The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage.

  • Thomas Gage
Date:
1648
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Credit: The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liberty they could never injoy in Spain, and this libetty isthe Midwife of' fo^nTfouk falls of wicked Fryers in thole parts. For theprefentonely, I (fall return again to my Fryer lohn Navarro^ho at bis comniing to Guatemslajodng made for his wit and lear¬ ning,Mailer and Readerof Divinity, and much elkemed of for his acute Preaching a- mongmany others got theeftinution and love of a chief Gentlewoman , (Quo femel eft imbuta rectns ftrvabit odoremjefta din)who continued in Navarro his heart the former Pent of the unchaft love of Amaryllis, lb far that the Fryer being blinded and wounded with Cupids Arrow flicking in his heart,ran headlong to quench hisluftfull thirft upon St. James his day, 16 35 .for better memory of the Tragical eventf being the Spaniards com-* mon Advocate,and fpeciall Patron of that City5named Sc .Jagode Guatemala) where cru- ell Mars oppreflingF'mar in her wanton Atts,the injured husband afting Marsfr find¬ ing Navarro Cupids page faluting his Venus upon her bed, drew his fword, cutting the Fryerfirftin the head and faee^who ftrugling with death,and purchafmg his life with a fwift and nimble flight to a Garden, where his own brother a Fryer of the fame Order & Pander to that foul a£t, entertained the Motherlefle children; for the husband having milled his fatall blow (willingly as fome imagined , or unwillingly as others judged) in the Fryers heart, wilfully laid it in the throatof his unchaft Wife,fcarce leaving way for breath to make a fpeedy Confeflion ofherlinneto Navarro his Brother- who ten dring her foule as much as his Brother had tendred her bodyabfolved her from her finne, finding Agues, though no uttering fpeech of Repentance, while the murderer fled, and the murdered lay in thedoore of her houfe for a lad objeft to all, that imme¬ diately flocked thither to fee that bloody Tragedy. The Wife being the fame day buried* the Husband being retired to a dole San&uary, Navarro was carried to his Convent to bee cured 5 and after his Cure was banilhed that Country j whom two yeares after it was my chance to meet in Cartagena returning to Spain with his (card face, bearing the marke ofhislafcivious life, andofthatliberty which heehad injoyedin Amnicl Such are the fruits of the zeale of thofe wretches, who upbraid our Church and Mini- fters for want of zeale to labour in the Convepfion of Infidels. Who when they ar¬ rive to thofe parts, are entertained with ringing of Bells, with founding of Trumpets moft part of the way as they travaile,and as Apoftles are received by the Indians ^though. foon tike Judas they fall from their calling, and forpleafureand covetoufnefle fell a- way Chrift from their Soules. England may here learn to beware of fuch Converters, who are daily by name of Milfionaries lent hither by the Pope to preach among us Po- pery - but like Navarro come to feed and cherilh their wanton lults,as I could give ma¬ ny inftances, might I not be cenftircd for Iongdigreflions in mingling EnglilhHiftories with my American Travail es. CHAP. IV. Shewing to what Provinces of the Eaft and Weft India’s belonging to the Crown 0/ Caftilia are fent Miftions of Fryers and Iefrites. And ftp eci ally of the Mifftion fent in they ear e 1625. IN all the Dominions of the King of Spain in America, there are two forts of Spaniards more oppolite one to another then in Europe the Spaniard is oppofite to the French, or to the Hollander, or to the Portingall j To wit, they that are born in any parts ot Spaing nd goe thither, and they that arc borne' there of Spanilh parents , whom the Spaniards,to diftinguilh them from themfelves, termeCrzo/xV/ , fignifylng the Natives of that Countrey. This hatred is lb great, that I dare lay, nothing might] bee more advantagious then this, to any other Nation that would conquer America. And no¬ thing moreeahly gained, then the Wils and affe&ions ofthe Natives of the Country, to joyne with any otherNation to freeand refeue themfelves from that fubje&ion, or kind of flavery, which they fufier under the hard ufage of the Spaniards, and their partial! Government and juftice toward them, and thofe that come from Spain. This xs fb grievous to the poore Criolio’s cr Natives, that my fclle have often heard them fay. They would rather bee fubjeft to any other Prince* nay to the Hollanders, then to