the rockes and lay themselues together in order of a wall And thus saith Horace in his Epistle of Poetrie ad Pisones Dictus Amphion Thebanae conditor vrbis Saxa moucre sono testudmis prece blaÌ„da Read more of him in Appollonius his Argonauticks 28 The sonnes of Heber This proues again that the neare successours of Noe filled not the world all at once but by successioÌ„ of time So the true religion remained in the familie of Sem The Chaldeans were excellent Astronomers Philosophers the Egyptian Priestes knew the secretes of Nature before there was any knowledge of letters in Greece which was not peopled so soone as the other by many yeares as the histories euen of the Greekes themselues declare See the latter Chronicles 29 All Egypt ouershone Another proofe If the world had bene peopled all straight after the flood riches and dainties would haue bene found vsed in all countreys at the same time But they were in Egypt and Tyre long before the Greekes and Gaules knew the world So it followes that Greece and Gaule were not so soone peopled as Egypt and Phoenicia By the limping Smith he meanes Vulcan that first found out the vse and forging of Iron in Sicilie Prometheus was the first that found the vse of fire among the Argolians or Greekes Of him saith Hor. 1. booke 2. Ode Audax Iapeti genus igneÌ„fraude malâ gentâ—bus intulet That is the bold son of Iaphet brought fire by craft among the nations Of this matter the Poets haue set forth many fables the true drift whereof our Authour sheweth in a word Looke what I haue noted vpoÌ„ the yoy verse of the 6. day of the 1 weeke The rest of this place is easie to be vnderstood 30 As if a pebble stone A fine similitude concerning the aforesaid matter to shew how all the Arts began froÌ„ the plaine of Scunnar to spread by litle and litle ouer all the world 31 For from Assyria He beginneth here to treat of the more particular peoplings And first he sheweth how the posteritie of Sem began to fil Asia Their first out crease leauing the coast of Assyria bent toward the East Of this riuer Hytan Plinie faith 6.23 Carmamae flumen Hytanis portuosum auro fertile Look Solinus cha 67. They hauing peopled this quarter hrust on further toward Oroatis a riuer of Persia whereof Plinie saith in his 6. booke the 23. Flumen Oroatis ostio difficili nisi peritis Insulae 2. paruaeâ—nde vadosa nauigatio palustri similis per euripos tamen quosdam peragitur in the 25 chap. Persidis initium ad Flumen Oroatin quo diuiditur ab Elimaide Read also the 24. chap. of the said booke of Plinie for the better vnderstanding of their dwelling here Then they drew further forth into Persia towardes the Citie Susa close by the which Coaspâ—s runneth such is the sweetnesse of that water that as Plinie Soline Plutarch others record the kings of Persia drink of none other So they came into the valleys of the famous hill Caucasus where dwelt the Parthians whose kings were coÌ„monly called Arsaces From heÌ„ce into Medie lastly vp higher toward the Mesendin Hyrcaman or Caspian lake Looke Ptolo in his 1.2 3. table of Asia Mercator â—â—rtelius Cellarius Thouet All these remoues are coÌ„tained within the compasse of 5. or 600. leagues 32 These mens posteritie He setteth downe in fower verses the chiefe countries peopled by the second ouercrease of Sems Issue The land fronting Cheâ—â—el is a part of Tartarie not farre from the Caspian sea whereinto that riuer falleth and riseth neare the wildernesse of Lop aboue Tachalistan which is a great countrey neighbour to the mountaine â—maus Charasse Charassan or Chorasan it is a couÌ„trey that hes between Istigias Bedane and Tacalistan which I note more particularly then I finde in the French Commentarie because there is so little difference of letters betweene that and the name of Carazan whereof the Poet speaketh in the fourth verse following This Charasse Gadel Cabul Bedane and Balistan are prouinces enclosed by the riuer Indus the mountaine Imaus the Mesendin or Caspian Sea and the realme of Persia a circuit of land somewhat more then 600. leagues 33 Their of spring afterward He commeth to the third ouercrease of the Semites who went foorth Southward as well as North and Eastward The inhabitants of Cabul thrust forward their Issue toward Bisnagar a rich countrie of South Asia lying betweene the Persian sea and the Gulfe of Bengala Narsinga for so I haue translated the French Nayarde is a kingdome lying yet lower and very rich That plenteous land that Ganges thorow-flowes it containes the higher India where are many wealthie kingdomes set forth well at large in the Mappes as Cambaie Decan Bengala Pedir c. Toloman is further vp toward the North. Aua is beyond the Gulfe of Bengala toward the East about Pegu and Siam countries of infinit wealth Mein on the West hath Ganges on the East Macin on the South Bengala and on the North Carazan which the Poet surnameth Muskey because there is great store of the best Muske Lop a Desert thirtie daies iourney ouer lying yet higher Northward It seemes the Poet followes the opinion of M. P. Venet who in the