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AV oyage from Jamaica to England. 
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(as the Seamen call it) from this laft Point, which bore off us at 
Right of the Clock at Night, E. by NV. half WN. and is as was faid b.rore, 
the moft Weftward Part of the Ifland of Famaica. We had that Night 
a very good Gale, and our Courfe was N. W. halt N. 
March 21. Having fail’d Sixty Three Miles from Poivt Negril, we 
were now by Obfervation ig 18° 40 mim JV. Latitude. 
‘\farch 22. About One or Fwo in the’ Morning, afrér failing about 
Eleven Leagues NV. W’. half W. we came up to the fmal] HMland Cay- 
man Brack, it is low, long and narrow. It had a Sandy-fhore, fome 
Huts for the Turtlers, or thofe. who catch the Turtle, or Tortoifes, 
which are but few, and fome Shrubs, which I fuppos’d were fuch as 
I have before defcrib’d, under the Name of Trumpet Trees. We 
tack’d all Night for tear of coming £00 near, the. Shore, dnd in the 
Morning {ail’d besween the larger'.and the teflér Qayseanes, where the 
Sea is very bold or deep. We went away at Noon, W. NOW. from 
the little Caymanes, it being Four Leagues off, and bearing E. S. E. 
half S. che Wind at S. E. we fail’d W. N. W. till Eight at Night, 
then NV. UW. by W. cill the 23d at ‘Noon, in all W. AN. W. halt N. 
28.Leagues, + ¢ ee a co ue 
Thefe low Mflands are very much frequented by ‘Tartlers from 
Jemaica, who, go. thither to. catch the ‘Tortoifes, chat come te. lay 
their Eggs in the’Sand, and, are ‘taken by. thofe who make it,, their 
Trade.’ Fis commonly ‘thought, that a Voyage and ftaying on thefe 
Iflands for. fome.time, ieeding only, upon ‘Turtle, cures the. Pox, tho? 
never fo inveterate, but tho’ the Flefh and Fag of Tortoifes doth in- 
fet the Juices.of thofe feeding upon them, fo as that their Sweat fhal 
ftain their Linen yellowifh, yet I never faw that this Method, cr-any 
other boafted of by the Judsan, or Negio Doors of any Kin as 
to be depended upon, but generally deceived thofe who stead in 
them, who were oblig’d to come into the Ewropean Methods if they 
intended to be fafe. aa Bib 
_ March 23. At Noon we were in 20°, 26 mia, Latitude N. by Obferva- 
tion. | oe 
_ March 24. All Yefterday was fair, this Day and laft Night brings us 
N.W.and by W. from Yefterday Noon, thirty Leagues Wind at 8. by 
W. We came this Morning at Eight in fight of the Ifle of Pzves, or 
the low Land of Cabs. At Nine we hada violent Torzado, W. Wind 
with a very great Shower, which Wind continued till Eight at Night, 
when we went again our former Courfe. 
March 25. Monday Morning we made all the Sail we could to fee 
Land, and about Noon came in fight of high Land on Cuba, which was 
at firft thought to be Cape St. Antonio. We fteer’d N. W. the Wind 
being fomething Northerly, and found the high Land to be Cape Co- 
rientes, from whence we ftcer’'d W. by S. all Night. ° 
March 26. Twefday Morning we were within half a Mile of Cape S¢. 
Antonio, all Leeward Land. We faw much Saragoffa a floating here, 
called by the Seamen Ga/f-weed. Do hes .. | 
March 
