. 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 ME x^i C A> ii9 Hi \* for thofe that leapt over-board were kill'd in the Water, whilefi Joachim Ouys^ooit, John 'Braems, and Anthony Gonde fell upon the Admiral Sennora de los %emedios , and took her. In both thefe Ships Ita took Two thoufand five hundred Cherts of In- digo, above Six thoufand Hides, Two thoufand five hundred Packs of Sarfaparilla, feveral Pots of Balfam Oyl, Seventy thoufand Pound of Ginger, One and twenty Bars of Silver, Twelve Brafs, and Twenty eight Iron Guns . all which having taken out, he fet fire in both the Ships. A little before this Vi&ory , the Fortune Frigat weighed Anchor from Flufring, with fixty three Men of War , to be Landed on the Ifland Tabago. At St. Vincent they found two Men that were left of feven , who having fetlcd along the River Wiapofb, under Captain John Van^jen, were fore d by the falvage Natives to remove, two whereof dyed by the way, the remaining five landing on the Ifle Trinidad, had three of their Companions killed by the Indians of Granada , they being Frenchmen 9 to whom the Natives bore an inveterate Hatred , fo that they left onely the two Hollanders alive. The Fortune affifted by the Soutb-Jlar Ketch , took a rich Barque near the IJles des Virgines. Not long after the Wejl-India Company fet out twelve Ships more, under the ^W1 Command oiDerick Simonfzon Uitge


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