THE COLONIES OF BARTAS VVith the Commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the Translatour ANCHORA SPEI Mores hominum multorum narrat vrbes LONDON Printed by R. F. for Thomas Man 1598. AD ILLVSTRISSIMVM HEROA CAROLVM NOTINGHAMIAE COMItem Equitem Georgianum Regineae Maiestati Regni consultum magnum Angliae Admirallium c. PAR MER ET PAR TERRE Multa audire nequis per summa negotia Regni Qui Leo per terram es Ancora qui per aquas Viue igitur praelustris vtes Terraque Marique Et liber hic tibi sit gratus vt alter erat Viue vince hostem vicisti vt semper Iberum Semper in Christo Carole Magne vale Tui Nominit studiosissimus Guilielmus de Insula AGAINE TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES EARLE of Nottingham Knight of the Garter Priuie Counseller to her sacred Maiestie Lord high Admirall of England c. EXcellent and most worthy-aduanced the hard and troublesome studie of the lawes whereunto I am by place deuowed affoords me so short onely and broken times to shew and satisfie the desire I haue of honoring your Lordship that through the continuall enaction of your vertue your honours daylie encreasing do farre surmount and outstrip these enterspaced labours of my pen. bound yet my L. by many titles to loue and honour your House euer honorable now in your Lordship repossessed of the great name your auncestours had for some token of the great ioy my hart conceiues thereat and especiallie at this time I haue to the Babilon of Bartas which you did so graciouslie receiue at my hands further Englished and do here present vnto your excellent Honor this booke next ensuing the other which the Auctor entituled The Colonies a work my L worthie also to be countenaunced by your honorable name and not vnmeet for a noble Knight Statesman and Admirall though he were of all the world to read if the great cares of so high place gaue leaue For here in lesse roome then might be thought able to containe so great and sundrie matters are plainlie set downe and euen tabled-out vnto vs the seuerall partes peoples and policies of the whole earth as they began first and grew in time further to be distinguished by the three sonnes of Noe the diuerse ouer-creases of their families But Englands great negocies will not let Your Lordship reade or heare much prose or song For as in Embleme I before haue set To paint in short what honours you belong BY SEA AND LAND you are the Fense of Sion By SEA her Ancor and By LAND her Lion Liue then renoumed both BY SEA AND LAND And daunt the Spaniard as you haue to fore That England fast may with your Ancor stand And by your Lion enimies be tore So shall you ridde the world of Tyrants threat Therfore be tytled Englands Charles the Great And alway for so guarding this her Isle Of Prince be graced lou'd and song of Lisle VVho still remaines your Lordships ready at commaund THE COLONIES Being to speak of so many peoples remoues as came froÌ„ Noe a hard matter â—ee desires the furtherance of Gods speâ—â—â— fauour WHile ore th' vnpeopled vvorld I loade the fruitfull stocke Of him that first assay'd the vvaters vvrackfull shocke While I by sea and land all in their places range Discou'ries fortunate of manie a kingdome straÌ„ge And while of mighty Noe I toyle to spread and twine Fro th' one to th' other sea the many-branched vine O 1 what twy-lightie cloud by day shall guide my sight What firie piller shall my course direct by night To Seats each peopl'ordain'd before the Paire-of-man Their twyfold-one estate in paradise began 2 Thou holie-holie Flame that ledst the Persian Wises Who left the coast parfum'd vvherout faire Tytan rises To view the cradl'of him vvhose youth in liuing light For euer flourisheth driue hence the gloomy night That seeleth vp mine eyes and so my Muse it shall Search all the darker nookes of this great earthie Ball. For though my wandring sprite althrough this iourney long Waue here and there yet I no vvay more bend my song Nor aught do more desire then to direct and waine My readers to the Childe that was Diuine-humaine 1 What twilighty cloud The Poet being to make in out so manie wayes and crosse so manie seas and countries huge and vnknowne good cause he had to demand as hee doth a greater help then mans wit can affoord such as the children of Israell had a cloud by day and a piller of fire by night to guide them through the wildernesse and surely God gaue him a verie extraordinarie gift otherwise he had neuer bene able so well and brieflie to haue comprised so many hard and worthie matters as hee hath done in lesse then sixe hundred verses He saith here further that each peoples place of abode was ordained of God before the paire of man that is Adam and Eue had receiued in paradise their twifold-one beginning that is before Adam was created of earth and Eue of one of his ribbes noting thereby how of one they were made two in creation and after of two one by marriage And so before the world was made the Lord had in his eternall decree marked and skored out the dwelling places of all