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A55720 The present state of Jamaica with the life of the great Columbus the first discoverer : to which is added an exact account of Sir Hen. Morgan's voyage to, and famous siege and taking of Panama from the Spaniards. 1683 (1683) Wing P3268; ESTC R1042 34,539 128

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marched for the City and further this Deponent saith not Sworn Coram this 3 day of April 1672. John Peeke Tho. Lynch A short account of the Life of Christopher Collumb or Collumbus the first Doscoverer of Jamaica COllumbus was born at Cugnero or as some say at Nervi in the Territory of Genoa he was a Mariner from a Child and traded into Syria and other parts of the East After this he became a Master in making Sea Carts and went to Portugal to Learn their Navigations on the Coast of Affrica The Spaniards who Envy the Honour of the Discovery of the New World to a stranger Report that a certain Caravel sailing in the Ocean by a strong East Wind long continuing was carryed to a Land unknow which was not expres'd in the Mapps and Cards it was much Longer in Returning than in Going and arriving had none left alive but the Pilot and three or four Marriners the Rest being Dead of Famine and other Extremeties of which also the Remnant perish'd in fews days leaving to Collumbus then the Pilots Host their papers and some grounds of this Discovery the time place Country and name of the man is Uncertain some Esteem this pilot an Andaluzian and that he traded at Madera when this befel some a Biscaine and that his traffick was in England and France and some a Portugal that traded at the Mina some say he arrived in Portugal others at Madera or at one of the Azores all agree that he Died in the house of Christopher Collumbus it is most Likely at Madera This Relation as it hath no witness to prove it the whole company being dead nor any good circumstances so the most look on it to be a fable and Spanish trick envying a foraigner and Italian that Glory to be the first Finder of the Indies and the most Juditious and sincere of the Spaniards themselves esteem but a tale as appears by the Testimony of Gorsalo Fernando De Omedo in his Summary and more fully in his General History of the Indies they shew and and so doth he which then Lived in the Court of Spain Peter Martir another Cause that mov'd Collumbus to this Discovery and not that Pilots paper or Reports for he being a Mariner used to Sea from his youth and sailing from Cales to Portugal observed that at certain seasons of the year the winds used to blow from the West which continued in that Manner a long time together and believing that they came from some Coast beyond the Sea he busied his mind so much therewith that he Resolved to make some tryal and proof thereof When he was now forty years old he propounded his purpose to the Senate of Genoa undertaking if they would lend him Ships he would find a way by the West unto the Island of Spices but they Rejected his proposals as Idle fancies Columbus frustrate of his hopes at Genoa yet leaves not his Resolution but goeth to Portugal and Communicates this Matter with Alphonsus King of Portugal but finding no Entertainment to his suit he sends his Brother Bartholomew Collumbus to King Henry the seventh of England to sollicit him in the Matter while himself passed into Spain to Implore the Aid of the Castillian herein Bartholomew in his Voyage to England unfortunately fell into the hands of Pirates which Robbed him and his company and forced him to sustain himself with making of Sea Cards and having gotten somewhat about him 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 speed of his suit before in Spain and by that King and Queen was employ'd according to his Request for coming from Lisbon to Pallos di Moguer and then conferring with Martin Alonso Pinzon an expert Pilot and Frier Jo. Perez a good Cosmographer he was Counsel'd to aquaint these with his project the Duke De Medina Sidonia and of Medina Celi which yielding him not Credit the Frier Counsel'd him to go to Court and wrote in his Behalf to Fryer Fernandi Di Telavera the Queens Confessor Christopher Collumbus came to the Court of Castile Anno 1486. and found cold welcome to his suit at the hands of the King and Queen busied with Hot Wars in Granada whence they expel'd the Moores and thus remain'd he in Contempt as a Man meanly Cloathed without other patron then a poor Frier save that Alonso Di quintalignia gave him his Diet who also at the last procured him Audience of the