Ixx 
The Introduction. 
In the North-fide of this land, in the month of January when 
the Norths blow, they have great Rains, fo that che Roads are {carce 
affable at that time. | 
[ returned from the North-fide to the South-fide, by a Road on 
the ridge of Hills called Archers-Ridge, and by the Banks of 
Orange-River. Afterwards I came to Rio d’ Ovo, which I faw fink 
into the Earth, and rife up again out of it in two or three feveral 
places. 
I went to Guanaboa, where are large Settlements and Plantations, 
and obferved that tract of Ground called the Red Hills between 
Guanaboa and the Town. The duft of thele Hills is red, apt to 
fly, and fticks faft to Travellers, the Soil being claiy and barren, 
Guanaboa, or as the Spaniards wrote it, Guainabo, is a fine Valley, ve- 
ry well planted, having rain almoft every day. 
On thefe Red Hills, four Miles from Town, lived Mr. Barnes a 
Carpenter, who ufed to cut and bring Wood to the Town. He 
told me that prickly yellow Wood which grows in great plenty here, 
and is defcrib'd hereafter, was good for nothing but to burn. He 
likewife affured me that the day before I was there (which was Sept. 9. 
1688. when at Town! obferved a North-Wind) at his Plantation 
here, there happened a thing extraordinary, viz. with the North 
came Hail and fell about his Houfe, as big as Pullets Eggs, of 
various fhapes, fome corner’d like cut Diamonds, fome fhap’d like 
a Heart, exc. he tried to keep them in Flower, but they foon 
melted. This Hail beat down his high Caffada to the Roots, 
his other things were laid flat by it, it alfo beat down Orange- Trees. 
He carried me half a Mile up his Plantation, fhew’d me the Woods 
wherein the Spaniards had ufually planced their Caffada for the Town, 
after felling of the Woods. The Trees were grown, from the time the 
Spaniards had quitted the Ifland, to the time I faw them, to be at 
leaft forty or fifty Foot high, long fmall,and ftraight. They often 
in thofe Woods meet with Palifadoes, Orange-Walks, Limes, and 
other marks of formerly planted Ground. He once, ten years ago, 
in the Mountains in a natural hole in a Rock, found a Coffin 
partly corrupted, with a Body in it, he fuppos’d it to have been 
fome Spaniard thrown in there in haft. | 
Half a Mile from his Plantation, ten years ago, he found a Cave 
in which lay a human Body’s Bones all in order, the Body having 
been eaten by the Ants. The Ants Nefts we found there, the reft of 
the Cave was fill’d with Pots or Urns, wherein were Bones of Men 
and Children, the Pots were Oval, large, of a redifh dirty colour. 
On the upper part of the Rim or Ledge there ftood out an Ear, on 
which were made fome Lines, the Ears were not over an Inch {quare, 
towards the top it had two parallel Lines went round, being 
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