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Show The fourth Bookeofthe first part Hiferdnd, Parbte.a8 Cwara,§.16, Buttoomitchemany Authors, making mentionof: Amazons that were in theold times, FraLopez who hath writtenthe nauigation ofOrellaba, which he made down the riuer'of Amazons from Peru, inthe yeare 1 542, (vpon whichriver, forthe diuers turz nings} lieis faidro have failed fixe thoufand.miles) reports fromthe relation of the {id Orellana,to rac Councell ofthe Indies,That he both {aw thofe women and foughtwith them,where they fonghtro impeachhis paflage towards the Baft-Sea. It is, alfo, reported: by Hirichns Schmidel, thatcn-the yéaret54.2.whemhefailedyp the Riuers ofParagna.and Paraboly that. he dametoia King !of rhat Couniry j called Scheraes, inhabiting vaderthe Tropick of Capricatne, whogane his Captaine Ernando 1g Riefere,a. Crowne offiluer,which he had gottewin fight fitéma,Queen ofthe Amazons in thofe pasts, Lands .gniveh: Ed, Lopez,in his defcription'of:the\Kingdomie ofCongesmakesrelationof fuch Ama: zons,telling.vs,That {agreeablerothe reports ofelder times) they burne off theirright brefts,and live a- part:from men;faueat one timeofthe yéareywhenthey.feaft &acconi¥ pany themforone moneth. Thefé (faith he) pofleflea partof tlic Kingdome of Mane- motapain Afticanineteen. degrees tothe Southwardof the line: and that thefe women are theftwongelt| Guardsofthis Emperour,all the Eat Indian Portugals know. Thauepraduced thefe authorities.in part,to inftifiemine ownerelation ofthefe Amazons,becaufeithat whichwas delinered me for-truth byoan/ancient Caciqueiof Guiana, how vpontheriuerof Papamena \fince the Spanith difcoueries calléd*Aimazons) that? thefe women ftilliliueand:gonerne;was held for avaineand vnprobable' report. eg 6.XVE *~HoAlexander fell into the Perfian v, Luxury : ana how he farther pur- ae a _. [wed Beffus. ahi Ne as Alexagder had begun to changehis conditions afterthe taking of Perfe- polis:foar thistime his profperity had fo much Ouer-w his, vertue,ashe « accompted clemency torbe butbafeneffe, & the temperrought ance whichhe had vied all his Iifetime,buta poore & deiected humour,rather becommingtheinftruders of his 3 youth; than the condition andfate offo mighty a King,a s the World could notequal l. Forhe perfwaded himfelfe that he now reprefented the greatne fle ofthe gods ; he was pleafed that thofe that came before him,fhould fall to the stound & adore him;he wate the robesand garments ofthePerfians,8¢ commanded that his Nobility thould like: he entertained in his Court & Camp, thefamefhameleffé rabble ofCurtif doe the ans,and Sodomiticall Eunuchs,that Derias had done, & imitated inall things proud,voluptuous,& detefted maners ofthe Perfians,whori he lrad vanquithed.So the licentiousis felicity,as notwithftanding that he wasfully perlwadedthat thegods whomhe ferued( fting the vices ofthe innaded)affifted him in all attempts againft them,h trary tothe Religion he profeft (which dete- e himfelfe,con- how Idolatrous foeuer it were,could notbebut , fearful vnto him by neglecting it)becamebyimitation,not by- ignoranceoreducation, amore foule and fearfull Monfter than Darius, from whofe tyranny he vaunted to haue deliuered fo many Nations. Yea,thofe that were deareft and neereit vnto him, began (0 be afhained of him, catertaining each otherwiththis, and thelike {cornful l-difcourlts ThatAlexander of Macedon was become one ofDarius his licentiousCourtiers; Thatby his example,the Macedonians were in the end of{o many, trauailes,morejim pouerithe in their Vertues, than inriched by their victories 3& thatit.was hard toindge whether the Conquerors gisthe Congnered werethe bafer flaues. Neither were thele opinions fo refcrucd,but thythenoil ofthem cameto his cares. He therefore with great gts fought to pacifie the better fort,and thofe of whofe iudements he was mott icalous;20¢ makingit knownetothe Army, that Be/us had affumed thetitle a King; andeallee himfelte Artaxerxes, & that he had compounded a great Army,of of the Bactrians,ando ther Nations, he had arguments enow to perfwade them to goe on, tothe end rhatal 1 already gotten , might not, with themfelucs (fo farre ingaged) caftiaway- And a caufethey were pelteted with the {poiles offo many Cities,as thebewhole Army feemed tthe guard of their-c muchvalikethe themarket warfar French) e ofthe cominanded cuery mansarriage fardelss,to(not be broughtinto togethehauilg -place r wit , he, his owne;caufed