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and is the choice Liquor ufed at their Feafts. Polygamy 
is much praffifed amongft them, and they buy as many 
Wives as they can keep *, fo that a Man that has a good 
many Daughters, may chance to get an Eftate by them, 
efpecially if they prove handfome. If one Man kill an- 
other, the Kindred of the murdered Perfon are his Judges 
and Executioners \ for they have no Laws, nor public Ma~ 
giftrates, to keep up any Form of Juftice amongft them : 
But yet a Man may poffibly buy off his Punifhment too, 
by making a Drinking-bout of Cici. They make their 
Clothes of the Wool of a very large fort of Sheep, which 
Creatures they alfo ufe to carry Burdens. They would not 
fell any of thefe, though they did of another Sort, not 
much differing from the common. St. Marfs Ifland lies 
Eighteen Miles from hence in 37 0 15' South Latitude. 
Here they met with a Spanijh Ship that was carrying Lard 
and Meal to Aranco and Conception , which they chafed 
and took. The Pilot of this Ship told them, they could 
not get back to St. Marfs Ifland becaufe of the South 
Winds, and that there were Two Men of War waiting for 
their coming in Ark a ; Upon which Information, they 
concluded to fail to Val Paraifo , and, by that means, 
quite loft their Vice-admiral, which might have otherwife 
come up to them at laff. Befides, they concluded, that fhe 
miffed the Ifland St. Mary , upon the wrong placing it in 
Plancius’s Map, as high as 38°, when indeed it lies in 
37 0 if And this Error they themfelves had fallen into, 
had not Captain Mellifh fet them right by his Obfervations. 
And it farther confirmed them in their Refolutions not to 
fail back to St. M-arf s Ifland, to hear of the Misfortune 
of Simon de Cordes there, v/ho was in a friendly manner 
invited afhore, and then butchered by the Indians , together 
with Twenty-three of his Men, the treacherous Spaniards 
endeavouring to get his Two Ships into their Hands, and 
fending Intelligence to Lima, and all the Country about, 
of the Arrival of the Butch , and the Names of their 
Captains and Commanders. For thefe Reafons, they bent 
their Courfe to Val Paraifo , where they took Two Ships, 
and killed fome Indians , but the Spaniards were all gone. 
This Val Paraifo lies in 33 0 South Latitude ; and, up in 
the Country, about Eighteen, Miles diftant, lies St. Iago, 
a Town that affords good Store of red W ine and Sheep, 
which they kill only for the Suet, with which alone they 
lade many Veffels. Here they received Letters from the 
Captain of the Flying Hart , one of Verhagen* s Com- 
pany, who was treacheroufly taken by the Spaniards ; 
which hard Fate, he informed them, he had avoided, had 
he not been mifguided by the wrong placing of St. Marfs 
Ifland in the Map. 
10. At St. Iago they intercepted fome Letters, which 
gave an Account of the Wars between the Indians and Spa- 
niards in Chili : The former, being, it feems, in Rebellion, 
had facked the Town of Baldivia , putting vaft Numbers 
of the Spaniards to the Sword, and carrying off many 
Troops of Captives : They burnt the Houfes and 
Churches, and ftruck off the Heads of the Popifli Images, 
crying, Down go the Gods of the Spaniards. They 
crammed their Mouths with Gold, and bid them fatisfy 
themfelves with that, for the Sake of which their Votaries 
had made fo many barbarous Maffacres amongft them. 
Befides all this, they laid clofe Siege to the City Imperiale , 
and almoft ftarved the Spanijh Garifon there. The valiant 
Indians that undertook this Affion were about 5000, of 
which 3000 were Horfe, 100 Shot, and 70 Corflets, all 
which Furniture were Spanijh Plunder. They fo mortally 
hate the Spaniards , that they rip up the Breafts of all they 
overcome, to have the Ple.afure of tearing out their Hearts 
with their Teeth ; and it adds very much to the Tafte 
of their Liquor, to drink it out of a Cup made of a Spa- 
niard's Skull They are for the moft part very ftout and 
fkilful Soldiers, and commit all their military Affairs to 
the Management of one fupreme General, whofe Orders 
they continually obey: But their Method of Eleffion to 
this Honour is fomething odd j, for he that carried a Tim- 
ber Log on his Shoulders the longeft, and with the, leaft 
De«ree of Wearinefs, was faluted General by the Army •, 
feveral in this Trial bore it for Four, Five, Six Hours ; but, 
at laft, one carried it Twenty-four Hours outright, and 
was General at this time. All this Country of Chili, from 
At" ' ' * ■ 
AGES of Book I. 
