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main there till they are throughly fcalded or parboil’d ; then take 
them out, and dry them in the fhade where no Sun may come at 
tem. 
The fame Perfon {poke of a Gum or Ballam, called China- 
Balfam, growing in the atorefaid Mofqustes Country, which is pro. 
cured by applying Fire to one fide of the Tree, and gafhing the 
other, at which yaihes a black Balfam {weats out, very proper for 
Wounds, 
‘They make ufe of Plantain or Mufa-Leaves for Table Cloths, 
and Napkins. 
The Women live very much in awe and fubmiffion to their 
Husbands in this Country. 
Towards the Havana, in Cuba, there are abundance of Spouts 
to be feen, more than in any ocher part of the We/t Indies, Ic is all 
plain, level, and very tertile Ground thereabouts, 1 was told that 
the Bnglifh Prifoners taken, as Pirates or Traders, and kept by the 
Spanards, by their feveral Arcifices, and Skill in Mechanics, get a 
very good Subfiftence. 
Ia cic Lake of Maricrsbo, Six Henry Morgan told me, afar off 
heonce faw a chick Cioud, which when he came near, he found 
to be Mif/guiros or Gnats. The Country thereabouc is fo marifh 
and wet, as chat the Inhabirants are forc’d to build zcheir Houles on 
the Trees, as Ants do in many places for the fame reafon. 
T perufed here at Jamaica, a Journal of Sir William Phipps, which 
aye an account of che firft finding of the great Plate Wreck to the 
North-Eaft of Aif/paniola. After Sir William Phipps had been at Sa- 
mana, on the North-fide of Aii/paniola, he went with one Rogers, 
Malter of a fmall Ship to Porto Plata, and there difcharging three 
Guns to get the Spaniards to Trade, they came down, and the Engli/h 
fold {mail Bables, and Searges for Hides, and jirked Hogs taken by 
che Huncers there. In the mean time Rogers had been on the Wreck, 
difcover’1c by means of a Sea-Feather, growing on the Planks of 
rhe Ship lying under water, and brought from thence the news of 
ics being found. They went thither, found it grown over with 
Cors!, and Lapis Affroites, and took up Silver as the Weather and 
their Divers held out, fome days more, and fome lefs. The {mall 
Ship went near, the great one rode afar off. At laft they got in Bullion 
22196/. in Coin 30326. of which were Sows, and great Bars 3 36. 
Afver they {ail for Lurks Iflands for Salt, and going chicher, after 
feveral hours failing, had almoft been a-ground and wreck'd on the 
Handkercher Shoal. They about the Wreck were fometimes in fe- 
yea Fathom Water, and immediately almoft out of reach of the 
bottom by founding. This 
