The Introduction. lil 
this was a Diftemper altogether new in Europe, Africa and Afia, bee 
fore it was brought from the Weff-Indies. The Difeafes mentien’d 
by the before - cited Authors being different from that Diftem,*r, 
both in Symptoms and Cure, only perhaps communicated ‘ »me- 
what after the fame manner ; I have feen fome fuch fingular Cafes, 
attended with confiderable Inconveniences and Fears, and yet not at 
all pocky. : 
The 25th of September, 1493. Chriftopber Columbus {et Sail a fe- 
cond time for Eii/paniola, and difcover'd.the Caribes. After he came 
to the Fort he had left, + he found all the Spaniards dead, and this + Coleay.49. 
account of them from the Indians, that fo foon as he had fail’d for 
Spain; mortal Difcords had arifen about Gold and Women, each of 
the Spaniards pretending to barier for Gold for himfelf; -and to 
takeasmany, and what Women he pleas’d, without being {atisfied 
-with what was thought reafonable, and allotted them by the Cacique, 
Indian Captain, or King ; that fome of them had gone on thefe Er- 
rands towards the Mines, where one Caunapo, a Cacique, had killed 
moft of them, and come and burnt their Fort, whereby the remain- 
der flying had been drown’d, and were perifhed. | 
|| After Columbus's Return-to; Eli/paniola, he went to difcover the |) col. c, 54 
South fide of Cuba; thinking: that to be the Continent, and not an ; 
Ifland. W om nt ager sysd.I | 
He was inform’d:in the other Ifles, that in Jamaica was Gold, 
wherefore he went towatds:it, difcover'd it on Sunday the 3d of 
May, 1494. and on Monday the next day, he came thither. He 
found none of that Metal, -butgreat Number of Canoes and armed 
Inhabicants, who had betcersUnderftandings than thofe of the other 
Iflands, and who opposd his Landing. Some of them were hurt 
by Guns, and the reft yielded, and were peaceable. Columbus, as he 
coafted the North fide, was extremely pleas’ with this Ifland, 
thinking it furpafled any he had yet feen, for Verdure, Fertility, 
Vidtuals, gc. which he judged to come from its being water'd 
with Showers drawn\thither by the Woods, which he had obferv’d 
to produce the like in the * Canaries and Madera before their being ” Ov#do, 
clear’d of Trees: Aahh, ef eer 
: defcr. Amere 
When Columbus, in + histhird Voyage, had been to difcover the io 104 
Continent, he metwith very contrary Winds and Currents (which i 
ran always here Weltwardly) fo that he was fore’d to come to this 
Liland, where his Ships being-worm-eaten,could carry him no farther. 
. He 