people it remained therefore that the same decree should be accomplished as appeared afterward 2 Thou holy-holy Flame The Pole-starre is the marriners guide but here the Poet asketh another maner helpe to shew him the right way in his trauell and glancing at the maruellous new starre that appeared to the wisemen that came out of the East to see and worship our Sauiour Iesus Christ then borne in Bethlem he calleth on the holy Ghost the true light of our vnderstanding auerring that although the matter which hee hath taken in hande constraines him to discourse somtime of one thing and sometime of another yet is Iesus Christ the chiefe marke he aymeth at vnto whom his desire is to lead his readers as also whatsoeuer is set vs downe in the doctrine of Moses the Prophets and Apostles tendeth to the selfe same end This the Poets holie desire makes much to the shame of those that hauing themselues an vnclean heart by setting their filthy workes in print defile also the eyes and eares of many whom as much as in them lies they lead vnto the diuell A comparison â—â—â—ly shewing th' effect of that astonishment befel the builâ—ers of Babell As when the skie orecast vvith darkesome cloudy racke A vvoods heart thorow-strikes vvith some great thunder-cracke The birdes eu'n all at once their neast and pearch forsake And through the troubled aire they flote for feare and quake One here another there their pinions whizzing sound Is noysed all about no greâ—sell Turtl'is found Together with her make with downie callow feather Some yong ones dare assay to vvrastl'against the vveather Right so 3 the men vvho
Hochilega and other landes thereabouts Reade Theuet also the latter Card-men For the French Calicuza I haue translated Caliquas according as I finde it written both in others and in Ortellius who also hath for Mechi Terlichi-mechi and therefore I translate it Terlichi 46 They sow'd at'hother side Xalisco nowe called Noua Gallicia is described by Gomara in the 21. Chapter of his 5. booke It is a land very fruitfull and rich in honny waxe and siluer and the people there are Idolaters and Men-eaters Nunnius Gusmannus who seized the countrie for the king of Spain in the yeare 1530. hath written a discourse thereof and it is to be read in the third volume of the Spanish Nauigations The Prouince of Mechuacan from whence not farre lyeth Cusule is about 40. leagues lower southward then Xalisco that also the said Gusmannus conquered after he had most cruelly and traiterously put to death the Prince and Peeres of the countrie as Gomara sheweth in his booke chapter aboue quoted Mexico which some count all one with Themixtetan is the mother Cittie of that kingdome now called Hispania Noua wonderfull rich it is and strong and of high renoume built farre more curiously then Venice vpon a lake salt on the northside because it is there of a Sea-like breadth and on the southside fresh because of a Riuer that empties there into it Greater is the Cittie thought to be then Seuille in Spaine the streetes are passing well set and their channels in such manner cast as can not be mended Diuers places there are to buy and sell-in the needefull and ordinary wares but one there is greater then the rest with many walkes and galleries round about it where euery day may bee seene aboue threescore thousande Chapmen There is the Iudgement hall for common Pleas and were also many temples shrines of Idols before the comming of Ferdinando Cortez who made thereof the first conquest for the K. of Spaine exercising most horrible cruelties vpon all both yong and old in the Citie as Barthelemi de las Casas a Monke Bishoppe of Spaine reports in his historie of the Indies where he stayed a long time Looke the description of Mexico in the thirde volume of the Spanish Nauigations fol. 300. See also Benzo of Millaine his historie of the newe worlde the 2. booke and 13. Chapter Now from these partes aboue named after report of some wonders of many there seene and worthie a larger discourse by themselues the Poet drawes his Colonies down further towardes Peru by the Land-straight of Panama which parts the South-sea from the Ocean and thereabout is hardly 20. leagues in breadth The fiery mountaine of Nicaragua is by Gomara described in his 5. booke Chap. 203. so are the other wonders which the Poet here notes in his 4. booke chap. 194. 