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A07873 A treatyse of the newe India with other new founde landes and islandes, aswell eastwarde as westwarde, as they are knowen and found in these oure dayes, after the description of Sebastian Munster in his boke of universall cosmographie: wherin the diligent reader may see the good successe and rewarde of noble and honeste enterpryses, by the which not only worldly ryches are obtayned, but also God is glorified, [and] the Christian faythe enlarged. Translated out of Latin into Englishe. By Rycharde Eden.; Cosmographia. English. Abridgments Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576. 1553 (1553) STC 18244; ESTC S101322 70,126 212

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Spaniardes with a rude and murmuring songe At the length there came three other as thoughe they were ambassadours whiche by certayn signes desyred y e Spaniardes to go with thē further into the lād making a countenaunce as though thei wold intertayn thē wel where vpō y e captayne Magellanus sent w t thē vii mē well instructed to thintēt to ●earche y e regiō maners of the people And thus they went w t thē into y e desertes wher they came to a low cotage couered with wylde beastes skinnes hauing in it two māsiōs in one of y t which were womē childrē in the other only mē They interteined their gestes after a barbaros beastly maner which neuertheles semed to thē princelike for they killed a beast not much vnlike a wylde asse whose flesshe but halfe rosted they set before our mē without any other kind of meate or drinke Here were our mē of necessitie cōstrained to lye al night vnder these skinnes by reason of the great abundaunce of snowe and wynde And when it was day our mē were very earnest with them would in maner haue enforsed them to goe with them to the shippe which thing thei perceauing couered them selu●s from the head to the foote with certayn horrible beastes skinnes and paynted theyr faces with sundrye colours Thus taking theyr bowes and arrowes bringing with them other of theyr companie of much greater stature and terrible aspect thē they were they shewed them selues to oure men in araye as thoughe they were ready to fight But the Spanyardes whiche thoughte that the matter would haue comen to hand strokes commaunded a piece of ordinaunce to be shotte of The which although it dyd no hurte yet these hardy giauntes which a litle before semed to be as bold as though they durst haue made warre against Iupiter were by the noyse there of put in suche feare that they foorthwith beganne to entreate of peace Our men entēded to haue brought some of these Gyauntes wyth them into Spayne for the straungenes of the thinge but they all escaped oute of theyr handes Magell●nus therfore vnderstandinge that it were vnprofytable to tarie there any longer and that also the sea was very rough the wether stormie and boysteous and that furthermore the firme lād extēded further toward the south it so muche that the further they sayled that waye they should fynde in so much y e colder he deferred hys proceding vnto the moneth of may at whiche time y e sharpenes of winter exceadeth with th●m when as with vs sommer is begon He foūd there greate plentie of wood The sea also ministred vnto them great abundaūce of shelfishe besyde other fyshes of sundrie kynd●s He found lykewyse many springes of freshe holesome waters and vsed hūtinge and taking of foules Only bread wyne was lackinge in the shippe The south pole was there eleuated fortie degrees ¶ How Magella●us by a strayght or narrow arme of the sea sayled by the west into the East to dyuers Ilandes where also he was slayne THe wynter now being past the xxiiij day of Auguste Magellanus departed frō the place aforesayde styll folowed the tracte of the firme land toward the south vntyl at the length the .xxvi. day of Nouember he found in that firme land certayn open places lyke vnto strayghtes or narrow seas Into the which entring with his nauie he cōmaunded that certayn shippes should searche the goulfes on euerye syde yf anye way or passage might be found into the East At the length