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A13665	The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike wherin is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrevve Theuet. And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.; Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique. English	Thevet, André, 1502-1590.; Hacket, Thomas, fl. 1560-1590.	1568 (1568)	STC 23950; ESTC S111418	200,763	298

¶ THE NEW found vvorlde or Antarctike wherin is contained wōderful and strange things as well of humaine creatures as Beastes Fishes Foules and Serpents Trées Plants Mines of Golde and Siluer garnished with many learned aucthorities trauailed and written in the French tong by that excellent learned man master ANDREVVE THEVET And now newly translated into Englishe wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient Cosmographers ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman for Thomas Hacket And are to be sold at his shop in Poules Church yard at the signe of the Key ¶ To the right honorable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter Lorde President of Wales and Marches of the same Lord Deputie Generall of the Queenes Maiesties Realme of Ireland Your humble Orator Thomas Hacket wisheth the fauoure of God long and happy life encrease of honor continuall health and felicitie NOne are more to be commended right Honorable than those who wer the first inuenters and finders out of Artes and Sciences wherwith mankind is beautified and adorned without the which giftes he were but naked barbarous and brutish yea and a seruile creature It was not for nothing that the elders in times past did so muche celebrate the instituters of those things as Herodotus writeth that the Egiptians before all other men first foūd out the yere by the course of the Planets and deuided it into .xij. monthes Diodorus assigned it to the Thebanes the which standeth well with the opinion of Herodotus bicause the Thebanes be a nation of Egipt As Numa added to the yere Ianuary and February Romulus ordred Marche Aprill and May Augustus an other part and so Iulius Caesar made vp the perfect yere as Polidorus Vergilius witnesseth in his boke De inuentoribus rerum But how much praise is to be giuen to such as haue inuented good lawes statutes for the brideling of the Barbarous and wicked and for the maintayning and defending of the iust As we reade that Isis ariuing in Egipt brideled that Countrey and ordained good common wealths How did the Scicilians honor Ceres for that she was the first inuenter of wheat sowing with other innumerable Among all other none in my iudgement is more worthier to be praised thā the first finders out how to make ships and vessels nauigable for the sea Strabo writeth that Minos king of Crete had the first rule of the sea But Diodorus sayth that Neptunus had the Empire of it afore him for he inuented the feat in rowing of boates and made a nauie and was made Admirall of it by his father Saturnus and Plinie reporteth that King Erichthas deuised boates first and rowed in them on the Red sea Some say they were ordained by the Troyans in the narow seas called Hellespontus some thinke they were inuented in the English sea Danus as some write was the first that vsed any ship when he sailed out of Egipt into Grece But for more assurance what so euer their opinions be as touching the beginning hereof as we rede in the holy scripture Noe was the first inuenter or maker thereof before the floud The ingenious industry of man hath brought many things to a notable and good perfection as well in Cosmography and Nauigation as in any other arte or science for no doubt as it apereth by this trauaile or worke of Cosmography such like the olde ancient writers as Ptholomeus and others were deceiued in that they iudged this Newe found Worlde or the West part to be vnhabitable How muche are they to be praised that for their Countrey sake refuse no imminent perill leauing the Pleasaunt bedde of Delicacie and the seate or cradle of Sensualitie their landes and goodes their Wiues and children which in dede are dearest vnto them to abandō themselues and their swetest liues to the fauoure of the boystrous seas to the hap of the vnconstante windes to the chayre of fortune and finally to a thousande imminent euils onely to encrease the fame and good renowme of their countrey Among the which I might rehearse that this most noble Seignorie and Territorie of England hath of late yeares gotte the fame and renowme that it hath had in times past by Nauigation lately atempted by many and sundrie of our countreymen God graunte them still to go forwarde and encrease in those and such like enterprises to Gods glory and the benefite of this common Wealth But alas the greater number of mē are giuen to idelnesse or sensualitie as if I mighte say nowe where are the Tiberians the Metelli the Emili the Marij and the Catones Among the number of a great many and in the middest of aboundance and pleasure we meditate nothing else but onely securitie almoste abhorring to heare the name of trauell or payne by which it may be sayde to vs in a manner as it was sayde of Haniball after the battell Trasimenius or Cannas that his wintering at Capua in pleasure and delicacie was more noysom and hurtfull vnto him than either of the battels before named We reade after that Alexander had vanquished almost the thirde parte of the world hauing ouerthrowē the mighty King Porrus one of the strongest Kings of India with whom as rehearseth Plutarche in the life of Alexander he among all other had moste to doe hauing also subdued vnto him the mighty King Darius hearing the Philosopher Anaxagoras in a certayne lecture holding this opinion that there were Worldes out of number therewith he burste out sodaynely into weeping his friendes moued with this sight demaunded whether any mishap had fallen vnto him mete to weepe for or no he sayde these wordes Oh haue I not good cause to weepe trowe ye that there being worlds innumerable I am not yet come to be full Lorde of one of whom I gather the inceasable stomake glory and renowme how little he estemed him selfe and his Kingdoms without the name of victorious and mighty Among and aboue all as affirmeth Plutarchus he estemed the Ilia● of Homer bicause in the same was declared the excellent prowes of Achilles Thus right honorable we see the valiant and curagious personages of the world haue brought to passe many excellent enterprises so that their fame shall neuer dye atcheued as well by sea as by lande as this worthy traueller Andrewe Theuit in this his Nauigation of the New found World which I haue dedicated vnto your honor as a tokē of my good will the which after your great waighty affaires it may please you to vse and to pardō this my rash enterprise wherein I am enboldned to prefer this towards you as a thing very rare and of such exquisite doing as before this time the like hath not ben heard of whose annotations therin be such as no Cosmographers hereto before haue done the like desiring your honor so to accepte the same as the good will of him that gaue it And thus I commit your good Lordship to the tuition of God who preserue you and