47 Then Chili they possest Gomara in his fourth booke chap. 131. holds opinion that the men of Chili are the right Antipodes or Counter-walkers vnto Spaine and that the countrie there is of the same temper with Andaluzie This Chili lyeth on the shore of el Mar Pacifico so also doth Quintete which I haue put for Chinca both neere the Patagones or Giants whose countrie is full of people and hath certaine riuers that runne by day and stand by night some think because of the snowes which in the day time are melted by the Sun and frozen by the Moone in the night but I take it rather to be some great secret and miracle of nature The cause why here I made exchange of Chinca was first for that the Poet had spoke before of the springs of Chink which I take for the same then because it is so diuersly placed of the Card-men for Ortelius in his Mappe of the new world sets it aboue and Theuet beside Chili in either place it stands well to be taken for the Chink afore-named but Mercator placeth it a great deale lower and on the contrary coast neer the riuer of Plata where indeede is a countrie called Chica that perhaps hath bred this error Lastly Quintete stands so right in way which the Poet followes from Chili to the Patagones that I thought it not amisse to take the same rather then the doubtfull Chinca By the fomy Brack of Magellanus he meanes the sea and Straight of Magellan close by terra Australis Gomara describeth it well in the beginning of the third booke of his Portugall Historie The Poet hath alreadie shewed how people came first on the North America from the kingdome of Anian ouer the maine land to th' Atlantick sea shore then on all the further coasts from Quiuir to the Magellan Straight along th' Archipelago de San Lazaro Mar del Zur Pacifico and now he takes the higher side on the left hand from the Land-Straight of Panama to the riuer of Plata which is not farre from the Magellan noting by the way the most note-worthie places of all this huge reach of ground represented as it is by our late writers in their generall and particular Mappes of the New-found world Huo is a great sweet-sweet-water streame rising at Quillacingas that lieth vnder the Equatour and running athwart the countrie now called Carthage into the sea at Garia Vraba is the countrie that lieth betwixt that riuer and Carthagene Concerning Zenu marke what Gomara sayth thereof in his second booke and 69. chapter It is the name of a riuer and citie both and of a Hauen very large and sure The Citie is some 8. leagues from the sea There is a great Mart for Salt and Fish Gould the inhabitants gather all about and when they set themselues to get much they lay fine-wrought nets in the riuer of Zenu and others and oftentimes they draw-vp graines of pure gold as big as egges This countrie is not farre from the Straight of Darien In the sayd second booke chap. 72. he describes also Noua Grenada and the Mount of Emeraudes which is very high bare and peeld without any herbe or tree thereon growing and lieth some fiue degrees on this side the Equatour The Indians when they goe-about to get the stones first vse many enchauntments to know where the best vaine is The first time the Spanyards came there they drew thence great and little 1800. very fayre and of great price but for this commoditie the countrie is so barren that the people were faine to feede on Pismers till of late the Spanish couetousnesse hath made them know the value of their Mountaine Cumana is described in the foresaid booke chap. 79. in the ende whereof Gomara sayth the vapours of the Riuer of Cumana engender a certaine little mist or slime vpon mens eyes so as the people there are very pore-blind Parie is described in the 84 chapter of the said second book Maragnon a Riuer which as Gomara sayth 2. booke 87. chapter is three-score miles ouer It emptieth at the Cape of Aâ—inde three degrees beiond th' Aequator but springeth a great way further
the seruice of God But the Lord being mercifull vnto Abraham restored to him againe and kept for his faithfull children the first language which had not bene so much corrupted in the familie of Sem who parted not so farre from his father Sem â—ent toward the West 6 This countrey reaching foorth as rich as it is large From Peake of Perosites where doth himselfe discharge The stately running Ob great Ob fresh waters king A riuer hardly crost in sixe dayes trauelling To Malaca to th'isles from vvhence are brought huge masses Of Calamus and Cloues Samotra whereon passes The night-equalling line and to the waters far Of Zeilan breeding-pearle and goldie Bisnagar And from the Pont-Eusine and from the brother waues Of those Chaldean streames vnto the sea that raues With hideo us noise about the Straight of th'Amens To Quinzits moorie poole and Chiorzeke from whence Come Elephantick buls with silken haired hides That was the share of Sem for Gods decree it guides How and what nations came of Sem. 7 Ashur t' Assyriland that after some few dayes Chal Râ—zen Niniué their towres to heau'n may raise The Persian hils possest great Elams princely race And those fat lands where-through Araxes runnes apace Lud held the Lydian fields Aram th' Armenian And learned Arphaxad the quarter Chaldean 6 This countrey He setteth downe the lots of Sem Cham and Iaphet first in generall after meaning to shew the particular Colonies of each So then to Sem he allotteth Asia The proofe of these seuerall shares may be gathered out of the 10. Chapter of Genesis It is not meant that Sem in his owne life-time tooke possession of this huge plot of ground although he liued 600 yeares but the posteritie of his fiue sonnes ouer-spred it by succession of time as the Poet declares