The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage.

  • Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.
Date:
1648
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Credit: The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ot her yong age from her ambitious thoughts of being Abbelfe. With this the mutiny both within and without ceafed,the Bifhopgot butfhame,and his yong Sifter continu¬ ed as before tinder command and obedience, to a more religious, grave, and aged Nun then her (He. EhlsDonna Juana de Maldonado y Pazwas the wonder of all that Cloiftel^ea of all the City tor her excellent voice, and skill in muficke, and in carri¬ age, and education yeelded to none abroad nor within ; fhe was witty, v ell fpoken and above ail a Calliope, or Mufe for ingenious and fuddain verfes • which the Bid,op faid, fo muchmoved him to delight in hercompany and converfation. Her father thought nothing too good, nor too much for her ; and therefore having no other children, he daily conferred upon her riches, as might heft befeem a Nun,as rich and coftly Cabinets faced with gold and filver, pictures and Idols for her chamber with crownes and jewels to adorne them ; which with other prefents from the Bifhop ( who dying in my time left not wherewith to pay his debts, for that as the report went he had lpent himfelfe and given all unto this Nun) made this Donna Juana de Maldom- . rlc^ a“^ Vately3.ather owne charges fhee built for herfelfe a new quarter within the Cloilter with roomes and galleries, and a private garden-walke, and kept at worke and to wait on her halfe a dozen Blacl^more maids; but above all fhe placed her delight in a private Chappel or Clofet to pray in,being hung with rich hangings and round aboutit coftly IaminaX as they call them ) or piftures painted upon brafle let in blacke bbony frames with corners of gold, fome of filver brought to her from Romeo her Altar was accordingly decked with Jewels, Candlefticks, Crownes,Lamps and covered with a Canopie embroidered with gold; in her Clofet fhe had her fmall organ, and many forts of muficall inftrumems, whereupon fhe played fometimes by herfelfe, fometimes with her beft friends of the Nuns; and here efpecially fhe enter¬ tained with mufickeher beloved the Bifhop. Her Chappel or place of devotion was credibly reported about the City to be worth at leaft fix thoufand, which was enough for a Nun that had vowed chaftity, poveroy, and obedience. But all this after her de- ceafe fhe was to leave to the CIoitter;and doubtlelfe with this Stare,and riches fhe would win more and more the hearts of the common fort of Nuns,till fhe had made a ftrong party, which by this may have made her Abbefle. t'hus is ambition and defire of com¬ mand and power crept into the walls of Nunneries,like the abominations in the wall of Ezekiel, and hath pofleffed the hearts of Nans, which fhould be humble, poore and mortified Virgins. r 3 But befides this one Nun, there are many more, and alfo Friers, who are very rich font the City be rich (as is this) and great trading in it, they will be fure to have a (hare. Great plenty and wealth hath made the inhabitants as proud and vicious as are thofeof Mexko. Here is notonely Idolatry ,but Fornication and uncleanneffe as publike as many place of the India s: The Mulattos, Black-mores, Mecca's, Indi¬ ans, and all common fort of people are much made on by the greater and richer fort and goe as gallantly apparrelled as doe thofe of Mexico, fearing neither a Vulcan or mountaine of water on the one fide,which they confeflc hath once powred out a flood and river executing Gods wrath againft fin there committed; neither a a Vulcan of fire or mouth of hell on the other fide,roariiig within and threading to raine upon them S°d°ms ruine and deftruaionjndther the weaknefs of their habitation-lying wide open on every fide, without walls, or workes, orbulwarkes, to defend'them,or without guns, drakes, bullets,or any Ammunition to fcare away art approaching enemy who may fafeIy c?m^ anc* without refiftance upon them who live as profeffed enemies of JefusChrift. This is the City of St. James or Santiago de Guatemala the head of a vafte andante Dominion, which extendeth it felfe nine hundred miles to Nicoya and Cojta Rica South-wardjthree hundred miles to C^i^andZo^North-ward- a hundred and fourefcore miles to the further parts of Fera Paz, and the Golfo dulce Eaft-ward • and to the South-fea twenty or thirty, in fome places fourty miles Weft- ward. From Tuoantepequc ( which is no harbour for any great fhips ) which ftandeth from Guatemalan leaft foure hundred miles, there islanding place for fhips neerer to this City then js theviilage^ la Trinidad, or of the Trinity. The chiefe commodities Which from along thatcoaft are brought to Guatemalafrom the Provinces of Seco- nuzco and Sucbutepeques, which are extreame hot, and fubjeft to thunder and light¬ ning, where groweth[fcaiceany remarkeable commodity, faveonly Cacao, Alwtte, MecaJucbil,