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THE STRANGE

VOYAGE and ADVENTURES

O F

DOMINGO GO NSALES,

T O T H E

WORLD in the MOON,

B Y T H E

Several Ganza's, or Large Geese.

BEFORE I come to relate our extraordinary Voyage of Domingo Gonzales to the World in the Moon, I will make a Halt at St. Hel-lens, or Hellena, which is now pofleft by the Honourable Eaft-India Company. It is called the Sea Inn, becaufe the Englijh and other Nations flop there as a Place for Watering and Refrefhment in their long Voyages to India. It was formerly feiz-ed by the Dutch, but retaken May 6th, 1673, by Captain Munday, with a Squadron of Englijh Ships, and three rich Dutch Eafi India Ships made Prizes in the Harbour; fincc which the Company have fortified and fecured it, agaihft any future Invafion of Dutch, Portuguefe, or Spaniards. It was called Santa Helena by the Portuguefe, who difcovered it on St, Hellenes Day, being dpril 2.

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There is no Ifland in the World fo fardiftant from the Continent or main Land as this. It is about fixteen Leagues in Compafs, in the Ethiopic Sea ; in 16 Degrees of South Latitude; about 1500 Miles from the Cape of Good Hope ; 360 from Angola in Africa; and 510 from Braffle in America* It lies high out of the Water, and furrounded on the Sea-coafts with fteep Rocks, having within many Cliffs, Mountains and Vallies, of which one is named Church-Valley ', where behind a fmall Church they climb up to the Mountains. To the South is Apple-Dale, fo called from the abundance of Oranges, Lemons, and Pomegranates enough to furnifh five or fix Ships. On the Weft-fide of the Church, Ship's have good Anchorage clofe under the Shore, to prevent the Winds which blow fiercely from the adjacent high Mountains.

The Air feems temperate and healthful, fo that fick Men brought afhore there, in a fhort Time recover •, yet the Heat in the Vallies is as intolerable as the Cold upon the Mountains •, it commonly rains there five or fix Times a Day, fo that the Barrennefs of the Hills is not occasioned for the want of Water, of which it hath twoorthiee good Springs for furnifliing Ships with frefh Water ; the Ground of its own Accord brings forth wild Peafe and Beans, alfo whole Woods of O-range, Lemon, and Pomegranate Tr^es, all the Year long, laden both with Blofibms and Fruit, good Figs; abundance of Ebony and Rofe-trees, Pai-fly, Muftard-feed, Purflain, Sorrel, and the like j the Woods and Mountains are full of Goats, large Rams, and wild Swine, bur difficult to be taken. When the Portuguefe difcovered it, they found neither four-footed Beafts nor Fruit-trees, but only frefh Water; they afterward planted Fruit-trees, which fo increafed fince, that all the

Vallies

Of Domingo Gonsales. 5

Vallies ftand full of them •, Partridges, Pigeons, Moor-hens, and Peacocks breed here numeroufly, whereof a good Markfman may foon provide a Dinner for his Friends. On the ClifF-IQands, on the South, are thoufands of grey and black Mews, or Sea-Pies, and white and coloured Birds, fome with long, others with fhort Necks, who lay their Eggs on the Rocks, and fuffer themfelves to be taken with the Hand, gazing at their Surprizers, till they are knocked on the Head with Sticks.

From the Salt-water beating againlt the Clifts 3 a Froth or Scum remains in fome Places, which the Heat of the Sun fo purifies, that it becomes white and good Salt; fome of the Mountains yield Bole Armoniac, and a fat Earth like Terra Lemnia. jm£ The Sea will anfwer the Pains of a patient Fifh- ^^ erman, who muft ufe an Angle, not a Net, be-caufeof the foul Ground and beating of the Waves;, the chief are Mackrel, Roach, Carp, but differing in Colour from thofe among us; Eels as big. as a Man's Arm, and well tafted Crabs, Lob-fters, Oyfters and MufTels as good as Englifh..

It is in this Ifland that the Scene of that notable Fancy, called, The Man in the Moon, or a Dif-courfe of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonfales is I laid, written by a learned Bifhop, faith the ingenious Bifhop Wilkins, who calls it a pleafant and * well contrived Fancy, in his own Book, intituled,, A Difccurfe of the New World, tending to prove- r 7 that it is poffible there may be another habitable World* in the Moon ; wherein among other curious Arguments he affirms, that this hath been the ffirecr. O- ie pinion of divers antient, and fome modec&Mathe- !? maticians, and may probably be deduced from the Tenets of others, neither does it contradict any Principle of Reafon nor Faith ;. and that as their World is our Moon, fo our World is theirs. / B 2 Nov* 1S

Now this fmall Trad having lb worthy a Per-fon to vouch for it, and many of our Englijh Hif-torians having publifhed for Truth, what is almoft as improbable as this, as Sir John Mandavil'm his Travels and others, and this having what they are utterly deftitute of, that is, Invention mixed with Judgment; and was judged worthy to be Licenfed fifty years ago, and not fince reprinted, whereby it would be utterly loft. I have thought fit to repubiifh the Subftance thereof, wherein the Author fays he does not defign to difcourfe his Readers into a Belief of each particular Circumltance, but expects that his new Difcovery of a new World, may find little better Entertainment than Columbus j|had in his firft Difcovery of America, though yet that poor Efpial betrayed fo much Knowledge as hath fince increafed to vaft Improvements, and the then Unknown is now found to be of as large Extent as all the other known World ; that there fhould be Antipodes was once thought as great a Paradox, as now that the Moon mould be habitable. But the Knowledge of it may be referved for this our difcovering Age, wherein our Virtuofi can by their Telefcopes gaze the Sun into Spots, and def-cry Mountains in the Moon. But this and much more muft be left to the Critics, as well as the following Relation of our little Eye-witnefs and great Difcoverer, which you mail have in his own Spanijb Stile, and delivered with that Grandeur and Third of Glory, which is generally imputed to that Nation.

It is known to all the Countries of Andaluzia, that I Domingo Gonjales was born of a noble Family in the renowned City of Seville. My Father's Name being Tberando Gonfales, near Kinfman on the Mother's Side to Don Pedro Sanches the worthy Count of Almanera, my Mother was the

Daughter

Daughter of the famous Lawyer Otho Perez de Sallaveda, Governor of Barcellona, and Corrigidoroi Bifcay; I being the youngeft of feventecn Children, was put to School, and defigned to the Church ; but Heaven purpofing to ufe my Service in Matters of far another Nature, infpired me with fpending fome Time in the Wars ; it was at the Time that Don Ferando, the renowned Duke If Alva, was fent into the Low Countries in 1568. I then following the Current of my Defire, leavino-the Univerfity of Salamanca, whither my Parents had fenc me, without giving Notice to any of my Friends, got through France to Antwerp, where I arrived in a mean Condition. For having fold my Books, Bedding, and other Things, which yielded me about 30 Ducats, and borrowed twenty more of my Fathers Friends; I bought a little Nag, wherewith I travelled more thriftily than ufually young Gentlemen do, till arriving within a League of Antwerp, fome of the curfed Guefes fee upon me, and bereaved me of my Horfe, Money, and all; fo I was forced through NeceiTity to enter into the Service of Marfhal Coffey a French Nobleman, whom I ferved in an honourable Employ, though mine Enemies, to my Difgrace affirm, I was his Horfe-keeper's Boy ; but for that Matter, I refer myfelf to Count Mansfield, and other Per-fons of Condition, who have often teftified to many worthy Men, the very Truth of the Bufinefs, which indeed was this, Monfieur Coffey being about this Time fent to the Duke U'Aha, Governor of the Low Countries, he informing the Nobility of my Birth, and my late Misfortune, judging it would be no fmall Honour to him to have a Spaniard of that Quality about him, furnifhed me with a Horfe, Arms and whatever I wanted, ufino- my Service,- after I had learned French, in writing his

Letters,

Letters, becaufe my Hand was very fair. In time of War, if upon NeceflUy, I fometimes drefied my ou n Horfe, I ought not to be reproached therewith, fmce I count it the part of a Gentleman to fubmit to the vikfl Office for the Service of his Prince.

The firft Expedition I was in, was when the Marfhal my Friend met the Prince of Orange making a Road into France, and forced him to fly even to the Walls of Cambray: It was my good Fortune to defeat a Trooper, by killing his Horfe with my Piftol, who falling upon his Leg, could not ftir, but yielded to my Mercy ; I knowing my own Weaknefs of Body, and feeing him a lufty tall Fellow, thought it the fureft Way to difpatch. him, which having done, I plundered him of a Chain, Money, and other Things to the Value of 200 Ducats. This Money was no fooner in my Pockets, but I refumed the Remembrance of my Nobility, and taking my Audience of Leave from Monfieur Coffey, I inftantly repaired to the Duke D'diva's Court, where divers of my Kindred feeing my Pocket full of good Crowns, were ready enough to acknowledge me : By their means I was received into Pay, and in Time obtained Favour with the Duke, who would fometimes jeft a little more feverely at my Perfonage than I could well bear, for though I muft acknowledge my Stature is fo little, as I think no Man living is lefs, yet fmce it is the Work of Heaven and not my own* he ought not to have upbraided a Gentleman therewith ■, and thofe glorious Things that have happened to me may evince, that wonderful Matters may be performed by very unlikely Bodies, if the Mind be good, and Fortune fecond our Endeavours.

Though

Though the Duke's Jokes a little difgufted me, yet I endeavoured to conceal my Refefitment, and accommodating myfelf to fome other of his Humours, I was fo far interefted in his Favour, that at his going into Spain, whither I attended him, by his Kindnefs, and other Accidents, wherein by my Induftry I was feldom wanting to myfelf, I was able to carry home 3000 Crowns in my Pocket.