at large hereafter and a man may perceiue some token thereof in that Moses reckeneth in the foresaid Chapter the sonnes of Ioktan the sonne of Heber peti-sonne of Arphaxad sonne of Sem. Now before I shew the bounds here noted by the Poet in this lot of Sem I will set downe the description and deuision of Asia as now it is The map-drawers of our time differ in their order some consider it by the whole masse others by the sea-borders and parts best knowne which they recken to be nine those particularly deciphered in the first chapter of the 20 booke of the Portugall historie But this kind of deuision because it is more obscure and farther from my purpose I leaue and rest on the other which deuides the masse of Asia into fâ—ue principall riuer Ob or Oby the lake of Kittay and the land-straight that is betwixt the Caspian and Euxine sea The second is Tartary subiect to the great Cham which abutteth Southward on the Caspian sea the hill Imaus and the riuer Iuxartes Northward and Eastward on the Ocean and Westward vpon Moscouie The third part is possessed by the Turke and containeth all that lyes betweene the Euxine Aegean and Midland seas and so further betwixt Egypt the Arabian and Persian Gulfes the riuer Tygris the Caspian sea and the land-straight there The fourth is the kingdome of Persia abutting Westward on the Turke Northward on the great Cham Eastward on the riuer Indus and Southward on the Indian sea As for the fift part it is the same which we call the East-Indies so named of the riuer Indus and distinguished the higher from the lower by the famous riuer Ganges These Indies are verie large countreys as the maps declare and front out Southward as fâ—â—re as Malaca hauing besides an infinite sort of Ilands great and smal which the Card-men haue well set downe both in â—â—ps and writing Now see we the maner how the Poet considereth Asia He takes it first by right line froÌ„ North to South to 〈◊〉 from the peake foreland or cape of Perosites as farre as Malaca where he taketh in the Moluckes and Taprobana and from thence riseth againe to Zeilan and Bisnagar Then draweth another line from the Maior or Euxine sea on the West to the straights of Amen Northeast and toucheth by the way some few countreys most note worthy reseruing the rest vntill his particular description of the Colonies which followeth from the 297 verse vnto the 319. To make plaine some words in the text the Peake of Perosites is a promontory about the farthest part of Moscouy neare the Scythian sea where liueth as Cellarius reports of Asia in his great booke entituled Speculum orbis terrarum and Mercator in his world-map a certaine people which haue so small a vent for their mouth that they are nourished onely by the sauour and steeme of sodden flesh And about this promoÌ„tory the riuer Ob rising from the lake of Kythay groweth to an huge breadth and so emptieth into the Scythian or frozen sea The Baron of Herbestoin noteth it in his map of Moscouie and in his Historie saith as much as here followeth touching this riuer fol. 82. They that haue bene thereon say they haue laboured a whole day without ceasse their vessell going verie fast to passe the Riuer and that it is fourescore Italian miles brode Which agreeth well with that the Poet here saith and with report of Mercator and Cellarius so that by good right it may be called rather then any other streame the king of all fresh waters because in all the world besides there is none so large and this also is of a wonderfull great length for as the foresaid Baron affirmeth from the one end to the other to wit from the lake of Kythay to the frozen sea it asketh more then three moneths sayling The realme and citie of Malaca are described in the sixth booke of the Portugall historie chap. 18. It is neare the Equinoctiall aboue Taprobana so therefore Asia reacheth from the North pole beyond the Equator Th' isles froÌ„ wheÌ„ce are brought huge masses of Cloues Cassia are the Moluckes fiue in number Tidor Terenat Motir Maâ—hian and Bachian beset with diuerse other Isles Islets vnder and neere the Equator in the East which with their properties and manners of their inhabitants are well set downe in the 13 booke of the hystorie of Portugall Chap. 8. Samotra whereon passes the night-equalling line or the Equator is the Isle Taprobana Southward ouer against Malaca it is aboue 450 leagues long and 120 broad I haue described it in the fift day of the first weeke see further the history of Portugall in the sixt booke the 18 chap. Zeilan is an Isle right against the Cape of Calecut aboue Taprobana toward the East it lies North and South in length about 125 leagues and in the broadest place is 75 ouer There are taken out of the sea great store of pearles very faire and bright for the further description thereof see the 4 booke and 20 chapter of the hystory of Portugal Bisnagar is a kingdome lying betweene Decan and Narsingua the
