■y^^'^f,^. w- fdC^inlll^fV V^ ♦ 1^ i\i. 'riv m^ '*^ ^irt^ Jliibn (fitr|-rr U^iiiUni Cihniro !te^"" t^ f ■^■ ^* #1 # BEING THE LATEST, AND MOST ACCURATE DESCRIPTION O F T H E EVV WORLD CONTAIKIKG The O^igi^^l of the Inhabitants, and the Re- markable y oyages thither. THECONQJIESTOFTHEVAST E MP I R E O F kJ Mexico and Peru ^ AND OTHER LARGE PROVINCES and TERRITORIES WITH THE SEYEKAL EUliOfEAU V L A N T A T I O IN THOSE PART S. ALS O ■ 'Their ■ Cities 5 Fortrefles, Towns ,, Temples., Mountains, and Rivers. Their Habits^ Cultoms, Manners, and Religions, Their Plants, Beafts, Birds, and Serpents. WITH An AT T E 3^V I X, containing, befides feveral other confiderable Additions^ a brief Survey of what hath been difcover'd of the VnknoTpn Somh^Land and the aArBicI^ %jgion. Colleded from mpft Authentick Authors, Augmented with later Obfervations, and • Adorn'd with Maps and Sculptures, by J HH G JL S } Efq-, His yi^)z9ifs Qofmografhr^Giogra^hukfrmter,^^^ in the Kingdom of I %^'E L A H^ D^ L ^© :K2, Printed by the Author, and are to be had at his Houfe in White Fryers, M © Q L XXL m THE CONTENTS of the feveral C H A P T E R S and S E C T I O N S/ The firft Book: AMerica unknown to the Ancients Fol. i Of the Original of the Americans ^ iphence they came, when^ hott?^ and from what 9eople flanted n Firft iifcoyerers of America, with Chri- flopher Colonus his Expedition 43 Pedro Alphonfo Nigno his Voyage 56 The Voyage 0/ Vincent Agnes Pinzon 58 The Expedition of Amcricus Vefputius 60 The Expedition of Aliphonfo Fogeda, Diego Kicuefa, Ancifus^ and Roderick Col^ mcnares ^5 Peter Arias his Expedition, and the remarh able faffages 0/ Vafcus Nunnez 69 The Expedition of Francifco Fernandez, Lupo Caizedo, Chriftophero Mo- rantes, Bernardo Igniguez, and Juan Grifalva 7^ The Expedition of Ferdinand Magaglian, commonly caWd Magellan 79 Ferdinando Cortez his Voyage. 81 Diego Gottierez his Expedition 91 The Expedition of Pedro Alvarado, Fran- cifco and Gonzalvo PizarrOjaVtd Ingran t>aVtd foml Diodorus Siculus Dionyjlus Halicarnajfdus Dirk ^iters Vithmar 'Blefken Duarte Mende^ Seraon Egydius Fletcher Emanuel de Morae^ Erafmus Stella Erick %oothaer Everhard ^id Eufehius Euthymius Zibagerius Feftus AVtenus Francifc, 'Burmannus Francifc, Delapuente Francifc, de Gomara Francifc. Lopes de Gomefa Francifc* ^phelingiusm Francifc. Soare:^ Francifc, Tirolmonts Francifc, Xayerius Fullerus Galenus Garcilajfo de la Vega Genehrardus Gerardus Joannes Voj^ius Guido de Bre;^ Guilielm. Tifo Guilielm, Tojiellus Fiarmannus Moded Henrick Haelbos Fienrick Hawks Hernando de Leon Herodotus Hefychius Hieronim. Ben^ Hieromjn. Cardanus Homer Hugo Grotius Hugo Linfchot Jacob Bontius Jacob Tlanenfls Jacob %abbi Inca Garcilajfo A 2 4 i '■\ Joannes I^ mtm Th, Joannes Ardenoh Joannes 'Bertius Joannes Qhilton Joannes Gyfius Joannes Johnjlonus Jean de Laet Joannes de Ledefma Joannes LeonclaVms Joannes Levy Joa?ines Mariana Joannes ISlieuwhof Joan. "Van de Sande Jofeph, Jcojia Jofeph, Jnchieta Jofeph, ScaUger j/aacus Tontanus Ifaac. du Verne Ijldorus Mendes Sequera Julius Cdfar Julius defar ScaUger L^Sianttus Lauren, Jnanias Lauren* 'Bikker Lauren. Guafcus Gerafcius Lauren, jt^ymis LeVmus Lemmius LieVen Ai:^ma Lopezy^iK. Lucan Lucretius Lodowick Leo Lyfander Manethon Terfa Marcus Zeno Martin del Bar CO Martin Tere;^ Matthicus Van den Broeke Matthiolus MelcJ?ior Soiterus Mich, Lithowcr MfchoVms Names of the Authors. Miles philips ■ Mofes "Nicolaus Zeno Olympiodorus ^aulus Venetus ^edro de Ancieta Tedro ^i:^arro Tedro Fernaftde:?;^ de ^ir ^edro Maria Teter Martyr Tedro Ordonnes de CeVallos Teter Van Gendt Wtlo JudiSus ^hilippus Cluyerius Wtlippus Morndus ^hylarchus ^iere Moreau Tinedas ^lato Tliny flutarch ^^mponius Mela Orceins ^rocopius Quarterius %abbi Simeon ^hertus Qomt^^us Sam* Turchas Sehajliaen Schroten Simplicius Saluji Sigifmond Baro Strabo Theodojio Tbeopompus Theyet Tertullian Trigaut Vegetius Virgil THE ** THE CO Porto Seguro 49^ Los Ifleos V . 