At my Return, my Parents, who were extremely difturbed at my Departure, received me with Joy, Which was increafed, becaufe they found 1 had brought wherewith to maintain myfelf without being chargeable to them, orlefifeningthe Portions of my Brothers and Sifters. But doubting I would fpend it as lightly as I got it, they follicited me td marry the Daughter of John Figueres, a considerable Merchant of Lifbon, to which I complied, and putting my Marriage Money, and good Part of my own into the Hands of my Father, I lived like a Gentleman many Years very happily: At length a Quarrel arifing between me and Pedro Delgades, a Gentleman and Kinfman of mine ; it grew fo high, that when no Mediation of Friends could prevail, we two went alone with our Swords into the Field, where it was my Chance to kill him, tho* a ftout proper Man ; but what I wanted in Strength I fupplied in Courage, and my Agility countervailed for his Stature. This being acted in Car-mona, I fled to Lifbon, thinking to conceal myfelf with fome Friends of my Father-in-Law, till the Bufinefs might be accommodated ; at which Time, a famous Spanijh Count coming from the Weft-Indies, publifhed triumphant Declarations of a great Victory he had obtained againft the Engli/h near the IJle of Pines, whereas in reality he got nothing at all in that Voyage but Blows, and a con-

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fiderable Lofs. It had been well if Vanity and Lying had been his only Crimes ; his Covetoufnefs had like to have been my uttep Ruin, though fmce it hath proved the Occafion of eternizing my Name I verily believe to all Pofterity, and to the unfpeak-able Benefit of all Mortals for ever hereafter, at lead if it pleafe Heaven that I return home fafe to my Country, and give perfect Initructions how thole almoft incredible and impoflible Acquirements may be imparted to the World. You (hall then fee Men flying in the Air, from one Place to another, you (hall then be able to fend Mefiages many hundred Miles in an Inftant, and receive Anfwers immediately, without the Help of any Creature upon Earth •, you (hall then prefcntly impart your Mind to your Friend, though in the mod remote and obfcure Place of a populous City, and a Multitude of other notable Experiments •, but what exceeds all, you mail then have the Difco-very of a New World % and Abundance of rare and incredible Secrets of Nature, which the Philolb-phers of former Ages never fo much'as dreamt of; but I muft be cautious in publishing thefe wonderful Myfteries, till our Statefmen have confidered how they may confirl with the Policy and good Government of our Country, and whether the Fathers of the Church may not judge the divulging them prejudicial to the Catholic Faith, which (by thole Wonders I have feen above any mortal Man before me) I am inftructed to advance without Ref-pecl to any temporal Advantage whatfoever.

But to proceed : This huffing Captain pretended much Difcontent for the Death of Delgades, who was indeed fome Kin to him ; however, he was willing to be quiet if I would give him a thoufand Ducats : I had now, befides a Wife, two Sons, whom I was not willing to beggar, only to fatisfy

the avaritious Humour of this Boafter, and fo was neceffitated to take fome other Courie. I embarked in a (tout Carrick bound for the Eafi-Indies^ carrying the Value of twothoufand Ducats to trade with, leaving as much more for the Support of my Wife and Children behind, whatever Misfortune might happen to me. In the Indies I thrived exceedingly, laying out my Stock in Diamonds, Emeralds, and Pearls, which I bought at fuch eafy Rates, that my Stock fafely arriving in Spain, (as I underftood it did) mull needs yield ten for one. But having doubled Cape Bona 'Efperanza in my Way home, I fell dangeroufly fick, expecting nothing but Death, which had undoubtedly happened, but that we juft then recovered the bleffed I fie of St. He lens, the only Paradife I believe on Earth, for Healthfulnefs of Air, and Fruitfulnefs of Soil, producing all Neceffaries for the Life of Man. It is about 16 Leagues in Compafs, and has no firm Land or Continent within 300 Leagues, nay not fo much as an Ifland within an hundred Leagues of it •, fo that it may feem a Miracle of Nature,, that out of fo vaft and tempertuous an Ocean, fuch a fmall Rock or Piece of Ground mould arife and difcover itfelf. On the South is a good Harbour, and near it divers fmall Houfes built by the Portuguefe to accommodate Strangers, with a pretty Chapel handlbmely beautified with a Tower, and Bell therein. Near it is a Stream of excellent frefh. Water, divers handfome Walks, planted on both Sides with Orange, Lemon, Pomegranate, Almond-Trees and the like, which bear Fruit all the Year, as do alfo divers others. There are Store of Garden Herbs, with Wheat, Peafe, Barley, and moft Kinds of Pulfe ; but it chiefly aboundeth with Cattle and Fowl, as Goats, Swine, Sheep, Partridges, wild Hens, Pheafams, C t Pigeons,

Pigeons, and wild Fowl beyond Credit \ but eCi peciaiiy afcout February and March are to be leen huge Flocks of a kind of wild Swans, (whereof I fhall have Occafion to fpeak more hereafter) who like our Cuckows" and Nightingales, go away at a certain Seafon, and are no more leen that Year.

On this happy Illand did they let me afhore with a Negro to attend me, wheie I recovered my Health, and continued a whole Year, lolacing my-fcif for want of human Society with Birds and brute Beails -, Diego my Biack moor was forced to live in a Cave at the Welt End of the Ifle, for had we dwelt together, Victuals would not have been fo plenty with us •, but now, if one lucceeded well in hunting or fowling, the other would find Means to treat him, and if both miff-d, we were fain to look out fharply ; but this feldom happened, fince no Creature there fears a Man more than a Goat or Cow, whereby I eafily tamed divers Kinds of Birds and Heads by only muzzling them, fo that till they came either to me or Diego they could not feed. At firit I much delighted in a Kind of Far-fridges, and a tame Fox, whereof I made good Ule ; for if 1 had Occafion to confer with Diego, 1 would take one of them muzzled and hungry, and tying a Note about his Neck, beat him from me, whereupon he would ftrait away to Diego\ Cave, and if he were not there, would beat about rili he found him •, yet this Conveyance being not without fome Inconvenience, I perfuaded Diego, (who tho' a Fellow of good Parts, was content to be ruled by me) to remove to a Cape on the North-weft Part of the Ifiand, being though a League off, yet within Sight of my Houfe and Chapel, ■and fo when- the Weather was fair, we could by .Signals declare our Minds to each other in an In-ilant either by Night or Day, wherein we took

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much Pleafure. If in the Night I would fignify any Thing to him, I fet up a Light in the B. 11 Tower, which was a pretty large Room with a fair Window well glazed, and the Walls within plaiftered white, fo that though the Light were but fmall, it made a great Show ; after this Light had ftood half an Hour, T covered it, and then if I faw any Signal of Light again from my Companion I knew he waited for my Notice, and fo by hiding and (hewing my Light according to the Agreement betwixt us, I certified him of what L

E leafed. In the Day J advertifcd him by Smoke, »uft, and other refined Ways. 1 After a while I grew weary of it as too painful, and again uied my winged Mefiengers •, upon the Shore, about the Mourh of our River, I found Store of a kind of wild Swans feeding upon Prey, both of Fifhand Birds, and wnich is more (trange, having one Claw like an Eagle, and the other like a Swan. Thefe Birds breeding here in infinite Numbers, I took thirty or forty of them young, and bred them up by Hand for Recreation ; yec not without lome Thoughts of that Experiment which I after put in Practice. Thefe being (trong and able to continue a great Flight, I taught them firft to come at Call afar off, not ufing any Node, but only (hewing them a white Cloth •, ar.d here I found it true what Plutarch affirms, That Creatures which eat Flejh are mere docible than ethers. 'Tis wonderful to think what Tricks I taught them ere they were a Quaiterold, amongft others I ufed them by Degrees to fly wirh Burdens, wherein I found them able beyond Belief, and a white Sheet being dilplayed to them by Diego, upon the Side of a Hill, they would carry from me to him Bread, Flefh, or whatever I plealed, and upon the like Call come to me again- Having proceeded thus C 2 far,

far, I confuked how to join a Number of them together, fo as to carry a heavier Weight, which if I could compafs, I might enable a Man to be carried iafely in the Air from one Place to another. I puzzled my Wits extremely with this Thought, and upon Trial found, that if many were put to the bearing of one great Burthen, by reafon it was im-poflible all of them mould rife together juft at one Inftant, the firft that rife finding himfelf flayed by a Weight heavier than he could ftir, would foon give over, and fo the (econd, third, and all the reft. I contrived at laft a Way whereby each might rife with only his own Proportion of Weight ; I fattened about each Ganfa a little Pulley of Cork, and putting a String of a juft Length through it, I fattened one End to a Block of almoft eight Pounds Weight, and tied a two Pound Weight to the other End of the String, and then caufing the Signal to be ere£ted, they all arofe together, being four in Number, and carried away my Block to the Place appointed. This hitting fo luckily, I added two or three Birds more, and made Trial of their carrying a Lamb, whole Happinefs I much envied, that he mould be the firft living Creature to partake of fuch an excellent Device.

