and do ouerflow more then they are in the furder and very drie countries for in Egypt not accounting Alexandria with the places bordering on the same where it neuer raineth it is holden for a verie strange wonderful thing how the riuer Niâ— should grâ—w so high ful of thicke muddie water and alwaies at one time of the yeare not fayling therein thereby refreshing the earth and giuing foode both to man and beast whereby the ancient inhabitants of those countries did vse to offer sacrifices vnto that Riuer calling it as Ptolomeus in his fourth booke rehearseth a good Spirit and yet at this day many Christians esteeme it for a miracle for that without the increase thereof they would die for hunger their liues â—as Iohn Chrisostome sayth consisteth of the increasing of the waters so then the Northwest winds that in our summer time which is their winter blow in our countries are the meanes in those countries to gather cloudes and moystures vpon the high hilles from whence their raine proceedeth which raine is the cause that their countrey is not so colde as ours ingendering in those hot countries a certaine kinde of warme water Those raines then are likewise the cause of the growing ouerflowing of the riuer Niâ—us and other riuers in those countries wherof the inhabitants haue deuised and written to many fables But in their summer which is our winter there bloweth contrary windes as south and southeast which without al doubt are cold as blowing from the contrarie part of the Pole Antarctike and coole those countries as our winds do here in these countries like as with theÌ„ they cause a faire cleare aire so with vs they cause great store of raines by a certain natural disposition of the heauens the climates ruled and gouerned by the high wisedom of God that hath diuided the heauens ordained the course of the sun and other planets in such maner that al parts of the earth by their light brightnes are filled with warmth and coldnes therein do continue with great proportion and equalitie so that for certain if the freshnesse and coldnes of those winds did not refresh the countreyes of Ethiopia Congo and other places bordering on the same it were impossible for the inhabitants to indure the heate The same windes likewise doo refresh and comfort the inhabitants of Grecia the Islands of Candia and Cipies the countries of Asia Mynor and those of Suria and Egypt which liue by the refreshing of those generall Northwest west winds which rightly by the Grecians are called Zoephero that is bringing life those also are the cause that in Ethiopia Congo and other countries bordering thereon it neuer Snoweth no not vpon the highest hilles vnlesse it bee further off towardes the Cape de Bona Speranza or in some certaine places by the Portingales called Snow hilles as in Congo they finde neither Ice nor snow which with them would bee more esteemed then gold therewith to coole their drink so that the Riuers do not increase by the melting of snow but only by means of the coÌ„tinual raine of fiue moneths as I said before But returning to our former matter you may trauel to Congo by two waies one by the main sea to S. Helena and so further ouer or along by the coast of Affrica to the Island of Saint Thomas and so to the Cape of Lopes Gonzales lying vnder one degree vppon the South side of the Equinoctiall line about 21. Duch miles from Saint Thomas Island and from thence they saile with the wind that commeth off the land along the coast euerie euening casting anker in some creeke or hauen vntill they arriue at the place where they desire to be The kingdome of Congo beginneth at the Cape de S. Catharina which lyeth on the South side of the Equinoctial line vnder two degrees and a halfe and passing along the coast you saile by certain hils and strands not woorth the noting till you come to two creekes in forme somewhat like a paire of spectacles where there is a good hauen called Baro D Aluaro Gonzales that is the creeke or hauen of Aluaro Gonzaleâ— not farre from it runneth a little riuer into the sea by reason of the rednesse thereof by the Portingales called Rio de â—as Boreras Râ—slas because the water runneth ouer a certaine redde sande that coloureth the water at that place beginneth a high hill called by the Portingales la Sierra Complida that is a long hill passing further there is another riuer called â—a â—e â—as Almadias which is as much to say as the creeke or hauen for shippes because in that place many bankes are made in the mouth of this riuer there lyeth three Islands wherof the greatest is the middle being inhabited wherein there is a hauen for little ships the other two are not inhabited Parting from thence you come to the great riuer of Congo called Zaâ—e taking his beginning or spring partly froÌ„ the same lake froÌ„ whence the riuer Nylus doth flow This riuer casteth forth so great aboundance of water that it is incredible for that before it runneth into the sea it is at the least 5. miles broad on y e vpper part it is fresh water for 8 10. 