next day eight Englishmen prisoners stole from Tercera in a small Boate hauing no other yard for their maine saile then two Pipe staues These told his Lordship that the Carrackes were departed a weeke before which moued him to returne for Fyall with purpose to take that Towne He arriued September the tenth landing his men the Platforme shot at them in their march but they comming vp found it and the Towne ahandoned and tooke thereof possession This Towne containeth 500. housholds well and strongly built of Lime and Stone well stored with fresh water delicate Fruites and Grapes of diuers sorts He set a guard to preserue the Churches and Religious Houses and staid there foure dayes till the ransome was brought him which was 2000 Duckets most of Church Plate He shipped from the Platforme eight and fiftie Peeces of Iron Ordnance The Gouernour of Graciosa sent his Lordship sixtie Butts of Wine but excused his want of fresh water A Ship of Weymoâ—â—h came thither with a Spanish prize worth sixteene thousand pounds and brought newes of the West Indie Fleete shortly to come which after three or foure dayes playing to and fro in rough weather I let passe a Shippe of Saint Malo which he took laden with New-found-land Fish he espied going into the hauen at Angra in Tercera to the number of fifteene saile being too farre to Leeward to come neere them and they being strong and fortified with the Castle and Fort he was forced to giue ouer And although he leâ—t a Pinnace for aduice intending to waite for them at Sea yet she returned with newes that they had taken off their sailes and downe their topmasts with resolution of longer stay Wherefore he sailed to Saint Michaels and being there repelled from watering went to Saint Maries where they found two Brasil Ships laden with Sugar which the Ilanders fought to bring a ground but Captaine Lyster hastning the attempt in the face of the enemie and danger of continuall shoare-shot borded the vttermost cut asunder her Cables and Hawsers and towed her away whiles Captaine Dauies entred the other then a ground and abandoned and was forced to forsake her Two men were slaine and sixteene hurt But a greater losse followed whiles the Earle in person sought to get the other ship Captaine Lyster rashly disvaluing the enemies force the Barre also detayning them on ground in the midst of danger from the enemie to the losse and hurt of eightie men His Lordship receiued three shot vpon his Target and a fourth on the side not deepe his head also broken with stones that the bloud couered his face both it and his legs likewise burned with fire-balls The Meg being leakie was sent with the prize into England and his Lordship held his course for Spaine By the way he tooke a Portugal ship laden from Brasil and after that another which was one of the fifteene which had before entred Angra being a ship of 400. Tunnes laden from Mexico and Saint Iohn de Vlhua with seuen hundred hides sixe chists of Cochenele certaine chists of Sugar and some Siluer The Captaine was an Italian and had in her fiue and twentie thousand Duckets aduenture Thus full of ioy they resolued homewards but Sea-fortunes are variable hauing two inconstant Parents Aire and Water His Lordship sent Captaine Lyster in the Mexican prize for Portsmouth which at Helclâ—ffe in Cornwall was wracked the Captaine and all his companie drowned except fiue or sixe Scarsitie of drinke caused by contrarie windes caused his Lordship to seeke to recouer some part of Ireland for reliefe but wayting for entrance was put off againe their Beere and Water being all spent Three spoonfuls of vineger were allowed to each man at a meale with some small reliefe squeezed out of the lâ—es of their wine vessels which continued fourteene dayes without other supply then the drops of Haile and Raine carefully saued with Sheets and Napkins Some dranke vp the soyled running water at the Scupper-holes others saued by deuise the runnings downe the Masts and â—arred Ropes and many licked the moist Boards Railes and Masts with their tongues like Dogs Yet was that Raine so intermingled with the sprie of the foaming Seas in that extreme storme that it could not be healthfull yea some in their extremitie of thirst dranke themselues to death with their Cannes of salt-water in their hands Notwithstanding this extreme scarsitie his noble charitie caused equall distribution of the small store they had aswell to all his prisoners as to his owne people By this time the lamentable cryes of the sicke and hurt men for drinke was heard in euery corner of the ship for want whereof many perished ten or twelue euery night more then otherwise had miscarried in the whole Voyage The storme continuing added to their misery tearing the ship in such sort as his Lordships Cabbin the dining roome and halfe Decke became all one and he was forced to seeke a new lodging in the hold His minde was yet vndaunted and present his bodily presence and preuentions readie The last of Nouember hee spake with an English ship which promised him the next morning two or three tunnes of Wine but soone after vnfortunately came on ground The next day hee had some supply of Beere but not sufficient to enable him to vndertake for England Hee therefore the winde seruing put into Ventre Hauen in the Westermost part of Ireland where hauing well refreshed the twentieth of December he set sayle for England His Lordship in this Voyage tooke thirteene Prizes but that which was worth more then all the rest was lost yet the profit redoubled his aduentures At his arriuall in London hee met with the vnfortunate newes of the death of his eldest Sonne Francis Lord Clifford which died the twelfth of December 1589. yet was comforted with the birth of the Ladie Anne Clifford borne the last of Ianuary following his Daughter and by the death of Robert Lord Clifford who dyed the fourteenth of May 1591. his heire now the vertuous wife of the Right Honourable Richard Earle of Dorset THis Honourable Sparke was further kindled and enflamed by former disasters and obtayning of her Majestie a new ship called the Garland a ship of sixe hundred tunnes added the Samson Vice-admirall a ship of his Lordships of two hundred and sixtie tunnes the Golden Noble Reare-admirall and to them the Allagarta and a small Pinnasse called the Discouerie With these he set forth 1591. at his owne charge to the Coast of Spaine where hee tooke good purchase a ship laden at Saint Thomas with Sugars which he was forced to cast off by an irrecouerable leake another also which after long contrary winds in her course for England was driuen to put into a Spanish Harbour for want of victuals But in two other hee was more vnfortunate For Captayne Munson being sent to dispatch the goods and the Golden Noble to accompany them
of Ribben of many colours which compassed his head foure or fiue times a finger breadth and almost a finger thicke These three were Mancos deuises the llautu or ribband the wide hole in the eare and polling as a kinde of Royaltie and the first Priuiledge which the Inca gaue to his Vassals was to weare the fillet or ribband like the Inca but theirs of one colour only his of many After some time hee vouchsafed as a great fauour the polling diuersified in Prouinciall differences of the Eare-fashions which was a later and greater fauour both for the boaring and Earing or Iewell there worne The Inca growing old assembled his principall Vassals in Cusco and in a solemne speech told them that he intended to returne to Heauen and to rest with his Father the Sunne which called him which was practised by all his successors when they perceiued themselues neere death and now at his departure he minded to leaue them his chiefe fauour to wit his Royall Title commanding that they and their Descendants should be Incas without difference as hauing beene his first subiects which he loued as children and hee hoped that they would likewise serue his Sâ—ccessor and augment the Empire that their wiues also should be called Pallas as those of the Royall bloud Only he reserâ—ed the Royall Head-â—ire to himselfe and his Descendents the Kings which was a fringe or lace coloureâ— extending from one side of the fore-head to the other His sirname Capac signifieth rich which they vnderstood of the mindes vertues and mightie in armes The name Inca signifieth Lord or generally those of the Royall bloud For the Curacas though great Lords might not vse that Title The King is distinguished from all others by the appellation Capa Capa Inca signifying the only Lord as the Grand Signior among the Turkes They stiled him also Huacchacuyak that is Benefactor to the poore They called them also Intip charin the Sonnes of the Sunne Manco Capac reigned some say thirtie yeeres others fortie Hee had many children by his Wife Mama Ocllo Huaco and by his Concubines saying it was good to multiply children to the Sunne He called his Vassâ—ls also of the better sort and recommended his Heire as by Testument in way of discourse to them and to the rest of his children their loue and seruice of the Vassals and to