they foūd a certayn depe straight by the which they were perswaded y t there was enteraunce into some other mayne sea in so much that Magellanus attempted to sear●he y e same This straight was foūd to be somtime of y e bredth of thre Italian myles sometyme of two sometime of tenne reached somwhat toward the West The altitude or eleuacion of the south pole in this place was foūde to be .lii. degrees They coulde see no people stering in the costes of this entraūce Therfore Magellanus seing thys lande to be rough saluage vnpleasaūt to abide in by reasō of extreme cold he thought it not worthye the trauayle to spend any time in serching the same Therfore sailing forward in his viage thus attēpted by y e said strayghte which is now called the strayght of Magellanus he was therby brought into another mayn sea verye great and large The length of this strayght or narrow sea is estemed to be a hūdreth spanishe miles The land which he had on his right hande he doubted not to be mayne lande and that on the left hand he supposed to bee Ilandes Magellanus sawe lykewyse the fyrme land to be extended directly toward y e North wherefore letting passe that greate lande he sayled by that greate and large sea betwene the West and the North that for this intente that at the length he might by the West come into the East and agayne vnder the burning lyne called Zona Torrida beynge well assured that the Ilandes of Molucca which he soughte were in the Easte and not farre frō the Equinoctial lyne When they hadde thus sayled for●ie dayes and came now agayne vnder the line or circle called Tropicus Capricorni they founde two lyttle Ilandes inhabyted but very barren and therfore called thē infortunate Ilandes Departinge frō thence they sailed on for a great space and found a certayne Ilande which y e inhabitantes called Inuagana where the eleuacion of the Northe pole called pole Artike was .xij. degrees And the length from the Ilandes called Gades by the Weste was iudged to bee c.lviii degrees Thus proceding they saw dyuers other Ilandes and that so manye that they supposed they had been brought into a great sea lyke vnto that called Archipelagus where with sygnes poyntinges as the dūme are wōt to speake with the dumme they asked of these Indians the names of the Ilandes wherby they learned that thei were in Acatan and not farre frō the Ilande called Selani wel inhabited and replenished with abundaunce of al thinges necessarie for the cōmodities of this life Sayling therfore toward the Ilande of Selani thei were with a cōtrary wind drieuen on the Iland of Massana from whense they came to the greate Iland a● Subuth where y e Spanyardes were wel enterteyned of the Kinge of the Iland who brought thē into a certayn cotage and set before thē such delicates as he hadde Theyr bread was of the trunke of a certen tree cut in pieces fried with oyle Theyr drinke was of the humoure ●r ioyse which droppeth out of the braunches of the date trees when they are cutte Theyr meate was suche as they toke by foulinge with such fruites as the contrei brought forth This Ilande was very riche of gold and ginger In
was proued to be most wyse and certayne of hys frendes asked hym why he durste be so boulde he aunswered that Plato was hys frende and so was Socrates but trueth hys frende more then they bothe euen so I thinke it no iniurye nor contumelye to Saynct Augustyne yf the same were sayde of hym also geuynge hym otherwyse hys dewe commendacions as he was surelye an excellent● man of dyuyne wytte and knowledge and so trauayled in settynge foorth Christes true Relygion in those turmoylous dayes in perpetual combatte agaynste learned heretykes and Prynces of the worlde that he is worthelye called a Doctour and Pyller of Christes Churche And as for Lactantius the intente of whose wrytinges was chiefelye to ●hys ende to dyminisshe thestimacion of Philosophye as at those dayes it was necessarie to doe amonge the Gentyles and to aduaunce Goddes woorde whyche they contemned for the symplicitie of the same albeit he attempted as farre as hys learninge woulde serue hym to make all thynges in Philophie vncertayne yet