. 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. a M E%_1 C A. 569 he defcry'd the Spani/h Fleet between Itamaraca and Goyana ; not far from which Maf- carenbas thought to Land feven thoufand Men at faomorello; and they were already gotten into little Veflels when the Hollanders Fleet made towards them, and about three a Clock in the Afternoon began a bloody Engagement for four hours in which Loos Engaging with the Spanijh Admiral and four Gallions, was kill'd in'the Ad^ii*, middle of the Fight, which ended in the Evening. Jacob Huigens carrying the Flag ^ the next day in light of the Promontory Blanco, chearing up his Men, went to re- ***** new the Fight with Majcarenbas, and with a few fmall Ships Engag'd feveral great 3»&e?" ones, of which they had an advantage onely in their nimble turning and wind- ing. In this Engagement Huigens loft the Ship call'd 7be Sun, which funk with Colonel Mortimer and forty four Men, thirty four being fav'd in the Boat. The Hollanders Lofs was the lefs, becaufc the Spanijh great Gallions fir'd over Huigens's Ships, which fir'd in the midft of the Spaniards Veflels. Huigens not being'Wd with two days Engagements, fell upon them a third time before <P*rayba, and firing, at the Spanijh and Vortuguefe Admirals, purfu'd their Fleet to the Northermoft CoauT oiBrafile, whereby a ftrong Current they were driven Weftcrly } and the S^an,
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