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A51184	Remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan Containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples, and fortresses; their religions, laws, and customs; their prodigious vvealth, and gorgeous habits; the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers, and fountains: with the character of the ancient and modern Japanners. Collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus. English'd, and adorn'd with a hundred several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesties cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of the revels in the Kingdom of Ireland.; Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maatschappy in 't Vereenigde Nederland, aan de Kaiseren van Japan. English.	Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; United Provinces of the Netherlands.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2486A; ESTC R218646	565,250	480

condition was most miserable not knowing where they were which way to Steer or from what part of Heaven the Wind then blew As in Virgil Aene. lib. 3. After our Ships so far had left the Coast Till all the World but Sky and Sea was lost A sable Cloud with Night and Tempest rose And th' Ocean rough with horrid darkness grows Inraged Winds make raging Waves more fierce And through vast Floods us every way disperse Whil'st Fleeting Tempests muffle up the Day All Heaven becomes to Gloomy Night a prey Perpetual lightning breaks from broken Clouds Drove from our course we wander through Dark Floods Nor Palinurus knows in such a Sky Day from the Night or whither he should Ply Three Sun-less Days as many nights we were Wandring through dismal Fogs without a Star But the fourth Dawn we rising Land behold And far off Hills which misty Clouds infold Sails struck we row our lusty Seamen sweep The azure Pavement of the briny Deep Postquam altum tenuere rates nec jam amplius ullae Apparent terrae coelum undique undique Pontus Tum mihi caeruleus supra caput adstitit imber Noctem hiememque ferens inhorruit unda tenebris Continuo venti volvunt mare magnaque surgunt Aequora dispersi jactamur gurgite vasto Involvere diem nimbi nox humida coelum Abstulit ingeminant abruptis nubibus ignes Excutimur cursu caecis erramus in undis Ipse diem noctemque negat discernere coelo Nec meminisse viae media Palinurus in unda Treis adeo incertos caeca caligine Soles Erramus pelago totidem sine sidere noctes Quarto terra die primum se attollere tandem Visa aperire procul monteis ac volvere fumum Vela cadunt remis insurgimus haud mora nautae Adnixi torquent spumas caerula verrunt So that now by the help of the Needle our Modern Navigators often run safely that in ten days which Aeneas Ulisses and other Antients Navigators still fearing Shipwrack made a ten years pudder of And lately by the help of this great additional the Compass they were able to say By your leave taking a long farewell of Atlas and the Herculian Pillars fixed and looked upon as eternal boundaries of the West and South both to Empire and Navigation and boldly ventur'd to Plow the unmeasurable bosom of vast and unknown Seas so with a steady Course night and day dark or light fair or foul with an unwearied patience slighting all dangers raising new Stars and setting the old till they happily finish'd their long Voyages some of them compassing the World Girdling the Universe making the utmost East and West joyn hands together Thus they have in a manner accurately Surveigh'd the New World America inspecting it from Coast to Coast from the East to the Western Ocean and Magellanica the last or unknown World though they have not so penetrated as the former yet by Sailing the skirts of its extended Border they Calculated by the largeness thereof to be no less than another third part so baffling the opinion of the Antients with a finis that were so stupid to sit down contented with the onely knowledge of a third part of the whole world How Columbus came to the knowledge of a new World The first Neptunian Hero or great Sea-Captain who had the prime honour of discovering the West-Indies was Christopher Columbus a Genoese who having Marry'd in Portugal settled in the Maderas He being ingenious and naturally much addicted to Novelty still hearkening after new Projects as well to satisfie his own Inclination as to improve his Fortune by chance in his Travels fell acquainted with Marcus Paulus a Florentine not onely a Physician but a great Naturalist and Student in Philosophy who finding his humor highly treated his curious and inquisitive disposition with then suppos'd imaginary Stories first discovering to him Antipodes and making out by rational demonstrations that the great Celestial Luminaries where not idle nor hudwink'd up in their absence from us and our privation of light nor as the antient Poets