first booke of his Tartarian Historie chap. 35. makes very strange report of the fearefull sights that the poore passengers there meete with often to the losse of their liues Not vnlike it is that certaine legions of euill Spirits there abiding haue had some speciall power giuen them so to punish the Idolotrous Mahometists who still inhabit those quarters The Poet saith all the countries marching this Wildernesse were peopled by this third out crease of the Semits It is an opinion somewhat likely and thereon I rest vntill I heare some other if it bee possible giue more certaine intelligence of the matter 34 Long after sundrie times He speaketh of the fourth and last ouercrease of Sem. Tipura a countrie breeding many Rhinocerots which according as the Greeke name signifieth I haue translated horny-snouted beasts reade the description of them in the exposition of the 40. verse of the 6. day of the first weeke this Tipura lieth East ward aboue Toloman betwixt Carazan an Caichin or Gaucinchine for so I haue translated it hath on the West Tipura and Toloman on the South Campaa on the North China Mein and on the East the East-Ocean a land very large and bearing great store of Aloës Mangit is far vp in the North so is also Quinsai Ania and Tabin one aboue another euen vnto the Amen Straight and Scythike Ocean By this description plaine to be seene in the Maps of Asia the Poet meant to shew vs all the seuerall remoues of Sems posteritie who not passing beyond the Anian Straight might long content themselues with so large a portion as Asia containing aboue foure thousand leagues of ground As for the particular description of these countries
their length bredth and commodities I neither dare nor wil euer charge therewith my notes entended for short Besides it was not the Poets minde to hold the reader long with view and studie of such matter and questions as may be had and plainly resoiled of the Card-men 35 Now from the center-point Out of Assyria and Mesopotamia Iaphet or the next race from him drew toward the West into those places that the Poet names set downe as they are in the ancient and later Mappes of Asia and Europe I neede not mince euery word of the text Armenie is distinguished into the Great and Lesse it lieth neere the Caspian sea and coasteth toward Europe The sweete Corician cave it is in Cilicia and is described of Plinie in the 27. chapter of his 5. booke and Strabo in his 4. book and Solinus in his 51. chap. Concerning the strange matters which the Poet reports of it reade Pomponius Mela his description of Cilicia the first booke Besides many notable properties of the place he sayth moreouer that when a man hath gone there a troublesome narrow way a mile and more he shall come through pleasant shades into certaine thick woods which make a sound no man can tell how of certaine country-songs and after he is passed thorow to the end thereof he shall enter another deeper shadowe which amazeth much all that come there by reason of a noise is heard loud and passing mans power to make as it were the sound of many Cimballes These are his words Terret ingredientes sonitis Cimbalorū diuinitùs magno fragore crepitantium He sets downe also at large al other the pleasant delights of the place Concerning this musicke some thinke it a fable Others ascribe it to a naturall cause as that the ayre entring by a narrow mouth into a vault of stone wide and very deepe soone growes thereby exceeding raw and so turnes into water then dropping still downe in many places and quantities somewhat proportionable vpon the sounding stone makes in those hollow rockie places a noyse as it were musicall Taure his loftie downes this great mountaine reacheth hence well toward Pisidia Westward and on the other side a great way into Asia as Ptolomee sheweth in his first table Meander a riuer arising out of the mountaines of Pelta and Totradium in Asia the lesse it runneth thorow Hierapolis Pisidia Licaonia Caria and other countries thereabouts into the Midland sea Illios or Troas Bithynia and the rest are higher toward Hellespont and the Maior sea 36 Then boldly passing ore He spake before of Illios which lies in low Phrigia vpon the shore of the Midland sea about the Sigean Peake and the riuer Simöis hard by the Straight of Gallipolie where Abydos on Asia-side stādeth and Sestos on the side of Europe now he saith the second ouercrease of Semites past the Straight it being in breadth but the fourth part of a league as Bellon auoucheth in the 2. booke and 3. chapter of his Singularities In times past there stood two towers one in Sest the other in Abyde in the toppes whereof wont to bee set great lights to waine the marriners by night Looke what we haue noted vpon the word Phare in the first day of the first weeke verse 448. and what vpon the word Leander 1. weeke fift day 912. verse At this time Sest and Abyde are two Castles where the Turke hath Garrisons and are the very keyes of Turkie in that quarter so neere is Constantinople vnto them Strimon Hebre and Nest are three great riuers passing thorow