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A35222	The English empire in America, or, A prospect of His Majesties dominions in the West-Indies ... with an account of the discovery, scituation, product, and other excellencies of these countries : to which is prefixed a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards, and of the remarkable voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein : illustrated with maps and pictures by R.B., author of Englands monarchs, &c., Admirable curiosities in England, &c., Historical remarks of London, &c., The late wars in England, &c., and The history of Scotland and Ireland.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1685 (1685)	Wing C7319; ESTC R21113	146,553	216

going so that all the company perisht by famine or other extremities except the Pilot and three or four Mariners who all likewise died soon after their arrival leaving to Columbus their Landlord their Papers with some account of their Discoveries the time place Countrey and name of this Pilot is uncertain and therefore other Authors affirm it to be a fable or Spanish contrivance as envying that an Italian and Forreigner should have the glory of being the first discoverer of the Indies and the more judicious Spaniards account it a Tale and give a more probable Relation thereof and of the cause which moved Columbus to this mighty undertaking and not the Pilots Papers or reports For they write that Christopher Colon or Columbus was born at Nervi in the Territories of Genoa and bred a Mariner from his Child-hood trading into Syria and other Eastern Countries after which he learnt the art of making Sea Cards and went to Portugal to acquaint himself with the Coasts of Africa and there married In sayling about these Seas he observed that at certain seasons of the year the winds blew from the West for a great while together and judging they came from some Coasts beyond the Sea he was so concerned that he resolved to make a Trial thereof He was now forty years old and propounding to the State of Genoa that if they would furnish him with Ships he would find a way by the West to the Islands of Spices they rejected it as a dream or idle fancy Being thus frustrate of his hopes he goes to Portugal and communicates his design to King Alphonsus but with the same success upon which he sent his Brother Bartholomew Columbus to King Henry the Seventh of England to sollicit his assistance while himself went into Spain to impiore aid of the Castilians Bartholomew was unhappily taken by Pirates in his voyage to England who robbing him and his company of all they had he at length arrived and was forced to get a mean livelyhood by making Sea Cards and in a short time presents a Map of the World to King Henry with his Brothers offer of discovery which the King gladly accepted and sent for him into England But he had sped in his suit before in Spain for coming thither and conferring with two able Spanish Pilots they advised him to apply himself to the Dukes of Medina Sidonia and Medina Caeli who giving him recommendation to the Queens Confessor he arrived at the Court of Castile in 1486. but Ferdinando and Isabella then King and Queen of Spain being ingaged hotly in the Wars of Granada against the Moors he at first found but cold entertainment Thus he continued for some time in a mean and contemptible Condition till at length the Archbishop of Toledo procured him audience where he was favourably received and promised dispatch upon concluding the Wars in Granada and accordingly he was furnished with three Caravels at the Kings charges and sixteen thousand Duckets in money In 1492. August 3. Columbus accompanied with about one hundred and Twenty Persons set sail for Gomera one of the Canary Islands where having refresht after many days they encountred the Sea called Sargasso from an Herb like Sampire wherewith it is so covered that it appears like a green Field with empty berries like a Gooseberry and is so thick that the Water cannot be seen hindring the passage of the Ship without a strong wind these weeds are thought to reach to the bottom of the Sea though there exceeding deep and above four hundred miles distant from the Coast of Africa This strange accident much surprized the Spaniards and had occasioned their return had not the sight of some birds incouraged them with hopes of Land not far off After thirty three days sayling despairing of success the company mutined threatning to throw Columbus into the Sea disdaining that a Genouse stranger should thus abuse them but at length by soft words and strong promises he qualified their anger Oct. 11. following one Roderigo di Triana cried out Land Land the best musick that Columbus could desire who to pacify the Spaniards had ingaged that if no Land appeared in three days he would then return one of the company the night before had descried Fire which raised his expectation of having some great reward from the King of Spain of which being frustrate at his return he in a rage renounced his Christianity and turned Moor. With Tears of Joy the late mutinous Mariners behold the desired Land and they that Yesterday were ready to destroy now as far distracted with contrary passions imbrace and almost adore their dear Columbus for so happily bringing them to this Land of Promise On shore they go and felling a Tree make a Cross thereof which they there erected and took possession of this New World in the name of the Catholick King They first landed in an Island called Guanah●ni one of the Lucai which Columbus named St. Salvadore from