16 Duch miles vnto the red sea whereby the pilots sailing ouer it know what place they are in Vpwards into this riuer you may saile with great barks she length of fine miles but not higher by reason of the discending and fall thereof from a steep high ground as the riuers of Nilus Donow and Rhein do in some places which are called Cataraâ—tas that is shedings or fallings of waters making so great a noyse that it may bee heard a great way from it In this riuer at the entry into the sea are many Islands al inhabited and very populous that haue diuers gouernours al subiectes to the king of Congo In tunes past those Islands made warres one against the other in certaine scutes cut out of the bodie of a great tree in their language called Licondo whereof some are so great that sixe men cannot fadome them with height and length correspondent so that one of the greatest being cutte in proportion of a scute woulde holde two hundred men Those scutes they rowe with ores wherwith they make great speede euery man hauing an ore and a bowe and when they fight they lay downe the ore and vse their bowe and to steere and winde those scutes they vse no other ruther than one of those ores In this riuer there are many strange beastes specially Crocadiles that are very great in their language called Carman the sea horse and another that seemeth to haue handes and a taile like vnto a Flaske which they call Ambize Angulo that is a sea hogge because it is as fatte as a hogge it hath a good and sauoury flesh not like fish although it bée a fish which feedeth not of that which is in the riuer but eateth
greater commendation No doubt it is very troublesome and laborious to iourney by land for the attaining to this knowledge but to trauell by Sea is not onely most dangerous but also in a maner almost a desperate estate considering especially the great perils wherevnto it is hourely subiect as namely Rockes Flats Sandes Gulphes Stormes Tempests besides the continuall Watching and care in obseruing the Poles Arctike and Antarctike the Aequinoctiall Line the Altitude and Degrees of the Meridian the Circle of the Zodiake the Horizon the Tropikes the Longitude and Latitude of Heauen and earth the Paralleles the Hemisphere the Zenith the Centre and a Rablement of such curiosities that are able to breake the braines of the soundest man aliue To these if you will add the intollerable paines and infinite diseases that doo spend their bodies you must needs say that they are the most miserable Creatures of the worlde So that you cannot choose but bee of the opinion of Anacharsis that Noble Philosopher who beeing demaunded whether Number was the greater that of the dead or that of the Liuing did redemaund againe In which Number do you recken those that trauell on the Sea Signifiyng thereby that such as trauell vpon the Sea are in so great danger of death that they doo continually dye liuing and liue dying And therefore well sayd Bias one of the seuen Sages that Saylers vppon the Sea were alwayes within two ynches of their death true it is which the Latyn Lyrike Poet writeth That Man had a Hart of Oke and was fenced with a triple Corslet of Brasse that first aduentured to commit a slender Boat to the raging Sea A Type and Patterne of all which miseries together with the cunning and skilfull Art of Nauigation is comprised in this Volume which wee haue in hand being a most perfect description of the East and West Indies or as they are commonly called the Portugall and Spanish Indies A Worke assuredly very profitable and commodious for all such as are desirous curious louers of Nouelties Of these Indies though not in distinguished tearmes of East and West sundry Historiographers and Authors of the old World haue made an honourable Mention left an exceeding commendation thereof for the wonderfull and rare matters that were discouered by the seuerall Trauels Nauigation of diuers famous Captains as namely Alexander the great Seleucus Antiochus Patrocles and Onesicritus who had been all in the saide Indies insomuch as one of them held them to be the Third part of all the Land that is inhabited in regard of the great Prouinces puissant Cities and vnmeasurable Ilands that are found therein all very fruitfull and yeelding such treasure and rich Merchandize as none other place of the whole world can afford And althogh the curiosity and labour of these auncients was very great yet greater hath beene the trauell and industry of those which