. 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. 551 Chap. VII. *A M EX^IC A. fucceed their Fathers in the Throne, but their Sifters Sons. Commend aour a told himP That he was impowcr'd by his Uncle to Treat with the Hollanders ; to which pur. pofe coming with forty Men before the Caftle Qeulen, he inform'd them, That jandouy could not come to them with his whole Power, becaufe there was no frefh Water in the Mountains Mitiapa in the Summer 5 Moreover, that he Mourn'd for his deceafed Wife, janduoy was alfo requefted to go to farayba, where he mould get great (lore of Booty, and that the Hollanders would follow them with a consi- derable Power. Arcijfeusky being inform'd of the Condition of Conayou by two, who having been UeFort c*> taken Prifoners by the TortngueJ'e, leap'd over-board from a Carvel, bound from VJ7r$mkj thence toPortugal, and fwam afliore, marched from the Fort Qeulen in the Night with two hundred Men, befides forty Tapuyans, who kill'd more Venifon for the Hollanders than they were able to eat 5 and coming within two of Co- nayou, he divided his Men into four Parties, that fo they might Storm the four Cor- ners of the Fort at once; which having done by fwimming over the Moat, arid climbing up the Walls, which were a Pikes length, they got into the Fort, in which they found eleven dead Bodies, ten Iron Guns, two Hooks, and fcveral Chefts of Sugar ; a
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