St. iago to Baldivia , is one of the moft fertile and delight- 
ful Spots in the World i There are all forts of Cattle and 
Fruits, Gold Mines in abundance, an Air fweet and whol- 
fome to that Degree, that it is itfelf Life and Medicine, 
and excludes the Ufe of all other Phyfic. 
11. April 1. they entered the Bay La Guafco , and left 
it the Seventh following. The nth, they came into a 
great Bay, called Moro Gorch ; Ten Miles from which is 
Morro Moreno , from which the Shore runs to Arica *, and 
all this Tract, up to St. Francis* s Hill, is very much fub- 
jeft to South Winds, though in the adjoining Sea they are 
very variable and uncertain. The 20th, the Air was all 
darkened with an Arenal, which is a Cloud of Duft railed 
fo thick, that a Man cannot fee a Stone’s Call from him ; 
they are brought off from the adjacent Shores, and are 
very common in thofe Parts. , The 25th, they- were within 
View of the famous City of Lima , and now they came to 
underftand the Value of the.Treafure which the Malice of 
the Spaniards had robbed them of, and which otherwife 
they had found in thofe Ships they took at St. Iago ; This 
Difcovery was thus made : Nicolas Peterfon , who was 
Captain of the Prize, acquainted the Admiral, that a Ne- 
gro he had on board, whofe Name was Emanuel , had 
informed him, that there was a great Quantity of Gold on 
board the Ship, to the Amount, as he believed, of Three 
Tons, with which he was the better acquainted, becaufe 
liimfelf had helped to carry a great Part of it on board. 
The Admiral, upon this Information, examined his Spanijh 
Pilot very clofely, who at firft refufed to own any thing j 
but another Negro, whofe Name was Sebafian , having 
admitted the Faff, and acquainted them with fome farther 
Circumftances, the Spanifo Pilot at laft owned, that they 
had on board Fifty-two Chefts, containing each Four 
Arobes of Gold, and, befides this, 500 Bars of the fame 
Metal, weighing from Eight to Ten and Twelve Pounds 
apiece ; all which, together with whatever private Stock 
any of the Ship’s Company had, the Captain caufed to be 
thrown over-board the Night he was firft chafed, amount- 
ing in the Whole to about 10,200 /A Weight of Gold, 
and, from its Finenefs, worth about 2,000,000 of Pieces 
of Eight. The Admiral, upon this, ordered the Ship to 
be fearched, and then the Prifoners, but to very little Pur- 
pofe j for, except a fingle Pound Weight of Gold-duft, 
tied up in a little Bag, in the Spanijh Pilot’s Breeches, 
there was not a Grain to be found. The Prifoners owned, 
that all this Gold was brought from the Ifland of St. Ma- 
ry , where the Mines were difcovered about Three Years 
before ; and that there were not, on that Ifland, above 
Three or Four Spaniards, and about 200 Indians armed 
only with Bows and Arrows. 
12. September 5. they had Sight of the Ladroms and, 
the 1 6th, came to Guana , which is one of them ; an Ifland 
Twenty Miles in Extent, and yielding Fifh, Cocoas, Ba- 
nanas, Sugar-canes, which the Indians brought in a great 
Number of Canoes up to their Ships. Sometimes they 
met with Two hundred of thefe Canoes, with Four or 
Five Men apiece, which would come all hollowing together, 
Pliero , Hiero , that is, Iron, Iron, and with very Eager- 
nefs run their Canoes upon the Ships, and overturn them. 
Goods and all. They were very fly, fubtle fort of Peo- 
ple, honeft with good looking to ; but otherwife they 
would fell a Man a Basket of Cocoa-fhells, with a little Rice 
a Top, for a Basket of Rice, and whip a Sword out of 
the Scabbard, and fo skip into the Water, and away to 
the Bottom, whither a Man muft go after them, if he mean 
to have Satisfaction : And the Women were as, good at 
thefe Rogueries as the Men ; they would fteal as impudent- 
ly, and dive as well to hide it. 
13. The 1.7th, they failed for the Philippines', on the 
20th, they met with Ice,, yet were then in 3 0 North Lati- 
tude : On OFtober 16. they came to Bayla Bay, a very 
fertile Land ; at which Place, by pretending that they were 
Spaniards , they got Store of all neceffary Provifions for 
their Ships. The Spaniards , who are Lords here, make 
the Indians pay Ten fingle Rials a Head for every one 
above Twenty Years old.. Thefe poor Creatures are moft- 
ly naked, and mark their Skins with Figures fo deeply 
impreffed, that they never wear out. Being difcovered, 
but after having obtained their Ends, they failed for the 
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