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A13665	The new found vvorlde, or Antarctike wherin is contained wo[n]derful and strange things, as well of humaine creatures, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trées, plants, mines of golde and siluer: garnished with many learned aucthorities, trauailed and written in the French tong, by that excellent learned man, master Andrevve Theuet. And now newly translated into Englishe, wherein is reformed the errours of the auncient cosmographers.; Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique. English	Thevet, André, 1502-1590.; Hacket, Thomas, fl. 1560-1590.	1568 (1568)	STC 23950; ESTC S111418	200,763	298

of the shels of Torterels A historie of a Portingal gentleman A Portingall healed of the Leprosie Orselie a herbe The Ile of fire and why it was so named The Hill Pusola Lib. 2. cap. 106. The spreading of Ethiopia Senega floud in times past named Nigritis The description of Ethiopia Miroa an Ilande The realme of Etabecke and Ickthiophages The loue of the Anthropophages towards their King Meroa the chief towne of Ethiopia aunciently named Saba Why the Ethiopians and other are black Indians and Ethiopians vse Magique The Inhabitants of Ginney to the Cape of good hope are all Idolaters Castor and Pollux called the bright starres and lanternes of the sea The maners and order of liuing of those of Ginney The aire of Ginney is vnholesome Maniguetta a fruit much estemed among spices The trade of Iuorie Eliphāt a beast approching to humain reson A riuer or flud bearing Mines of golde and siluer Cania and Rhegium riuers Two sea mōsters like to man and wife The description of the Equinoctiall line From whence commeth the name Equinoctiall The temperatenesse of the aire vnder the Equinoctiall line The Ile of S. Omer or of S. Thomas Abundance of diuers fishes vnder the lyne The sea water is sweet vnder the Equinoctiall Man hath great desire to knewe and se things The opinion of many Philosophers that say all the world is not inhabited Fiue Zones by the which the worlde is measured The cold zone The temperat Zone Zone Torida Another temperat zone Another colde zone The zone Torida and hills Hyperbores are inhabited The zone Torida more cōmodious and wholesom thā the others Marsouin and why it is so named A foūtaine that sheweth fish lyke golde Aristotle and Plinie of the Dorade Lib. 6. cap. 16. The descriptiō of the Dorade Dorade the fish hath bene greatly estemed in tymes paste among the Romaines Among these Dorades those were most set by that were brought from Tarenta being made fat at the lake Licryn as witnesseth Martiall in the thirde boke of his Epigrams The Ile of the Ascention an why it was s named Diuers kinds of strāge birds and in great number Aponars birdes Caape of good hast Ile of Aponards and why it is so named The Ile of thascention not yet inhabited as many others India Meridionall Caape of good hope why it is called Lyon of the sea Rhinoceros or beasts of Ethiopia The spreading of East India Sea Indique A signe to the Nauigants that they drewe neere to America The hills of Croistmourō Maqueh Caape de Fria Gekan The maner of these Barbaroꝰ men is to eate their enimies The fruitfulnesse of the Ile of S. Laurence Chicorin a fruit that we name nuts of India The Ile of Prince Seuen sortes of Palme trees in the Indies of America Spagnin a kind of herbe Pa a straunge birde The Asse of India Orix Gray Amber very cordiall Caape Defria Cahonin a drinke in America The superstition of these Indians in making this drinke A Riuer of salt water Birdes with diuers coloured fethers A gown made of fethers brought from America Arat a red bird Ganabara so called bicause of the likenesse to the lake Manihot a rote that the wilde men vse to eate A pleasant and comfortable Iland in the which the Lord of Villegagnon fortified him selfe A rocke from whence procedeth a lake Oysters hauing pearles The maner of these wild mē to take fish Panapana a kinde of fish A kinde of thornebacke Ineuonea Trees bering oysters America not known of the Cosmographers in times past Americus Vespucia did first finde out America The lying of America What the inhabitants of America are America is a very fruitfull countrey What parte of America is inhabited by the Spaniards and Portingals The Religion of the Americans Toupan Hetich rootes Charaiba America first discouered in the yere 1497 The Canibals are a people that liue with humaine flesh HoWe these Americās liue Adamians a kinde of heretikes that maintained nakednesse The opiniō of the Turlupins and the Philosophers of Ciniques cōcerning nakednesse Iulius Ca●●● did weare a cap against the order of the Romaines The stature and naturall coloure of the Americanes The wilde me liue without lawes The Americanes detest and abhorre salte meates The Lezard of America How these Americans kepe silence at their meat Auaty a drink The more delicate a man is nourished the lesse strength he hath A kinde of herbe that cutteth