AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



pinnesse up into the River, carying with us a dogge, unto 

 whom with ropeyarne we bound a great hooke of Steele, 

 with a chaine that had a swivel, which we put under the 

 dogs belly, the point of the hooke comming over his back 

 fast bound, as aforesaid : we put him over boord, and 

 vered out our rope by litle and litle, rowing away with 

 our boate : the Lagarto came & presently swallowed up 

 the dogge, then did we rowe hard, till we had choked 

 him : he plunged and made a wonderful stirre in the 

 water : we leapt on shore, and haled him on land : he was 

 23. foote by the rule, headed like a hogge, in body like a 

 serpent, full of scales as broad as a sawcer : his taile long 

 and full of knots as bigge as a fawcon shotte : he hath 

 foure legs, his feete have long nailes like unto a dragon : 

 we opened him, tooke out his guts, flayed him, dried his 

 skinne, and stuffed it with straw, meaning to have 

 brought it home, had not the ship bin cast away. This 

 monster will cary away and devoure both man and horse. 



Santa From hence we shaped our course to Santa Martha, 



Martha. ^here we landed, traded, and sold certaine Negroes : 

 there two of our company killed a monstrous adder, 

 going towards his cave with a Conie in his mouth : his 

 body was as bigge as any mans thigh, and seven foote 

 long : upon his tayle he had sixteene knottes, every one 

 as bigge as a great walnut, which they say, doe shew his 

 age : his colour was greene and yellow : they opened him, 

 and found two conies in his belly. 



Cartagena. From thence wee sayled to Cartagena, where we went 

 in, mored our Shippes, and would have traded with them, 

 but they durst not for feare of the King : wee brought up 

 the Minion against the Castle, and shotte at the Castle 

 and Towne : then we landed in an Hand, where were 

 many gardens : there in a cave we found certaine Botijos 

 of wine, which wee brought away with us, in recompence 

 whereof, our Generall commanded to be set on shore 

 woollen and linnen cloth, to the value thereof. From 

 hence by foule weather wee were forced to seeke the Port 



Campeche. of Saint John de Ullua. In our way thwart of Campeche 



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