the Vassals their loyaltie to their King and obedience to the Lawes Then dismissing the Vassals hee made another speech in secret to his children that they should alway remember that they were children of the Sun to worship him as their God and to maintaine his Lawes giuing others examples therein also to be gentle to the Indians to vphold them in Iustice without oppression that they should recommend these things to their posterities in all generations saying that they were the people of the Sunne which he left vnto them as his Testament to whom he was now going to rest with him in peace and from Heauen would haue a care to succour them Thus died Manco Capac and left his Heire Sinchi Roca the eldest brother and begotten of Coya Mama Ocllo Huaco his wife and sister Besides the Heire those Kings left other sonnes and daughters which married amongst themselues to keepe the Royall blouâ— entire which they fabulously beleeued to be diuine and of others humane although they were great Lords of Vassals called Curacas The Inca Sinchi Roca married with his eldest sister after the manner of his parents and of the Sunne and Moone thinking the Moone to be sister and wife to the Sunne The Inca Manco was lamented by his Vassals very heauily the Obsâ—quies continuing many moneths They embalmed his corps to preserue it amongst them and worshipped him for a God Sonne of the Sunne offering many Sacrifices of Rammes Lambes Birds Graines c. conâ—essing him Lord of all those things which he had left The name Inca descended to all the posteritie by the Male Line not by the Female all of this ranke were also called Yntip churin children of the Sunne and Auqui or Infanta which Title they kept till their Marriage and then were called Inca. The lawfull Queene was called Coya also Mamanchic that is Our Mother Her daughters were likewise called Coya the Concubines and other wiues of the bloud Royall were called Palla which signifieth a woman of Royall bloud Concubines which were not of Royall bloud were called Mamacuna Mother All the Royall Daughters were called Nusta and if not of Royall Mothers the name of the Prouince was added as Colla Nusta Quitu Nusta The name Nusta continued till they were married and then they were stiled Palla THe first Incas and their Amautas which were their Philosophers by light of Nature acknowledged God the Creator of all things which they called Pachacamac the Sunne they held to be a visible God Pacha signifieth the World and Camac to quicken of Cama the Soule as if Pachacamac were the soule or quickner of the Vniuerse This name they had in such veneration that they durst not mention it and if they were by occaâ—â—on forced thereto they did â—t with holding downe the head and bowing the bodie lifting vp their eyes to Heauen and casting them downe to the ground lifting vp their hands open straite from the shoulders giuing smacks or lip-motions to the ayre Rites perâ—ormed only to him and the Sunne holding Pachacamac in more internall reuerence then the Sunne whom they named commonly on any occasion They said that he gaue life to the World but they knew him not for they had neuer seene him and therefore neither built Temples nor offered Sacrifice to hâ—m but said they worshipped him in their minds and held him for the vnknowne God The Spaniards which tooke him for a Deuill and knew not the generall Language found out another name for God Tici Uira-cocha which neither I nor they know what it meaneth and if any should aske mee how I in my Language would call God I would answre Pachacamac nor is there in that generall Language any other name for him And all those which Authors report are corrupted of other Languages or deuised by them The Incas in Cozco kept a Crosse of Marble White and Garnation which they call Iaspe Cristaline They know not how long they had it Anno 1560. I left it in the Vestry of the Cathedrall Church of that Citie The Crosse was square three quarters of a yard lond and three fingers thâ—â—ke and so much in brâ—adth all of one piece well wrought They kept it in one of their Houses Royall in 〈◊〉 roome which they call Hnaca a holy place They did not ado 〈…〉 but held it in venerable esteeme either for the goodlinesse or for some other respect which they knew not The Iâ—â—as and all Nations subiect to them knew not what it was to sweare you haue heard of their respect to the name Pachacamâ—c The Witnesses
soeuer they be doe neuerthelesse keepe them to one and their owne wife as nature and necessitie teacheth and yet we see some Spaniard haue fourteene or more which Gods Commandements doe forbid The Indians deuoure no mans goods they doe no man wrong they doe not vexe trouble or slay any where themselues doe see the Spaniards commit all sinnes iniquities and treacheries that man can commit against all equitie and iustice To be briefe the Indians doe not beleeue any thing but doe mocke at all that is shewed them of God being in truth fully rooted in this opinion of our God that he is the worst and most vniust and the most wicked of all Gods because he hath such seruants also concerning your Maiestie they thinke you the most vniust and cruell of all Kings because you doe both send thither and keepe here such euill Subiects supposing that your Maiestie doth feed vpon humane flesh and bloud The Spaniards hauing authoritie to command or particular interest in the Indies cannot by reason of their great couetousnesse abstaine from afflicting troubling disquieting vexing or oppressing the Indians taking away their goods lands wiues or children and vsing among them many other kindes of iniquitie for the which they can haue no redresse sanction or warrant at your Maiesties chiefe Iustice because the Spaniards doe make them afraide yea sometimes doe kill them lest they should complaine They doe night and day mourne after their Gods thinking them to be better then ours at whom they sustaine such harmes while contrariwise of their owne they reape there so many commodities and there is nothing that troubleth them so much as the Christians Wee can shew to your Maiestie that the Spaniards haue within eight and thirty or forty yeeres slaine of iust accompt aboue twelue millions of your Subiects I will not say how mightily this world of people might haue multiplied This Countrey being the fertilest whether for cattell or mankinde that is in the world the soyle being for the most part more temperate and fauourable to humane generation All these innumerable persons and all these people haue the Spaniards slaine to the end to beare sway gouerne and command ouer the rest and when in vniust warres they haue slaine them then doe they vse the rest who iustly haue withstood them in drawing Gold and Siluer yoking them together like beasts to make them carrie their burdens What plague of pestilence or mortalitie could there haue fallen from heauen that had beene able to consume or make waste aboue 2500. leagues of flat Country replenished with people and would not haue left either trauailer or inhabitant The Spaniards onely for their temporall commoditie haue blemished the Indies with the greatest infamie that any man euen among the most horrible and villanous persons in the world could be charged withall and whereby they haue sought to take them out of the degree of mankinde namely that they were all polluted with the abominable sinne against nature which is a wretched and false slander For in all the great Iles Hispaniola Saint Iohn Cuba and Lamaica Also in the sixtie Iles of Lucayos which were inhabited with an infinite number of people the same was neuer thought vpon in some other part there is a voice of a few for whole sakes neuerthelesse all that world is not to be condemned We may say as much of the eating of mans flesh which likewise those places that I haue named are free of although that in other places thy doe it indeede They be also charged with their Idolatrie The Spaniards haue purposely and effectually hindered the teaching of the Law of God and Iesus Christ with all other vertues among the Indians and driuen away the Religious persons out of Townes and Fortresses least they should see and disclose their tyrannies yea they haue by their euill example infected and corrupted the Indies teaching them many odious behauiours and vices which before they knew not as blaspheming the name of Iesus Christ practising of vsurie lying and many other abhominations wholly repugnant to their nature The Spaniards doe sucke from the Indians the whole substance of their bodies because they haue nothing else in their houses They make them spit bloud They exhibite them to all dangers They lay vpon them sundry and intollerable trauailes and more then all this They loade them with torments beatings and sorrowings To be briefe they spoile and consume a thousand manner of wayes Besides all that the Indians doe indure in seruing and pleasing the Spaniards there is yet a butcher or cruell hangman to keepe them in awe appointed in euery Towne and place and is tearmed Estanciero or Calpisque who hath authoritie to lay his clawes vpon them and