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Title: America:
Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the
Nevv Vvorld; Containing the Original of the Inhabitants,
and the Remarkable Voyages Thither. the Conquest of the
Vast Empires of Mexico and Peru, And Other Large Provinces
and Territories, With the Several European Plantations in
Those Parts. Also Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples,
Mountains, and Rivers. Their Habits, Customs, Manners, and
Religions. Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents. With
an Appendix, Containing, Besides Several Other Considerable
Additions, a Brief Survey of What Hath Been Discover'd of
the Unknown South-land and the Arctick Region.
Author: John Ogilby and Others
Release Date: June 13, 2019 [EBook #59745]
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AMERICA
AMERICA:
BEING THE LATEST, AND MOST
ACCURATE DESCRIPTION
OF THE
NEVV VVORLD;
CONTAINING
The Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages thither.
THE CONQUEST OF THE VAST
EMPIRES
OF
Mexico and Peru,
AND OTHER LARGE
PROVINCES and TERRITORIES,
WITH THE SEVERAL EUROPEAN
PLANTATIONS
IN THOSE PARTS.
ALSO
Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples,
Mountains, and Rivers.
Their Habits, Customs, Manners, and Religions.
Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents.
WITH
An APPENDIX, containing, besides several other considerable Additions, a
brief Survey of what hath been discover’d of the Unknown South-Land and the
Arctick Region.
Collected from most Authentick Authors, Augmented with later Observations, and Adorn’d with Maps
and Sculptures, by J O HN O G I L BY Esq; His Majesty’s Cosmographer, Geographick Printer, and
Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of I R EL A N D.
L O N DO N,
Printed by the Author, and are to be had at his House in
White Fryers, M. DC. LXXI.
A Catalogue of the Authors, which are either mention’d, or
made use of in this Volume of America.
Abraham Mellinus
Abraham Mylius
Adriaen vander Donk
Ælian
Albertus Magnus
Aldrete
Ælius Lampridius
Alexander Aphrodiensis
Alexander ab Alexandro
Alexander Guaginus
Alonso Garcia
Alonso de Ouagli
Andræas Cæsariensis
Angrin Jonas
Antonio de Herrera
Apuleius
Aristonicus Grammaticus
Aristotle
Athanasius Kircher
Augustinus
Augustin de Tarcate
Augustus Thuanus
Ayton of Armenia
Balthazar de Amizquita
Barnaba Cabo
Bartholomæo de las Casas
Benjamin Tudalensis
Caspar Barlæus
Castaldus
Charles Rochfort
Christopher Arcisseuski
Cicero
Claude de Abbeville
Clemens Alexandrinus
Conradus Gesner
Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Witfleet
Ctesias
Curtius
Cyrianus
David Ingran
David Powel
Diodorus Siculus
Dionysius Halicarnassæus
Dirk Ruiters
Dithmar Blefken
Duarte Mendez Seraon
Egydius Fletcher
Emanuel de Moraez
Erasmus Stella
Erick Roothaer
Everhard Reid
Eusebius
Euthymius Zibagenus
Festus Avienus
Francisc. Burmannus
Francisc. Delapuente
Francisc. de Gomara
Francisc. Lopes de Gomesa
Francisc. Raphelingius
Francisc. Soarez
Francisc. Tirolmonte
Francisc. Xaverius
Fullerus
Galenus
Garcilasso de la Vega
Genebrardus
Gerardus Joannes Vossius
Guido de Brez
Guilielm. Piso
Guilielm. Postellus
Harmannus Moded
Henrick Haelbos
Henrick Hawks
Hernando de Leon
Herodotus
Hesychius
Hieronim. Benzo
Hieronim. Cardanus
Homer
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Linschot
Jacob Bontius
Jacob Panensis
Jacob Rabbi
Inca Garcilasso
Joannes Ardenois
Joannes Bertius
Joannes Chilton
Joannes Gysius
Joannes Johnstonus
Jean de Laet
Joannes de Ledesma
Joannes Leonclavius
Joannes Lery
Joannes Mariana
Joannes Nieuwhof
Joan. van de Sande
Joseph. Acosta
Joseph. Anchieta
Joseph. Scaliger
Isaacus Pontanus
Isaac. du Verne
Isidorus Mendes Sequera
Julius Cæsar
Julius Cæsar Scaliger
Lactantius
Lauren. Ananias
Lauren. Bikker
Lauren. Guascus Gerascius
Lauren. Keymis
Levinus Lemmius
Lieven Aizma
Lopez Vaz
Lucan
Lucretius
Lodowick Leo
Lysander
Manethon Persa
Marcus Zeno
Martin del Barco
Martin Perez
Matthæus van den Broeke
Matthiolus
Melchior Soiterus
Mich. Lithower
Michovius
Miles Philips
Moses
Nicolaus Zeno
Olympiodorus
Paulus Venetus
Pedro de Ancieta
Pedro Pizarro
Pedro Fernandez de Quir
Pedro Maria
Peter Martyr
Pedro Ordonnes de Cevallos
Peter van Gendt
Philo Judæus
Philippus Cluverius
Philippus Mornæus
Phylarchus
Piere Moreau
Pinedas
Plato
Pliny
Plutarch
Pomponius Mela
Proclus
Procopius
Quarterius
Rabbi Simeon
Robertus Comtæus
Sam. Purchas
Sebastiaen Schroten
Simplicius
Salust
Sigismond Baro
Strabo
Theodosio
Theopompus
Thevet
Tertullian
Trigaut
Vegetius
Virgil
THE
CONTENTS
of the several
CHAPTERS and SECTIONS.
