. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . emountains. And when they shall be absent by the spaceof 20 or 30 days [journey] at the least; every one of theIndians will nevertheless obey all the slaves commandments,with as great reverence as if he were their natural King;although there be never a Christian near them, by the spaceof 100 or 200 miles: which argueth the great obedience ofthose people, and how easily they may be governed whenthey be once conquered. In considering the exaggerations which led Hakluyt to rejectIngrams narrative as a tissue of falsehoods; we mus
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . emountains. And when they shall be absent by the spaceof 20 or 30 days [journey] at the least; every one of theIndians will nevertheless obey all the slaves commandments,with as great reverence as if he were their natural King;although there be never a Christian near them, by the spaceof 100 or 200 miles: which argueth the great obedience ofthose people, and how easily they may be governed whenthey be once conquered. In considering the exaggerations which led Hakluyt to rejectIngrams narrative as a tissue of falsehoods; we must think of theenormous stretch of country over which he travelled, from Tampico toCape Breton, and of the diversities of climate, tribes, customs, animals,birds, &c., which he has here jumbled up in a general way. It is also to be noted that this examination was taken some twelveyears after he had returned home ; in the year before that in whichMiles Phillips got back home, see p. 306. Had it been taken earlier,his memory might have been somewhat fresher. 26l. Second Kvvrrative, by anotherSurvivor. [HAKLuyx. Voyages. 1589.) A Discourse written by one Miles Phillips, Englishman, oneof the company put ashore in the West Indies by MasterJohn Hawkins in the year 1568. Containing manyspecial things of that country and of the Spanish Govern-ment [there] : but specially of their cruelties used to ourEnglishmen ; and among the rest, to himself, for thespace of fifteen or sixteen years together, until, by goodand happy means, he was delivered from their bloodyhands, and returned to his own country, anno I582[3J. r HE F I R ST C H A PT E R. Wherein is shewn the day and time of our departure from thecoast of England; with the number and names of the ships, theirCaptains and Masters : and of our traffic and dealing upon thecoast of Africa. PoN Monday, being the 2nd of October,1567, the weather being reasonably fair,our General [Admiral], Master John Haw-kins, having commanded all his Capta
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