to make them labour and doe what the Lord Commander or chiefe thiefe will So as if in hell there were no other torment yet were this incomparable This hangman whippeth them he ladeth them with stripes he basteth them with scalding grease he afflicteth them with continuall torments and trauels hee forceth and defloureth their daughters and wiues dishonouring and abusing them he deuoureth their Hens which are their greatest treasure not because themselues doe eate them but that of them they offer presents and seruice to their greatest Lord and chiefe tyrant he vexeth them with innumerable other torments and griefes and least they should complaine of so many iniuries and miseries this tyrant putteth them in feare saying that hee will accuse them and say that he see them commit Idolatry To be briefe they must please and content aboue twenty disordinate and vnreasonable persons so as they haue foure Lords and Masters Your Maiestie their Cacique him that hath them in commendam and the Estanciero of whom I last spake which Estanciero is to them more grieuous to beare then a quintall of lead among which we may also in truth adde all the Mochachos and Moores that doe serue the Commander and Master for they all doe molest oppresse and rob these poore people It is greatly to be feared least God will lay Spaine desolate euen for those horrible sinnes that this Nation hath committed in the Indies whereof we doe euidently behold the scourge and all the world doth see and confesse that already it hangeth ouer our heads wherewith God doth afflict and shew that he is highly offended in those parts through the great destruction and waste of those Nations in that of so great treasures haue bin transported out of the Indies into Spaine the like quantitie of Gold and Siluer neither King Salomon neither any other worldly Prince euer had saw or heard of there is none left besides that of that that was here before the Indies were discouered there is now none to be found no neuer a whit Hereof it commeth that things are thrise dearer then they were the poore that haue want doe suffer great miseries and your Maiestie cannot dispatch matters of great importance So long as Lares
148 Fowles kissed at three shoots An ill march Powhatans subtletie Cap. Smiths discourse to Powhaâ—â—n Powhatans reply and flattery Wickednesse of their Dutchmen Powhatans discourse of Peace and Warre C. Smiths reply Powhaâ—ans importunitie for to haue them vnarmed â—o betray them C. Smiths discourse to delay time that he might surprise Powhatan Powhatans plot to haue murdered Smith A Chaine of Pearle for a Present His excuse Pretending to kill our men loaded with baskets wee forced the Sauages to carrie them How we escaped surprising at Pamavnke Chap. 9. The Dutchmen deceiue C. Smith Perfidious wretcheâ— Opechancanoughs abandoned Smiths speech to Opechancanough 700. Sauages beset the Englishâ—eing â—eing out sixteene Smiths speech to his Company Smiths offer to Opechancanough Opechancanoughs deuice to bâ—tray Smith Opechancanough taken prisoner amids his men If this course had bin taken by others Virginia by this had 〈◊〉 out of her 〈…〉 e able â—o goe alone yea to trade or â—ight But names of peace haue bred worse then wars and our confidence hatched the miserable massacre by this perfidious Sauage And would God a Dale or Smith or some such spirit were yet there to take this that is the onely right course wiâ—h those which know not to doe right further for feare of suffering it enforceth Smiths discourâ—e to the Pamavnkies The Sauages dissemble their intent See their vse of English Armes Their excuse and reconcilement The losse of M. Skriuener and others with a Skiffe M. Wiffin his iourney to the President Powhatan constraineth his men to be treacherous The third attempt to berray vs. A Chaine of Pearle sent to obtaine peace The President poysoned The offender punished The Sauage want and pouertie The Dutchmen did much hurt How the Sauages became subiect to the English Chap. 10. The Dutchmens plot to murder Cap. Smith Smith taketh the King of Paspaheigh prisoner The Sauages desire peace Ocanindge his Oration A Sauage smothered at Iames Towne and was recouered Charcolesmoke an vsual murtherer by ouersiâ—ht where no vent is leâ—t to it Perhaps the Iesuites wits haue besides meere lies hatched many of their Indian Miracles from as vnlikely egs as this by conioyning industrie and opportunitie Powhatan desireth peace What was done in three moneths hauing victuall The store deuoured by rats how we liued three moneths of such natural fruits as the Countrie afforded Rat-plague The paines of 40. fed 150. Basenesse of idlenesse Their deâ—ire 〈◊〉 destroy themselues The Presidents Speech to the Drones But 7 of 200. died in two moneths The Sauages returne our Fugitiues Search for them sent by Sir W. Rawlew Powhatan confessed that hee had bin at the murther of that Colonâ—e and shewed to Cap. Smith a Musket barrell and a brasse Morter and certaine peeces of Iron whâ—ch had bin theirs The Dutchmens traytâ—rous proiects Two Gentlemen sent to kil them Cap. Sâ—i The arriuall of the third upply Chap. 12. The alteration of the gouernment The losse of Virginia The Sauages offer to fight vnder our colours Mutinie The planting Nansamund A plantation of the fals The breach of peace with the Sauages Powhat 〈…〉 sold for Copper Mutinies Fiue suppresse 120. The breach of peace with the Sauages at the Fâ—lls An assault by the Sauages The planting of Nonsuch New peace concluded A bloudy intent The gouernment vsurped The causes why Smith left the Countrie and his Commission The state of the Colony when C. Smith left it Prouisions 〈◊〉 Their complaints and proofe against him Pocahontaâ— Powhatans daughter her kindnesse to C. Smith The plâ—nting at Point Comfort 〈…〉 ffe alias Sicklemore â—lain by Powhatan Wickednes of some Mariners The fruits of improuidences The arriuall of Sir Tho. Gates with 150. Iames Towne abandoned The arriuall of the Lord Laware Two ships sent to the Bermudas The arriual of Sir Tho. Dale Sir George Somers arriuall at the Bermudas and dicth His heart and entralls were buried in Summer Ilands a name from his to them communicated The appointed Course The Ships and chiefe men in the Fleet. Sicknesse and mortalitie at Sea Terrible tempest Note False rumors chargeable Arriuall in Virginia Captain Argall State of the Colony Idlenesse and other vices to blame also Some things partly false rumors partly factions suggestions are here left out They choose a new Gouernor Hinc illae â—â—â—â—rymae Henee froÌ„ the malecontents which had beene in Virginia before enemies to the President raising now ill reports at their comming of him arose these stirs and the following miseries in which this Author with almost the whole Colony perished 2. Iune 1609. Sea-course alcered Sir G Summers a good mariner and tried Souldier A terrible storme expressed in a patheticall and retoricall description Black-darknes Feare of death at Sea more featefull Conâ—inâ—nce and increase Swelling Sea set forth in a swelling stile Compared with the Authors former experiments Leake added to the stormes tâ—riour Leake cannot be found which cannot but be found Their labour for life three dayes and â—oâ—re nights Sea breakes in The Gouernours care Remero is fabled to be a small fish able to withstand a Shippe in her course God in ableth whom he will saue to saue themselues Vtter darknes Light on the Shrouds See Tom. 1. l. 9. c. 12. §. 1. No sleepe or food from tuesday till friday 1200. Barricos an houre besides 3. Pumps acquitting 100 tuns of water euery 4. houres Summer Ilands descried by Sir George Summers They go a land Bermuda Ilands supposed the Diuels c. Bermuda Ilands described Sir George Summers dilâ—gent suruey his draught which we haue not M. N 〈…〉 gaic hath since published an exact Map * Orfadams braccia In his Gen hist. li. 2 c. 9. he reciteth the same historie more particularly he saith it hath two names Garza of the ship which first discouered it being so called and Bermudez of the Captain of that ship named Iohn Bermudes Note that he placeth it more to the North then that which is by ours inhabited say somtime they see it somtime not as they passe The Spaniards as I haue heard which were wracked there in Cap. Butlers time were of opinion that ours are not the Bermudas Yea some of ours affirme they haue seen such an Iland to the North of ours and haue offered to discouer it sub iudice lis est veritas temporis fiâ—a Halo the circle seen about the Moon of great compasse Experience hath better shewed since as we after see both for fruits wormes c. those that dwell there finding more then these which tooke there Inne or lodging Yet the dawning Aurora yeeld a delightsome light though not all so certaine as the Sun for which cause I haue not omitted these first discoueries Spiders Beetle very sweet Hogs Cedars Cedar-drinke American Cedars are not the same kind with those of Libanus as by the historie of them in our former Tome pag. 1500 c. Palmetos Many sorts of Palmes the Coco the Date-Palme the Wine-Palme or taddie c.
