of two or three hand-breadthes you shall find sweet water the best in all those Countries and which is most strange when the Ocean ebbeth this water growes brackish but when it flowes to the top it is most sweet P. Pil. v. 2. p. 989. Not far from Casbine the Regal City in Persia is a Fountain of a strange and wonderfull nature out of which there continually springeth and issueth a marvellous quantity of black Oyl which serveth in all parts of Persia to burn in their houses and is usually carried all over the Countrey upon Kine and Asses whereof you may often meet three or four hundred in company P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1431. About three daies journey from old Babylon is a Town called Ait and near unto that is a valley of Pitch very marvellous to behold wherein are many Springs throwing out abundantly a kind of black substance like unto Tar and Pitch which serveth all the Countrey thereabouts to make staunch their Barques with and Boats every one of which Springs makes a noise like to a Smith's Forge in puffing and blowing out the matter which never ceaseth day nor night and the noise is heard a mile off the Moores call it Hell-mouth P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1437. The tree whereon the Coquo-nuts grow in the Indies of all trees in the Forrest may have the preheminence for meerly with it without the least help of any other a ship may be built and furnished to Sea the heart of the Tree will make good Planks and Timber and Masts a Gum that growes thereon will serve to calk it the rind of the same Tree will make Cordage and Sailes and the large nut being full of kernel and pleasant liquor will serve for meat and drink to those that sail in the ship and the store of these nuts for Merchandise P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1466. In the great Mogul's Countrey from Agra to Lahor which are the two chief Cities in this Empire is about four hundred English miles the Countrey in all that distance being even without Mountains or hills and the high-way planted on both sides with Trees like unto a delicate Walk P. Pil. v. 2. 1468. In the same Countrey in a City called Nagracut there is a Chappel most richly set forth both seeled and paved with plates of pure gold wherein is kept an Idol which they call Maâ—ta visited yearly by many thousands of the Indians who out of devotion cut off part of their tongues to make a sacrifice for it In the same Province also there is another famous Pilgrimage to a place called Iallamakae where out of cold Springs and hard rocks there are daily to be seen incessant eruptions of fire before which the Idolatrous people fall down and worship P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1468. In the same Countrey also they have a pleasant clear liquor which they call Taddy issuing from a spongie Tree that growes straight and tall without boughes to the top and there spreads out into branches somewhat like to an English Colewort where they make incisions under which they hang earthen pots to preserve the influence that which distills forth in the night is as pleasing to the taste as any white wine if drunk betimes in the morning and of a piercing and medicinable quality excellent against the stone But in the heat of the day the Sun alters it so that it becomes headdy ill-relished and unwholesome P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1469. For Cotton Wooll they plant seeds which grow up into shrubs like unto our Rose-bushes It blowes first into a yellow blossom which falling off there remains a Cod about the bignesse of a mans thumb in which the substance is moist and yellow but as it ripens it swells bigger till it break the Cod and in short time becomes as white as snow and then they gather it P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1470. Musk is taken from a little reddish beast beaten with many blowes on one place that the blood may all come thither then is the skin so swolne and full of blood bound straight that the blood may not issue forth and being put into one or more bladders is dryed on the beasts back till the bladder fall off of it self and so that blood after a moneth becomes excellent Musk. P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1500. One Peter a Christian Cafar at Sofala his wife dying in travel of a daughter nourished the child with the milk of his own breasts a whole year at end whereof the child dyed of the Worms and then the milk dryed up in his breasts He told me saith the Relator that pity of the Motherlesse crying Infant which his poverty could not otherwise relieve caused him to seek to still it by laying it to his breast and then gave it something to drink which having continued two or three daies his breast began to yield Milk P. Pil. v. 2. pag. 1542. In the Seas near unto Sofala are many womenfishes which from the belly to the neck are very like a woman the Female nourisheth her young with her breasts which are like a womans From the belly downward it hath a thick and long tail with finnes like a Dolphin the skin white on the belly and the back rougher then a Dolphins it hath armes ending from the elbowes in finnes and hath no hands the face is plain round deformed bigger then a mans without humane semblance wide-mouthed thick hanging