At length after divers Trials, I was furprized with a great Longing to caufe myielf to be carried 3n the fame Manner, Diego my Moor was likewife pofTelTed with the fame Defire, and had I not loved him well, and wanted his Service, I mould have refented his ambitious Thought; for I count it greater Honour to have been the firft Flying Man, than to be another Neptune who firft adventured to fail on the Sea. Yet feeming not to underftand his Intention, I only told him, that all my Ganjas were not ftrong enough to carry him, being a Man fchough of no great Bulk, yet twice heavier than

myfelf.

myfelf. Having prepared all NecefTaries, I one Time placed myfelf and all my Utenfils on the Top of a Rock at che River's Mouth, and putting myfelf upon my Engine at full Sea, I caufed Diego to advance the Signal, whereupon my Birds, twenty five in Number, rofe all at once, and carried me over luftily to the Rock on the other Side, being about a Quarter of a League ; I chofe this Time and Place, becaufe if any Thing had fallen out contrary to Expectation, the worft that could happen was only falling into the Water, and being able to fwim well, I hoped to receive little Hurt in my Fall. When I was once fafe over, O how did my Heart even fwell with Joy and Admiration at my own Invention •, how often did I wifh myfelf in the Midft of Spain, that I might fill the World with the Fame of my Glory and Renown ? Every Hour 1 had a longing Defire for the coming of the Indian Fleet to take me home with them, which then ftaid three Months beyond their ufual Time : At length they arrived, being three Carricks much weather-beaten, the Men fick and weak, and ib were conftrained to refrefh themfelves in ourlfland a whole Month. The Admiral was called Alphonfo de Xima, a valiant, wife Man, defirous of Glory, and worthy better Fortune than afterwards befel him ; to him I difcovered my Device of the Ganfas t being fatisfied, that it was impoflible otherwife to perfuade him to take f& many Birds into his Ship, who for the Nicenefs 6? their Provifion would be moretroublelbme than iVmany Men; yet I adjured him by Oaths and Perfuafions to be fecret in the Bufinefs, though I did not much doubt it, afTurino-myfelf he durft not impart the Experiment to anv before our King were acquainted therewith. I had more Apprehenfion left Ambition, and the Defire of gaining to himfelf the Honour of fa admirable

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an Invention, mould tempt him to difpacch me. However I was forced to run the Rifque unlels I would adventure the Lofs af my Birds, the like whereof for my Purpofe were not to be had in Chrittendom, nor was I fure ever to bring op o-thers to ferve my Turn.

It happened ail thefe Doubts were■caufelels, the Man 1 believe was honeft, bur the Misfortune we met with prevented all thefe Thoughts. TburfJc.y, June 21, 1599, we fet Sail for Spain, I having allowed me a convenient Cabin tor my Birds, and Engine, which the Captain would have perfuaded me to have left behind, and it was a Wonder I did not, but my good Fortune laved my Lift*, for alter two Months Sail we met with an Eng'iPo Fleet about 10 Leagues from the lfiand ot 'lerurtff, one of the Canarks, famous for a Hill therein called Pico^ which is feen at Sea' above an hundred Leagues off. We had aboard five Times their number of Men, all in Health, and were well provided with Ammunition ; yet finding them reibl-ved to fight, and knowing what infinite Riches we carried, concluded it better if poilible to efcape, than by encountering a Crew of defperate Fellows, to hazard not only our Lives, which a Man of Courage does not value, but the Eftates of many poor Merchants, who I am afraid were undone by the Mifcarriage of this Bufiners. Our Fleet confided of five bail, that is, three Carricks, a Bark, and a Caravel, who coming from St. Thomas I/le, had in an ill Hour overtaken us fome Days before. The Englijh had three Ships well provided, who no fooner fpied but prefent-iy engaged us, and changing their Courie, endeavoured to bring us under their Lee, which they might ea-fily do as the Wind then flood, they being light nimble Veffels, as Englifli Ships generally are;

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olirS heavy, deep laden, and foul with the Sea : So our Captain refolved, wilely enough it may be, not neither valiantly nor fortunately, to fly, commanding us to dilperfe ourfelves. The Caravel by too much Hafte fell upon one of the Carricks and bruifed her lb, that one of the Englifb eafily fetched her up and entered her, the, Caravel unking before our Eyes. The Bark efcaped unpur-lucd, and another of our Carricks after iome Chafe was given over by the Enemy, who expecting a fufficient Booty of us, and getting us between them, fell upon us with much Fury; our Captain hereupon gave Direction to run afhore upon Teneriff, the Port whereof we could not recover, faying, " That he hoped to lave Part of the Goods, and fome of our Lives, and he had rather the reft mould be loft, than all fall into the Mercy of our Foes."

When I heard this Refolution, obferving the Sea to work high, and knowing all the Coaft to be fo full of Rocks and Shoals, that it was impof-fible our Ship mould come near the Land, unlefs broken into a thoufand Pieces, I reprefented to the Captain the DeTperatenefs of the Attempt, wi[hing him rather to try the Kindnefs of the E-nemy, than throw away himfelfand fo many brave Men ; but he would by no Remonftrances be removed from his Refolution, therefore finding it high Time to (hift for myfelf, I locked up my lirtle Cafket of Jewels, which putting into my Sleeve, I then betook me to my Ganfas, and having harnefled them to my Engine, and put myfelf thereon, fuppofing, as indeed it happened, that when the Ship mould fplit, my Birds, though they wanted their Signal, yet tor faving their own Lives, which Nature hath taught all Creatures.to preferve, would make toward Land, which fell

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out according to my Expectation ; the People rn the Ship wondered what 1 was doing, none being acquainted with the ufe of my Birds but the Cop-tain, Diego being in the other Ship which tied a-way unpurl'ued -, we were about half a League from Land, when our Carrick ftruck upon a Rock, and lplit to Pieces, upon which I let ioofe the Reins to my Birds, having firlt placed myfelf upon the Top of the Deck, and with the Shock they all arofe carrying me fortunately to the Land, of which you need not doubt but I was very joyful, though it was a miierable Sight to behold my Friends and Acquaintance in that woful Dii-trefs, of whom yet many efcaped better than they expe&ed, for the EngliJJj launching out their Cockboats, dilcovered more generous Tempers than we are pleafed to allow them, taking Companion of their Calamity, and endeavouring with all Diligence to fave them trom the Fury of the Waves, though with muc h Danger to themfelves •, among others they took up our Captain, who, as Father Pacio fmce told me, having put himfelf with twelve others into the Cock-boat, was forced to vield to one Captain Raymund, who carried him and our Pilot along with them in their Voyage to the Eaft-lndies, whither they were bound, but it was their hard Fate, by a Breach of the Sea near Cape Buona Efperanca* to be fwallowed of the mercilefs Waves, whole Rage they awhile before had fo hardly efcaped ; the reit as 1 likewife heard, who were about twenty fix Perfons they took into their Ship, and let them on Land at Cape Verde.

As for myfelf, being now afliore in an Ifland inhabited by Spaniards, I reckoned I was late, but found myfelf miftaken, for it was my hap to pitch upon that Part of the Ifle where the Pike begins to rife, which is inhabited by a Savage

People

People who live upon the Sides of that Hill, the Top whereof is for the moil Part covered with Snow, and formerly accounted, for its Steepnefs, inacceffible, either for Man or Bead, yet thefe Savages fearing the Spaniards keep as near the Top as they can, never coming down into the fruitful Vallies but to feek for Booty ; a Crew of thefe Out laws happened to fpy me foon after 1 landed, and thinking they had got a Prize, approached me with all Speed i I gueft their Defign before they came within half a Mile, when perceiving them come down the Hill directly toward me, with long Staves and other Weapons, I thought it neceffary to fecure myfelf from thefe Villains, who out of Hatred to us Spaniards^ would have cut me to Pieces; the Country was fandy, but the Pike beginning to lift up itfelf, I efpied in the Side a white Cliff", which I hoped my Ganzas would take for a Mark, and being put up, would make all that way, whereby I might be carried fo far, that thofe barbarous Rafcals fkould not overtake me, before I got to fome Spaniard's Houfe, or hid myfelf, till by the Covert of the Night I might travel to Laguna, the chief City of the Ifland, three Miles off. So I fettled myfelf upon my En-gine, and let loofe the Reins to my Ganfas, who by good Fortune took all one Courfe, tho' not juft the Way I aimed at. But what of that! O Reader prick up thy Ears, and prepare thyfelf to hear the flrangeft Chance that ever happened to any Mortal, and which I know thou wilt not* have the Grace to believe till thou feeft the like Experiment, which I doubt not in afhort Time may be performed. My Cfanfas, like fo many Horfes that had gotten the Bit between their Teeth, made not their Flight toward the Cliff I intended, though J ufed mv wonted Means to direct the Leader of

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the Flock that Way, but with Might and Main took up toward the Top of the Pike y and never ftopt till tney came there, a Place in vulgar Estimation (though fince experimentally contradicted) fifteen Miles in Height. What kind of Place this was I would gladly relate, but that I Jiaften to Matters of greater Importance : When I was fet down there, my poor Ganfas fell to panting, blowing, and gaping for Breath as if they would all have died, fo I did not trouble them awhile, forbearing to draw them in, which they never ufed to endure without ftruggling, but little did I expect what followed.

It was now the Seafon that thefe Birds take their Flight away, as our Cuckows and Swallows do in Spain towards Autumn, and as I afterwards found, being mindful of their ufual Voyage, juft when I began to fettle myfelf to take them in, they with one Confent rofe up, and having no other higher Place to make toward, to my unfpeakable Fear and Amazement, (truck bolt upright, and never left towring upward, (till higher and higher, for the Space, as I gueit, of an Hour, after which I thought they laboured lefs than before, till at length, ah wonderful! they remained immoveable, as iteadily as if they had lat upon fo many Perches; the Lines flacked, neither I, nor the Engine moved at all, but continued dill, as having no Manner of Weight. I found then by Experience, what no Philofopher ever dreamt of, namely, that thofe Things we call heavy do not fall towards the Center of the Earth as their natural Place, but are drawn by a fecret Property of the Globe of the Earth, or rather ibmething within it, as the Load-ftone draweth Iron, which is within the Compafs of its attractive Beams. For though my Ganfas ♦ould continue unmoved, without being fuftained

by any Thing but the Air, as eafily and quietly as a Fifh in the Water, yet if they forced themfglves fcever fo little, it is impoflible to imagine with what Swiftnefs they were carried, either Upward, Downward, or Sideways ; I mud ingenuouQy confefs my Horror and Amazement in this Place was fuch, that had I not been armed with a true Spanijh Re-folution, I mould certainly have died for Fear.