benefit of eight oares in the night time by foule weather suddenly arising we lost the sight of our ship and though our ship sought vs and we them for a fortnight together yet could we neuer meet together againe Howbeit within two dâ—â—es after we lost them we recouered the shoare and releeued our selues with Muscels Oysters Grabs and some sorts of Roots in the Woods and within a fortnight after the losse of our con 〈…〉 s wee returned backe into the Straites of Magellan and in two places came on land on the mayne of America to relieue our selues in certaine Bayes where wee found Oysters Muscels and Crabs as before and filled our Barricos with fresh water and in one of these places we found Sauages but they fled from vs. Afterward we came to Penguin Iland in the Straites and there wee salted and dryed many of the Penguins for our sustenance Thence we shaped our course for Port Saint Iulian where Sir Francis Drake not many moneths before had beheaded Captayne Doutie In this Port we stayed a day or two and tooke fish like Breames and Mackerils with hookes and lines Then costing the land for some fortnight some hundred leagues beyond the Riuer of Plate wee found a small Iland three leagues from the mayne full of Seales whereof wee killed good store to our sustenance the young ones we found best and eate them roast Then passing ouer the Riuer of Plate to the North side we put into a small Riuer and went vp into the Woods sixe of vs other two remayning on the shore to looke to the Boat While we were thus seeking food in the Woods the people of the Countrey called Tapines some sixtie or seuentie armed with Bowes and Arrowes shot fiercely at vs and wounded vs all very grieuously and foure of vs were taken by them and neuer recouered the rest of vs they pursued to our Pinnasse and wounded vs all but in the end we put them to flight Thence we went to an Iland some three leagues of in the Sea not aboue a league in compasse Where wee cured our selues as well as we might yet so that two of vs died of our late wounds and that which was worse for want of helpe Through foule weather our Pinnasse was dasht against the Rockie shoare and broken and now there remayned aliue of vs eight no more but my selfe Peter Carder and William Pitcher Here we remayned the space of two moneths in all which time for our victuals wee had a fruit somewhat like vnto Oranges growing vpon a high Tree the leafe whereof was somewhat like the Aspen leafe and small white Crabs creeping vpon the sand and little Eeles which we found vnder the sands but in all this Iland we could not find any fresh water in the World insomuch that we were driuen to drinke our owne vrine which we saued in some sheards of certaine Iarres which we had out of our Pinnasse and set our vrine all night to coole therein to drinke it the next morning which thus being drunke often and often auoyded became in a while exceeding red in all this time wee had no raine nor any good meanes to saue it if it had fallen whereupon seeing our selues in so great extremitie wee deuised how we might get vnto the Mayne and by good fortune found a planke of some ten foot in length which of likelihood had driuen from the Riuer of Plate whereunto with withes wee bound some other wood and furnishing our selues with the foresaid fruit Eeles and Crabs wee committed our selues to God hoping with the setting in of the tyde and with the helpe of two poles which we vsed in stead of Oares to attayne vnto the Mayne which was some three leagues off but wee made it three dayes and two nights before we could come to the Mayne At our comming first on land we found a little Riuer of very sweet and pleasant water where William Pitcher my onely comfort and companion although I diswaded him to the contrary ouer dranke himselfe being pinched before with extreame thirst and to my vnspeakeable griefe and discomfort within halfe an houre after dyed in my presence whom I buried aswell as I could in the sand The next day following as I trauelled along the shoare towards Brasill hauing mine Arming Sword and Target with me I met with some thirtie of the Sauages of the Countrey called Tuppan Basse which being armed with Bowes and Arrowes and hauing two or three great Rattles with stones in them and a kind of Tabrets that they vsed in stead of Drummes they went dancing before me about a Musket shot off and then they stayed and hanged vp a piece of a white Net of Cotton-wooll vpon a sticks end of foure foote high and went from it about a Musket shot off then I comming vnto it tooke it in my hand viewed it and hung it vp againe then many of them beckning and weauing with their hands cryed vnto mee Iyorie Iyorie which as afterward I vnderstood by liuing long among them was as much as Come hither Then I came to them and they friendly led me a long some halfe a mile all the way dancing aswell men as women whereof there were some eight in the company vntill we came to another Riuer side where they hanged vp their Beds tying them fast to a couple of Trees being a kinde of white Cotton Netting which hanged two foot from the ground and kindled fire of two sticks which they made on both sides of their Beds for warmth and for driuing away of wilde beasts and hauing fed me with such as they had we tooke our rest for that night The next day earely in the morning they tooke downe and trussed vp their beds crying tiasso tiasso which is to say away away and marched that day towards Brasill some twentie miles and came to their Towne where their chiefe Gouernour was This Towne was built foure square with foure houses onely euery house containing aboue two Bowe shot in length and the houses made with small trees like an Arbour being thatched ouer downe to the ground with Palme tree leaues they haue no windowes but some thirtie or fortie doores on euery side of this squadron by which each Familie passeth in and out their chiefe Lord whose name was Catou being a man of some forty yeares old had nine wiues but the rest haue onely one wife except such as are counted more valiant then the rest which are permitted two wiues one to looke to their children at home and the other to goe to the warres with them This Towne contained very neere 4000. persons of all sorts The next day the Gouernour sent diuers of his people abroad to bring in all sorts of victuall which the Countrie yeelded and offered them vnto me to see which of them I liked best among which there was great store of fish as well Sea-fish as fresh water-fishes many sorts of Fowles
vs vnlesse they had first blessed the same The women carried many Mats with the which they made houses for vs to euery one apart his seuerall house and with all the people which hee knew When that was done wee commanded them to bake those Deere and Hares and whatsoeuer else they had taken which is very quickly done in certaine ouens which they make for the same purpose Then we first tooke a little of euery thing and gaue the rest to the principall and chiefe men of the people to diuide it among them all and when euery one had receiued his part they came vnto vs that we should blow vpon it and blesse it for otherwise they durst not presume to eate thereof And many times we brought with vs three or foure thousand persons whereupon it was a great trouble to vs to blow vpon and blesse the meate and drinke of euery one of them and for euery other thing of theâ—rs which they would doe they came to vs to aske leaue whereby it may be considered how great the incumbrance and trouble was which wee endured The women brought before vs the Tune Frogs Wormes and whatsoeuer else they could get because although they should bee readie to die through hunger they would not haue eaten any thing which they had not receiued from our hands And so going with them wee passed ouer a great Riuer which came from the North parts and hauing trauelled ouer certaine Plaines of thirtie leagues wee found many people who came very farre off to receiue vs and came forth vnto the way whether wee were to passe and receiued vs after the same manner that the other had done From thence forward they obserued another manner of receiuing vs as touching saccage and spoiling For they that came forth into the high-way to bring vs any thing were not spoiled of them who came with vs but after we were entred into their houses they of their owne accord offered vs whatsoeuer they had and the houses also Wee gaue all vnto the chiefe and principall to the intent that they should diuide it among them and alwaies they who remained so spoiled followed vs whereby the number of people greatly encreased through desire to bee satisfied of their losses And they said vnto the rest that they should beware how they hide any thing because it could not be but we should know it and cause them all suddenly to die The feare and frighting wherein they put them were so great that the first daâ—es they abode with vs they stood alwaies trembling not presuming to speake nor to lift vp their eyes to heauen They guided vs aboue eightie leagues through a desert Countrey and very rough mountaines which were so dry that there was no hunting game there whereby to sustaine our great hunger In the end hauing passed ouer a very great Riuer where the water tooke vp to the brest many of those who came with vs began to lament through the exceeding great hunger and trauell which they had endured through those mountaines which were extreame rough and trouble some to passe The same people brought vs vnto certaine plaines and at the end of those mountaines much people came farre off to receiue vs as the former had done and gaue so many garments afterward to them that were with vs that because they could not carry them they left the halfe behinde them so that we told those Indians that brought them that they should take them againe that they might not be lost who answered that they would not doe it for any thing because it was not their custome after they had once giuen a thing to returne afterward to take it againe and so they suffered them to be lost Then we told them that we would goe toward the place where the Sunne went downe who said that in those places the people were verie farre off But wee commanded them to send to vnderstand that wee were comming yet they excused themselues the best they could saying that they were their enemies and that they were vnwilling we should goe thither but not daring to doe contrarie to our will they sent two women thither whom both the one and the other their enemies kept prisoners And they sent these because the women may well negotiate with the men euen in the warres and we followed them and rested our selues in a place where wee determined to expect them but they staied fiue daies before they returned and the Indians said that they should find no people Wee told them that they should