. 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. VII. <tA M E%^1 C A. 5?5 many other things forc'd to make that honorable Peace with the Hfytberhnds, con- cluded on in Munjler, Anno i 648 ; That their Lofles, computed and deliver'd in to the States General, amounted to fixty fix Tun of Gold, and forty three thou- fand two hundred and ninety Guilders, which forc'd them to take up Money to pay Intereft for what they had before, yet that they ft ill kept fifty great Ships ac Sea, and were refolv'd to profecute their Trade with frefli vigor, as foon as Satis- faction fliould be given from the Vortuguefe Crown, as was promis'd them in the Articles of Agreement, and they could obtain of their Lordfhips, to have their Patent prolong'd for a confiderable time ; That they were ftill indebted to thofe Orphans and Widows who fiirnifli'd them with Money to fet out their Forces which in the firft twelve years did the Spaniard Co much hurt, that the Damage is reckon'd to amount to one thoufand one hundred and eighty Tun of Gold. Thefe things being taken into confederation by the States General, they granted the Company their Requeft, and gave them a new Patent, by virtue of which they now Trade to Africa and the (jribbee-Iflands, fince they were forc'd to quit all they had poffefs'd in Brafele. Sect. XII. The Journey of Rodulphus Baron, mth the Vefcription of the Cujloms and Manners of t
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