like steele A monstrous forme of a childe couered with scales Abantes a people in Asia The maner of the Athenians Genipat a tree and the fruite The maner how to make colour of this tree Genipat The maner of these wild mē to colour their bodies Vsub a kinde of Gumme An other tree named Genipat Petun an herb and howe it is vsed A fountaine at Lyncestis and his propertie The discription of a tre named Paquouere Pacoua the fruit A dead Cocodrill Iacareabson A stone of the coloure of an Emerauld Why the Americanes are tormented of wicked sprites Aguan a euill sprite in their language Grigri The opinion of the wilde men as touching their naturall dreames Pages Prophets Pages or Charaibes What these pages and Charaibes are and of their deceit The ceremonies of these Prophetes to cal vpon the wicked spirit What the intorrogations are that they make to the wicked spirit Houioulsira Two kindes of Magike Against those that beleue sorceries and witchcraftes Thurgia a dānable Magike Zabulus Which is the right Magike What Magus in the Persian tōg signifieth Zalmoxis Zorastria Cherepicouare The opinion of the wilde men on the immortalitie of the soule Pindahouson a King in the wilde coūtrey This Toupan is to be vnderstanded the almighty God The superstition of the wilde men Hairi a tree Hornebeame a tree The buckler that they vse The cause why the wilde men fight one against another The wilde mē obstinate and couragious The custome of the Americans is to eate their enimies A prouerbe The inhabitants of Morpion are enimies to those of Ianaria Almadies made of the barcke of a tree The superstition of the men in taking of the barks of the trees A foolish opinion of the wild men and of the Turkes and Moores Drummes Flutes other Instrumentes do stir vp the spirites How they intreate their prisoners The wilde men feare not death How the women and maiden prisoners are intreated Cerimonies against the execution of their prisoners Cahouin a drinke The Canibals are mortall enimies to the Spanyardes Vengeance is defended to Christians A history of a Portingall being prisoner to the wildemen The faithfulnesse of the wilde men but not to Christians How they of America do marry The deflouring of maids before they be maried A defēce made by the Lord of Villegagnon that the Frēch men shold not acquaint them selues wyth the wilde women The auncient custome of the Lydians Armenians and the inhabitants of Cypris The wyld mē haue many wiues The maner of the wilde men to burye the dead

furthermore that the Neigers hitherwarde are more ciuill and better nurtered than these of Ginney bicause of the great resorte of Marchantes that trade thither also they prouoke others to barter for their golde for things of smal value as kniues glasses and suche like Also the Portingals trade and bargaine with the Mores of Ginney beside other things for Iuorie that we call Eliphants téethe And one among others shewed me that at one time they haue ladē twelue thousand of these téethe among the which there was one found among the other that wayed a hundred pounde waight for as we haue sayd the lande of Ethiopia nourisheth Eliphantes the which they take at the chase as we doe here wilde Boares and so they eate the flesh which many affirme to be very good the which I had rather beleue than taste or to stand disputing thereof I will not therefore in this place stand to reason or set out the vertues and properties of this beast the moste gentlest and approching to humain reason than any other séeing that this beast hathe bene so muche celebrated of our elders and also by those of our time and knowing that Plinie Aristotle many others haue sufficiently treated thereof and of his fleshe the which some say is medicinable and good against the Leprosie The téethe that we call Iuorie dothe comfort the heart and the stomake and it wil also helpe with all his substance the parte or belly of the mother I will not therefore wryte that which they haue written for that it is not to our purpose Neuerthelesse I will not leaue to speake that which I haue sene the which is if that they can get any yong Eliphantes they teache them many prety knackes For this beast is very apt and of a good vnderstanding Of the Equinoctiall line and of the Ilandes of S. Omer Cap. 18. LEauing therefore this parte of Gynney on our lefte hande after we had stayed there but a while for the infection of the aire as we haue before shewed we kept our course coasting alwayes to the height of the Caape of Palmes and of that which is called the thrée poyntes where as runneth a faire Riuer able to beare great shippes by the reason whereof there is good trade all ouer the Countrey and the which beareth golde and siluer aboundantly in lumpes and therefore the Portingalles haue landed there and being in fauoure with the Inhabitantes they haue builded there a faire Castle the which they haue named the Mine Castle And not w tout a cause for their Golde is without comparison more finer than that of Calicute or