Chap. VII. AMERICA* ,„ 



to be caught with the Hand. There grows like wife a namelefs Tree, not unlike &***«* 

 the Laurel, being of a ftrange Nature, for who e'rc touches the Leaves, and after- 

 wards rubs his Eyes, lofes his Sight for four hours, with exceeding pain . which 

 painrieverthelefs another Tree growing in the fame Mandcures immediately. The 

 trench, who Landed on Ityronho Anno 1613. found a fortugue/e there, with eighteen 

 $rafilians, Men, Women, and Children, banifh'd thither from fernambmo, whom 

 Baptizing, they carry'd to Maragnan. Near Noronbo lies the Ifle De Feu. 



Sect, X. 



Maragnan. 



MAragnan, forty five Leagues in circumference, lies in two Degrees of Sou- situate 

 thern Latitude, and a confiderable diftance from the Bay, which ap- 

 pears between the Rivers Aperegba and Qomajamu. 

 The Eaftern Entrance into this Bay hath before the Promontory Arlres Sees, 

 the Ifle St. Anna, by the Brafilians call'd Upaunmiri. 



Oppofite to Maragnan, about half way from the faid Inlet, fall three Rivers into 

 the Sea, the moft Eafterly call'd Mounin, hath a Mouth a Mile wide, and difcharges 

 its Water into the Sea - the middlemoft Taboucourou, is five hundred Leagues 

 long, and ends with two Mouths, half a League diftant one from the other j 

 the moft Wefterly, call'd Mary, is about fix Leagues broad, fo falling into the 

 Sea. 



The Stream Maracon falls into the <Pinare, and thus united they joyn both with 

 the Mary, which runs exceeding fwift into the Sea. 



Between the Capes Arbres Sees and De la Tortue, the Coaft lies full of fandy 

 Banks, fomc of which extend a League into the Ocean. 

 ^ On the other fide of the Promontory Tapoytapere near Maragnan,tomLtds theRiver 

 ijma^ones, lie fo many Ides along the Sca.fhore, that no Ship is able to approach 

 the fame, becaufe the Spaces between the Ifles are overgrown with Trees call'd 

 Jpparituriers, whofe Boughs (hooting down and rooting in the Sea, produce other 

 Trees, which grow fo clofe together, that they feem one entire Tree with many 

 Branches. Befides this Inconvenience there is abundance of drift Sand when the 

 Wind fits from the Shore > which oftentimes fwallows the Ships which lie upon 

 the fame. 



Beyond Maragnan lie two Roads, the firft between the Promontory Arbres and 

 the Ifle St. Anna, but dangerous ; the other, difcover'd fome years fince, reaches 

 to the Fort of Maragnan, and is as dangerous as the firft. 



This Ifland hath twenty feven Villages, by the Natives call'd Oc or Tare, each 

 Village confiding of four Houfes made of great Stakes, andcover'd with Palm-tree 

 Leaves againft the Rain, each Houfe being thirty Foot broad, and from two hun- 

 dred to five hundred Paces long, according to the greater or leffer number of In- 

 habitants. The firft Village, oppofite to St. Anna y is call'd Timbohu - the fecond, 

 Well known for two eminent Fifhing-places, is Itapara • but the two biggeft are 

 Juniparan and Eujfaouap, each having about five or fix hundred Inhabitants. 



This Ifland of Maragnan lies under a temperate Climate, being feldom troubled 

 With exceflive Colds, Droughts, peftilential Vapors, Wind, Hail, or Thunder, only 

 it Lightens Morning and Evening in ferene Weather. When the Sun returns from 

 the Tropick of Capricorn to the North, then it Rains for fix Weeks together j but 

 ^hen he declines from Cancer towards the Southern Solftice, the T/We-Wind, or 



Eaftern 



