Volume 1

A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, the whole history of navigation from its original to this time / Illustrated with maps and cuts, curiously engraved.

  • Churchill, Awnsham, -1728.
Date:
1744-1746
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Credit: A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, the whole history of navigation from its original to this time / Illustrated with maps and cuts, curiously engraved. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gun ; and coming to the ifland Guanaja, whence Columbus had turned back to the eaftward, they held on their courfe ft ill weftward, running along the coaft o$ Hon¬ duras till they came to the bottom of that deep bay, which they called Baia de Navi- dad, now called the gulph of Honduras. Then turning to the north-eaft, they dif- covercd a great part of the province of Gucatan, whereof kttle was afterwards known till the difeovery of New-Spain. An. 1507. An. 1507. It being ftill unknown whe¬ ther Cuba was an ifland or part of the^ continent, Nicholas de Obando governor oi Hifpaniola lent Sebajlian de Ocampo to d;f- Cuba. cover it : lie failed along the north-fide of it, touching at fevered places and careened his fhips at the port now well known by the name of the Havana, which then he called de Carcnas. Then continuing his voyage to the weflermoft end of the ifland now called Cabo de S. Anton, he turned to the eaftward along the fouth coaft of the Port Xa- ifland, and put into the port of Xagua, 2ua- which is one of the bell in the world, and capable of containing a thoufand fhips. Here he was moft courteoufly entertained, and fupplied with abundance of partridges and good fifh. Having refted here a few days, he held on his way along the coaft, , and returned to Hifpaniola, with the certain yC news of Cuba's being an ifland. Herrera, 7 dec. 1. lib. VII. An. 1508. An. 1508. John Ponce de Leon fiiled over from Hifpaniola to the ifland called by the Indians Borriquen, by the Spaniards S. Juan de Puerto Rico, and by the Englifh Porto Rico : It is but fifteen leagues diftant from Hifpaniola, has a good harbour, which with the plenty of gold found in it gave it Herr. dec. t]ie name 0f Puerto Rico, or the Rich Har- 1' iib' hour. Herrera, dec. 1. lib. \II. An. 1508. The fame year 1508. John Diaz de So¬ lis, and Vincent Tancz Pinzon, who before difeovered the gulph of Honduras, failed with two caravels fitted out at the king’s cxpencc to difcover the fouth coaft of A- inerica •, and coming upon cape S. Auguftin in about x 1 degrees of fouth latitude, con¬ tinued thence their navigation along the coaft, often landing, and trading with the natives till they came into 40 degrees of the fame latitude, whence they returned Herr. dec. with an account of what they had found i.lib. 7. into Spain. Herrera, dec. 1. lib. VII. An. 1509. An. 1509. John de Efquibel was fent from Hifpaniola, by the admiral James Co¬ lumbus, fon to Chriftopher Columbus, with feventy men to fettle a colony in the ifland of Jamaica. This lame year John de la Cofa failed from Spain with one [hip, and two brigan¬ tines, to join Alonfo de Ojeda in the ifland Hifpaniola, thence to go and fettle on the 2 continent. James de Nicueffa let out foon after him with four fhips upon the fime defign. After fome difpute about the li¬ mits of their provinces, they agreed that the river of Darien fhould part them, and then they fet out towards their feveral go- Herr. dec. vernments. Herrera, dec. 1. lib. VII. 1 • Jk-7- An. 1510. Ojeda landed at Carthagena, An. 1510. where, after endeavouring to gain the In- The Spa- dians by fair means without fuccefs he came ni lfd,3 re* to a battle with them, in which John de la carthaee- Cofa was killed, and he efcaped by flight na. having loft feventy Spaniards. Nicueffa arri¬ ving a few days after, and joining the other Spaniards belonging to Ojeda, revenged the death of the former feventy, and took a great booty. However Ojeda removed thence to the gulph of Uraba, where he founded the town of S. Sebajlian, being the S. Sebafii- fecond built on the continent, if we reckon an- that before founded by Columbus near the fame place, which did not ftand as has been mentioned, nor did this continue long at that time, being removed after moft of the Spaniards were confumed to Darien. Hence the Indians carried fwine, fait and fifh up the country, and in return brought home gold and cotton cloth. Nicueffa with his fliips failed to Vcragua, and after many miferies and calamities, at laft founded the town of Nombre de Dios on the fmall IJlhmus that joins the two continents of north and Herr. dec. fouth America. Herrera, dec. 1. lib.VII,VIII. i.lib.7,8. An. 1511. The admiral James Columbus An. 1511. from the ifland Hifpaniola fent James Velaf- quez with about three hundred men to plant in the ifland of Cuba, where no fettlement had yet been made. An. 1512. John Ponce de Leon, before An. 1512. mentioned as firft planter of the ifland of Puerto Rico, being grown rich, fitted out three [hips in that ifland, refolving to dii- cover to the northward. He failed on the third of March, fleering north-weft and by north, and on the eighth anchored at Baxos de Babueca, near the ifland del Viejo, in 22 degrees and a half of north latitude, and on the fourteenth at the ifland Guana- hani, which was the firft difeovered by Co¬ lumbus. Hence he directed his courfe north-weft, and on the twenty feventh, be¬ ing Eafter funday, difeovered an ifland not known before ; whence he proceeded, fleering weft-north-weft till the fecond of April, when they came to an anchor near a port of the continent they had run along in 30 degrees and eight minutes of north latitude, which he believed to be an ifland called Florida, that is, dowry, Florida, or flourifhing, both becaufe it looked green and pleafint, and becaufe it was Eafter time, which the Spaniards call Pafqua Flo¬ rida. After landing to take pofleflion, he failed fouth and by eaft till the twenty firft of