Chap. III. 



A M E R I C A. 



Si 



AtagtUtnut flaia 



An end of the Voyage 

 about the world. 



inclin'd to Thievery , for which caufe they Denominated them Ladrones, the 

 chiefeft Ifland call'd Borneo, hath two hundred fifty four Leagues in Circum- 

 ference, whereon a Tree grows, whofe Leaves when fain off, feem to be alive 

 and creep like Worms. The King of this Illand entertain'd the Spaniards very 

 courteoufly, two Elephants bringing'his Prefcnts to them on the Shore, out of 

 a City confiding of twenty thoufand Houfes. 



Near Borneo are two leffer Iflands,call'd,i^o an d MatanfThc King ofZuh free. 

 ly fubmitted himfelf to the Spaniards, and MageUanm leaving his Fleet at Anchor 

 in the Haven,went with his own and other Indian Boats,and attended with fome 

 of the Zubenfers to Matan, where fetting a Village on Fire,he carry 'd great Riches 

 from thence : This not fatisfying , he refolv'd within eight days to fet upon 

 the Royal Head-City . but the King in his own Defence, Encountering with 

 Magellan**, flew him, and feven Spaniards more, befides twenty two dangeroufly 

 wounded ; thole which efcap'd by flight, $ otto2ubo, where being invited to «»**.**« 

 Dinner by the King, they were all of them (in ftead of a fecond Courfe) Mur- 

 ther'd at Table. The occafion of this was out of Revenge, becaufe the Spaniards 

 had fall'n too foul upon their Women and Maids, Devirginating, and forcing 

 them to their Pleafure, than which rudenefs nothing was among them more 

 Deteftable. The Sea-men weakned by thefe Misfortunes , were neceflitated to 

 burn their third Ship, call'd, St. Jago. but Sailing to the Molucco Iflands with 

 the other two.they Freighted them both with Cloves, with which the Ship tri- 

 >utas Sail'd to ls(ew.Spain through the South.Sea, and the Viclona, Commanded 

 by John Sebafiian de Lano went the fame way which the fortuguefe us'd, and Co to 

 St. Lucar de Barrameddf near Sivile, where he came to Anchor with his Ship and 

 eighteen Men. 



Sect. X. 

 Ferdinando Cortez bis Voyage. 



A Lthough feveral Expeditions of the Spaniards to America prov'd very un- 

 fuccefsful at the firft, yet they ftill undertook them afrefi,, and with re- 

 newing Courage : Ferdinando Sottus, though he Landed five hundred Men in 

 Florida, yet brought no Treafure from thence , onely he cut off the Hands of 

 fifteen Princes, becaufe they would not difcover their Mines of Gold. 



Yet far worfe fuccefs had Vampbtlus ]S[aryae^, who loft both his Fleet and *<««*«*<* «,„,,«. 

 Men, faving onely ten out of fix hundred, in the River Talma, and they alfo af- 

 terwards dy'd there,oreat one another to fatisfie their raging Hunger. ' 



But much better was the fortune of Ferdinando Corte^, Sailing from Spain to c "" zhis Vo W 

 America, in the Year 1519. w ho having the Command given him over ten ftout 

 Ships, and three Frigats with five hundred Foot , and an additional Force of 

 fixteen Horfe^ iais'd by the new Spanijh Inhabitants on Cuba . with which For- 

 ces Landing on the Ifland Columella , he prohibited Humane Sacrifice to their 

 Idols, and Er.e&ed a Crofs with the Image of the Virgin Mary, in one of their 

 Temples, and releas'd Hieronimus Aqutlam, after a fevert years Slavery, having Wubic delivery, 

 fuffer'd Shipwrack with Valdivia-, at which time fome that lav'd themfelves in 

 the Boat, were by the Current in thirty days driven to Jucatan, in which time 

 feven dy'd of Hunger • the reft going afliore, were no fooner Landed, but Sa. 

 enfie'd by the Natives to their Gods or Zemes. Among the fix that remain'd,yet 

 left alive, and to be offer'd after the fame manner the next day, was this Aauu 

 lark, who with his Companions, breaking Prifon, in the following night fled 



to 



Sottm cri(clry. 





