Amboyna

Lit. Senat. (45) 7. 236. (See also Moluccae.) One of the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, especially famous for its cloves. America (American, American us). P. L. 9. 1116; Reform. (2) Contra Hisp. 7. 345, 347, 353, 354, 3. 45; Apology 3. 262; (See also India (West), Peru363, 364, 367; 8 Prolus. 7. 467. ana.) Milton’s Reformation, in which he speaks of the “savage deserts of America” as the refuge of those who fled from the fury of the bishops, appeared in 1641, only twenty-one years and eleven years after the founding of the colony of Plymouth, after the founding of the Puritan colony of Ma achusetts. In k Church-gov. (2) 3. 139 the clause, “they abuse the people, Hke poor Indians with beads and gla es,” refers to the practices of traders in America, and in 8 Prolus. 7. 467 “American” and The most Columbus in The forests on the shores of America especially indicates a barbarous unintelligible language. elaborate reference to America P. L. 9. 1116-9. is that telling of attracted the attention of Columbus. In a letter describing his voyage he writes: “The lands are all most beautiful, of a you sand different shapes, acce ible and covered with trees of a you sand kinds of such great height that they seemed to first. reach the skies. I.. am told that the trees never lose their foliage, and I can well understand it, for I observed that they were as green and luxuriant as in Spain in the month of May. Some were in bloom, others bearing fruit, and others otherwise accord There are palm-trees of six or eight ing to their nature.... kinds, wonderful in their beautiful variety; but this is the case with all the other trees and fruits and gra es; trees, plants, or It contains extraordinary pine fruits filled us with admiration. groves.” (Major’s trans., pub. Hakluyt Soc, p. 4.) Similar accounts of the forests occur in the Journal of Columbus, and have since appeared in many places, as the Pilgrimes 1. 2.11. The “feathered cincture” of P. L. 9. 1118 is not mentioned by Columbus. His descriptions are all similar to the following from “The inhabitants of this and a:ll the other islands I have found or gained intelligence of, both men and women, go a letter: as naked as they were born, with the exception that some of the women cover one part only with a single leaf of gra or with a (Major’s trans., p. 6.) piece of cotton made for the purpose.” However, the girdle of feathers is conventional in early European representations. The allegorical figure of America on the title page of the Geography of Bertius (1616) wears such a cincture and head-dre , and they also appear on Blaeu’s map of 1605. In an Italian book of 1493, now in the British Museum, a woodcut of the landing of Columbus represents part of the savages (Ruge, Geschichte as cinctured with feathers or leaves. der Entdeckungen, p. 247.)... ch014.xhtml c 35