Sir, Reiterated Favours claim a Repetition of Acknowledgments; should the latter be as frequent as the former, they might prove rather troublesome to you, than acceptable. I have therefore resolv’d once for all to express how sensible I am of the many Obligations I lye under. You would not perhaps be pleas’d, should I go about to enumerate them, because great Minds never look back upon what Courtesies they have bestow’d, being always intent upon what farther Acts of Generosity they may perform.

Our Author , Bartholomew Leonardo de Argensola, was a Learned Clergyman, and as such employ’d by the President and Council of the Indies to Write this History. He calls it , The Conquest of the Molucco Islands, without Enlarging any further in his title, tho’ at the same time his Work contains their first Discovery, their Description, the Manners, Customs, Religion, Habit, and Political and Natural History; with all the Wars, and other Remarkable Accidents in those Parts, since they were first k

A Draught of the Moluca Isles...

Cessation of Arms. Both Sides now took the Breathing of a short Cessation; advantagious to Ternate for the Liberty of Trade, and to the Portugueses , because it gain’d Time to their Hope of Relief, which they concluded must be near at Hand, by Reason it had been long expected. They were not discouraged by Events, those having prov’d alternatively Successful and Unfortunate, and Victory was toss’d to and fro; besides that the Interruption of Commerce had knit some the closer together in Friendshi

Tydore describ’d. Tydore , in the Language of those Parts, which was formerly spoken, signifies, Fertility and Beauty. Europeans generally give it this Name; but its King, as appears by his Arabick and Persian Subscriptions, Writes Tudura , and not Tydore . It is not inferior to Ternate for Fruitfulness, and Delight, but far exceeds it in Magnitude and Populousness; and yields the same Aromatick Product. Curious Persons have there try’d to improve the Clove, watering and pruning the Tree at prop

Sarmiento at Cabo Verde. Sarmiento Landed at Cabo Verde , the Custom-House of which City yearly is worth to the King 100000 Ducats. There are always in it 20000 Blacks, because of the settled Trade for them. Before he Anchor’d, there came Boats from the Shore, to view his Ship, and he telling them, he came from Peru , through the Streights of Magellan , they were amaz’d. They return’d to give an Account to their Governor Gaspar de Andrade , and told him, That those that came in the Ship, were Me

An Army was now forming of all these Sorts of People, by Order of the King, to attempt recovering the Forts of the Moluccos . Don Ronquillo de Pennalosa was then Governour there; and tho’ he had receiv’d some Intelligence Ronquillo’s Preparations for the Moluccos. brought him thence by Spies and Traders, yet not satisfy’d with it, he sent thither another Soldier. He disguised himself, and being like the Natives in Countenance, and speaking their Language to Perfection, got to Tydore . He found o

Chineses put into the Galleys. In short, all the Slaves demanded by the Governour Gomez Perez , were raised with much Trouble and Oppression, and in the same Manner they were put into the Galleys, where they continu’d some Time before they departed, and many of them dy’d, as not being us’d to that sort of Life. All those Slaves were not sufficient to Man the Galleys, and the Admiral Galley remain’d without Rowers. This, and the Necessity of finishing the Work produc’d a more rigorous Practice th

Dutch first sail to the Moluccos. The first Dutch Fleet that came to the Molucco Islands, after the English , in the Year 1598, shall be here spoken of. Some prime Men, for the Sake of their Country, as they said, and to gain Reputation, met in Holland and Zealand , and fitted out six Ships and two Brigantines, to sail into India . The first Ship they call’d the Maurice , the Admiral in her being Jacob Cornelius Neck , born at Roterdam , and the Master Gonaert Jansk ; the second was the Amsterda

Want of Political Reflections whence. There is generally some Moral Instruction, which lies couch’d under the Actions of Men, and which Judicious Writers use to point at in the Relation of Events, as the Advantage of History; but what civil Rules, or Precepts for the forming of the Political Life, can we lay down, in writing the Conquest and Defence of Barbarous Countries, which all depends on Voyages, and reducing of Garrisons; notwithstanding State Craft has somewhat inform’d those Nations? Or

They sail from Caldera. From the Port of Caldera , the General order’d the Colonel to sail over to that of Talangame , which, as has been said, is in the Island of Ternate ; and bore him Company himself, with the Galleys, till he was out of the Streight of Sabuanga , which is dangerous by Reason of the Currents and Ridges of Rocks, wherefore they tow’d the Ships, till they were out of Danger, as also because they were becalm’d. The Fleet stood out to Sea; the Galleys coasted along slowly to take

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