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Cattle eat them and died, and fo did feveral Men, and others ftruck 
out in Botches. The other Canary Ilands were fo troubled alfo, 
they were forced to bury their Provifions for fear of being oblig’d to 
relieve their common Neceffity with what was to produce for their 
own Families. They were troubled forty Years before with the like 
Plague. 
A very credible Perfon, on the Agreement of the Afiento or Spani/h 
Weft-India Company, with the Merchants call’d Grillo’s of Genoa, 
and of them with the Royal African Company, went to Cartagena, 
in a Spanifh Ship, with Five hundred Negroes, he was fent from 
thence to Porto-Bello, where they could not get Liberty to go on 
Shoar, but received their Money and good Entertainments in their 
Ship. They return’d to Cartagena, where buying Spam/b Habits, 
they went about the Town. It is, as he told me, twice as big as 
Port-Royal, ftands almoft encompafs’d by the Sea, is wall’d with 
Stone, and has feveral Forts or Caftles in it. Its Houfes are buile 
of Stone or Brick two Stories high, with Balconies and Roofs 
jetting over them. Things here are twice as cheap as at Porto- 
Bello, becaufe of the vent of Commodities from this laft place to 
Panama. . ? 
When the Exglifh, under the Command of Sir Henry Morgan, 
came from Porto Bello, and Panama, (which places they had taken ) 
after certain contagious Fevers, they, for che moft part, fell into the 
Yellow-Jaundice, grew worfe and died of it, after languifhing a 
great while in the greateft Degree of it, which is commonly caild 
the Black-Jaundice. They look’d with the Jaundice like Indians, 
and were, when remediable, chiefly cured by che Infufion of Goofe- 
Dung. wena of ’ eat. £35} 2312 
, i - be SRE bags 1. 
‘A Sea-man related that he wafhing his blue Jacket on the Fore- 
caftle, coming hither, the Ship having frefh way he loft it, but two 
Days after, having been becalm’d, they took a Shark, and found 
in his Belly the blue Jacket, not otherwife alter'd than by the holes 
of his Teeth in chawing. 
~ Several Perfons who ufed the Logwood Trade, or who were im- 
ploy'd in cutting that Wood, otherwife call’d Campeche-Wood, ufed 
by Dyers, inform’d me, that at about fifteen Leagues from the Town 
of Campeche, are two Creeks, the Eaftern and Northern, in which 
laft they cut Logwood. This is call’d the Logwood-River, the 
Inhabitants live in Huts on each fide of. this narrow Creek, near 
Two hundred Englifh, and are ready on the appearance of amy Ene- 
my to hinder thetr landing by firing on them en each fide, every 
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