't is a black fat Earth and in others stiff and Clayie in others Sandy and in some Reddish but by pareels it 's therefore the Settlements are distinct Mountainous and Unplantable Land interposing betwixt them make them appear like so many several Colonies and has occasioned this Division of the Parishes St. Thomas at the East St. Elizabeth at the West St. Johns and St. Thomas in the Vale. In the Island St. Georges St. Maries and St. Anns the North side St. Davids St. Andrews Port Royal St. Catharines St. Dorothies Clarendon and Vere on the South side The greatest Plains and almost all the Savannas or Pasturage is on the South side they are all taken up and Stock'd with Cattel on the South side likewise is Port Royal and all the best Ports and Roads and most considerable Plantations this side being dry plain more agreeable and much quicker and safer Coast than the North for that in the Spring is apt to violent Gusts of Winds and much more subject to Rains than the South as the East and all Parts is that is Woody and Mountainous nor has the North side any safe Port but Port Antonio to the Wind-ward which is subject to violent and constant Rains and the Land about it Morsey and Mountainous so no Settlements are near it The other Lee-ward Parishes have Port St. Maries that is Reasonably good and safe but they have especially in St. Maries Parish abundance of Excellent Plantations of Coccoa many Sugar-works and Provision Plantations that are supported and carried on by Hunting and gathering Pimento with which this Quarter abounds Thus Plantations were begun and the Government settled in Sir Thomas Lynch his time and now the Inhabitants find the goodness of that Soyl Liberally Recompence the want of Harbours and Pasturage and distance from the Chief Port and Seat of Government for its very Fertile Land covered with Excellent Timber it 's a little Hilly but full of fine Rivers and all Conveniencies for Plantations The Climate is as agreeable as any can be betwixt the Tropicks the Air being very serene and clear even to a Proverb among the Spaniards It 's subject to Thunder and Lightning as all Countries in that Latitude are the Rains come uncertainly but most expected about November and May they are generally violent continue an uncertain time are unhealthy and breed Musketoes that are the greatest Plague in the Island but are troublesom only the Rainy Seasons and in most places where they have not good Houses a free Air clean Yards c. This Climate subjects no body inevitably to Diseases here being no such thing as Seasoning which is common in Ireland and Virginia c. Sir Tho. Lynch at St. Jago and thereabouts lost not one Person oâ— his Family that consisted of abouâ— Thirty all the time of his Government But to many Persons the Heat is unsupportable because it 's so constant and its Reflections so violent otherwise it is not greateâ— than our Summers in England Iâ— is Excess in Eating Drinking Exercising Debauchery c. that to new comers and full Bodies often bring Fevers Calentures and such Diseases that are infinitely more Acutâ— than those here and Cured by otheâ— Methods To Servants poor Labouring People c. the Dropsie iâ— the most common of all other Diseases they and Debauch'd Person are the most subject to Belly-aches caused usually by their Disorders want of convenient Lodging Cloathing Exercise Diet but sometime by ill chosen Seats when they Planâ— in low Valleys and have no Air oâ— by Rivers and have too much moisture or by Mountains or Morossos and have too much Rain or by the Sea-side and on Bays where they are Sandy want good Water and have the Reflection of the Sun too violent for this Island differs one part from another as much in the temper of the Climate as nature of the Soyl For the East Parts are Mountainous Rainy and generally Fertile and unhealthful The South Part dry plain very pleasant abounding with Ports and Pasturage The West is between both only that and the South want Rivers which the North side abounds with and Rich Land as likewise good Hunting and gathering Pimento in the Mountains and Fishing on the Sea-Coasts and by what the Spaniards have told us and some little Discovery we have made we think divers of the Mountains have Minerals The Winter Months here have only the Nights Mornings and Evenings cooler the Days as hot as Summer and about fifteen Hours long Winter and Summer The Winds blow not an hours variation commonly here as they do every where betwixt the Tropicks that is Easterly which they call Breeses near the Island they rise not till about Nine in the Morning and usually cease at about six or seven at Night they come in gently and grow as the Sun rises and in the Evening comes in a kind of Westernly Wind which we call Land-breese because it blows off the Land and