Chap; HI. 



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the Natives, kill'd and eaten • that Fogeda driven up and down along the 

 Coaft, had loft moft of his People by hunger, and other hardfliip, and him- 

 felf with much ado getting to Hifyaniola, dy'd as loon as Landed of the Wound 

 which he received by a Poyfonous Arrow, near the River 'J)aria. 



But much happier was Jncifus> who foon after Fogeda coming to Cuba, found Jmi f" s Vo ^- 

 a King, who fuffer'd himfelf to be Chriften'd, and call'd Commendatory and 

 building a Church, Confecrated it tovdie Virgin SMary-, in it he ere&ed an ^^J^£ 

 Image of Clay, refembling a Woman, which he clothed in a Cotton Gar- ifcnuc**,. 

 ment - round about were placed Pots with Meat and Water, according to their 

 old Idolatrous fafhion, otherwife, they belicv'd their Idols would devour the 

 Souls of the Dead, and this, though Chri'ftians, they did not forget. 



Nay further, when he went to War, he carry'd the Image of the Virgin Mary 

 with him in the Front of his Army, often laying, Ave Maria ; and this was the 

 end of that Voyage : But afterwards Anc'ifus complained againft Vajcws Nunns^ 

 in the Spanljh Court, where he receiv'd a Sentence very prejudicial to him. Cc/- 

 menares and Ouicedo had alio Audience there, whereupon matters being iettled 3 

 a firm Government was eftabliflf d in llraba. 



NicMffa differs hunger. 



Sect. VIII. 

 Peter Arias his Expedition, and remarkable Tajfages of Vafcus Nunnez. 



PEter Arias Knight, accompany'd with his Wife, Elizabeth (Boadilla, fet Sail 

 Anno 1514. but furpriz'd by a violent Storm, loft two Ships, and return'd 

 to Spain , yet not long after began his Voyage afrcfii , notwithftanding he had 

 lately had fuch bad fuccefs, and heard of the great hardfliip which Ntcuefa fuf- 

 fer'd, having not onely kept himfelf alive a confiderable time by feeding on 

 flefli of Dogs, and other fuch like Creatures . a great Frog being fold in Vera- 

 gua for a lump of Gold. 



But Vafchts N»»«e^ informed of Arias arrival , the chief Governor of llraba, 

 afterwards call'd NeTb Andalusia, minding to inrich himfelf before he fliouldde- 

 pofehim , and hearing that feverai Gold Mines lay Southward from Uraba, 

 march'o 1 thither with a hundred and ninety Men, thorow great Rivers, Thick- 

 ets, and Woods full of Wild Beafts, deep Vallies, and broad Rivers, not with- 

 out many hazards and difficulties. In the Mountainous Territory Quarecjuan, 

 the Inhabitants ingag'd him valiantly, with Bows, Arrows, Clubs, Woodden 

 Swords, Pikes and Launces, but frighted with the meer report of their Mul- 

 quets, like flocks of wild Fowl , diffipated and fled , but not fo faft, but that 

 fix hundred of them fell by the hands of the Spaniards, or were worry'd by their 

 Dogs,tramd up on purpoie for the Jmerican Wars. Soon after,coming into the D^dimhc wars. 

 Palace, there fate his Brother drefs'd up in Womens Apparel, whom the King 

 kept to abufe, as if a Concubine 5 whereof Nunne^ being informed, in detefta- 

 tion of Sodomy, fet the Dogs upon him, who fuddenly tore him in pieces, t^hmfytmgtd. 

 Amongft the flain were found feverai Kegrocs, which fuffering Shipwrack had 

 been caft on the Jmerican Shore, and maintained a continual War with the &ua- 

 raquanen, fo that it ieem'd the 'Blacks which were found dead amongft them 

 were their Slaves : Yet TS(unne^ was fore'd to leave a confiderable number of 

 his Men here, who being half ftarv'd, and quite tired out, were not able to 

 follow him -, but with the remaining party he march'd on, and at lift came to ^^JSJSaJ .. Jlfct 

 the high Mountains, from whence he faw the great South»Sea, and going thi- 

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