. 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. <U M E %_l C A. $17 Gentleman call'd De Faux, who carry'd himfelf fo difcreetly amongft the Iflanders, that they promis'd to embrace the Chrijlian Religion, if new Supplies came from France to aflift them againft their Enemies ; of which De Vaux advis'd the French King Henry the Fourth, who approv'd of it, and fent Monfieur De la ftaVardiere to A Colony of t r t . , French Cent Maragnan, to make a farther Enquiry into the whole Matter, where he fpent fix jgftr*1 Monechs . after which returning he found the King murder'd, wherefore the Bufi- *r*MI« nefs lay dead for a while ; but at length ^aVardtere took with him the Lord %ofillyy and the Baron of Sanfi, defiring fome Capuchins of the Queen-Mother, for the pro- mulgating of the Chrijlian Religion in Maragnan; which being granted, they fet Sail with three Ships Anno 1612. with which arriving fafely there,and Landing, he built next the chiefeft Haven the Fort St. LeVts on a Hill, by whofe foot two Rivers glide into the Ocean. After-which this new Plantation went on for a confiderablc time, till the Portuguefe overpowering them, drove them out of this their new Field, ma- Drirf0 cut kingthemfelves abfolutc Matters of the Fort, and alfo of the great Mountain Ibou- hlx}*pmH~ yapap, four Leagues high, plain on the top, twenty four Leagues long, and little lefs in breadth. No C
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