mountaines of Calecut and the sea called the great gulfe of Bengala It is rich in gold which is there found in riuers Look the situation thereof in the Map of the East Indies and in the Asia of Ortelius and Cellarius The Pint-Eusine is now called the Maior or the blacke Sea at the one end thereof toward the Midland sea is Constantinople the Card-men call it by diuers names which Ortelius hath set downe in his Synonym By the Brother waues of those Chaldean streames is meant as I suppose the Persian sea whereinto Euphrates and Tygris both together empty being before ioined about Babylon now called Bagadet and so the Poet takes as much of the breadth of Asia at the West end as he doth at the East the one from Quinsay to Chiorze the other from the sea of Constantinople to the Persian Gulfe Concerning the straight of Anien the Cardmen are not all of one opinion Mercator Ortelius Cellarius Theuet and others set down plainly a good broad arm of Sea betwixt the Northeast point of Asia and America But Vopelius ioines Asia and this fourth part of the world together greatly enlarging Asia and curtolling the other contrary to the opinion of the Authors aforesaid and many Spaniards that haue written of the new-found world the reasons that may bee alledged in fauour of either side require a large Commentary Vopelius his opinion indeed cutteth off many doubts that arise about the enpeopling of America but Mercator and th 'others who are most commonly followed seeme to ground more vpon Geography and better to agree with the seas naturall sway and easie compassing the earth Arias Montanus in his booke intituled Phaleg where he treateth of the habitations of Noes posterity setteth downe a Mappe according to Vopelius this booke of his bound in the volume called Apparatus is ioined with the great Bibles of Antwerp But the Poet followeth Mercator Ortelius and the common opinion of the Cardmen of our time for Ptolome Strabo Mela in their daies had not discouered so much Quinsay which the Poet cals Quinzit is a famous citty in the Northeast point of Asia about tenne leagues from the sea built vpon peeres and arches in a marrish ground it is twenty leagues or 100 miles about and by reason as well of the great lake-Lake-waters there as also of th'ebbe and flow of the sea it hath as M. P. Venet. reports in the 64. chapter of his 2. booke 12000 bridges of stone the most renoumed bound-marke of all Asia and the greatest city in the world if that bee true But Theuet gainsaith it in the 27 chapter of the 12 booke of his Cosmography where he describes the city and Lake with the riuer that causes the lake to swell hee sayeth it is not aboue foure leagues in compasse yet M. Paule affirmes he hath been there Chiorze is another worthy part of Asia set downe here for a bound-marke because of the strange Buls there as great as Elephants with haire as smooth and soft as silke Howsoeuer now adaies that country is nothing so ciuill as others inhabited by the posterity of Cham and Iaphet yet the fruitfulnesse of the ground and great commodities there growing for maintainance of mans life declare it hath beene in times past one of the best portions of the children of Noe. 7 Ashurt Assyriland Moses sayth the sonnes of Sem were Elam Ashur Arphaxad Lud and Aram The Poet here in six verses hath noted out the first habitations of these fiue reseruing afterward about the 300 verse and so forth to shew their first second third and fourth out-going ouer the rest of Asia Concerning Ashur it may be gathered out of the 10 of Genesis verse the 11 that hauing sorted himselfe with the people that now began to feare Nimrod and liking not to liue vnder that yoke went on further and in the countrey after his name called Assyria built Niniuy which a long time remained one of the greatest citties in the world as appeares by the prophesie of Ionas and other places of Scripture and Caleh and Resen not farre asunder which haue been long-agoe destroyed Elam that was the eldest seated himselfe by the riuer Euphrates neere the Persian Gulfe which now is called the Sea of Mesendin The Poet giueth him a Princely title because the Monarchie began betime and long continued ther-abouts where also raigneth still the Sophi a great Emperor and deadly enemie of the Turks The Riuer Araxes is described by Ptolome in his third Mappe of Asia where hee makes it spring from the foote of Pariard which some men take for the hill Taurus and so passing Scapene Soducene Colthene to emptie into the Caspian sea These countries are very rich and therefore the Poet cals them fat lands Lud hauing passed the Riuer composed of Tygris and Euphrates which straight after void into the Gulfe had Elam on the North the two Riuers ioyned and the Gulfe on the East and on the West the Marches of Seba which is the vpper part of Arabia The Poet here alloueth him the Lydian fields if by Lydia bee vnderstood that part of the lesser Asia called Meâ—nia by Ptolome Herodote and Plinie Lud should haue wandered further then the other foure brothers Moses reports not any thing of his Colonies and his farre going may bee the cause for according to the