four Leagues without finding any Water at which our Companions were mightily astonished and deceived as well as those the day before For we had nothing at all to quench our Thirst amidst such excessive heat of the Sun As for me I had carried in my Pocket a Coco's or Palm-Nut full of Liquor which was no small help to me at this time and I believe without that I should had much ado to have returned Our Carpenter was forced to stay behind earnestly desiring me to tarry with him But it was not my intention to lie in these Desarts besides the Ship was to set Sail the next morning which gave me the more courage to return the same day After having thus rambled about and run from one side to the other at last we came under a great Tree where we sat down in the Shade to take our rest And as it is certain that there is no better Remedy to quench the Thirst than Sleeping all our Men who were a little harrassed and fatigued as much with Thirst as by the way and having run after the * A sort of Spanish Kid. Cabrettes fell presently a Sleep But I not being at all sleepy laid down upon my Back with my Face upwards to suck in the Air and upon this I espied a great Lizard full and very high the Tail very long and about the bigness of a Cat I Hunting of the Lizards presently rose up without awakening our Men and having taken a Pike I gave the branch of the Tree therewith such a blow that there tumbled down two of them which the Indians call Gouyana's I run after them Guyana's or Lizards trailing along my Pike which broke in two pieces and made such haste that I overtook one which was creeping under a Rock and I took it by the Tail plucking it with all my force but it being very strong stretched it self in such a manner against me having very long Paws that it saved its Body but the Tail remained in my Hands and was alive above three hours after continually moving As soon as our Men were awake I gave them an account of what had happened and made so many Courses about this Island that I caught two of these Lizards whereof I made very good chear for the Flesh thereof is pretty good I kept their Skins to carry away with me This Creature is of a very hard Life for after having taken and leaving them for Dead yet they from time to time come to move and start up so that carrying them in a Napkin I thought to let them fall every moment After we had reposed our selves a little under this Tree we took our way towards the other side of the Sea finding a little beaten Path which went towards these Cabrettes thinking that it was the way where they went to look for Water to Drink but after having gone about a League of this way we found in a flat ground a great place where these Cabrettes came to take their rest for the place was mightily beaten We saw there another Path which went from this place and hoping that it would lead us to some Water we found it brought us to the Sea-side where we saw some Sea-Water upon a Rock which was high and flat it made us glad thinking it had been fresh but tasting of it we found the contrary and that it was nothing but the Waves of the Sea which broke against this Rock where there always remains some little of it besides the Sun had Congeled it into Salt exceeding clear and pure Seeing then that we found no Water it behoved us tho' with great regret to take again the way to our Ship each one seeking the nearest he could for we went confusedly striving who might arrive first to quench his Thirst but the allowance we had was not sufficient not being more than a little Cupfull of Drink which was sower Citter with two parts Water but some had provided Liquor for themselves I arrived the third at the Ship and Bathed my Body in the Sea to refresh my self sopping also a little Bisket in the Sea to Eat and swallowing some Mouth-fulls thereof The rest of our Men were tarried behind and being come there with the Fleming and Scotchman we called the Boat But the Ship being above a League and a half from Land which was a great hinderance to us for the Boat would not carry us back without the others who were still far enough off and kept one another up by the Arms But at last I persuaded the Mariners to carry me on Board where as soon as I came I went to visit my Chest and my Bottle and remained full three days without being able to quench my Thirst The rest of our Men returned very late and were wonderful weary and fatigued But the poor Carpenter tarried behind to keep company with the Cabrettes Lizards and Parrots who were there in abundance and very beautiful Our General seeing that he was wanting said he would not part from the Road until he had News of him and sent Seamen all the Night with the Trumpet Adventures of the Carpenter to Sound all about the Island to call him but all to no purpose for he was far enough from thence The morning being come his Seamen was commanded to take a Shovel with other Mariners who knew pretty nigh the place where they had left him and went thus seeking about these Desarts for it is a flat Island having very few Trees At last they found him trailing along his Musket as well as he could for he was very Sick and being come to the Ship he was taken with a Fever accompanied with a Frenzie continuing 3 or 4 days and did nothing but cry out for Drink and it was almost impossible to satisfie him He told us afterwards how he had lain under a Tree quite full of Parrots which he could easily take with his Hand and that the Cabrettes came to smell upon him in the night time but that he never stirred from his Musket which he always kept close by him The moisture of the night had a little quenched his Thirst He was also forced to Drink his own Water Being parted from this Isle the first of June to go to the Margueritta as we were under Sail very late at night we descry'd two Ships coming full sail upon us We had sunk our Patache in this Desart Island We got the Wind a little upon them and being very near one to the other their Trumpets began to Sound and ours to answer them As we were prepared to receive them having put out our Cannons and ready to come to handy Strokes the Wind being very savourable for us and the night very dark they would not come on board without having first known who we were We got the Wind of them as much as we could and in the end during the dark and stormy night we escaped and made towards the Isle of Margueritta where we
had prepared my Dinner There I made the Seamen Drink so much that they had like to have overturned our Boat This Liquor was called Sura a sort of Wine made of Palms and I was mightily troubled to see these Ethiopians so puzzeled that they could scarce put up the Sails and in the mean time the Boat was full of Water One of the Wives of these Blacks tumbled into the Sea but I recovered her otherwise she had been Drowned These Men understood not one another they were so Drunk but as good fortune would have it the Mocadon or Guider of the Almadie was not so Drunk as the rest 'T was looked upon as a Miracle how we passed from Great Cabassiere to the little one where there was a thousand Nets Trees and Branches fixed all along the Coast to catch Fish withall Having then more happily than prudently passed as far as the Little Cabassiere we went on Shore to provide fresh Water but there was none but in a great Well where there was but little neither The Mariners were there making Provision of Water so that I could not have any till night The night being come and not knowing where to Lodge these Ethiopians led me to a place above a League and a half from thence but the People would not receive us so that we were forced to return to the Port by reason of bad Weather At last being arrived at the Port I laid me down in the Almadie covering my self with my Cloak where I endured the Rain all the night The next morning we hoised Sail and sailed directly upon the Banks from whence we had much ado to escape In the end being come off there from with a great deal of trouble and the Wind carrying us by force towards the Main-Sea which did us that favour as to bring us near to the Chapel of the Bullwork