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Title: America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region
Identifier: America00Ogil (find matches)
Year: 1671 (1670s)
Authors: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676; Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
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Publisher: London : Printed by the author . ..
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Chap. III. A M E%lt J. 19
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come in to his fpeedy refcue,which occafioji'd a bloody Conflift,whercinfeve- ral Spaniards were wounded, eight kiird,and one of their fmall Boats funk ; for the Americans fought fo valiantly,that they purfu'd the Spanifl? Ships into the Sea. Pinion being at laft freed of thefe AfTailants, got into a frefh-rwater Sea, caus'd by the confluence of many Rivers falling in there : from hence he got fight of the Parian Coaft, and with admiration beheld a Tree which fixteen Men could not compafs; Between thefe Trees he law as ftrange a Monfter, the foremoft part refembling a Fox, the hinder a Monkey, the Feet were like a Mans, with Ears like an Owl; under whofe Belly hung a great Bag,in which it carry'd the Young, which they drop not, nor forfake till they can feed themfelves. Pinion caught one of them with three Young, which died in the Voyage, but the Dam he prefented alive in Granada to the King. This Captain having Sail'd fix hundred Leagues along the Parian Coaft, in a great Tern peft two of his Carvils in his view were overfet, their Keels turn'd upward j the third driven from her Anchor, and the fourth fo fliaken, and full of Leaks, that ready to fink they ran her'afliqre to fave their lives,, and though he efcaped himfelf the danger of drowning, then being afhore, yet he was no ways freed from far greater inconveniences, for he faw nothing but death either for want of Provifions, or barbaroufnefs of the Inhabitants: whereupon they refolv'd to free themfelves of their miferies by felf-flaugJiter, killing one another • but fome better advifed to fpend their Lives like Qbrifti- ansupon the unbelieving Salvages : Whilft they were in this defperate condi- tion, the Storm ceafed, and Providence prefented their fafety, the Ship driving in before the Wind • at which every one taking frefti courage, they mended the two fhatter'd Ships as well as they could y wherein venturing to Sea, and fetting Sail, they came on the laft of September, Amo 1500. into the Spanifh Haven Tabs. '■ A remarkable Bcaft.1 Great Storm.' .7 I 1 S e c rl

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