Poet hee should haue coasted vp as farre as Aeolia and the Midland sea The seat of Aram is Mesopotamia to wit the countries about Babylon and the mountaines of Armenia which were after called by the name of Taurus This also containeth Syria and the great Armenia betwixt the which runneth Euphrates Arphaxad passing Euphrates staied in Chaldea and for that Astronomy and other excellent arts there chiefly flourished the Poet surnameth him the Learned which appertaineth also vnto him in regard of the true doctrine maintayned by his posteritie and after some corruption reformed in the house of Abraham whom the Lord remooued from Vr of the Chaldeans into Syria Cham goes to the â—â—â—â—paâ—â—s 8 C ham Lord was of the land that Southward is beset With scorch'd Guineas waues and those of Guagamet Of Benin Cefala Botongas Concritan That fruitfull is of droogs to poison beast or man Northward it fronts the sea from Abile pent betweene The barren Affricke shoare and Europe fruitfull-greene And on the Westerne coast where Phoebus drownes his light Thrusts out the Cape of Fesse the greene Cape and the white And hath on th' other side whence comes the sunne from sleepe Th' Arabike seas and all the blood-resembling Deepe Nay all the land betwixt the Liban mountaine spred And Aden waues betwixt the Persicke and the Red This mighty Southerne Prince commanding far and wide Vnto the regiment and scept'r of Affricke tide 9 Canan one of his sonnes began to build and dwell â—ow and what â—â—â—â—ns are deâ—â—â—ded of Cham By lordans gentle streame whereas great Israell Was after to be plac'd Phut peopled Lybia Mizraijm
Egypt had Chus Aethiopia 8 Cham. The share of Cham was Affrick which the Poet boundeth out as followeth It hath on the Southside the Aethiopicke Ocean or the sea of Guinea the land of Negres the realmes of Cefala which commeth neere the South Tropicke and 〈◊〉 right ouer against Madagascar or as the Spanish call it the Isle of S. Laurence Botongas lower and hard by the Cape of good hope Guagamet about the lake of Zembre from whence the riuer Nile springeth as Daniell Cellarius noteth in his Mappe of Affricke and Benin that lies aboue the Equator neere the great bay betwixt Meleget and Manicongo As for Concritan that is a great wildernesse betweene Cefala and Botongas which by reason of extreame heate brings forth great store of poisonous things Now the Northbound of Affricke is the Midland sea and on the West it shooteth out three capes or promontories named in the text all toward the Atlanticke Ocean but the greene cape which is more southward and pointeth more toward the Sea called in respect of the Antarticke pole the North Sea though it lie very neere the Equator on the east of Affricke plaies the Arabian Gulfe and the great red sea now called the Indicke Ocean and beyond these bounds the Poet saieth Cham also possest Arabia which is distinguished into three parts the Happy the Desert and the Stony all enclosed by the Mount Libanus and the Red and Persian Gulfes 9 Canan He setteth downe breefly and in foure verses the seuerall abodes of Chams foure sonnes according as they are named of Moses in the tenth chapter of Genesis Chus the eldest brother had Aethiopia which some take for that vnder Aegypt others for the land of Chus which is a part of Arabia the Happy as may bee gathered by many places of the old Testament well noted of M. Beroald in the sixt chapter of his fourth booke of Chronicles Mizraim peopled Aâ—gypt that of the Hebrewes was commonly called Mitzraym and long after Aegypt of the name of King Aegyptus who succeeded Belus in that kingdome and was brother to Danaue who came into Greece and was Author of that name generall to the Grecians which as Saint Augustine thinkes De Cus Dei the eighteenth booke and the tenth chapter happened about the time of Iosua Phut the third sonne of Cham gaue name sayeth Iosephus to the Phutaeans after called Lybians of one of the sonnes of Mesren or Mizrain named Lybis Hee addeth also that in Mauritania there is a certaine riuer and countrey called Phute Ezechiel 30.5 numbreth Phut among those that were in league with Chus and Lud which the Latine interpreter translateth Ethiopia Lydia and the Lydians so also did the 70. Interp. This I say to mooue the Reader that is so delighted vnto a further and more diligent search I thinke Phut was seated neere Arabia and Aegypt although Arias Montanus and others place him in the coast of Affricke now called Barbary about Tunis â—ugie Algeri and the Mountaines of Maroco Now of Canan or Chanaan the fourth sonne of Cham was called that Land of Promise which the twelue Tribes of Israell vnder the conduct of Iosua in due time entered and possessed The bounds thereof are plainly set down in the book of Exodus chap. 23 verse 31 and elsewhere I need not here discourse of them except I were to write a longer Commentary Japhet to the North and West 10 Now Iaphet spred along from th' Ellesponticke waters Th' Euxine and Tanais vnto the mount Gibratars Renoumed double