with it the Vessels go out of Port And to the West that is the Wind-ward as the East is called Lee-ward This Island has never been troubled with those dreadful Hurricanes that so often Ruine and Afflict the Charibe Islands Portorico Hispaniola Cuba and many parts of the Main Here is no great Ebb or Flood of the Sea we have not Observed above a foot difference nor can any Pilot give any certain Account of the Currents of these Seas they are so various and uncertain nor can any guess why the Hurricanes and Earthquakes should never touch Jamaica since they so often Afflict all the Islands and Continent None of the Rivers of this Island are fair or Navigable because the Countrey is very Mountainous and these Hills running through the Centre of it East and West the Rivers rise in them and disembogue North and South so falling out of these high Mountains are very Rappie and because of the great Rains in them are subject to Inundations that carry great stone Rocks and Timber along with the Torrent so make their usual Course foul and unpassable for Boats and make and change the Bars There are divers dry Rivers which hinder the Boats from entring into the Countrey as particularly Minoa that runs through Clarendon which at some time has not a drop of Water and at other times as much as the Thames at High Water The Mountains whether Stony or Plantable are generally covered with Excellent Timber for all Uses both for Curiosity Building and Dying abundance of Fruit and Spice Trees These Mountains are full of Hoggs and there is probability of Minerals but no Trees or Fruit that resemble ours in England There 's no Towns in this Island but on the South side at the East by Port St. Thomas Port Morant several Houses called Rapp-Houses which serve for Store-Houses and Ale-Houses for the Neighbourhood and such Vessels as use that Port which are but few because the Governour has not yet permitted Vessels to Discharge there At St. Davids is Yhallows Bay
about seven Leagues from Port St. Thomas as far from Port Royal there is several Ale-Houses and Store-Houses At Liguania the in-side of the Harbour opposite to Port Royal about two Leagues is several Houses some of them very handsom and well Built which place in time is like to become a pretty Town Port Royal is Situate on the extream Point of Land that makes the Harbour It runs about Twelve Miles from the Main off the Land Westernly It has to the South the Sea to the North the Harbour which is the largest safest and most convenient in America This Neck of Land is exceeding narrow and nothing but a loose Sand that has neither Grass Stone Water nor Trees But being so Commodious for Ships that they are Secure all Weathers and can unload a Float at the Merchants Key It is the most Populous place for Trading in the Island and there only Ships enters and are dispatch'd In the Spaniards time there was no Houses the Sea-men of Cromwel's Fleet begun the Town by Building Store-Houses and called it Cogway as we judge corruptly from the Spanish word La aguia Col. Doyly caused it to be laid out as a Town but not very Regularly In Sir Char. Littleton's time it was called Port Royal from the Excellency of the Harbour It now contains above 1500 Houses there is a House though none of the best belonging to the King And in the Earl of Carlile's time a fine New Church Built partly by Liberal Subscription of divers Gentlemen Inhabiting the Island and partly by an Assessment laid upon the Inhabitants of the Port. Going from Port Royal to St. Jago de la Vega People Land at Passage where a Fort was in Col. Doyly's time and there is about Thirty Houses that are Store-Houses Ale-Houses and Horse-keepers and Hackney Coaches this being the greatest Passage in the Island it is two Leagues from Port Royal by Sea and six Miles from St. Jago by Land St. Jago de la Vega is Situated in a large Plain by a River that is called pro de Cabre as having a taste of that Metal or coming out of those Mountains in Liguania where the Spaniards told us they found of it This Town was almost quite Deserted when Sir Tho. Lynch came to the Government but in his time about Forty Houses were Built and Repaired about one Hundred more The Grand Court is holden Quartâ—rly in this Town and a Fair was Erected in Sir Tho. Lynch his time it has one Spanish Church and Gentlemens Houses that made it look well during the time the Governour Lived there but since that time it is much increased in Number of Beautiful Buildings and Inhabitants At Old Harbour about seven Miles West from St. Jago are about Thirty Houses for the Uses and Accommodation of Vessels and Store-Houses for Planters Goods this being esteemed the best Harbour excepting Port Royal in the South side By the Spaniards it was more Frequented At Withy Wood Twenty Miles to