Thrace which is now called Remania and falling into the Aegean sea called now by some Archipelago and by the Turks the White sea Look the 9. table of Europe in Ptolomee The Rhodopeā dales Rhodope is a mountaine bounding Thrace in the dales thereof beside other townes are Philippoli and Hadrianopoli Danubie or Donaw is the greatest riuer of all Europe springing out of Arnobe hill which Ptolomee and Mercator puts for a bound betweene the Sweues and Grisons this Riuer running thorow Almaine Austria Hungaria Sclauonia and other countries with them interlaced receiueth into it aboue 50. great Riuers and little ones an infinite sort so emptieth by sixe great mouthes into the Maior sea Moldauia Valachia and Bulgaria are the countries neere about the fall of Danubie 37 Thrace These countries neere the Maior and Aegean Seas and the Thracian Bosphore thrust on the third ouercrease of people further West and Northward as the Poet very likely fayth the Mappes of Europe shew plainly the coasts he nameth for their chiefe seates But to shew how and when they changed and rechanged places and names of places driuing out one the other and remouing by diuers enterspaces it were the matter of a large booke 38 Now turning to the South He commeth now to handle the Colonies or ouercreases of Chams posteritie first into Arabia Phaenicia and Chananaea which was after called Indaea the site of these countries wee know well they are easie to bee found in the generall Mappes and those of Europe beside the particulars in Ptolomee and other late writers as namely in the Theater of Ortelius When the Chamites had ouerbred Arabia and the countrie south from Chaldaea which lies betwixt th' Arabian and Persian Gulfes they went at the second remoue down into Aegypt betwixt the red Midland seas thirdly they entred Affrick and by little and little filled it The Poet points-out many countries for better vnderstanding whereof wee must cōsider that Affrick the fourth part of the world knowne is diuided into foure parts Barbaria Numidia Lybia and the land of Negroes Barbaria conteineth al the North coast from Alexandria in Aegypt to the Straight of Gibraltar along by the Midland sea and is diuided into foure kingdomes Maroco Fessa Tremisen and Tunis conteining vnder them 21. Prouinces Vnder the same Southward lieth Numidia called of the Arabiās Biledulgerid and hauing but few places habitable Next below that is Lybia called Sarra as much to say as Desert a countrie exceeding hot and marching athonside vpon the land of Negroes that the last and greatest part of Affrick reacheth South and Eastward very farre In the further coast thereof is the countrie of Zanzibar certaine kingdomes and deserts neere the Cape of good hope which is the vtmost and Southerest peake of all Affrick Corene is neer Aegypt The Punick Sea the Sea of Carthage put for the Midland that parteth Europe and Affricke asunder Fesse is the name of the chiefe Citie of that Realme in Barbarie Gogden a Prouince of the Negroes as are also Terminan Gago and Melli neere the same Argin lieth neere the White Cape Gusola is one of the seuen Prouinces of Maroco in Barbarie Dara a countrie in the Northwest of Numidia not farre from Gusola Tombuto a great countrie in the West part of the Negroes neere aboue the riuer Niger So is Gualata but somewhat higher and right against the Greene Cape Mansara which I haue put in
the seruice of God But the Lord being mercifull vnto Abraham restored to him againe and kept for his faithfull children the first language which had not bene so much corrupted in the familie of Sem who parted not so farre from his father Sem â—ent toward the West 6 This countrey reaching foorth as rich as it is large From Peake of Perosites where doth himselfe discharge The stately running Ob great Ob fresh waters king A riuer hardly crost in sixe dayes trauelling To Malaca to th'isles from vvhence are brought huge masses Of Calamus and Cloues Samotra whereon passes The night-equalling line and to the waters far Of Zeilan breeding-pearle and goldie Bisnagar And from the Pont-Eusine and from the brother waues Of those Chaldean streames vnto the sea that raues With hideo us noise about the Straight of th'Amens To Quinzits moorie poole and Chiorzeke from whence Come Elephantick buls with silken haired hides That was the share of Sem for Gods decree it guides How and what nations came of Sem. 7 Ashur t' Assyriland that after some few dayes Chal Râ—zen Niniué their towres to heau'n may raise The Persian hils possest great Elams princely race And those fat lands where-through Araxes runnes apace Lud held the Lydian fields Aram th' Armenian And learned Arphaxad the quarter Chaldean 6 This countrey He setteth downe the lots of Sem Cham and Iaphet first in generall after meaning to shew the particular Colonies of each So then to Sem he allotteth Asia The proofe of these seuerall shares may be gathered out of the 10. Chapter of Genesis It is not meant that Sem in his owne life-time tooke possession of this huge plot of ground although he liued 600 yeares but the