top and that sune-setting Maine Which with his ebbe and flow plaies on the shore of Spaine And from that other sea vpon whose frozen allies Glide swiftly-teemed Carres instead of winged Gallies Vnto the sea Tyrrhene Ligusticke Prouençall Moreas waters and the learned Atticall Against the goodly coast of Asâ—a the lesse The second Paradise the worlds cheife happines And that great peece of ground that reacheth from Amane Vnto the springs of Rha and pleasant bankes of Tane Aâ—â— those braue men of war that France haue ouerspred How and what natiâ—ns came of Iaphet 11 Of Gomers fruitfull seed themselues professe are bred So are the Germaneseke once called Gomerites Of Tuball Spaniards came of Mosoch Muscouites Of Madai sprong the Medes of Magog Scythians Of Iauan rose the Greekes of Thyras Thracians 10 Now Iaphet Moses reciting Genesis 9.27 how Noe blessed his two children sets downe two notable points the one concerning the great and many countries which Iaphet and his posterity should possesse the other of the fauour that God should shew them by lodging them in the tents of Sem that is by receiuing them at length into his church which hath beene fulfilled in the calling of the Gentiles For the first poynt whereas hee sayth God enlarge Iaphet For so the Hebrew word signifieth although some translate it Persuade it is as much as if hee had said Let Iaphet and his race possesse the countries round about him farre and neere And this hath also beene accomplished in that so infinite a multitude of people hath issued out of the stocke of Iaphet and peopled Europe which though it appeare lesser then the other parts hath alwaies had more inhabitants and fewer void countries The Poet hath set downe so parfite a description thereof as it needs no further to bee opened if the Reader haue neuer so little beheld the Mappes On the East it is parted from the greater Asia by the Maior Sea the Meotis Lake called by Ortelius the Zabach sea the Riuer Tane or Don which voids into the Lake and the Spring-heads of Rha Edel or Volga running by Tartarie into the Caspian Sea and from Asia the lesse sometime the honour of the world and exceeding rich as still it hath sufficient it is deuided by the Straight of Gallipoli sometime called Hellespent On the West it hath the Straight of Gibraltar the Spanish and Brittish Oceans on the North the Frozen sea and on the South the Midland sea which is diuersly called to wit the Sea of Marseil by the coast of Genes the Adriaticke about Athens and Morea and otherwise according to the places adioyning This goodly part of the world beside the Romaine Empyre hath many great kingdomes full of people well set foorth by the Card-men Daniell Cellarius accounts it in length from Lisbon to Constantinople about sixe hundred leagues Almaine and very neere as much in breadth from Scrifinie to Sicily 11 Gomer Moses reckeneth seuen sonnes of Iaphet Genesis 10.2 So doth here the Poet notstanding much vpon the order of them to follow the verse of Gomer are come the Gomerites whom the Greekes called Galates Gaules of them came the people that spoiled Delphos and then sate downe about Troas in Asia and were called Gaule-Greekes or Asian Galates who afterward seized a good part of Phrygia The Lord threatning by Exechiel 38. chapter Gog cheife of the Princes of Mesech and Tubal sayth he will destroy him with this
South by Tarama in Peru thence running Eastward it casteth onely an Arme into th' Amazon about Picora Which hath caused many the first writers of America to count from that place both but one riuer So also doth our Poet here otherwise he would haue mentioned first how the people passed th' Amazon that other great streame now knowne by the name of Orenoque which riseth about Carangui and emptieth as Theuet sayth 104. leagues aboue the mouth of Maragnon Bresile which the Spaniard discouered in the yeare 1504. is surnamed fierce because of the Canibales Caribes and other man-eating people there lâ—de Leri hath written very fully all the historie of his aduenture in part of the countrie where dwel the people called Toupinamboes The riuer of Plata the Indians call Paranagacuc which word importeth as much as a great water Gomara speaking thereof in the 89. chapter of his second booke sayth In this riuer is found siluer pearles and other things of great price It containes in bredth 25. leagues makes many Islands and swels like Nilus and about the selfe-same time It springeth first out of the mountaines of Peru and is after encreased by the in fall of many riuers for the countrie thereabout is leuell or flat whereof it seemes to haue receiued the name of Plate Thus the Poet gesseth at the maner of this new-found worlds empeopling by the coast of Asia Whereunto I will adde what Arias Mont. that learned Spaniard hath written thereof in his book entituled Phaleg He saith Ioktan the double pety-son of Sem that is whose double grandfather Sem was had thirteene sonnes which are named by Moses in the 10. of Gen. and some of them peopled the West