. 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. XIII. AMERICA. 217. Plume of Feathers on his Head, with a Drummer before him, and a final! Train of Arm'd Men after him. On the Coaft are firft the Point of Nifao, ten Leagues to the Weft of Santo Do- *£ and .mL.*.* Hatrcns. tntngp. Eighteen Leagues farther is the Port Ocoa, which is a Bay where the Fleets of NoVa Htfpania take refrefhing, when they do not Anchor in the Nook of Sepefepin, which is near unto it, or in another call'd ?&t Fair HaVen, two Leagues before you come to Ocoa. Twenty Leagues beyond Ocoa is the Port of Afua. Thirty Leagues more Weftwardly is a large'Point right againft the Ifland' of Sola3 which lieth five Leagues from the Coaft. The moft Wefterly Point is call'd Cape Tiburon : It hath an Ifland three Leagues from'it Weft ward, call'd Caprio . and Sailing along the Coaft, you will fee an Ifland call'd Qamitoi and farther in the Nook of laguana another call'd Gyanabo of eight Leagues long. On the North fide of the Ifland, the moft Wefterly Cape and Port is St'.Nkholat, from whence North-Eaft and by Eaft, lieth the Ifland of Tortuga, near the Coaft of Hifpaniola : It is of five Leagues length. Farther along the Coaft is Monte Chrifto, the Weft Cape of J^atiVtdad ; to the Eaft of which there is a great Bay call'd fort %eal. • This Ifland is fo full of Harbours, that he that will Coaft it, cannot well mi
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