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| XXXVI The lutrodudtio:. 
Caffada Seeds tor Bait. The Cane- Rats are numerous, of a gray co- 
lour, cheap, large, and very good Victuals. 
I was inform’d that Sarfaparilla is very frequent and cheap up Rio 
San Pedro, in the Bay of Hlonduras, where are feveral Indian Towns. 
There is brought into Jamaica great Quantities of Sarfaparilla, by 
Trade with the Bay of Honduras, New Spain and Peru, \t grows in 
all thefe places on the Banks of the Rivers, and in moift Grounds : 
The Spaniards think it makes the Water of thofe Rivers, where it 
grows wholefome, Iris a jort of Smulax afpera, and comes very near 
to that common in Spain, France and Italy, though it differ from ir. 
It is alfo very near akin to China, the Strings or Sarments of the Roots 
of Sarfaparilla, taking their Original from a knobby Tuberous Root, 
like that of China, and going very deep into the Ground, It is mo- 
derately warm, uled to promote an eafie Sweat, and open Obdfiru- 
tions. There is an Account and Figure of it pudlifhed in a Book 
printed atMexico in the year 1570. in Latin, written by Francifens Bravus, 
a Phyfician, who lived there, whither I refer the Curious. 
I went from Port-Royal in a Boat to Honfe Key and Gun-Key, or 
Cayo, fo called from the Tryal of Guns from the Fort; they fhoor- 
ing thence at a Cask fet up here. They were defended by Coral and 
Aftroites Rocks to the South, and were very {mall Iflands, with fome 
few Bufhes on them. -Such places are called by the Spaniards Cayos, 
whence by corruption comes the Englifh word Keys, ufed to fignifie 
fuch places iri chofe parts. 
A Mafter of a Veffel from Barbados, bound to feek a new Wreck, 
came into Jamaica, and told me he had been in Crab. Island near Porto 
Rico, fo called by our Seamen, from the great number of Land- 
Crabs on it: in the Charts ‘tis named Borrinquem. A little before his 
being there, two Ships appear’d before.the Ifland with Englifh Colouis, 
but coming nearer putout Spaiifh-Colours, and fent five Englifhmen 
on Shore with a Flag of Truce, who enticed the Commander in Chief 
on board the Ship, When there they forc’d him co write on Shore for 
the Inhabitants he had left, to tell them of his civil Treatment, who 
all went on board likewife, and were carried to Santo Domingo Prifo- 
ners ; they were reported to be one hundred and hity in all, Men, 
Women, and fome few Negros. They burnc all the Houles, which 
were of Timber, A Negro lying in the Woods, made his efcape to 
the North fide of that Ifland, and embarq’d in a Sloop which lay there 
for the Windward iflands, where he gave this Relation; the like efcape 
had five other white Men in a Sloop, that lay in another place, where 
they were cutting Timber to carry to the Windward Iflands, 
The Inhabitants had been there feveral years, and had come from 
the Leeward Mlands, chiefly Anguilla, to fettle Borriquem. Anguilla is 
rocky 