The first Book.
A
merica
unknown to the Ancients
Fol. 1
Of the Original of the Americans, whence they came, when, how, and from what People Planted
11
First Discoverers of America, with Christopher Colonus his Expedition
43
Pedro Alphonso Nigno his Voyage
56
The Voyage of Vincent Agnes Pinzon
58
The Expedition of Americus Vesputius
60
The Expedition of Alphonso Fogeda, Diego Nicuesa, Ancisus, and Roderick Colmenares
65
Peter Arias his Expedition, and the remarkable Passages of Vascus Nunnez
69
The Expedition of Francisco Fernandez, Lupo Caizedo, Christophero Morantes, Bernardo Igniguez, and Juan
Grisalva
76
The Expedition of Ferdinand Magaglian, commonly call’d Magellan
79
Ferdinando Cortez his Voyage
81
Diego Gottierez his Expedition
92
The Expedition of Pedro Alvarado, Francisco and Gonzalvo Pizarro, and Diego de Almagro
95
The Expeditions of John Stade and Nicholas Durando Villegagnon
103
The Expedition of John Ribald, Renatus Laudonier, and Gurgie
105
Four English Expeditions, under the Command of our famous Sea-Captains, Martin Forbisher, Sir Francis
Drake, Thomas Candish, and John Smith
108
A Netherland Expedition, by Jaques Mahu and Simon de Cordes
110
The Expedition of Oliver van Noord
113
The Expedition of George van Spilbergen
115
The Expedition of Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob Le Maire
117
The Voyage of the Nassavian Fleet, under the Command of Jaques le Heremite and Hugo Schapenham
120
Henry Brewer his Voyage
122
The Second Book.
Of the Bounds of
America,
and of the Division of the
Mexican,
or Northern part thereof
Fol.
125
Estotiland
126
Terra Laboratoris
128
Canada, or New France
129
Accadia, or Nova Scotia
133
Norumbegua
138
New England
139
New Netherland, now call’d New York
168
A new Description of Mary-Land
183
Virginia
192
The Relation of Captain Smith’s being taken Prisoner by Powhatan, and his deliverance by his Daughter
Pocahonta
202
Carolina
205
Florida
213
Jucatan
222
Guatimala
224
Vera Paz
227
Honduras
229
Nicaragua
232
Costarica
235
Veragua
ibid.
Guatimala, properly so call’d
ibid.
The Kingdom of Mexico, or New Spain
238
Mechoacan
261
Tlascalla
264
Guaxata
268
Panuco
270
Tabasco
273
New Gallicia
281
Guadalajara
284
Xalisco
285
Chiametla
ibid.
Couliacan
286
Cinoloa
288
Zacatecas
289
New Biscay
290
New Mexico
291
Cibola, Tontonteac, and Nova Granada
298
Quivira
301
Terra Nova, or New-found Land, with the Island of Assumption
304
The Bermudas, or Summer-Islands
311
Hispaniola
314
Porto Rico, and Monico
327
Cuba
331
Jamaica
337
The Islands call’d The Lucaies
344
The Caribbee-Islands
345
Anegada and Sombrero
362
Las Virgines
363
Anguilla
ibid.
Saba
364
St. Crux
ibid.
St. Martin
365
St. Bartholomew
367
Barboude
368
Rotonda
ibid.
Nevis
ibid.
