| Title: | Extracts From Purchas' 'Pilgrims' |
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Extract. ex tom. 1. Purchas pilgrims lib.
2 . c. 1. para. 10. p.33.
- [Naodabeguea?] (one of those which had conspired against the Portugal Admirall in the East Indyes, Sequeria) received divers wounds by which at last he fell but neither blood nor soul issued, which both as from a broken vessel, suddenly fled, after a gold chaine was taken from his arme: The Cause they learned to be a bone of a beast called Cabis, in the countrey of Siam, which being included in that chaine, included the blood also, those open passages notwithstanding; This Iewel was sent into Portugal for a raritie but perished by shipwrack by the way.
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Idem. chap.2. pag.34. 35. Magellans circumnavigation.
- they saw giants as big, that the head of one of their men, of a meane stature, came but to his waste. when he saw his Countenance in a looking-glass, he was suddenly afraid & started back with such violence that he overthrew 2 men that stood behind him. This great divel, they call Setebos,& the lesse Cheleule; when they are sick at the stomack, they put an arrow half a yard or more down the throat, which makes them vomit green choler & blood. For headache they make a cutt over the forhead, & let themselves blood; the like they doe on the <right margin: arme or legg in any aches. One of the giants in their retinue dyed for heat passing the line>
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pag.40. A Spanish Pezo is worth a dackat & a half of gold.
pag.43. In the Island Cimbubon, near the Phillippinæ eight degrees, 7 minutes above the Equinoctial line; they found a tree, whoose leaves, as soone as they fall on the ground, doe stirre & remove from place, as though they were alive; they are much alike the leaves of a mulberry tree, and have on every side as it were two short and blunt feet. when they are cutt or broken, there is no blood seen to come forth of them, <yett> when any of them are touched, they suddenly move & start away. Anth. Pigafetta kept one of them in a platter for the space of 8 dayes, & ever when he touched it, it ranne round the platter.
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Ibid - They took also a fish headed like a swine, with 2 horns, the rest of his body all of one bone, & as it were a saddle on the back.
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Ibid. The King of Borneo had 2 pearles as big as hen egges, so round that on a plaine table they would not stand firmely.
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Idem Ibidem. In the Moluccas they make honey of flyes lesse than Ants.
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Idem chap.3. pag.54 Drakes Circumnavigation
- In Nova Albion are Conies in bignesse as the barbarie conies, their heads as the heads of ours, the feet of a want, and the tayle of a ratt, being of a great lenght; under her chin is on either side, a bag, into the which she gathers her meat, when she hath filled her belly abroad. Ibid.
[deletion] In certain Islands 8 degrees to the Northward of the line, they saw Canoas, that were hallow within, & cutt with great art & cunning.
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<right margin: 3.)> & cunning, being very smooth within & without & bearing a glosse as it were of a horne daintily burnished, having a prowe and sterne of one sort, yeelding inward circlewise being of a great height & full of certain white shells, for a braverie, & on each side of them lye [cut?] pieces of timber, about a yard & a half long more or lesse according to the smalnesse or bignesse of the boate. many of them are made of one tree
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- The Nayles of their hand are an Inch long; their teeth are as black as pitch & they renew them often by eating of a herbe by a kind of powder which they alwayes carry about them in a cane for that purpose
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- pag 55. Sagu a kind of meale in the Moluccos, made of the topps of certain trees, tasting in the mouth like sowre curds, but melteth like sugar, whereof they make certain cakes which may be kept 10 yeares, & yett then good to be eaten.
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pag.56. Batts as big as large hens in the East Indyes.
- High trees in a little Island southward of the Celebes very straight & without boughs savely onely on the top, whose leaves are not much differing from our broome in England. Amongst these trees night by night through the whole land did shew themselves an infinite swarm of fiery worms flying in the ayre, whose bodyes, being no bigger than our common English flyes, make such a shew & light, as if every twigge & tree had been a burning candle.
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- pag.57. In Sierra leona on the coast of Guinea they found 22 of Iuly, Oysters upon trees of one
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of one kind, spawning & increasing infinitly, the Oyster suffering no bud to growe.