are hys argumentes so slender that vnlesse GOD by the secrete working of hys spyryte hadde called the Gentyles to the true Faythe I feare me leaste fewe or none of them specyallye of the greate wyttes woulde haue been conuerted by ●actantius argumentes Howe he dalyeth in denyinge the yearth to bee rounde and that it is possyble that it myghte bee longe and rounde lyke an Egge or otherwyse longe and holowe lyke a bote meanynge I suppose that the Sea myghte bee conteyned in the holownesse of the same wyth suche other opinyons grounded of no reason it were to longe to rehearse Yet forasmuche as he was a learned manne and for the better satisfyinge of suche wyttes as ar● desyreous to know some appearaunce of truth by naturall reason and demonstracions lette vs admytte that the earth were rounde after anye of those fasshions whiche he describeth yet can it not bee denyed but that it is conteyned wythin the holowenesse yf I maye so call it of the ayre hauynge the heauen in euerye place dyrectelye ouer euery parte of the same as sayeth the Poete and Philosopher Virgill Caelum undique sursum Excepte perhappes Lactantius shoulde thinke that it honge by some thynge or were otherwyse borne vppe wyth pyllers as the Poetes Fable that the Gyaunte Atlas beareth the worlde on hys shoulders whereby they meane that a manne of valiente mynde must stoutelye beare the chaunces of the worlde Of whyche hangeinge or bearynge of the earth I reade a better and more true sayinge in the holye Scripture where it is written Fert omnia uerbo or●s sui that is that God sustayneth and beareth all thinges wyth the woorde of hys mouth Holye Iob also sayeth that the LORD ●tretcheth oute the Northe ouer the emptye and hangeth the earth vpon nothynge Meaninge by nothinge the ayre because to oure senses it appeareth in maner as nothynge Or otherwyse that it is not dependynge of anye other substaunce but to bee sustayned onelye by the power of GOD who hath appoynted the Elementes theyr places and lymittes and causeth the heuye to stande faste as wyt●esseth Moyses in hys songe sayinge By the wynde of thy nostrels the waters gathered together the flouddes stoode styll as an heape and the deepe wa●er congeled togeather in the heart of the Sea Wherefore yf the heauen bee rounde whiche no manne can reasonably denye that euer sawe the Sunne and sterres moue And yf the earth bee the center of the worlde dependinge as we haue sayde beefore then m●ste it needes folowe that they whiche inhabiting the Northweste partes of the earth haue the Pole Artike eleuate thyrtye degree● muste needes bee Antipodes to them whiche inhabitinge the Southeaste partes of the earth haue the Pole Antartike eleuate in the same degree and so the lyke to bee vnderstand of all other eleuacions and degrees And yf here anye wyll obiect that eyther the earth or firme land is not so large or so farre extēded or other wyse not inhabited althoughe it were so large or that the sea i● greater then the lande to thys I aunswere that no mā knoweth further hereof then is tryed and founde by experience as we haue sayde beefore And albeit that the sea were larger then the firme land yet forasmuche as there are Ilande● founde in all places of the mayne Sea and in maner all inhabited there is no reason to the contrarye but that the people of those Ilandes maye be Antipodes to such as dwel on the fyrme lande on the contrary parte whether the earth be round and longe yea or square yf you wyll notwythstandynge But wyth what certayne demonstracion● the Astronomers and Geometricians proue the earth to bee rounde and the Sphericall or rounde forme to bee mooste perfecte it were to longe to declare● I wyll therefore make an ende of thys matter wyth the sayinge of Sayncte Paule in hys Oracion to the menne of Athens That GOD made of one bloudde all nacions of menne to dwell vpon the hole face of the earth ¶ I hadde entended here well beeloued Reader to haue spoken somewhat of suche straunge thynges and Monsters whereof mencion is made in thys Booke to thende that suche as by the narownes of theyr vnderstandinge are no● of capacitie to conceaue the causes