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A35222	The English empire in America, or, A prospect of His Majesties dominions in the West-Indies ... with an account of the discovery, scituation, product, and other excellencies of these countries : to which is prefixed a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards, and of the remarkable voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein : illustrated with maps and pictures by R.B., author of Englands monarchs, &c., Admirable curiosities in England, &c., Historical remarks of London, &c., The late wars in England, &c., and The history of Scotland and Ireland.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1685 (1685)	Wing C7319; ESTC R21113	146,553	216

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him Prisoner to Mexico While this was doing one of Cortes his Captains at Mexico resolved to perform something in his absence which might render the Spaniards dreadful terrible to the Indians a policy they often used it happened that the Nobility Commons of the City used all kind of sports recreations to divert their Captive King and none more than dancing and revelling all night long in the streets in which divertisements they brought forth all their Wealth Richest Garments and whatever they esteem'd precious The Nobility and Princes of the Royal-Bloud exercised themselves herein near the Houses where their King was confined there being above Two Thousand youths even the flower of the Nobility ingaged therein The Spanish Captain came with a small party of Souldiers as if to be Spectators sending more Troops into other parts of the City giving them Command to be ready at a certain signal and then leading the way he himself cryed out aloud St. Jago let us fall upon them The watchword thus given the Souldiers began to cut and mangle those noble and delicate youths with such fury that they left not one alive and their rich Garments and Jewels were made a prize by the Spaniards The Indians beholding this unheard of cruelty and injustice having long endured with patience the imprisonment of their King who had charged them to be quiet now fly all to arms and falling upon the Spaniards wounded many and pursued others at length putting a dagger to the breast of their King Montezuma they threatned to kill him unless he would look out atth Window and Command his Subjects to lay down thei Arms But they contemning his Orders chose themselves a Captain when Cortes returned again in good time to relieve his men and Montezuma being again commanded by his Spanish Guardians to speak to the People he was wounded on the Temples by a stone whereof he died 3 daies after Cortes had some Thousands of Taxallans to assist him and yet was forced to fly out of Mexico privately by night with all his Spaniards and Indians which yet was not unknown by the Mexicans so that an alarm being raised they cut off their Bridges and made a great slaughter among them the Spaniards losing most of their ill got Treasure And their number increasing to two hundred thousand they pursued them with all speed but Cortes having the good fortune to kill their Standard-bearer the Indians forsook the Field The Taxallans raising an Army of fifty thousand men joined with Cortes and took in divers places and then building several Frigots or Brigantines he soon took all the Indian Canoes upon the Lake Quabutimoc who succeeded Montezuma being incouraged from the Devils Oracle made all possible defence for saving Mexico sometimes conquering and being other while beaten by the Spaniards who fired a great part of the City One day the Mexicans having gotten an advantage against the Spaniards they thereupon celebrated a Feast of Victory The Priests going into the Temple made a Perfume of sweet Gums and then sacrified forty Spanish Prisoners opening their breasts plucking out their hearts and sprinkling their bloud in the Air their companions looking on unable to revenge it the Mexicans mean while dancing beating their drums drinking themselves drunk and using all manner of expressions of Joy At length Rage Revenge and Disdain had so filled the Spaniards breasts that having hitherto been more careful of ruining the City which they hoped to preserve for their own use they now resolved utterly to destroy it to which the dreadful Famine and Pestilence within did as much contribute as their Fury without so that after three months Siege Mexico is taken and rased to the ground with the loss of Fifty Spaniards and Six Horses but of the Mexicans an hundred thousand besides those who died of the Plague and Hunger the King himself being taken Prisoner and that mighty City and State utterly subverted this happened Aug. 13. 