The next Thing that difturbed me was the Swiftnefs of the Motion, which was fo extraordinary, that it almoft ftopt my Breath, if I mould liken it to an Arrow out of a Bow, or a Stone thrown down from the Top of an high Tower, it would come vaftly fhortof it j another Thing was exceeding troublefome to me, that is the Illufions of Devils and wicked Spirits, who the firft Day of my Arrival came about me in great Numbers in the Likenefs of Men and Women, wondering at me like fo many Birds about an Owl, and fpeaking. feveral Languages which I underftood not, till at laft I met with fome that fpoke good Spanijh, fome Dutcb^ and others Italian, all which I underllood ; and here 1 had only a Touch of the Sun's Abfence once for a fhort Time, having him ever after in my Sight. Now though my Ganjas were entangled in my Lines, yet they eafily feized upon divers Kinds of Flies and Birds, efpecially Swallows and Cuckows, whereof there were Multitudes, even like Motes in the Sun, though I never faw them eat any Thing ar all. I was much obliged to thofe, whether Men or Devils I know not, who among divers Difcourfes told me, " If I would follow " their Directions, I fhould not only be carried '* fafe Home, but be allured to command at all ** Times all the Pleafures of that Place." To which Motion, not daring to give a flat Denial, I defired Time to confider, and withal indebted D 2 them*

them, (though I felt no Hunger at all, which may feem Itrange) to help me to fome Victuals, leaft I jfhould tlarve in my Journey, fo they readily brought me very good FleOi and Fifh of feveral Sorts, and well drefTed, but that it was extreme frefh without any Relifh of Salt. Wines likewife I tafted of divers Kinds as good as any in Spain* and Beer no better in all Antwerp. They advifed me, that while I had Opportunity I fhould make my ProvifionF, telling me, that till the next Thursday they could help me to no more, at which Time they would find Means to carry me back, and fet me fare in Spain, in any Place I would defire, provided I would become one of their Fraternity, and enter into fuch Covenants as they had made to their Captain and Matter, whom they would not name : 1 anfwered civily, " I faw little Reafon to rejoice *' in fuch an Offer, defiring them to be mindful " of me as Occafion ferved ; fo for that Time I was rid of them •, having firft, furnifhed my Pockets with as much Victual* as I could thruft in, among which I '*ould be fure to find a Place for a imall Bottle of good Canary.

1 (hall no// declare the Quality of the Place v;herein I was : The Clouds I perceived to be all under between me and the Earth. The Stars, be-caufe it was always Day, I faw at all Times alike, not fhining bright, as we fee in the Night upon Earth, but of i whitifh Colour, like the Moon with us in the Day-Time, thofe that were feen, which were not many, fhewed far greater than with us, yea, as I guefifed no lefs than ten Times bigger : As for the Moon, being then within two Days of the Change, fhe appeared of an huge and dreadful Greatru-fs. It is not to be forgot, that no Stars appeared but on that Part of the Hemifphere next the P loon, ar.d the nearer to her, the larger they appeared

peared again ; whether I lay quiet and reded, or were carried in the Air, I perceived myfelf to be always directly between the Moon and the Earth, whereby 'tis plain, that my Ganjas took their Way directly toward the Moon, and that when we refted, as we did at firft for many Hours, either we were infenfibly carried round about the Globe of the Earth, though I perceived no fuch Motion, orelfe that, according to the Opinion of Copernicus, the Earth is carried about, and turneth round perpetually from Weft to Eaft, leaving to the Planets only that Motion which the Aftronomers call natural, and is not upon the Poles of the Equinoctial, commonly called the Poles of the World, but upon thofe of the Zodiac; the Air in that Place I found without any Wind, and exceeding temperate, neither Hot nor Cold, where neither the Sun Beams had any Object to reflect upon, nor the Earth and Water appear to affect the Air with their natural Quality of Coldnefs; as for the Philofophers attributing Heat and Moifture to the Air, I always efteemed it a Fancy : Laftly, I remember that after my Departure from the Earth, I never felt either Hunger or Thirft, whether the Purity of the Air, freed from the Vapours of the Earth and Water, might yield Nature fufficient Nourifhment, or what elfe might be the Caufe I cannot determine, but fo I found it, though 1 was perfectly in Health both of Body and Mind, even above my ufual Vigour.

Some Hours after the Departure of that Devilifli Company, my Ganfas began to beftir themfelves, ftill directing their Courle toward the Globe or Body of the Moon, making their Way with fuch incredible Swiftnefs, that I conceive they advanced little lefs than fifty Leagues in an Hour* in which Paf-fage I obferved three Things very remarkable, one

that

that the farther we went the lefs the Globe of the Earth appeared to us, and that of the Moon ftill larger : Again the Earth, which I had ever in mine Eye, leemed to made itfelf wiih a kind of Brightaefs like another Moon, and as we difcern certain Spots or Clouds as it were in the Moon, fo did I then fee the like in the Earth ; but whereas the Eorm of thefe Spots in the Moon are always the fame, thefe on the Earth feemed by Degrees to change every Hour •, the Reafon where of feems to be, that whereas the Earth according to his natural Motion (for fuch a Motion I am now fatis-fied (he hath according to the Opinion of Copernicus) turns round upon her own Axis every four and twenty Hours from Weft to EaftJ I fhould at firlt fee in the Middle of the Body of this new Star the Earth, a Spot like a Pear, with a Morfel bit out on one Side, in fome Hours I mould obferve this Spot move 2* ay toward the Eaft : This no doubt was the main Land of Africa j then might I perceive a great mining Brightnefs in that Place which continued about the lame Time, and wasqueftion-lefs the vaft Atlantick Ocean : After this fucceeded a Spot aim oft Oval, juft as we fee America def-cribed in our Maps, then another immenfe Clear-nefs, reprefentmg Mare del zar or the South Sea ; laltly, a number of Spots like the Countries and Jflands in the Eaji-Indies, fo that it feemed to me no other than an huge mathematical Globe turned round leifurely before me, wherein fucceflively all the Countries of our earthly World were within twenty-four Hours reprefented to my View, and this was all the Means I now had to number the Days, and reckon the Time.

I could now wifh that Philofophers and Mathematicians would confefs their own Blindnefs, who have hitherto made the World believe that the

Earth

Earth hath no Motion, and to confirm it, arc forced to attribute to every one of the celeftial Bodies two Motions dire&ly contrary to each other, one from the Eaft to the Weft, to be performed in twenty-four Hours with an impetuous rapid Motion ; the other from Weft to Eaft in feveral Proportions : O incredible Suppofition! that thofe huge Bodies of the fixed Stairs in the higheft Orb, whereof they confefs divers, are above an hundred Times bigger than the whole Earth, mould like fo many Nails in a Cart-wheel be whirled a-bout in fo fhorta Time ; whereas it is many thou-fand Years, no lefs (fay they,) than thirty thoufand, before that Orb finilhes his Courfe from Weft to Eaft, which they call his natural Motion; now whereas they allow their natural Courfe from* Weft to Eaft to every one of them, therein they do well; the Moon performs it in feven and twenty Days, the Sun, Venus and Mercury in a Year or thereabout, Mars in three Years, Jupiter in twelve, and Saturn in thirty. But to attribute to thefe celeftial Bodies contrary Motions at once, is an abfurd Conceit, and much more to imagine, that the fame Orb wherein the fixed Stars are, whofe natural Courfe takes up fo many thoufands of Years, fhould be turned about every twenty-four Hours. I will not go fo far as Copernicus, who makes the Sun the Center of the Earth and immoveable, neither will I be pofitive in any Thing, only this I fay, allow the Earth its Motion, which thefe Eyes of mine can teftify to be true, and all thofe Ab-furdities are removed, every one having only his own fingle and proper Motion.

But where ami? I promifed an Hiftory, and am unawares turned Difputer. One Accident more befell me worth mentioning, that during my Stay I faw a kind of a reddifh Cloud coming toward

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me, and continually approaching nearer, which at Jail I perceived was nothing but a huge Swarm of Locufts. He that reads the Difcourfes of learned Men concerning them, as John Leo of Africa, and others who relate that they are feen in the Air feveral Days before they fall on the Earth, and adds thereto this Experience of mine, will eafily conclude, that they can come from no other Place than the Globe of the Moon. But now give me leave to go on quietly in my Journey for eleven or twelve Days, during all which Time I was carried directly toward the Globe or Body of the Moon, with iuch a violent Whirling as is inexprefiible, for I cannot imagine a Bullet out of a Cannon could make Way through the vaporous and muddy Air near the Earth with half that Celerity; which is the more ftrange, fmce my Gan/as moved their Wings but now and then, and fome-times for a quarter of an Hour not at all, only holding them (tretched out, as we fee Kites, and Eagles fometimes do for a fhort Space ; during which Paufes, I fuppofe they took their Naps, and Times of Sleeping, for other Times I could perceive they never had any •, for myfelf I was fo faf-tened to mine Engine, that I durft (lumber enough to ferve my Turn, which I took with as great Eafe, as if I had lain on the bed Down-bcd in Spain.

After eleven Days PafTage in this violent Flight, I perceived we began to approach to another Earth (if I may fo call it) being the Globe or very Body of that Star which we call the Moon. The firft Difference I found between this and our Earth was, that it appeared in its natural Colours, as foon as ever I was free from the Attraction of the Earth; whereas with us, a Thing a League or two from us, puts on that deadly Colour of Blue. I then

perceived

perceived alio that this World was the greateft Part covered with a huge mighty Sea, thofe Parts oniy being dry Land which are to us fomewhat darker than the reft of her Body, I mean, what the Country People call, The Man in the Moon, and that Part which mines fo bright is another O-cean befprinkled with Iflands, which for their Smallnefs we cannot difcern fo far off-, fo that the Splendor which appears to us in the Night, is nothing but the Reflection of the Sun-beams returned to us out of the Water as from a Lookinglafs. 'How much this difagrees with what our Philofo-phers teach in the Schools is evident: But alas, how many of their Errors hath Time and Experience in this our Age, and among other vain Conjectures, who hath not hitherto believed the upper Region of the Air to be very hot; as being next, forlboth, to the natural Place of the Element of Fire ; meer Vanities, Fancies and Dreams: For after I was once free from the attractive Beams of that tyrannous Load-ftone the Earth, I found the Air altogether ferene, without Winds, Rain, Mills or Clouds, neither hot nor cold, but con-ftantly pleafant, calm and comfortable, till my Arrival in that New World of the Moon% as for that Region of Fire, our Philofophers talk of, I heard no News of it, mine Eyes have fufEciently informed me there is no fuch Thing.