and natures of thynges myghte partely haue been satisfyed wyth some sensyble reasons● But beynge at thys tyme otherwyse hindered it shal suffise al good and hone●t wittes● that whatsoeuer the Lorde ha●h pleased that hath he done in heauen and in earth and in the Sea and in all depe places● ¶ Ecclesiasticus Capit. i. ¶ The eye is not satisfyed with syght the eare is not fylled with bearinge ¶ The Table ¶ Of the Ilande of Iaua Of the Ilande of Madagascar Of the Ilande of zanzibar Of the two Ilandes in the which men and wome● dwell a sunder Of the mightie Empyre of Cathay subiect vnder the dominiō of the great Cham or Cane Emperour of Tartaria Of certayn Prouinces subiect vnder the dominiō of the great Cham. Of the Prouince of Mangi Of the Region of Tangut Of the newe Ilandes howe when and by whom they were founde Of the two Ilandes Iohanna and Hispana Of the Canibales which eate mans fleshe Of the maners of the inhabitantes of Hispana How Christophorus Colūbus after that he had founde the newe Ilandes returned to Spayne and preparing a new nauie sailed agayn to y e Canibales How Colūbus the Admiral passed many Ilādes and what chaunced to hym his in that viage Of the newe India as it is founde and knowe● in these oure dayes Of the Adamant stone otherwise called the Di●mant Of the Kingdōs cities of Narsinga Canonor Howe the Elephantes in India are prepared to the warres Of the beaste called Rhinoceros Of Calicut the moste famous markette towne of India Of the maners of the Indians in Calicut Of Pepper and other
they caried with them into theyr countreye and we returninge home toward Spaine with many captiues came fyrste to a porte of Spayne called Calicium where we solde oure priesoners and were ioyefullye receaued In the yeare of Christ M. cccc xcix the .xv. daye of Octobre ¶ The seconde viage of Vesputius IN the moneth of May folowing Vesputius attempted another viage and came by the Ilādes of Canaria euen vnto the burninge lyne called Torrida zona and founde a lande beeyonde the Equinoctial line toward the South where the South pole is eleuate fyue degrees And wheras he coulde fynde no apte enteraunce into the land and sayled vp down alonge by the same he espyed a bote in which was aboute twentie men who as sone as they saw the Spanyardes lepte into the Sea and escaped all excepte two which they toke In theyr bote which they forsoke were founde foure young men which they had by force taken oute of another countrey hauinge theyr priuie memb●rs newelye cutte of These Vesputius toke into his shippes and learned by theyr signes and tokens that they hadde been taken of the Canibales and should shortly haue been eaten But departinge from these costes saylinge on forward they came to a commodious hauen where they founde muche people with whom they ioyned frendshyp and fell to chaungeinge of ware receauinge for one bell fyue hundreth Pearles In this lande they drinke a certayne kynde of wyne made of the iuyse of fruites and sedes being lyke whyte and redde sydar Departinge from hence and saylinge yet further they founde a certayne Ilande in which was a beastly kind of people and simple yet very gentle In this Ilande is no freshe water but they gather the dew which in the night season falleth vpon certayne leaues muche lyke vnto the eare of an Asse They lyue for the moste parte by sea fishe They haue no cotages of houses but haue certayne broade leaues wherewith they defende them selues from the heate of the Sunne but not from showres but it is verye lykely that it rayneth but lyttle in that Iland Vesputi●s wyth his companye departinge from hence sayled vnto another Ilande into the whiche when he hadde entered he founde certayne cotages and in them ●wo old women and three young wenches whiche were of so greate stature that they marueyled thereat And whereas oure menne stryued with them to bringe them to the shyppe to thintente to haue caryed them into Spayne they espyed cominge toward them syxe and thyrtie men yet of muche greater stature then were the women bearing with thē bowes arrowes and great stakes lyke vnto clubbes at the syghte of whome oure menne beinge afrayd