1521. which day is kept as a yearly Festival by the Spaniards to this day Mexico was afterward rebuilt with an hundred thousand Houses fairer and stronger than before Thus fell the Great Montezuma and his mighty Empire with him Thus fell he who was honoured as a God whom it was death for any of the Common People to look in the face who never set his foot on the ground abroad but was carried upon the shoulders of Noblemen in a Chariot of pure Gold and if he happened to alight trod upon rich Tapestry He who never put on one Garment twice never us'd any Vessel or Dish though of Gold but once and yet all these Magnificences were so far from procuring him happiness that they were the chief incentives to covetous and ambitious Spirits to contrive his Ruin Yet was not this general Devastation without some prodigous forerunners of the same The King of Tescuco a great Magician and divers other Sorcerers confirmed the declaration of the Idol Cholola That a strange People should come and possess his Kingdom These Sorcerers being imprisoned by the King immediately vanished away But a stranger thing happened by report to a poor man who was taken up by an Eagle and carried into a certain Cave where being set down the Eagle pronounced these words Most mighty Lord I have brought him whom thou hast commanded There he saw one like Montezuma lying asleep who uttering several dreadful threatnings against the King the man was again carried away by the Eagle and set down in the place where he had been first seized Strange voices were likewise heard with Earth quakes and overflowings of Rivers A prodigious Bird of the bigness of a Crane was taken having on his head as it were a Glass representing armed men which being brought into the Kings presence instantly disappeared and was never seen after The King endeavoured to have appeased his Gods by Sacrifice and would therefore have removed a great Stone which yet he could not possibly do by any strength or other means he used which was thought to be an Ominous presage that his Deities were not to be reconciled These things were certainly told by the Indians which if true may be accounted the Illusions of the Devil whereby he somtimes forwarns his Votaries III. Neither ought Americus Vespusius a Florentine to be forgotten who was Second to Columbus in the glory of this grand and successful enterprize of discovering the New World who at the charge of Emanuel King of Portugal undertook the business He had been one of Columbus his Companions in the first expedition and consequently did now but trace the way that Columbus had before shewed him yet had he this happiness and Honour above his Predecessor to give his name unto the discovered Country the whole continent of the New World being ever since from him generally called America this man at the charge of King Emanuel in 1502. with a competent number of Ships and men crossed the Equinoctial Line and discovered the Coasts of

The English EMPIRE in America By R. B London Printed for Nath Crouch The English EMPIRE IN America Or a Prospect of His Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies Namely Newfoundland New-England New-York Pensylvania New-Jersey Maryland Virginia Carolina Bermuda's Barbuda Anguilla Montserrat Dominica St. Vincent Antego Mevis or Nevis S. Christophers Barbadoes Jamaica With an account of the Discovery Scituation Product and other Excellencies of these Countries To which is prefixed a Relation of the first Discovery of the New World called America by the Spaniards And of the Remarkable Voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein Illustrated with Maps and Pictures By R. B. Author of Englands Monarchs c. Admirable Curiosities in England c. Historical Remarks of London c. The late Wars in England c. And The History of Scotland and Ireland LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside 1685. TO THE READER VAriety and Novelty are the most pleasant Entertainments of Mankind and if so then certainly nothing can be more divertive than Relations of this New World which as our English Laureat Sings is so happy a Climate As if our Old World modestly withdrew And here in private had brought forth a New Here nature spreads her fruitful sweetness round Breaths on the Air and Broods upon the Ground Here days and nights the only seasons be The Sun no Climate does so gladly see When forc'd from hence to view our parts he mourns Takes little Journeys and makes quick returns Nay in this Bounteous and this Blessed Land The Golden Ore lies mixt with Common Sand Each down fall of a flood the Mountains pour From their Rich Bowels rolls a Silver Shower All lay conceal'd for many Ages past And the best portion of the Earth was wast I need say no more in commendation of this Land of Wonders but only to add that the continued Encouragement I have received in publishing several former Tracts of this volume especially those which had reference to His Majesties Dominions in Europe have induced me to proceed upon those Gallant Atchievements of our English Hero's in this New World and to give my Countrymen a short view of those Territories now in possession of the English Monarchy in the West-Indies