of late time and in our age hath beene imployed therein For the auncient Trauellers had in deede a certain kind of knowledge of this Countrey and People but it was very vncertaine and vnperfect Whereas we in our times are thoroughly learned and instructed by our owne experience in the Prouinces Cities Riuers Hauens and Trafficks of them all So that nowe it is become knowne to the whole world First the Portingalls being great Merchants by reason of their skil in Nauigation which in our dayes is growne to a more full perfection then euer it hath beene in times past they I say first discouered the Wast and Desert Part of the Indies caused their King to be entertayned honoured among the People encreased and enhaunsed their credit and Name exceedingly and the sundry commodities of their seuerall fruits and spices haue dispersed communicated not onely to their owne Countrymen but also to all Nations vnder the Sunne But here the Matter stayed not For then came the English a People that in the Art of Nauigation giueth place to none other and they were incited to take this Indian Voyage in hande and to make it generally knowne vnto their Island therevpon Syr Francis Drake Master Thomas Candish did not only sayle into the sayde Indies but also trauelled round about the world with a most happy and famous successe Whose examples diuers honourable Gentlemen and valiant Captaines of England haue followed to their vnspeakeable praise and commendation the exceeding glory of their Country as namely the Right Honourable Earle of Cumberland the Lord Thomas Howard Syr Francis Drake Syr Martin Frobisher Syr Richard Greenefield Syr Iohn Hawkins and Syr Walter Raleigh with diuers others named and mentioned in this Booke And last of all the People of the Lowe-Countreys beeing instructed by the diligent search and trauell of the English Nation fell to the like trafficke into â—he Indies and haue performed many Honourable and profitable Voyages Among whom the Author of this Bâ—oke Iohn-Hugh Linschote of Harlem was one that continued in India for the most part of nine yeares and had good oportunity of sure and certaine intelligences by reason of his seruice vnder Vincentius da Fonseca a Fryer Dominican by K. Philip created Archbishop of all India This Man Hugh Linschote behaued himselfe so honestly and warily during the time of his abode there that he was not onely in high fauour of his Lord and Maister but he was also singularly and generally beloued of all the Inhabitants of the places where hee was most resiant He did most diligently and considerately obserue and collect together all occurrents and accidents that happened in his memory knowledge and the same hath committed to writing in the Dutch Tongue with all faithfulnes to his owne euerlasting praise and to the benefit of his Countrey together with the seuerall Mappes and descriptions of the Countreys Cities and Townes all the commodities therevnto belonging Which Booke being commended by Maister Richard Hackluyt a man that laboureth greatly to aduance our English Name and Nation the Printer thought good to cause the same to bee translated into the English Tongue The Volume conteyneth in it foure seuerall Treatises The First is The Voyage or Iourney by Sea of the sayde Hugh Linschote the Author into the East or Portingall Indies together with all the Sea-Coasts Hauens Riuers and Creâ—kes of the same their Customes and Religion their Policie and Gouernement their Marchandises Drugges Spyces Hearbs Plants the vertues whereof are explaned by the Annotations of Doctor Paludanus the learned Phisitian of Enâ—khuysen And last of all a Memoriall of such Accidents as fell out during the Authors aboade in India The Second Treatise is The Description of Guinea Manicongo Angola Monomotapa c. with a discouery of the great Island of Madagascar and all the Shallowes Cliffes and Islands of the Indian Seas The most part whereof was collected before by one Pigafetta from the mouth of Edward Lopez and published in English the last yeare The Third Treatise is The Nauigation