The Earth had now by turning about (hewed me all her Parts twelve Times, when I finilhed my Courfe ; for when my Reckoning it feemed to be (as indeed it was) Tuejday, September 11, at which Time the Moon being two Days old was in the twentieth Degree of Libra) my Ganfas feemed by one Confent to ftay their Courfe, and refted for certain Hours, after which they took their Flight, and in lefs than an Hour fet me on the Top of an E high

high Hill in that Other Worlds where many wonderful Things were prefented to my Sight. For I oblerved firft, that though the Globe of the Earth appeared much greater there than the Moon doth to us even three Times bigger, yet all Things there were ten, twenty, yea thirty Times larger than ours; their Trees were thrice as high, and above five Times broader and •• thicker •, ib were their Herbs, Birds, and Beafts, though I cannot well compare them to ours, becaufe I round not any kind of Bead or Bird there which any way reiembled ours, except Swallows, Nightingales, Cuckoos, Woodcocks, Batts, and fome kind of Wild Fowl : And likewife fuch Birds as my Ganfas, all which, as I now perceived, fpend their Time in their Ablence from us, in that World, neither do they differ in any Thing from ours, but are the very fame kind.

No fooner was I upon the Ground, but I found rnyfelf extreme hungry •, ftepping then to the next Tree, I fattened my Engine and Ganzas thereto, and in great Hafte fell to examining my Pockets for the Victuals I had referved there •, but to my great Sutprize and Vexation, inftead of Partridges and Capons, which I thought I had hoarded there, I found nothing but a Medley of dry Leaves, Goats Hair, Sheep or Goats Dung, Mofs, and the like ; my Canary-wine was turned, and ftunk Hlce Horfe-pifs: O the Villainy and Cheats of thefe curfed Spirits, whofe Afliftance if I had depended on, in what a Condition had I been! While I ftood mufing at this ftrange Matamor-phofis, on a fudden I heard my Ganfas fluttering behind me, and looking back, I fpied them falling greedily upon a Snrub within the Reach of their Lines, whofe Leaves they fed earneftly upon, whereas before I had never feen them eat any

green

green Thing whatever; fo ftepping to the Shrub* I put a Leaf to my Mouth ; the Tafte was fo excellent, that I cannot exprefs it, and if I had not with Difcretion moderated my Appetite, I mould have furfeited thereon ; yet it happened to be a good Bair both for me and my Birds, when we had raoft Need of Refrefhment.

Scarce had we ended our Banquet, when I faw myfelf furrounded with a ftrange kind of People both in Feature, Manners, and Apparel ; their Stature was very different, but trfty were generally twice as high as ours ; their Shape and Countenance pleafant, and their Habit hardly to be def-cribed ; for I never faw either Cloth, Silk, nor other Stuff, like that whereof their Cloths were made; neither can I poflibly relate their Colour, they being in a manner all cloathed alike ; it was neither Black, White, Yellow, Red nor Blue, nor any Colour compoled of thefe : If you afk what was it then ? I muft tell you, it was a Colour never feen in our earthly World, and fo neither to be defcribed nor conceived by us ; for as it is hard to make a Man born blind underftand the Difference between Green and Blue, fo neither can I decvpher this Moon-colour, as having no Affinity with any I ever beheld ; I can only fay it was the moil glorious and delightful that can be imagined, neither was any Thing more pleafant to me during my Stay there.

Being furprized at the Appearance of thefe People fo fuddenly and in fuch Accoutrements, I crof-fed myfelf, and cried our, Jefu Maria : No foon-er was the Word Jefu pronounced, but Young and Old fell all on their Knees ('whereat I not a little rejoiced) holding up their Hands on high-, and repeating certain Words which 1 underftood not; and j relendy rifing again, one much taller E 2 than

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than the reft came and kindly embraced me, and ordering, as I perceived, fome of the reft to attend my Birds, he took me by the Hand, and led me to his Dwelling, down toward the Foot of the Hiil, which was a Building fo great and beautiful, as nothing in our "World is comparable thereto ; yet afterward I faw fuch as this feemed but a Cottage in refpect of them •, there was no Door a-bout the Houfe lefs than thirty Foot high, and twelve broad, the Rooms were forty or fifty Foot in Height, and anfwerable in Proportion ; neither could they be much lefs, the Matter thereof being full twenty-eight high, and I fuppoie his Body would weigh twenty-five or thirty of ours: After I had relied with him about one of our Days, he led me five Leagues off to the Palace of the Prince of the Country, the Statelinefs whereof I have not now Leifure to defcribe •, this Prince was much taller than the former, and called (as near as I can by Letters declare it, for their Sounds are not perfectly to be exprefTed by our Characters) Pyio-nas % which in their Language is Firjl or Chief, if it doth not rather denote his Authority and Dignity, as being the Principal Man in all thofe Parts ; though yet there is one Supreme Monarch amongft them, much greater of Stature than he, commanding over all that whole World, having under him twenty-nine other Princes of great Power; and every one of rhefe has twenty-four inferior Governors, whereof this Pjknas was one. The firft Anceftor of this great Monarch came out of the Earth, as they relate, and by marrying the Hei-refs of that vaft Monarchy obtaining the Government, left it to his Pofterity, who have enjoyed it ever fince, even forty thoufand Moons, which is 3077 Years : His Name was Irdonoxur, whofe Heirs to this Day afiume the fame Name \ he, they

fay,

fay, having continued there about four hundred Moons, and begot divers Children, returned (though by what Means they know not) to the Earth again. I doubt they have their Fables as well as we, fince our Hiftorians never mention any earthly Man to have been in that World before myielf, and much lefs to have returned again. I cannot therefore but condemn this Tradition as falfe and romantick, though I found Learning was in great Efteem among them, and they feem to deteft Lying and Falfhood, which is there fev&rely punifhed, and which may yield fome Credit to their hittorical Narrations. Many of them live wonderful long, even beyond Belief, affirming to me, that fome furvived thirry thoufand Moons, ■which is above a thoufand Years, fothat the Ages of three or four Men might eaOly reach to the Time of the firft Irdonozur, and this is generally noted, that the taller People are of Stature, the more excellent are their Endowments of. Mind, and the longer Time they live; for their Stature is very different, great Numbers not much exceeding ours, who feldom live above a thottfthd Moons, which is fourfcore of our Years i thefe they account bafe, unworthy Creatures, but on»e Degree above brute Beafts, and employ in mean and fervile Offices, calling them Baftards,. Counterfeits or Changlings : Thofe whom they account true Natural Lunars or Moon Men* exceed ours generally thirty Times, both in Quantity of Body, and Length of Life, proportionable to the Quality of the Day in both Worlds, theirs containing almoll thirty of our Days.

The manner of our Travel to the Palace of Pylo-nas was more ftrange and incredible than anything we have related, for at our firft fetting forth there were delivered to each of us two Feather Fans,

like

like thofe our Ladies in Spain cool themfelves with in Summer: You muft understand, that the Globe of the Moon has likewife an attractive Power, yet fo much weaker than the Earth, that if a Man do but ipring upward with all his Strength, as Dancers do in (hewing their Tricks, he will be able to mount fifty or fixcy Foot high; and being then above all Attraction from the Moon's Earth, he falls down no more, but by the Help of thefe Fans, as with Wings, they convey themfelves in the Air in a fhort Space, (though not quite fo fwift as Birds N . whither they pleaie. In two hours Time (as I could guefs) by the Help of thefe Fans, we were carried through the Air thofe five Leagues, in all about fixty Perfons. Being arrived at the Palace of Pylonas, after our Conductor had declared what manner of Prefent he had brought, J was called in to him by his Attendants: By the Statelinefs of his Palace, and the Reverence done him, I foon perceived his Greatnefs, and managed my Affairs in order to procure his Favour accordingly ; and having, as you may remember, a certain little Box or Cafket of Jewels, the Remainder of thofe I brought from the Eafi-Indies, before I was introduced I fecretly took them out of my Pocket, and chufing fome of each fort, I made them ready to be prefented as I mould think convenient.

I found him fitting in a magnificent Chair of State, with his Wife or Queen on one Hand, and his Eldeit Son on the other, one attended by a Troop of Ladies, and the other of young Men, and all along the Side of the Room ftood a great Number of handfome Perfonages, whereof fcarce one was lower of Stature than Pylonas, whofe Age they report is now one and twenty thoufand Moons. At my Entrance I fell on my Knees, and taking out my Jewels, I prefented to the King kvtn

Stones

Stones of feveral Sorts, a Diamond, a Ruby, an Emerald, a Saphire, a Topaz and an Opal, which he accepted with Joy and Admiration-. Then I offered the Queen and Prince fome others, and de-figned to have bellowed divers more upon his Attendants-, but Pylonas forbid them to accept any, fuppofing, as I heard, they were all I had, which, he would have me referve for Irdonozur his Sovereign : He then embraced me with much Endeared-nets, and enquired divers Things by Signs, which I anfwered in the fame manner to the belt of my Skill; which not contenting him, he delivered me to the Guard of 100 of his Giants as I may well call them, ftrictly charging them, that I mould want nothing fit for me ; that they mould fuffcr none of the Dwarf Lunars, or little Moon Men> to come near me. That I fliould be instructed in their Language, and laftly, that they mould by no Means impart to me the Knowledge of feveral Things by him fpecified, what they were 1 could never understand. It may be you long to know what Pylonas enquired of me : Why, what fliould it be but, whence I came, how I arrived there, what was my Name and Bufinefs, with the like \ to all which I anfwered as near the Truth as pof-fible.

