The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok.

  • Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
Date:
[1625?]
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Credit: The historie of the West-Indies, containing the acts and adventures of the Spaniards, which have conquered and peopled those countries, inriched with varietie of pleasant relation of the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. [By P.M.A.] / Published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt [in 1587] and translated into English by M. Lok. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they found innumerable villages ofxx.houicsjor 5 o.at the moft round about in order, making the ftreete in compalFe like * a market place. And forafmuch as I haue made mention of their houfes,it Ihtl not begrcatly from my piirpofe to deferibe ThcI>uiWinc» inwhat manner they are builded : They are made round like theirhoufes. belles or round pauilions. Their frame is rayfed of exceeding high trecs,let clofc together, and faft rampaired in the ground, . fo handing aflope, and bending inward,that the toppes of the trees ioyne together,and beare one again ft another , hauing alfb within the houfe certain ftrong and fiiort proppes or pc fts which fufteyne the trees from falling. They couer them with the leaues of date trees,and other trees ftrongly compad: and hardencd,wherwith they make them ciofe from winde and wea¬ ther. At the fhorte ports or proppes within the houfe, they tic . ropes ofthe cotton of goframpinetrees,©r other ropes made of ©offampine certaine long & rough roots, much like vnto the fhrubbe called cotton. ':shartHmy wherofin old time they vfed to make bands for vines. . and gables and ropes for fhippes. Thefe they tye ouerthwart . the houfe from pofttopoft, on thefe they layAs it were cer¬ taine matrelfes made ofthe cotton of gollampine trees, which Bombafe. ^towe plentifully in thefe Ilandes. This cotton the Spany ards Htngingbeds and the \t^i^zisSot)thitJine' and thus they fleepe in hanging beddes. At the entrance of one of their houfes,they fawe two,Images of woodelike vnto ftrpentes, whichFthey ■thought had bcene fuch idoles asthey honouribut they learned afterwarde that they were fet there onely for comelineire, for , - ■- they know none other God then the funnel moone,although ' Smages* they maxe certaine images ofgolTampine cotton to the fimili- tude of fuch phantafies as they fay appear e to them in the ni«ht Our men found in their houfes, all kinds of eartlien veffels riot much vnbke vnto ours. They founde alfo in their kytehens, /Frnecookcnc. mans flefh, duckes aefb,& goofe flefli,all in one pot, and other * I 1 * 1^ , ^ ^ into their inner they founde faggottes of the bones of mens armes andlegges, which.tlKy referue to make headesfortheirAr- , rowes, becaufe they lacke iron,.the other bones they caft away when they haue eaten the'flelb. They found Jikewife'the head . ©f a yong man faftened to. a port, and yet bleeding.they haue