SIR JOHN HAWKINS ad. 



1565. 

 some Ternados, amongst the same calme, which 

 happened to us very ill, beeing but reasonably watered, 

 for so great a companie of Negros, and our selves, 

 which pinched us all, and that which was worst, put 

 us in such feare that many never thought to have 

 reached to the Indies, without great death of Negros, 

 and of themselves : but the Almightie God, who never 

 suffereth his elect to perish, sent us the sixteenth of 

 Februarie, the ordinary Brise, which is the Northwest 

 winde, which never left us, till wee came to an Island 

 of the Canybals, called Dominica, where wee arrived Dominica 

 the ninth of March, upon a Saturday : and because ^^^^^^' 

 it was the most desolate place in all the Island, we 

 could see no Canybals, but some of their houses 

 where they dwelled, and as it should seeme forsooke 

 the place for want of fresh water, for wee could finde 

 none there but raine water, and such as fell from the 

 hilles, and remained as a puddle in the dale, whereof 

 wee filled for our Negros. The Canybals of that 

 Island, and also others adjacent are the most desperate 

 warriers that are in the Indies, by the Spaniardes Canybals ex- 

 report, who are never able to conquer them, and they <^^^ding cruell, 

 are molested by them not a little, when they are driven ^^^^^^^ 

 to water there in any of those Islands : of very late, not 

 two moneths past, in the said Island, a Caravel being 

 driven to water, was in the night sette upon by the 

 inhabitants, who cutte their cable in the halser, whereby 

 they were driven a shore, and so taken by them, and 

 eaten. The greene Dragon of Newhaven, whereof was 

 Captaine one Bontemps, in March also, came to one 

 of those Islands, called Granada, and being driven to 

 water, could not doe the same for the Canybals, who 

 fought with him very desperatly two dayes. For our 

 part also, if we had not lighted upon the desertest 

 place in all that Island, wee could not have missed, 

 but should have bene greatly troubled by them, by all 

 the Spaniards reports, who make them devils in respect 

 of me. 



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