The Spanish Empire in America: Containing, a Succinct Relation of the Discovery and Settlement of Its Several Colonies; a View of Their Respective Situations, Extent, Commodities, Trade, &c. ... |
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Acapulco againſt alfo Almagro alſo America Audience becauſe befides beſt Buenos Ayres called Caufe Chili City Coaft Coaſt Commodities Confequence confiderable confifts Cortez Country Cuba Defign Defire diſcovered Diſcovery Diſtance Eaft Eaſt efpecially fafe faid fame feems fend fent fettled feven feveral fhall fhould fince firft firſt Flota fmall fome fometimes foon fpeaking ftands ftrong ftyled fuch fuppofed Galleons Gold Governor Gulph himſelf Houſes hundred Indians Indies Inhabitants Iſland itſelf Jago King laft Land Leagues leaſt lefs Lima Mexico Mines moft moſt muſt neceffary North North Sea Number obferved Occafion Paffage paffed Panama Paraguay Perfon Peru Pieces of Eight Pizarro Place pleafant poffeffed Port Porto Porto Bello Potofi prefent Province Quito Reaſon refide Refpect rich River ſhall Ships Silver ſmall South Seas Spain Spaniards Spanish ſpeak thefe themſelves thence theſe thing thofe thoſe thoufand Town Trade uſe vaft Veffels Vera Cruz Viceroy Weft
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Page 156 - an old man, knowing the deluge was to come, built a great ship, and went into it with his family and abundance of animals...
Page 281 - Ships are intended to carry all that is neceffary, either of Warlike Stores, or Merchandize for Peru : and this is the fpecific Difference between this Fleet and the Flota, which is intended for Mexico. In Time of Peace, the Galleons fail regularly once a Year from Cadiz, at no fet time, but according to the King's Pleafure, and the Convenience of the Merchants. From Cadiz the Galleons...
Page 316 - Warehoufe, and to unlade the Ship ; but then all this is performed under the Eye of the King's Officers, and the Goods are regularly enter'd in a Regifter as they are brought into the Warehoufe, which when full is fhut up, and the Doors fealed.
Page 316 - Bufinefs is effectually carried on in the Night by a Back-door, and the European Goods being taken out, Indigo, Cochineal, Vinellos, Tobacco, and above all Bars of Silver and Pieces of Eight are very exactly packed in the fame Cafes, and placed as they ftood before.
Page 157 - Age faid, that an old Man, knowing the Deluge was to come, built a great Ship, and went into it with his Family, and abundance of Animals ; that he fent out a Crow, which did not return, flaying to feed on the dead Bodies, and afterwards returned with a green Branch...
Page 160 - Place, computed them at twenty-fix thoufandj and we may very well fuppofe that they are increafed fince. They are a more polite and fociable People than the Inhabitants of any of the Ports on the Continent, and of late imitate the French both in their Drefs and in their Manners. One Part of the Ifland is under the Jurifdiction of this City, as the other is under that of St. Jago ; but the...
Page 153 - Part of the Country is plain, and if it were properly cultivated might be fruitful, though as it is it muft be owned that much cannot be faid of it on that Head. The eaftern Part is exceedingly mountainous; and from thence there runs a Chain of Hills almoft throughout the Ifland ; but the farther Weft you go they are the lefs rough and barren. From thefe Hills there run down to the North and South many Rivers, and amongft them two pretty...
Page 116 - NW fide -, at the mouth of this -narrow paflage, clofe by the Sea; and at the end of the Town, there is a Platform with a great many Guns. Oppofite to the Town, on the Eaft fide, ftands a high ftrong Caftle, faid to have 40 Guns of a very great bore.
Page 297 - Sight this feems to be ftrange and incredible ; but when we come to examine it, the Myftery is by no means impenetrable. The Silver and rich Commodities which come from the Indies come not for nothing (the King's Duties excepted) and very little of the Goods or Manufactures for which they come, belong to the Subjects of the Crown of Spain. It is evident, therefore, that the...
Page 284 - Regifter-Ships there is fometimes a Gain of two, or three hundred per Cent- which enables the Owners to pay fo bountifully for cheating the King, having firft got the Money by robbing his Subjects.