is verie dangerous therefore it is good reason they should shunne them and surely the Pilots ought to haue great care specially such as are in the Indian ships for that the whole ship and safetie thereof lyeth in their hands and is onely ruled by them and that by expresse commaundement from the King so that no man may contrary them They being thus betwéene the lands and by all y e Saylors iudgements hard by the drowthes of India the Pilot tooke the height of the Sunne and made his account that they were past the shallowes commaunding the Master to make all the sayle hee could and freely to sayle to Mosambique without any let or stay And although there were diuers Saylors in the shippe that likewise had their Cardes some to learne other for their pleasures as diuers Officers the Master and the chiefe Boatwayne that said it was better to keepe alooffe specially by night and that it would be good to hold good watch for y t they found they had not as then past the shallowes yet the Pilot saide the contrary and would needes shew that he only had skill and power to commaunde as commonly the Portingales by pride do cast themselues away because they wil follow no mans counsell and be vnder no mans subiection specially when they haue authoritie as it happened to this Pilot that would heare no man speake nor tak◠my counsell but his owne therefore commaunded that they should doe as he appointed them whereupon they hoysted all their Sayles sayled in that sort till it was midnight both with good wind faire wether but the Moone not shining they fell full vpon the Shallowes being of cleare white Corall and so sharpe that with the force of wynd and water that draue the shippe vpon them it cut the shippe in two peeces as if it had beene sawed in sunder so that the keele and two Oarlops lay still vpon the ground and the vpper part being driuen somewhat further at the last stuck fast the maste beeing also broken wherewith you might haue heard so great a crie that all the aire did sound therewith for that in the shippe being Admiral there was at the least fyue hundreth persons among the wich were 30. women with manie Iesuites and Fryers so that as then there was nothing else to bee done but euery man to shrifte bidding each other farewel and asking al men forgiuenes with weeping and crying as it may well be thought The Admirall called Fernando de Mendosa the Maister the Pylot and ten or twelue more presentlie entred into the small boate keeping it with naked Rapiers that no more should enter saying they would goe see if there were anie drie place in the shallowes whereon they might worke to make a Boate of the peeces of the broken shippe therein to sayle vnto the shore and so to saue their liues wherewith they put them that were behind in some small comfort but not much But when they had rowed about and finding no drie place they durst not returne again vnto the Shippe least the boate would haue beene ouerladen and so drowned and in the Shippe they looked for no helpe wherefore in fyne they concluded to row to land hauing about 12 boxes of Marmalade with a pipe of wine and some Bisket which in hast they had thrown into the boat which they dealt among them as néed required and so commending themselues to God they rowed forwardes towards the coast and after they had béene 17 daies vpon the sea they fell with great hunger thirst and labor on the land where they saued themselues The rest that stayed in the ship séeing the boate came not againe it may wel be thought what case they were in At the last one side of the vpper part of the ship betwéene both the vpper Oarlops where the great boat lay burst out and the Boate being halfe burst began to come forth but because there was small hope to be had and fewe of them had little will to proue masteryes no man layd hand thereon but euerie man sate looking one vpon an other At the last an Italian called Cyprian Grimoaldo rose vp and taking courage vnto him sayd why are we thus abashed Let vs seeke to helpe our selues and see if there be any remedie to saue our liues wherewith presentlie he leapt into the boat with an instrument in his hand and began to make it cleane whereat some others began to take courage and to helpe him as well as they could with such things as first came to their handes so that in the end there leaped at the least foure score and ten persons into it and many hung by the handes vppon the boat swimming after it amōg the which were some women but because they would not sinke the boate they were forced to cut off the fingers handes and armes of such as held thereon and let them fall into the sea and manie they threw ouer bord being such as had not wherewith to defend themselues Which done they set forwards committing themselues to God with the greatest cry and pitifullest noyse that euer was heard as though heauen and earth had gone together when they tooke their leaue of such as stayed in the Shippe In which manner hauing rowed certaine dayes and hauing but small store of victuals for that they were so manie in the boate that it was readie to sinke it being likewise verie leake and not able to hold out in the ende they agreed among themselues to chuse a Captaine to whome they would obey and doe as he commanded and among the rest they chose a gentle man a Mestico of India and swore to obey him hee presentlie commanded to throwe some of them ouer bord such as at that tyme had least meanes or strength