HiHorie of the Indies, lib.}, 



ber, they fay this trouble and motion, caufed by the 

 Earthquake 5 ranne threehundred leagues alongeft the 

 coaft. S.ooncafter 3 which was in theyeerc eighty two, 

 happened that Earthquake ofdrequtpa, which in a ma- 

 ner overthrew the whole citie. Since in the yeere eigh- 

 tie fixe, the ninth of Itilie, fell an other Earthquake in 

 the cittie otKings, the which as the Viceroy did write, 

 hadderunnea hundred three (core and tenne leagues 

 alongeft the coaft, and overthwart in the Sicrre fiftie 

 leagues.The mercy of the Lord was great in this earth 

 quake, to forewarne the people by a great noyfe which 

 they heard alittle before the Earthquake , who taught 

 by former experienccs,prefently putthe^nfelves in fafe- 

 tie, leaving their houfes, ftreetes,and gardins, to go in 

 to the fieldes ; fo as although it ruined a great parte of 

 the Cittie, and of the chiefeft buildings, yet theredied 

 not above fifteeneor twenty perfons of all the Inhabi 

 tants. It caufed the like trouble and motion at fea 5 as it 

 had done at Cbitle, which happened prefcntly after the 

 Earthquake, fo as they might fee the fea furioufly to flic 

 out of her boundes,and to runne neere two leagues in 

 to theland, rifing above foureteenefidome : it cove 

 red all that plaine, fo as the ditches and peeces of wood 

 that were there, fwammeinthe water. There was yet 

 an other earthquake in the Realme and Citcie of gj^tr 

 to - and' it feemes all thefe notable Earthquakes vppon 

 that coaft, have fucceeded one an other by order, as in 

 trueth it is fubied to thefe inconveniences. And there 

 fore although vpon the coaft of Per a , there, be-no tor 

 ments from heaven, as thunder and lightning y yet are 

 they not without feare vppon the land : and fb everie 

 one hath before his cies, the Heiaults of divine luftice, 

 to moove him to feare God. For as the Scripture faith* 