Eustathius
369
Antego
370
Montserrat
ibid.
Guadalupe
371
Deseado
372
Marigalante
ibid.
Todos Sanctos
373
De Aves
ibid.
Dominico
375
Martinico
376
St. Lucia
377
Barbados
ibid.
St. Vincent
380
Bekia
381
Granada
ibid.
Tabago
382
St. Christophers
383
The Islands Sotavento, and the Isle Trinidado
387
Cubagua
388
California
389
The Third Book.
A Description of Peruana or, Southern America
Fol.
393
Castella Aurea, otherwise call’d Terra Firma
394
Panama
395
Darien
399
New Andaluzia
400
St. Martha
403
Rio de la Hacha
405
New Granada
406
Granada
408
Popayana
409
Peru
412
Quito
441
Los Quixos
446
Lima
450
Cusco
456
Los Charcas
462
Collao
466
Chile
471
Chile, properly so call’d
472
Magellanica
473
Paraguay, or Rio de la Plata
475
Rio de la Plata, properly so call’d
476
Tucuman
ibid.
La Crux de Sierra
477
Brasile
ibid.
St. Vincent
495
Rio de Janeiro
496
De Spirito Santo
497
Porto Seguro
498
Los Isleos
501
Bahia de Todos los Sanctos
502
Pernambuco
505
Parayba
508
Maragnan
511
The Lordships Tamarica, Rio Grande, Siara, and Para
517
A Relation of the Proceedings of the Netherland West-India Company in Brasile, to the Year 1658
518
The Journey of Rodulphus Baron, with the Description of the Customs and Manners of the Tapuyans
595
Grave Maurice his Account of Brasile, so far as it concern’d the West-India Company
600
The Councellor Dussen’s Relation of so much of Brasile as concern’d the West-India Company
601
A Description of the Palace Freyburgh, two Bridges, and a Banquetting-house, all built by Grave Maurice
605
Guiana
607
A Relation of the Journey of Francisco Orellana
ibid.
Paria, or New Andalusia
620
Cumana
621
Venezuela
624
The Islands Margareta, Cubagua, and Coche
627
Of the Islands of Southern America
628
In the Appendix.
R
io de la Plata
Fol.
631
Chili
634
A View of the Chilesian Language
635
Magellanica
649
The Unknown South-Land
653
Terra Borealis, or The Arctick Region
661
Several Attempts for the discovery of the North-West Passage
672
A brief View of what Places are possess’d at this day in the West-Indies, by the English, Spaniards, French,
Portuguese, and Dutch
674
AN
ACCURATE DESCRIPTION
OF
AMERICA.
1
Description of the
Ocean.
The Ancients had
little knowledge in
Navigation.
Navigation is very
ancient.
Geograph. lib. 1.
Hist. Nat. lib. 2.
cap. 67.
Ultima Thule,
suppos’d by some
to be Ireland. Vide
Georgic.
The Voyage of
Hanno.
Of Eudoxus, Strab.
l. 2.
Strange Voyage of
some Indians.
Of Menelaus.
CHAP. I.
America, unknown to the Antients.
he Sea, that takes several Denominations from the
Countreys which it washeth, and surrounding the dry Land, cuts out, and shapes
so many winding Bays, Creeks, and Meandring Inlets, seems no where so much confin’d and penn’d into
so narrow a Channel, as the Straights of Magellan: From whence again, soon expatiating, it spreads it
self into two immense, and almost boundless Oceans, that which opens to the North, gives terminaries to
the four Regions of the Earth; that to the South, onely to Asia and America; both which, indeed, are but
one continu’d Sea, extending it self round the Universal Globe.
This watry part of the World, that almost through all Ages lay Fallow, hath in these later times been
Furrow’d by several Expert and Stout Captains, who now by their Art and Industry, have given a good
Account of, and made clear Discoveries from East to West, where-ever the Sun rises or sets.
The Northern Bounds under the Artick-Zone, have been hitherto so obstructed with Ice, that the
undertakings of such as adventur’d either to find by the North-East or North-West a Passage to India,
have been utterly frustrate. Of the Southern, no such pains hath as yet been taken in the Discovery, so
that for the most part it is yet unknown how far the Water, either deep or shallow, overspreads the
Earth, onely thus much Experience hath made out, that the Antartick needs lesser Line to Fathom, than
the Artick-Ocean.