to helpe themselues among the which there was a Carpenter that had not long before holpen to dresse the Boate whoe seeing that the Lot fell vpon him desired them to giue him a peece of Marmalade and a Cuppe of wine which when they had done he willingly suffered himselfe to bee throwne ouer bord into the Sea and so was drowned There was an other of those that in Portingale are called New Christians he béeing allotted to be cast ouer bord into the Sea had a younger Brother in the same Boate that sodainelie rose vp and desired the Captaine that hee would pardon and make free his Brother and let him supplie his place saying My Brother is older and of better knowledge in the world then I and therefore more fit to liue in the world and to helpe my sisters and friendes in their need so that I had rather die for him then to liue without him At which request they let the elder Brother loose and threwe the younger at his owne request into the sea that swōme at the least sixe howers after the boate And although they held vp their hands with naked rapiers willing him that hee shuld not once come to touch the Boate
with great deuotion promise of other wonderfull things when they came to land at the last God comforted vs and sent vs better weather for that the 19 of Aâ—â—ill the wether began to cleéere vp and therewith we were in better comfort The 20. of Aprill we tooke the hight of the Sunne and found it to be â—6 degrées and againe we saw greene water and some birds which they call Alcatraces and many Sea-wolues which they hold for certain signes of the cape de Bona SperaÌ„za as we thought were hard by the land but yet saw none the same day we had the wind somewhat fuller and were in great hope to passe the Cape so that the men began to be in better comfort by reason of the signes we haue seene All that day we saw greene water till the 22 of Apr. vpon which day twice and in the night following we cast out the Lead and found no ground which is a good signe that wee had passed the Cape called das Agulhas or the cape of needles which lieth vnder 35 degrees and is about 20 miles from the Cape de bona Speranza which lieth vnder 34 degrées a half And because that about this cape Das Agulhas there is ground found at the least 30 or 40 miles from the land we knew wee were past it as also by the colour of the water and the birds which are alwaies found in those countries and the better to assure vs thereof the great high sea left vs that had so long tormented vs and then we found a smoother water much differing from the former so that as theÌ„ we seemed to be come out of hell into Paradice with so great ioy that we thought we were within the sight of some hauen and withall had a good winde though somewhat cold The 23 of Aprill we passed the Cape de Bona Speranza with a great and generall gladnes it being as then 3 months and three dayes after we set sayle from Cochiin not once seeing any land or sand at all but onelie these assured tokens of the said Cape which happened very seldome for that the pilots doe alwaies vse what meanes they can to see the cape and to know the land thereby to know certainlie that they are past it for then their degrees must lessen and there they may as soone make towards Mosambique as to the Iland of S. Helena for although they can well perceiue it by y e water yet is it necessary for them to see the land the better to set their course vnto S. Helena wherein they must alwaies kéepe on the left hand otherwise it were impossible for them to come at it if they leaue that course for if they once passe it they can not come to it again because there bloweth continually but one kind of wind which is South east and thus hauing passed the Cape we got before the wind The 24 of Aprill the Pilot willed vs to giue the Bona viagen vnto the Cape de Bona Speranza according to the custome with great ioy and gladnes of all that were in the shippe for that as theÌ„ they assure themselues that they sayl to Portingal and not to turne againe into India for so long as they are not past the Cape they are alwaies in doubt and as then we were about 50. miles beyond the Cape The signes and tokens whereby they know themselues certainly to haue passed the Cape are great heapes and péeces of thicke réedes that alwaies thereabouts driue vppon the water at least 15 or â—â— miles from the land as also certaine birds by the Portingals called Feyâ—oins somewhat greater then sea mâ—wâ—s being white full of blacke spots ouer al their bodies very easie to be known from al other birds These are certain signes whereby the Pilotes doe certainly perswade themselues that they are past the Cape and hauing passed it they set their course for S. Helena Northwest Northwest by west The 27 of