tarnasari a Citie of India Cap. 6. Fol. 399 Of the wylde and tame beastes in the citie of Tarnasari Cap. 7. Fol. 399 The maner whiche the kyng of Tarnasari vseth when he permitteth his wyfe to be deflowred of whyte men Cap. 8. Fol. 400 The maner of burnyng dead bodies in the citie of Tarnasari Cap. 9. Fol. 400 The Iustice which thinhabitants of Tarnasari obserue Cap. 10. Fol. 401 Howe the Mahumetans are buryed in the citie of Tarnasari Cap. 11. Fol. 401 The dyuers sorts of their shyps or other vesselles of sailing Cap. 12. Fol. 401 Of Bangella a great and ryche citie of India And of the great power of the kyng of that citie Cap. 13. Fol. 401 Of certaine Christian merchauntes which trafique there Cap. 14. Fol. 402 Of Pego a famous citie of India Cap. 15. Fol. 402 Of the magnificence humanitie and great ryches of the kyng of Pego. Cap. 16. Fol. 403 Of the citie of Melacha and the great ryuer of Gaza Cap. 17 Fol. 404 Of the Ilande of Sumatra or Taprobana Cap. 18. Fol. 405 Of an other kynde of Pepper Also of sylke and the precious gumme called Laserpitium or Belzoe Cap. 19. Fol. 405 Of three sortes of the tree of Aloes Cap. 20. Fol. 405 Howe the gummes of Aloes Laserpitium are proued Cap. 21. Fol. 406 Of diuers merchauntes in the Ilande of Sumatra or Taprobana Cap. 22. Fol. 406 Of the Iland of Bandan where Nutmegges Mase are founde Cap. 23. Fol. 407 Of the Ilande of Monoch where Cloues growe Cap. 24. Fol. 407 Of the Ilande of Bornei ▪ Cap. 25. Fol. 407 Of certayne obseruations vsed in the nauigation to the Ilande of Giaua Cap. 26. Fol. 408 Of the Iland of Giaua the maners of the people Cap. 27. Fol. 408 Of the cruell maners in sleying their parentes to the Anthropophagi to be eaten Cap. 28. Fol. 409 Of the strange course of the Sunne in the Iland of Giaua Cap. 29. Fol. 409 Of theyr returne from the Iland of Giaua Cap. 30. Fol. 409 Agayne of the citie of Calecut after theyr returne thyther Cap. 31. Fol. 410 Of the commyng of the kyng of Portugales shyps to the citie of Canonor ▪ Cap. 32. Fol. 411 Howe the autour playde the phisition and counterfet holynes lest he shoulde be taken for a spie of the Portugales Cap. 33. Fol. 411 How the Mahumetā priestes cal the people to their church Cap. 34. Fol. 412 The maner of praying among the Mahumetans Cap. 35. Fol. 412 What subtiltie the autour vsed to depart from Calecut to go to the Portugales Cap. 36. Fol. 413 How he fled to the Portugales from the citie of Canonor Cap. 37. Fol. 413 Of the nauie of the citie of Calecut and of the memorable conflicte betweene the Christians and Mahumetans In the which the Portugales with incredible valiantnesse gaue theyr enimies the ouerthrowe And howe the kyng of Canonor reioyced at the victorie Cap. 37. Fol. 415 The contentes of the seuenth and last booke The voyage or nauigation of Ethiopia Cap. 1. Fol. 419 Of dyuers and many Ilandes of Ethiop◠Cap. 2. Fol. 419 Of the Ilande of Monzambrich the inhabitantes therof Cap. 3. Fol. 419 Of the Cape named Caput Bone Spei That is the the Cape of good hope Cap. 4. Fol. 421 Of the hygher east India called Terciera Fol. 42 Of the pryces of precious stones and spyces with theyr weyghtes and measures as they are accustomed to be solde both of the Moores the Gentyles and of the places where they growe Fol. 423. Of the Rubie Fol. 423 Of the Rubies whiche growe in the Ilande of Zeilam Fol. 423 Of the kynde of Rubies called Spinelle Fol. 424 Of the Rubies called Balasni Fol. 424 Of the Diamondes of the olde mine Fol. 424 Of Saphires Fol. 425 Of Topasies Fol. 425 Of Turquesses Fol. 425 Of Iacinthes Fol. 426 Of Smaragdes or Emeraldes Fol. 426 Of dyuers kyndes of spices where they growe what they are woorth in Calecut and whyther they are caryed from thence And fyrst of Pepper Fol. 426 Of Cloues Fol. 427 Of Cinamome Of Ginger called Beledi Of Ginger Mechino Fol. 427 Of greene Ginger in conserues Of the Apothecaries drugges and of what price they are in Calecut and Malabar Fol. 428 Of the weyghtes of Portugale and India and how they agree Fol. 429 Of the vyage made by the Spanyardes rounde about the worlde Fol. 429 Maximilian Transiluanus letter thereof to the Cardinall of Saltzburge Fol. 430 The debate and strife betweene the Spaniardes and Portugales for the diuision of the Indies and the trade of Spices and the Moluccaes out of Lopez de Gomara Fol. 448 The repartition and diuision of the Indies and newe worlde betweene the Spanyardes and the Portugales Fol. 448 The cause and aucthoritie whereby they deuided the Indies Fol. 450 Howe and by what occasion the Emperour layed the Ilandes of Moluccaes to pledge to the kyng of Portugale Fol. 451 Pope Alexander the .6 his Bull touchyng the aforesayde partition of the Indies Latine and Englyshe Fol. 452. Fol. 454 An abridgement of P. Martyr his .5.6.7 and .8 Decades particularly of F. C. conquest of Mexico by R.W. Fol. 457 FINIS Imprinted at London by Rychard Iugge Anno. 1577. Cum