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Deaths imaginable y which made many of them alfo to lay violent hands on 



i( themfelves. 



Sect. V. 



Coftarica. 



Cprica borders on the Eaft with Veragua , on the South and Eaft, With the a**** 

 Sea j and on the North, with Nicaragua. The Countrey it felf is barren cSw** 

 and mountainous , whofe Inhabitants were valiant enough to Encounter 

 with the Spanifh Forces, being unwilling to lofe their former Priviledges. 



This Coaft was difcover'd firft by Cbriftopher Columbus, who Anno ijqi. Sailing 

 up the Rivers Belen and Veragua with Barques, took much Gold out of the Mynes 

 Urira, but chiefly from between the Roots of Trees which were grown together* 



Sect. VI. 



Veragua. 



VEragua is bounded on the Weft with Coftarica - on the Eaft it hath the Diftrift, ****** ** 

 or Countrey of fanama, being otherwife walVd on all fides by the Sea. It *?fis«*y* 

 hath its Name from a River of great note in thisTraft, by which it was firft 

 difcover'd. The Countrey is for the moft part mountainous, and the Soil out* 

 wardly barren,but recompencing all defects with the abundance of its more inward 

 Wealth, that is to fay, in the richnefs ©fits Mynes, of which it is faid to Afford 

 many, and fo inexhauftibly rich and good, that the Spaniards here know no end of 

 their Wealth • although by the ftoutnefs and untameablenefs of the Natives, it 

 was a long time, and they met with many difficulties,beforc they could make them* 

 felves Matters of the Treafurc. 



The chief Towns they have here are i. La Conception, lying at the Mouth of a Ri. Jj^ 

 vcr fo nam'd, and the Scat of the Governor. 



2. La Trinidad, upon the Banks of the fame River likewife, but down towards 

 fort HBeleno, and about fix Leagues Eaftward of Conception. 



3. St. Foy y twelve Leagues more to the South, where the Spaniards melt their 

 Gold, and eaft it into Bars or Ingots. 



4. Carlos, a Town they have upon the Coaft of Mare del Zur. 



5. Tbilippina, another on the Weft of Carlos , both of thefe featcd upon a large 

 capacious Bay y before which there lie certain little Ifiand^, to the number of 

 thirty or more,which the Spaniards are faid to have wholly dilpeopled long fince,by 

 forcing the Natives over into the Continent to work in the Mynes, as ufually they 

 did before the Emperor's Prohibition : but now they ufc Slaves or Negro's, which 

 they buy for that purpofe from Guinee and other Parts. 



Sect. VII. > 



G 



del Zur. 



Guatimala, properly fo called. 



Uatimala, fpecially fo call'd, hath on the Weft the River Xicalapa, which di- *°t»* of 

 vides it from Ferafa^ } on the Eaft it is bounded with the Countrey of *' CQU, * ^T, 

 Nicaragua; on the North, with Honduras , and on the South, with Marc 



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