Apr. we were right in the wind and so continued till the next day and theÌ„ we had a calm being vnder 3â— degrees on Portingal side The â—9 of Apr. wâ— gâ—t before the wind which is the generall wind y t alwaies bloweth in those countries al the whole yere vntill y â— come to the Equinoctial line and is a Southeast wind so y t they may wel let their sayles stand lay them down to slâ—ep for in y e greatest wind y t bloweth there they need not strike their maine yard aboue half the mast The 12 of May in the morning betimes we discouered the IlaÌ„d of S. Helena whereat there was so great ioy in the ship as if we had bene in heauen as then we were about 2 miles from y e land the Iland lying from vs West south west whereunto we sayled so close that with a caliuer shot we might reach vnto the shore being hard by it we sayled about a corner of the land that from vs lay Northwest which hauing compassed wee sayled close by the land West North west the land on that side beeing so high and still that it séemed to be a wall that reached vnto the skyes And in that sort we sayled about a mile and a half and compassed about y e other corner that lay westward from vs which corner béeing compassed we presentlie perceiued the shippes that lay in the road which were those ships that set sayle before vs out of India lying about a small half mile from the foresaid corner close vnder the land so that the land as then lieth South east from them and by reason of the high land the shippes lie there as safe as if they were in a hauen for they may well heare the wind whistle on the top of their maine yards but lower it can not come and they lie so close vnder the land that they may almost cast a stone vpon the shore There is good ground there at 25 and 30 fadomes deep but if they chance to put further out or to passe beyond it they must goe forward for they can get no more vnto y e land and for this cause we kept so close to the shore that the height of the laÌ„d took the wind froÌ„ vs the ship wold not steer without wind so that it draue vpon the land wherby our horesprit touched y e shore therwith we thought that shippe goods had all beene cast away but by reason of the great depth being 1â— fadomes water and with the help of the Boats and men off the other ships that came vnto vs we put off from the land without any hurt and by those Boates wee were brought to a place wher the other ships lay at Anker which is right against a valley that lyeth betwéene two high hilles wherein there standeth a little Church called Saint Helena There we found fiue shippes which were the ship that came from Malacca and the S. Mary that had béene there about 15. daies
a prouince lying on the south side of Brasilia and bordering vpon this Countrey whereof I speake is declared that they worship the sunne and the moone but these Toupins haue no god neither heauenly nor earthly and therefore haue no churches nor temples wherin they should assemble to worship their idols clean contrary to the custome and manner of all Heathens and Idolatours throughout the whole worlde They vnderstand not what the creation of the world meaneth neyther do they giue any names to the dayes or estéeme one more than the rest nor account not their times by wéeks months or yéers but onely by the moones and as touching godly or worldly literature they are wholy ignorant not vsing so much as any kind of characters or letters woondering much at the Frenchmen that wrote vpon paper and could reade it wherein we are greatly to praise god that hath giuen vs the grace that we can certifie each other by letters of our actions being in far countries and thereby also attaine vnto the knowledge of the true and liuely God maker of heauen earth wherof when any man speaketh vnto those simple people being in great admiration they stand still as it were abashed and crie I câ—â— and because they séemed to be very fearefull of the thunder clappes by them called Toupan and that thereuppon the Frenchmen taking occasion to marke their simplicitie and little knowledge tolde them that God to shew his great power and maiesty did thereby cause both heauen and earth to shake they aunswered that such a God must néedes be wicked that putte men in so great feare Such is the miserable estate of those poore men Now if any man aske whether they liue like beasts without and God it may be aunswered them that there is not much difference for that those people are wholy more thaÌ„ other men without any knowledge of God and yet being in this gréeuous blindenesse they beléeue the immortalitie of the soule and doe most assuredly perswade themselues that the soules of such as here in this life haue valiantly and well behaued themselues which their valiancie and well liuing is