lips as an hound four teeth hanging out almost a span long like the tusk of a Boar and their nostrils like a Calves P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1546. The Torpedâ— is a strange kind of fish which a man holding in his hand if it stir not it produceth no effect but if it move it self never so little iâ— so torments the body of him which holds it that his Arteries Joynts Sinews and all his Members feele exceeding paine with a certain numness and as soon as it is let goe out of the hand all that paine and numness is gone also P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1183. The Cynamon-tree is a small tree and low having leaves like to our Bay-tree In the moneth of March or April when the sap goeth up to the top of the tree they cut the bark of the tree round about in length from knot to knot or from joynt to joynt above and below and then easily with their hands they take it away laying it in the Sun to drie and yet for all this the tree dies not but against the next yeer it will have a new barke and that which is gathered every yeer is the best Cynamon that which grows longer is great and not so good P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1709 In India is a treee called Arbore de Rays or the Tree of roots it groweth first up like other trees and spreadeth the branches out of which there come strings which seem afarre off to be cords of hemp which growing longer till they reach the ground there take root again so that in the end one tree
the Whale till he forceth him to give way which the Swordfish perceiving wounds him in the belly with the Sword and so forceth him to rise up again In this manner they torment him that the fight is sometimes heard above three leagues off the Whales roaring being heard much further his onely remedy in this case is to get to the shore which he laboureth to do so soon as he sees his enemies For then there can fight but one with him and for either of them hand to hand he is too good Pur. Pil. v. 4. p. 1377. In the Island of Tercera are some Fountains the water whereof is so hot that it will boyl an egg In the same Island is another Fountain that will turn wood into stone and a Tree that groweth by that part of the root that growes within water is petrified the other that is out is wood as of other trees In the Kingdome of Mexico are Kine with bunches on their backs about the bignesse of our Bulls but little horns and more hair on their foreparts then behind which is like wooll On the back-bone they have a Mane like horses and long hair from their knees downward with much long hair on their throats They are meat drink shoes houses fire vessels and their Masters whole substance Other creatures there be as big as horseâ— which the Spaniards for their fine wooll call Sheep One of their hornes usually weighes fifty pounds Purch Pil. v. 4. p. 1561. In one of the Azore Islands is an hill called Pico which is above fifteen miles high the Top is many times seen clearly but about the middle of it hang the clouds upon the top many times issue forth flames of fire as out of AEtna Idem p. 1672. In Virginia is a beast called Possowne the female whereof will let forth her young ones out of her belly and take them again into her belly at her pleasure Idem p. 1772. Teneriff one of the Canary Islands hath in it a very high hill in the form of a Sugar-loaf and is continually covered with snow so that going up it the cold is unsufferable it 's seen above fourty leagues off at Sea There is also in the same Island a Tree as big as an Oke of middle size the bark white like Horn-beam six or seven yards high with ragged boughes the leaf like the Bay-leaf It beareth neither fruit nor flower It stands on the side of an hill in the day it 's withered and drops all night a cloud hanging thereon so that it yields water sufficient for the whole Island wherein are eight thousand soules and about an hundred thousand Cammels Mules Goats c. The water falls from it into a pond made of brick paved with stone from which it 's conveyed into several ponds thorow the whole Island They also water therewith their Corn-ground for they have no other water in the Island except rain-water The Pond holds twenty thousand Tunne of water and is filled in one night Many of English that have been there have attested the truth hereof Idem p. 1â—69 In Soâ—oterâ— are sheep whose tailes weigh twenty eight pound apiece which therefore are usually cut off from the Ewes lest they should hinder their breeding There are also Batts whose bodies are almost as big as Conies headed like a Fox with a hairy fur in other things like Batts One of them being killed by some English his wings extended were an â—ll in length their cry is shrill and loud Aloes growes in the same Countrey which is nothing but Semper vivâ—m it is so full of a Rosin-like juice that the leaves are ready to brâ—â—k with it which leaves they cut in small pieces and cast them into a clean pit made in the ground and paved there it lies to ferment in the heat of the Sun whereby the juice floweth forth which they put in skins and hang them up in the wind to dry whereby it hardens P. Pil. v. 1. p. 419. Indico groweth in the Moguls Countrey having a small leaf like that of Sena the branches are of a wooddy substance like broome It