whence he sayled to Baracoa an Haven on the North side of the Isle of Cuba and landing inquired of the Inhabitants for Cipango or Japan which they understanding to be Cibao in Hispaniola where are the richest Mines they made signs to them that they were in Haiti which name they gave to Hispaniola and some of them went with him thither but no earthly joy is without some disaster for here their Admiral split upon a Rock but the men were saved by the help of other Ships This happened on the North part of Hispaniola where they saw some Inhabitants who for fear of strangers instantly fled into the Mountains One woman they got whom they used kindly giving her meat drink and clothes and so dismissing her who declaring their civility to the rest they soon came in Troops to the Ships judging the Spaniards to be some Divine Nation sent from Heaven Though before they thought them Canibals or Man-eaters and such indeed they afterward proved in some sense not leaving in some few years after their arrival above two hundred Indians alive of four Millions that before inhabited these Countries Before the discovery of this Island by Columbus the People were informed thereof by an Oracle for one of their Kings being very importunate with their Zemes or Gods to know future events fasted five days together spending his time in continual mourning After which the Zemes declared That some years after there would arrive a strange Nation clothed bearded and armed with shining Swords which would out a man asunder in the middle who should destroy the ancient Images of their Gods abolish their Ceremonies and slay their Children In remembrance of which Oracle they composed a solemn Elegy which upon Holy days they used mournfully to sing Nothing more pleased the Spaniards than the Gold which the Innocent Inhabitants exchanged with them for Bells Glasses Points and other Trifles Columbus got leave of the King of Hispaniola to build a Fort and leaving 38 Spaniards therein taking with him six

he would restore him to his Liberty and Kingdom he would fill up a large Room at Guatimala with Gold and Silver which was thrice as much as Atabaliba had promised adding that his Father Guayna who was a great Sorcerer had commanded him on his Death-bed to be kind to the white and Bearded Men who should come and rule in those parts Atabaliba hearing of these offers sent to have his Brother put to death which the Spaniards took no notice of and which seemed justly to befall him since he had before Murthered another of his Brethren and drunk in his Skull as he had sworn to deal with Atabaliba The Caribee Islands In this Kingdom of Peru is an High Mountain called Periacaca upon which Joseph Acosta ascended as well provided as possible being sensible of the Danger but in the ascent he and his Companions were suddenly surprized with looseness and Vomiting casting up Flegm Choler and Bloud so that they expected present death There are other Desarts in Peru called Punas where the Air cuts off men without feeling a small breath depriving them sometimes of their feet and hands which fall off like leaves in Autumn without pain and other times of their Lives and yet after death the same piercing cold Air preserves the body from Putrefaction Cuba an Island of 230 Leagues in length was about this time possessed by the Spaniards where they executed great severity as well as in other places A certain Lord of great power who had fled over the Continent to this Isle to avoid either death or perpetual Captivity hearing that the Spaniards were come hither having assembled the Principal Indians spake to them to this effect Countrymen and Friends you are not ignorant of the rumour that the Spaniards are arrived amongst us neither need I tell you how barbarously they have used the Inhabitants of Hispaniola you know it by too certain Intelligence nor can we hope to find them more merciful than they did But my dear Countrymen do you know their Errand if not I will tell you the cause of their coming they worship some covetous and insatiate God and to content their greedy Deity they require all our Gold and Silver from us for this they endeavour continually to murther and enslave us See here this little Chest of Gold and therein behold the God of the Spaniards therefore if you think fit let us dance and sing before this their God perhaps we may hereby appease his rage and he will then command his worshippers to let us alone To this motion they all assented and danced round about the Box till they were throughly wearied when the Lord thus proceeded If we should keep this God till he be taken from us we shall be certainly slain I therefore think it expedient for us to cast him into the River whose Counsel being followed the Chest was thrown into the River When the Spaniards first landed in this Island this Nobleman having sufficient experience of their cruelty avoided them as much as possible still flying and defending himself by force of Arms upon all occasions at length being taken for no other reason but endeavouring to preserve his Life from his Enemies he was by the Spaniards burnt alive being tied to a Stake a Franciscan Monk began to discourse him of God and the Articles of his Religion telling him that the small time allowed him by the Executioner was sufficient to make his Salvation sure if he did heartily believe in the true Faith having a while considered his words he asked the Monk whether the Door of Heaven was open to the Spaniards who answering yea then said he Let me go to Hell that I may not come where they are In this Island the Spaniards