. 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. u^ ^^1^ s I. A M E %l C A. Chap. III. no good there, for he not onely found the City to be furrounded with a Wall of fifteen Foot high, but having alio many Earthen Redoubts, behind which lay above two thoufand arm'd Men, wherefore he deferred the fame after fome viffim'* E*pi it. Rancounters: But the Rear-Admiral, JohnWilliamJ\oonVirjhor, who was fent to Gamquil, had much better luck . for he not onely took that Metropolis, but alfo burnt a new Royal Gattion, and two letter Veflels j carry'd a concper'd VeiTcl to Lima ; flew above a hundred Spaniards, and threw feventeen over- board, becaufe they had (hot Poyfon'd Bullets againft the Law of Arms .- of which Conqueft Captain Engelhert Shutte had the greateft honor : But the Sea- men grew weaker and weaker by the Scurvy, and all of them would have pe- rilVd, had they not found a foveraign Herb on the higheft Mountains of Lima, sch^nhamsremarkable Schapenham being chofe Admiral in V Heremites place, Weigh'd Anchor from CaU 1 fa, and ran into the Inlet <Pifcadore*,where on the fhore he rais'd a Sconce ; yet not long after departed from thence without any effe&, but loft twenty eight Men, through the bad Conduct of their Commanders - the like number he loft alio at Jquapulque, on the fide of which City ftands a Caftle with four ftrong Bulwarks - the Holland Fire-fliip lay juft witho
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