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A01426	The discoueries of the world from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by Antonie Galuano, gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe island of the Malucos: corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christ church in Oxford; Tratato. Que compôs o nobre & notavel capitão Antonio Galvão, dos diversos & desvayrados caminhos, por onde nos tempos passados a pimenta & especearia veyo da India ás nossas partes. English	Galvão, António, d. 1557.; Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.	1601 (1601)	STC 11543; ESTC S105675	96,105	110

THE DISCOVERIES of the World from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Briefly written in the Portugall tongue by ANTONIE GALVANO Gouernour of Ternate the chiefe Island of the Malucos Corrected quoted and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford LONDINI Impensis G. Bishop 1601. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR Robert Cecill Knight principall Secretarie to her Maiestie Master of the Court of VVards and Liueries the woorthy Chancellour of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell RIght Honorable while I went about to publish our English Voyages and Discoueries I was aduised by master WALTER COPE a gentleman of rare and excellent parts to draw them into a short sum adding that in his opinion that course woulde prooue most acceptable to the world especially to men of great action and employment Although in that worke then vnder the presse I could not conueniently alter my course yet holding his aduise as in many things else so in this for sound and very good I heere present vnto your Honour a briefe Treatie most agreeable to the same The authour whereof was one Antonie Galuano a Portugall gentleman of whose pietie towards God equitie towards men fidelity to his Prince loue to his countrey skill in sea causes experience in Histories liberalitie towards his nation vigilance valour wisedome and diligence in restoring setling the decaied state of The Isles of Maluco where he remained sixe or seuen yeeres gouernour if it please your Honour to read Fernando Lopez de Castagneda or Ioannes Maffeius in their Histories of The East Indies you shall finde more written in his singular commendation then a large Epistle can well comprehend The worke though s●all in bulke containeth so much rare and profitable matter as I know not where to seeke the like within so narrow and streite a compasse For heerein is orderly declared who were The first Discouerours of the world since the time of the flood by what waies from age to age the spicerie drugs and riches of the East were conueied into The West what were the causes of the alterations of those courses as namely the changes of Empires and gouernments The ceasing of all trafficke for many yeeres by The Gothes inuasion of the Romane Empire The rising vp of The Mahumetane sect with their ouerrunning of Afrike and Spaine The renewing againe after many yeeres disturbance of the trafficke and entercourse of The East Indies first by the Califas of the aforesaid sect and eftsoones by The Venetians Ienowais and Florentines Then followeth the taking of Ceuta in Barbarie by Iohn the first king of Portugall of that name in the yeere of our Lord 1415. whose third sonne Don Henry which he had by the vertuous Ladie Philippa daughter of Iohn of Gante and sister to Henry the fourth king of England was the first beginner of all the Portugall discoueries and continued the same for the space of fortie and three yeeres euen to his dying day By whose encouragement the kings of Portugall found out with much patience and constancie the last way of the bringing the Spicerie into Europe by The Cape of Buona Sperança and for these hundred yeeres past haue become the chiefe Lords of the riches of the Orient By emulation of which their good endeuours The Antiles and The west Indies began to be discouered by The kings of Spaine The infancies of both which most important enterprises The progresse of the same from time to time the discoueries of Islands riuers baies and harbours of many rich prouinces kingdomes and countries The erecting of castles in sundry conuenient Islands and places with the drawing of trafficke vnto the same where when by whom and by whose authority is heere succinctly and faithfully recorded So that if it please your Honour at your conuenient leisure to take a sea card or a mappe of the world and carie your eie vpon the coast of Africa from Cape de Non lying on the mayne in 29. degrees of northerly latitude and follow the shore about the Cape of Buona Sperança till you come to the mouth of The Redde Sea and passing thence along by the countrey of Arabia crosse ouer to India and doubling Cape Comory compasse the gulfe of Bengala shooting by the citie of Malacca through The streite of Cincapura coast al the south of Asia to the northeast part of China and comprehend in this view all the Islands from The Açores and Madera in the West to The Malucoes The Philippinas and Iapan in the East you shall heere finde by order who were the first discouerours conquerours and planters in euery place as also the natures and commodities of the soyles togither with the forces qualities and conditions of the inhabitants And that which I mention of the Orient is likewise to be vnderstood of The Occident Now touching the translation it may please you sir to be aduertised that it was first done into our language by some honest and well affected marchant of our nation whose name by no meanes I could attaine vnto and that as it seemeth many yeeres ago For it hath lien by me aboue these twelue yeeres In all which space though I haue made much inquirie and sent to Lisbon where it seemeth it was printed yet to this day I could neuer obtaine the originall copie whereby I might reforme the manifold errours of the translator For whereas a good translator ought to be well acquainted with the proprietie of the tongue out of which and of that into which he translateth and thirdly with the subiect or matter it selfe I found this translator very defectiue in all three especially in the last For the supplying of whose defects I had none other remedie but to haue recourse vnto the originall histories which as it appeereth are very many and many of them exceeding rare and hard to come by out of which the authour himselfe drew the greatest part of this discourse And in very deede it cost me more trauaile to search out the grounds thereof and to annexe the marginall quotations vnto the worke then the translation of many such bookes would haue put me vnto Of which quotations there is yet a farther vse to wit that such as haue leasure sufficient and are desirous to reade these things more at large for breuitie oftentimes breedeth obscuritie may fully satisfie their desires by hauing recourse by the helpe therof to the pure fountaines out of which those waters which are drawne are for the most part most sweete and holsome Now if any man shall maruel that in these Discoueries of The World for the ●pace almost of fower thousand yeeres here set downe our nation is scarce fower times mentioned Hee is to vnderstand that when this authour ended this discourse which was about the yeere of Grace 1555. there was little extant of our mens trauailes And for ought I can see there had no great matter yet come to