bring vs toward the North whereupon they gaue vs the same answere that is to say that in those places there were no people but farre off and that there was nothing there to eate nor water to bee found yet notwithstanding all this we continued obstinate and said that we would goe thither although they alwaies excused themselues the best they could and for this cause wee were angrie so that one night I arose and went out to sleepe in the open fields apart from them but they came presently where I was and neuer slept all that night with much feare and speaking vnto me they said that if we would not continue any longer angrie they would bring vs whether we purposed to goe although they were certainly assured to die by the way Neuerthelesse wee alwaies fained that we were yet angrie and because their feare was not remoued a verie strange accident happened that is to say that on the verie same day many of them became sicke and the day following eight of them died Whereupon through all the Countrey where it was knowne they were so afraid of vs that when they saw vs they seemed euen to die as it were for feare So they besought vs that wee would not continue angrie any longer and that wee would not cause any more of them to die certainly perswading themselues that wee killed them onely with our will and desire We prayed our Lord God that hee would relieue vs and so all those that were sicke began to recouer at which time wee saw a verie maruellous thing to wit that the fathers brethren and wiues of them that died were exceedingly grieued to see them so sicke but after they wEre dead they shewed not any signe or token of sorrow nor did wee see them lament nor speake one to the other nor make any other signe nor durst they come neere vnto them vntill we commanded them to burie them And for the space of fifteene daies and more that we abode with them we neuer saw one speake to the other nor any of their little children either laughed or cried and if any of them lamented they carried them verie farre from thence and with verie sharpe teeth they gashed and cut them from the shoulders to the legs so seeing their crueltie and being angrie thereat I demanded why they did it they answered me that they did it to chastise them for lamenting
the Spaniards arriued began the great slaughters and spoyles of people the Spaniards haâ—ing begun to take their wiues and children of the Indies for to serue their turne and to vse them ill and hauing begun to eate their victuals gotten by their sweate and trauell not contenting themselues with that which the Indians gaue them of their owne good will euery one after their abilitie the which is algates very small forasmuch as they are accustomed to haue no more store then they haue ordinarily neede of and that such as they get with little trauell And that which might suffice for three housholds reckoning ten persons for each houshold for a moneths space one Spaniard would eate and destroy in a day Now after sundry other forces violences and torments which they wrought against them the Indians began to perceiue that those were not men discended from heauen Some of them therefore hid their victuals others hid their wiues and children some others fled into the Mountaines to separate themselues a farre off from a Nation of so hard natured and ghastly conuersation The Spaniards buffeted them with their fists and bastonades pressing also to lay hands vpon the Lords of the Townes And these cases ended in so great an hazard and desperatenesse that a Spanish Captaine durst aduenture to rauish forcibly the wife of the greatest King and Lord of this I le Since which time the Indians began to search meanes to cast the Spaniards out of their lands and set themselues in armes but what kinde of armes very feeble and weake to withstand or resist and of lesse defence The Spaniards with their Horses their Speares and Lances began to commit murders and strange cruelties they entred into Townes Borowes and Villages sparing neither children nor old men neither women with childe neither them that lay In but that they ripped their bellies and cut them in peeces as if they had beene opening of Lambes shut vp in their fold They laid wagers with such as with one thrust of a sword would paunch or bowell a man in the middest or with one blow of a sword would most readily and most deliuerly cut off his head or that would best pierce his entrals at one stroake They tooke the little soules by the heeles ramping them from the mothers dugges and crushed their heads against the clifts Others they cast into the Riuers laughing and mocking and when they tumbled into the water they said now shift for thy selfe such a ones corpes They put others together with their mothers and all that they met to the edge of the sword They made certaine Gibbets long and low in such sort that the feete of the hanged on touched in a manner the ground euery one enough for thirteene in honour and worship of our Sauiour and his twelue Apostles as they vsed to speake and setting to fire burned them all quicke that were fastened Vnto all others whom they vsed to take and reserue aliue cutting off their two hands as neere as might be and so letting them hang they said Get you with these Letters to carry tydings to those which are fled by the Mountaines They murdered commonly the Lords and Nobility on this fashion They made certaine grates of pearches laid on pickforkes and made a little fire vnderneath to the intent that by little and little yelling and despairing in these torments they might giue vp the Ghost One time I saw foure or fiue of the principall Lords roasted and broyled vpon these gredirons Also I thinke that there were two or three of these gredirons garnished with the like furniture and for that they cryed out pittiously which thing troubled the Captaine that he could not then sleepe he commanded to strangle them The Sergeant which was worse then the Hang man that burned them I know his name and friends in Siuil would not haue them strangled but himselfe putting Bullets in their mouthes to the end that they should not cry put to the fire vntill they were softly roasted after his desire I haue seene all the aforesaid things and others infinite And forasmuch as all the people which could flee hid themselues in the Mountaines and mounted on the tops of them fled from the men so without all manhood emptie of all pitie behauing them as sauage beasts the slaughterers and deadly enemies of mankinde they taught their Hounds fierce Dogs to teare them in peeces at the first view and in the space that one may say a Credo assailed and deuoured an Indian as if it had beene a Swine These Dogges wrought great destructions and slaughters And forasmuch as sometimes although seldome when the Indians put to death some Spaniards vpon good right and Law of due Iustice they made a Lawe betweene them that for one Spaniard they had to slay an hundred Indians There were in this Ile Hispaniola fiue great principall Realmes and fiue very mighty Kings vnto whom almost all other Lords obayed which were without number There were also certaine Lords of other seuerall Prouinces which did not acknowledge for soueraigne any of these Kings One Realme was named Magua which is as much to say as the Kingdome of the plaine This Plaine is one of the most famous and most admirable things of all that is in the world For it containeth fourescore leagues of ground from the South Sea vnto the North sea hauing in breadth fiue leagues and eight vnto ten It hath on one side and other exceeding high Mountaines There entreth into it aboue thirty thousand Riuers and Lakes of the which twelue are as great as Ebro and Duero and Guadalqueuir And all the Riuers which issue out of a Mountaine which is towards the West in number about fiue and twenty thousand are very rich of Gold In the which Mountaine or Mountaines is contained the Prouince of Cibao from whence the Mines of Cibao take their names and from whence commeth the same exquisite Gold and fine of foure and twenty Karrets which is so renowned in these parts The King Lord of this Realme was called Guarionex which had vnder him his Vassals Lieges so great and mighty that euery one of them was able to set forth threescore thousand men of armes for the seruice of the King Guarionex Of the which Lords I haue known some certain This Guarionex was very obedient and vertuous naturally desirous of peace and well affectioned to the deuotion of the Kings of Castile and his people gaue by his commandement euery housekeeper a certaine kinde of Drumfull of Gold but afterwards being not able to fill the Dâ—um cut it off by the middest and gaue the halfe thereof full For the Indians of that I le had little or none industrie or practise to gather or draw Gold out of the Mines The Cacique presented vnto the King of Castile his seruice in causing to be manured all the lands from the Isabella where the Spanish first sited vnto the Towne of Saint
Domingo which are fiftie leagues large on condition that he should exact of them no Gold for hee said and hee said the truth that his Subiects had not the skill to draw it out As for the manuring which he said he would procure to be done I know that he could haue done it very easily and with great readiness and that it would haue beene worth vnto the King euery yeere more then three Millions of Castillans besides that it would haue caused that at this houre there had bin aboue fiftie Cities greater then Siuill The paiment that they made to this good King and Lord so gracious and so redoubted was to dishonour him in the person of his wife an euill Christian a Captaine rauishing her This King could haue attended the time and opportunitie to auenge himselfe in leuying some armie but the aduised to withdraw himselfe rather and onely to hide him out of the way thus being banished from his Realme and state into a Prouince of the Cignaios where there was a great Lord his vassall After that the Spaniards were ware of his absence and he could no longer hide himselfe they make warre against the Lord which had giuen him entertainment and make great slaughters through the Countrey as they goe till in the end they found and tooke him thrusting him loden with chaines and irons into a Ship to carry him to Castile which Ship was lost vpon the Sea and there were with him drowned many Spaniards and a great quantity of Gold amongst the which also was the great wedge of Gold like vnto a great loafe weying three thousand six hundreth Castillans Thus it pleased God to wreake vengeance of matters so lewd and so enormous The other Realme was called of Marien where is at this day the Port at one of the bounds of the plaine towards the North and it is farre greater then the Realme of Portugall and much fertiler worthy to be inhabited hauing great Mountaines