rT The Introduction. 
PereStrello, who was the Difcoverer of Madera and Porto Santo) he 
projected going to the farther Part of the Eaft-Indies, not yet dif- 
cover'd ; where common Fame, and the aflurance of People 
com: fram thence, cold them, were Houles covered wich Gold, 
(in fommy parts fome of them at this Day are gilded) Spices and 
other very rich Commodities in great plenty. He was opposd 
in this Project by learned Men, and with Difficulty was at laft be- 
liew’d by Ifabella, then Queen to Ferdinand King of Spain, who be- 
ing influenced by her Confeflor, Luigi di S. Angelo, in favour of this 
* Mariana, Project, pawn'd her Jewels to equip Columbus, who * by this means. 
gee ee got feventeen thouland Ducats. He fetout Augu/t 1492. and went 
through many Difafters, endured much Pain, Watching and perpe- 
tual Labour. He by thefe means, kept his Men from Mutinies, and 
at length difcover’d fome Birds, afterward fome Land-herbs and Fruits 
the Sea, and at laft Saint Salvador or Guanabani, one of the Lucaie 
or Bahama Mlands, on the 1 2thof O€fober, and onthe 15th he came 
to the North-fide of Aii/paniola, He left there fome Men, and took 
thence, to fhew in Spain, fome \Indians, Gold, Parrats, Maiz, or 
Indian Corn; and other valuable or ftrange things. On the 4th of 
Fanuary, 1493. he fer Sail from Hi/paniola tor Spain, and arrived at 
Lisbon the 4th of March in the fame'year, and at Palos in Spain the 
the 13th of the fame Month, that is, in feven Months and ‘eleven 
Days from going out. | 
Columbus, likewife brought into Europe in his Ship,and ficft Voyage, 
from thefe places, the Pox, which fpread fo quickly all over Europe, 
that Antonius Benivenins, who was at that time a great and famous 
Practifer in Phyfick' at Florence, in the firft Chapter of his Book 
de Abditis nonnallis ac mirandis morborum, ¢ fanationum caufis, tells 
us, that the Lues Venerea then beginning in Spain, had {pread itfelf 
through Italy, and France, andthat inthe Year 1496, it had poflefs’d 
many People in allthe Provinces of Europe. Dodonaus, likewife tells 
us, that this Difeafe very much raged in the War that Charles VIII. 
King of France had with alpbonfus King of Naples in the Year 1494. 
+p.21g, and'yet thinks Gulielmus de Saliceto, + who liv’d in 1270. Valefcws de 
\Lsb.6.cop.3 Tarenta, || wholivd in 1418. and Bernardus de Gordonio, who died 
in 1305. give us an account of fome Sympcoms of it. 
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Tam of Opinion notwithftanding what thefe have faid, and fome 
other lefs material Paflages in antient Writers and Hiftorians, and 
whatJoannes ab Arderne has written about An. 1 3 60. and likewife what 
* p. aac: Stow * fays of the Laws of the publick Stews in Southwark, that 
this 
