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A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

placed between a Negro's Legs with others to guide this small Vessel for fear he should leap over-board and swim to the Ship At a distance he haled her in English to the great surprizal of those within her the Negro's let him stand up and show himself to the Captain to whom he gave an Account ho●… four were left there and he only remained alive It was some time before they bargained though the Captain was resolved not to leave him behind Several times the Negro's padled away with their Canoe resolving not to part with him but what with his intreaties and promises he perswaded them to the Ship again and at last they delivered him on board for forty five Copper and Iron Bars about the bigness of a mans Finger When he came on board his Hair was long and his Skin tawny like a Mulatto having gone naked all the time he was there and usually anointed himself with Palm-Oyl The Sea men charitably apparalel'd him and he arrived safely in England with a thankful Heart for so happy a deliverance And here I shall conclude the view of Guinea A View of St. Helena an Island in the Ethiopian Ocean in Africa Now in possession of the Honourable East-India-Company where their Ships usually refresh in their Indian Voyages With an account of the Admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales the Little Spaniard to the World in the Moon by the help of several Ganza's or Large Geese An Ingenious Fancy written by a late Learned Bishop BEfore I come to relate the Acquisitions of the English in India c. I will make a halt at St. Hellens or Hellena which is now possest by the Honourable East-India-Company It is called the Sea Inn because the English and other Nations stop there as a place for watering and refreshment in their Long Voyages to India It was formerly seized by the Dutch but retaken May 6th 1673 by Captain Munday with a Squadron of English Ships and 3 Rich Dutch East-India Ships made Prizes in the Harbor since which the Company have fortified and secured it against any future invasion of Dutch Portuguese or Spaniards It was called Santa Helena by the Portuguese who discovered it on St. Hellens Day being April 2. There is no Island in the World so far distant from the Continent or main Land as this It is about Sixteen Leagues in Compass in the Ethiopick-Sea in 16 Degrees of South Latitude about 1500 Miles from the Cape of Good Hope 360 from Angola in Africa and 510 from Brasile in America It lyes high out of the Water and surrounded on the Sea-coasts with steep Rocks having within many Cliffs Mountains and Valleys of which one is named Church-Valley where behind a small Church they climb up to the Mountains To the South is Apple-Dale so called from the abundance of Oranges Lemons and Pomegranats enough to furnish five or six Ships On the West side of the Church Ships have good Anchorage close under the Shore to prevent the Winds which blow fiercely from the adjacent high Mountains The Air seems temperate and healthful so that sick men brought ashore there in a short time recover Yet the heat in the Valleys is as intollerable as the cold upon the Mountains It commonly rains there five or six times a day so that the barenness of the Hills is not occasioned for want of Water of which it hath two or three good Springs for furnishing Ships with fresh Water The ground of its own accord brings forth wild Pease and Beans also whole Woods of Orange Lemon and Pomegranat Trees all the year long laden both with Blossoms and Fruit good Figs abundance of Ebony and Rose-trees Parsly Mustard-seed Purslain Sorrel and the like The Woods and Mountains are full of Goats large Rams and wild Swine but difficult to be taken When the Portuguese discovered it they found neither four-footed Beasts nor Fruit-trees but only fresh Water They afterward planted Fruit-trees which so increased since that all the Valleys stand full of them Partridges Pigeons Moor-hens and Peacocks breed here numerously whereof a good Marksman may soon provide a Dinner for his Friends On the Cliff-Islands on the South are thousands of grey and black Mews or Sea-Pies and white and coloured Birds some with long others with short Necks who lay their Eggs on the Rocks and suffer themselves to be taken with the Hand gazeing at their Surprizers till they are knocked on the Head with sticks From the Salt-Water 〈◊〉 against the Cl●…s a 〈◊〉 or Scum remains in some places which the heat of the S●…n so purifies that it becomes white and good Salt some of the Mountains yield Bole Armon●…ck and a fat Earth like Terra Lemnia The Sea will answer the pains of a patient 〈◊〉 who must use an Angle not a Net because of the foul ground and beating of the waves the chief are Mackr●… Roach ●…p but differing in colour from those among us E●…s as big as a mans Arm and well tasted Crabs Lobsters Oysters and Mussels as good as English IT is in this Island that the Scene of that notable fancy called The Man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither by 〈◊〉 Gonsales is lay'd written by a Learned Bishop saith the ingenious Bishop Wilkins who calls it a pleasant and well contrived fancy in his own Book intitaled A Discourse of the New World tending to prove that it is possible there may be another habitable World in the Moon Wherein among other curious arguments he affirms that this hath been the direct opinion of divers ancient and some Modern Mathematicians and may probably be deduced from the Tenents of others neither does it contradict any Principle of reason nor Faith And that as their World is our Moon so our World is theirs Now this small Tract having so worthy a Person to vouch for it and many of our English Historians having published for Truth what is almost as improbable as this as Sr. Iohn Mandavil in his Travels and others and this having what they are utterly destitute of that is Invention mixed with Judgment and was judged worthy to be Licensed 50 years ago and not since reprinted whereby it would be utterly lost I have thought fit to republish the Substance thereof wherein the Author says he does not design to discourse his Readers into a belief of each particular circumstance but expects that his new discovery of a New World may find little better entertainment than Columbus had in his first discovery of America though yet that p●…r espial betrayed so much knowledge as hath since increast to vast Improvements and the ●…en Unknown is now found to be of as large extent as all the other known World That there should be Antipodes was once thought as great a Paradox as now that the Moon should be habitable But the knowledge of it may be reserved for this our discovering Age wherein our Virtuosi can by their Telescopes gaze the Sun into Spots and d●…ry Mountains in the

