THE STRANGE
VOYAGE and ADVENTURES
OF
DOMINGO GONSALES,
TO THE
WORLD in the MOON.
CONTAINING
An Account of the Island of St. HELLENA; the Place where he residedsome Years in, and where he planned this Wonderful Voyage; his enteringon Board one of the Homeward-bound East-India Ships for Spain;their running on the Rocks near the Pike of Teneriff, to avoid anEnglish Squadron of Ships, that were in Pursuit of the SpanishFleet; Gonsales had just Time to fix his Machine, which carried himin Safety to the Pike of Teneriff, having rested his Gansas on theMountain, whence was pursued by the Savages; when giving the Signalto his Birds, they arose in the Air with him for their Journey to theMoon: The wonderful Apparitions and Devils he met with in his Progress;their Temptations to him, which he avoided, and their supplying himwith choice Provisions; his leaving this Hellish Crew, and proceedingon his Voyage to the Moon; his safe Arrival there; the Manners,Customs, and Language of the Emperors, Kings, Princes and People: Hisshort Stay there, to the great Grief of the Lunars; the inestimablePresents in Jewels the Author received at his Departure; his repassingto our Earthly Globe again, and was set down in China by his Birds;his being taken for a Magician by the Country People, and preservedfrom their Fury by a Chinese Mandarin; his going aboard an IndiaShip bound to Europe; his safe Arrival in his own Country, where hemade his Discoveries to the King of Spain, who held several CabinetCouncils to deliberate on a proper Use to be made of these Discoveries.
With a Description of the Pike of Teneriff, as travelled up by someEnglish Merchants.
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THE STRANGE
VOYAGE and ADVENTURES
of
DOMINGO GONSALES,
TO THE
WORLD in the MOON,
BY THE
Several GANZA'S, or Large GEESE.
Before I come to relate our extraordinary Voyage of Domingo Gonzalesto the World in the Moon, I will make a Halt at St. Hellens, orHellena, which is now possest by the Honourable East-India Company.It is called the Sea Inn, because the English and other Nations stopthere as a Place for Watering and Refreshment in their long Voyagesto India. It was formerly seized by the Dutch, but retaken May6th, 1673, by Captain Munday, with a Squadron of English Ships, andthree rich Dutch East India Ships made Prizes in the Harbour; sincewhich the Company have fortified and secured it, against any futureInvasion of Dutch, Portuguese, or Spaniards. It was called SantaHelena by the Portuguese, who discovered it on St. Hellen's Day,being April 2.
There is no Island in the World so far distant from the Continent ormain Land as this. It is about sixteen Leagues in Compass, in theEthiopic Sea; in 16 Degrees of South Latitude; about 1500 Miles fromthe Cape of Good Hope; 360 from Angola in Africa; and 510 fromBrasile in America. It lies high out of the Water; and surroundedon the Sea-coasts with steep