the West is about forty or fifty Houses for the Accommodation of Vessels that Road being more frequented than any other on the South side there being good Land many Settlements and a Pleasant Countrey all about it At the Extensive Point of Port Royal was Built a Round Tower by Cromwel's Sea-men in 1656 in 1657 and 1658 Col. Doyly laid the Foundation of a more Regular one which Sir Charles Littleton near Finished in 1664 and Sir Tho. Modyford in his time which was to the Year 1671 quite finished and Mounted in it about 36 Guns Employing the Round Tower only as a Store-House for Ammunition Besides this he Built a Breast-work of stone that run from the Harbour to the Sea about 200 Yards this was to Defend the Town from any surprize by Land as the Castle was to Defend the Mouth of the Harbour It was Named by Sir Charles Littleton Charles Fort in Honour of His Majesty In Sir Tho. Lynch his time was Built a Fort called James Fort Built by Sir Thomas and the Voluntary Contribution of some Gentlemen On the Island Point of the Town to flank the Ships at turning into the Harbour and Batter them when at Anchor in it which the Castle cannot He likewise made a slight Work for that purpose at Prison Point where six Guns were Mounted and at Port Morant four Guns and a Breast-work raised to Defend the Port. Another likewise at Old Harbour which was done in Sir Tho. Lynch his time but many more were added in the time of the Earl of Carlisle The Commodities the Countrey produces are Excellent Sugars Cocoa Cotton Hides Ginger Tobacco Tortoise shell Indico Primento Fustick Brazilletto Lignum Vitae Granadilla Ebony besides some Gums Achot Drugs c. This Island abounds with Cattle and the Islands of Spaniola Portico and Cuba do the like so does many Parts of the Main the first Breed being brought out of Europe for before the Discovery there was none of our Cattel great or small in the West Indies In Jamaica they Multiplyed so exceedingly that when the English took the Island a Cow was not worth above a Piece of Eight and a Horse half as much But the Army destroy'd them so that in the Year 1671 when Sir Tho. Lynch came to the Government a Cow was worth Twelve or Fourteen pounds but by the goodness of the Pasture and the Cattle Sir Thomas Imported from the Spaniards they increased so that in the Year 1675 they were worth but four pounds per Head one with another Besides here is plenty of good sprightly Horses some Mules and Asnegroes abundance of Hogs Goats and Sheep whose Wool is hairy the Flesh not generally so good as in England they breed often but live not well unless about Alligater Ponds Rabbets live well enough but there 's no Hare nor Deer in the Island In this Countrey is Hens Turkeys and Ducks bred better and are better flesh than in England Geese are but rare there 's abundance of Excellent Wild Fowl as Guiny Hens Flemingoes Teale Ducks Curlews with great variety of Pidgeons Turtles Parrots Maces and other Birds whose Flesh is good and Feathers finely coloured There is store of Fish both in the Sea and divers Rivers not much common to England but a King of Lobster Craw-fish Eels Mullers and Spanish Mackrael with abundance of all sorts of Admirable Fish proper to those Seas Tortoise are taken much on this Coast but chiefly at the Island Cay Manos 30 Leagues to the West of this Island whither the Vessels go May June and July to Load of their Flesh that they Pickle in Bulk and take them in that Season when they come on shore to lay their Eggs which they do and cover them with Sand that hatches them and then by instinct they crawl to the Sea where they Live and feed on Weeds that grows in the bottom or floats In many Rivers and Ponds of Jamaica there 's vast Numbers of Crocodiles or Allegators that is an Amphibious Creature and
Prince and Major John Morris they being in number 300 men the body containing 600 the Right wing was led by the Gen. and the left by Col. Ed. Collier the rear-ward of the 300 was Commanded by Col. Bledry Morgan after having viewed our men and a little encouraged them the G. commanded the Officers every man should repair to his Charge the Enemy being drawn at such advantage they still kept their Station although often provoked yet would not stir from their Ground which we presently perceived and gave order that our men should wheel their bodies to the left and endeavour to gain a Hill that was hard by which if gained we should have forc'd the Enemy to fight to their disadvantage by reason he could not bring out of his great body more men to fight at a time than we could out of our small body and likewise that we should have the advantage both of Wind and Sun The Officers putting this Command in execution and the Hill and a dry Gut accordingly gained the Enemy was forced to fight upon their long March