of which many have only heard the names but may here find the nature commodities and other Excellencies therein which I doubt not will sufficiently recommend it to the perusal of every Ingenious Reader So wishes R. B. THE First Discovery of the New World called AMERICA CHAP. I. HAving already given an account of His Majesty of Great Britains three famous Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland we shall now ship our selves for a New World and therein discover the Acquisitions and Dominions of the English Monarchy in Amercia The New World is the most proper name for this immense Countrey and new as being discovered by Christopher Columbus not two hundred years ago in 1492. The Ancient Fathers Philosophers and Poets were of opinion that those places near the North and South Pole were inhabitable by the extremity of cold and the middle parts because of unreasonable heat and thought it a great solecism or contradiction to believe the Earth was round for holding which opinion Pope Zachaus was so zealous against Bishop Virgil that he sentenced him To be cast out of the Temple and Church of God and to be deprived of his Bishoprick for this perverse Doctrine that there were Antipodes or people whose feet are placed against ours though this discovery of America has fully confirmed these opinions and evinced that there is no such torrid Zone where the heat is so noxious as to unpeople any part of the Earth and the yearly compassing of the World evidenceth the necessity of Inhabitants living on all parts of this earthly Globe The next inquiry may be whether the Ancient had any knowledge of these Regions which many incline to think they had not for though Seneca says in his Msdea That new Worlds shall be discovered in the last Ages of the World and Thule in Norway shall be no longer the utmost Nation of the World yet this seems only to intimate the common effects and discoveries of Navigation And Plato's Atlantis cannot intend this Countrey because he placeth it at the mouth of the Streights or Mediterranean Sea which is separated from America by a vast Ocean and saies it is not now in being but was by an earthquake sunk and overwhelmed in the Sea Other Authors since that time have mentioned some Islands in that Great Sea but they seem rather to be some of those on the Coasts of Africa than America it being improbable if not impossible any should undertake such long and dangerous Voyages before the compass was found out when they were only directed by the motion of the Sun and Stars Yet is it not incredible but that in former Ages some Ships might by Tempest or other Casualties be driven to these parts whereby some parts of America were peopled but it is likely none ever returned back again to bring any news of their voyage The most probable Relation of this kind is that of Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth who upon the Civil dissentions in his own Countrey of Wales adventured to Sea and leaving Ireland on the North came to a Land unknown where he saw many very wonderful things which by Dr. Dowel and Mr. Humfrey Lloyd is judged to be the main Land of America being confirmed therein as well by the saying of Montezuma Emperor of Mexico who declared that his Progenitors were Strangers as well as the rest of the Mexicans as by the use of divers Welch words amongst them observed by Travellers the story adds that Madoc left several of his People there and coming home returned back with ten sail full of Welchmen yet it is certain there are now left very few footsteps of this Brittish expedition and no signs thereof were found at the Spaniards Arrival they indeed used a Cross at Cumana and worshipped it at Acuzamil but without the least memory or knowledge of Jesus Christ and the Welch words are very few which might happen by chance to any other Language Mr. Bretewood and other learned writers are of Opinion that America received her first Inhabitants from those parts of Asia where the Tartars first inhabited the Coasts of both Countreys being in that place not far asunder and the likeness of the People favouring the same though the Indians in general are so very ignorant as to ascribe their beginning some to a Fountain and others to a Lake or Cave But leaving these uncertainties let us give a brief account of the real discovery thereof by Columbus which is thus related by Gomara and Mariana two Spanish writers A certain Caravel sailing in the Ocean was carried by a strong East wind of long continuance to an unknown Land never mentioned in the Maps or Charts of that Age this Ship was much longer in returning than

