. 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. . Ifland Guadalupe. Strange Women in Ma- tanino. from the Ground, arc fill'd with a kind of Straw • and in long Hovels fitted for that purpofe they ftore their Sugar, Columbus landing here, found all the Cannibals fled ; but their Houfes full df Stone VefTels, Cruifes, Pans, and Pots, boyling with Mens Flefli, Parrots, antl Wild-foul 5 the Hanches and Sides of young Men, on Spits roafting at the Fire, with the Splinters of whofe broken Bones they headed their Arrows* This Ifland by the Inhabitants call'd (/materia, Columbus changed to Guadalupe becaufe the Mountains rife up with their tops not unlike E/lremadura in Spain, famous there for the wonderful Reprcfentation of our Lady, as that of the Lady of Loretto in Italy. Thirty Women which he had taken from the neigh- boring Ifles, he fent with Prefents to the fled Canibals, which the next day re- turning, made a great appearance near the Shore $ but when they had gaz'd a while upon the Spaniards, looking ftedfaftly on one another, they fuddenly ran back again, Iheltring themfelves in the Govert of the Woods. Columbus think- ing it not worth his while to expect their return, feeing their barbarous Life, burnt and deftroy'd all their Boats, and fpoiling whatever he could, fail'd to Matanino. The rcleas'd Women in Guadalupe, that came back again, informed the Spani- ards,Th&t Matani
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