made haste to theyr shyppes But these Gyauntes folowinge them euen to the Sea syde bended theyr arrowes towardes the Spanyardes vntyll they discharged two pieces of ordinaunces wyth the horryble sounde whereof they were immediatly drieuen to flight Oure menne therefore departinge from thence called that Ilande the Ilande of Giauntes And came to another nacion which frendlye entreated them and offered them many Pearles in so muche that they boughte .xix. markes weyghte of pearles for a smal price They gaue vs also certayne shelfysshes of the whiche some conteyned in them a hundreth and thyrtie Pearles and some fewer Departinge frō thence they came to the Ilande of An●iglia which Columbus had discouered a few yeares before Leauinge this they sayled directely to Calicium a porte of Spayne where they were honourablye r●ceaued ¶ The thyrde viage of Vesputius VEsputius beyng called frō Castile to serue Emanuel the King of Portugale in the yeare of Christe M. ccccc.ij the tenth daye of May departed from the hauē of lisburne and sayled downe by the coastes of the sea Atlantike vntil he came vnder the Equi●●ctial lyne And the .xvij. daye of Auguste they arryued at a cer●ayne lande where they found a kind of beastly people This land is situate toward the South fyue degrees beyonde the Equinoctial lyne A greate multitude of the inhabitātes wer gathered together and as wel as they coulde by signes and poyntinges desired oure men to come alande to see theyr coūtrey There were two in the shippe whiche toke vpon thē to vewe the land learne what spyces or other commodities might be had therein They were appoynted to returne within the space of fiue daies at the vttermost But when eyght dayes were now paste they whiche remayned in the shippes heard yet nothing of theyr returne wheras in the meane time great multitudes of other people of the same lande resorted to the Sea syde but could by no meanes be allured to communicacion Yet at the length they broughte certayne women which shewed them selues familier towarde the Spaniardes Wherupon they sent forth a young man beyng very strong and quicke at whom as the women wondered and stode ga●inge on him and feling his apparell there came sodeynly a woman downe from a mountayne bringing with her secretely a great stake with which she gaue him such a stroke behynde that he fell dead on the earth The other womenne foorthwith toke him by the legges and drewe him to the mountayne whyle in the meane tyme the men of the countreye came foorth with bowes and arrowes shot at oure men But the Spaniardes dischargeing foure pieces of ordinaunce agaynst them droue them to flighte The women also which had slayne the yong man cut him in pieces euē in the sight of the Spaniardes shewinge them the pieces and rosting them at a greate fyre The mē also made certayn tokens wherby they declared that not past .viij. daies before they had in lyke maner serued other christiā mē Wherfore y e Spaniardes hauinge thus sustayned so greuous iniuries vnreuenged departed w t euyl wil sayling therfore further toward y e south they foūd a naciō of great multitude of much gēteler cōdicions with whō thei remained .viij. daies bartering chāgeing ware w t thē Sayling on yet farther they wēt beyond y e line called Tropicus Capricorni where the south pole is eleuate .32 degrees wheras in those parts thei foūd no great riches they sailed yet further south ward vntill y ● pole was eleuate .lij. degrees where thei came into such a tempeste that they were enforsed to gather vppe theyr sayles and to rowe only with the maste directing theyr viage toward the costes of Ethiopia from whence they returned againe to Lisburne in Portugale ¶ The fourth viage of Vesputius THis nauigaciō was attempted in the yeare of Christ. M. ccccc iij. but was not brought to the ende hoped for by reason of a misfortune which chaunced in the goulfe of the sea Atlantike Vesputius entended in this viage to sayle to the Ilande of Melcha beyng in the East in which is sayde to be great ryches the stacion of restinge place of all shippes comming frō the goulfe Gangeticus from the