got above a Million of Gold and vast sums more in the other spacious Provinces of this New World the greatest part whereof came into their Possession in a few years and which they enjoy to this very day CHAP. II. The Voyages and Discoveries of several Englishmen into America IN the former Chapter I have according to my usual scantling given a sufficient account of the Fortunate Acquisitions of the Spaniards and now think my self in justice obliged to let my Countrymen know what Adventurous Voyages and extream dangers some of our brave English Spirits have surmounted in their Discoveries of this New World wherein I shall follow the Sun beginning first Northward and so proceed toward and beyond the Equinoctial I. In which number Sir Sebastian Cabot ought to be first mentioned born and living in England though a Venetian Gentleman by Extraction who in 1496 at the charge of Henry the 7th King of England set out with two Carravels for discovering a Northwest ●assage to Cathay and the East-Indies according to the design which Columbus had first suggested to him in pursuit whereof he is reported to have sailed to 67 Degrees of Northern Latitude upon the Coast of America and finding Land called it Prima Vista the Inhabitants wore the Skins of Beasts there were white Bears and Stags far greater than ours with great pi●●ty of Seal and Sole fish above a yard long and such vast quantities of other Fish that they sometimes staid the course of the Ship the Bears caught these Fish with their Claws and drawing them to Land eat them he then discovered all along the Coast to Florida and afterward returned at which time strong preparations being making for Wars with Scotland this design was wholly laid aside to the great prejudice of the English Nation who in all probability might have made themselves Quarter-masters at least with the Spaniards in the wealthiest Parts and Provinces of America if the business had been well followed Sir Sebastian himself went immediately to Spain and was imployed by that King in discovering the Coasts of Brasil and though he afterward returned again to England in 1549. and was honoured by King Edward the Sixth with the Title of Grand Pilot of England and the yearly Pension of an hundred and sixty Pound yet his design was never effectually revived II. Sir Martin Frobisher justly deserves the second place who in the reign of Queen Elizabeth made three several voyages to discover the North-west Passage June 15. 1576 he sailed from Blackwall and July 7 had sight of Frizeland but could not get ashoar because of the abundance of Ice and an extream Fog July 20. he had sight of an High Land which he named Queen Elizabeths Foreland very full of Ice but sailing further Northward he descried another Foreland with a Great Bay whereinto he entred calling it Frobishers Streights supposing it to divide Asia from America Having sailed sixty Leagues he went ashore and was encountred with mighty Deer who ran at him indangered his Life He had there a sight of the Savage Inhabitants who rowed to his Ship in Boats of Seals Skins they eat or rather devour raw Flesh and Fish their hair was long and black broad faces flat noses colour tawny

which they hide a Mile asunder when the Indians hunt him which is commonly in Winter they run him down sometimes in half a day otherwhile a whole day but never give over till he is tired the Snow being usually four Foot deep and the Beast very heavy he sinks every st●p and as he runs breaks down the Trees in his way with his Horns as big as a Mans Thigh at last they get up and pierce him with their Lances upon which the poor Creature groans and walks on heavily till at length he sinks and falls like a ruined Building making the Earth shake becoming a Sacrifice to the Victors who cut him up and making a Fire near the place they there Boil and eat their Venison fetching their drink from the next Spring being unacquainted with any other till the French and English taught them the use of that cursed Liquor called Rum Rumbullion or Kill-devil stronger than Spirit of Wine drawn from the dross of Sugar and Sugar Canes which they love dearer than their lives wherewith if they had it they would be perpetually drunk though it hath killed many of them especially old Women Their Wars are with their Neighbouring Tribes but the Mowhawks especially who are Enemies to all other Indians their Weapons were Bows and Arrows but of late he is a poor Indian that is not Master of two Guns which they purchase of the French with Powder and Shot the Victors Flea the Skin off the Skull of the Principal slain Enemies which they carry away in Triumph their Prisoners they bring home the old Men and Women they knock on the Head the young Women they keep and the Men of War they Torture to death as the Eastern Indians did two Mowhawks whilst I was there they bind him to a Tree and make a great Fire before him then with sharp Knives they cut off his Fingers and Toes then clap upon them hot Embers to sear the Veins thus they cut him to pieces joint after joint still applying Fire for stanching the Blood making the poor Wretch Sing all the while when Armes and Legs are gone they Flea the Skin off their Heads and presently apply thereto a Cap of burning Coals then they open his Breast and take out his Heart which while it is yet living in a manner they give to their old Squa's or Women who are every one to have a bit of it These Barbarous Customs they used more frequently before the English came but since there are endeavours to Convert them to Christianity by Mr. Eliot and his Son who