the contrary we will make War upon you and destroy and break your Idols to pieces Let me then advise you to leave off your false worship and thereby prevent all these mischiefs Atabaliba seemed to wonder at the Preaching of this Frier and replied That he was a free Prince and would become Tributary to none neither did he acknowledg any greater Lord than himself As for the Emperour he could be well content to be in friendship with so great a Monarch and to be acquainted with him but for the Pope he would not obey him who gave away what was none of his own and took a Kingdom from him whom he had never seen As for Religion he liked well his own neither would nor ought he to question the Truth thereof it being so ancient and approved especially since Christ died which never happened to the Sun and Moon whom he worshipped And how do you know said he that the God of the Christians created the World Fier Vincent answered That his book told it him giving him his Breviary or Bible Atabaliba looked in it and said It told him no such thing throwing it on the ground The Frier took it up and went to Pizarro crying out He hath cast the Gospels on the Ground Revenge it O Christians upon these Infidel Dogs and since they will not accept our friendship nor our Law let as utterly destroy them Pizarro hereupon set up his Standard and planted his Ordinance and his Horsemen in 3 Squadons assulted Atabaliba's people making great slaughter Pizarro himself with his Foot came in and did much execution with their swords all charged against Atabaliba killing them who carried him on their Shouldiers in his Pavillion whose Rooms were presently supplied by others till at last Pizarro pluckt him down by his Cloaths All the while not one Indian made resistance either because they had no Command or with the amazement to see their Soveraign so abused so that never a Spainar● was slain though several Indians were thurst through thus were the Indians routed their King and other rich spoyls remaining to the Spaniards reckoned at fourscore thousand Castilians in Gold and Seven Thousand Marks in Silver of the houshold Plate of Atabaliba every Mark being eight Ounces And in Guatimala they found several Houses filled up to the roof with rich Garments besides Armour and Weapons of which some were Axes and Pole-axes of Gold and Silver The next day the Spaniards searcht all about for spoil and found five thousand women belonging to the King with much Treasure Atabaliba was much disturbed at his imprisonment but especially because they put a chain upon him and when many proposals had been made about his ransom a Souldier said If you will give us this House full of Gold and Silver thus high lifting up his Sword and making a mark upon the wall you shall have your Freedom Atabaliba promised if they would give him Liberty to send throughout his Kingdom he would fulfil their demand whereat the Spaniards amazed gave him three months time but he had filled the House in two months and an half a thing hardly to be credited but saith Lopez Vaz I know above twenty men who were there at that time and all affirmed that there was above ten Millions of Gold and Silver Another Spanish Captain relates that Atabaliba promised to give them so much Gold as should reach up to a Mark which was a span higher than a ●all man could reach the room being 25 Foot long and 15 wide and the Governor demanding how much Silver he would give he said he would fill up a large inclosed Garden with Vessels of Pla●e for his ransom this Captain was made Guardian of this Golden House and saw this vast mass of 〈◊〉 melted down the Govern●●● sent a fifth pa●● 〈◊〉 ●he King of Spain and part●● 〈…〉 giving to eve● Footman which ●ere 〈…〉 two four tho●●● eight hundred 〈…〉 which amounted to abov● seven 〈…〉 Horsman 63 〈…〉 adva●ta●e 〈…〉 he Victor● 〈…〉 thousand Pezo's and ●o thousand to the Inhabitants of St. Michael Many other gifts he gave to Merchants and others and yet after the Governor was gone there was more Gold brought in than that which had been shared Ten or twelve days after the Spaniards who were sent to Cusco brought in as much Gold as amounted to two Millions and an half and half a million of Silver When Atabaliba had procured this immense sum he was discharged from his promise by sound of Trumpet and yet was still kept under a Guard for the Spaniards security under pretence that his Subjects were again gathered together by his Command he argued with them that if they were assembled together it was no more by his Authority than the moving of the Leaves of the Trees but however being their Captive he said it was in their power to take away his Life Notwithstanding these so reasonable Remonstrances they consulted whether they should burn him alive and at last Condemned him to that cruel death but by the intreaty of some that Sentence was mitigated and he was ordered to be strangled by four Negro's whom Pizarro kept for that purpose which one night was accordingly performed the King understanding he was to dye spake thus to his Murderers Why do you kill me Did not you promise to set me at liberty if I would give you Gold I procured it for you yea more than you required yet if it be your pleasure that I must be killed send me to your King of Spain that I may clear myself of what