than in Sōmer for al things haue their season Cornelius Celsus ordayned this fish to the sicke specially to those that had the Feuer or Ague for it is light fish and not heauie but may be well digested there are found more store in the West sea thā in the East sea Moreouer all kinde of fishes are not found in euery place of the sea Helops a singular fish is not found but onely about Pamphilia Ilus and Scaurus onely in the sea Atlantike and so of many others Alexander the great being in Egypt bought two Dorades for two marke of golde for to proue if that they were so delicate and fine meate as it was shewed him so that there were two a lyue brought him from the Weast sea to Nemphis whereas he remained as a Iewe being a Phisitiō shewed me by a Historie being at Damasca in Siria Thus much gentle Reader I haue learned as touching the Dorade for that thou shouldest sée what the elders haue written thereof and among others my lorde William Pellicier Bishop of Mountpellier who hath treated of the nature of fishes as faithfully and truely as any in our tyme. Of an Ilande named the Ascention Cap. 21. THE twentie sixth day of October being eight degrées beyonde our lyne Equinoctiall we founde an Ilande not inhabited the which at the firste we thought to name the Ile of Birdes bicause of the greate multitude of Birdes that are in the sayde Ilande but looking in our carde Marin we found that before tyme it was founde out by the Portingals and named the Ile of the Ascention bicause that on that day they ariued thither We therefore seing those Birdes flying on the sea made vs to thinke that there was some Ilande néere hande and the néerer we came we sawe such a multitude of birdes of diuers sortes with coloured feathers that the lyke was neuer séene in our tyme the which came flying to our ships and woulde reste vpon vs so that we might take them with our handes and with greate payne coulde we be ridde of them For if one had stretched out his Arme they woulde haue rested vpon it euen lyke tame birdes and not one of them lyke to the birdes of our countrey the which to some semeth vncredible Being caste of from our handes they flyed not away but let them selues be taken agayne as before Furthermore in this Ilande there is a certayne kinde of greate birdes that I haue heard called Aponars they haue little wings and therefore they cannot flye They are great and hye lyke hearnshawes the belly white and and the backe blake as cole the byll lyke to a cormorant when they are killed they crye lyke hogs I thought good to speake of this birde among others for that there are founde a greate number of them in an Ilande lying towarde the Caape of good Spéede on the coste or borders of newe founde lande the which was named the Ile of Aponards Also there are such a multitude that on a tyme thrée greate ships of Fraunce going to Canada did lade eche of them two tymes their cockboates with these birdes on the brinke of the sayde Ilande and it is no maistrie to goe into the Iland and to driue them before them to their boates lyke shéepe This therefore hath giuen me occasion to speake so much thereof As touching the reste of the Ile of Ascention it is indifferent faire and pleasant being of circute six leagues with mountaines garnished with faire gréene trées herbes and floures Not forgetting the number of birdes of the which we haue spoken I suppose that if it were labored and tilled with many others that are in the Weaste as well beyonde as on this side the Equinoctiall it woulde render as good profit as Tenedos Lemnos Metelin Negrepont Rhodes and Candia or any others that are in the sea Helispont and the Cyclades for in this greate Weaste sea there are Ilandes that are more then .80 leagues compasse and some lesse among the which the greatest parte are desert and not inhabited Nowe after that we had passed this Ilande there dyd appeare foure starrs of a wonderful greatnesse made in manner of a crosse neuerthelesse farre ynough from the Pole Antartike The Mariners that sayle that way name them charets Some of them thinke that among these is the South Starre the which is fixed and vnmoueable as the North starre that we call the lesser beare the which was hyd before that were vnder the Equator and many others that are not sene at this side to the Northwarde Of the promentarie of good hope and of many secretes obserued in the same likewise our Ariuall to the Indies America or Fraunce Antartike Cap. 22. AFter that we haue passed the Equinoctiall lyue and the Ilande of S. Homer folowing the coste of Ethiopia the which is called India Meridionall it behoued to folow our course euē to the Tropike of winter about the which time we discouered the great famous Promentarie of good hope the which the Pilots haue named Lyon of the sea bicause that it is feared and redouted being so great and difficil This Caape on bothe sides is compassed with two great mountaines and hils of the which the one beholdeth the East the other the West In this coūtrey are many beasts named Rhinoceros for that they haue a horne vnder their snout Some cal them Oxen of Ethiopia This beast is very monstrous and kepeth perpetuall warre and hatred with the Elephante And for this cause the Romaines haue taken great plesure to make these two beastes fight for a spectacle of greatenesse chiefly at the creation of an Emperoure or some other high or greate magistrate as they doe at this day marke Beares Bulls and Lyons He is not altogether so high as the Elephant nor such as we paynte him or set him out in our countrey And that which moueth me to speake is that traueling from Egypt to Arabia I sawe a very Auncient monument whereas was engraued certayne figures of beastes in stede of letters as it was vsed in the olde time among the which was the Rhenoceros being without horne and mayles not lyke as our painters setteth him out This beaste for to prepare him selfe to fight as Plinie rehearseth sharpeneth his horne against a certayne stone and alwayes draweth to the belly of this Elephant for that it is the part of the body that is most softest There is also great quantitie of wilde Asses and another bearing a horne betwene bothe there eyes of two foote long I sawe one being in the citie of Alexandria that is in Egypt that a Lorde Turke brought from Melcha the which horne he sayde had the lyke vertue agaynst poyson as had the horne of an Vnicorne Aristotle calleth these Asses with horne Asses of India About this Promentarie is the departing of the way to the Easte and the Weaste Indies for they that will goe to the Easte Indies as to Calicut