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tait in all their neccflitics, and obtained all they deman 

 ded : fo as they brake downe their idolls, and bcganne ta 

 carry the erode for their badge , demanding preachers to 

 inftru,and to baptife them. For this reafbn,the province 

 to this day hath beene called S. Croix de U Sicrre. But .to 

 the end we may fee by whom God wrought theft mira 

 cles, it (hall not be vnfit to (hew how that this fouldier af 

 ter he had (ome yeares done thefe miracles , like an Apo- 

 ftle , and yet nothing reformed in his lewd courfc of life, 

 left the province of Choreas ^xA continuing in his wicked 

 courfc, was publikely hanged zi?otoz,i. P0&(whoknevv 

 hinfwd) writes all this, as a notable thing happened in his 

 time. Cabeca de raca, w ho fince was go vernour of Para, 

 gasy, writes what happened vnto him in his ftrange pere 

 grination in Florida , with two or three other compani 

 ons, -the onely remainder of an army, where they conti 

 nued ten yeares with thefe Barbarians, traveling and (car- 

 thing even vnto the South fea,being an author worthy of 

 credite: he faicth,that thefe Barbarians did force them to 

 cure certainc difeafes, threatning them with death if they 

 did it not s they being ignorant in any part of phifickc,and 

 having nothing to apply, forced by neceflitie,made evan- 

 gelicall medicines , (ayingthe praiers of the Church, and 

 making tbcfigne of the crofle , by mcanes whereof, they 

 cured thcfe difca(cs,which made them fo famous, as they 

 were forced to excrcifc this office in all townes as they 

 parted, the which were innumerable, wherein our Lord 

 did aide them rniraculoufly, and they themfclves were 

 thereat amazed,beingbut of an ordinarie life- yea, one of 

 them was a Negro. Lancer o was a fouldier of Peru, of 

 whom they knew no other merit,but to be a fouldier: he 

 fpake certainc good \yordes vpon wounds, and making 

 the figne of the crolTe,did prefently cure them : fo as they 



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