of India America It is on this side the Equinoctiall about thrée degrées and a halfe There is founde a riuer that commeth from the Mountaines of the Countrey named Cania and another more lesser named Rhegium the which beareth or bringeth very good Fishe also Cocodrils very daungerous as Nylle and Senega and they eate them as we doe Venson I will not forget what was shewed me to haue bene sene neare to the Mine Castle a sea monster hauing the shape of a man that the floud had left on the shore the which was heard crie In like case the female came with the next floud crying aloud and sorowing for the absence of hir make the which is a wonderfull and straunge thing By this may be knowen that the Sea doeth nourish and bring forthe diuers and straunge kinde of monsters as well as the land Being now by our iourneys come euen vnder the Equinoctiall I minde not to passe any further without noting somewhat This line Equinoctiall or Circle Equinoctiall or else Equator is a trace imagined of the Sunne by the midst of the world the which deuideth in two equall partes two times the yeare that is to wit the fourth of September and theleuenth of March and then the Sunne passeth directly by the Zenithe of the earth and leaueth vs this imagined Circle equall to the Tropicks others that may be iudged betwene the two Poles the Sunne going from the East to the West it is true that the sunne goeth al the yeare by the Ecliptike to the Zodiake sauing on the dayes aboue named standeth directly ouer them that inhabit there Furthermore they haue right course without y e one of the Poles be more erected than the other the day the night are to thē equall therefore they were named Equinoctiall and according as the Sunne doth depart from the one to y e other Pole there is vnequalities of dayes and nights and eleuation of the Pole Then the Sunne declining by litle and litle from this point Equinoctial goeth by his Zodiake almost to the Tropike of Capricorn and passing no farther causeth the Solstice of winter then returning passeth by the sayd Equinoctiall till that he come to the signe of Cancer whereas is the Solstice of Sommer therefore he maketh vj. signes parting from the Equinoctiall to eche one of these Tropikes The elders haue estéemed this countrey or Zone among the Tropikes to be vnhabitable bicause of the extreme heate as those that are neare to the two Poles bicause of the colde Neuerthelesse within these few yeares this Zone hath bene discouered by Nauigations and inhabited for that it was found frutefull and abounding in many good things notwithstanding the heat as the Ilandes of S. Omer and others of the which we will speake hereafter Some vnder this line cōparing the coldnesse of the night with the heate of the day haue taken this argument that in that respect there might be good temperatenesse biside many other reasons y t I omit for this present The heat that is there séemed to me no hotter than it is here at Midsomer Furthermore there is much tempest thunder lightnings and raines therfore at the Ilands of S. Omer as also in a nother Iland named the Ile of Rats there is as much verdure or grenenesse as is possible These Ilands vnder the Equinoctiall line are marked in our cardes Marins S. Omer or S. Thomas inhabited at this day by Portingals although that they be not so frutefull as certain others Also there is gathered a certain suger but they trade with the Barbarians and Ethiopians Golde molten Pearles Muske Rhubarbe Beastes Byrdes and other things according to the countrey Also in these Ilandes the seasons and times are vnequall and differing from other countries the people more subiect to sicknesse than they of the North part the which difference vnequalitie commeth of the Sunne the which sheweth his qualities by the ayre being betwene him and vs. It passeth as euery one knoweth two times the yere customably thereby and then y e Equinoctial descrieth him in the monthes of Marche and September About this lyne is founde such abundance of fishes of sundry diuers kindes that it is a maruelous and a wōderful thing to sée them aboue water and I haue heard them make such a

noyse about the ships side that we could not hear one another speke whether this is bicause of y e heat of the Sunne or for any other reasons I leaue that to the Philosophers There resteth nowe to shewe that euen about our Equinoctiall I taasted the water the which was more swéeter pleasāter to drinke thā in other places wheras it is very salt though that many affirme the contrarie iudging that it shoulde be rather more salter for that it draweth to the lyne whereas the heate is most vehement knowing that from thence commeth the saltnesse of the sea and therfore that shoulde be more swéeter that is towarde the Poles I do verily thinke that from the one Pole to the other euen to the line that as the ayre is not equally temperat so in like case the water is not temperat But vnder the lyne the temperatnesse of the water doeth folowe the temperatnesse