Disobediēce ●oloweth Idlenes Note Bartholomeus Colūbus The bisshop of rome deuideth y e world hesperides or Caput u●ride How the Spanyardes y ● Portugales deuided the world betwene them Golde Pearles The Equinoctial ly●e The ryuer of Ganges Calicut Taprobana Samotra the great cy●ie of Malaccha the regiō of ●inarū the Ilandes of Molucca Sayling into the East by the west the ro●̄d●es of ●he erth The firme land Spice● the vi●ge from the West in to the Easte America The firme land Regio Baccalearum Terra Florida the king o● spay● sendeth foorth shippes The viage of Magellanus by the west into y e east The Ilādes of Molucca The Il●des of c●naria Promontorium s. Marie Canibales The eleuaciō of the south pole 46 degrees The Region of giaūtes Cotages couered w t beastes ski●nes Onager Abūdaūce of s●owe wynde The Giaūtes ar putte to ●●yght extreme winter in maye ●he south pole eleuate .xl. degrees The ●●rayght of Magel●anus The altitude of the south pole li● degrees ●he main sea beyond the strayghtes The fyrme land The burning line Torrida Zona ● The Ilādes of Molucca Tropicus capricorni the Ilād of Inuagana The Ilādes of Gades called Cales Males Archipelagus Acatan Selani ●assana S●buth Bread of the trūke of trees Drinke of the droppīg of date ●●●es Golde Ginger Magellanus is slayne the new captai●e Serranus is betraied of his bondmā the king of Subuth cōspyreth agaynst the Spanyardes The captayne Serranus is takē prisoner The Il●des of Gibeth Porne Siloli Peace Idlene●● Bread of Rice Cāphire Pearles as bigge as turtle doues egges● A maruelous bi● shelfish● Gilona Men w t hanging eares The sp●nyardes arriue a● the Ilandes of Molucca The tree that bea●eth clo●es the cinomome tree The nutmeg tree Mace The nutmegge Ginger Promon ● torium bon● sp●● Colūbus the adm●ral fyrst finder of the new Ilande● the Ilandes of Medera Hispana or Hispaniola Greate heate vnder the burning lyne Signes pointing ●he faire ●egiō of Parias Golde Pearles ●earse ●ea●t●s Canibales the Spanyardes refuse to obey the admiral Parias Curtana Pearles forbelles nedles Peacockes Phesāts The Region of Cāchietes The region of Ciniana Pearle● Naked people Gold for belles A cōflict betwene the wild men and the Spaniardes The Region of Payra woodes of Sa●ders The tree y ● beareth Cassia fistulae A mōsterous beast● Ferdinādo kinge of castile Insulae fortunate Naked menne Wylde men allured with gētlenes People expert i● swimminge Cabens hanging betwene tree● Wom●● in cōm● Wom●● very strōge and fruitful● Ho●ses made of trees Houses of maruelous bignes Ryches superfluities cōtēned Bread of a certain roote Mans ●lesh eatē A cōflict A gentle nacion Parias Fruites vnlike vnto oures Gold euery where● Canibales An expedicion agaynst y e Canibal●● the Equinoctial line Canibales fyue hundreth pearles for one bell Wine of the iuyse o● fr●tes An Ilād wythout fresh water Broade ●●aues The lād of Giaunte● Pearles A hundreth xxx pearles in one shelfishe Antiglia Calicium The sea Atlātike Thre● of the Spanyardes slayne eaten Fearse cru●ll women A ciuil● people the sout● pole eleuate ●● degrees lisburne the Ilād of melcha Calicut Insulae uerides A shippe wracke Liserte● and S●rpēts the Portugales bil●●ortes in the East partes Alphōsus Aure● chersonesus the great ryche cytie of Malach● Saracēs Malacha besieged the ki●● fighteth on an ●lepha●t Plēty of copper Marchaūtes Spyces the cytie of Goa The Ambassadors make a leage wyth Alphōsus the west Ilandes Cuba Iucatana Cozumella or Sancta Crux Hispana Suger presses The wood called Guaiacū Medera or Madera Sawe milles Fayre tree● Suge● Vynes the Ilandes of Canaria christiās A moūt of burninge brimstone Fygges Libr. i. Capit. v. Eratosthenes Polibius Possidonius the Equinoctial lin●● the poet Homere Macrobius Albertus Magnus Ptolomeus Taprobana Ethiopes Tigris Euphrates Sinus Pe●sicus The nearenes of the sūne Teperate●es vnder the Equinoctial Torrida zona Ethiopia Plinie the Ilād of meroae Syenes in Egipte The conuersiō of the sūue Of the furlōge● of Italie viij doe make one Italiē myle cōteyning a. m pases Agisimba Montes Eanae Pal●des Nili Ethiopes Anthropophagi Gabi●able regions how farre ●xtended Cli●●