Back and Arms. Secondly They sometimes hoise up their Heels and with a great Cudgel give them three or four hundred blows on the soles of their Feet Thirdly It is ordinary to draw them naked up to the top of a Gibbet or Tower full of Hooks and cutting the Ropes to let them fall down again and by the way they are caught by some of the Hooks where they commonly hang till they die for Hunger 8. Do unto others as thou wouldst be done unto thy self To those that keep these Laws he promiseth Paradise a place of all Delights adorn'd with flowry Fields water'd with Chrystalline Rivers beautified with Trees of Gold under whose cool shade they shall spend their time with amorous Virgins whose Mansions shall not be far distant The Men shall never exceed the Age of Thirty nor the Women of Fifteen and those to have their Virginities renew'd as oft as lost Friday he ordained to be their Sabbath partly to distinguish his Followers from the Iews and Christians who solemnize the 2 days ensuing but principally because he was on that day proclaimed King or Emperor and so accordingly created Wine and Swines Flesh are the principal things forbidden by the Alcoran from the last whereof they all unanimously refrain but on the first they are so besotted that when they come at it they seldom go home again unled insomuch that all the Wines in Constantinople have been thrown about the Streets and death made the Penalty for any who shall presume to bring any more into the City Mahomet taught them that every one should be saved by his own Religion except those who revolt from the Alcoran to another Law But so that under the Notion of Religion h●… means only such as worship the One and only God excluding thereby the Old Gentile Idolaters from the hope of Salvation He likewise taught that at the end of the World all Men who professed any such Religion should go into Paradise the Iews under the Banner of Moses the Christians under the Banner of Christ and the Saracens under the Banner of Mahomet They compel no Man therefore to abjure the Faith wherein he was born but secretly commecd and approve such as are zealous in their own Religion yet counting it a great Honour to have daily new Proselites they allure them with hopes of Freedom and Preferment which with many are too prevailing Motives to cause them to renounce their Christian Profession Hence some infer it is better for a Man that desires his Liberty to live in these Countries than in some others since he is never molested if he meddle not with their Law their Women or their Slaves Their Opinions of the end of the World are very rediculous as that at the Winding of an Horn not all Flesh only but the Angels themselves shall dye That the Earth with an Earthquake shall be kneaded together like a lump of Dough That a second blast of the same Horn shall after forty days restore all again That Cain shall be the Captain or Ring-leader of the Damned who shall have the Faces of Dogs and Swine That they shall pass over the Bridge of Justice laden with their sins in Satchels That the greater Sinners shall fall into Hell the lesser into Purgatory only with a thousand the like Fopperies needless to relate which may be found in the Alcoran a●…thing so full of Tautologies Incoherences and gross Absurdities of so impure and carnal a mixture that whoever is taken with it must abandon his natural Reason if Force Ambition or want of Christian Education do not induce him to imbrace it For if we seriously consider the Causes of the deplorable increase and long continuance of this Religion we shall find them to be chiefly these 1. The greatness of the Victories obtained by the Saracens who easily compell'd the conquered Nations to receive their Law 2. The great Zeal and Diligence of the Arabians themselves who being a numerous People and much given to Merchandize have possessed themselves of all the Sea-coasts of Africk from the Streights of Babel Mandel almost to the Cape of Good Hope of all the Islands in those Seas and of many Factories and good Towns on the Coast of India in all which they have setled their Religion also as a thing inseparable from their Nation 3. A peremptory Restraint of all Disputations in any point of Religion whatsoever 4. The suppressing Philosophy and the study of Humane Sciences the light whereof might easily detect the grosness of their Superstitions 5. The sensual liberty allowed of having variety of Wives and as many Concubines as they are able to keep 6. The promise of the like sensual pleasures in the other World with which a Mind not illuminated with the Spirit of God is generally more affected than with the speculative hope of a future Happiness 7. The forbidding Printing and Printed Books whereby People might perceive the truth and purity of the Christian Faith with the Falshood and Impurity of the Law of Mohomet Yet had not these last been sufficient to induce the belief of such Absurdities if the first had not opened and prepared the way For force of Arms was really the most prevailing Argumen●…y which Mahomet himself confirmed and his Successors since have propogated and dispersed his Doctrine Who being strengthned by that Rascal Rabble which resorted to him he assaults Medina pretending a quarrel to the Iews who had there a Synagogue He was repulsed at first with loss of Men and a Wound in his Face by which some of his foreteeth were beaten out and was there likely to have ended his New Religion but recovered by his Soldiers for further Mischief At the next onset he prevail'd the Battel being fought near a place called Bedez scituate betwixt Mecca and Medina frequently mentioned in the Alcoran After which Fight he took the City converting the Synagogue to a Temple for their own Impieties the News hereof so startled the Nobility of Mecca that they armed all their Powers against him and succeeded so well in the beginning of the War that they drove him forcibly from their Territories which yet not long after he again subdued and made his chief Residence at Mecca From that his flight the Saracens compute their Years as w●… from Christ's Nativity which they call the Hegira and begins about the Year of our Lord ●…17 so termed from an Arabick word that signifies The Persecution raised about Religion It happened about this time that the Saracens revolting from Heraclius the Eastern Emperor joined themselves to Mahomet being exasperated by Iulian the Apostate whom they served in his Wars against the Persians for telling them upon demanding their Pay That he had greater store of Steel than Gold But they then wanted a Head to resort to Now serving Heraclius in the same War they were used by his Officers in the same ill manner for asking their Pay the Treasurer of the Army made them this churlish Answer There is scarce