of the ayre Therefore there is a good reason why the water in that part is more swéeter than in other places Being passed this line we found the sea more and more calmer and peaceable keping our course towarde the Caape of good hope That not onely all that is vnder the lyne is inhabited but also al the worlde is inhabited contrary to the opinion of our elders Cap. 19. IT is euidently sene howe greate the curiositie of men is either for a desire to knowe things or for to attayne to possessions or else to auoyde Idlenesse that they haue hazarded them selues as the wise man sayth and beside him the Poet Horace sayth in his Epistles to all dangers and trauels for to eschew pouertie to leade a more quiet life without trouble or payne Notwithstanding it might be ynough for them to know and vnderstande that the soueraygne workmaster hath made with his owne handes this worlde al rounde so that the water hath ben separated from the lande to the ende that more commodiously euery one might inhabit in his proper Eliment or at the leaste in that place whereas he thought moste beste Neuerthelesse not content with this they would knowe if it be all ouer inbabited Notwithstanding for such finding out and diligence I esteme them for my parte as much and rather more worthy of prayse than our late writers and Nauigators for that they haue first opened to vs these things Otherwise with greate payne we could not haue knowen them nor comprehended but Thales Pithagoras Aristotle and many others as well Greekes as Latins haue sayde that it is not possible that all partes of the world should be inhabited the one parte for the greate and vnsuportable heate another parte for the great and vehemēt cold Other Authors deuiding the world into two parts called Himisperes one of y e which they say can in no wise be inhabited But the other parte in the which we are muste of necessitie be inhabited And so of foure partes of the worlde they take away thrée so that to their opinion there shoulde rest but two that be habitable And for the better vnderstanding thereof to eche one excepting those that haue knowledge thereof I will declare this more playner minding therefore to proue that al the world is inhabited They suppose that there is fiue zones in all the worlde by the which they will measure and compasse all the earth of the which two are colde two temperate and the other hot And if you wil know how they gather these fiue Zones extende your lefte hande towarde the Sunne rysing being the fingers spredde abroade and by this meane Probus Grammaticus dyd teach or instructe Then when you haue beheld the Sunne thorough the lower parts of your fingers bowe and bende them euery one in forme or manner of a Circle By the thumbe ye shall knowe the colde zone which is the North the which by the excessiue coldenesse as they doe affirme is vnhabited Neuerthelesse the experience hath shewed within fewe yeares that all those partes well néere to our Pole also vnder the Paralezey Artike ioyning to the Hyperbores as Scauia Dacea Swetherlande Gotlande Norway Denemarcke Thilia Lyuonia Pilapea Pruse lande Russia Muscouia Ruthenie whereas there is nothing but Ise and continual coldnesse to benotwithstanding inhabited with frowarde and brutish men The which to our Englishe Marchantes is well ynough knowen Therefore the Ancient writers in this do greatly erre are not to be beleued hauing onely spoken by gesse and thought and not by experience Let vs speake of the other zones the other finger next to the thumbe doeth signifie the tempeperat zone the which is inhabited extendeth to the tropicke of Cancer though y t in drawing néere it be more hot than temperat as that which is iustly in the midst that is to know betwene this tropicke the Pole The thirde finger doeth represent the zone placed betwene the two tropickes named Torrida bicause of the extreme heate of the Sunne the which resteth and burneth vp all and therefore it was iudged vnhabitable The fourth finger is the other zone temperated of the Antipodes a meane betwene the tropicke of Capricorne and the other Pole the which is inhabited The fifth which is the little finger signifieth the other zone colde the which in like case they haue estemed vnhabited for the like reason as they alleged for the former Pole of the which we may say as much as we haue sayde of the North parte for the like reason is of bothe After then that this rule or example is knowen it is easily knowen what partes of the Worlde are inhabited and which are not according to the opiniō of the Auncient writers Plinie diminishing that which is inhabited sayth that of the fiue partes that are named zones we muste take away thrée bicause they are not inhabited the which hath bene shewed by the thumbe the greate finger and the little finger Also he taketh away al that occupieth the Weast sea And in another place he writeth that y e earth that is vnder y e Zodiack is onely inhabited The causes that he allegeth why these thrée zones are