The antient Greeks, Phenicians, and Romans, or whosoever that were
Renown’d by Antiquity, and Listed in the number of their famous Navigators,
were no less Timerous than Ignorant concerning Maritim Affairs, and are not fit
to stand in the least degree of competition with our later Voyagers.
Of old, by an inviolable Law, made by Custom, according to Pliny, Vigetius and
others, the Sea was lock’d up, from the eleventh of October, to the tenth of
March, no Ships daring to venture forth, dreading short Nights, and foul Weather; neither in Summer,
did they so much as once offer, unless driven by Storms, to attempt the Offin, or loose sight of Land; yet
there is no question, but that several Nations in former Ages, made it their business, spending their
whole time, and wearying themselves in the Practical Art of Navigation.
The Sacred Scripture testifies, That the Kings of Judea, Solomon,
Jehosaphat, Ozias, and others, prepar’d several Fleets that Sail’d through
remote Seas, freighting themselves with Gold from Ophir, and other Rarities,
which were Imported to supply and enrich the Holy-Land. And Strabo also tells
us, That King Solomon being contemporary with Homer, then discover’d India.
And Pliny relates, That the Romans, in the Reign of Augustus, passing the
Straights of Gibraltar, and sleighting the Ne plus ultra, Coasted Spain, France,
and Belgium, leaving not at the Promontory of the Cimbrians (now call’d
Shager-Riff) but also ventur’d into the Northern Ocean, which washes Norwey
and Lapland: But long before this, as Athenæus relates, Phileas Taurominites, a
Grecian Captain, and several others pass’d the Herculean-Pillars, penetrating
the Northern Seas as far as Britain, and adventuring, made the first Discovery of Thule: And to the
Southward the African Coasts without Gibraltar, and beyond Atlas, were now and then explor’d by
several expert Captains. But more remarkable is the Voyage of Hanno a Carthaginian, who out-sail’d
these, and inspected the Coasts of Africa, as far as the Gorgades: And Eudoxus Cyzicenus, flying from
King Lathyrus, set Sail from the Arabian Gulph, and passing the Great-Cape, came to an Anchor at last
in the Mouth of Gibraltar, having discover’d all the Eastern, Southern, and Western parts of Africa.
Moreover, it deserves special observation, That an antient Swedish King, as
Cornelius Nepos relates, sent as a Rarity and great Present to the Roman
Consul Metellus Celer, some Indians, who loosing their course, hatter’d up and
down with perpetual Storms and stress of Weather, were at last driven into the
Northern Ocean, where they suffer’d Shipwrack; yet saving themselves, Landed on his Coast:
Aristonicus Gramaticus relates, That Menelaus Sailing from the Sack of Troy, became so great a
Voyager, that leaving the Straights, he surrounded Africa, and discovering India, after eight years re-
measuring the same way he went, return’d with great Riches in safety to his own Kingdom: Which is
consentaneous to Homer, who saith, Odyss. l. 4.
——None must compare
Mansions with Jove, his Seats Celestial are:
But with me any may, who eight years tost
Through Worlds of Miseries from Coast to Coast,
’Mongst unknown Seas, of my Return small hope,
Cyprus, Phœnicia, Ægypt,[1] Æthiope,
Sidon, Erembos found, and Lybia, where
Their Lambs are horn’d, their Ews teem thrice a year.
——Ἤτοι ζηνὶ βροτῶν οὐκ ἄντις ἐρίζοι.
Ἀθάνατοι γὰρ τοῦ γε δόμοι καὶ κτήματ ἔασιν.
Ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἤκεν τίς μοί ἐρίζεται ἠὲ, καὶ οὐκὶ
Κτήμασιν; ἠ~ γὰρ πολλὰ παθὼν, καὶ πόλλ’ ἐπαληθεὶς
Ἠγαγόμην ἐν νηυσὶ, καὶ ὀγδοάτω ἔτει ἦλθον
Κύπρον, φοίνικην τε καὶ ἀιγυπτίους ἐπαληθεὶς,
Ἀιθιοπάς θ’ ἱκόμην, καὶ σιδονίους καὶ ἐρεμβοὺς
Καὶ Λιβύην, ἵνα τ’ ἄρνευ ἄφαρ κεραοὶ τελετ/ὁυσι,
Τρὶς γὰρ τίκτει μῆλα τελευφόρον εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν.
1. The Commentators on Homer have been very inquisitive to find out Menelaus Voyage into Æthiopia.
Crates suppos’d that he pass’d out at the Straights, doubled the Southern Cape, and so arriv’d thither.
2
