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virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02495	The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.; Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.		1599 (1599)	STC 12626A; ESTC S106753	3,713,189	2,072

houses neere which he met his father that had bene dead before who gaue him great charge to goe backe againe and shew his friendes what good they were to doe to enioy the pleasures of that place which when he had done he should after come againe What subtiltie soeuer be in the Wiroances and pri●stes this opinion worketh so much in many of the common and simple sort of people that it maketh them haue great respect to their Gouernours and also great care what they doe to auoyd torment after death and to enioy blisse although notwithstanding there is punishment ordeined for malefactours as stealers whoremongers and other sorts of wicked doers some punished with death some with forfeitures some with beating according to the greatnesse of the facts And this is the summe of their Religion which I learned by hauing speciall familiaritie with some of their priests Wherein they were not so sure grounded nor gaue such credite to their traditions and stories but through conuersing with vs they were brought into great doubts of their owne and no small admiration of ours with earnest desire in many to learne more then wee had meanes for want of perfect vtterance in their language to expresse Most things they sawe with vs as Mathematicall instruments sea Compasses the vertue of the load-stone in drawing yron a perspectiue glasse whereby was shewed many strange sights burning glasses wilde firewoorkes gunnes hookes writing and reading spring-clockes that seeme to goe of themselues and many other things that wee had were so strange vnto them and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then of men or at the leastwise they had bene giuen and taught vs of the gods Which made many of them to haue such opinion of vs as that if they knew not the trueth of God and Religion already it was rather to bee had from vs whom God so specially loued then from a people that were so simple as they found themselues to be in comparison of vs. Whereupon greater credite was giuen vnto that wee spake of concerning such matters Many times and in euery towne where I came according as I was able I made declaration of the contents of the Bible that therein was set foorth the true and onely God and his mightie workes that therein was conteined the true doctrine of saluation through Christ with many particularities of Miracles and chiefe points of Religion as I was able ●hen to vtter and thought fit for the time And although I told them the booke materially and of it selfe was not of any such vertue as I thought they did conceiue but onely the doctrine therein conteined yet would many be glad to touch it to embrace it to kisse it to holde it to their breastes and heads and stroke ouer all their body with it to shew their hungry desire of that knowledge which was spoken of The Wiroans with whom we dwelt called Wingina and many of his people would bee glad many times to be with vs at our Prayers and many times call vpon vs both in his owne towne as also in others whither hee sometimes accompanied vs to pray and sing Psalmes hoping thereby to be partaker of the same effects which we by that meanes also expected Twise this Wiroans was so grieuously sicke that he was like to die and as he lay languishing doubting of any helpe by his owne priestes and thinking hee was in such danger for offending vs and thereby our God sent for some of vs to pray and bee a meanes to our God that it would please him either that he might liue or after death dwell with him in blisse so likewise● were the requests of many others in the like case On a time also when their corne began to wither by reason of a d●ought which happened extraordinarily fearing that it had come to passe by reason that in some thing they had displeased vs many would come to vs and desire vs to pray to our God of England that he would preserue their Corne promising that when it was ripe we also should be partakers of the fruit There could at no time happen any strange sicknesse losses hurts or any other crosse vnto them but that they would impute to vs the cause or meanes thereof for offending or not pleasing vs. One other rare and strange accident leauing others wil I mention before I end which moued the whole Countrey that either knew or heard of vs ●o haue vs in wonderfull admiration There was no towne where wee had any subtile deuise practised against vs wee leauing it vnpunished or not reuenged because we sought by all meanes possible to win them by gentlenesse but that wi●hin a few dayes after our departure from euery such Towne the people began to die very fast and many in short space in some Townes about twentie in some fourtie and in one sixe score which in trueth was very many in respect of their numbers This happened in no place that we could learne but where we had bin where they vsed some practise against vs after such time The disease also was so strange that they neither knewe what it was nor how to cure it the like by report of the oldest men in the Countrey neuer happened before time out of minde A thing specially obserued by vs as also by the naturall inhabitants themselues Insomuch that when some of the inhabitants which were our friends and especially the Wiroans Wingina had obserued such effects in foure or fiue Townes to followe their wicked practises they were perswaded that it was the worke of our God through our meanes and that we by him might kill and slay whom we would without weapons and not come neere them And thereupon when it had happened that they had vnderstanding that any of their enemies had abused vs in our iou●neys hearing that we had wrought no reuenge with our weapons and fearing vpon some cause the matter should so rest did come and intreate vs that we would be a meanes to our God that they as others that had dealt ill with vs might in like sort die alleadging how much it would bee for our credite and profite as also theirs and hoping furthermore that we would doe so much at their requests in respect of the friendship we professed them Whose entreaties although wee shewed that they were vngodly affirming that our God would not subiect himselfe to any such prayers and requests of men that indeede all things haue bene and were to be done according to his good pleasure as he had ordeined and that we to shewe our selues his true seruants ought rather to make petition for the contrary that they with them might liue together with vs be made partakers of his trueth and serue him in righteousnesse but notwithstanding in such sort that wee referre that as all other things to bee done according to his diuine