Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas.

Samuel Purchas

Date:: 1626

Credit: Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$85^ Other ObferuAtions of Florida. Chap.^< io]d thisef certain Span!. ardswbicblU ued in thofe pan$. a DMjd/»< gram.ap.H*li, wolucfi came and carried away the dead corps. Hcc reported that thefe people are worChip> pers of the Peuill^ and <r(e to offer vnte him the life and bloud of their Indians^ or of e^t people that they can come by; and when he will haue them doc that facrifice vnto him»hce\v fpeaketh vneo them, and tels them that he is a thit(f,and enioynes them thislacrifice. They haue a Prophecir,Tlut a white people (kould iubduc them; wherein the French and Spaniih haue hitherto failed in their attempts. S*t9 hauing in his greedy hopes negle£fcd the many commodities he might haue enioyed, to flnde greacerj was brought to fuch dumps, that lice thereon lickenedi before he tooke his bed,he fenc to the Gacique of Qui- galta.to tell him that he was the Child of the Sunne* and therefore would haue him repaire to him; he anfwered,That if he Would dry rp thcRiuer^ he would beleene him. And iq| he was dead, becaufe he made the Indians beleeue that the Chrillians were immortall, the. Spaniards fought to conceale his death. But the Cacique of Quachoya bufily enquiring for him, they anrwered,chac he was gone to heauen,as many times he did, and had left another in his place. The Cacique thinking he was dead, b commanded twoyong and well propor¬ tioned Indians to be brought thither, faying, it was their cuflome to kill men, when any Lord died, to wait on him by the way; which their erueli courtelie theSpaniards refuTed, denying that their Lord was dead. One Cacique a&ked S»t0 w hat he was,and why hee came thither f He anfweredithae he was the Tonne of God,and came to teach them knowledge of the Law. Not TOffaith the Cacique, if God bids thee thus to kill, ftcale,and worke ail kind of oaifehiefe. 2^ For their eredulicie in like cafe, ljMi$nnitrt telletb, that a Arange and vnheard>of lighce* ning hapned within a league of their Fort, which confumed in an inAant 500. ceres of mea- dow^being then grecne, and halfe couered with water, together with the foules that were therein. It continued burning three dayes together, and made the Frenchmen thinke, that for their fakes the Indians had fet fire on their dwellings , and were gone to feme other place. But a cercaine which is one of their petty Kings,or Caciques, fenc to him aPrefenc, befeeching him to command his men that they fhould (hoot no more towards his dwelling,thinking that the Ordinance bad ocufed all this, which occafion he yfed to hii owne good,by arrogating that to himfelfc which be few their (implicicie concciucd of him* Within two dayes after this cccidenC,fell fuch an beat, that the Riuerf'I thinke) was ready ^ to Teethe: and in the mouth of the Riuer were found dead therewith, hfhei enow to bene laden fifty Carts, whereof ifTued by putrifa Aon much ficknelTe. Calos is neere the Cape of Florida. The King thereof made his TubicAs beleeue^ that hit Sorceries and ebarmes were the caufe that made the earth bring forth her fruit,cand that he might the eaHer perTwade them,he retired himfelfc once or twice a yeere to a certain houfe,' accompanied with two or three of his friends,where he vfed inchantmenti.lf any man offe¬ red to fee what he did,it coft him his life.Euery yeere he offiereth a man in the time of Har- ueft,vv hich was kept for chat purpoTe,and taken of Tuch Spaniards as bad Tuffiired fhipwrack onthatCoaff. They which further defire to know the riches and commodities of thefe Countries, may 4a refort to the Authors in this Chapter mentioned. Sir FrMeis Dr^kg, in the yeere 158^, be- ^ fides his worthy exploits in other placet, cooke the Forts of S. loba, and Saint jirntmilint; whence he brought PeAro N$ehiUs Pmgsignon, whole relations concerning that Countrey Maffer Httckiitit hath inferced among ocher his painfull labours. DdnidIngram * reported many ffrange things which he faith he faw in thefe parts, Ele¬ phants ,Horfes,and beaffs twice as big as Horfes,their hinder parts refembling Greyhounds;' Buis with cares like Hounds| beads bigger then Beares,without head or necke, but hauing their eyes and mouthes in their brelli: and another beaffjf Ctrberus) he cals him CfUnchit, which is (faith he}the Deuill in likeneffe of a Dogge,and fometimes of a Calfe, with many ether matters, wherein he muff pardon me,if I be not too prodigall of my Faith. He tela aU cq foofpomlhmenCofadulceryby death, the woman cutting the adulterers throat, and the ' neereft kinfman, hers, after many prayers to the C#//echi#,and a further puni(hfflent,in tjiaC they haue no quicks bodic buried with them, to attend them into the ocher world, as all others haue. But they that liff to beleeue, may confult with the Author. Atttbtny O0dtUrd, (another of lugramt company,left by Sir Ukn Hawkjtis') going another way,at Panuco yeel- ded himfeife to the Spaniards : with whom was tJbtiUs Fbi/^s, and H0rt0p, whofe dif« courfes of their difaduentures with the Spaniuds and Indians, Mailer hathpub- lifiied f and hath (aeddisrdralfo written. 69 ^ r V A Chap^'$

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