left 38 men and a captaine called Roderigo de Arana to learne the language and customes of the countrey They brought from thence musters and shewes of gold pearles and other things which that countrey yéelded and ten Indians also whereof sixe died the rest were brought home and baptized Hereupon there grewe such a common desire of trauaile among the Spanyards that they were ready to leape into the sea to swim if it had béen possible into those new found parts The aforesaid company of Columbus at their comming home tooke in their way the Isles of the Açores and the 4. day of March in the yéere 1493. they entred into the bar of Lisbon which discouerie pleased not the king of Portugall Whereupon rose a contention betwéene those two kings Christopher Columbus being arriued went presently into Castile with the newes of all things and acquainted the king Fernando with the discontentednes of the king of Portugall whereupon he and the Quéene Isabella his wife sent streight word thereof vnto Pope Alexander the 6. whereat he and the Italians were in great admiration maruailing that there was any more land besides that which was vnder the Romanes But the end of this matter was this Alexander the Pope gaue these countreies by his iudgement vnto the kingdomes of Leon and Castile with this condition That they should labour to extirpate idolatrie and plant the Holy faith in those countreyes Fernando the king hauing receiued this answere was glad of it and sent Christopher Columbus againe on the former voiage hauing made him Admirall and giuen him other honors with particular armes and a posie written about his armes to this effect For Castile and for Leon A new world found out Colon. In the yéere 1493. the 25. of the moneth of October Christopher Columbus went backe vnto the Antiles and frō Cadiz he tooke his course hauing in his companie 17. ships and 1500. men in them with his brethren Bartholomew Columbus and Diego Columbus with other knights gentlemen men of law and religious men with chalices crosses rich ornaments and with great power and dignitie from Pope Alexander the 10. day after their setting foorth they arriued at the Canaries from thence in 25. or 30. daies they sailed vnto the Antiles the first Island that they saw standeth in 14. degrées towards the north due west from Cape Verde on the coast of Africa They say that the distance from thence to the Canaries is 800. leagues The name they gaue it was Deseada that is the Desired or wished Island for the great desire which the companie had to come to sight of land After that they discouered many more which they named the Virgines which the naturals of the countrey call the Caribas for that the men of that countrey are good warriers and shoote well in bowes They poison their arrowes with an herbe whereof he that is hurt dieth biting himselfe like as a mad dog doth From these Islands and others they went vnto the principall Island there which they of the countrey doe call Boriquen and the Spanyards call it S. Iohn and thence to Hispaniola or Isabella where they found all the men dead which there they had left Here the Admirall left the most part of the people to plant it and appointed his brethren to be gouernours there and so tooke two ships and went to discouer the other side of the Island of Cuba and from thence to Iamaica All these Islands stand from 16. vnto 20. degrées of northerly latitude In the meane time that the Admiral● sailed about his brethren and they that were left with them were much troubled because the Sauages did rise against them So that Christopher Colon went backe againe into Spaine to tell the king and Quéene of his aduentures In the yéere 1494. and in the moneth of Ianuarie there was an agréement made of the differences which were betwéene the two kings of Spaine and Portugall For the which agréement there were sent out of Portugall Ruy de So●a and Don Iohn his sonne and the Doctor Ayres de Almada and for the king of Spaine there were Don Henry Henriques Don Iohn de Cardenas and the Doctor Maldonado All these met in the towne of Tordesillas and they deuided the world frō the north to the south by a meridian which standeth west from the Islands of Cape Verde 300. leagues so that the one halfe which lay vnto the east should belong vnto Portugall and that which lay to the west to the king of Spaine whereby notwithstanding libertie to trauell was left equall vnto both In the yéere following 1495. Iohn king of Portugall died and Emmanuel his cosen began to reigne In the yéere 1496. there was a Venetian in England called Iohn Cabota who hauing knowledge of such a new discouerie as this was and perceiuing by the globe that the Islands before spoken of stood almost in the same latitude with his countrey and much néerer to England then to Portugall or to Castile he acquainted king Henrie the seuenth then king of England with the same wherewith the saide king was greatly pleased and furnished him out with two ships and thrée hundred men which departed and set saile in the spring of the yéere and they sailed westward til they came in sight of land in 45. degrées of latitude towards the north and then went straight northwards till they came into 60. degrées of latitude where the day is 18. howers long and the night is very cléere and bright There they found the aire cold and great Islands of ice but no ground in an hundred fathoms sounding and so from thence finding the land to turne eastwards they trended along by it discouering all the Bay and riuer named Deseado to see if it passed on the other side Then they sailed backe againe till they came to 38. degrées towards the Equinoctiall line and from thence returned into England There he others which say that he went as far as the Cape of Florida which standeth in 25. degrées In the yéere 1497. The king of Spaine Don Fernando sent out Christopher Columbus with sixe ships and he himselfe prouided two ships at his owne cost and sending his brother before he made saile from the Bay of Cadiz carrying with him his sonne Don Diego Colon It was then reported that he went to take the Island of Madera because he mistrusted the French men and therefore sent thither thrée ships others say it was to the Canaries But howsoeuer it was this is true that he and thrée more went vnto the Islands of Cape Verde and ran along by the line finding great calmes and raine and the first land which they came vnto of the Antiles was an Island standing in 9. degrées of latitude towards the north ioining fast vnto the maine land which they called La Trinidada and so he entred into the Gulfe of Paria and came out of