vnhabited is the vehement colde which for the farre distance absence of the Sunne is in y e Region of the two Poles and the greate and extreme heate that is vnder the zone Torrida is bicause of the continuall presence of the Sunne As much doe our late Theologiās affirme and write The contrary notwithstanding may be shewed by the writings of these Authors before alleged by the authoritie of Philosophers specially of our tyme by the witnessing of holy Scriptures and then by experience which passeth all the which by me hath bene made Strabo Mela Plinie although that they disproue the zones write neuerthelesse that there are men in Ethiopia in the Ilande named by the elders Aurea and also in the Ile Tabroban Malaca and Zamotra vnder the zone Torrida also that Scandenauia the hills Hyperbores and the countrey adiacent

theyr countrey so that the Spaniards remained there Lordes and Maisters beside many other lands adiacent that since they haue conquered euen to Moluques in the Ocean to the West of the other coast of America so that at this day they haue in possession a great deale of lande about this fayre Riuer whereas they haue builded Townes holds And some of the wylde men adiacēt are reconciled with them and become Christians True it is that about a hūdreth leagues beyond there are other wylde men that make warre with them being stoute men and of great stature almost like Gyants And they liue with littell other foode than humaine fleshe as the Canibals This kinde of people go so swyftly on foote that they will easely take wilde beastes in their chase they liue longer than any of the other wilde men doe as a hundreth and fiftie yeares and the other lesse they are very prone and subiect to that damnable sinne of lechery haynous before God the which I omit not onely for the respect of this coūtrey of America but also many others These Giants make warre aswell with the Spaniards as the wilde men about them Now to our purpose This Riuer of Platte with the countrey adiacent is now very riche aswell in Siluer as in stones this Riuer swelleth or encreaseth certaine daies in the yeare as doeth Aurelana that is at Perou and Nyll in Egipt At the mouth of this Riuer there are many little Ilands of the which some are inhabited the others not this countrey is very full of Hylls and Mountaines from the Caape S. Mary vnto the white Caape specially that towardes Saint Helenes point distant from the Riuer .65 leagues and from thence to Arnes Govvrdes .30 leagues then from thence to Basseas to the other land so named bicause of the great valleis that there are And from Basseas to the Abbey of Fonda .75 leagues The rest of the countrey hath not ben frequented of christians extending to the Caape Saint Dominik or Caape Blanke and from thence to the Promentary of the eleuen thousand Virgins .52 degrées and a halfe beyond the Equinoctial and thereby is the straight of Magellan of the which we mynde hereafter to speake As touching the flatte countrey it is at this present very fayre by an infinit number of Gardens Fountaines and Riuers of swete fresh water in the which are great plenty of very good Fish And to the said Riuers there haunteth a kinde of beast that the wylde men name in there language Saricouiemia which is as much to say as fine or daintie beastes the which beast remaineth more in the water than on the land and is no bigger than a little Cat. The skynne of this beast which is intermedled with gray white and blacke is as fine and smooth as veluet his féete made like the féete of a water Foule And as for his flesh it is very pleasant and good for to eate More ouer in this countrey toward the straight there are many strange and monstrous beastes but not so cruell as in Africa And to conclude this countrey now is brought to so good a forme that it would not be taken for a strange countrey for the wylde men of the countrey haue inuented of late days by the meanes of Christians artes and sciences very ingeniously so that they may be a very spectacle to many people of Asia and of our Europe I meane of those that curiously obserue and kéepe the damnable law of Mahomet and other fonde and deuilish Doctrine Of the straight of Magellan and of Daryen Cap. 56. SEing that we are come so neare to this notable place it shall not be out of the way to write somewhat thereof Now this straight called in Greke Poeidinos as the West betwene two landes named in Greke Istmas a straight or a pointe of lande betwene two waters as that of Daryen confineth America toward the South and there seperateth with an other land discouered but not inhabited euen as Gebaltar doeth Europe with Africa and that of Constantinople doeth Europe with Asia being named the straight of Magellan by his name that first dyd discouer it lyeng fifty two degrées and a halfe beyonde the Equinoctiall contayning of bredth two leagues by one only height straight East and West two thousand two hundreth leagues from the North to the South furthermore from the Caape of Essead