posteritie of his fiue sonnes ouer-spred it by succession of time as the Poet declares at large hereafter and a man may perceiue some token thereof in that Moses reckeneth in the foresaid Chapter the sonnes of Ioktan the sonne of Heber peti-sonne of Arphaxad sonne of Sem. Now before I shew the bounds here noted by the Poet in this lot of Sem I will set downe the description and deuision of Asia as now it is The map-drawers of our time differ in their order some consider it by the whole masse others by the sea-borders and parts best knowne which they recken to be nine those particularly deciphered in the first chapter of the 20 booke of the Portugall historie But this kind of deuision because it is more obscure and farther from my purpose I leaue and rest on the other which deuides the masse of Asia into fâ—ue principall riuer Ob or Oby the lake of Kittay and the land-straight that is betwixt the Caspian and Euxine sea The second is Tartary subiect to the great Cham which abutteth Southward on the Caspian sea the hill Imaus and the riuer Iuxartes Northward and Eastward on the Ocean and Westward vpon Moscouie The third part is possessed by the Turke and containeth all that lyes betweene the Euxine Aegean and Midland seas and so further betwixt Egypt the Arabian and Persian Gulfes the riuer Tygris the Caspian sea and the land-straight there The fourth is the kingdome of Persia abutting Westward on the Turke Northward on the great Cham Eastward on the riuer Indus and Southward on the Indian sea As for the fift part it is the same which we call the East-Indies so named of the riuer Indus and distinguished the higher from the lower by the famous riuer Ganges These Indies are verie large countreys as the maps declare and front out Southward as fâ—â—re as Malaca hauing besides an infinite sort of Ilands great and smal which the Card-men haue well set downe both in â—â—ps and writing Now see we the maner how the Poet considereth Asia He takes it first by right line froÌ„ North to South to 〈◊〉 from the peake foreland or cape of Perosites as farre as Malaca where he taketh in the Moluckes and Taprobana and from thence riseth againe to Zeilan and Bisnagar Then draweth another line from the Maior or Euxine sea on the West to the straights of Amen Northeast and toucheth by the way some few countreys most note worthy reseruing the rest vntill his particular description of the Colonies which followeth from the 297 verse vnto the 319. To make plaine some words in the text the Peake of Perosites is a promontory about the farthest part of Moscouy neare the Scythian sea where liueth as Cellarius reports of Asia in his great booke entituled Speculum orbis terrarum and Mercator in his world-map a certaine people which haue so small a vent for their mouth that they are nourished onely by the sauour and steeme of sodden flesh And about this promoÌ„tory the riuer Ob rising from the lake of Kythay groweth to an huge breadth and so emptieth into the Scythian or frozen sea The Baron of Herbestoin noteth it in his map of Moscouie and in his Historie saith as much as here followeth touching this riuer fol. 82. They that haue bene thereon say they haue laboured a whole day without ceasse their vessell going verie fast to passe the Riuer and that it is fourescore Italian miles brode Which agreeth well with that the Poet here saith and with report of Mercator and Cellarius so that by good right it may be called rather then any other streame the king of all fresh waters because in all the world besides there is none so large and this also is of a wonderfull great length for as the foresaid Baron affirmeth from the one end to the other to wit from the lake of Kythay to the frozen sea it asketh more then three moneths sayling The realme and citie of Malaca are described in the sixth booke of the Portugall historie chap. 18. It is neare the Equinoctiall aboue Taprobana so therefore Asia reacheth from the North pole beyond the Equator Th' isles froÌ„ wheÌ„ce are brought huge masses of Cloues Cassia are the Moluckes fiue in number Tidor Terenat Motir Maâ—hian and Bachian beset with diuerse other Isles Islets vnder and neere the Equator in the East which with their properties and manners of their inhabitants are well set downe in the 13 booke of the hystorie of Portugall Chap. 8. Samotra whereon passes the night-equalling line or the Equator is the Isle Taprobana Southward ouer against Malaca it is aboue 450 leagues long and 120 broad I haue described it in the fift day of the first weeke see further the history of Portugall in the sixt booke the 18 chap. Zeilan is an Isle right against the Cape of Calecut aboue Taprobana toward the East it lies North and South in length about 125 leagues and in the broadest place is 75 ouer There are taken out of the sea great store of pearles very faire and bright for the further description thereof see the 4 booke and 20 chapter of the hystory of Portugal Bisnagar is a kingdome lying betweene Decan and Narsingua the
