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_ Jamaica to England, 
March 16. 1688-9. 
| E embark’d in Port-Royal Harbour on Board the Afiftance-Fri- 
' gatt,.and paft the Eafter-moft Cayos by Night. | 
March 17. We had an eafy Breeze, and towards Night a fmall driz- 
ling Rain coming off the Shore with the Land Wind or Breeze. 
March 18. We paft along the Shore and Point Pedro, a Rocky Cliff 
jetting out into the Sea, and having a Cavern into which the Sea runs 
for fome Length, beating againft the Rocks, and making a hideous 
Noife. Boats may row fome Way into this Cavern, where there is 
a very great Echo. From this Point‘to Windward, or to the Ea/f, 
are great Savannas ot Meadows, Paftures and Sheep Walks, and to 
Leeward or to the Weff are Settlements of Sugar-works, Indico and 
Cotton. About Ten in the Morning we Anchor’d in Blewfields Bay, 
where are Hills jetting out into the Sea, and feveral Reefs or Rocks, 
on which is fhallow Water which is deeper within,’ ae 
March 19. We lay at Anchor in Blewfelds Bay, and had plentiful 
Provifions as Plantains, éc: brought on Board froth the SHore. There 
are feveral Sugar-works to Leeward of this, in a Place call’d the 
Cabaritos. aft Month they had had ar this Place plentiful Rains, 
contrary to Cuftom. [tr is from this Place a Hundred and Thirty 
Miles to St. Fago de la Vega Or Spanifh Town where the Governor refides, 
and Fifty Miles to the North Side of this Ifland whither’ there were for- 
merly two Paths or Ways, but now one was block’d up. This Place 
is troubled with many Mofquitos or Gnats. We faild at Niglit from 
Blewfields Bay with the Land Wind, after fome Drops of Rain. 
March 20. We fail’d along the Coaft as far as Point Negril. There 
are two Points of Land, which goes by that Name. Negrill by South 
isthe moft Southerly Part of the Jfland, between which and Negril 
by Wef, the other part moft Weftwardly of the Ifland; is a very 
‘large Bay, which lyes commodioufly for ‘Privateers and Pirates ‘to 
Wood, Water, and fhelter themfelves in.’ We took our Departure 
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