MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1568. 



weather somewhat tempestuous, which made our passage 

 the more hard; and sayling so for the space of 52. dayes, 

 upon the 27. of March 1568. we came in sight of an 

 yland called Dominica, upon the coast of America in the 

 West Indies, situated in 14. degrees of latitude, and 322. 

 of longitude : from thence our Generall coasted from 

 place to place, ever making trafique with the Spaniards 

 and Indians as hee might, which was somewhat hardly 

 obtained, for that the King had straightly charged all 

 his governours in those parts not to trade with any : yet 

 notwithstanding, during the moneths of April and May, 

 our Generall had reasonable trade and trafique, and 

 courteous entertainement in sundry places, as at Mar- 

 garita, Cora9ao, and else where, til we came to Cape 

 de la vela, and Rio de Hacha, (a place from whence 

 all the pearles doe come :) the governour there would 

 not by any meanes permit us to have any trade or [III. 471.] 

 trafique, nor yet suffer us to take in fresh water : by 

 meanes whereof our Generall for the avoyding of famine 

 and thirst about the beginning of June, was enforced to 

 land two hundreth of our men, and so by maine force 

 and strength to obtaine that which by no faire meanes hee 

 could procure ; And so recovering the Towne with the 

 losse of two of our men, there was a secret and peaceable 

 trade admitted, and the Spaniards came in by night, and 

 bought of our Negroes to the number of 200. and up- 

 wards, and of our other marchandize also. From thence 

 we departed for Carthagena, where the Governour was 

 so straight, that wee could not obteine any trafique there, 

 and so for that our trade was neere finished, our Generall 

 thought it best to depart from thence the rather for the 

 avoyding of certaine dangerous stormes called the Huri- 

 canos, which accustomed to begin there about that time 

 of the yere, & so the 24. of July 1568. we departed from 

 thence directing our course North : and leaving the yland 

 of Cuba upon our right hand, to the Eastward of us, and 

 so sayling toward Florida upon the 12. of August an 

 extreeme tempest arose, which dured for the space of 



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