Being difmift, I was provided with all Necef-faries as my Heart could wifh, fo-that I feemed to be in a Paradife, the Pleafures whereof did not yet fo tranfport me, but I was much concerned with the Thoughts of my Wife and Children, and (till retaining fome Hope that I might again return to them •, I tended my Ganfas daily with much Care j which yet had fignified little, if other Men had not done more than I could : For now the Time came when of Neceflity all People of our Stature, and myfelf likewife, muft needs deep thirteen or fourteen

teen whole Days together ; for by a Secret and irre-fiftible Decree of Nature, when the Day begins to appear, and the Moon to be enlightened by the Sun Beams, which is in the firft Quarter of the Moon, all People of our Stature inhabiting thefe Parts fall into a dead Sleep, and are not poflibly to be awakened till the Sun fet, and is withdrawn ; for as Owls and Bats with us cannot endure the Light, fo at the firft Approach of Day we begin to be amazed therewith, and fall into a Slumber, which grows by Degrees into a dead Sleep till the Light be gone, which is in fourteen or fifteen Days, that is till the laft Quarter. During the Sun's Abfence, there is a twofold Light, one of the Sun, which I could not endure to behold, and another of the Earth : Now that of the Earth was at the Height, for when the Moon is at the Change, then is the Earth a full Moon to them, and as the Moon increafeth with us, fo the Light of the Earth decreafeth with them. I found the" Light, though the Sun was abfent, eqjal to that with us in the Day when the Sun is clouded ; but toward the Quarter it daily diminilheth, yet leaving ftill a competent Light, which feems very ftrange ; though not fo remarkable as what they there report, that in the other Hemifphere of the Moon, contrary to that 1 fell upon, where during half the Moon they fee not the Sun, and the Earth never appears to them, they have yet a kind of Light, not unlike our Moon-Light, which it. feems the Nearnefs of the Stars, and other Planets that are at a far lefs Diftance than from us, affords them.

You muft underftand, that of the true Lunars or Moon Men there are three Kinds, fome a little taller than we, as perhaps ten or twelve Foot high, thefe can endure the Day of the Moon, when the Earth fliines but little, but not the Beams of

both,

both, and fo then muft be laid afleep: Others are twenty Foot high or above, who can fuffcr all the Light both of the Earth and bun. There are in a certain Ifland (the Myfteries whereof are carefully concealed; Men whofe Stature is at lead twenty-feven Foot high : If any other come to land there in the Moon's Day time, they inftantly fall afleep : This is called Injula Martini, and hath a particular Governor, who as they report is fixty five thoufand Moons old, which makes five thoufand of our Years ; His Name is faid to be Hiruch y and he in a manner commands lrdonozur himfelf, efpecially in that Ifland out of which he never removes: There is another comes often thither, who they fay is not above half his Age, that is about thirty-three thoufand Moons, or two thoufand fix hundred of our Years, ahd he orders all Things through the Globe of the Moon in Matters or Religion, as ab-folutely as the Pope doth in any Part of Italy; I would fain have feen this Man, but was not permitted to come near him, his Name is lmozes.

Now let me fettle myfelf to a long Night's Sleep, to which End my Attendants take Charge of my Birds, prepare my Lodging, and fignify to me by Signs how I muft order myfelf. It was then about the Middle ot September, when I perceived the Air more clear than ordinary, and with the Increafe of the Light I began to feel myfelf firft dull and then heavy toSleep, thoughl hadnot been lately difturbed of my Reft : At length I delivered myfelf into the Cuftody of this Sifter of Death, whofe Prifbner I was for almoft a Fortnight after, and then awaking, it is not to be believed how brilk and vigorous I found the Faculties both of my Body and Mind j I then applied myfelf to learning the Language, which is the fame throughout all the Regions of the Moon, yet not lb wonderful, fince I believe all F the

the Earth of the Moon does not amount to the fortieth Part of our inhabited Earth, partly be-caufe the Globe of the Moon is far lefs, and be-fides the Sea or Ocean covers very nigh-three Parts of four, whereas the Land and Sea in our World may be judged of an equal Meafure. Their Language is very difficult, fince it hath no Affinity with any other I ever heard, and confifts not \'o much of Words and Letters, as Tunes and ftrange Sounds which no Letters can exprefs, for there are few Words but fignify feveral Things, and are diftin-guifhed only by their Sounds, which arefung as it were in uttering; yea many Words confift of i'unes only, without Words: By Occafion whereof I find a Language may be framed, and eafily learned, as copious as any other in the World only of Tunes, which is an Experiment worth fearching after: Notwithrtanding thefe Difficulties, within two Months I attained tofuch Knowledge therein, that I underftbou mod Queftions demanded of me, and with Signs and Words made reafonable Shift to utter my Mind; which Pylonas having Notice of, he oft-times fent for me, and was pleafed to inform me of many Things my Guardians durft not difclofe, though I muft needs fay I never found they abufed me with an Untruth, but if I afked a Queftion they were unwilling to refolve, they would fhake their Heads, and with a Spanijh Shrug divert to fome other Difcourfe.

After feven Months Time the great lrdonozur, making his Progrefs to a Place about two hundred Leagues from the Palace of Pylonas, fent for me, yet would not admit me into his Prefence, but dif-courfed me throngh a Window, where I might hear him, and he hear and fee me at Pieafure. I pre-fented him the Remainder of my Jewels, which he thankfully accepted, faying, he would requite them

with

frith Gifts of a far more confiderable Value. I flayed there above a Quarter of a Moon, when I was again fent back to Pylonas, for if we had ftayed a Day or two longer the Sun would have overtaken us before we could have recovered our Home. The Gifts he beftowed on me were fuch, that a Man would part with Mountains of Gold to purchafe ; they were all Stones, nine only in Number, of three Sorts, one called Poleajiis, another Machrus, and the third Ebelus, of each Sort three; the firft are about the Bignefs of an Hazle-nut, very like Jet, which among many other incredible Virtues hath this Property, that being once put in the Fire they ever after retain their Heat, though without any outward Appearance, till quenched with fome kind of Liquor, which no way endamages them, though heated and cooled therein a thouland Times •, their Heat is fo vehement, that it will make any Metal within a Foot of it red hot, and being in a Chimney warms the Room as if a great Fire were kindled therein. The Machrus is yet more precious, in Colour like a Topaz, fo clear and refplendent, as though not above the Bignefs of a Bean, yet being placed in the Night in the midft of a large Church, it makes all as light as if an hundred Lamps were hanged round •, can any Man wifh for more ufeful Properties in a Stone than thefe ? Yet my Ebelus is fo excellent, that it may be much preferred before them, yea prized above all the Diamonds, Sap-phires, Rubies, and Emeralds that our World can afford. The Lunar Colour is fo exceeding beautiful, that a Man would travel a thoufand Leagues to behold it, the Shape is fomewhat flat, of the Breadth of a Piece of Eight, and twice the Thick-nefs, one Side is of a more orient Colour than the other, which being clapt to a Man's bare Skin, takes away all the Weight and Ponderoufnefsof his F 2 Body,

Body, but turning the other Side, it adds Force to the attractive Beams of the Earth either in this World or that, and makes the Body halt as heavy again: Do you wonder now, vvhy I fhoul>i fo overprize this Stone? Before you lee me on Earth again, you will find I have Reafon to value this invaluable Jewel. 1 enquired, whether thev had not any kind of Jem, or other Means to make a Man invifible, which I judged a Thing or admirable Ufe, and could mention divers of our learned Men who had written to this Purpofe •, they anfwered, that if it were pofiible, yet they were fure Heaven would not fufrer it to be revealed to us Creatures fubject to fo many Imperfections, and which might be eafily abukd to ill Purpofes, and this was all I could get of them.

Now after it was known that lrdonozur the great Monarch had done me this Honour, it is ftrange how much all refpeded me more than before ; my Guardians, who had been hitherto cautious in relating any thing of the Government of that World, grew now more open, fo that from them and Pylo-nas together I underftood many notable Particulars ; as that in a thouland Years there is found neither Thief nor Whore-monger, for firft there is no want of any thing neceffary for the Ufe of Man, Food growing every where without Labour, of all Sorts that can be defired. As for Cloths, Houfes, or whatever elfe a Man may be fuppofed to want, it is provided by their Superiors, though not without fome Labour, but yet fo eafy as if they did it for Plealure : Again, their Females are all abfclute Beauties, and by a fecret Difpofition of Nature, a Man there having once known a Woman never deiires any othet : Murther was never heard of amongft them, neither is it hardly pof-fible to be committed, for there can be no Wound

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made but what is curable -, yea they affured me, and for my Part I believe it, that though a Man's Head be cut off, yet if within three Moons ir be joined to the Cat cafe again, and the Juice of a certain Herb there growing applied, it vv ill be fo con-iblidated, as the wounded Party (hall be perfectly cured. But the chief Caufe of their good Government is an excellent Difpofition in the Nature of the People, fo that all both Old and Young ha e all manner of Vice, and live in fuch Love, Peace, and Amity, as it feems to be another Paradife: Though it is true likewife that fome are of a better Difpofition than others, which they difcern immediately at their Birth •, and becaufe ir i<; an inviolable Law amongft them that none mail be put to Death; thereiore perceiving by their Stature or fome other Signs, who are like to be of a wicked and debauched Humour, they lend them, I know not by what Means, into the Earth, and change them for other Children, before they have either Opportunity or Ability to do a mils among them ; but firft, they fay, they are fain to keep them there for fome Time, till the Air of the Earth alters their Colour like ours. Their ordinary Vent for them is. a certain high Hill in the North of America, whole People, I am apt to believe, are wholly defcended from them, both in regard of their Colour, and their continual ufe of Tobacco, which the Lunars or Moon Men fmoak exceedingly, the Place abounding much with Moifture, together with the Plea-fure they take therein, and fome other Refpects too long to rehearfe: Sometimes, though but feldom, they miftake their Aim, and fall upon Europe* Afia % or Africa. I remember fome Years fince I read certain Stories tending to confirm what is related by thefe Lunars, and efpeciaily one Chapter of Neu-brigenfis. Inigo Mondejar, in his Defcription or Nova

va Granata. Alfo Jofeph Defia de Carana y in bfo Hiltory of Mexico, if my Memory fail not, recount what will make my Report more creditable ; but [ value not Teftimonies.

