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fo that where any confiderable number of them frequents, though the Soil be 

 never fo fruitful, ye< it is left defolate and forfaken. But the Baboons that 

 s _B Mt a,.B, frequent the Woods are more pleafant and left dangerous • ^«* '^ 

 That his whole Army incountred with thefe Beads, which climb d from one 

 Tree to the other, fhrieking, and making very ftvange Geft.culations to too e 

 that were gone before, and gathering their Mouths and Hands full of Stones, 

 ZlTLy threw as exa* and ftrongly as a Man. When one of the e 

 Baboons, Lt by a Mufquet, fell to the Ground, the reft gave fuch a horrible 

 flrriek, that the Woods refounding with the noile, ftrook a terror into the ** 

 M ard>. Amongft feveral things that hapned in this Counter-fcuffle, take this 

 one: A S^rf taking aim with his Mufquet at an old Baboon which fee 

 pearch'd up in a Tree, and being now juft ready to give Fire, the Baboo. iSo 1* 

 dier, at the very inftant, to break the Shot, taking a Stone out of his Mouth 

 threw it exaaly into the Mans Mouth, with fuch force as beat out fome of his 

 Teetl . with which fudden blow furpris'd, he loft his Mark ; and the proud 

 Foe, fhewing figns of Triumph, went his way. 



Burwl.il! Cortex ftaid in the Countrey of Tenufittan (now calld JIAevco) 

 Francifcus Garajus fail'd out of the Haven of Jamaica with eleven Ships, to the 

 KvJfanucus there, according to the Command of the .Emperor Charles to 

 plant a Colony : Whereupon he went aihore, ordering his Fleet to fail ^along 

 in fioht of Land : So wading through the River Montaltus, which glides be- 

 tween high Mountains, he came to a Moraffy Ground, in which he and they 

 often funk almoft up to the Middle, and loft his way in a Thicket of young 

 Trees, yet at laft being come to the River Tanucus he found feveral high 

 Walls,' being the Ruines of Fortreffes, Temples, and Towers deftroy d by 

 <W '. fo that the City lay quite defolate. Twenty Leagues further upon 

 the Banks of the fame River, Cm*, had in like manner fack d and deftroy d 

 Cfckjw, a Town which before its burning reckon d above twenty thoufand 

 Houfes, befides many fair Palaces,Walls, Towers, and Temples : Which Cru- 

 elties and Spoil had bred fo great an Odium in the Inhabitants againft the Spam. 

 2 ^— eU ards, that they immediately fent an Army againft Garajus, who had only a few 

 **«»*•** half.ftarv'd Men with him $ yet he receiv'd the Enemy twice in his Retreat 



to the new Colony St. Steven, rais'd out of Cbiglia's Ruines . but finding no 

 Provifions whenever he came, he judg'd it fitteft to fend his Horfe into the 

 Countrey to Forage j which Corte^ meeting, took Prifoners, under pretence 

 that G arajus came to take Poffeffion.where he had neither Authority nor R.ght. 

 Cortex alfo made himfelf Mafter of Garajus Ship and Fleet, commanding him 

 withal to appear in Tenuftitan , which not knowing how to avoid, he obey'd : 

 His People mean time ranging up and down without a Head or Commander, 

 either died by Famine, or were murther'd and eaten by the Natives , for at one 

 time the Americans made a general Feaft with two hundred and fifty rotted o>- 

 niards : But their days of Triumph lafted not long ; for SandoValus one of Cor. 

 te^his Prime Officers, fet with fo much fury upon thofe Canmbals, thit he kill'd 

 feveral thoufands of them, and burnt fixty Perfons of Prime Quality ,all Com. 

 manders, in the fight of their Ftiends and Relations. But Garajus, whofe Son 

 was married to Corte^ his Daughter, liv'd not long after the Wedding, which 

 occafion'd a murmur as if Cortex had poyfon'd him, to fld himfelf of a Partner 

 in his Government ; for it had been generally obferv'd, that his Ambition fuf- 

 fer'd no Equal. The Americans fell all down before him • all were Servants 

 alike : The Court which he kept fwarm'd with Attendance, on which he fpent 



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Sfmniardi rofted. 



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