501 Bahia de Todos los Sandos 502 Pcrnambuco 5°5 Parayba 5°^ Maragnan 5^^ The Lordjhip Tatnarica, Rio Grande, Siara, dw^ Para 517 'j (I(elation of the froceedings of the Nether- land Weft-India Comfany in Brafile, to the Tear 1658. 518 The Journey of Rodulphus Baron, Vtth the Defcr'iption of the Qufioms and Manners of r/;eTapuyans 5p5 Grave Maurice his Jccomt of Brafilc, /o far as it concern d the Wcft»India Qom» N T E N-T S. pany ^ <^oo The Qomcellor Duflen'i ^latiori of fo much of Brafile as concern d the WeftJndia Company 601 A Vefcription of the Talace Prey burgh, two Bridges J and a Banquetting-houfej all built hy Grave Maurice 605 Guiana 6oy A Relation of the Journey of Francifcd Orellana ibid. Paria, or New Andaluiia 620 Cumana 611 Venezuela 614 The Ijlands Margareca , Cubagua, and Coche 617 Of the Iflands of Southern America ^28 In the Appendix. Rio de la Plata Fol. ^^31 Chili <^34 A View of the Chilefian Language 635 Magellanica ^A9 The Unknown South^Land 653 Terra Boreaiis , or The Ardick Re- gion ^01 Several Attempts for the difcdVery of the North- Weft Paftaae 672 A brief View of what f laces are pojfef'd at this day in the Weft-Indies, by the Eng- lifli, Spaniards, French, Portuguefe, a}id Dutch 674 p »5i*ia4«' Chap. ^ ■ I ■m.^ V by. lefs ftand in the leall degree of competition with our ii. B T"S" ^^--i i j. ■ . --^i^sis i W ^^^f-J— '^-^- 1 ^^^^^kJfhi '^^ 1 i*|-| 'OlTi the Difcript'on of the Ocean, the dry g Bays, here Co bannel, again, rnenfe, 1 to the of the td, are Tj hath , who I cleat 'i'o ob- 3 find tterly "ither made 'A^n'd "^^^ Ancients had tittle knowledge i» Navigation, . _-...^.v,cio tii^u Ignorant cd — xi^ng iviantim Affairs, and are not fit to iland in the leaft degree of competition with our later Voyagers. B « ^ p , 1 » • Ai Chap. I. A H ACCURATE DESCRIPTION F CHAP. I. America -» unsown to the (L/fntiems, HE Sea, that takes feveral Denominations from the DifaiptionofiheOcean. Countreys which it waflieth, and furrounding the dry Land , cuts out , and fliapes fo many winding Bays, Creeks^ and Meandring In-lets, feems no where fo much confined and penn'd into fo narrow a Channel, as the Straights of Magellan : From whence again, foon expatiating , it fpreads it felf into two immenfe, and almofi: boundlefs Oceans, that which opens to the North, gives terminaries to the four Regions of the Earth ; that to the South, onely to JJta and Jmerka ,. both which, indeed, are ..%ut one continued Sea, extending it felf round the Univerfal Globe, This watry part of the World, that almofi through all Ages lay Fallow, hath \ in thefe later times been Furrow'd by feveral Expert and Scout Captains, who now by their Art and Induftry, have given a good Account of, and made clear , Difcoveries from Eaft to Weft, where-ever the Sun rifes or fees. The Northern Bounds under the Artick-Zone , have been hitherto fo ob- ftru6ted with Ice, that the undertakings of fuch as adventured either to find by the North-Eaft or North-Weft a Paftage to India , have been utterly fruftrate. Of the Southern, no fuch pains hath as yet been taken in the Dilco^ very , fo that for the moft part it is yet unknown how far the Water , either deep or fhallow, overfpreads the Earth, onely thus much Experience hath made out, that the jntartkk needs lefler Line to Fathom, than the Artkk-Ocean, The antient Greeks j^henkians^znd Romans ^ or whofoever that were Renown'd The Ancients had litdc lA-- JT-n.1-1 1 r t n knowledge in NavigatiQn, by Antiquity, and Lilted in the number ot their famous Navicrators, were n,o lefs Timerous than Ignorant concerning Maritim Affairs , and are not fit to ftand in the leaft degree of competition with our later Voyagers. B ' Navigation is veiy an- cieiK- Geegra^h. lib. i. Hi/}.Kat.Yih.lX3.'^.6: "Vltima 2^;«/e,fuppos'(l by fome to be Lelnnd, Vide Georgic. 1 he Voyage oiHnnno. OiEudoxus, Strah.\.z^ Strange Voyage of fome Indians. Of Menehus.