having not room to wheel his Battel by reason of a Bogg that was drawn behind on purpose as he thought to entrap us but we taking another ground in the end proved a snare to himself whereupon one Francisco Detarro gave the Charge with his Horse upon the Vant Guard and so furiously that he came upon the full speed we having no Pikes gave order that they should double their Ranks to the Right and close their Files to the Right and Left inward to their close order but his career could not be stopt till he lost his life in the front Rank of our Vant-Guard upon which the Horse wheel off to the Right and their Foot advanced to try their Fortunes but it proved like their fellows for we being ready with the main Battel to receive them gave them such a warm welcom and pursued so close that every one thought it best to retreat but they were so closely plyed by our left Wing who could not come to Engage at first by reason of the Hill that the Enemies retreat came to plain running Although they did work such a Stratagem that hath been seldom or never heard of that is when the Foot Engaged in the Flank he attempted to drive two Droves of Cattel of 1500 apiece into the Right and Left Angles of the Reer but all came to one effect and helped nothing for their flight to the City where they had 200 fresh men and two Forts one with six Brass Guns the other with eight and the Streets Barricadoed and great Guns in every Street which in all amounted to 32 brass Guns but instead of fighting he commanded the City to be fired and his chief Forts to be blown up the which was in such hast that he blew up forty of his Souldiers in it we followed into the Town where in the Market-place they made some resistance and fired some great Guns killed us four men and wounded five At three of the Clock in the afternoon we had quiet possession of the City although on fire with no more loss on our side in this daies work than five men killed and ten wounded And of the Enemy about 400 where we were all forced to put the fire out of the Enemies Houses but it was in vain for by 12 at night it was all consumed that might be called the City but of the Subburbs there was saved 2 Churches and about 300 Houses thus was consumed that famous and antient City Panama which is the greatest Mart for Silver and Gold in the whole World for it receives all the Goods into it that comes from old Spain in the King 's great Fleet and likewise delivers to the Fleet all the Silver and Gold that comes from the Mines of Peru and Potazi Here in this City we stayed 28 daies making daily Incursions upon the Enemy by Land for 20 Miles round about without having so much as one Gun shot at us in anger although we took in this time near 3000 Prisoners of all sorts and kept likewise Barques in the South Seas crusing and fetching of Prisoners that had fled to the Islands with their Goods and Families Feb. 14. we began our March towards our Ships with all our Prisoners and the next day came to Venta Cruce about 2 in the afternoon which is from Panama five English Leagues where we stayed refreshing our selves till the 24th the 26th we came to Changra where the Plunder was divided amongst the Souldiers and Seamen which amounted to about 30000 l. The sixth of March we fired the Castle spiked the Guns and began our Voyage for Jamaica where some are arrived and the rest daily expected The reason that there was no more Wealth was because they had two Months notice of us and had Embarqued most of their Treasure into Ships and sent them to Lima in Peru one Ship wâ—s laden with Gold Silver and precious Stones that contained 700 Tuns and one of 300 Tuns Jan. 31. 1671. By Command John Peeke Secretary At a Council held at St. Jago the 31 of May 1671. Present His Excellency Sir Tho. Modyford Baronet Governour Lieutenant Col. John Cope Lieutenant Col. Robert Brindlos Lieutenant Col. William Ivy Major Cha. Whitfield Major Antho. Collier Capt. Henry Molesworth Admiral Henry Morgan gave the Governour and Council a Relation of a Voyage to Panama who gave him many thanks for the Execution of his late Commission and approved very well of his acting This is a true Copy of the Record Cha. Atkinson C. C. The Deposition of John Peeke Gentleman aged 30. years or thereabouts taken before the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Linch Knight Governour of Jamaica this 3d day of April 1682. The Deponent saith that he was Secretary to Admiral Henry Morgan all the Panama Voyage and that he wrote all his Letters and saw those that were sent to the said Admiral from Sir Thomas Modyford or any other person in Jamaica that he was present when the two Spaniards Marcus de Cuba and Lucas Perez were sworn on board the Satisfaction and that upon their deposition it was resolved by the Commanders