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alio was very troublefom, becaufe of the uneven Ways 5 and befides, the Ty- 

 gers and Lyons devour'dmany People and Cattel. 

 A^onge Accident. The firft Night that Jrias lay in Maria Antiaua y the Houfe wherein his Chi- 



rurgion Lodg'd was fir'd with Lightning, who running out with his Wife, be- 

 ing both fcorched by the Flames, faw a very great Crocodile, which fnatch- 

 ing up his Dog ran away with him towards the River. 

 Remarkable Trees. T ne neighboring Territory Coiba produced Trees, whofe Timber us'd for 



Shipping never breeds Worms, becaufe of its acerbity; whereas on the con- 

 trary, all other Veflels in that Countrey are very fubjed to that inconvenience. 

 Here alfo grow thofe famous Plague*Trees > whofe very Leaves, if but falling 

 upon one, are like Gods Arrows, mortal,and immediately kill,unlefs the Place 

 whereon they light be ftraightway anointed with fafting Spittle : and the Coi- 

 benfers fay, that they know another poyfonous Wood, which they ufe to de- 

 > ftroy their Enemies withall. 



Whilft Arias was confulting about the beforemention'd Affairs, he fent feve-. 

 ral Comanders to divers Places, to take a furvey, and give him an account of 



M*2*Mhl e slZl!* l ^ cn Return °f a H their Difcoveries. Amongft others Cajper Moralis was ordered 

 to march towards the South Sea, to confirm the Peace which Nun?te^ had begun 

 with the Kings Cbiapes and Tumaccus ; and chiefly to go to the Pearl-Ifland with 

 fixty Men, which Nunne^ was fore'd to leave, being ftrefs'd by tempeftuous 

 Weather. Cbiapes and Tumaccus were according to their promife, to prepare an 

 Army ready for his affiftance againft his coming * which indeed they per- 

 formed, fo that they wanted nothing but VefTels, for the biggeft of theirs could 

 not carry above three or four Men ; yet they undertaking their Enterprife, 

 Landed feventy Men on the Ifland ; upon which the Inhabitants under their 

 Kings Condud: ran to meet the new Landed Forces, and crying out aloud 

 Guazgavara, Gua^ayara, they ran in amongft the Mufqueteers with their wood- 

 den Swords ; but the report of the Guns, mix'd with Fire, Smoak, and Bullets,' 

 foon amaz'd them : the King flying, thought by alarm to raife all the Iflan- 

 ders ; but they being informM, that no People whatfoever could withftand the 

 fire-fpitting People, made Articles of agreement with Moralis, and Condition'd 

 to deliver a hundred pound weight of the choiceft Pearls to the ufe of the King 

 ofCaJlile ; and as a teftimony of his Friendflup he was Chriften'd Teter Arias, 

 from the Governors Name of New Jndalufia. 

 strange ggrfl How great the Treafure was which ^oralis brought from the Pearl Ifland 



may appear by one of the Pearls, for which Pope Leo the tenth gave forty- 

 four thoufand Ducats to a Venetian Merchant. 



Amongft the Commanders which were fent out by Arias, was alfo Johan* 

 nes Solifim, who Sailing fix hundred Leagues Southerly, along the Coaft of the 

 Canbbies, beyond Qape St. Augufiine, he found the Inhabitants of fernambuck to 

 be no lefs cruel than fubtile . for being invited afhore, he with fbme of 



J! nfm bis miferabIe his Men Row'd thither, where no fooner Landing, but were all kill'd and 

 eaten in the fight of the other Sea-men aboard . at which being amaz'd they 

 weighed Anchor, and Sail'd away, Freighted onely with !Brafile Wood, to 

 Cadi%s 



Afo in an unhappy hour did Johannes <Pont<eus putfome of his Laundrefles 

 afhore on the Ifland Guadalupa, to wafh fome Linnen for him ; for the Iflan- 

 ders coming on a fudden out of the Woods furpriz'd them, and forthwith kil- 

 ling without mercy, cut them in pieces, and carbonadoing, eat their broil'd 

 Flefli hot from the Coals, while Gonfalus 'BaJajocins Sail'd with eighty Men 



Vefterly, 