where being come I made a Vow never to trust my self with such Mariners again who made me run the greatest hazard I ever had in the whole Voyage I ordered my Water to be brought into my Cabin and prepared my self for the Embarkment to Goa Whilst I was in this place there White Prince of the Blacks came the Son of an Ethiopian King from a great distance in the Continent to see some of his Kindred His Father and Mother were black and he was white and fair He brought with him one of his Brothers who was black and some Slaves They came both into my Cabin telling me that having heard say there was white Men at Mosambique they came purposely to see them The Portugals made him a very good Reception to the end they might have Free-Traffick in his Fathers Country 'T was said his Mother had two other White Children but that his Father killed them saying they must needs be by some other Man and that as he came into the World with this colour his Father had determined to kill him also but one of his Friends persuaded him to the contrary by telling him that it was by Divine Permission and so was saved His Mother had possibly had these Men in her Imagination which were said to be at Mosambique or else had happened to her by some other Course of Imagination He was not in the least Tann'd or Burnt with the Sun and was about 20 years of Age and his Brother about 18. They visited me 2 or 3 times in my Cabin and I gave them to Eat and Drink of what I could have in the Country at which they seemed to be very well Content I remember that being at Lisbon I heard a Story of such a like thing History of a black Genoway which happened at Genoua not long before of which they made a Song in form of a Romance which I heard Sung in Portugal There was a rich Genoua who was Married to a very honest and virtuous Woman of one of the best Houses in Genoua who having conceived some displeasure upon the account of one of her Black Slaves which had been gotten with Child by another Negro Slave she imprinted that so deeply in her Imagination that being with Child her self she was brought to Bed of a black Child but the angry Father believing that she had dishonoured her self with some Negro was resolved to kill her but she fled away to her Friends Whereupon he gave charge to one of his Servants to go and leave the Child somewhere or to kill it But the Servant moved with Compassion besides the Mother had recommended it to him saved the Child and caused it to be brought up making the Husband believe he had made it away A little while after this Genoua fore vexed with Spite and Anger forsook Genoua and retired into Barbary resolving to turn Turk and live in Algier In the mean time the poor Disconsolate Mother took care to bring up this Child to years of Discretion and gave him Order to go seek his Father through the World for none knew what was become of him This young Black being upon the Sea was taken by Corsairs and carried to Argier to be sold where he was bought by his own Father but being troubled to see himself become a miserable Slave his Father asked him whence he was who learned of him the whole History of his Birth at which being astonished he acknowledged him for his Son and resolved to quit the Country and return with him to Genoua and to be reconciled to his Wife Wherefore having secretly provided for his departure resolved to embark all his choicest things and what he esteemed the most they departed one night out of Algier in a Boat but as ill fortune would have it they were taken by Corsairs by whom they were both cruelly Massacred Such end had the Adventure of this poor Black But to return again to our Embarkment at Mosambique The Weather of Muesson being come which is a Wind Muessons that comes at a certain Season of the year for there are but two sorts of Winds which raign in these Parts of India East and West Don Estevan Don Estevan de Tayde de Tayde Governor of Mosambique caused his Pangais to be made ready burthen 30 Tuns more or less and to be laden with Bretangis and Conterie Bretangis are a certain kind of Callico dyed blue and of a dark Violet Conterie are Beads of Glass or Amber as well good as counterfeit which is the Merchandize usual amongst these Ethiopians who in exchange give Gold Ambergreece Eliphants Teeth and other Things which these Countries of Couama produce and the Cape of Courante where these Pangais go Now Don Cristoval de Porogne alias Captain Mor seeing these Pangais ready to depart went with his Soldiers in Boats to take them and bring them to Anchor along by the Gallions of the Fleet which was near by The which Don Estevan perceiving from the Fortress was mightily offended at but not having Soldiers sufficient to go Succour and Recover his Pangais he commanded his
Jacob 's House From thence we passed through Deserts where was a great Number of Tents of the Arabs on each side and began to mend our pace for the great Fear we were in without resting or refreshing our selves at all and I was very angry with my Turk who would not give me time to eat a bit of Bread being very weak having set out a little after Midnight and made so much way and besides our evil Fortune was not to find the least drop of Water to drink When we had passed all these Habitations of Arabs we went to pitch along by a Rock where it was exceeding hot and there seeking for Water we found some though very little which was Rain-water kept there a long time We had a mind to taste of it but it was so bitter and stinking that it was impossible to swallow the least drop thereof tho' I formerly had drank that which had been very bad and fancied that the Lizards Serpents and other venomous Creatures which are there in abundance had come to drink and to plunge themselves therein Our Turks though they are exceeding dry and are rustical and rough in their manner of living could not drink the least drop thereof By good Fortune I had still a Pomegranate or two left of which I gave to every one a little bit to refresh their Mouths not daring to eat any thereof before them without giving them some tho' I had very great need of it my self But it behoved me so to do if I had a mind to live quietly my endeavour being to humour them as long as I was with them Thus passed we this troublesome Way as far as the Cistern of Joseph Cistern of Joseph where we drank some of the Water which is very good and fresh and filled also our Teronques therewith This Cistern is a little Place raised up where there is a Building in which live certain Arabs It is covered with a Cupolo sustained with Four Pillars of White Marble but at present there is but Three entire the other being broken Having drank enough we went on our way but these Arabs striving to force us to give them something for this Water my Turk ran to hinder them from taking my Bread which I had brought from Damascus where I was furnished with Provision for several Days but at last it behoved us to give them something And thus escaped we from their Hands passing along Valley of the Five Loaves by the Valley of the Five Loaves where our Lord wrought that famous Miracle From thence we came to the Sea of Tiberias the 18th of April Sea of Tiberias and found the Chec-Marabou who was going to Jerusalem to the Temple of Salomon accompanied with 4 or 5000 Persons of all sorts The Place where we were was then called Lameny there we pitched our Baggage hard by Lameny a Bush and in the mean time I went to bathe in this Sea to ease and refresh my self a little I found the Water thereof very sweet and still and excellent good to drink having a very soft Sand at the bottom The River of Jordan passes with a very swift course just through the middle without mixing it self therewith and from thence runs into the dead Sea near Jerusalem from whence it is plainly to be seen from Mount Olivet for it is in a Valley having the Land of Arabia very high and Desart on the other side as I saw from Mount Olivet This Place of Lameny hath Cafars but I met with none of them I there saw all these Marabouts Santons who dance before the Chec's Tent and it is a fine