which is at the entring of the straight vnto the other South Sea seuenty foure leagues vntill the first Caape or Promentary which is fortie degrées This straight hath ben long time desired and sought more than two thousand eight hundreth leagues for to enter by this straight into the Sea of Magellan to attayne to the Ilandes of Moluques Americus Vestucia one of the best Pylots that euer was hath coasted almoste from Ireland vnto the Cape of Saint Augustin by the commaundement of the king of Portingale the yeare .1501 And since another Captaine the yeare .1534 sayled vnto the Region named of Gyants In this Region betwene the Riuer of Platte and this straight the inhabitaunts are very mightie named in their language Pategones Giants bicause of their high stature forme of bodies They which first discouered this countrey tooke one of them finely being twelue foote long who was so vneasie to holde that .25 men had inough to doe about him and for to kepe him it behoued them to bynde his féete and hands in their shippe notwithstanding they could not kepe him long aliue but for sorow thought as they saye he died for hunger This Region is of lyke temperatnesse as Canada and other countries néere to our Pole and therefore the inhabitants are clothed with the skynne of a certaine beast named in their speach Su which is as much to say as Water for bicause to my iudgement that this beast for the most part remaineth in the waters and flouds This beast is a rauenous beast made after a straunge maner besides this if she be chased or pursued as the people of the countrey vse to doe for to haue the skinne she taketh hir yong ones on hir backe and couering them with hir tayle that is thick and long saueth hir selfe with running Neuerthelesse the wild men of the countrey vse a policie for to take this beast making a déepe pit in the grounde néere to the place where she maketh hir most residence the which they couer ouer with gréene leaues so that in running knowing not of this pit the poore beaste falleth in with hir yong ones and she seing hir selfe thus taken in hir rage she kylleth hir yong ones and maketh such a terrible noyse that she maketh the wylde men afrayde But for all this in the ende they kill hir with darts and arrowes and then they take hir skinne Now to our purpose This captain Fernandus of Magellan a couragious man being informed of the riches that might be found in the Ilandes of Moluques as great quantitie of spice

againste theyr enimies in the iuyce or lykor of this fruite There is yet another of the whiche the lykor that commeth forth is poyson notwithstanding the roote is very good to eate and therewith they make breade as in America although that the truncke the branches the leaues do not greatly differ The reason why this trée shoulde beare bothe sustenance and poyson I leaue to the Philosophers to iudge contemplate Their vsage in warre is as the Americans and other Canibals of which we haue shewed Of the Riuer of Amazones otherwise named Aurelane by the which ye maye sayle into the countrey of Amazones and into Fraunce Antartike Cap. 62. WHilest that I haue pen in hande for to write of places discouered and inhabited beyonde our Equinoctiall betwene the South and the West for to bring things to light and to giue more euident knowledge I am determined to set out in writing a voyage as farre as difficile and hard and most dangerously aduentured of the Spaniards as wel by water as by lande vnto the Territorie of the peaceable sea otherwise called Mare Magellan or the sea of Magellan wheras are the Ilandes of Moluques and others And for that ye shall note this better ye shall vnderstande that the King of Spayne hath vnder his obedience much lande in the West Indies as wel in Ilands as mayn land at Perou America the which by succession of time he hath obtained and gotten by which meanes at this day he receiueth great profit from thence Now among others a Spanish Captayne being in his princes behofe at Perou minded on a day to discouer as wel by lande as by water to the Riuer of Plate the which is distant from Caape S. Augustine 700. Leagues beyonde the line and from the sayd Caape to the Ilandes of Perou about thrée hundreth leagues This Captayne not waying the difficultie that there was in the long way neither in the excessible high mountaines neyther yet in the people nor in the wilde beasts but onely in the executing of this high enterprise beside the wonderfull riches wich being done he should get him selfe an immortall fame for him and all his posteritie This Captayne hauing therefore made all things in a redinesse and in good order as the case required carying with him certayne Marchandise whereby to get vittails by the way and other munitions hauing in his company fiftie Spaniards with a certayne number of slaues for to labor and to doe other seruice with certayne Indians that had bene made Christians as well for to conduct them as for to intreprete the languages set forward with certaine Caruels