tell us that Phoebus when setting descended into Thetis Lap so all night quenching his Horses fiery Fetlocks swimming under water till drawing near the East he with reflected Beams colour'd the Golden Port-holes of the Dawn But that these great and Resplendant Lights sprinkl'd and chear'd with fecundating Rays in alternate Day so blessing other places that were no less than inhabitable Worlds with happy fertility making evident that the Earth was not round and flat like a Trencher as other old Writers affirm'd but Orbicular and hung Self-poysed surrounded not onely with Air but the vast expansions of the Sky But whilest he ruminated and revolved such Notions in his Working Fancy so it hapned that a Vessel bound for Africa was driven quite from her intended Course by extremity of Weather and many days tossed up and down in the wide Ocean far out of sight from any Land and at last having spent all their Provision in a most miserable condition put in to the Haven of Madera where the Captain and his whole Crue being utterly Famish'd with long Fasting and past all recovery by Refreshment soon after dy'd But the Master whom Columbus had taken to his House in the time of his Sickness related unto him wonderful Stories how he had been driven on strange and altogether unknown Coasts being by his Calculation Westward and so far off that he suppos'd never any European had seen and withal bequeath'd to him after his Death his Journal Papers of that his so much unfortunate Voyage who soon after Dying Columbus with great earnestness perusing the Writings found what confirm'd him as if he had been there in Person and also gave him great Instructions of directing his Course to New Countreys not yet discovered After this he rested not long till he put in Action what might promote his Business that by the help of a better Purse than his own he might Purchase Wealth and Honor by this his new and great Design Proffers his Service to the King of Portugal and the King of England First he address'd himself to the King of Portugal whose Maritime Countrey being opposite to his intended Discoveries made him as he supposed fittest for the Undertaking who altogether declining it he sent his Brother Bartholomew Columbus into England there to make his Address and Negotiate with King Henry the Seventh concerning these Discoveries who famous for his great Abilities and Prudence he suppos'd the onely Prince in Christendom to imploy him in so great an Enterprise but such was his Misfortune that he was taken by Pirats and kept by them wanting Ransom a long time close Prisoner so that he came too late to the Court of England For during his Captivity his Brother Christopher Columbus made Application to Ferdinand and Izabel Kings of Castile and Aragon who then in very low condition turmoyl'd in a great War against the Granada Moors did not

hearken to his Proposals Thus Columbus and his Cause lay seven years quite neglected but when these Princes had by their several happy Victories subdu'd their Enemies he then in the beginning of the Peace and first halcyon after so long a Storm renew'd his Business and mov'd the Court of Spain once more The King and Queen then though low and their Treasure exhausted with the late Wars yet began to listen to him and at last were so much perswaded that they took up seventeen thousand Duckets upon Interest with which they Rigg'd and Furnish'd him out three handsom Vessels With which Columbus well satisfi'd set Sail Septemb. 1. Anno 1492. Columbus set Sail 1492. first directing his Course to the Canary-Isles from thence stood full West with a Trading Wind into the great Ocean where he soon after met with no ordinary Storms or Huricanes Winds blowing from all the Points of the Compass which sadly ruffled and shatter'd his Vessels next falling which Block prov'd to him worse than Aesop's Stork into continual Calms for there his Men growing sick and weary with lying so long at Sea Mutiny'd and despairing ever to see Land nothing would satisfie them but a speedy return to save their Lives whilst their Provisions lasted He thus put to it was inforc'd to promise them that if they discry'd not Land in three days he would perform their desire So it happen'd that at the appointed time they saw Westward near the Horizon sprinkling Clouds by which sign he overjoy'd bidding them be of good comfort and told them they should soon see Land which accordingly they did and soon after came to Anchor on the Coast of Florida where Landing Discovers Florida taking some short refreshment help'd by the Natives he took a survey of the neighboring Countrey and the adjacent Isles and whilst he barter'd Trifles for Gold and other rich Commodities he took possession of the Countrey by raising of a Fort in his Royal Masters name in which leaving forty eight Spaniards Commanded by Diego Arana Returns home he departed