sight to see them perform their Ceremonies and Follies ranging themselves Strange Dancâ—s all into a Ring as in a Dance then clapping their Hands and crying Nila Nilala then bowing and heaving themselves up with a great force There was a Sanâ—oâ— that led them by Signs of his Hands Gestures and Motions like a Master of Musick and who was in the middle of the Dance following with his Face towards them It would be impossible to represent all the great Follies and silly Tricks which they shew in these Dances for there are some of them who going out of the Dance cast themselves all along upon the Ground then two of these Santon-Marabouts take him one by the Head and the other by the Feet and stretch him out as far as they can after that this Man pretends himself dead and makes as tho' he had great Convulsions and Tremblings shaking himself mightily two or three times then seems as if he gave up the Ghost the Marabouts seeing that he neither stirs nor takes his Breath look upon him as a dead Man he who is at the Head takes his Right Hand and puts it upon his Face then does as much to his Left and after that puts them upon his Belly he who is at the Feet plucks him very hard and the other holding him by the Head raises him upon his Feet whereupon presently this dead Man reviving runs to dancing with the others They employ themselves thus 4 or 5 at a time one after another going to this fine Sport As I was beholding these Fooleries there was a Moâ—â—ish Woman hard by me who seeing all this entred into such a Fransie that she fell to shaking and crying out like the rest so that they had much adoe to quiet her making as if she had been ravished into an Exâ—asie The Evening being come they all fall to their Sala or Prayers and light a great Number of Lamps before the Tent of the Chec-Marabou who is the Captain of the other Santons and Marabous placing before his Tent all the Standards where there is writ in Arabick Letters something of the Law of Mahomet Afterwards in the Morning when the Caravan comes to decamp all these Santons take every one one of these Ensigns and go singing before the Chec who is encompass'd about with these Standards then he mounts upon a fine Horse with some other Cavaliers that accompany him and march thus in great Ceremony before the Caravan As we thus parted from Lameny my Turk took me out of the way of the Chec telling me That in the way where the Chec was to pass there was abundance of Water which my Ass could not pass over He thus deceived me on purpose to make me pay the Cafars with whom I believe he participated We went over Mountains very high and almost inaccessible with no small trouble and there was also some Turkish Men and Women with us who had taken this way as the best At Night we arrived at Eonjar Eonjar which is a place some two Musquet-shot from Mount Tabor We thought Mount Tabor the Chec would have come there also but he came not that Day which those of the Campo seeing they caused us to enter into the Court for fear of the Arabs and there I accommodated my self in the middle with my Ass close by me
were deceiv'd as well by the Currents as the Cards we had with us which were false we finding but one which was sure for those Parts for instead of going to the Islands aforesaid we passed along by the Isle of Tobaco and Trinidad and cast Anchor at the White-Island where we could find no Water of which we were in great want 'T was no small Astonishment to me how such infinite Multitudes of Cabrits and wild Goats besides other Animals which are there could live without so much as a drop of Water But the Divine Providence has otherways order'd it as I have above-touched by the cool Nights and the Dew with which these Beasts refresh themselves From thence we went to Margurite Island but we found no more Water there than we did at the other and so to the Mouth of the River of Cumana where the People of a Dutch Ship had told us we should find some as we did at the entrance of the River This shews the Necessity of having good Cards and well rectified But to return to the Three Continents or firm Lands from the which all the Earth is separated by Waters The first was by the Ancients divided into Three Parts to wit Europe Asia and Africa all joining together The second unknown to the Ancients and discover'd in our Days by Christopher Columbus in the Year 1492 and by Americus Vespusius 1495 is America which for its vast Extent is divided into Two Parts Peru and Mexico The Third is Terra-Australis or Magâ—llanique thus called because of Ferdinand Mâ—gâ—llan who first found it out in the Year 1519. 'T is suppos'd to be very great but for the most part uninhabited and desart 'T is also called Terradâ—l Fuâ—go for the great quantity of Fire there seen the which renders it infertile and uninhabited there being several Mines of Sulphur which cause those Fires as I saw in going to the East-Indies for passing by the Isles of Cape-Verd there is one of them called Fuâ—go because of the Fire there continually seen and is very high One Night we sailed round about her and seeing the Flames in great abundance coming out of the Earth in all parts we were not a little surpriz'd and the next Day passing along by this same Island with a very boisterous Wind and approaching somewhat nigh the Wind drove the sulphurous Vapours just into our Europe Faces which were very unsupportable and stinking Europe the first of the Three Continents is the least in extent and for her Fertility gives not place to the others but for Arms Laws Policy Relâ—gion Sciences Arts and all sorts of Vertues she surpasses them by far And of the Provinces of Europe France alone is the Principal according to the Judgment of the Nations her Enemies whether you consider the Goodness Fertility and Beauty of her Lands the Excellency and temperature of the Air Salubrity and Abundance of her Waters and Number of Inhabitants or in regard of the Manners of her People their Piety Valour Erudition Justice Discipline Liberality Freeness Courtesie Liberty and all other Qualities Military and Civil In short the Renown of the French has been such by their Conquest in the East that their Name remains there for an Eternal Memory So that to this Day throughout all Asia and Africa they call all those who come from Europe by the Name of Franghi let them be of what Country soever The Fertility of France is such that she furnisheth abundantly Spain Portugal Italy and Barbary not only with Corn but several other Commodities and I verily think that every Year there goes from Provence Languedoc Bretagne Poitou Xaintoign and Normandy above Six thousand Ships laden with Corn and other Merchandise To Lisbon only there comes above a Thousand as well great as small And I believe that the Spaniards and Portugueses could not furnish Corn for so many Voyages were they not supplied therewith from France to make Biscuit besides Sails Cordage Salt Flesh and other necessary things to furnish their Ships The Principal Provinces of Europe are France Spain Germany High and Low Italy Sclavonia Greece Hungary Poland Danemark Sweden Muscovy and the Isles of England Scotland Ireland Island Groneland Sicilia Candia Malta Sardania Corse Corfu Majorica Minorica and others of the Archipelago Asia the second Part of our first Asia Continent is of very great Extent Riches and Fertility and ever very Renowned for having born the greatest Monarchies and first Empires as of the Assyrians Babylonians Persians Greeks Parthians Bactrians Indians and others and at this Day the Turks Persians Arabians Tartars Mogols Chineses and other Indians But above all this Part is the most esteemed for the Creation of the first Man planted in the Terrestrial Paradice Colonies and People coming from thence and dispersed through the rest of the World and moreover for the Redemption of Mankind and the Operation of our Salvation acted therein besides for having given Religion Science Arts Laws Policy Arms and Artifices to all the other Parts In short for its inestimable Riches the Wisdom and Dexterity of its Inhabitants Her most celebrated