and Mines of Gold and Copper very rich The King was called Guacanagari which had vnder him many great Lords of the which I haue knowne and seene sundry In this Kings Countrey arriued first the old Admirall when he discouered the Indies whom at that time that he discouered the Ile the said Guacanagari receiued so graciously bountifully and curteously with all the Spaniards who were with him in giuing him all entertainement and succour for at the very instant was the Ship lost which the Admirall was carried in that hee could not haue bin better made off in his owne Countrie of his owne Father This did I vnderstand of the Admirals owne mouth This King dyed in flying the slaughters and cruelties of the Spaniards through the Mountaines being destroyed and depriued of his estate And all the other Lords his subiects dyed in the tyrannie and seruitude that shall be declared hereafter The third Realme and dominion was Maguana a Countrie also admirable very healthfull and very fertile where the best Sugar of the I le at this day is made The King of this Countrie was named Caenabo who surpassed all the others in strength and state in grauitie and in the ceremonies of his seruice The Spaniards tooke this King with great subtiltie and malice euen as he was in his owne house doubting of nothing They conueied him afterwards into a Ship to carry him to Castile but as there attended them six other Ships in the port all ready to hoise vp saile behold how God by his iust iudgement would declare that it with other things was an exceeding great iniquitie and vniust by sending the same night a tempest which sunke and drenched that Nauie with the Spaniards that were within There died also with them the said Caonabo charged with bolts and irons The Prince had three or foure brothers valiant men and couragious like himselfe who considering the imprisonment of their Lord brother so against all equitie together with the wasts and slaughters which the Spaniards made in other Realmes and specially after that they had heard that the King their brother was dead they put themselues in armes to encounter the Spaniards and to auenge the wrong who on the otherside meeting with them on horsebacke so they rage in discomfitures and massacres that the one moytie of this Realme hath beene thereby desolate and displâ—pled The fourth Realme is the same which is named of Xaragua This Realme was as it were the centre or middle point or to speake of as the Court of this Isle the diamond ouer all the other Realmes in language and polished speech in policie and good manners the best composed and ordered For as much as there were many noble Lords and Gentlemen the people also being the best made and most beautifull The King had to name Behechio which had a sister called Anacaona These two the brother and sister had done great seruices to the Kings of Castile and great good turnes to the Spaniards deliuering them from sundry dangers of death After the decease of Behechio Anacaona remained sole Soueraigne of the Realme At a time came into this Realme the Gouernour of this I le with threefcore Horses and more then three hundreth footemen the horsemen alone had beene enough to spoyle and ouerrunne not this I le alone but all the firme land withall And to him came being called more then three hundred Lords vnder assurance of whom the chiefest he fraudulently caused to be conueyed into a house of thatch and commanded to set to fire Now on this wise were these Lords burned all aliue all the rest of the Lords with other folke infinite were smitten to death with their Speares and Swords But the Soueraigne Lady Anacaona to doe her honour they hanged It happened that certaine Spaniards either of pittie or of couetousnesse hauing taken and detained certaine yong striplings to make them their Pages because they would not haue them slaine and setting them behinde them on their horse backes another Spaniard came behinde which stabbed them through with a speare If so be any childe or boy tombled downe to the ground another Spaniard came and cut off his legges Some certaine of these Indians which could escape this crueltie so vnnaturall passed ouer vnto a little I le neere vnto the other within an eight leagues The Gouernour condemned all those which had passed the water to become slaues because they had fled from their butcherie The fifth Realme was called Higney ouer the which raigned an ancient Queene named Hignanama whom the Spaniards hanged vp The people were infinite whom I saw burnt aliue and rent in peeces and tormented diuersly and strangely and whom I saw made slaues euen so many as they tooke aliue And now for as much as there are so many particularities in these Massacres and destruction of those peoples that they cannot conueniently be comprised in writing yea I doe verily beleeue that of a number of things to be spoken of there cannot be
Tyrant which had sent him distant from the Realme of Guatimala foure hundred leagues keeping the way by him traced as he went slue robbed burned and destroyed all the Countrey wheresoeuer he became vnder the shadow of title aboue mentioned saying that they should submit themselues vnto them in the name of the King of Spaine who was vnto them vnknowne and of whom they had neuer heard speake and which those Nations there esteemed more vniust and more cruell then they his men were And the Tyrants giuing them no respite of time to deliberate they fling vpon the poore folke in a manner as soone as the message was done putting all to fire and bloud Of the Prouince and Realme of Guatimala NO sooner arriued hee into this said Realme but that hee beganne with great slaughter of the Inhabitants This notwithstanding the chiefe Lord came to receiue him being carried in a Lighter with Trumpets and Tabours reioycings and disports accompanied with a great number of the Lords of the Citie of Ultlatan head Citie of the whole Realme doing them also seruice with all they had but specially in giuing them food abundantly and whatsoeuer they demanded besides The Spanish lodged this night without the Citie forasmuch as the same seemed vnto them strong and there might be thereby danger This Captaine called to him the next morrow the chiefe Lord with other great Lords who being come as meeke sheepe he apprehended them all and commanded them to giue him certaine summes of gold They answering that they had none forasmuch as the Countrie yeelded none he commandeth incontinent to burne them aliue without hauing committed any crime whatsoeuer and without any other forme of Processe or sentence As the Lords of all these Prouinces perceiued that they had burned their soueraigne Lords onely because they gaue them no Gold they fled all to the Mountaines commanding their Subiects to goe to the Spaniards and to serue them as their Lords but that they should not discouer them nor giue them intelligence where they were With this loe all the people of the Countrey presenting them and protesting to be theirs and to serue them as their Lords The Captaine made answere that he would not accept of them but that he would kill them if they told not where were their Lords The Indians answered they could not tell ought but as touching themselues they were content that they should employ them to their seruice with their wiues and children and that they should vse their houses and that there they might kill or doe whatsoeuer them pleased It is a wonderfull thing that the Spaniards went to their Villages and Burrowes and finding there these silly people at their worke with their wiues and children neither misdoubting any thing they pierced them with their Boare-speares and hackled them to pieces They came to one Burrow great and mighty which held it selfe more assâ—red then any other because of their innocency whom the Spanish laid desolate in a manner all whole in the space of two houres putting to the edge of the sword children with women and aged persons and all those which could not escape by fleeing The Indians aduised betweene them to digge certaine ditches in the middest of the wayes to make their Horses tumble into and piercing their bellies with Pikes sharpâ—ed and brent at one end there bestowed of purpose and couered ouer so orderly with greene turfe that it seemed there was no such matter There fell in Horses once or twice for the Spaniards afterwards could beware of them But now to auenge them they made a Law that as many Indians as might bee taken aliue should be slung into the same pits Hereupon they cast in women with child and women new deliuered of child-birth and old folke as many as they could come by vntill that the ditches were filled vp It was a lamentable thing to behold the women with their children stabbed with these pickes All besides they slue with thrust of Speares and edge of Sword They cast of them also to flesh fraunching Dogs which tare them and deuoured them They brent a Lord at a great fire of quicke flames saying they would herein doe him honour And they persisted in these butcheries so vnnaturall about seuen yeeres from the yeere 24. vntill the yeere 31. The Indians which escaped with all other of the Countrie seeing all the mischiefes of the Spanish began to assemble and put themselues in Armes whereupon the Spaniards worke great discomfitures and slaughters returning to Guatimala where they builded a Citie the which God of a iust iudgement hath reuersed with three ouerwhelmings falling all three together the one was with water the other with earth and the third with stones of the bignesse of ten or twentie Oxen. By such like meanes all the Lords and the men that were able to beare Armes being slaine those which remayned were reduced into the Diabolicall seruitude aforesaid being made tributary slaues or villaines regardant but giuing for their tribute sonnes and daughters for they will haue none other kinde of bond-men And so the Spaniards sending whole ships laden with them to Peru to sell them with their other slaughters haue destroyed and laid desart an whole Realme of an hundred leagues square or aboue a Countrie the most blessefull and peopled the most that might be in the world For the Tyrant himselfe wrote hereof that it was more peopled then Mexico and herein he said the truth He hath done to death with his consorts and confreres more then foure or fiue millions of soules in fifteene or sixteene yeeres space from the yeere 24. vnto the yeere 40. and yet at this houre they slay and destroy those that remayne This Tyrant had a custome when as he went to make warre vpon any Citie or Prouince to carrie thither of the Indians already vnder-yoaked as many as hee could to make warre vpon the other Indians and as he gaue vnto a ten or twentie thousand men which hee led along no sustenance he allowed them to eate the Indians which they tooke And so by this meanes hee had in his Campe an ordinary shambles of mans flesh where in his presence they killed and rosted children They killed men onely to haue off from them their hands and their feete which parts they held to be the daintiest morsels He was the death of an infinite sort of the Indians in making of ships the which hee transported after this rate great store of Artilerie which hee loded vpon the shoulders of these poore folke going naked whereby I haue seeue very many fall downe in the high way by reason of their great burdens He vndid whole housholds by taking from the men their wiues and daughters the which afterwards he dispersed in gifts to his Mariners and Souldiers to please them withall who led them along with them in their Nauies Hee stuffed all the ships with Indians where they died for thirst and hunger He made two Nauies