or smal Skifs on the Ryuer of Aurelana the which I may well testifie is the moste longest and largest that is in all the worlde hys breadth is .59 leagues and his length more than a thousande Many call it the swéete sea the which procedeth from the sides of the high mountaynes of Molubeba with the Ryuer of Marignan notwithstanding their entrie or beginning is distant .104 leagues one from another and they are mixed aboue sixe hundreth leagues within the playne countrey the sea or floode entering in aboue .40 leagues This Ryuer increaseth at certayne tymes of the yere as doeth Nill that passeth by Egypte proceding from the mountaynes of the Moone according to the opinion of some the which also I thinke to be so It was named Aurelana by the name of him that firste made vpon it a long Nauigation Neuerthelesse before it was discouered by some that haue named it in their Cardes the Ryuer of Amazones it is very dangerous bicause of certayne rockes and other inconueniences which cannot be auoyded but with greate difficultie Being entered somewhat farre into the Ryuer there are certayne fayre Ilands of whiche some are peopled the others not Moreouer this Riuer is dangerous all a long for that it is peopled as wel in the Ilandes as on the banckes with many strange and Barbarous people the whiche of a long tyme haue had enimitie and hatred to Spanyardes and others strangers fearing leaste they shoulde aborde theyr countrey and spoyle them Also if that by misfortune they get any they kill them without remission And eate them rosted and boyled as they doe other flesh Therefore taking ship in one of these Ilandes of Perou named the Holy Crosse in the greate Sea for to get the straight of this floode or Ryuer with a fayre winde they set of coasting néere ynough to the lande for to vew and knowe the countrey the people and for many other commodities Coasting then in their Nauigation nowe héere now there as the commoditie did permit the wilde men of the countrey shewed themselues in greate number on the bankes with certayne signes of admiration séeing this strange Nauigatiō and array of people vessels and munitions proper for warre In the meane tyme the Nauigantes were not a little astonyed for their parte for to sée such a multitude of vnciuill people and altogether brutish which by their countenance shewed that they would destresse them the which occasion caused them to sayle rowe a long time without casting anker or setting foote on lande Notwithstanding at the last famine and other necessities caused them in the ende to strike sayle and let fall anker The which they hauing done about a handgunne shot from the lande there rested no other thing but with flattering signes and other meanes to winne the fauor of the wild men for to get some vittails and space to reste their weary bones So that some of the wild men being in their little boates made of the barcke of trées being allured with these fayr shewes did ieopard themselues to approch not without some doubt hauing neuer sene Christiā come so néere to their limites Notwithstanding their feare the Spaniards made signe of more friendship shewing them kniues and other small Iron workes shining the which caused thē to approche And after y t they had made vnto them presentes of small value this wilde people went with al diligence to purchase and get them some vittails so at length they brought them great plenty of fish fruits of maruelous excellencie according as y e coūtrey brought forth Among other things one of these wild men hauing bene the day before in skirmishe had taken foure of his enimies Canibals and presented to them two members rosted the which the Spaniards refused These wild men as they sayde were of high stature fayre bodied and all naked as others are bearing on their stomackes broade péeces of Golde the others greate péeces shining of fine Golde well poolished in forme of rounde looking Glasses Ye nede not demaūde if that the Spaniards change their marchandise for such riches I beleue truely they escaped not so at the least they did their good will Now these poore Pilgrims being thus refreshed and vitteled for that tyme reseruing somewhat for after claps before they tooke their leaue they gaue more

boundance of Rats Sohiatan a kind of Rats Hiexousou another kinde of Rats Gerara a kinde of Serpent Theirab A kinde of straunge fishe The euill disposition of the aire by the Equinoctiall The signification of the Astrolabia How the Author departed from Thequinoctiall Certayne rayne water corrupted The diuision of a degree How ye may know the latitude longitude and distance of places Pirauena Albacore a fish Perou a thirde part of the Spanish Indies Of whence Perou tooke his name The moste renomed prouinces of Perou Quito a Regiō The prouince of the Canaries S. Iames of olde porte Taxamilca One Cuzco The kingdome of the Iugies Canar a very cold countrey The prouince of Calao Titicata a Lake Laake Carcas a countrey of Perou Platte a large and rych Citie