If you enquire how Juftice is executed, alas, what need is there of examplary Punifhment where no Offences are committed •, neither need they any Lawyers, for there is no Contention, the Seeds whereof, when they begin to fprout, are by the Wifdom of the next Superior pluckt up by the Roots. And as little Want is there of Phyilcians, they never furfeit themfelves ; the Air is always pure and temperate, neither is there any Caufe of Sicknefs, I could never hear of any that were dif-tempered. But the Time afiigned them by Nature being fpent, they die without the lead Pain, or rather ceafe to live, as a Candle does to give Light when what nourifhes it is confumed. I was once at the Departure of one of them, and was much furprized, that notwithstanding the happy Life he lived, and the Multitude of Friends and Children he mould forfake, yet as foon as he underftood his End to approach, he prepared a great Feaft, and inviting all whom " he efteemed, exhorts them, " to be merry and rejoice with him, fince the " Time was come he mould now leave the coun-" terfeit Pleafures of that World, and be made " Partaker of all true Joy and perfect Happinefs." I did not fo much admire his own Conftancy, as the Behaviour of his Friends: With us in the like Cafe all feem to mourn, when many of them do oft but laugh in their Sleeves, or under a Vizard. But here all both Young and Old did, in my Confidence, not pretendedly, but really rejoice thereat, and if any diflembled, it was only Grief for their own particular Lofs. Being dead their Bodies pu-trify not, and fo are not buried, but kept in certain.

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Rooms appointed to that Purpofe, fo that moil of them can (hew their Anceftors Bodies uncorrupt for many Generations: There is never any Rain, Wind, or change of Weather, never either Summer or Winter, but as it were a perpetual Spring, yielding all Pleafure and Content, free from the leaft Trouble or Annoyance i O my Wife and Children, what Wrong have you done me to bereave me of the Happinefs of that Place! But it is no great Matter, for by this Voyage I am iufficiently allured, that when the Race of my mortal Life is run, I mall attain a greater Happinefs elfewhere.

It was the ninth of September that I be^an to afcend from the Pike of feneriff; twelve Days I was upon my Voyage, and arrived in that Province of the Moon called Simiri, Sept. 21. May 12, we came to the Court of the great Irdonozur, and returned back the 17th to the Palace of Pylonas, where I continued till March 1601. When I earneftly requefted Pylonas, as I had oft done before, to give me Leave to depart, tho' with Hazard of my Life, back into the Earth again. He difluaded me,'in-fifting on the Danger of the Voyage, the Mifery of that Place from whence I came, and the abundant Happinels I now enjoyed ; but the Remembrance of my Wife and Children, outweighed all thefe Reafons, and to fay the Truth, I wa°s fo elated with a Defire of the Glory I mould purchafe at my Return, as methought I deferved not the Name of a Spaniard, if I would not hazard twenty Lives rather than lofe the leaft Particle thereof. I replied I had fo ftrong a Defire to fee my Children, that I could not poflibly live any longer without goincr t0 them : He then requefted me to ftay one Year fonder •, I told him, I mult needs depart now or neve^r my Birds began to droop for want of their ufual Voyage, three were already dead, and if a few more

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failed, I -.vas deditute of all Poffibility of Return. At length with much Sollicking I prevailed, having fir It acquainted the great Iraonozur with my Intentions, and perceiving by the often baying of my Birds agreat Longing in them to be gone, 1 trimmed up my Engine, and took my Leave of Pylonas, and March 29, three Days after my waking from the latt Moon's J >ight, I fattened myfelf to my Engine, not forgetting to take the Jewels Irdonozur had given me, with the Virtues and Ule whereof Py/o-nas had acquainted me at large, wiih a fmall Quantity of' Victuals, whereof afterward I had great Oc-cafi n. A valt Multitude of People being prefent, and among them Pyionas himfelf, after I had given thorn all the laft Farewel, I let loofe the Reins to my Birds, who with much Greedinejs taking Wing, quickly carried me out of Sight •, it happened to me as in my fiift PalTage, for I never felt either Hunger or Third till I fell upon an high Mountain in China, about five Leagues from the High and Mighcy City oiPcquin. This Voyage was performed in leis than nine Days, neither heard 1 any News of tfVfe airy Men I met with in my afcending -, nothing dayed me in my Journey, whether becaufe of the earned Defire of my Birds to return to the Earth, having already miffed their Scafon, or that the Attraction of the Earth was fo much dronger than that of the Moon, and fo made it eafier, yet fo it was. though I had three Birds lefs than before. For the fird eight Days my Birds flew before me, and I on the Engine was as it were drawn after ; but the ninth Day, when 1 began to approach the Cl uds, I perceived myfelf and Engine to fink toward ihe Earth, and go before them. I was then horribly afraid, lead my Birds unable to bear our Weighr, being fo few,' fhould be condrained to precipitate both me and themfelves headlong to the

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Earth, and thought it very neceflary to make ufe of my Stone Ebelus, which I clapt to my bare Skin within my Clothes, and inftantly I perceived my Birds made way with greater Eafe than before, as Teeming freed from a great Burthen, neither do I think they could podibly have let me down fafely to the Earth without that Help.

China is a Country fo populous, that I think there is fcarce a Piece of Ground thrice a Man's Length which is not carefully manured : I being yet in the Air, fome of the Country People fpying me came running by Troops, and feized me, woujd needs carry me before a Magiftrate, and feeing no other Remedy I yielded to them. But when I tried to go I found myfelf fo light, that one Foot being on the Ground I had much ado to kt down ?he other, which was by reafon my Ebelus took all Weight away from my Body, therefore I pretended a Defire of performing the Neceflities of Nature j which being made known to them by Signs, for they underftood not a Word of any Language I could fpeak, they permitted me to go afide among a few Bufhes, alluring themfelves it was impoilible I fhould efcape from them ; being there, 1 remem-bred Pylonas his Directions about the Ufe of my Stones, and knit them up, with a few remaining jewels, into an Handkerchief, all except the leaft and worft Ebelus, -which I found Means to apply in fuch Manner to my Body, that but the half or its Side touched my Skin; this done I drew toward my Guardians, till coming fo near that they could not crofs my Way, I (hewed them a fair Pair of Heels, that I might have Time to hide my Jewels, which I knew they would have robbed me of if noc prevented. Being thus lightened I led them fuch a Dance, that had they been all upon the Backs of fo many Race-Horfes they could never have over-

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taken me •, I directed my Courfe to a thick Wood, wherein I entered about a Quarter of a League, and there finding a fine Spring, which I took for my Mark, I thruft my Jewels into a Hole made by a Mole hard by.

I then took my Victuals out of my Pocket, to which till now in all my Voyage I had not the leaft Appetite, and refrefhed myfelf therewith, till the People who purfued overtook me, into whole Hands 1 quietly furrendered myfelf; they led me to an inferior Officer, who underftanding that I efcaped from thofe who firft apprehended me, caufed an Inclofure of Boards to be made, wherein they pu: me, fo that only my Head was at Liberty, and then carried me upon the Shoulders of four Slaves, like fome notorious Malefactor, before a Perfon of great Authority, who in their Language I learnt, was called a Mandarin, and refided a League off the famous City of Pequin. I could not underftand them, but found I was accufed for fomething with much Vehemence, the Subftance of this Accufation it feems was, that I was a Magician, as appeared by my being fo (Irangely carried in the Air, and that being a Stranger, as both my Language and Habic did declare, I contrary to the Laws of China had entered the Kingdom without a Warrant, and probably for no good Intent. The Mandarin heard them with a great deal of Gravity, and being a Man of quick Apprehenfion, and ftudious of Novelties, he told them he would take fuch Order as the Cafe required, and my bold Attempt mould not go unpuniflied : Having difmift them, he ordered his Servants I mould be kept in a remote Part of his vaft Palace, be ftrictly guarded, and kindly ufed ; this I conjecture by my Treatment, and what followed, for my Accommodation was much better than I could expect, I lodged well, eat well,

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was well attended, and could complain of nothing but my Reftraint; Thus continued I many Months*, afflicted more with the Thoughts of my Gan/as than, any Thing elfe, who I knew muft be irrecoverably loit, as indeed they were.

In this Time by my own Induftry, and the Af-fiftance of thofe who accompanied me, I learnt to fpeak indifferently the Language of that Province, (for almoft every Province in China hath its proper Tongue) whereat I perceived they were much pleafed : At length I was permitted to take the Air, and brought into the fpacious Garden of that Palace, a Place of extraordinary Pleafure and Delight, adorned with Herbs and Flowers of admi-ble Sweetnefs and Beauty, with almoft infinite Variety of Fruits, European and others, all compofed with that rare Curiofity, as even ravifhed my Senfes in the Contemplation of fuch delightful Objects; I had not long recreated myfelf here, when thz Mandarin entered the Garden on that Side I was walking, of which having Notice by his Servants, and that I ought to kneel to him (a ufual Reverence I found toward great Officers) I did fo, and humbly intreated his Favour toward a poor Stranger, who arrived in thefe Parts not defignedly, but by the fe-cret Difpofal of the Heavens •, he anfwered in a different Language which I hear all the Mandarins ufe, and like that of the Lunars confiding chiefly of Tunes, which was interpreted by one of his Attendants, wifhing me to be of good Comfort, fince he intended no Harm to me. Next Day I was ordered to come before him, and being conducted into a noble Dining-room exquifitely painted, the Mandarin commanding all to avoid, vouchfafed to confer with me in the vulvar Language, enquiring into the State of my Country, the Power of my Prince, and the Religion and Manners of the Peo-, G 2 pie i.

