10th Oct 1845 CONTENT S MR. OF THE SECOND VOLUME. R. John Nieuhoff's voyage to, and account of Modern ftate of Brafil, page I 20 Memoir concerning the Settlements of the Jefuits, in Paraguay, 36 Mr. Lionel Wafer's Journey over the Ifthmus of Darien; including many curious and entertaining Particulars of the Country and Inhabitants, 43 88 A brief Account of North-America; from Major A fhort Account of the American Islands, 211 228 265 The Proclamation for regulating the Ceffions made to 273 The first Voyage to the Eaft Indies by Vafquez de Gama, 298 The first Voyage to the Eaft Indies, on the Account of the English Eaft India Company; under the command of Captain, afterward, Sir James Lancafter, 334 A Voyage to the Cape de Verde Islands, by Captain Hope, containing an Account of the Dutch Settlement there, and giving a particular Defcription of Manners and Customs of the Hottentot Natives, 377 Mr. John Nieuhoff's Voyages to the Eaft Indies, containing an Account of the Dutch Settlements, particularly Batavia on the Ifland of Java. To which is added a circumftantial Narrative of the Cruelties exercifed by the Dutch on the English at Amboyna, Mr. Grofe's Voyage to the East Indies, comprehending a fhort Account of the English Settlements there, with Reflections on the Eaft India Trade, 419 A COLLECTION O F VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. Mr. JOHN NIEUHOFF's Voyage to, and Account of BRASIL, in SOUTH AMERICA. MR R. John Nieuhoff, born at Ufen in the earldom of Benthem, and defcended from a reputable family, engaged in the Dutch Weft india company's fervice as fupercargo, on the 24th of October, 1640, and failed the fame day out of the Texel, in a fhip called the Roebuck, of twenty-eight guns, and one hundred and thirty men. Nothing remarkable occurred till the 6th of November, when they were attacked by two Turkish pirates, whom, after a very warm engagement, they obliged to fheer off. After a voyage of feven weeks and one day, without any other material incident, they made the coaft of Brafil, having in their courfe touched at an island called Fernando, fifty leagues from thence; which ifland, about the year 1630, was inhabited by the Dutch, but deferted by them a few years after, on account of rats that fwarmed there, and plundered the earth of its produce. After the Dutch had forfaken this land of vermin, the council of Brafil appointed it the receptacle of malefactors; who, on VOL. II. B being being exiled there, were furnished with inftruments neceffary to work a fubfiftence out of the bowels of the earth. About the latter end of Auguft, 1643, Mr. Nieuhoff was ordered on a trading voyage to the island of St. Thomas; for which purpofe he was furnished with a ship, and a cargo of fullers earth, to be there exchanged for black ginger and fugar, the principal commodities of the place. St. Thomas is thirty-fix leagues in compafs, of a circular form, and very fertile in fugar and black ginger in the midst of this island there are mountains conftantly covered with fnow, though the adjacent vallies, as may be expected under the line, are fcorched with exceffive heat. The air is unhealthy, efpecially to foreigners. After a voyage of three months, Mr. Nieuhoff arrived fafe at Brafil, having fulfilled the purpose for which he had embarked. Brafil, fo called by the Portuguese from the wood of that name which abounds there, was originally discovered in the year 1500 by Pedro Alvarez de Cabral, who gave it the name of Santa Cruz: as to its extent, geographers materially difagree; but, according to the moft authentic calculation, it meafures from the river Para to the river Capibari, fituated north and fouth, three hundred and feventy-five leagues; the extent from east to west is more doubtful, but computed at feven hundred and forty-two leagues. The Portuguese have divided Brafil into fourteen diftricts, which they call Kapitanas or captainfhips, each of which is watered by fome confiderable river, with other ftreams of leffer note. The river named St. Francis, claims precedence of all others in this country in point of fize; yet, though it is broad and deep, fhips of burden are prevented from entering it by fands which choak up its mouth. In the lake whence |