IxXxv} The Introduction. 
off by the former. One ortwo of the Peafe is fuppofed to be eaten 
by Vermin. They were planted at abouc two Foot diftance, and 
are ripe in two months, gathered when dry, and boiled as Peafe in 
England. They are good nourifhment tor Negroes. ‘They are uncer- 
tain in Seafons, or Rains here, therefore plant no Cotton, 
Indian Corn cannot be fet to grow bur after Rain. It is beft 
to be hung up in its Membranes to be hardened and kept from 
Weevils, 
There is a fort of White Caffada not poyfonous, which boil’d as 
Yamsare, may be eat like them. 
I was inform’d here that Snails Calcin’d, and a water made of 
them like Lime-water, it is a good Remedy in Bloody-Fluxes. 
For the better underftanding of feveral matters in the We/t- Indies, 
I think ict proper to fubjoin fome accounts I received from feveral 
Credible Perfons who had lived, and made Voyages to {feveral parts 
in the Neighbourhood of Jamaica. Thefe follow without any other 
order than that of the time they were cold me, and enterd in my 
Journal which was generally when the Perfons came upon their firft 
arrival to wait on the Duke of Albemarle as Governour of the 
Ifland, 
One King Jeremy came from the Mofquitos (an Indian People neat 
the Provinces of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Cofta Rica) he pretended 
to be a Kingthere, and came from the others of his Country, to 
beg of the Duke of Albemarle, Governor of Jamaica, his Protection, 
and that he would fend a Governour thither, with a power to War 
on the Spaniards, and Pirats. “This he alleged to be due to his Coun- 
try from the Crown of England, who had in the Reign of Kin 
Charles 1. fubmitted itfelfto him. The Duke of Albemarle did nothing 
in this matter, being afraid it might be a trick of fome people to fet 
up a Government for Bucaniers or Pirats. This King Jeremy, in 
coming to Town, asking many queftions about the Ifland, and not 
receiving as he thought, a fatistactory account, he pull'd off his Euro- 
pean Cloaths his Friends had put on, and climb‘d to the top of a 
Tree, to cake a view of the Country. The Memorial, and fub- 
ftance of what he, and che people with him, reprefented to the Duke 
of Albemarle; was, That in the Reign of King Charles I. of ever 
Blefled Memory, the Earl of Warwick (by virtue of Letters of Re- 
prizal granted by his faid Majefty for Damages received from the 
Subjects of his Catholick Majefty) did poflels himfelf of feveral 
Iflands in the Weft-Indies, particularly that of Providence, (fince called 
by the Spaniards St. Catalina,) which is ficuate in 13 deg, 10m 
Ne Lat. lying Eaft from Cape Gratias de Dios, (vulgarly known 
by the name of the Muskitos) between Thirty and Forty Leagues ; 
which put the faid Earl upon trying all ways and means of future 
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