The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok.

  • Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
Date:
[1625?]
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Credit: The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . conmiing tbithcF,vvas to inftrufttlKm jn fuch godly knowicdg r4is|on = and thw.hewa$fentjntotfeofe cou^itfciei vvhich rcligt- the Chnfttao king of Spaine(his Lord and ni4ftdf)for the fame ontouldcnot purpof€j*andfpecjally>to fubdueaiid punifh the, and „ findc. ^ch otheif mi|ehieuous people,and to defend innocents againfh; f irtus foflj- jbe violence ofeuill dooers, willing him, and all other fjcb, ntmmos^;^g^^ imbrace y citne, in no cale to bee afraidc, but rat her to open. his mindeyntohira, Jf eytherhe, -or any other fuoh quietmeiK, as he,was, had fufteined any wrong of their neighbourcs, and.:; that he would fee the fame reucnged. Thefe comfortable words . oifthe Admirallfqpleal^d thcoldeman, thatnotwitl^ftanding his extremeage,he would gladly hauc gone with the Admiral],,., as he had doneindeede, if his wife and children had not hin¬ dered hirnofhispurpofe:buthemarueiled notglittle, that the ' . AdmiralJ wasynder the dominion ofanother rand much more when the interpretour tolde.jhim of the glorie,i.magnificence, ppmpc, great power, and furnimentes ofwarre of ourkingesj . and of the multitudes of I cities andt^ncs which were vndcr their dominions. Intending thcreforejto haue gone with the ' Admiral!, his wife and children fell, proliratcathis rectcj with tcarcs defiring him not to forfakc them and Icaiie them defolate at whole pitifuil requeftesjtl^ worthy olde man becing'moued, remained at home to the comfnrt of hjis people and familic, fa- tiftiyng rathe? them th.cn hiinfelfe ;\/or not yet ..ceafjng to wponder, .and of heauie countenance becaufe he might not de-,' part, hee derhannded oftentimes if that lande wai notL hcauen, ^ whichbioiight fogr?h fuchakinde .of nTen ? For itiscertaine • lande,^ as coninjpn as fuaneand- wa- Jhefimncana and that,Mine gfidT^inc (.the feedcs of.all.niiTchiefe) 'fiat ir.. hane no place with them. .They are contentwithfeditle, that in fo large a,countrey they hauc rather lliperfluMt^^^^ . nelle : fothat (as we haue fayde before )the^^Mme toliue in the golden worlde without |Qyic, 4iuing iiiopen gardens -but jntrenched with ditches,diuided-with hedges, or defended with waljcsr.theydeale trugly one with another withcutlavves, wiVh- cut booke, and without kidges: they take himfor an euill. and miichieuous man, which taketh pleafure in dooing hurt too-. tiler, Apd albei.t that they delight not ip fuperflinties,yet make