mountaines of Calecut and the sea called the great gulfe of Bengala It is rich in gold which is there found in riuers Look the situation thereof in the Map of the East Indies and in the Asia of Ortelius and Cellarius The Pint-Eusine is now called the Maior or the blacke Sea at the one end thereof toward the Midland sea is Constantinople the Card-men call it by diuers names which Ortelius hath set downe in his Synonym By the Brother waues of those Chaldean streames is meant as I suppose the Persian sea whereinto Euphrates and Tygris both together empty being before ioined about Babylon now called Bagadet and so the Poet takes as much of the breadth of Asia at the West end as he doth at the East the one from Quinsay to Chiorze the other from the sea of Constantinople to the Persian Gulfe Concerning the straight of Anien the Cardmen are not all of one opinion Mercator Ortelius Cellarius Theuet and others set down plainly a good broad arm of Sea betwixt the Northeast point of Asia and America But Vopelius ioines Asia and this fourth part of the world together greatly enlarging Asia and curtolling the other contrary to the opinion of the Authors aforesaid and many Spaniards that haue written of the new-found world the reasons that may bee alledged in fauour of either side require a large Commentary Vopelius his opinion indeed cutteth off many doubts that arise about the enpeopling of America but Mercator and th 'others who are most commonly followed seeme to ground more vpon Geography and better to agree with the seas naturall sway and easie compassing the earth Arias Montanus in his booke intituled Phaleg where he treateth of the habitations of Noes posterity setteth downe a Mappe according to Vopelius this booke of his bound in the volume called Apparatus is ioined with the great Bibles of Antwerp But the Poet followeth Mercator Ortelius and the common opinion of the Cardmen of our time for Ptolome Strabo Mela in their daies had not discouered so much Quinsay which the Poet cals Quinzit is a famous citty in the Northeast point of Asia about tenne leagues from the sea built vpon peeres and arches in a marrish ground it is twenty leagues or 100 miles about and by reason as well of the great Lake-waters there as also of th'ebbe and flow of the sea it hath as M. P. Venet. reports in the 64. chapter of his 2. booke 12000 bridges of stone the most renoumed bound-marke of all Asia and the greatest city in the world if that bee true But Theuet gainsaith it in the 27 chapter of the 12 booke of his Cosmography where he describes the city and Lake with the riuer that causes the lake to swell hee sayeth it is not aboue foure leagues in compasse yet M. Paule affirmes he hath been there Chiorze is another worthy part of Asia set downe here for a bound-marke because of the strange Buls there as great as Elephants with haire as smooth and soft as silke Howsoeuer now adaies that country is nothing so ciuill as others inhabited by the posterity of Cham and Iaphet yet the fruitfulnesse of the ground and great commodities there growing for maintainance of mans life declare it hath beene in times past one of the best portions of the children of Noe. 7 Ashurt Assyriland Moses sayth the sonnes of Sem were Elam Ashur Arphaxad Lud and Aram The Poet here in six verses hath noted out the first habitations of these fiue reseruing afterward about the 300 verse and so forth to shew their first second third and fourth out-going ouer the rest of Asia Concerning Ashur it may be gathered out of the 10 of Genesis verse the 11 that hauing sorted himselfe with the people that now began to feare Nimrod and liking not to liue vnder that yoke went on further and in the countrey after his name called Assyria built Niniuy which a long time remained one of the greatest citties in the world as appeares by the prophesie of Ionas and other places of Scripture and Caleh and Resen not farre asunder which haue been long-agoe destroyed Elam that was the eldest seated himselfe by the riuer Euphrates neere the Persian Gulfe which now is called the Sea of Mesendin The Poet giueth him a Princely title because the Monarchie began betime and long continued ther-abouts where also raigneth still the Sophi a great Emperor and deadly enemie of the Turks The Riuer Araxes is described by Ptolome in his third Mappe of Asia where hee makes it spring from the foote of Pariard which some men take for the hill Taurus and so passing Scapene Soducene Colthene to emptie into the Caspian sea These countries are very rich and therefore the Poet cals them fat lands Lud hauing passed the Riuer composed of Tygris and Euphrates which straight after void into the Gulfe had Elam on the North the two Riuers ioyned and the Gulfe on the East and on the West the Marches of Seba which is the vpper part of Arabia The Poet here alloueth him the Lydian fields if by Lydia bee vnderstood that part of the lesser Asia called Meâ—nia by Ptolome Herodote and Plinie Lud should haue wandered further then the other foure brothers Moses reports not any thing of his Colonies and his farre going may bee the cause for according to the Poet