Provinces are the Countries of the Great Tâ—rk of Persia the Great Mâ—gul the â—rand Tâ—rtar Arabia China Indâ—storn of the Eâ—st-Indies Gâ—zarat Cambaya Malâ—bar Coromandel Bengall Pegu Stam and the rest of the Iâ—dâ—es on this and the other side the Ganges The Isles are innumerable as Zâ—ilan Sumatra the Java's Molucco's Philipians Japan Maldaves and others The last Part of this first Continent is Africa separated from Europe Africa by the Mediterranean-Sea and from Asia by the Isthmus of Egypt and the Red-Sea making as it were a Peninsula encompass'd on all sides by the Sea save by this Neck of Land which is betwixt Egypt and Palestine It s principal Provinces are Egypt Barbary Fez and Morocco Aethiopia or Abyssine Nubia Lybia Guinia Congo Monomotapa and others of the South This Part is very good and fertile in some Places but it contains several great and sandy Desarts without Water That part of Africa unknown to the Ancients and discover'd by the Portuguese about the Year 1497. is called by the Arabians Zanzibar and extends from the Lakes where the Nile takes its Original to the Cape of Good-hope containing several good Countries bordering upon Monomotapa as amongst others Cefala and Cuama from whence is gotten great quantity of fine Gold insomuch that it has been the Opinion of several That those Countries of Cefala and Cnama was the Ophir where Solomon sent to fetch Gold tho' others think 't was rather Malaca and other Places of the East-Indies and some will have it to be Peru in the West The last Continent of the World is that Part which we call America America and which as I have said is divided into Two Principal Parts Mexico in the North and Peru in the South separated by the Isthmus of Banama There are several Provinces and People of different Languages Manners and Fashions The greatest City
The Form of the Lybian's Fighting when they Encounter A Description of the following Cutts The Third The Moors of Lybia go thus about the Desarts with their Camels The Fourth How the Lybian Women go along by the Sea-side to look for Fish and Ostrich Eggs to Eat THE TRAVELS AND VOYAGES OF John Mocquet INTO THE WEST-INDIES As also In the River of the Amazons The Country of the Caripous and Caribes and other Nations and Isles of the West BOOK II. AFter my return from Africa I continued for sometime in France and knowing that the Sieur de la Ravardiere was going away for the West-Indies I had a wonderful desire to see those Countries And for this cause I Embarking 〈◊〉 the VVest-Indies entered my self with the Sieur and embarked in his Ship in the Haven of Concale the 12th of Jan. 1604. We went to Choâ—e which is an Isle five Leagues from Concale there to wait for weather for us to put to Sea We tarried there till the 24th of the same month not without having suffered by great Winds which gave us no small trouble besides the loss of our Boat but we soon bought another and at last set Sail bearing South East and in a little time we passed the Channel And forasmuch as our Ship was new not having as yet been proved in the Sea we were forced to suffer her to take her Course not being able to bear up Sails for she veer'd after such a manner her Top-Mast being high that she was continually with one side upon the Water which was a great inconvenience Nevertheless putting our trust in God we procâ—â—ded on and at the height of the Cape de Finibus Terrae we found a Ship and made full sail upon her to 〈…〉 know what she was Coming close up to and being prepared to attack her and they also provided to receive us we found out that it was a French Ship the Captain of which came upon the Poop well armed with his Sword in his Hand crying out to us to Steer Leeward or else he would fire at us but we contesting a little thereupon that we might find out and know of what part of France he might be After having well considered him and known him for a right French Man we came up Leewards of him of which he was not a little Proud thinking that we had been a Man of War and durst not assault him for he made signs with his Sword upon the Poop that we had done well to come up so But our design was not to make War upon our Nation besides that might have been enough to have broken our Voyage Holding then our Course we had so favourable a Wind that we came near to the Isle of Lancelot the 6th of February upon which day one of our Men fell over-board into the Sea and A Disaster it was impossible to save him because we had a right Wind. We presently tack'd about upon him but coming to the place where he fell we found nothing but his Breeches All things that belong'd to him were presently put to Sale upon the Deck and every one Bought what he had occasion for as Coats Linnen and other Things with which he was very well furnished For he was of the Rank of the Nobility and was named Duvall of Vire in Normandy This done we steered our Course towards the Coast of Barbary and the Coast of Barbary next day the 11th of the same month we arrived near the Land to find out a Port and cast Anchor in a Creek or Bay putting out our Boat to go on shore But coming there we found nothing but Desarts without any thing else insomuch that we returned again on Board the Ship to weigh Anchor and to look out some other place more proper to stay in and to fit up our Patache scowring along this Coast all the rest of that day and the night following Presently after we found out the Mouth of the River Rio Del Oro Rio del Oro. where we sent our Boat to Sound the depth of it and to see if we might enter in so far as a little Island of flat Sand which those in the Boat had perceived They found but 12 Foot of Water and our Ship drew already as many so that the Keel touched Ground but we had no harm because the River was Calm Coming then to this Island within the River of Rio del Oro about five Leagues within from the Mouth which is not taken notice of in the Map We named the same Touch Island after Touch-Island the Sirname of our Commander the Sieur de la Ravardiere where we cast Anchor to tarry for some time And the 15th of February we began to fit up our Patache which was ready in our Ship and only wanted Mounting and Chaulking During this time we went daily to look for Shells the finest in the world and seemed as if they were enamel'd with Gold As I put some of them into my Handkerchief the Poison within which was like little Snails stained it into a Purple colour and Sea Purple perhaps it might be the same Espece de Murex so celebrated by the Antients and unknown at this time We gathered a great quantity of them for their Beauty We caught also with our Nets as much Fish as we could well find use for This Island was full of Cormorants Cormorants and their watch of which we killed a great number with our Harquebus shot Of these Birds there is always one that watches when the others take their rest as 't is said of the Cranes We had much ado to come near them and were forced to creep along the Ground to take them But after they began to be a little frighted with the Harquebusses they came no more as before We tarried near a month in this place without seeing any Man but about five or six days before our departure we perceived a Smoak in the Country about three Leagues from us which made us conjecture that there were some Lybians and Blacks Blacks of Lybia come there because towards the Coast the Desarts of Lybia begin These Blacks were come a great way out of the Country to look towards the â—oast to see if there was any Ship to Traffick for Ambergreece and carried their Water in Goat-Skins cut out for that purpose In the night time they creep into the Sand to Sleep for fear of being smelt out by the Lions and Tygers who are there in abundance It might be properly said that these Men came out of Hell they were so burnt and dreadful to look upon We sent then our Boat to know the cause of these Fires seen in the Country and found three of these Lybians of which 2 came on board our Ship and one of them told me that he was the Kinsman of Taquide Alforme of Cape Blanc of whom I enquir'd news forasmuch as having heard of him in my former Voyage towards Cape Blanc