that they would attain Panama and that Sir Thomas Modyford had knowledge of the Design by a Ship that was sent on purpose and that Col. Bledry Morgn Came to the fleet in a Sloop that departed from Jamaica ten days after the arrival of the said Ship and that Sr. Thomas Mudyford in his Letter which he sent by the Sloop gave no Countermand at all And this deponent further saith that this is a true Copy of the Journal which was delivered to the Council the 13 of May for which they gave him thanks and ordered it should be recorded And this deponent further remembers that the Sloop which came to them and brought Sr. Thomas Mudyfords letter in answer to these which were sent upon the advice they gave of their resolutions for Panama arrived three days before we
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
Inportunate Whispering Murmuring threatning of enraged companions could daunt O name Collon worthy to be named to the Worlds end which to the Worlds end hast conducted Collonies or may I call thee Collumbo for thy Dove-like simplicity and patience the true Collonna or Pillar whereon the knowledge of the new World is founded the true Christopher which with more then Giant-like force and Fortitude hast Carried Christ his name and Religion through unknown Seas to unknown Lands which we hope pray that it may be more Refined than Popish Superstition and Spanish pride will yet suffer Now let the Antients no Longer Mention Neptune Minos Erithras or Danaus to all which Divers authors Diversly Ascribe the Invention of Navigation Missians Tirrians Trojans vail your bonnets strike your Top-sail to this Indian Admiral that deserveth the Top-sail indeed by aspiring to the top that sailing could Aim at in Discovering another World Let Spaniard French England and Dutch Resound thy name or his name rather whose name who can tell Psal 30.4 that would acquaint thee and the World by the news of a new World But lest we drown our selves in this Sea of Extasie and Admiration let us go on shore with Collumbus in this new discover'd Island and first methinks I see the Spaniards yesterday in Mutiny now as far Distracted in Contrary passions some gazing with greedy eyes on the Desired Land some with tears of Joy not able to see that which the Joy of seeing made them not to see Others Embracing and almost adoreing Collumbus who brought them to that sight some also with secret Repining Envying that glory to a stranger but biting in their biting Envy and making shew of Glee and Gladness all new awaked out of a long trance into which that step-mother Ocean with Danger Death Dread Despair had Dejected them Revived now by the sight of their Mother Earth from whom in unknown Arms they had been so long weaned and detained On then they go and felling a tree make Cross thereof which they there Erected and took Possession of that new World in the name of the Catholick King this was done on the 11 of October Anno. 1492 In the Island Guana hani one of the Lucai which Collumbus named San Saluatore from whence he sailed to Baracoe a Haven on the North side of the Island Cuba when he went on Land and asked of the Inhabitants for Cipango Japan they understanding him of Cibao where are the Richest Mines of Hispaniola signed him that it was in Haiti so was the Island then Called and some of them went with him thither Some think Collumbus did run on ground on purpose that he might Leave some behind him What Wordly Joy is not Mix'd with some Disaster after their Admiral here spliteth on a Rock but the men are saved by the help of the other Ships This fell out in the North part of Panicola so named by them where they had sight of Inhabitants who seeing these strangers Ran all away into the Mountains one woman the Spaniards took whom they used Kindly and gave her Meat Drink and Cloathes and so let her go she declaring to her people the Liberalitie of these new comers easily perswaded them to come in troops to their shiping thinking the Spaniards to be some Divine Nation sent thither from Heaven They had before taken them for the Caribbes which are Certain Canibals which use Inhumane Huntings for Humane Game to take men for to eat them Children likewise which they gelded to make them more fat and then to devour them the women they did not eat but used them for Procreation and if they were old for other Services The Islanders had no other Defence against them but the Woody Hills and swiftest Heels to which they betook them at the Spaniards arrival thinking them as 't is said to be Canniballs and such have they since proved in effect not leaving of three Millions of people which here they found so many hundreds and that long-since the Divil had forewarned them of this by Oracle that a bearded Nation should spoil their Images and spill the blood of their