Preach to them in their own Language into which they have likewise Translated the Bible these go Clothed like the English live in framed Houses have Stocks of Corn and Cattel about them which when Fat they bring to Market some of their Sons have been brought up Schollers in Harward Colledge New-England is seated in the midst of the Temperate Zone yet is the Clime more uncertain as to heat and cold than those European Kingdoms which are in the same Latitude The Air is cleer healthful and Agreeable to the English well watered with Rivers having variety of Beasts both tame and wild with several sorts of Trees and excellent Fruits the Commodities it yeildeth are rich Furs Flax Linnen Amber Iron Pitch Tarr Cables Masts and Timber to build Ships with several sorts of Grain wherewith they drive a considerable Trade to Barbado's and other English Plantations in America supplying them with Flower Bisket Salt Flesh and Fish and in return bring Sugars and other Goods To England they trade for Stuffs Silks Cloath Iron Brass and other Utensils for their Houses The weights and measures are the same with England The English posesss many potent Colonies being very numerous and powerful and are governed by Laws of their own making having several Courts of Judicature where they meet once a mouth so they be not repugnant to the Laws of England every Town sends two Burgesses to their great and solemn General Court The Government both Civil and Ecclesiastical is in the hands of the Independents or Presbyterians The Military part of their Government is by one Major General and three Serjeant Majors to whom belong the four Countys of Suffolk Middlesex Essex and Norfolk They have several fine Towns whereof Boston is the Metropolis likewise Dorchester Cambridg beautified with two Colledges and many well built Houses Reading Salem Berwick Braintree Bristoll Concorde Dartmouth Dedham Dover Exeter Falmouth Glocester Greensharbour Hampton Harford Haverhill Weymouth Yarmouth New Haven Oxford Salisbury Taunton Southampton Newbury Springfield Sudbury Ipswich Li● Hull Sandwich Malden Norwich Roxbury Sandwich Wenham Rowley Hingham and others most of them having the names of some Towns in England The present Governor for his Majesty of England is Henry Cranfield Esquire CHAP. V. A prospect of New York with the Scituation Plantation and Product thereof New York so called from our present gracious Sovereign when Duke of York formerly namel● New-Netherlands being part of that new-New-England which the Dutch one possessed it was first discovered by Mr Hudson and sold presently by him to the Dutch withou● Authority from his Sovereign the King of England in 1608. The Hollanders in 1614. began to plant there and called it New-Netherlands but Sir Samuel Argall Governor of Virginia routed them after which they go● leave of King James to put in there for fresh water in their passage to Brasile and did not offer to plant till a good while after the English were setled in the Country In 1664. his late Majesty King Charles the Second sent over four Commissioners to reduce the Colonies into bounds that had before incroached upon each other who marching with 300 Redcoats to Manhadees or Manhataes took from the Dutch their cheif Town then called New-Amsterdam now New-York and Aug. 29. turned out their Governor with a Silver Leg and all the rest but those who acknowledged subjection to the King of England suffering them to enjoy their Houses and Estates as before thirteen daies after Sir Robert Car took the Fort and Town of Aurania now called Albany and twelve daies after that the Fort and Town of Arosapha then Dela-ware Castle man'd with Dutch and Sweeds So that now the English are Masters of three handsome Towns three strong Forts and a Castle without the loss of one man the first Governor of these parts for the King of England was Colonel Nichols one of the Commissioners This Country is blessed with the richest soyl in all New-England I have heard it reported from men of Judgment saies my Author that one Bushel of European wheat hath yeilded an hundred in one year The Town of New-York is well seated both for Trade security and pleasure in a small Isle called Manahatan at the mouth of the great River Mohegan which is very commodious for Shipping and about two Leagues broad the Town is large built with Dutch Brick alla Moderna consisting of above 500 fair Houses the meanest not

not so ●evere but young Birds are then seen That Island of most fame and greatness than all the rest and to which ●he name of Bermuda's is most properly ascribed is sci●uated in the Latitude of thirty two degrees and thirty Minuts North the Air is sound and healthy very agree●ble to English Bodies the Soil as Fertile as any well Watered plentiful in Maize of which they have two ●arvests yearly that which is sowed in March being ●ut in July and what is sowed in August is mowed in December No venemous Creature is to be found in this Country nor will live if brought thither and besides these advantages it is so fenced about with Rocks and Islets that without knowledge of the Passages a Boat of Ten Tun can not be brought into the Haven yet with such knowledg there is entrance for the greatest Ships The English have since added to these natural strenghts such Artificial helps by Block-houses Forts and Bulwarks in convenient places as may give it the Title of Impregnable It was first discovered rather accidentally than upon design by John Bermudaz a Spaniard about 1522 and thereupon a Proposition made in the Council of Spain for setling a Plantation therein as a