against their Enemies he made made a hole in the Ground pronouncing some certain Words and then came something up with a horrible thundering noise which spake to him and instructed him giving him notice what their Enemies were doing at that time And indeed when Camaria and his Brother Yago came on board our Ship they told us that they knew very well that their Enemy Anacajoury King of the Caripous was preparing himself to come to attack them that which he could not have known so readily but by such means But to return to the Caripou-Yapoco of whom I have spoken before that Yapoco Camaria King of the Caribes had instantly desired me being at his Habiration to order the business so with our General that he might have him in his power to Eat him in Revenge of the mischief that his Uncle Anacajoury had done them before VVhen I was returned back to our Ship I spoke to the General about it who told me that I did very well to promise but he would take care to avoid such VVickedness Thus Camaria was promised to have Yapoco given him of which he was mighty Joyful and sent about all his Country to all his Friends and Confederates that they should prepare themselves to come to this Feast The next morning hoising our Sails and weighing Anchor to go away presently comes Camaria with a great many Indians to have Yapoco who being refused him in good earnest went away so affronted and vexed that I had not a mind to return to be his Guest for I believe they would have done the same to me they designed to do to the poor Yapoco This Camaria had but one Eye and was mighty Crafty and Treacherous As for Yapoira the Brother of Atoupa the Caribe who had tarried all night in our Ship as I have said before Atoupa did all that ever he could to persuade us to let go his Brother but seeing he could not obtain that of our General he said that he would also willingly go with us into France and that he would either kill or drown himself rather than leave him The General told him that he was content and that he should come betimes in the morning and whilst he was in such a good Humour This being thus resolved upon as soon as we began to set sail we saw the Mother of these two Caribes who came towards us in a Cannoe crying and howling after the most pittiful manner that could be imagined She brought along with her the Bow and Arrows the Paintings and the Amica of Yapoira which is all their Wealth Yapoira was mighty sorry to see his Mother keep such a mourning for him and desired our General to give her a Hatchet to appease her a little which was done yet she returned again thus Disconsolate After that we set sail the 18th of Departure from the Country of the Caribes May and passed by a little Island very pleasant near to the Coast of the Caribes holding our Course to go to the Isle of Santea-Lucia but we Santa-Lucia were deceived by the Currents which come from the South-East having made according to the Estimation of our Pilot in one night above seventy Leagues without scarce any Wind. We went to touch at the Isle of Tabuco which remained Northwards of us Tabaco Isle Then leaving the Isle de-la-Trinadad towards the South we discovered Isle de la Trinadad the Testigues of the Isle Blanche which Blanche-Isle are 5 or 6 Peninsula's very near to one another and passed through the middle of them then seeing Land of some places above We were a long time considering if it was Land or thick Clouds because it was very low and thereupon several Wagers were laid whether it was Land or not At last bearing directly towards it we found out that it was really Land but unknown to us since deceived by the Currents As we approached it we saw Animals running in great Companies Wild-Goats along the Coast Some of us not knowing what they were said at first they were Bands or Cavalliers but these Cavalliers proved to be Wild-Goats of which this Isle is full Taking down then our Sails very low we went as near to this Island as we could our Patache going continually before to discover if there were any Rocks as indeed we had gone directly upon one had not the Patache given us notice thereof with a signal at the end of a Pike and took the way that she shewed us leaving this Rock about a little Stones cast off us It was not covered with above a Foot or two of Water so that we going so swift with a light Gale of Wind had without doubt split and been all lost in such a place without help or succour and besides it being in the night but God by his mercy preserved us there from and being there was not much clear Water to be seen we could not find the bottom to Anchor but at last we found but 30 Fathoms of Water where we cast Anchor for this night The next morning the 29th of May Voyage into the Isle we caused our Boat to be Equipped to go on Shore and to seek some Water Our Men after Breakfast went thus away with their Muskets and Pikes without the least drop of Water along with them but they payed dear for it For after having gone a good way up into this Island with the heat of the Sun and running after the Goats they were so wonderful dry and thirsty that they thought they should all have Died for want of a little Water and returning again with great Trouble and Fatigue they were forced to carry the weakest upon their Shoulders They brought along with them a great many Pelicans and coming confusedly one after another very weak and discomforted and not minding any thing but Drinking and then our General 's Brother of Friendship coming on board our Ship said aloud that they looked for Pearls but he had rather have a Barrel of Water than of Pearls for the great Thirst that he had endured with the rest The next morning we went sixteen The Author visites the Isle Men to discover the other side of the Island and if there was any Water and coming on Land we saw before us a great number of Wild-goats who came running along the Sea side and began to enter into a Valley where we with Harquebuss and Musket killed five or six upon the place These Creatures not being used to be Hunted after this manner made a horrible noise and bellowing and though they were Shot quit through the Body yet they did not fall for that but fled away with a light pace We left there a Man to order these we had killed I never thought then to look for the Besoart-Stone which these Besoart-Stone Beasts carry in their Ventricle but to follow the others about this Isle to find out Water and some curious Things We went thus three or
arrived the next day towards the Evening and cast Marguerite Island Anchor near to a little Habitation on the East-side Then we sent our Boat on Land with Arms to discover the place They found Fire still in the Houses but no Body within all being fled into the Woods at the sight of us We found a Cannoe which came from Fishing of Pearls not having any thing in it but Shells The Master's Mate was sent to a rising Ground in the Island to see if he could discover any thing He espied 3 or 4 Blacks who run away into the * Thorn-Bushes as soon as they saw him and it was impossible to find 〈◊〉 them out tho' very diligent search was made We had a great mind to take some one of the Islanders to shew us the place where they Fish for Pearls which is in certain places along by the Isle but it was impossible to find any one of them The third of June in the night time we had so violent a Tempest that our Ship was in danger to have run aground but leaving an Anchor in the Sea to save the Ship we were preserved from this imminent danger The fourth day of the same month seeing we could not find any sweet Water we weighed our Anchors and bore towards Cumana and arriving 2 or 3 Leagues on this side we perceiv'd Cumana a Fleming Ship in a Bay or Gulf lading with Bay-Salt which is there in abundance We cast Anchor on the Starboard-side of her and put out our Boat into the Sea to Board them and so to ask them where we might find some fresh Water After having saluted us with their Cannon they told us that bearing towards the River of Cumana we should find some and that