meant by killing and eating of their enemies doe fly behinde certaine high hilles where being in pleasant gardeins with the soules of theyr forefathers they continue in euerlasting ioy pleasure and dauncing and to the contrary that such as are slacke which liue without honour and will not defend theyr natiue country are borne away by the Aygnan for so they caled the diuel with whom they liued in euerlasting paine They are likewise in this life many times tormented by the diuell which also they call Kaagerre for Lerius writeth that he personally sawe them and heard them speake to the French men and raging like madde dogges began to crie out and say vnto them Alas alas helpe vs for the Aygnan beateth vs and would tell them that they did oftentimes see the diuell sometimes in forme of a beast sometimes in likenesse of a bird at other times in diuers shapes and because they maruelled that they were not troubled nor molested by him they made them answer that god who is of greater power than their Aygnan or diuell did preserue them from him wherupon they being tormented promised to become christians and to beleeue in the onely God yet their paines were no sooner ended but they presently forgot their promise And it is most certaine that they are so tormented for Lyrius saith that hee hath often séene them when onely with the remembraunce of their torments they were in so great feare and sighed so deepely that very griefe made them to sweat and sitting with their hands vpon their heades mourning and lamenting said Mair atourassap acequere aignan atoupaue that is O my good friend and my companion I feare wicked sathan aboue al other things whereunto he answered them that he feared him not wherewith lamenting their estate they would say O how happy should wee be if wee were fréeed from him if you will be frée saide Lerius then you must beléeue in him that is mightie Then the Aignan or the diuel which they being in paine promised him to doe but their torments past they had cleane forgotten what they saide Herein you must vnderstand that those of Peru and Cusco did not only beleeue the immortallitie of the soule but also the resurrection of the body as in the Historie of Peru is already declared by the example of the Indians who séeing the Spaniards to open graues of the dead Indians and to take away their Iewelles desired them that they wold not scatter nor throw away the bones to the end that the dead might not want them when they shoulde rise againe This is written to the ende that all vngodly men that are conuersaunt with the simple Tououpinambaultes perswading themselues that there is no God shoulde learne of the wild miserable wretches that there are certaine wicked spirites which torment the vngodly not beléeuing in the power of God here in this life And it they affirme as many of them doe that such wicked spirites are nothing else but the euill affections and conceites of the minde and that therefore the Barbarians doe foolishly perswade themselues of that which is not true it may be answered them as they may reade in our description that the Americans were openly and certainely tormented by wicked spirits whereby it may sufficiently appeare that such torments are no fleshly effects which torment the strongest of them in that maner Secondly although such vngodly men are altogether vnworthy to heare that which the holy scripture speaketh concerning the resurrection of the body yet this second poynt of the Barbarians may well be propounded against those which beléeue the immortalitie of the soule as also the Peruuians that beléeue the immortalitie both of soule and body whereby they may bee ashamed and learne of such wilde men and although those people knew how to bee quit of all their torments and gréefes aforesaide yet are they in great feare of thunder as fearing a certain power which they cannot resist or withstand yet will they not knowe it wherefore the Gospel in the Acts of the Apostles fourtéenth Chapter and seuentéenth verse most truely saith that God in time past suffered the heathens to walke in their own wayes although hee ceased not continually to make his power knowne by doing vs good sending vs raine from heauen and giuing vs fruitfull times and seasons filling our hearts with ioy and our bodyes with meate so that it is the onely wickednesse of man that will not acknowledge the eternall God and maker of all things And in another place in the first to the Romanes and twentieth verse Saint Paul sayth for that which is inuisible vnto man which is his eternitie and Godhead is manifested vnto vs by the creation of the world Therefore although those men wil not confesse God with their mouthes yet are they by their own actions ouerthrowne and made to knowe