The lande of Perou is lyke the figure of a Tryangle Daryen a straight of land A great superstition of certaine people of Perou Bohitis certaine Priests The Idolatry of these people The Spaniards are lords of all Perou The riches of the Ilandes of Perou Iugas a valiant and riche people Corne wil not prosper nor grow in America Cassade a kinde of sustenance Perou may be thought to be a new Europe The Ilande of Spaine before named Haiti Quisquia The Promētaries of the Spanish Iland Tiburou Higney Lobos Orane a Riuer Saint Dominic the chiefest citie in that Iland The most renoumed riuers in Noua Espania The auncient Religion of the inhabitans of this Iland C. Caligula Emperour of Rome Casco Apina rich plentifull Ilands The fruitfulnesse of this Iland named Noua Espania Description of Manati a strange fish Stones good for the colyke Diuers fayre workes made by the wylde men with fethers Hulias and Caris a kinde of strange beasts S. Iames Iland S. Iohns Iland The description of the Ile of Cuba A salte hill Salt of the Earth A kinde of Partriges A wonderfull lykor proceding from a hyll Bre a kynde of lykor Why in times past the wales of Babylon were so strong The Ilands of Lucaia The moūtayne of Potossy very rich in Mynes Themistitan The opinion of two Laake A comparison of Themistitan Ferdinand of Cortes Mutuezuma How they vse to trade The Sea lyke a marishe A starre with a tayle The lying of Florida Why Florida was so named A wylde bull Caape of Baxe Oisters hauing pearles The countrey of Baccalos The poynt of Baccales Baccales a fish The Ilandes of Cortes A voyage by Sebastian Babat Englishman A voiage made by Sebastiā Babat and Iames Quartier into Canada How the land of Canade lyeth Caape de Loraine or the land of Britōs The lying of Caape de Loraine Chelogua a ryuer An other region of Canada founde out by Quartier The amiable maners of these Canadiens A kinde of rackets The vse of these rackets How these Canadians doe chase the dere other wilde beastes Howe these Canadians marrie Osannaha Andouagny a God of the Canadians The opinion of the Canadiās as touching the immortalitie of the soule Donacoua Aguanna king of the Canadians The extreme colde of the countr●y of Canada The Canadians lodgings Why the people toward the north pole are more couragious and hardie than those toward the south A sea that is frosen Oftentimes there is famine in Canada and why The countrey of Labrador founde out by the Spanyards How they labour the earth Myll White beanes Cucumbers and how they vse them A kinde of herbe The vse of this herbe in parfume The Canadians clothing The auncient Galles in the time of Hercules wer like to wylde people The vse of wooll and by whome it was inuented How these Canadiens weare their haire The clothyng that the wiues of Canada vse to weare Howe the Canadians marry Agahanna How they vse their children A superstition vsed by the Turkes The Canadiās are warlike people Toutaniens enimies to the Canadians Of Ochelagua and Seguana How they prepare them to make warre These Canadiens vse feates and policie in their warre Another policy How these Canadians march in the warre A kinde of Drummes that they vse Howe they vse to fight Howe our elders in times past vsed to fight Heroditus Virgins vsed to fight one with another at the feasts of the Goddesse Minerua Diodorus The Anciēt custome of the men of Thebes Lacedemonians in fighting How these Canadians treate their enimies The goodnesse of the countrey of Canada The iuyce of a tree hauing a taste like good wine Cotton a tree Naturall vine rootes in Canada Stones like in colour to a mine of golde Mynes of Iron and mynes of Brasse Diamonds of Canada A Prouerbe Opinions on the creation of Crystall Solon Diodorus Crystal of Canada How greatly Cristall was estemed in tymes past of the Ancient Emperours of Rome and to what vse it was put Iasper stones Cassidonies The countrey of Canada is subiect to earthquakes why Hayle rife in Canada Earthquakes are dangerous The opinion of some Philosophers as touching earthquakes What the wind ●● The inconueniences that folowe earthquakes Seneca Why the Tēple of Diana was edified on a marish ground Earthquakes in Canada very violent The Ilands of Deuils Cape de Marco Newe found lād a very cold countrey Oyle of the fat of fishe The superstition of diuers nations in Leuant With what fish the Whale liueth Plinie sheweth that a Whale is dangerous on the sea to mete A fishe that is perpetuall enimie to the Whale Hehec a fishe Foreshewings of tempests Isidorus Straūge beasts Two kindes of Egles In his .xvj. boke of his naturall history Virgill Forestof Dodona Howe the men of Newe found land do warre Strange bāners The Ilandes of Essores why it is so named feared of the Nauigantes Essores The fruitfulnesse of the Ilāds of Essores Hyrcy Orcantine a kinde of Ceder Plynie A chest of Ceder A ship of Ceder A Prouerbe The Iland of S. Michel Cape Fynistra The Authors conclusion The Authors Cardes contayning the lyeng distances of places