Children which was all verified as may be seen by any that has been Conversant in such Tracts as Treats of those parts Collumbus obtained leave of Guacanarillus the Cacick or King to build a fort in which he Left 38 Spaniards and taking with him 6 Indians Returned to Spain where he was highly welcomed by the King and Queen Some Controversie fell out between Collumbus and one of the Pinzons Masters of one of the Caravels about leaving those men behind but Collumbus sent a Letter to Reduce him to peace by the Indians who held the Letter in a most Religious Regard thinking it had some Spirit or Deity by which they could understand one another being absent The Pope then a Spaniard Alexander the 6 hearing of this devided the World by his Bull betwixt the Portugal and Spaniards bearing date the 4 of May 1493. Drawing a Line one hundred Leagues beyond the Island of Azores and Cape verde this Alexander giving more then great Alexander could conquer the East to the one and West to the other The Bull soon after turned into a Unicorn his 2 horns grew into one by the uniting of these two Nations Collumbus Graced with the title of Admiral and Enriched with the tenths of the Spanish Gaines in the Indies is sent a second time with his Brother Barthol who was made Deputy of Hispaniola they had fifteen hundred men the first Island he Espied in his Second Navigation he called Desteada or Desired because he had longed to see Land arriving in Hispaniola he found the Indians had Murther'd these 38 Spaniards which he had left there and lay the blame on the Spanish Insolencies He now built and peopled the town of Isabella which was their chief place of Residence and Government which in the year one thousand four hundred ninety eight was Removed to the City of San. Domingo they built also the fort of S. Thomas But both in the one and the other the Spaniards Died of famine through the Indians wilfulness who unwilling to have such Neighbours would not plant their Maze and Jucca and so starved both themselves and their Guests As for the Pox the Spaniards in this Voyage got it of the Indian women and brought them into Spain and they after paid the Indians in Recompence with a Disease as deadly and Infectious to them which consumed thousands and was never known before amongst them That is the small Pox the other were Improperly named of the French or of Naples seeing that in these wars of Naples which the Spaniards Maintain'd against the French some carryed this Disease with them out of Spain and communicated the same both to the French and Neapollitans having been usual and easily Curable in the Indies Another disease also assaulted them of a little kind of flies called Niguas which would eat into and Breed in the flesh and made many lose their toes Collumbus at this time Discover'd Cuba and Jamaica with the Neighbour Isles Returning to Spaniola he found his Brother and the Spaniards in Dissention and separation and punishing the Authors of sedition Returned home In the year of our Lord 1492 he made his third Voyage and then touched on the Continent Discover'd Cubagua paria and Cumana But Roldanus Ximenius raising a Rebellion and accusing the Collumbi to the King effected that Bovadilla was sent Governor into Spaniola who sent the two Brethren bound as Prisoners to Spain Base ingratitude for the brave attempt of the worthys the King freeth them and Imploy'd Christopher a fourth Voyage Anno 1502. in which Ovandus the Governour forbid Collumbus the first finder to Land on Hispaniola He then discover'd Guanaxa Higvera Fondura Veragua Vraba and learned news of the South Sea He stay'd at Jamaica to Repair his fleet where some of his men were sick and then they which were sound in Body were more then sick froward and tumultuous in Behaviour and many left him upon this occasion the Islanders also forsook him and brought in no victualing herewith Collumbus neither able to abide nor depart was driven to his shifts no less admirable for subtilty then Resolution he told the Islanders that if they did not bring him in provision the Divine anger would consume them a sign thereof they should see in the Darkned face of the Moon 2 Days after at that time he knew the Moon would be Eclipsed which the simple Islanders seeing with fear and Grief humbled themselves to him and offered themselves ready to all kind and dutyful offices At last returning into Spain he there died Anno 1506. his body was buryed at Sevil in the Temple of the Carthusians This was the end if ever there can be an end of Collumbus Pinzenus one of Collumbus his Companions by his Example invited made new Discoveries Vespatius and Cabbet and many other every day making new Searches and Plantations till the World at last is come to the knowledge of this new World almost wholly FINIS