you falsly object against me but the Executioners stopt his Breath before he could proceed further yet did not vengeance suffer these Ingrateful Villains to escape Almagro was Executed by order of Pizarro and young Almagro slew Pizarro who was likewise put to death by de Castro John Pizarro was slaughtered by the Indians Martin and Francis two other of his Brethren were likewise killed Ferdinand was imprisoned in Spain and his end unknown Gonzales was put to death by Gasca and the Civil Wars among themselves utterly destroyed the rest of these Treacherous Spaniards The difference between the two Brethren accelerated their Ruin Guascar succeeded his Father in the Kingdom and the Province of Quito was assigned to Atabaliba who being of an aspiring Spirit seized on Tumebamba a rich Province upon which his Brother raising Forces took him Prisoner Atabaliba making his escape got back to Quito where he made his People believe that their God the Sun had turned him into a Serpent and thereby he got through a hole in the Prison the conceit of this Miracle made them instantly rise in Arms against Guascar with whose assistance Atabaliba made such Slaughter of his Enemies that there are great heaps of Bones to be seen at this day Threescore Thousand being killed and many Provinces Conquered during Atabaliba's Imprisonment some of his Captains had taken his Brother Guascar who sent word to one of the Spanish Commanders that if

them to help me thither and speaking to the Captain by an Interpreter told him I desired him to set the Indian free declaring how kind he had been to me he replyed He was a Rogue and should be hanged then I privately alledged that if he were hanged it might fare the worse with the English Captives the Captain said That ought to be considered whereupon he set him at liberty upon condition he should never strike me more and bring me every day to his House to eat Victuals I perceived the common people did not approve of what the Indians acted against the English When he was free he came and took me about the middle saying I was his Brother I had saved his ●ife once and he had saved mine he said thrice He then called for Brandy and made me drink and had me away to the Wigwam again when I came there the Indians one after another shook hands with me and were very kind thinking no other but I had saved the Indian's life Next day he carried me to the Captains House and set me down they gave me my Victuals and Wine and being left there a while by the Indians I shewed the Captain and his Wife my Fingers who were affrighted thereat and bid me lap it up again and sent for the Chyrurgion who when he came said he would cure me and dress●d it The Indians came for me toward night I told them I could not go with them whereat being angry they called me Rogue and went away That night I was full of pain the French were afraid I would die five men did watch me and strove to keep me chearful for I was sometimes ready to faint oft-times they gave me a little Brandy The next day the Chyrurgion came again and dressed me and so he did all the while I was among the French which was from Christmas till May. I continued in this Captains House till Benjamin Wai● came and my Indian Master being in want of Mony pawned me to the Captain for fourteen Beavers or the worth of them by such a day which if he did not pay he must lose his Pawn or else sell me for 21 Beavers but he could get no Beaver and so I was sold and in God's good time set at Liberty and returned to my Friends in New-England again Though I have already given some Account of the Indians in this Country yet having met with a Relation of them from one J. J. an Englishman in the year 1673. I think it not improper to collect some brief Remarks concerning them and of the present State of the English in New-England The People that inhabited this Country are judged to be of the Tartars called Samoids who border upon Muscovia and are divided into Tribes those to the East and North-East are called Churchers Tarentines and Monhegans To the South are the Pequets and Narragansets Westward Connecticuts and Mowhacks To the North Aberginians which consist of Mattachusets Wippanaps and Tarrentines The Pocanets live to the Westward of Plymouth Not long before the English came into the Country hapned a great Mortality among them especially where the English afterward planted The East and Northern Parts were sore smitten first by the Plague after when the English came by the Small Pox the three Kingdoms or Sagamorships of the Mattachusets being before very populous having under them seven Dukedoms or Petty Sagamorships but were now by the Plague reduced from thirty thousand to three hundred There are not now many to the Eastward the Pequods were destroyed by the English the Mowhacks are about five hundred their Speech is a Dialect of the Tartars they are of Person tall and well limb'd of a pale and lean Visage black-eyed which is counted