growes not above a yard high the stalk about the bignesse of a mans thumb The seed is included in a small round Cod of an inch long This once sowed lasteth three years that of the first year makes a weighty reddish Indico that sinks in water being not yet come to its perfection that of the second year is rich very light and of a perfect violet colour swimming on the water that of the third year is weighty blackish and the worst of the three This herb when it 's cut is put into a Cistern and pressed down with stones then covered over with water where it remains till the substance of the herb is gone into the water then it 's drawn forth into another Cistern and laboured with staves till it be like Batter then they let it seeth and so scum off the water two or three times till nothing but a thick substance remains which taking forth they spread on a cloath dry it in the Sun then make it into balls dry it on the sand which causes the sandy foot That is best which is of pure a grain violet-colour is gloâ—â—ie dry and light Idem p. 430. In the same Countrey are Asses with hornes whereof they make divers sorts of drinking cups of excellent virtue some esteeming them the right Unicorns Horns Idem p. 436. Sir James Lancaster in his East-Indy Voyage in the Isle of Sombrerâ— found on the Sea-sands a young twig growing up to a tree and offering to pluck up the same it shrank down into the ground and when it was by strength pulled up a great Worm was the root of it and as the Tree groweth in greatnesse the worm diminisheth This Tree plucked up the leaves and pill stripped off by that time it 's dry is turned into a hard stone so that this Worm was twice transformed into different natures after a wondrous manner Of these he brought home many P. Pil. v. 1. p. 152. There is in the Countrey of Mexico a kind of sheep which all things considered is a beast of the greatest profit and least charge that is For from them they draw meat and clothing They use them also to carry all their burthens having need neither of shoes nor saddles nor yet of Oates so that they serve their Masters for nought feeding onely on grasse which they find in the fields There are two kinds of these creatures the one bearing wooll the other are bare which are the better for burthen they are bigger then great sheep and lesse then calves they have long necks like a Cammel They are of divers colours some white some black and others grey or spotted their flesh is good meat but that of their Lambs is best Of their Wooll the Indians make cloth some courser other finer like half silk they also make Carpets and Coverings and other exquisite works of it which last long and
Earth-quake wherewith the people were so affrighted that many of them forsook their houses and some houses were so shaken that the Chimnies fell down In January Anno Christi 1648. there was seen a great fiery meteor in the air near Bristow on the South-side of the City for divers nights together in form long with fiery streames shooting out East and West which was the week before the beheading of the late King eye-witnesse Also the day before he was beheaded a great Whale ran himself on shore three miles from Dover where he died He was 66 foot long A thing rarely seen in this Island November the 30th Anno Christi 1650. being St. Andrews day a little before or about Sun-rising the skie opened in a fearful manner in the Southwest over Standish a Town five miles from Gloucester and there appeared a terrible fearful fiery shaking sword with the hilt upwards towards the heavens the point downwards towards the earth the hilt seemed to be blue the Sword was of a great length shaking hither and thither and comming lower towards the earth There was a long flame of fire towards the point sparkling and flaming in a fearful manner to the great astonishment of the Spectators who were many At last the heaven closing the Sword vanished and the fire fell to the earth and ran upon the ground This I had from an eye-witnesse In June Anno Christi 1653. a black cloud was seen over the Town of Pool which a while after was dissolved into a showr of blood that fell warm upon mens hands some green leaves with those drops of blood upon them were sent up to London A little before the Civil broiles between the houses of York and Lancaster wherewith England for a long time was rent in pieces the River Ouse in Bedfordshire stood still and by reason that the waters gave back on both sides men might passe on foot in the very chanel for three miles together not without the astonishment of all that saw it who took it as a presage of the divisions ensuing Camb. Brit. p. 399. Not long before the contention between Galba Otho and Vitellius about the Roman Empire there appeared three Suns as it were pointing out that tripatite contention for the Imperial Diadem April the 7th Anno Christi 1233. there appeared here in England four Suns besides the natural Sun and presently afrer fell out the great contention between our King Henry the third and his Barons and the year after England was wasted with fire snd sword from Wales to Salisbury there ensued also a great drought and Pestilence Stow. Anno Christi 1460. three Suns appeared the very day before the three Earles viz. Edward Earl of March with the Earl of Pembrook and the Earl of Wiltshire fought that great battel in Wales at Mortimer's Crosse where the Earl of March put the other two to flight and slew many of their men Idem Anno Christi 1233. a little before the Warres brake forth between King Henry the third and his Barons there appeared in April in Hereford and VVorcestershire five Suns at once and a certain great circle of a Crystal colour of about two foot in breadth as it were compassing all England Matth. Paris CHAP. XCI Remuneration Retaliation Requital COmmanded sometime by God Gen 9. 