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IXxxVill The Ilntroduéfioen. 
There is a fore of Loggerhead Turile or Tertoife at Jamaica, very 
lictle differing from the common fort, only in every part les, and 
having the Breft of a yellowifh white colour. 
The Turtle or Tortoifes come to Caymanes two {mall Hes Weft 
of Famaica, once a year to lay their Eggs in the Sand, to be hatch’d 
by the Sun, and at that time the Turtlers take them tn greac num. 
bers. Ac other times they go to the South Cayos off of Cuda , 
there to feed on the Sea-Grafs growing under water: wherefore the | 
Turtlers go thicher in queft of them, and it may be four Men in a 
Sloop may bring in thirty, forty, or fifty Turcles, worth teventeen 
or eighteen Shillings apiece, more or lels, according to their good 
nefs. The Fenaale with Egg isreckoned the belt. “Phey fomecimes 
get their Loading in a day, bute are ufually fix weeks in making 
their Voyages. “Ihe Turtlers feed on Turtle, Bisket-Bread aad Sal 
They catch the Turtle with Nets made of Yam larger than Whip- 
cord. When they come home to Port-Royal they put them inte the 
Sea, in Fourfquare-Palifadced places, where they keep them alive 
till there be occafion to kill them, which will be very long fome- 
times, though the fooner they are killed after taking, they are the 
fatter. “The Callepee, ot under part of the Breft or Beliy, bak’d, 
is reckon’d the beft piece, the Liver and Fat are counted Delicacies, 
Thofe who feed much on them {weat out a yellow Serum, efpecially 
under their Armpits, ‘Their Fat is yellow, tafts like Marrow, and 
gives the Skin a yellow Hue or Tincture, 
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Saltertudos, is corruptly called fo, ic being, properly fpeaking, 
the Ifland Tortuga, near Margarita: ‘tis uninhabited, but has feverah 
Salt-Ponds, filled with Sale, reputed very good, it being large grain- 
ed. °Tis always to be found there in great quantities, except about 
July, when the Rains moiften and diflolve it. The New England 
Veffels carry Lumber and Fifh to Barbados, and from thence go fox 
this Mland, and ftretch it thence again ftreight home, They carry 
with them Wheelbarrows, and Bags to load this Salt. It is reckon’d 
much better than the Salt of Jamaica commonly fold here, and looks 
reddifh, The Governour of Barbados takes Sale Tertudos to be un- 
der his Dominion, 
The Bahama Mlands are fill’d with Seals, fometimes Fifhers wil] 
_catch one hundred inanight. They try or mele them, and bring off 
their Oil for Lamps to thefe Iflands. 
There are I{lands lying North off of Fii/paniola, where are many 
Salt-Ponds ; but becaufe of the Neighbourhood of the French and 
Spaniards, they are accounted more dangerous than the other, They 
are called the Turks Iland, 
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