Bishop of Toledo by whose Mediation he was brought before the King and Queen who gave him favourable Countenace and promis'd to Dispatch him when they had ended the wars of Granada which also they performed Thus Collumbus is set forth with three Caravals at the Kings charges who because his treasure was then spent in the Wars Borow'd 16000 Duckets of Lavis De Sanct Angelo and on Fryday the 3 of August in the year of our Lord 1492 in a Ship call'd the Gallega accompanied with the Pinta and Ninna in which the Pinzors Brethren went as pilots with the Number of 120 persons or thereabouts set sail for Gomera one of the Canary Islands and having there Refresh'd himself followed his Discovery after many Days he Incountered with an Herby Sea which looked like a green Field so thick that he could scarce see the water which not a little amazed the Spaniards and had caused their Return had not the sight of some Birds promis'd them Land not far of He taught the Spaniards to observe the Sun and Pole in their Navigation which till this voyage they had not used nor known But the Spaniard after three and thirty days sailing Desperate of success Mutined and threaten'd to cast Collumbus into the Sea disdaining much that a stranger a Genois had so Abused them but he pacified their Enraged fury with Mild Speeches and Gentle promise On the eleventh day of October one Rodrigo De Triana espied and cryed Land Land the best Musick that might be Especially to Columbus who to satisfie the Spaniards Importunitie had promis'd the day before that if no Land appear'd in 3 Days he would Return One the Night before had Descried fire which Kindled in him some hope of great Reward at the Kings Hand when he Returned into Spain But being herein frustate he Burn'd into such a flame as that it consumed Both Humanity and Christianity in him and in the Agony of Indignation made him Leave his Country and Faith and Revolt to the Moors But Collumbus how can I but Remember but Love but Admire sweetly may those Bones Rest Sometimes the pillars of that Temple where so Divine a spirit Resided which neither want of former Example nor publique Discouragements of Domestique and forreign states not private Insultation of proud Spaniards nor length of time which generally Devoureth the best Resolutions nor the unequal plains of Huge unknown Seas nor Grassy Fields in Neptunes Lap nor
breeds of an Egg hatch'd by the Sun in the sand A Tortoise Egg is just like the Yolk of a Hen-Egg of which she lays near a Peck at a time but the Allegator but a few and are like a Turkeys their Flesh is not good they are voracious and live on Fowls and Beasts that they catch by surprize but seldom or never hurt any Man Here 's an Indian Coney called Raccoones that is good Meat but of a distastful shape being something like an over-grown Rat The Snakes in this Island are not at all hurtful but were eaten by the Indians as Regaloes as the Guanaes are by the Spaniards it is but small and of the shape of an Allegator the Flesh is sweet and tender The most Offensive thing in this Island are divers sorts of Flies called Merywings from their Noise Mutquettoes from their Littleness Gallinippors from their Biting for all sting and trouble People exceedingly And in some parts of the North there 's little ugly Creatures called by the English Gallivaches whose bite is Mortal to Dogs Goats c. There is in this Island none of the Fruit common to Europe but Oranges Lemons and Limes a Bastard Lemon Citrons Pomgranats Grapes grow well enough here is a Wild sort the Spaniards made Red Wine of The English have but few Vines and they require much time to Cultivate them and are so difficultly defended from the Parrots and other Birds and not Ripening altogether We think it impossible to make Wine without great quantities and great Labour for in the Countrey after every Season there 's a Spring so that the Grapes and all Fruits shoot out after it have therefore Blossoms Young Fruit and Ripe all at the same time Besides these Fruit in Jamaica there is abundance of Plantains Bonanoes Tamarinds Cathus Guavaes Mummees and small Oysters that grow in Clusters on Mangroves by the Sea-side Sapolaes Supotilla Aduecades Star-Apples Custard-Apples and Prickle-Apples Pears Pine-Apples Prickle-Pears Plumbs of divers sorts The Common Bread that Ordinary Planters and Servants use is Cassader in its stead Potatoes But the Gentlemen make Bread of Flour that comes from England and New York English Flowers would grow in this Island without Care and Charge but they have large and extraordinary