we should by the way meet their Shalop which they had sent there which we did accordingly but the Men therein would come near us by no means they were so afraid needlesly We continued our Course towards Cumana where coming near the River Extream Thirst we espied along the Coast two Ships at Anchor not knowing what they should be Nevertheless we proceeded on for it was necessary to have Water and could not live without Drinking We found that of these two Ships the â—encounter with the English one was a Fleming and the other English The Fleming Traffick'd there underhand with those of Cumana where the Spaniards are And the English Patache came there to seek some fresh Water for their Admiral whom she had left along by the Margueritta 〈◊〉 After several Guns for Salutation the English came on Board our Ship Feasting our English Pilot and 5 or 6 others of their Countrymen which we had in our Ship Our Trumpeter shewed me their Strange History of â—n English 〈◊〉 Pilot and told me that he some years before being in an English Vessel as they were upon the Coasts of the West-Indies towards St. John de Love the first place of the Indies to go to Mexico where the Spaniards are then their Sworn Enemies a great Storm overtook them which cast them upon the Coast where they were all lost except this Pilot who saved himself by Swiming to Land carrying with him a little Sea-Compass and went thus wandring about to return by Land to the Newfound Countries Upon that he had found an Indian-Woman of whom he was Enamoured making her fine Promises by Signs that he would Marry her which she believed and conducted him through these Desarts where she shewed him the Fruit and Roots good to Eat and served him for an Interpreter amongst the Indians which he found she telling them that it was her Husband After having been thus 2 or 3 years continually wandering about and that for above 800 Leagues without any other Comfort but this Woman At last they arrived at the Newfoundland guiding himself by his Compass They had a Child together and found there an English Ship a Fishing He was very glad to see himself escaped from so many Dangers and gave these English an account of all hiâ— Adventures They took him on Board their Vessel to make him good chear but being ashamed to take along with him this Indian-Woman thus Naked he left her on Land without regarding her any more But she seeing her self thus forsaken by him whom she had so dearly Loved and for whose sake she had abandonned her Country and Friends and had so well guided and accompanied him through such places where he would without her have been dead a thousand times After having made some Lamentation Strange and Cruel Acts of an 〈…〉 full of Rage and Anger she took her Child and tearing it into two pieces she cast the one half towards him into the Sea as if she would say that belonged to him and was his part of it and the other she carried away with her returning back to the Mercy of Fortune and full of Mourning and Discontent The Seamen who took this Pilot into their Boat seeing this horrible and cruel Spectacle asked him why he had left this Woman but he pretended she was a Savage and that he did not now heed her which was an extream Ingratitude and Wickedness in him Hearing this I could not look upon him but always with Horrour and great Detestation After then that we had Feasted one another the English Convoyed Water found us to get some Water All the night long I went to Drink in full Streams to compense the former Thirst I endur'd filling the empty Vessels of my Chest for the time to come In the morning before we set Sail two Spaniards with an Indian-Woman came from Cumana on Board to exchange Pearls with some of our Merchandize but we had nothing fit for them We weighed then our Anchors and took our Course the 5th of June and repassing along by the Isle of Margueritta and the White Island we went to get out of the Channel by the Virginies But having Virginia seen there a great Ship at Anchor we could not imagine what she should be whether English or Spanish we passed close by her without perceiving any one upon the Deck And bearing a little further we perceived a great Ship in form of a Galley coming full sail upon us We kept our selves to the Wind as much as we could nevertheless we were prepared to receive them but the night coming on when they were near us and at such time when we thought to come to handy-Blows this great Ship that we had left at Anchor made a Fire on Land which made them leave of Chasing us We bore all night along by Portorico and Portorico the next day at night the 12th of July passed all the Island We saw our selves at break of day out of the Channel and very joyful that we were in the Main-Sea holding our Course about the height of the Isle of Bermuda We had tarried a long time without making any way because Bermude-Isle of the Calms And visiting our
look for so far and besides there is but little to be found the Weather being so excessive hot for all their Matamores were dried up at that time Having a little refreshed our selves we went to rejoyn the Camp of the Almahalle and pitched our Tents near the River Tensif a little days Journey from Morocco We met a great Tensif â—iver many Arabians all on Horseback with their Launces who came about us to Salute their General Abdassis and others of their Friends who were in our Company I saw them again come with great Humility to Kiss the Hands of this their Chief Abdassis as before There we quenched our Thirst a little with this Water though it was very hot All the Land in these Countries is various some part good and others bad but for the most part Incultivated except that which is near some Water which they Till This River Tensif Breeds the most excellent Trouts of any in the World being very little and their Flesh red but of an excellent Taste and are mightily esteemed at Morocco The next morning going a little Morocco further we discovered Morocco in a great Campagne and this City seems to be situated near to Mount Atlas Mountain Atlas though it is above 7 Leagues distant VVe found by the way some Christians who came about us These are People that Traffick there and when they hear that any other Christians come with the Casile they are very glad and meet them by the way They bring with them a little Mule laden with Victuals Now the most part of the Christians of this Casile were English Prisoners with Irons upon their Feet and had been English Prisoners at Morocco Arrested at Saffy upon the account of an Alcayde named Abdelacinthe who was a Portuguese by Nation but a Renegado And for his Capacity and VVorth he had given him the Command of the Casile who returned from Morocco to Saffy with about 500 Soldiers under his Charge Now it happened by chance that Abdelacinthe and 〈…〉 to him Antonio de Soldaigne and Petro Caesar Portuguese Gentlemen had been both taken at Tangier in Africa and brought to Morocco and being there detained Captives 13 or 14 years until such time that they were Released by the Sieur de l' Isle a Physitian and at that time Agent there for King Henry the Great As these two Portugueses were returning in liberty this Alcayde Abdelacinthe had Negotiated with them to save himself in their Vessel wherein they were to Embark For this cause he went to Pitch his Almahalle towards the place where they come to take Water for the Ships near to the Cape of Cantin and being Cape of Cantin there one night he told his Men that he had caused a Moorish-Woman to be brought him with whom he desired to speak in Secret a good way off from the Camp and took none along with him but a Slave of his When he was near to the Sea-side he fired a Fuzee which was the signal that he had given to those of the Ship As soon as they heard this presently the People of Boat who were hid in the Bushes came to seize upon his Person and took him and carried him away in their Vessel by which means he saved himself The Slave fled to the Almahalle to give them notice of the taking of his Master at which they were mightily astonished and presently retired to