. 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. 521 Chap. VII. AMERICA. vyhileft the Governor WAham Schouten went unconcern'd from one Tavern to ano therra, hng at the Soldier, who thereupon mutinying and depofihg him, chofe Serjeant Hans Ernjl y in b« room, who, as he was calling a Council of War re. d a Summons from Toledo to deliver up the City , at which /G/.being much lurprisd, lent a Drummer with a Letter to too, deilring him to grant the Be- fieged three Weeks time to repair and make fit their batter'd Veflels to carry them back for Hoiland, and alio that they might, according to Martial Cuftom, Larch out with hghted Matches, flying Colours, Bullets in their Mouths, and with Ba2 and Baggage To to, returned Anfwer, That he was now in hi, owf C°Un"Cy' a;d,had f "Cn Proffeffion of four Fortifications about St. Salvador, on which he had planted thirty feven Cannons, and therefore faw no fuch neceffity to grant the Befiegeo (who could not pofllbly expett any frefh Supplies; fuch advan- tageous and bold Demands. and onely promis'd them their Lues fl/ould be at his difcretion. Yet at laft HU Stoop, Hugh Antonfcoon, and Francis du Q-fnc bein, . M kn to the Carmelites Cloyftcr, agreed with Toledo on thefe Condition -That the V? \ Hollanders^/™,. St. Salvador ,„ the CMm u »„,*„ ,„, mafC}Ut £** gg5f but »«h Baggage, a„d have a free fajfage u»th fr
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