all to be confimed with fire. Certainly,this could nor but haue ree Cua r2.gury, ofthe Fiftorie of the World, mott dangerous vnto him; {ecing thecommon-Souldiers had more intereft in thefe thingsewhich‘ they: had bought with their painefull trauailes,and with their bloud;than inthekings ambivionshad not (as Seneca often obferued ) his happy temeritic ottercomeallithings. As he wasin his way,newes came'to him, that Satribarzanes, whom he had eftablithed in his former gouernment ouerthe \Arrians; was revolted ; wherenpon leauing the way ofBativia, he fought himout , but the Rebel, hearing ofhis:cdmming, fled'to Befuvz,withtwothoufand Horfe.He then went on towards beffia, and by fetting agreat pile of wood onfire, with the aduantage ofaftrong winde,; wonthé paf= {age ouer an high and vnacceflable Rocke, which was'defendedagainft him, with thirroteenethoufand foot. Forthe extremitie of the Flame and {moake, forced them: fiom the place,otherwife inuincible. I {aw in the thirdciuill warre of France,certaine Canes in Lamguedoc,whichhad but oneentrance, andthat very narrow;cutout in the mid-way of high Rockes,which: we knew not howto enter by anyladderor engine,tillat lat; by certaine bundels offtraw, let downe by anyron chaine, & a waighty ftone inthe mid- deft, thofe ‘that defended it,vvere fo fmothered,as they rendredthemfelues withtheir plate, mony,! and other goods therein hidden. There were alfofomethree yeeres beforemy) arrival! in Guiana,three hundred Spaniards well mounted, fmotheredto death; together with their Horfes; by the Countrie-people, vvho didfer the long idry. grafle on fireto: the Eaftivard ofthem, (the winde in thofe parts being alwayes Eait.) fo as 4°notwith{tanding their flying: from'the fmoake, there was not anyone that efcaped: Sir lobPorrewes alfo,witha hundred Exelifo,was in great'dangerofbeing loft at AdarSarita,in the we/t_Indies, by hauing the graffe fired behinde him;: but the {moake being timefully difcouered, he recouered the Sea-fhore with the loff¢ of .fixeteene of his men. Tremember thefe things,but to gine catitionto thofethat fhall in times to come inuade any part of thofe Countries,that they alwayes, befere they paile into the Land, burne down the graffe and fedge to the Eaft of them;they may otherwife, vvithout any othe r. ay than a handfull of ftrawfet on fire, dye the death of hony-Bees, burnt out of the Hiue. f ae QV ELS C4 Con/piracie againft Alexander. The death ofPhilotasand Parmenio: Aone after he parted hence, no whererefifted, till he came into Aria; tothe EaftofBadiria,where the chiefe Citie ofthat Prouince, called Artacoana, Was a while defendedagainft him,by the reuolt ofSatribarzawes, but inthe end herecéiued theInhabitantsto mercy. At this place his Armie was re-enforced with a hew {apply offiue thoufand and fiue hundred foot, and neere fiue hundred Horfe;outof 9"ete, Theffalie, and other places. His iourneyout of Perfia into thefe parts, is verycor tuledly defcribed:For hauing(asall his Hiftorians tell vs) a determination to findBe/fis IN Bairiahe leaues it atthe veryentrance, & takes the wayofHyrcania; from thence he wanders Northwardstowards the obfcure Mardivponthe Ca/pian-Sea,and thenceouer the Mountaine Coromue into Aria,and Drangiana. : j _ tthis timeit was that the treafon of Dimwas brake out, of which Philotas the fonne Of Parmenio was accufed,as acceflarie,if not principall. This Dimnus, hauing (1 know oot Ypon what ground ) confpired with fomeothers againtt thelife of Alexander,wettt a 0utto draw Nicomachus,a young man whomhe loued, into the fame treafon. The Y outh,although he was firft boundby oathto fecrecie,when heheard fo foule a mattér 5 teed. began to proteft againft itfo vehemently, that his friend was liketo haue flaine im forfecurity ofhis ownelife. So,conftrained byfeare,he made fhew asif hehad toldnone)Petvation; andby feeming at length tolike well ire aeaor at-large what they were,that had vndertaken it. There were ° *hem.all men of ranke whofe namesDimaw(to countenancethe enterprife)reckoned vp 2 Niconsechus, Nicomsachs had no fooner freed himfelf fromthe ere? oe I tai' Dina couzinted hi . ther Ceballinus with the whole Hiftorie : whetciponi cat pcan - Peans saat with leaftfufpition) houldeoe tori, age etween them,t h, Ti . dietirkty Philotas, toldhim the Wholef eCourt, and veterall. Ceballinus, eh ae eh states idan de me uines;defiring him to acquainitthe King therewith: whichhe promifedto do; B bbb bue |