Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas.

  • Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
Date:
1626
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Credit: Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they Cooke i thoufand of one fore in twoor three hoUres, bcingasbiggeasaPidgeonj and lay ing fpeckleo Egges, as bigge as hs Egges, on'tbc land, where they come and lay them daily,although men fit downe amongd chem« W|ien Si,r Thomas Cates his men baue taken a thoufandof them, Sir George Sommeri^nitn. haue flayed a while by them, and brought away »s many more. Another Fowlc there is, t^iat Jiucth in holes, like Cony-holes; their Egges like in quantity and quail tic to Hen-egges* Ocher Birds were lb gentle, that whiHling to them, they would come and gaze on you, while With your ftickc you might kill them. O- thei Egges they had of Tortoyles, a bufhell in the belly of one very fweet: they cooke forty of them in a day: and one would ferue fiftie men at a meale. Two Were there borne,and o- 10 ther two married, to make the moft natural! polTelTion thereof for our Nation; which nowf in hope of good fuGctfle hath there planted an habitation. That wracked Company built there a Ship and a Pinnafle, and fet fade for Virginia. Wiliam Straebie in a large Difeourfe, with his fluent and copioui pen hath defetibed that tempeft which brought them to this Hand, affifming-thac there was not an houreinfoure dayes, in which they freed not out of their almoft captiuedShip, twelue hundred Barricbes ot water, each contayning fixe gallons, and feme eight: belides three Pumps continually going; eucry foure houres they bellowed an hundred tuns ®f water on the cruell Sea, which leemed the morehungry after their bodies,or thirftiefor their blcud from Tuelllay noone till Friday noone, they baylcd and pumped two tliouflind runnes, and were ten foot decpc; nor 2o fould haue holden out one day longer, when they firlt had fight of the Bermudast Tbefc (he layth) are an Jrch'felagw of broken Hands,not fewer thenfiue hundred, if all may be fo cal¬ led wluch lye by tncmfclues; the greatellCwhich lycth like an halfe moone)is in 32.degrees 20. minutes. At their firll landing they killed with Bats feuen hundred Fowles, like to Guls, at one time, Tiie Hands feemcrent with tempellsof Thunder,Lightning,andRainc, which threaten in time to dcuourethem all;the ftofmes in the full and change kcepe their vnchangeable round'Winter and Summer, rather thundring then blowing from cuerycof- ner, lometimes48. houres * together; efpecially when the Halo (or circle about the Moonej appeareth, whichiis often, and there foure times as large as with vs. The North and North well winds caufc Winter in ^December, lanHdsry^ and Fthruarj: yet not fuchj but then young Birds to be feme. Without knowledge a Boat of ten tuns cannot be brought in, and yet within is fafe harbour for the gfeateftShips, They found there for their ruflmance wild Palmitos, the tops of which trees rolled did eat# like fried Melons, fodden, like Cabbages; with the leaucs theycouered their Cabins: Berflcs'blackeand round, asbigge asaDamlbn/ ripe in and very lufcious i intbe Winter they Ihed their leaues. No Hand in the World had more or better Filh. Of Fowles was great varietie. They killed a wild Swan.* Some there arc which breed in high Hands in holes, to fecurc them from the Swine. They' haue their feafons, one kind fucceedinganother. Belides this reliefc of Fowles , they had plenty of Tortoife Egges, which they lay as bigge as Goofe Egges, and commit to the Sun and Sands hatching nurfcrie.Theybadfomctimcs flue hundred inone of them. Eaenheerc (lelt t he Hand lliould lofe that former name of Deuils) fome entred into Deuillifh conl'pira- cie three I'euerall time. Some were banilhed, and after reconciled. Henry Paine was Ibot to death. Some fled to the Woods, but all reduced ,* except Chrijlopher Carter k and Robert IVatersi But thefe Hands haue how becne poffcfled diuers yeercs by an Englifii Colonicjand my friend Mailer (which hath beene there, andisnow * onwards on a lecond Voy¬ age thither) feemeth rauilhed with thenaturall endowments, both for health and wealth,of thefe Hands: which now are to be (hared amongft the Aduenturers, and fortified againft all inuafions; Nature it felfc being herein readie to further their (ecuricie againll the greeted forrenforce, muftering winds (which fome lay arc violent further off, but calmer necrc tlie Hands) and Rockes many leagues into the Sea, for their defence: which now yet they are 50 gone to (Irengthcn, both with men and munition; The Colonie that is there, haue not onely lent verbal!, but rcall commendations of the place: as may appeare by aTreatife * thereof lately.fct forth by one, which in the Shippe called the Plough, fayled thither 1612. wherein is declared the Commodifies there found, as Mullets, Breannes, Lobllars, and Aik - gcUfifh, Hog-fi(h, Rock-fi(h, &c, as before is faid. The Ayrc is very healehfull, at their ex¬ perience (the bed argument )bath found,and agreeing well with Englifli bodies: th# ground as fertile as any (they fay)in the World j Ambergreece, Pcarle,Cedars and other vnknowne Timbers rdorcofWhales and other Commodities, which would bee tedious torchearfc: which I hope and pray, may further prorper,to the profit of this and the Virginia Plantati¬ ons.From hence and thence,! am now palling inanfenglilh Ship for England,whetc to ^ j away tcdioufnelTi; of the Voyage, I will entertayns my Reader with a Difcoutlcof the more then tedious and faltidiou* Spanifh cruellies. N n n n 9 ie.StraciiiA I Myfrieni Mafter Bat{!ef a Merchant, reports better oftbeiem*-’ <firrfcarooable'> neiTej&c.and the Plantation it felfe teftih- etb\the health andwealih thereof, k HecontinOi^ ed there til the Colonie was planted. 1 Annoiitn. m Newes frodl Bermudas,ot Sommer llottdt. There it report oi [ome Snglifi this Winter come home, ’■ which came how Bermuda ' to Ireland in a little Boar,&(a wbitk 1 write u not, tor want of certainc > intelligencG ' neither (for that caufc) of . the prtfent ftatc of the Colonie,which (feme lay) are necie yooR, Chap,