Indies from the East That which Moses saith Gen. 10.30 concerning Sephar a mountaine of the East Arias applies to the great hils of Peru which the Spaniards call Andes they reach out further in length then any other in the world and neere them stands an ancient towne called Iuktan Moreouer there lies higher a Neer-isle betwixt Cuba and Mexico called Inkatan which may be thought to resemble still the name of him that first brought people into the country To Ophir one of the sonnes of Ioktan Arias allots the land of Peru for as much as in the 3. chap. and 6. verse of the 2. booke of Chron. there is mention made of the gold of Paruaim To Iobab the countrie of Paria which is neere the Straight of Panama very rich also in gold and pearle I haue said elsewhere that Arias Montanus tooke Asia to be all one main-land with America and knew no Anian Straight If that bee true sure the race of Sem peopled those quarters But others considering the horrible ignorance and brutishnes of the West-Indians so lately discouered and the rather to excuse their outragious crueltie exercised vpon the poore people cannot thinke but that they are some relikes of the race of Cham. This opinion hath but a weake ground as he may well perceiue that will dulie examine the circumstances For strange it is not that the race of Sem after so many generations and in so farre-discoasted countries should at length bee thus corrupted Besides the West-Indians in diuers places liue still after the manner of the East But for better answering sundrie obiections that make to proue them Chamites reade the Preface to the New-found world of Benzo Frenched by M. Vrbain Chauueton 48 Moreouer one may say This is another guesse of the Poet as that the West-India was peopled from the North by some Iaphethites who veÌ„tured ouer the Straight of Groâ—land Indeed these Northerne countries haue euer swarmed with people and well it may be that some thence by others driuen or by necessitie or of their owne heads haue sought that way other places more to their liking As also that the coasts of Bresile and Plata which I thinke the Poet meanes by the Shore of Corican were peopled by some Chamites from Temian Tombut and Melli countries lying in the West of Africk about the fall of Niger For vnlikely it were seeing Almightie God gaue the whole earth to Noe and his three sonnes Gen. 9. that the race of any one of them should engrosse all this New-found world beside his part in the other Thus rather doubtlesse as the Poet guesseth and I am further bold to gather by little little at sundrie times and places did all the three families of Noe possesse those quarters as the rest that the wil of God might be fulfilled and the light of his glorie appeare in so equall-parting ouer-peopling the whole earth howsoeuer all that huge reach of ground that lieth vnder the South-pole and is thought the fift and greatest part if it all be habitable is as yet vnknowne or very little discouered How is was posâ—â—ble that 〈◊〉 his three sonnes should encrease as they did 49 Well may I graunt you then thou'lt say perhaps ther 's naught In all this vnder-world but may at length be raught By mans Ambition it makes a breache in Hilles It runneth dry by sea among the raging Scylles And in despight of Thirst it guides the sailing Holme Amids th' Arabick Sandes the Numid and the Tolme But verely methinks it goes against all sence One house beds only four should break so large a fence As t'ouerbreed the landes af Affrick Europe Ase And make the world appeer to narrow for the Race 1. Answer 50 If little thou regard th' I mortals pow'rfull hest That once againe the bond of sacred Marriage blest And said 2. Answer Encrease and Fill 51 If thou profane deny That Iacobs little train so thick did multiplie On Pharces fruitfull ground that in 400. yere The 70. lyuing soules fiue hundred thousand were 52 At least consider 3. Answer how because in elder time The fruites they ate grew not vpon so foggy slime As ours doe now nor was their meates with sauces dight Nor altered as-yet with health-destroying slight Of gluttonating Cookes because with murdring sword Of raging enemies they were not laid aboord Because their bodies were not ouercome by sloth Or void of exercise they waxt in liuely groth And liu'd some hundred yeres and eu'n in latter daies With siluer-haired heads were able sonnes to raise So that Polygamie then taken for a right This world an Ant-hill made of creatures bolt-vpright And many people rose in short time if thou marke From out the fruitfull reines of some one Patriarch 53 Right so a graine of wheat Two fit comparisons if all th' encrease it yeildes Be often times resow'd vpon some harty feildes Will stuffe the barnes at length and colour mighty lawnes With yellow-stalked eares likewise two fishes spawnes Cast in t ' a standing poole so fast breed vp and downe That aft'r a while they stoare the larders of a towne An example of late yeares 54 Hath not there been of late a certain Elder known That with his fruitfull seed a