yea fauouring and supporting all the matter as likewise they haue had their eyes blinded at all the other tyrannies and ransackings infinite which haue beene done in all this coast of the Firme land which are about foure hundred leagues the which haue beene and now are vnder their iurisdiction like vnto Venesuela and Saint Martha all which the said Court might very well haue empeached and remedied Of the Prouinces of the firme land or quarter that is called Florida INto these Prouinces went three tyrants at three diuers times since the yeere 1510. or 1511. there to put in vre the acts which others and two of them from among themselues haue committed in other quarters of the Indians to the end to aspire to high degrees in no respect conuenient to their persons higher then their merits in the Common-wealth could conceiue with the bloud and destruction of their neighbours and they are dead all three of an euill death and their houses likewise haue beene destroyed with them the which they had builded in times past with the bloud of mankind as I can be a sufficient witnesse of all three and their memory is now abolished from of the face of the earth as if they had neuer beene in this world The fourth tyrant that came last in the yeere 1538. cunningly aduised and being fully furnished it is three yeeres since there is no tidings concerning him Sure he is one of the notoriousest and best experimented amongst them that haue done the most hurts mischieues and destructions in my Realmes with their consorts wherefore I beleeue that God hath giuen him like end vnto the others Of the Riuer of La Plata that is to say Of Siluer SIthence the yeere one thousand fiue hundred and two or three and twenty certaine Captaines made three or foure Voyages vp the Riuer of Plata where there are great Prouinces and Realmes and Nations well ordered and endued with vnderstanding In generall wee vnderstood that they haue made there great butcheries and inuasions but like as this Countey is farre discoasted from the Indies most famous so we are not able to quote the notablest points in particular Of the mighty Realmes and large Prouinces of Peru. IN the yeere 1531. went another great tyrant with certaine other consorts to the Realmes of Peru where entring with the same title and intention and with the same proceedings as all the rest before gone forasmuch as he was one of them which had of long time beene exercised in all kindes of cruelties and murders which had beene wrought in the firme land â—ithence the yeere 1510. hee tooke encouragement to accrue in cruelties murders and robberies being a man without loyaltie and truth laying waste Cities and Countries bringing them to nought and vtterly vndoing them by slaying the Inhabitants and being the cause of all the euils which ensued in that Countrie He slue and laid waste at his first arriuall with a mischiefe certaine boroughes from whom he pillaged a great quantitie of Gold In an Iland neere to the same Prouinces named Pagna well peopled and pleasant the Lord thereof with his people receiued them as it had beene Angels from heauen and six moneths after when as the Spanish had eaten vp all their prouision They discouered also vnto them the corne which they kept vnder ground for themselues their wiues and their children against a dry time and barren making them offer of all with trees plentifull to spend and eate at their pleasure The recompence in the end which they made them was to put to the edge of the Sword and Lance a great quantitie of those people And those whom they could take aliue they made slâ—ues with other cruelties great and notable which they committed dispeopled as it were all that I le From thence they make to the Prouince of Tumbala which is in the firme land where they slay and destroy as many as they could come by And because all the people were fled as affrighted by their horrible acts they said that they made an insurrection and rebelled against the King of Spaine This tyrant had this policie and kept this order of proceeding that vnto all those whom he tooke or vnto others which presented him with Gold and Siluer or other things which they had he commanded them to bring more vntill such time as he perceiued that either they had no more or that they brought him no more And then he would say that he accepted them for the vassals and lieges of the King of Spaine and made much of them and would cause it to be proclaimed at sound of two Trumpets that from thenceforth they would take them no more and that they would doe them no manner harme at all setting it downe for good ando lawfull all whatsoeuer he had robbed from them A few dayes after the King and Emperour of those Realmes named Atabaliba came accompanied with a number of naked people bearing their ridiculous armour not knowing neither how Swords did carue nor Speares did pierce nor Horses did run nor who or what were the Spaniards Hee commeth to the place where they were saying Where are these Spaniards Let them come I will not stirre a foote till they satisfie me for my Subiects whom they haue slaine and my boroughs which they haue dispeopled and for my wealth which they haue bereaued me The Spaniards set against him and slew an infinite sort of his people they tooke him also in person who came carried in a Litter borne vpon mens shoulders They treate with him to the end that he should ransome himselfe The King offereth to performe foure millions of Castillans and performeth fifteene they promise to release him notwithstanding in the end keeping nor faith nor truth as they neuer kept any in the Iudies vnto the Indians they laid to his charge altogether vntruely that by his commandement the people assembled The King answered that in all the Countrie there moued not a leafe of a tree without his good will that if there assembled any people they were to beleeue that it was by his commandement and as touching himselfe that he was prisoner and they might slay him All this notwithstanding they condemned him to be burnt aliue but at the request of some certaine the Captaine caused him to be strangled and being strangled hee was burned This King vnderstanding his sentence said Wherefore will you burne me What trespasse haue I done yee Did not you promise me to set me at libertie if I gaue you the Gold And haue I not performed more then I promised Seeing you needes will haue it so send me to your King of Spaine speaking other things to the great confusion and detestation of the great wrongfulnesse that the Spaniards vsed whom in the end they burned Here let be considered the right and title of this warfare the imprisonment of this Prince the sentence and the execution of his death and the conscience whereby they possesse great treasures as
Prouince in America 1560 Acuti a beast of Brasile like a Coney 1301 Adams Tree in Brasile 1310 L. Admirall of England his deserued commendations 1962 Adultely how punished by the Indians 1159. by the Aethiopians 1234. by the Guianians 1272 Aquacay a Prouince in Florida 1553 Aquatorke a place situate in the Coast of China on the North 1433 Age reuerenced among the Sauages 1333 Ague a speciall medicine for the same 1311 Aio an Iland in Orenoco 1248 Aire causing swelling in the legges 1222 Alaqua a riuer in Brasile the depth thereof and how passed 1239 Alimama a Town in Florida 1545 Allcatrace a rauenous Sea-fowle described 1376 Alegranca one of the most northerly Ilands of the Canaries 1155. the inhabitants and commodities therof 1267 St. Alexio an Iland described 1238 Alexandro Vrsino his relations of Terra Firma and Peru 1418 c. Alexander viz. Sir William Alexander Knight his patent for the Plantation of Noua Scotia 1871 Alfonso Gabrero his comming to the riuer of Plate 1350 Algernoone-Fort in Virginia kept by Captaine Dauies 1748 All Nesico a tree in Brasil very precious and rich good against bruises 1239 Allen the Cardinall promiseth the Crowne of England to the Duke of Parma 1907 Alo a kinde of drinke vsed by the Spaniards in the West Indies like Braggat made of hot spices 1174 Altamaca-towne 1536 Aluarez Nunnez made Generall of the Spaniards in Brasile his memorable explâ—â—ts c. 1356 sequ His ship-wracke land-trauell and famine ibid. His disrespect among his souldiers 1357. sedition among his men 1359. His dissembled sicknesse and trecherous cruelty toward the Indians 1360. Hee is captiuated and sent into Spaine and the dissention ensuing ibid. Vide Nunnez Amaie a towne in Florida 1553 Amam Buquano two Ilands in Brasile 1241 Amapajo Riuer 1248 Amana Riuer 1247 Amariocapana vallies and the inhabitants thereof 1248 Amazons country 1559 1218. The names of all the Riuers and Nations betweene it and the Brabisses 1286. The description of their nature country customes and commodities at large 1287 Amazon women their fashions and countrie 1358. Vide Women Amber how called by the Indians 1241 Ambergreece where found 1224 1237 1240 1313 1377 1796 Ambition among Sauages 1212 Ambroa a beast in Aethiopia 1233 Ambush of the Caribes 1256 Amecaxo Indians of Brasâ—le 1310 Amiebas-towne in the riuer Marwin 1283 America 1223. How diuided betweene the Sp 〈…〉 ds and Portingals 1435. The strife about it 1437 Americaes strange beasts plants c 1325 1326. sequ Strange Birds 1329 1330. Bees and Butterflies ibid. The enuy of the Americans 1330. Americaes medicinable plants and venemous 1330. With leaues of incredible bignesse 1332. The cause of their warres 1333. Their irreconciliation with their aduersaries ibid. Their assemblies weapons skill archery stratagems their clamorous fiercenesse captines 1335 1336. vid. Indians and Brasilians Anato a berry or cod wherewith the Indians paint 1251 Anapermia a riuer how situate 1247 Anaquia sauages so called 1299 Ancica a place in Affrica 1234 The inhabitants thereof the stubbornest vnder the Sunne most blacke of any their religion concubines countrie and commodities they are right vnder the line 1237 Anebas a place in the Indies 1248. certaine