hee should haue coasted vp as farre as Aeolia and the Midland sea The seat of Aram is Mesopotamia to wit the countries about Babylon and the mountaines of Armenia which were after called by the name of Taurus This also containeth Syria and the great Armenia betwixt the which runneth Euphrates Arphaxad passing Euphrates staied in Chaldea and for that Astronomy and other excellent arts there chiefly flourished the Poet surnameth him the Learned which appertaineth also vnto him in regard of the true doctrine maintayned by his posteritie and after some corruption reformed in the house of Abraham whom the Lord remooued from Vr of the Chaldeans into Syria Cham goes to the â—â—â—â—paâ—â—s 8 C ham Lord was of the land that Southward is beset With scorch'd Guineas waues and those of Guagamet Of Benin Cefala Botongas Concritan That fruitfull is of droogs to poison beast or man Northward it fronts the sea from Abile pent betweene The barren Affricke shoare and Europe fruitfull-greene And on the Westerne coast where Phoebus drownes his light Thrusts out the Cape of Fesse the greene Cape and the white And hath on th' other side whence comes the sunne from sleepe Th' Arabike seas and all the blood-resembling Deepe Nay all the land betwixt the Liban mountaine spred And Aden waues betwixt the Persicke and the Red This mighty Southerne Prince commanding far and wide Vnto the regiment and scept'r of Affricke tide 9 Canan one of his sonnes began to build and dwell â—ow and what â—â—â—â—ns are deâ—â—â—ded of Cham By lordans gentle streame whereas great Israell Was after to be plac'd Phut peopled Lybia Mizraijm
appeares that aboue ten thousand Myllions of golde haue been brought thence into Europe beside heapes of Rubies Emeraudes and Pearle much wracked in the sea and much brought for a yearly tribute into Spaine Whereunto I will adde what Franciscus Lopes de Gomara saith concerning the vnualuable riches of Guainacapa the name signifieth young and rich the father of Antibalippa last king of Peru whom the Spaniards put to death All the furniture of his house table and kitchin saith hee in the 120. chapter of his fourth booke were of golde aend siluer and the meanest of siluer somewhat embased with copper for the more strength He had in his wardrop giant-like images of golde liuely featured as also all kinde of beasts foules trees herbes and flowers that the land there beareth and all kinde of fishes that either the Sea there or any fresh water of his kingdome breedeth in the said mettals well and proportionably resembled not so much as cordes paniers troughes billets and other such implements but were so to conclude there was nothing in his kingdome whereof he had not the counterfet in golde or siluer Jt is also said that the kings of Peru called Ingaes haue a garden in a certaine Isle neere Puna where they delight themselues when they list take the Sea that hath in golde and siluer all hearbes flowers and trees and other things whatsoeuer meet for a pleasant garden such a sumptuous deuise as neuer was heard-of or seene elsewhere Besides all this that king last but one had gathered into Cusco huge masses of golde and siluer vnfined which the Indians hid so secretly as the Spaniards could neuer come-by it there was also in and about Cusco great store of picture-tables and tombes all of fine siluer worth some thirtie some fifty some threescore thousand ducats a peece also dining-tables vessels and images a great number all of fine golde The Spaniards at the taking of Antibalippa found as good as 252000. poundes of siluer and of golde 1300265. pezoes euery pezo valued at a ducat and a halfe Besides the great golden table of Antibalippa worth nye 40000. Crownes Now for all this great spoyle that the Spaniards got and hauock that they made as well in Peru as other the Prouinces thereabout yet the Indians as Benzo reports who stayde there with the Spaniards foureteene yeares and wrote in three bookes worthy-reading that whole storie they sticke not to say they haue yet more remaining then all that the Spaniards euer had And to make their meaning plainer they will take out of a great vessell full of wheate one graine betwixt their fingers and say See you this the Viracochie so they call the Spaniards haue taken as it were this one graine away but thus much say they poynting to the rest in the vessel thus much and more haue they left behinde them Now the word Viracochie because it comes thus in my way Benzo himselfe in his third booke saith it signifies the frother scumme of the Sea and that the Peruvians so call the Spaniards for deepe hatred and abomination of them saying also sometimes one to another in their language The winde bears downe houses and trees and the fire burnes them but these Viracochie they doe worse then winde and fire They waste all they eate all they turne the earth and all vpsedowne they turne the course of riuers they are neuer at quiet they neuer cease ranging vp and downe to seeke golde and siluer and all they finde is too little for them When they haue it what doe they They