thence Fraighted with great Riches and ten of the Indians Soon after arriving in Spain he was receiv'd with great joy giving a good account to their Majesties of their success with which they were so well pleased that they furnish'd him out again then he discover'd the great Isles Hispaniola Discovers Hispaniola and Cuba and also Nombea De Dios and Panama and Cuba and the bottom of the great Bay of Mexico Thus Christopher Columbus finish'd fourteen years in several Expeditions discovering the West-Indies Americus Vesputius set forth by the King of Portugal to make a farther Discovery of the West-Indies Mean while the fame of these his grand enterprises stir'd up invited many other Sea-Captains to raise their Reputation and better their Fortune in like manner amongst which Americus Vesputius a Florentine was employ'd by Emanuel King of Portugal who making larger Inspections along the Continent got the denomination of those vast Territories the West-Indies now call'd America though Christopher Columbus was the first Discoverer Henry the Fourth Son to the King of Portugal discovers new Countreys But before we go on any farther with the business of Spain we shall give you a brief account of the Portuguese who mean while or rather before took up the Art of Navigation and became Sea-men following their new Discoveries to the South and Oriental parts of the World Their first Undertaker being the young Prince Henry Duke of Visco second Son to Henry the first King of Portugal the eldest being Heir Apparent and well provided by Patrimony and due Right of Succession to the Crown of Portugal after his Fathers decease the younger Brother being of a high and magnanimous Spirit was ambitious if so it might be the enjoying of his Native Land Birth-right had deny'd him to raise his Fortunes at Sea which who knew but might prove equivolent to his Brothers Kingdom and also encourag'd to Study the Art of Navigation by several Learn'd Persons who assur'd him by clear and many demonstrations that there was much Land that might prove of great concern altogether yet unknown and especially in the South beyond Maretania which could not be penetrated by Land by reason of the vast and unpassable Desarts and excessive heat but finding those Coasts by Navigation they might make a deeper inspection of the whole African Continent His first Voyage was beyond Mount Atlas Resolv'd upon this he put in action what with mature judgement he had design'd and getting all things ready furnishing some Ships for that purpose set Sail in the Year 1410 and Steering on was the first that sunk Mount Atlas lofty Crown under the Horizon being till that time the Terminary or Ne plus ultra of all Southern Navigation discovering beyond the Mount threescore Leagues off the Coast of Africa and so return'd but with mean success But not altogether daunted ten years after having replenish'd his stock design'd for such Adventures he fitted out another Fleet under the Command of Johannes Gonsalvez a good and expert Sea-man who first ventur'd to loose sight of Land and Sail into the Main Ocean where he though encountering many Storms prodigious Tempests cross Tides and unbridled Currents yet bore up couragiously and fighting his way through all Weathers and other Incumbrances reaching four hundred and twenty Leagues beyond Atlas where weary and over-power'd at last by such grand Opposers viz. Winds and Tides contented himself with the honour of so great a Discovery return'd These names they gave them at the first Discovery Thus this Prince in forty Years Discovering the Maderas the Isle Porto Sancto Cape de Verd and the Coast of Guinee and having the honour of opening the Bosom of the Southern Sea and making the Portuguese Navigators being of a great age he died in 1463. Alphonso the fifth discovers the African Coast After his Decease the whole business of Navigation fell and the Sea lay Fallow unploughed by the Portuguese twenty years when Alphonso the fifth King of Portugal taking hold of so well begun and long neglected a business the second time revived the Art of Navigation though much against the present humor of the People strenuously went on First Sailing beyond Cape de Verd finding the Island of St. Catherine and settled a constant Trade which came to a good account with the Negro's in Guinee He dying John the second succeeding him went on with the Work and set out Jaques Canus Discovers Congo a good Sea-Captain who first discover'd Congo and Sailing up a River penetrated much of the In-land thereabouts When stirr'd up much by the rumor of Christopher Columbus's Expedition employ'd by the King of Castile the fame being spread over all Christendom ambitious to match what Spain could do in the West with his Southern Expedition being so well prepar'd already by their former Voyages with great Cost and Care A Voyage of Bartholomew Diazio he