Moores so called 1250 Angola a place in Aethiopia 1212 The inhabitants markets lawes King pompe rites of obeysance controuersies c. 1233. Their Religion ibid. Description of the Country their slauery to the Portingals their coloured cloathes greatest disgrace their feeding lodging 1233 1234. their manner of taking Elephants their cole-blacke colour stature punishment of adultery circumcision how easily their country may bee taken from the Portingals 1234. yeerly shipped from it 28000 slaues 1243 Anhelim Sauages in the Maine of Brasile 1299 Anchors that are vnserniceable how mended without iron 1390 Angra the chiefe towne of Tercera one of the Azores the description and fortification thereof 1668 1143 Anima a bird in Brasile that hath on his beake a medicinable horne 1306 Anneda a tree very soueraigne against the scuruy 1625 Annes Hill the situation of it 1242 S. Annes Iland 1379 Anoixi a Towne in Florida the inhabitants whereof were taken by the Spaniards 1550 Ant-Beare a beast with a nose of a yard long deceiuing Ants with putting forth his tongue 1214. It is also called Tamandros 1216 1301 Ante a place in Florida the commodities thereof 1503 1504 Anteperistase and the effects thereof 1627 S. Anthonie a garison towne of the Spaniards in Florida 1182 Sr. Antony Ralife forced to returne for England 1941 St Antonio a Riuer 1223. the description commodities c. 1239 Antis a Prouince neere Peru whose inhabitants worshipped Tygres and great Snakes of 25 and 30 foot long and harmlesse 1457 Apalachen a place supposed very well stored with gold in Florida 1501 The chiefe towne thereof described their manner of building and fortification their commodities of beasts fowles and plants a geographical description of their countrie their assault of the Spaniards c. 1502 1503 Apamatica a country in Uirginia 1688 Apamatucke-riuer 1692 Apanawaspek a great riuer in Mawooshen lying West and by South of Ramassoc 1874 Apanmenseck a great riuer in Mawooshen ibid. Apes with beards and mustachoes 1243 Apetupa certaine Indians so called 1299 Apigapigtanga certaine sauages so called in Brasile 1298 Aponig a great riuer not far from Aponik 1874 Aponik a great riuer in Mawooshen ibid. Appisham a towne on the riuer Aponik ibid. Apples of America 1332 Apples at Angola and Auanas pleasant and wholesome but eating iron like Aqua-fortis 1243. Apples in Guiana causing sleepe to death 1276 Aquirini Indians 1299 Aquiguira-Brasilians 1299 Aquixo a great Lord in Florida 1546 Aracawa Riuer 1251. The commodities and inhabitants thereabout 1251 1263 Aracuaiati certaine Indian sauages 1299 Araomi an Iland in Orenoco 1248 Ararape certaine Brasilian inhabitants 1298 Arawagatos certaine Indians neere Orenoco 1248 Arbadaos-Indians their hungry life 1517 Archers very expert and strong 1503. Archers that kill birds flying fishes swimming beasts running 1771 Archers-hope a point of land in Virginia so called 1688. Archers relation of a Fleet sent to Virginia 1733 1734 Arecias certaine clifts in Brasile so called 1238 Capt. Argals voyage and successe 1758 seq His relation of his acts in Virginia anno 1613. his getting store of corne for the plantation 1764 1765. His taking prisoner Powhatons daughter and freeing Englishmen 1765. his returne ibid. His valour in displating the FreÌ„ch 1768 1808 Armada furnished against the English in the West Indies their fight 1398 seq An armada prepared against the Lord Howard Admirall of her Maiesties fleet at the Azores 1144 Arrow running in at the mouth of a man and comming out at his poale yet the man saued 1206. Arrowes fiue or sixe in one body escaping ibid. One and twenty arrowes in one man that liued after 4 houres 1219. A hundred arrowes in two men before they fell 1256. Arrowes of Indians that runne through a Target Pistoll proofe 1688 Arrowhotacks certaine Indians
Frost and Snow Sepulchre opened Two houses Houshold stuffe Third discouerie Extreme cold Gramâ—us Bay Thâ—y found Grampuses dead two inches thicke of fat and fiue or six paces long A good Harbour Two great Wolues Thunder Conference with Sauages Patuxet People all dead of a plague Masasoyts Nausites Hunts wickednesse Sâ—uâ—geâ— dâ—sâ—ribed The agreements of peace betweene vs and Massasoyt A iourney to Packanokik the Habitation of the Great King Massasoyâ— 1621. Great plague Royall entertainment Games Hungrie fare A Voyage made by ten of our men oâ—the Kingdome of Nauset to seek a Boy that had lost himselfe in the Woods with such accidents as besell vs in that Voyage The Boy is restored Snakes skin defiance Towne impaled Tisquantum trechâ—â—y Plagy 〈◊〉 Master Westons planters which plâ—id the wâ—sps with English and Sauages Two Ships Helpe f 〈…〉 Master Iones A Plague Note Honest Sauages Namasket Manomet Sauages great gamsters Iust iealousie Base Summer and Winter Dutch Ship Visitations of the sicke Reports of Massassowats death His commendation Miserable comforters He reuealeth the trechery of the Massachusets Their name of God Indians into lence Sauages slain Sauage Englishmen An. 1623. Great drought Publike Fast. Gracious dewes Indians coniuration M. Tomson a Scot his Plantation Day of thanks Two Ships Their Religion The meaning of the word â—â—eâ—tan I think hath reference â—o Antiquity for Chise is an old man and Kiâ—hchise a man that exceedeâ—h in agâ— Iâ—e maledicti Their Deuill Powah or Priest Offerings Sacrifices Burnt offring The Deuill keeps his seruants poore Their Knights Pnieses valourous counsellours Bitter trialls Sachim or Lords Tribu 〈…〉 Mourning foâ— the dead Burialls Womens slauery Manhood Names Maids wiues Adulterie and whooredome Theft Murther Crying a cowards note Apparell Wittie people Their Arts. Note Language Registers The Country New England an Iland Seasons Dayes Soyle Corne * For the Description incouragements to this designe and for better knowledge of New Scotland besides a Book purposely published by the Honourable learned Author who at other weapons hath plaied his Muses prizes and giuen the world ample testimony of his learning you may read our 8. Booke from the sixt Chapter forwards the last two Chapiters of the ninth Booke that description of the Countrey of Mawâ—oshen which I haue added hereto An. 1623. Lukes Bay Fit place for a Plantation Port Iolly Port Negro This description of Mawooshen I had amongst M. Hakluyts papers Climate and quantitie Tarantines are said to be the same with the Souriquois 1. Quibequesson Riuer Asticon Sagamo A great Lake 2. Pâ—maquid riuer A great Lake Anadabis Three townes Bashabes Caiocame 3. Ramassoc Panobscâ—t a Towne 4. Apanawapeske 5. Apanmensek A Lâ—ke Another Lake All the Lakes full of Fish Beeues and sweet Rats 6. Aponeg 7. Aponeg 8. Sagadahoc Here C. Popham builâ— S. Georges Fort and planted Great Sound Tâ—o Lakes A great Iland Kenebeke 9. Ashamabaga 10. Shawakâ—toc A Lake foure dayes iourney long 2 broad Voyage in eight daies Fishermens kinde assistances State of the weather in Autumne and Winter I haue by me a written iournall declaring the winde and weather of euery day from 24. Nouember 1610. till the last of Aprill 1611. but thought it would seeme ted ous the substance thereof being here contained Moderate Frosta Spring Healthfulnes Homicide dieth for thought Imployment of the Colony English Corne Fowle and Cattle prosper there Medow Deere Copper kettle Their houses described Their Oares Sauages Their fashions Their Canoas The situation of the Country The temperature of the Ayre The Inhabitanes with their nature and customes The conueniency of the Bayes in that Countrie Commodious Ilands worthy Harbours Trinitie Harbor affording diuers good commodities Sauages liuing neer to Trinitie Harbour The bottoms of diuers Baies meeting neere together The Harbour of Trepassey lying commodiously The fertiltie of the soyle Seuerall sorts of Fruits there growing Herbs Flowers both pleasant and medicinable Corn growing there yeelding good increase Store of Deere other Beasts A rare example of the gentle nature of the Beasts of that Country M Guies Mastâ—â—e Greyhound vsed a Wolfe there more doggedly one pulling out the throat the other the belly Great store of Land Fowle Water Fowle Penguins Fresh water and Springs Many sorts of Timber there growing Good hope of Mines and making of Iron and Pitch Fish in great abundance Cod-fishing a great hope of benefit therefrom The benefit arising to France Spaine and Italy from fishing vpon those coasts 250. saile of Shipslying vpon that coast Anno 1615. What the valew of the Fish con tained in most Ships did amount vnto The relief that the trading there will afford to seuerall sorts of people * After this the author vseth reasons to perswade to a Plantation there which I haue omitted as busied in history The Book is common to such as desire to reade it I haue also omit ted his Admiralty commission and proceedings Commoditieâ— vsed by the Natiues This was the last Letter sent into England the yeere before 1621. They were but twelue men all the last Winter vnti 〈…〉 the new supply came in the Spring following Temperate Winter Bristow Plantation Salt made there Abuses of Fishermen The Fiâ—â—ts sâ—â— forth by queen Elizabeth Sup. pag. 108◠〈◊〉 Aâ—â—â— 17. 6. Her persecution from the Papacie from the wombe In queen Maries daies French wrongs Q. Elizabeths prosperitie See of Gods mercies in this other kinds the B. of Chichister his Religious Tractate of Thanksgiuing See also Camdens Elizabetha and others Anuales of her Reigne Arthur Poole of the house of George Duke of Clarence Ann. 1569. Pius his impious Bull. Irish action Don Iohn base son of Charles Emperour 1576. A. 1572. Greg. 13. confirmeth the sentence against Q. Elis-Stuklys trea on A. 1578. 1579. 1580. Sanders Author of the booke De visiâ— Monarch of the forged tale De schismate Anglicano in which he abuseth the queens Mother with grosse lies neuer before een or dreams of by the sharpest and spitefullesâ— eyes which Malice could entertain euen then when she was most malicious most serpent sighted * 15â—3 * 1584. Mendoza Throckmorton Creighton papers Assoâ—iation Pâ—â—ries treason Allens booke Earle of Northumberland Burks Ilandeys â—â—i s in Ireland Babington c. French Embassadâ—urs plot with Moody Lopez Luke 8. 29. Rome Citie of murthers haters of kings * Plin. l. 7. c. 25. * See to 1. l. 8. 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 3. 4. 6. l. 2. c. 1 to 2. l. 8. c. 4. c. Present Rome greater manstaier Saintslaier then the Ethnike Priests agents in euery treason The Pope Master Workman Allen or Alan was by Spanish procurement made Cardinall for this purpose and to this purpose had written a violent booke which heartned Parry to vndertake to kil the Queen He and Bristow Martin were Authors of the Rhemish Translation and Notes of the N. T. Papall pretended causes of depriuing the Queene Fugitiues impotent Zeale