6. Exod. 21. 23 c. Lev. 24. 19 c. Matth. 5. 38. Psal. 137. 8. Jer. 50. 15. Rev. 18. 6. Thus God threatens to the enemies of his Church Jer. 30. 16. 48. 26 27. 49. 2. Rev. 13. 10. Jer. 51. 49. Ezek. 35. 5 6. 39. 30. Hab. 2. 8. Joel 3. 6 7 8. 1 Thess. 1. 6. To those that sin in his Church Pit for pit Psal. 7. 15 16. Idolatry for Idolatry Jer. 5. 19. Spoil for spoil Isa. 33. 1. Prov 22. 23. Treachery for treachery Isa. 33. 1. Harlots hire for harlots hire Mich. 1. 7. Not to hear shall not be heard Prov. 1. 28. Zach. 7. 13. Altars for sin with Altars to sin Hos. 8. 11. they that judge shall be judged Matth. 7. 2. Scriptural Examples Pharaoh drowned others and was drowned himself Exod. 1. 22. with 14. 27. 30. Abimelech and the Sechemites Judg. 9. 24 56 57. Adonibezek Judg. 1. 7. Levites Concubine Judg. 19. 2 25. Ahab and Jesabel 1 King 21. 19. with 22. 34 38. 18. 13. 22. 23. 2 King 9. 33 36 37. Kings which were traytors and slew others were slain themselves 2 King 15. 10 14 23 25 30. Agag 1 Sam. 15. 33. Joab 1 King 2. 32. Daniel's enemies Dan. 6. 7 12 15 24. Other Examples Orodes King of Parthia who had overcome and slain Crassus the Roman Consul in his old age fell desperately sick for grief at the losse of his son Pacones slain by Venticius yet his younger son Phraates had not patience to expect his death but gave him poison to accelerate it But behold Gods providence the poison proving a strong purge wrought out not onely it self but the disease too so that Orodes recovered beyond expectation which Phraates seeing strangled him and to settle him the surer in his Kingdome obtained by Parricide he entred into league with the Romans sending back the Ensigns of Crassus and other Presents the Romans to requite him sent him great gifts and amongst the rest a beautiful Italian strumpet by whom he had a son which being grown up by the advice and help of his mother poisoned his father to get his Crown Tulit quae meruit et quae docuit Lipsius Mithridates King of Pontus to get the Crown slew his mother brother and her three sons and as many daughters but in his old age his own son Phanacus slow him for the same cause Lipsius Ptolemaeus one of Alexander's Successours expelling Antigonus seizeth upon Macedonia makes peace with Antiochus enters into league and affinity with Pyrrhus now all things were sure but onelyfor his sister Arsinoe and her sons who had been married to Lysimachus King of Macedonia therefore intending to entrap her he sent Ambassadours to her pretending love promising to marry her to make her partner with him in the Kingdom and her sons his heires protesting that he took up armes for no other end proffering to swear upon the holy Altars when and where she pleased that all this was in good faith The poor Lady deceived hereby sent some of her friends to take his oath before whom he went into the most ancient Temple and there touching the gods and the Altar swears That he sincerely purposed to marry her to make her his Queen and her children his heires otherwise he prayes for vengeance upon himself c. Upon this Arsinoe comes to him is married and crowned Queen of Macedonia then she delivers up to him Cassandrea a most strong City where her children and all her treasures were he having now his desire sends men that slew her children in their mothers lap and drave her into exile but God suffered not this wickednesse to go long unrevenged
will cover a great piece of ground one root crossing within another like a Maze each of these young trees will in time grow so big that it cannot be discerned which is the principall trunk oâ— body of the tree There is also a tree called Arborâ— iristâ— or the sorrow full tree so called because it never beareth blossoms but in the night-time and so it doth and continueth all the yeer long So soon as the Sun sets there is not one blossom seen upon the tree but presently within half an hour after there are as many blossoms as the tree can beare pleasant to behold and smelling very sweet and as soon as the day comes and the Sun is rising they all presently fall off and not one to be seen on the tree which seems as though it were dead till evening comes againe and then it begins to blossome as it did before it 's as big as a Plum-tree it groweth up quickly and if you break but a branch of the tree and set it in the earth it presently takes root and growes and within a few dayes after it beareth blossoms which are like Orange-tree-blossoms the flower white and in the bottom somewhat yellow and reddish P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1780. There is also an herb in India called by the Portugals herba sentida or feeling herb which if a man touch or throw sand or any other thing upon it presently it becoms as though it were withered closing the