. 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. III. A M E%,1 C A. 77. Mtfcph a Citjrr Spaniards flaisi. call'd the King Lazarus, becaufe he difcover'd his Counttey on St. La%amfs Day. Making no long ftay here> they return'd to their Ship, and weighing An- chor Sail'd fifty Leagues more Weflerly, the Fleet got fight of Mofcobo, in the Territory Aguanil? whofe King aflaulted the Spaniards with Co much fury, that two and twenty of them were flairi, and fcarce one efcap'd which was not wounded : wherefore they retufn'd with bad fuccefs to Cuba. Yet Vdafauzs no ways difcourag'd thereat, not long after fitted out four VefTels, Manning them with three hundred Men under the Command of Juan Grifalva and Ala* mines-, who having Sail'd feventy Leagues ,difcover'd the fruitful Iiland Cofumella^ Mishty in^ac*/"™*** along whofe Shore flood fair Stone Edifices, intermix'd with Temples, whofe Steeples appear'd above the Houfes. Grifaha being led up into one of thefe Steeples by a Prieft, faw at a diftance off at Sea the Territory Jucatan : and in the Place where they were,there were fpacious Halls, full of Marble and Stone Images of deformed Men and Beafts, which with a murmuring noife, and burning of incenfe they religioufly worfhip. The Spaniards call'd this Ifland Santta Cruz^ Sailing from hence they dire&ed their Courfe to Campechium, where the year before they had been Co
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