take their pleasure they warre one with another rob one another kill one another they are euer giuen to lying blaspheming and denying the same God whom they professe and these men haue cruelly slaine without cause our fathers our children and kinsfolkes taken from vs contrarie to all right our goods our libertie and countrie Hauing thus commended the Spaniards they curse the Sea for vomiting on the Earth so cruell and wicked a people and often haue vpbrayded the Spaniards themselues with this notorious reproach that golde was the Christians God O how shall this people in the latter day condemne that euer-greedy couetousnes for which Europe nowadayes heareth so ill and is by the selfe-people thereof so wasted and vnpeopled But concerning the diuers gouernements of the West Indies seeing they are set downe so well at large by Lopes Ouiede Benzo and others it is too great a matter for mee to handle in this discourse which is I feare mee growne to long alreadie therefore will I draw to an ende The Poet at the 413. verse begins to shew some likely opinions how this new-founde worlde was peopled and first in generall that the people of countries enhabited exercising their ordinary trafficke one with another might sometimes be cast by force of tempest vpon the West-Indian shore and so be constrained their shippes being broken to remaine still there Others by plague warre or famine were driuen to leaue their countries seeke some quieter dwelling farther off and so haue lighted on these new Countries Or perhaps some great man of authoritie or cunning Pilot by ventring made a discouerie thereof and ledde the ouer-creases of some people thither As the Poet sheweth more particularly in the verses following 44 Nay could not long agoe He guesseth inspeciall and most likely that the inhabitants of the furthest Northeast shore of Asia to witte the men of Quinsay and other places there might haue emptied their ouer-peopled Citties by passing the Anien Straight a part of sea no broader as he saith then the Phare of Gallipoli Gibraltare or Messine and so frō the East Indies might they haue stoared first the lande of Tolguage which Theuet in his mappe of the new world placeth betwixt the Realmes of Anian Tolm and Quiuir within 15. degrees of the North-pole then the rest as followeth 45 So from the Wastes of Tolm Quiuir In all this huge Northen part of America few people there are especially toward the coast ouer-against Quinsay and th' other East-countries There are therefore great Waste-landes as the later Card-men haue noted about the kingdomes or countries of Anian Tolguage Quiuir and Tolm aboue 12000. leagues compasse So then the Poet holds opinion that some of Sems posteritie hauing once passed from the farthest East-point of Asia ouer to the West-Indian Coast thrust their of spring farther into the land The Countries here named by the Poet are to be found in the Sea-cards and Land-mappes betwixte New-Spaine and Estotilant as if he meant that the North-part of America was first inhabited concerning the properties particular descriptions of these places reade the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations the second Booke of the generall history of Lopez de Gomara Chap. 37. c. the History of Florida Benzo the Reportes of Iohann s Verazzanus laques Cartier and other French Captaines concerning their discouering of the Land of Labour where the sea is frozen Baccalos New-France Canada
village had oregrown Of fiue skore houses big so blessed that he saw His sonnes and daughters knit by ord'r of mariage Law The tree of Parentage was ouer-short and thin To braunch-out proper names for their degrees of kin Another example 55 Who knowes not that within three hundred yeres and lesse A few Arabians did Lybie fill and presse With new Inhabitantes and Mahom taught in Fesse In Oran in Argier in Tunis Buge and Tesse 56 Now if they so encrease who dwelt in Afferick And with an humor sharp fretting melancholick Prouoak'd are day and night and made more amorous Then in begetting babes fruitfull and vigorous Because the more they force the Citherean deed The more enfeebled is their vnpreserued seed So are their inward parts the colder and the nummer By how much more without they feel a boyling summer Imagin how the men who neerer to the Pole Behold the flaming wheeles of Welkins charrot role Doe breed and multiplie because they come but seeld And at well-chosen times to Cithereas feild And sith colde weather stayes about the northen Beare Ore all that rugged coast triumphing eu'ry wheare The liuely heate retires within their bodies tower And closer trussed makes their seed of greater power 57 And thence the Cimbrians Gaules Herules The North hath swarmed with people not the South and Bulgares The Sweues Burgundians Circassians and Tartares Huns Lombardes Tigurines Alanes and Eastergoths Turks Vandals Teutonicks Normans and Westergoths Haue ouerflow'd the landes and like to grasse hoppers Destroyd the fairer partes of this great Vniuers Whereas the barren South in all these former daies Hath