. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : 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
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : 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. Chap. X. A M E R I C A, 3°?. • :<nin- Feathers, Neckbands of Net-work, and flore of Tobacco : 'Drake pleas'd with this their kindnefs, built Tents on the Brow of a Hill, on the top of which the Indians flood that brought the Prefents, whirft one of them with a loud voice maintained along Difcourfe; which he had no fooner ended,but everyone laid down his Bowc and Arrows, and walk'd unarmed down to the Tents to proffer their Gifts: their • Wives flaying behind on the top, pinch'd their Cheeks, and made fad lamentation; which Drake fuppos'd was becaufe they made Offerings there : whereupon he alio caus'd all his Men to kneel down and fay their Prayers, which made the Indians to look very earneflly upon them, and to return him the Prefents which the day before they had receiv'd of him. The rumour of thefe Strangers arrival fpreading au over the Countrey, made P"h'» En- the Inhabitants far and near defirous to fee them \ the King himfelf fending Am- ^"Sl bafTadors to Drake, to inform him that he was on the Way comin<r to fee him . all "^ which the Agents related at large, and defir'd fome Prefents, as a teflimony that their King fhould be welcome . which he being aflur'd of, came with-a Retinue of above twelve thouland Men, before whom walk'd one of a Gygantick fize, carry- ing a coftly Scepter, on which, by three
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