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A35254	A view of the English acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies with an account of the religion, government, wars, strange customs, beasts, serpents, monsters, and other observables in those countries : together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their voyages to the Indies : intermixt with pleasant relations and enlivened with picture / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1686 (1686)	Wing C7356; ESTC R27846	109,445	213

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 very 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 Seamen very charitably apparalel'd him and in short time after he arrived safely in England with a thickful Heart for so happy a deliverance And here I shall conclude the view of Guinea Sect. II. A View of the Island OF St. HELENA With the Product thereof BEfore I come to relate the Acquisitions of the English in the East-Indies I will make an halt at the Island of St. Helena This Isle is now by His Majesties Grace and Favour in the possession of the Honourable East India Company as a place for watering and refreshment in their long Voyages to the Indies It was formerly seized by the Dutch but retaken May 6. 1673. by Captain Munday with some other English Ships and three rich Dutch East-India Prizes taken in the Harbour since which the English have fortified and secured it against any future Invasion It was so called by the Portuguess because first discovered by them on St. Hellens day being April 21. It lies in sixteen degrees and fifteen minutes of South Latitude in the main Ocean about fifteen hundred Miles from the Cape of Good Hope three hundred and fifty from Angola and five hundred and ten from Brasile the circumference is about seven miles lying 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 very temperate and healthful insomuch that sick men brought ashore there in a short time recover Yet the heat in the Valleys is as intollerable as the eager cold upon the Mountains It commonly rains there five or six times a day so that the bareness of the Hills is not occasioned for want of Water of which it hath two or three good Springs beside 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 very large Rams and wild Swine but difficult to be taken When the Portuguess first 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 at present all the Valleys stand full of them Partridges Pigeons Moor-hens and Peacocks breed here very 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 also white and coloured Birds some with long others with short Necks who lay their Eggs on the Rocks and are so unaccustomed to fear that they suffer themselves to be taken with the Hand and gaze at their surprizers till they are knocked on the Head with sticks From the Salt-Water beating against the Cliffs a Froth or Scum remains in some places which the heat of the Sun so purifies that it becomes white and good Salt some of the Mountains yield Bole Armoniack and a fat Earth like Terra Lemnia The Sea will answer the pains of a patient Fisherman who must use an Angle not a Net because of the foul ground and beating of the waves the chief are Mackrel Roach Carp but differing in colour from those among us Eels 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 Domingo Gonsales is lay'd written by a late Reverend and Learned Bishop saith the Excellent and ingenious Bishop Wilkins who calls it a pleasant and well contrived fancy in his own Book intituled A Discourse of the New World tending to prove that it is possible there may be another habitable World in the Moon Wherein among many 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 the credit of it and many of our English Historians having published for Truth what is altogether as improbable as this as Sr. John Mandevil 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 not thought it amiss 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 poor espial betrayed so much knowledge as hath since increast to vast Improvements and the then 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 this it may be is reserved for this our discovering Age wherein our Virtuosi can by their Telescopes gaze the Sun into Spots and descry Mountains in the Moon but this and much more must be left to the Criticks as well as the following faithful Relation of our little Eye witness and great Discoverer which you shall have in his own Spanish Style and delivered with that Grandeur and thirst of Glory which is generally imputed to that Nation It is sufficiently known to all the Countries of Audaluzia that I Domingo Gonsales was born of a Noble Family in the renowned City of Sevil in 1552. my Fathers name being Therando Gonsales near kinsman on the Mothers side to Don Pedro Sanches the worthy Count of Almenara My Mother

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 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 cheifly these 1. The greatness of the Victories obtain'd 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 Seacoasts of Africk from the Streights of Babel Mandel almost to the Cape of Good Hope of all the Islands in those Seas and many Factories and good Towns on the Coasts 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 Mahomet 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 Argument by 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 Jews who had there a Synagogue repulsed at first with loss of men and a wound in his face by which some of his fore-teeth were beaten out and was there likely to have ended his New Religion if not recovered by his Souldiers for further mischief At the next onset he prevail'd the Battel being sought neer 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 his 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 cheif Residence at Mecca From that his flight the Saracens compute their years as we from Christs Nativity which they call the Hegira and begins about the year of our Lord 617. 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 Julian 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 Money enough to pay the Roman and Graecian Souldiers and why must those Dogs be so importunate for their Wages Provoked herewith and hearing the fame of Mahomet they joined him who strengthned herewith and the coming in of the rest of their Countreymen he soon brought all Arabia under his Subjection and having defeated the Emperors forces sent against him he conquered some parts of Syria and Egypt and returning to Mecca there died frantick and distempered in the 70 year of his Age and twenty third of his Impostures of which he spent thirteen at Medina and the rest at Mecca His dead Body being kept four days in expectation of a Resurrection which he promised to perform at the end of three grown full of stench and putrefaction was carried to Medina and there interred His Successors out of wicked and Worldly Policy keeping up the reputation of that Religion after his decease which they scorned and derided in his life calling themselves Caliphs and Vicar Generals to him their Prophet But to return to Persia the Government of that Empire is purely Despotick or Tyranical for the King has the sole Power of life and death over all his Subjects independent from his Council and without any Trials or Law Proceedings He can put to what death he pleases the chief Lords of the Kingdom no man daring to dispute the reason Nor is there any Soveraign in the World more absolute than he The King deceasing and leaving Male Issue behind him the Eldest ascends the Throne while his Brothers are kept in the Haram or Castle and their Eyes put out and if the King have the least jealousy they are instantly put to death without further Examination and not only they but the Children of the Kings Brothers and Sisters likewise I remember saith my Author when I first travelled into Persia they were not so rigorous but were contented to move a red hot Iron to and fro before their Eyes But Sha Sefi the last Emperor peceiving his command negligently Executed and that the poor unhappy Princes had some sight left them he ordered their Eyes to be digged out of their Heads Sha Sefi's cruelty went yet further for he spared not his Eldest Son Sha Abbas the lawful Heir of his Throne ordering one of the Eunuchs to move an Iron before his Eyes no man knowing a reason but the Eunuch compassionating the young Prince moved an Iron yet not red hot before his Eyes and teaching him to counterfeit himself blind preserv'd his sight till his Father lay upon his Death bed when being very Penitent for having put out the Eyes of his Eldest Son to whom the Crown did of right belong the Eunuch seeing the King so sadly afflicted and ready to give up the Ghost assured him that he would restore the Prince to his sight and to comfort him at his death