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Idem. page 65. - Their canoas are marvellous artificially made of two skinnes like unto bladders, & are blown full at one end [two words deleted] <with> quills, they have two of these bladders blown full which are sowen together, & made fast with the sinew of some wild-beast, which when they are in the water, swell, so that they are tight as may be. Mr Candish in his circumnavigation saw them on the coast of Chili.
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pag.64. Iguanos, a kind of serpents with 4 feete, & a long sharpe tayle, strange to them which have not seen them, but they are very good meate.
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In digging 3 or 4 foot deep in the sands, they found very good & store of fresh water.
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pag.67. - Mr Candish Relation. Every man and manchilde in the Island Capul in the East Indyes hath a nayle of tinne thrust quite through the head of his privie part, being split in the lower end & rivetted, & on the head of the nayle is as it were a crown; which is driven through their privities when they be young, & the place groweth up again without any great paine to the child, & they take this nayle out & in as occasion serveth, & for the truth thereof wee ourselves have taken one of these nayles from a sonne of one of the kings, which was of the age of 10 yeares, who did weare the same in his privy member; This custom was
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granted at the request of the women of the Countrey, who finding their men to be given to Sodomy desired & obtained this remedie against the mischiefe.
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pag. 68.69. The Custome of the Countrey of Iava is, that whensoever the King doth dye, they take the body so dead, & burne it & preserve the ashes of him, & within 5 dayes next after, the wives of the said King so dead, every one of them goe together, to a place appointed & the chief of the women, which was neerest to him in accompt hath a ball in her hand, & throweth it from her, & to the place where the ball resteth, thither they goe all, & turne their faces to the eastward, & every one with a dagger in their hand (which dagger they call a crise, & is as sharpe as a rasor) stab themselves to the heart, & with their hands all to bebath themselves in their own blood, & falling groveling on their faces, so ende their dayes. This thing is as true as it seemeth strange.
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from Iava to cabo bona Speranza is 1850 leagues.
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Ice all yeare long in the magellan straits. pag.73.
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pag 74. Relat. of Oliver Noort Circumnavigat. Inhabitants of Chili so hate the Spaniards, that of whomsoever they kill, they pluck out his heart & bite it & make drincking-vessels of their skulls. In the choosing of their captain, they carried a heavy piece of timber upon their shoulders, which whilst it wearied the most to beare 5 or 6 houres, one was found strong enough to endure it 24 together, & thereby attained the honour.
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Pag. 90. William Cornelison [Shouten?] in his circumnavigation of the world relates a strange accident thus - The 5 of October wee were under 4 degrees 27 minutes, about noone there was such a noyse in the bough of our shippe that the Master being behinde in the gallerie, thought that one of the Men had fallen out of the foreship, or from the boesprit into the sea, but as he looked out over the side of the ship, he saw the sea all red, as if great store of blood had been powred into it, whereat he wondered not knowing what it meant, but afterward he found that a great fish having a horne had therewith strucken against the ship with great strenght. For when wee were at Port Desire where wee sett the ship on the strand to make it cleane, about 7 foot under water before in the ship wee found a horne sticking in the ship, much like for thicknesse & fashion to a common elephants tooth, not hollow <but> full, very strong hard bone, which had entered into 3 plancks of the ship, that is 2 thick plancks of greene & one of okenwood, & so into a ribb, where it turned upward to our great good fortune, for if it had entered between the ribbes into the ship, it would happily have made a greater hole, & have brought both ship & men in danger to be lost, it struck at least half a foot deep into the ship, & about half a foot without, where with great force it was broken off, by reason wherof the monster bled so much.
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pag. In sayling about the globe they have one night lesse then wee.
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pag.120 Mr Davies tells us of a strange seed in the East Indyes, whereof a little being eaten, maketh a man turn foole all things seeming to him to be metamorphosed, but above a certain rate tis deadly poyson
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Idem pag.132. - The 12 of February, we found ourselves to be in 7 degrees, 5 minutes to the southward: in which place at night, I thinck I saw the strangest sea that ever was seene, which was that the burning or glittering light of the sea did shew <to> us, as though all the sea over had been burning flames of fire, & all the night long, the moone being downe, you might see to read in any book by the light thereof.
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Idem pag.133.