410 GOVERNMENT IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



LlB - YI - and manner of cornmaund : for the more that men approch 

 to reason, the more milde is their governement, and lesse 

 insolent ; the Kings and Lords are more tractable, agreeing 

 better with their subiects, acknowledging them equall in 

 nature, though inferiour in duetie and care of the common 

 wealth. But amongst the Barbarians all is contrary, for 

 that their government is tyrannous, vsing their subiects like 

 beasts, and seeking to be reverenced like gods. For this 

 occasion many nations of the Indies have not indured any 

 Kings or absolute and soveraigne Lords, but live in commi- 

 nalities, creating and appointing Captains and Princes for 

 certaine occasions onely, to whome they obey during the 

 time of their charge, then after they returne to their former 

 estates. The greatest part of this new world (where there 

 are no settled kingdoms, nor established coinmonweales, 

 neither princes nor succeeding kings) they governe them 

 selves in this manner, although there be some Lordes and 

 principall men raised above the common sort. In this sorte 

 the whole Countrey of Chille is governed, where the Arau- 

 canos, those of Tucapel and others, have so many yeeres 

 resisted the Spaniards. And in like sort all the new 

 kingdome of Granada, that of Guatemala, the Ilandes, all 

 Florida., Brassill, Luson, and other countries of great cir- 

 cuite : but that in some places, they are yet more barbarous, 

 scarcely acknowledging any head, but all commaund and 

 governe in common, having no other thing, but wil, violence, 

 unreason, and disorder, so as he that most may, most com- 

 maunds. At the East Indies there are OTeat king-domes, 



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well ordered and governed, as that of Siam, Bisnaga, 1 and 

 others, which may bring to field when they please, a hun 

 dred or two hundred thousand men. 



As likewise the Kingdome of China, the which in great- 

 nes and power surpasseth all the rest, whose kings (as they 

 report) have continued above two thousand yeares, by 

 &quot; Bijaynagar.&quot; 



