platform under the bier. Probably this 

 was the burial-place of their great men, 

 called caciques ; but from whence they 

 could be brought, we were utterly at a lofs 

 to conceive, there being no traces of any 

 Indian fettlement hereabout. We had 

 feen no favage fince we left the ifland, 

 or obferved any marks in the coves, or 

 bays to the northward, where we had 

 touched, fuch as of fire-places, or old 

 wigwams, which they never fail of leav- 

 ing behind them ; and it is very probable, 

 from the violent feas that are alwavs 



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beating upon this coaft, its deformed af- 

 pedft, and the very fwampy foil that 

 every where borders upon it, that it is 

 little frequented. 



We now crofled the firft bay for the 

 head-land we left on Chriftmas day, 

 much dejefted ; for under our former 

 fufferings, we were in fome meafure 

 fupported with the hopes that, as we ad- 

 vanced, however little, they were fo much 



the 