Saffy But as the People of an English Boat at the same time were come on Shore for some things they had then occasion for they were Arrested and had Irons clapt upon their Feet as I saw them in the Castle of Saffy in very poor Equipage and were since carried to Morocco where the Merchants paid for them I don't know how many Ounces of Gold which was very near the Ransom of the Alcayde Abdalacinthe who had escap'd For those Kings will not loose any thing it being the Custom at Marocco that when a Slave runs away all the others assemble together and pay for him cautioning one another to go freely about Cautioning of the Slaves at Morocco the City without Irons which is meant of the poorer sort But as for the Rich they are put into the Sisane which is the Kings great Prison Sisane where they are well guarded as these two Portuguese Gentlemen vvere of vvhom I have already spoken To return to the Christians of Morocco who met us by the way they made us very good chear in a Garden along by a pleasant Water running some two Leagues from Morocco The Almahalle entered not into Arrival at Morocco Morocco this day but I left it where it was pitched and went to lie within the City in the House of the Christians paying for my entrance to the Talbe or Register This was the 2d of September 1606. As soon as I was arrived I failed not to go visit the Sieur de l'Isle Physitian who was lodged in a very fine House in the Juderie or Jews-Place The Sieur de l'Isle was a long time near to the Person of the King of Morocco in Quality of an Agent for our King Henry the Great And there had been since sent the Sieur Hubert the King's Physitian in the room of the Sieur de l'Isle Then both went into France but since that the said Sieur de l'Isle returned there again The Sieur Hubert lived about a year at Morocco practising Physick near the King and there following his principal design that is the Learning the Arabick Tongue so that since he rendered himself very expert therein as he hath made publick Profession thereof at Paris it self with great Solemnity He contented himself to depart out of this Country more laden with Science and Arabick Books than with Riches or any Commodities in which the Sieur de l'Isle was more happy than he Being then in the Juderie I was there conducted by a Jew who Cozened me of some Rials giving me falsly to understand that I was to pay some at the Door of this place where we were to enter and indeed he brought one who came to demand it and I was forced to Content them This Juderie or Jews-Place is above Juderie of Morocco a good League from the Douane where the Christians inhabit and near the King's Palace and is like a City by it self encompassed with good Walls having but one Gate guarded by the Moors It may be as big as Meaux There the Jews inhabit to the number of above 4000 and pay Tribute There is also some Christians And in this place also live the Agents and Ambassadors of strange Princes As for the rest of the Christians Trafficking and others they live in the Douane The City of Morocco is very great Desâ—â—iâ—tion of the City of Morocco and is much bigger than that at Paris which is called the City being wonderful populous containing above 400000 Inhabitants of all sorts of Religions and such Streets that for the great multitude
great abundance of moisture which is necessary for the greatness of the Fruit it bears and the quantity of Esura or Wine which this Fruit renders Of the Nut of this Palm-Tree so celebrated in the Indies they draw abundance of Meat and Drink There aâ—â— plenty of these Coco's or Maldives but amongst others they remark one sort thereof which comes from the bottom of the Sea the Fruit is bigger than the common Palm 't is also very dear amongst the Portugals who suppose it to have a great Virtue for the Disease of the Lungs and for the Astmatiques or Shortness of Breath and against Poison The Nut thereof is very great long and black in form of a Gondale The Tree that bears this Fruit is not to be seen growing at the bottom of the Sea but when the Sea is agitated the Fruit is born from the bottom to the top and is found upon the Shore I come now to my return when the Senior Andre Furtado de Mondoso returning to Portugal sent for me to go with him We parted then from the Bar of Goa the 2d of Jan. 1610. Being Embark'd in a Ship called Nostra Segniora di Beigna di Francia which was very heavily laden and cumbered insomuch that 't was no small confusion to be there Andre Furtado was very sick when he Embark'd At last we set sail with a great deal of trouble because the Ship had Cinnamon almost as far as the middle of the Mast every day taking care to put by so much out of the way The 16th of January we saw the Desarts of Arabia and sailed with a very good Wind as far as the Land of Crimbe or Country of the Abassins and passed along by the Coast the 9th of Feb. But the 11th we feared to be lost by a contrary Wind the Ship beating upon the Sea and drawing in much Water The Senior Andre Furtado sick as he was seeing this extremity got upon the Deck to order the Ship to be lightned and pumped and about 300 Black Slaves with some Mariners were 3 days and nights and had much ado to empty it The 15th of Feb. we saw the Isle of St. Lawrence mightily covered with Fog and bearing about to pass the Cape of Good-Hope with a favourable Gale of Wind we passed it the 16th of March. Being at the height of the Isle of St. Helens we were in great doubt whether we should go on Shore to take there some fresh Water and the Passengers and Mariners disputed stifly against the Master and Pilot but they put it all to the Sieur Andre Furtado who was then mortally Sick and who said that he had no Orders from the King of Spain to go to the said Isle except it was in case of great necessity and that he feared to find there some Enemies who might give them trouble it being the place where they commonly came Thereupon he commanded a review to be taken of the fresh Water that remained to know if it would hold out for every one to have half a Pint a day for 4 Months for we reckoned we had so long to sail This enquiry exactly made 't was found within a very small matter of this measure so that we made the best of our way the Wind being favourable We could not persuade Senior Andre Furtado tho he was sick to repoâ—e himself in this little Isle of St. Helen so that in the end this poor Gentleman being weakened and overcome with sickness died the first of April His Body was Embalmed that it might be carried to Portugal for in the Ships there is never want of Camfre Benjoin and Aromatical Things for that purpose There was a Portugal Barber who knew only how to Shave and let Blood and having a mind to make Balm in causing the Benjoin to be melted and to fill the Body therewith I releived him from this trouble and apparent Error and made him acknowledge his Fault and so having Embalmed the Body and put it in a Coffin It was laid up in the Guard-Robe of the Chamber with a lighted Lamp by it and we carried it without any smell or inconveniency as far as Lisbon We passed close by the Isles of the Aâ—ores and along by them were great debates betwixt those of the Ship some were resolved to go on shore by force which the Captain the Master and Pilot would by no means yeild too This came all from the passenger Souldiers who came to dispatch their business in Portugal for Recompence of their Services in the Indies For then the King gives them some Captain-ships of Fortresses in the Indies But the Captain caused some of the most Mutinous to come before him for they were ready to lay hold upon their Arms and made no small stir and ado thinking themselves still in the Indies but he soon made them to know their duty and persuing our course with a very good wind we arrived at Cuscais the 2d of July and the next day I went on shore leaving all my things on Board which were there above a Month without being able to get them out there being Guards which stole them all away At the Months end the Kings Duty being paid the small things were brought on Shore and there