place very convenient for the Spanish Fleet in their return from the Bay of Mexico by the streights of Bahama yet was it neglected and without any Inhabitant till the like accidental coming of Sr. George Summers sent to Virginia with some Companies of the English by the Lord De la Ware in 1609. Who being Shipwrackt on this Coast had the opportunity to survey the Island which he so well liked that he endeavoured to settle a Plantation in it at his return in 1612. The First Colony was sent over under Richard More who in three years erected eight or ninth Forts in convenient places which he planted with Ordnance In 1616. a new Supply was sent over under Captain Tucker who applied themselves to sowing of Corn setting of Trees brought thither from other parts of America and planting that gainful Weed Tobacco In 1619. the business was taken more to heart and made a publick matter many great Lords and Persons of honour being interested in it Captain Butler was sent thither with 500 Men. The Isle was divided into Tribes or Counties a Borrough belonging to each Tribe and the whole reduced to a settle Government both in Church and State according to the Laws of England After this all succeeded so well that in 1623. there were said to be 3000 English and ten Forts whereon were planted fifty pieces of Ordnance their Numbers since increasing dayly both by Children born within the Island and supplies from England All the Isles together represent an Half-Moon and inclose very good Ports as the Great Sound Harrington Inlet Southampton and Pagets Bay with Dover and Warwick Forts having their Names from the Noble Men who were undertakers therein The greatest Isle is called St. George five or six Leagues long and almost throughout not above a quarter or half a League long The Air is almost constantly clear except when it Thunders and Lightens is extream temperate and healthful few dying of any Disease but Age so that many have removed on purpose from England hither only to enjoy a long and healthful Life and after having continued there are fearful of removing out of so pure an Air the very Spiders here are not venemous but of divers curious Colour and make their Webs so strong that oftimes small Birds are intangled and caught therein Their Cedar Trees are different from all others and the Wood very sweet But the excellencies of this curious place are sufficiently exprest by our English Vi●gil in the following Poem wherewith I shall conclude this Prospect of Bermuda's the present Governour whereof for his Majesty is Sir Henry Heydon Bermuda Wall'd with Rocks who does not know That happy Island where huge Lemons grow And Orange Trees which Golden Fruit do bear Th' Hesperian Garden boasts of none so fair Where shining Pearl Coral and many a Pound On the rich Shore of Amber-greece is found The lofty Cedar which to Heaven aspires The Prince of Trees is Fewel for their Fires The Smoak by which their loaded Spits do turn For Incense might on Sacred Altars burn Their private Roofs on od●rous Timber born Such as might Palaces for Kings adorn The sweet Palmettas a new Bacchus yield With Leaves as ample as the broadest Shield Vnder the shadow of whose friendly Boughs They sit carowsing where their Liquor grows Figs there unplanted through the Fields do grow Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show With the rare Fruit inviting them to spoil Carthage the Mistress of so rich a Soil The naked Rocks are not unfruitful there But at some constant Seasons every Tear Their barren tops with luscious food abound And with the Eggs of various Fowls are crown'd Tobacco is the worst of things which they To English Landlords as their Tribute pay Such is the Mould that the blest Tenant feeds On precious Fruits and pays his Rent in Weeds With candid Plantines and the juicy Pine On choicest Melons and sweet Grapes they dine And with Potato 's fat their wanton Swine Nature these Cates with such a lavish hand Pours out among them that our courser Land Tasts of that bounty and does Cloth return Which not for warmth but O nament is worn For the kind Spring which but Salutes us here Inhabits there and courts them all the Year Ripe Fruits and Blossoms on the same Trees live At once they promise what at once they give So sweet the Air so moderate the Clime None sickly lives or dies before his time Heaven sure has kept this spot of Earth uncurst To shew how all things were created first The tardy Plants in our cold Orchards plac'd Reserve their Fruits for the next Ages tast There a small Grain in some few Months will be A firm a lofty and a spacious Tree The Palma Christi and the fair Papah Now but a Seed preventing Natures Law In half the Circle of the hasty year Project a Shade and lovely Fruits do wear The Rocks so high about this Island rise That well they may the numerous Turk despise CHAP. XII A Prospect of the Island of Barbuda The next that present themselves are the Caribbee Islands so called in General because inhabited by Cannibals or Man-eating People at the first discovery as the word Caribes imports They lie extended l ke a Bow from the Coast of Paria to the Isle of Porto Rica many in number twenty seaven of them known by proper names in nine whereof the English are concerned namely Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St Vincent Antego Mevis or Nevis St Christophers and Barbadoes Of which I shall give a brief Account as to the Natives Birds Beasts Fishes Monsters and other Remarkables in each as I pass along which may be very divertive to the Reader To begin with Barbada or Berbuda It it is