strongest for sight and black-hair'd both smooth and curled generally wearing it long they have seldom any Beards their Teeth very white ●hort and even which they account the most necessa●y and best part of man and as the Austrians are known ●y their great Lips the Bavarians by their Pokes under their Chins the Jews by their goggle Eyes so ●he Indians are remarkable for their flat Noses The ●ndesses or young Women are some very comely with ●ound plump faces and generally plump of their Bodies as well as the Men soft and smooth like a Mole-skin of reasonable good complexions but that they dye themselves Tawny yet many pretty Brownetto's and small-finger'd Lasses are found amongst them The Vetuala's or old Women are lean and ugly yet all of a modest demeanour considering their Savage Breeding and indeed they shame our English Rusticks whose rudeness in many things exceeds theirs The Indians are of disposition very inconstant crafty timorous quick of apprehension and very ingenious soon angry and so malicious that they seldom forget an injury and barbarously cruel witness their direful revenges upon each other prone to injurious violence and slaughter by reason of their blood dried up by over-much Fire very Letcherous proceeding from adust choler and melancholy and a salt and sharp humour both Men and Women are very thievish and great haters of Strangers all of them Canibals or eaters of Human flesh and so were formerly the Heathen Irish who use to feed upon the Buttocks of Boys and the Paps of Women I have read in the Spanish Relations that the Indians would not eat a Spaniard till they had kept him two or three days dead to grow tender because their flesh was hard At Martins Vineyard an Island that lies South of Plymouth in the way to Virginia certain Indians whilst I was in the Countrey seiz●d upon a Boat that put into a By Cove killed the Men and in a short time eat them up before they were discovered Their Houses which they call Wigwams are built with Poles pitcht into the ground commonly round sometimes square leaving a hole for the Smoak covering the rest with Barks of Trees and line the inside of their Wigwams with Matts made of Rushes painted with several colours one good Post they set up in the middle which reaches to the hole in the top with a staff across whereon they hang their Kettle beneath they set a broad Stone for a back which keeps the Post from burning round by the Walls they spread their Matts and Skins where the Men sleep while their Women dress their Victuals they have commonly two Doors one opening to the South the other to the North and according as the Wind sits they close up one Door with Bark and hang a Deer-skin or the like before the other Towns they have none removing always from one place to another for conveniency of food sometimes where one sort of Fish is plentiful and then where another I have seen an hundred of their Wigwams together in a piece of ground which shews prettily and within a week they have all vanished They live chiefly by the Sea-side especially in the Spring and Summer In Winter they go up in the Countrey to hunt Deer and Beaver

he would restore him to his Liberty and Kingdom he would fill up a large Room at Guatimala with Gold and Silver which was thrice as much as Atabaliba had promised adding that his Father Guayna who was a great Sorcerer had commanded him on his Death-bed to be kind to the white and Bearded Men who should come and rule in those parts Atabaliba hearing of these offers sent to have his Brother put to death which the Spaniards took no notice of and which seemed justly to befall him since he had before Murthered another of his Brethren and drunk in his Skull as he had sworn to deal with Atabaliba The Caribee Islands In this Kingdom of Peru is an High Mountain called Periacaca upon which Joseph Acosta ascended as well provided as possible being sensible of the Danger but in the ascent he and his Companions were suddenly surprized with looseness and Vomiting casting up Flegm Choler and Bloud so that they expected present death There are other Desarts in Peru called Punas where the Air cuts off men without feeling a small breath depriving them sometimes of their feet and hands which fall off like leaves in Autumn without pain and other times of their Lives and yet after death the same piercing cold Air preserves the body from Putrefaction Cuba an Island of 230 Leagues in length was about this time possessed by the Spaniards where they executed great severity as well as in other places A certain Lord of great power who had fled over the Continent to this Isle to avoid either death or perpetual Captivity hearing that the Spaniards were come hither having assembled the Principal Indians spake to them to this effect Countrymen and Friends you are not ignorant of the rumour that the Spaniards are arrived amongst us neither need I tell you how barbarously they have used the Inhabitants of Hispaniola you know