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pie-, wherein having fatisfied him, he afked rnc about my Education, and what brought me into this remote Country •, I then declared to him the Adventures of my Life, omitting what I thought convenient, and efpecially forbearing to mention the Stones given me by Irdonozur.

The Strangenefs of my Story did much amaze him, and finding in all my Difcourfe nothing tending to Magick, wherein he hoped by my Means to be inftructed, he began to admire the Excellency of my Wit, applauding me for the happieft Man that this World ever faw, and wiming me to re-pofe myfelf after my long Narration, he for that Time difmifTed me. Alter which the Mandarin took fo much Delight in me, that no Day parTed wherein he did not fend for me : At length he ad-viied me to cloath myfelf in the Habit of that Country, which i willingly did, and gave me not only the Liberty of his Houfe, but took me aifo with him when he went to Pequin, whereby I had Opportunity to learn the Pifpofition of the People, and the Policy of the Country, neither did I by my Attendance on him, gain only the Knowledge of thefe Thing?, but the Poffibility likewife of being refioi ed to my native Soil, and to thofe dear Pledges which I value above the World, even my Wife and Children : For by often frequenting Peqitin, I at length heard of fome Fathers of the Society of Jefus, who were become famous for their extraordinary Favour with the King, to whom rhey had prelented fome European, as Clocks, Watches, Dials, and the like, which by them were counted exquifite Curiofities. To thefe by the Mandarin's Leave I repaired, and was welcomed by them, they much wondering to fee a Lay Spaniard there, whither they had with fo much Diiiiculty obtained I .vavt to arrive. There did I relate to Father Pen-

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toja and others of the Society the forementioned Adventures, by whofe Directions I put them in "Writing, and ient this Story of my Fortunes to Mac&a, from thence to be conveyed to Spain, as a Forerunner of my Return; and the Mandarin being indulgent to me, I came often to the Fathers, with whom I confulted about many Secrets, and with them alfo laid the Foundation of my Return, the bleffed Hour whereof I do with Patience expect, that by enriching my Country with the Knowledge of thefe hidden Myfteries, I may at laft reap the Glory of my fortunate Misfortunes.

A Journey of feveral Englim Merchants from Ora-tava in TenerifF, one of the Canary Iflands on the Coafi 0/Africa, to the top of the Pike in that Jflandy with the Obfervations they made there.

MEntion being made in the preceding Story of the Pike of Teneriff, it may be fome Diversion to infert the following little Journey performed by divers Engliflomen a few Years fince to the Top, who publilhed the following Account thereof.

The Pike of Tenerijf'is thought not to have its Equal in the World tor Height, its Top being fo much above the Clouds, that in clear Weather it may be feen fixty Dutch Leagues at Sea.

It cannot be afcended but in July and Auguft y lying all the other Months covered with Snow, though upon this and the near adjacent Iflands none is to be feen : It requires three Days travel to come to the top : The Merchants and other worthy Perfons who undertook this Journey proceed thus. Having furnifhed ourfelves with a Guide, Servants, and Horfes to carry our Wine and Pro-

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vifion, we let forth from Oratava, a Port Town in the Ifland of Teneriff^ fituate on the North Side, two Mile diftant from the main bea, and travelled from twelve at Night till eight in the Morning, by which 'lime we got to the Top of the firft Mountain toward the Pico de Terraira ; there under a very large and confpicuous Pine Tree we took our Breakfaft, dined, and refrelht ourfeives till two in the Afternoon. Then we p ;iTed through many fandy Ways, over many Jofty Mountains, but naked and bare, and not covered with Pine Trees as our fir ft Night's Paflage was; this expo Ted us to exceflive Heat, till we arrived to the Foot of the Pico, where we found divers huge Stones, which feemed to have fallen from fome upper Part: About fix in the Evening we began to afcend up the Pico, but were fcarce advanced a Mile, when the Way being no more paffable for Horfes, we left them with our Servants. In the Afcent of one Mile, fome of our Company grew very faint and fick, difor-dered by Fluxes, Vomitings, and agueifh Diftem? pers, our Horfes Hair (landing up like Bridles, and calling for fome of our Wine carried in fmall Barrels on an Horfe, we found it fb wonderfully cold, that we could not drink it till we had made a Fire to warm it, notwithftanding the Air was very calm and moderate, but when the Sun was let, it began to blow with fuch Violence, and grew fo cold, that taking up our Lodging among the hollow Rocks, we were neceffitated to keep Fires in the Mouths of them all Night. .

About four in the Morning we began to mount again, and being come another Mile up, one of our Company failed and was able to proceed no further : Here began the black Rocks; the reft of us purfued our Journey till we came to the Sugar Loaf, where we began to travel again in a white

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Sand, being fitted with Shoes, whofe fingle Soles are made a Finger broader than the upper Leathers, to encounter this difficult PafTage : Having afcended as far the black Rocks, which lay all flat like, a plain Floor, we climbed within a Mile of the very Top of the Pico, and at lad we attained the Summit, where we found no fuch Smoak as appeared a little below, but a continual Perfpira-tion of a hot and fulphureous Vapour that made our Faces extremely fore -, all this way we found no confiderable Alteration of the Air, and very little Wind, but on the Top it was fo impetuous, that we had much ado to ftand againft it whilft we drank K. Charles II. Health, and fired each of us a Gun. Here alfo we took our Dinner, but found that our ftrong Waters had loft their Virtue, and were almoft infipid, while our Wine was more brifk and fpirituous than before : The Top on which we flood being not above a Yard broad, is the Brink of a Pit called the Caldera, which we judged to be a Mufket Shot over, and near fourfcore Yards deep, in form of a Cone, hollow within like a Kettle, and covered over with fmall loofe Stones mixed with Sulphur and Sand, from among which iflued divers Spiracles of Smoak and Heat, which being ftirred with any Thing puffs and makes a Noife, and is fo offenfive, that we were even fuffocated with the fudden rifing of Vapors, upon removing one of thefe Stones, which were fo hot as not ea^ fily to be handled ; we defcended not above four or five Yards into the Caldera or Caldron, becaufe of the Slipperinefs under Foot, and the Difficulty; but fome have adventured to the Bottom : Other Matters obfervable we difcovered none, befides a clear fort of Sulphur which lay like Salt upon the Stones : From this renowned Pico we could fee the Grand Canaries fourteen Leagues, diftant, Palma eighteen, and Gomera feven, which Interval of Sea

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feemed not much wider than the Thames about London; we difcerned alfo the Herro, being di(tant about twenty Leagues, and fo to the utmoit Limits of the Sea much farther : As foon as the Sun appeared, the Shadow of the Pico feemed to cover not only the whole Ifland and the Grand Canaries, but the Sea to the very Horizon, where the Top of the Sugar-Loaf or Pico vifibly appeared to turn up, and call its Shade into the Air itfelf, at which we were much furprized.

But the Sun was not far afcended when the Clouds began to rife fo fait, as intercepted our Profpecl both of the Sea and the whole Ifland, except the Tops only of the fubjacent Mountains, which feemed to pierce them through ; whether thefe Clouds do ever furmount the Pico we cannot fay, but to fuch as are far below they leem fometimes to hang above it, or rather wrap themfelves about it, constantly when the Weft Winds blow; this they call the Cap, and is an infallible Prognoftick of enluing Storms : One of our Company who made this Journey again two Years after, arriving at the Top of the Pico before Day, and creeping under a great Stone to fhroud himfelf from the cold Air, after a little Space found himfelf all wet, and perceived it to come from a perpetual trickling of trie Water from the Rocks above him : Many excellent and exuberant Springs we found ifluing from the Tops of mod of the other Mountains, gufhing out in great Spouts, almoft as far as the huge Fine Tree we mentioned before ; having ftayed a while at the Top, we all defcended the fandy Way till we came to the Foot of the Sugar-Loaf, which being fteep even almoft to a Perpendicular we foon paired, and here we met with a Cave about ten Yards deep and fifteen broad, being in Shape like an Oven or Cupola, having a Hole at the Top near eight Yards

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Over; this we defcended by a Rope that our Servants held faft on the Top, while with the other End being fattened about our Middles we fwung ourfelves, till being over a Bank of Snow we Hid down, lighting upon it •, we were forced to fwing thus in the Defcent, becaufe in the Midft of the Bottom of this Cave oppofite to the Overture at the Top, is a round Pit of Water like a Well, the fur-face whereof is about a Yard lower, but as wide as the Mouth at Top, and about fix Fathom deep; we fuppofed this Water was not a Spring, but dif-folved Snow blown in, or Water trickling through, the Rocks ; about the Sides of the Grott for fome Height there is Ice and Ificles hanging down to the Snow.

But being quickly weary of this excefilve cold Place, and drawn up again, we continued our Defcent from the Mountains by the fame PaiTage we went up the Day before, and fo about five in the Evening arrived at Oratava, from whence we let forth •, our Faces were fo red and fore that to cool them we were forced to wafh and bathe them in whites of Eggs: The whole Height of the Pico in. Perpendicular is vulgarly efteemed to be two Miles and an half. No Trees, Herbs nor Shrubs did we find in all the PafTage, but Pines* and among the whiter Sands a kind of Broom being a bufhy Plant: It is the Opinion of fome ingenious Perfons who have lived twenty Years upon the Place, that the whole Ifland being a Soil mightily impregnated with Brimftone, did in former Times take Fire, and blow up all or near all at the fame Time; and that many Mountains of huge Stones calcined and burnt, which appear all over this Ifland, efpecially in the South-Weft Part of it, were cad up and raifed out of the Bowels, of the Earth at the Time of that general Conflagration •, and that the greateft H Quantity

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