scarce been abl'enough two martiall bandes to raise That could the North affright one vnder Hanniball Who brought the Punick State both vnto rule and thrall Another powred forth as far as Towers wall And there with Abderam was knockt by Charles the Maul 49 Well may I graunt This is the second obiection against that hath been said concerning the Colonies drawne from Noes three sonnes to wit that it is vnpossible so few households should in so short time fill so many countries as are in the worlde so thicke as now they swarme 50 If little thou regarde The Poet answers at large and very exactly to the said obiection First out of the words of Moses Gen. 9. And God blessed Noe and his children and said vnto them Encrease and fill the Earth This answer is right to the poynt very sufficient to stop the mouthes of all curious questioners that at least beleeue the word and power of God Such is also the answer following 51 If thou profane deny He that beleeues the holy Scripture knowes well that in the space of 400 yeares the family of Iacob no more then 70. persons encreased in Aegypt vnto the number of fiue hundred thousand besides women and children This is an argument from the lesse to the greater if in one little countrey a few so much encreased and that in the short space of 400. yeares how much more might all the people else in the world encrease in 4000. yeares But the profane man will not beleeue the storie he will say it is vnpossible I will make no miracle of it although the Scripture noteth how the people encreased meruailouslie and therefore vseth a word which signifieth to multiplie or spawne like fishes But let him cast account as neere as hee can not of excesse but the ordinarie encrease that might arise of 70. persons in the space they were in Aegypt and before he come to 250. of the 400. he shall haue the number as Mornaeus noteth in his booke De veritate Chap. 26. 52 At least consider how This the third answer is also of great importance especially for Atheists because it relyeth vpon naturall reason as namely that a purer food better health with peace strength rest long life and Polygamie which is the vse of many wiues made greatly for the encrease of mankinde in those former times Each poynte of this answere is of great waight and may perswade easily all that is written of the matter 53 Right so a graine of wheate For confirmation of the foresaid arguments he bringeth-in two fine comparisons and fit for the purpose The one drawne from a corne of wheate the other from the spawne of two fishes Both so much the better in this case because they are of common things and such as we dayly see before our eyes 54 Haue we not in our daies He confirmes his reasons further by a notable example of a certaine man who liued to see a whole towne of no lesse then 100. houses peopled onely with persons issued of himself and his so that there were no names in law for their degrees of blood Ludouicus Viues affirmeth he saw the man in Spaine There dyed also lately an honorable Ladie in Germanie who saw of her selfe and hers borne a hundred and threescore children notwithstanding many dyed vnmaried and those that were married are yet like to haue more 55 Who knowes not that within Loe another notable exāple of a few Arabian families set downe at large by John Lyon in his Historie of Affrick and cited also by Philip Morney in his 26. chapter de Veritate And wee see sayth he how the threescore Familes that for the Sect of Califa moued out of Arabia in lesse then 3. hundred yeres haue peopled all Affrick so as at this day the countries there are surnamed after them Beni Megher Beni Guariten Beni Fensecar c. that is The sonnes of Mogher the sonnes of Guariten the sonnes of Fensecar c as each of them grew-vp to a people In like sort the East-Indies that were discouered now a hundred yeares agoe and straight almost vnpeopled within another hundred will be stored again and repeopled by the Spaniards 56 Now if they so encrease A strong conclusion from the Lesse to the More gathered out of the example next aforegoing thus If the people of Affrick that are not very fit to engender were able in few yeares to store so huge countries how much more might the Northerne and Asiaticke people encrease and if a small number of weaklings how much rather an infinit sort of Iustie and fruitfull men This is grounded vpon naturall reason regarding the climats and site of each countries together with daily experience of the matter Hipocrates in his booke de Aere aquis locis and his enterpreters discourse at large thereon It were long to follow their steps and I haue been too long in this matter alreadie 57 And thence the Cimbrians For a further proofe of the last conclusion he alleadgeth and no man can deny that the North hath alway brought foorth most and most warlike people and diuers he reckons-vp of whom we haue spoken heretofore whereas from the South haue hardly euer come aboue two Armies worth naming The one vnder command of Hanibal whom the Poet noteth by the name of Borgne which is as much to say as Blind