ate brought fromthe Weft Indias. Fol. 11. 
as, and fir ot all from Sancte Doming. Ihe Pore bee as 
common amongſt the Indians, and as familiar, as the 
Meaſelles bee vnto vs, and well neere the matt part ofthe 
Indians, both men and Wome haue them, without making 
thereof any ſcruple, and they came firſt in this ſoꝛte. 
In the peare of our Lode God 1493. in the warres 
That the Catholike Ring made in Maples, with yng 
Charles of Fraunte, p was called Great head, inthis time 
fir Chꝛiſtopher Colon, returned from the diſcousrie that he 
had made of the Indias, which was Santo Domingo, und a⸗ 
ther Jlands, and he bꝛought with him from Santo Domingo, 
a great numberof Indians, both men and women, which 
he carried with him fo Naples, where the Catholike Bing 
was at that time, who had then concluded the warres, foz 
that there was peace betweene the twoo Ringes, and the 
hoffes did communicate togeather, the one with the other. 
And Colon being tome thether with his Indians, the moll 
part of them bꝛought with them the fruite of their tauntrie, 
which was the Pore. Andthe Spaniardes began te haue 
fonuerfation with the Indian women, in ſuch fort. that the 
men and women of the Indias, did infed the Campe of the 
. Spantarves, Italians; and A lmaines at the Catholike 
king hedthen of all theſe ations, and there were many 
that were infected with that euilt And after the hoſtes com⸗ 
muned together, the fire did kindle in the campe er the king 
af Fraunce,of which it ſollowed, that in ſhoꝛte time the one 
and the other were infeded withthis einll ferde: eee l 
thence: it hath ſpꝛed abꝛdad inta all the wozld- 
At tge beginning it had diuers names: he — T he names 
did thinke that it has beene ginen them by the French: chat bey 
men, and they tallet it the Frenchs sail The Frenchmen gaue to the 
thought that in Naples, and by them or the Cauntrie, the cuil tree. 
twill had beene giuen them a thextalled it the eulber Na⸗ 
ples. Andtheyol Aluainefeing that by connerfation with 
eset the x came by it, theꝝ called 3 
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