leaves together and it comes not to it self again as long as the man standeth by it but presently after he is gone it openeth the leaves again which become stiffe and fair as though they were newly grown and touching it again it shuts and becomes withered as before so that it 's a pleasure to behold the strange nature of it P. Pil. v. 2. p 1781. Pepper is planted at the root of some other tree and runs up it like Ivie the leaves are like the Orange leaves but somewhat smaller green and sharp at ends the Pepper groweth in bunches like grapes but lesse and thinner they are alwaies green till they begin to dry and ripen which is in December and January at which time it turns black and is gathered P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1782. The best Ginger growes in Malabar it groweth like thin and young Netherland Reeds two or three spans high the root whereof is the Ginger which is gathered in December and January P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1782. The Clove-trees are like Bay-trees the blossoms at the first white then green and at last red and hard which are the Cloves these Cloves grow very thick together and in great numbers In the place where these trees grow there is neither grasse nor green herbs but is wholly dry for that those trees draw all the moisture unto them P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1783. The Nutmeg-tree is like a Pear-tree but that it 's lesse and with round leaves the fruit is like great round Peaches the inward part whereof is the Nutmeg this hath about it an hard shell like wood and the shell is covered over with Nutmeg-flower which is the Mace and over it is the fruit which without is like the fruit of a Peach P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1783. Gumme-Lac comes most from Pegu where are certain very great Pismires with wings which fly up the trees like Plum-trees out of which trees comes a certain Gumme which the Pismires suck up and then they make the Lac round about the branches of the trees as Bees make Wax and when it is full the owners come and breaking off the branches lay them to dry and being dry the branches shrink out and the Lac remaines P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1783. Ambergreece is usually cast upon the Sea-shore which as some suppose is the dung of the Whale or as others the sperme or seed of the Whale consolidated by lying in the Sea P. Pil. v. 2. p. 772. In the Kingdome of Fez there is a Mountain called Beniguazeval in the top whereof there is a cave that perpetually casteth out fire P. Pil. v. 2. pag. 807. The herb Addad is bitter and the root of it so venomous that one drop of the Juice will kill a man within the spaâ—e of one hour P. Pil. v. 2. p. 850. Of Palm-trees which they keep with watering and cutting every year they make Velvets Satins Taâ—atâ—es Damasks Sarcenets and such like all which are spun out of the leaves cleansed and drawn into long threads P. Pil. v. 2. p. 985. Crocodiles are often 25 spans long contrary to all other creatures they open the upper jaw they lay many eggs in a hole in the sand which the Sun hatcheth P. Pil. In Sofala there is a creature called Inhazaras as big as a hog and somewhat like with thinne and black hair having five fingers like a mans on his hinder â—eet and four on his forefeet which live upon Ants by thrusting their tongues which are two spans and an half long into an Ant-hill whereon the Ants running they pull them into their mouthes P. Pil. In the Kingdom of Tunis near to the City of El-Hamma is a hot River which by divers Channels is carried through the City in which the water is so hot that few can endure to go into it yet the people drink of it having set the water to cool a whole day together P. Pil. v. 2. p. 821. There is in Africa a certain Monster called Poâ—gâ— in all proportion like a man onely bigger It hath a mans face hollow eyes long hair upon the browes His face and eares without hair His body is full of hair of dunnish colour c. differs not from a man but in his leggs which have no calves He goes alwaies upon his leggs and carries his hands clasped in the nape of his neck when he walks upon the ground they sleep in trees and live of fruit and nuts P. Pil. v 2. p. 982. In Abassia are Kine with hornes like unto Harts hornes Others there be thâ—â— have but one horn in the middest of their foreheads of about a span and an half long turning upward P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1495. In Sofala are many River-horses as big as two of our horses with thick and short hinder legs having five clawes on each forefoot and four on the hinder the mouth wide and full of teeth four of which are above two spans long apiece the two lower straight up the two upper turned like a Beares tush they live in the water but â—eed on the Land on grasse they have â—eates where with they nourish their young their Hides are thicker then an Oxes they are all of an ash colour gray with white strakes on their faces or white stars P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1544. In Africa is a River called Margania and by it a salt Spring which turns all the wood that is thrown into it into hard stone P. Pil. v. 2. p. 1547. In America there are certain very small birds called Viemalim with small