it by too certain Intelligence nor can we hope to find them more merciful than they did But my dear Countrymen do you know their Errand if not I will tell you the cause of their coming they worship some covetous and insatiate God and to content their greedy Deity they require all our Gold and Silver from us for this they endeavour continually to murther and enslave us See here this little Chest of Gold and therein behold the God of the Spaniards therefore if you think fit let us dance and sing before this their God perhaps we may hereby appease his rage and he will then command his worshippers to let us alone To this motion they all assented and danced round about the Box till they were throughly wearied when the Lord thus proceeded If we should keep this God till he be taken from us we shall be certainly slain I therefore think it expedient for us to cast him into the River whose Counsel being followed the Chest was thrown into the River When the Spaniards first landed in this Island this Nobleman having sufficient experience of their cruelty avoided them as much as possible still flying and defending himself by force of Arms upon all occasions at length being taken for no other reason but endeavouring to preserve his Life from his Enemies he was by the Spaniards burnt alive being tied to a Stake a Franciscan Monk began to discourse him of God and the Articles of his Religion telling him that the small time allowed him by the Executioner was sufficient to make his Salvation sure if he did heartily believe in the true Faith having a while considered his words he asked the Monk whether the Door of Heaven was open to the Spaniards who answering yea then said he Let me go to Hell that I may not come where they are In this Island the Spaniards got above a Million of Gold and vast sums more in the other spacious Provinces of this New World the greatest part whereof came into their Possession in a few years and which they enjoy to this very day CHAP. II. The Voyages and Discoveries of several Englishmen into America IN the former Chapter I have according to my usual scantling given a sufficient account of the Fortunate Acquisitions of the Spaniards and now think my self in justice obliged to let my Countrymen know what Adventurous Voyages and extream dangers some of our brave English Spirits have surmounted in their Discoveries of this New World wherein I shall follow the Sun beginning first Northward and so proceed toward and beyond the Equinoctial I. In which number Sir Sebastian Cabot ought to be first mentioned born and living in England though a Venetian Gentleman by Extraction who in 1496 at the charge of Henry the 7th King of England set out with two Carravels for discovering a Northwest ●assage to Cathay and the East-Indies according to the design which Columbus had first suggested to him in pursuit whereof he is reported to have sailed to 67 Degrees of Northern Latitude upon the Coast of America and finding Land called it Prima Vista the Inhabitants wore the Skins of Beasts there were white Bears and Stags far greater than ours with great pi●●ty of Seal and Sole fish above a yard long and such vast quantities of other Fish that they sometimes staid the course of the Ship the Bears caught these Fish with their Claws and drawing them to Land eat them he then discovered all along the Coast to Florida and afterward returned at which time strong preparations being making for Wars with Scotland this design was wholly laid aside to the great prejudice of the English Nation who in all probability might have made themselves Quarter-masters at least with the Spaniards in the wealthiest Parts and Provinces of America if the business had been well followed Sir Sebastian himself went immediately to Spain and was imployed by that King in discovering the Coasts of Brasil and though he afterward returned again to England in 1549. and was honoured by King Edward the Sixth with the Title of Grand Pilot of England and the yearly Pension of an hundred and sixty Pound yet his design was never effectually revived II. Sir Martin Frobisher justly deserves the second place who in the reign of Queen Elizabeth made three several voyages to discover the North-west Passage June 15. 1576 he sailed from Blackwall and July 7 had sight of Frizeland but could not get ashoar because of the abundance of Ice and an extream Fog July 20. he had sight of an High Land which he named Queen Elizabeths Foreland very full of Ice but sailing further Northward he descried another Foreland with a Great Bay whereinto he entred calling it Frobishers Streights supposing it to divide Asia from America Having sailed sixty Leagues he went ashore and was encountred with mighty Deer who ran at him indangered his Life He had there a sight of the Savage Inhabitants who rowed to his Ship in Boats of Seals Skins they eat or rather devour raw Flesh and Fish their hair was long and black broad faces flat noses colour tawny