was several who found their Chests fast shut but nothing within them I was one of those also but it was small loss to me not having brought back any thing of value from those Countries where I had nothing but bad fortune and was very well content that I was safely returned tho I was not a little indisposed in my person because of these salt and spiced waters which I had then been forc'd to drink till they so heated my Stomack that my mouth cast out burning Vapours and I could scaree quench my thirst At length being restored to my health by cooling remedies and seeing my self strong enough to reassume the way to my dear native Country where I had a great desire to see my self again after so many satigues and dangers I embarked the 17th of August in a Ship belonging to one Picare Simon of Rochelle and in our Company was another Ship called also the Dauphin of Rochelle But being in the Sea we were so beaten with Storms that the Dauphin mightily desired us to keep by them but one Night in a very great Storm her Sails split and tore to pieces they were forced to bend their main Top Sail in stead of their main Sail insomuch that in the Morning we saw her at above 3 Leagues of us and had put abroad their Ensign to cause us to come up to her which we did as soon as might be and coming near her we saw them crying out for Misericorde or mercy for they were sinking We boarded them at the Poop and they saved themselves who could in our Ship it was a great pity to see them in this extremity I saved one of them along by the side who fell from the Stern of our Ship
of November to the 8th of January until his Shop was finished From thence I went to walk in the Fields to take the fresh Air because of the great Filth of this City of Seville which causes there a very bad Air which is pursued by a great Number of Diseases As I was traversing on Foot some Mountains to observe the Nature of Trees I met with an honest Cavalier named Pedro Sancha as I knew since who courteously invited me to come and lodge at his House in a little City called Corea or Coria not far from thence which I could not well refuse He entertained me very kindly and I stayed there till the next Day then I reassumed my way to the Mountains where I was for some Days taking notice of the Plants and found store of Rosemary and a great quantity of Mastick-Trees with which the Country is mighty abounding amongst others I gathered some Thistles called Chameleonis-Ally some Flowers of Narcissus and some Mandrake-Apples which they call Sâ—bollas de Villana After that when I saw that I had but bad Entertainment in these Desarts where most commonly I found nothing but Water and some Raisins to eat and sometimes a little Bread in the Shepherd's Cabins I returned towards Corea and visited my honest Host the Sieur Pedro Sanche who was very glad to see me and made very much of me He afterwards came to see me at Seville to have the Interpretation of some Receipts which had been given him for his Wife who was with Child From thence I returned to Seville where the Sieur Juan Sanche the Apothecary would have perswaded me to tarry with him but I had my Voyage of the Indies so in my Head that I had no mind to tarry there but took my way streight to St. Luear and sailed along the River with a great many other Persons for Company in a Boat We arrived in the Night-time at St. Lucar and I went to lodge with my former Host who was called Bastanuil Biscain I continued there for some Days to wait for an Occasion to embark But my bad Fortune would have it so that the Vessels which were then in the Port durst not venture out because they had Advice that from Argier and other Places of Barbary were put out to Sea near Fifty Vessels who guarded the Coasts and were separated 10 15 and 20 Ships towards each Height and Cape where they thought they were to pass so that they took all they could meet with Seeing my self thus retained and without much Commodities to live by having already spent the most part of what I had I was constrained in expectation of better Conveniency to place my self with an Apothecary of St. Lucar who made me promise to serve him for some time But as Fortune never left Persecuting of me so this poor Man returning one Night from Supper in the City was arrested Prisoner by the Command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia and after that the Justice came to his House and seized upon all his Papers where the Algâ—aziles or Sergeants made a strange Ravage They accused him for having made some Libel against the Duke I spent this Night with no small Trouble and Uneasiness The next Day I went again into the Fields to go towards the Port St. Mary where I made so much hast after having passed many Places by Water and bad way that I arrived there at Night in Company of a Religious Jacobin who shewed me a great deal of Courtesie and caused me to lodge with him in the House of a Muleteer The Day following I took the way of Xerez de la Frontera and had no small Trouble before I could come there for the great Abundance of Waters which I found by the way At last having escaped them as well as I could and being very weak in regard of the great Hunger I endured by good Fortune I met with two Men in sight of Xerez who courteously invited me to eat with them and being sate down to eat they fell to discoursing of several Things and amongst others came upon my Subject speaking of Hunger and that it is the most easie to be supported when one stirs not from a Place without doing any thing or when one is at Work and thinks of doing some other thing At last one of them concluded that he was sensible of more Hunger when he was doing nothing than when he was at work and found that there was some reason for it in regard that Action diverts the Thoughts And I remembred that I heard reported how that the several sorts of Plays as Cards Dice Tables and others were at first invented to amuse Men during a great Scarcity of Victuals and by this means to divert them from thinking upon their Hunger And therefore 't is said That Drake that samous English Captain returning home from his great Voyage about the World which he had encompassed one Day as he found himself in great necessity of Victuals and saw his Men ready to starve with Hunger he caused them to play to divert themselves and when they were thirsty he advised them to sleep to refresh themselves This Scarcity was so great as I have heard some English say That they were forced to eat some Blacks which they had brought along with them and having found near England a Vessel loaded with Victuals they eat so much thereof that the most part of them died by over charging themselves But to return to Xerez Being arrived Xerez there tho' not without abundance of trouble passing through the City I by chance found my self near the Shop of an Apothecary where there was some Surgions discoursing together When they saw me they cast out some Words of Mocking because of my Garb à la Francois But I returning towards them told them a few Words of Chirurgery in Latin which they being ignorant of they knew not what to answer except by naming to me to surprize me a certain Composition called Hieralogodâ—i but I asked them if they knew not whether it was Hierapachii which is one and the same thing at which they were put to a Nonplus And thus I left them there and kept on my way and by good Fortune met in this City with a French Man a Britan who lived with a Cavalier and took me along with him where he made as much of me as he could There I found a Persian Slave who hearing me speak of his Country and the East-Indies was so overjoy'd that he called me his Kinsman and made me as good Chear as he could in this House where he had much Credit This City of Zerez is situated on high in a very pleasant Country as all the rest of the Province of Andalousia and is not far from the little River Ovadalâ—t famous for the great Battel fought there where Roderick the last King of Spain lost his Life with all his Nobility at which time the Moors render'd themselves Masters of all Spain The Soil is