Jessemine-Trees and other Odoriferous Trees and Plants Likewise there grows exceeding well all our Summer Herbs so does Pease Beans Cabbage and Turneps though not very well But Carrots Raddish Onions pretty well By Art Care and Pains Gardinage would do better here than in the South parts of Spain for though our Rains are more violent our Droughts are not so frequent and long In this Island are abundance of Medicinal Herbs Roots and Plants We have Venillaes here 's China Sarsaparilla Gum Guaicum Benjamin c. The Common Drink of the Gentlemen is Madera Wine and Water at the Sugar-works they make Drink of Malasses in other places of Cassader which they call Perinoe and of Potatoes called Mobbie and likewise of Bonanoes A Drink is made of a Spirit called Rum Distilled from the Canes they make great quantities which does Mischief being very strong and unpleasant yet drunk by the Ordinary People excessivly that causes Drunkenness Disorder Poverty Diseases The 11th of October 1492 Collumbus Discovered the Lucca's Islands Spaniola and Cuba and shortly after return'd for Spain In his second Voyage endeavouring to round Cuba to know whether it was an Island or no he Discovered Jamaica the 14th of May 1494. and called it St. Jago which Name did not take he staid but little on it at its Discovery but in his Third Voyage in the Year 1503 the 23d of June he arrived there again Ship-wrackt and in great Distress his Vessels quite disabled Provisions spent and Men sick and dis-heartened with their Misfortunes At Veragua on the Coast of the Main the first Road he fell in with he did not like but went further West to a Port he called Sancta Gloria and there run his ships on ground and lash'd them together and Lodg'd on their Decks the Indians being Numerous for at this time it was supposed there was above 60000 Families of them on this Island Collumbus lay about two Months in a most Miserable Condition the ingrateful Spaniards and Malicious Governour of St. Domingo sending him no Relief on purpose to make him Perish and in this Fatal time the Porra's three Brothers of Sevil Rebelled which Collumbus's Brother suppress'd so that in this Island was the first Civil War and Blood-shed betwixt the Spaniards in America In the time this great Unfortunate Man staid thus Miserably and ship-wrackt on the North side of Jamaica it 's suppose● they began to settle a Design to Plant finding this Island very fertile and the Natives more civil and ingenious than any of the other Islanders And at this time began that Town the old Maps call Metilla that we think were about Fig-tree on the North side which was but by little advanced then they deserted it Eight or ten Leagues further West finding a better Bay they call'd St. Anns which Names is continued by us And here they began to settle and in some years built a handsom ●arge Town named Sevil that had some Sugar Works and good Plantations about it and a very considerable Abbey in it the Abbots were alwaies the Bishops Suffragan and chief in all Ecclesiastical affairs there 's some Pillars of this left and a Portal of the Church with the Emperour Charles the Fifths Arms over it and an Inscription that says Petrus Martir Anuleria Abbas Vnius Insule eadem hanc Bisigne consumptam Letantio quadrata Lapido a fundamentis extruxit This being a most learned Millener that had served King Ferdinand as Confessor and Embassador to Grand Cape and being of the Emperours Council for the Indies of which he wrote the Decades It may be suppos'd Jamaica was then in great esteem This Town flourish'd till about the year 1590. then the Spaniards deserted as they say because their Children could not live there But we rather believe because the North side was Mountainous and unpleasant and on the South were huge plain Savannaes which we suppose were Fields of Indian Corn and Cassader that were proper for Cattle of which the Spaniards now have grea● plenty Besides the South had better Ports was nearer and had greater Commerce with the rich Country o● the Maine then the North could have which might reasonably enough induce them to change Situations and fix on that of the Jago de la Vega or St. James upon the Plain where they were settled 70 years Before the English under General Venables the 10th of May 1655. took it it had about 17 years before been surpriz'd by one Jackson with a Fleet of English Privateers who for a thousand Beeves quitted the Town having no design but to Cruise But Crumwell sent his Army to seize Spaniola or some place that was convenient for a Collony and seat of War he having mist St.