CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT a.d. 



1591. 

 rico, where we landed the marchant and one Spaniard 

 more within a league of the towne, and landing some 20. 

 or 30. musketierSj some 20. horsemen made towards us ; 

 but wee retired to our boates without any service done. 



The 9. we lay hovering all day before the towne, the 

 castle making a shot or two at us. 



The reason why wee set the Portugall marchant aland 

 there was, for that he hoped to helpe us to some money 

 for his Negros there, but he falsified his worde with us, 

 so that passing along to the Westermost ende of the sayde 

 Hand, about some 9. or 10. leagues from the towne wee 

 landed the Negros, and sunke their ship. 



The II. of Aprill we passed from thence to Mona [III. 568.] 

 some 15. leagues off, where we landed : there were on the 

 Hand about 19. soules, the children of an olde Portugall, 

 and his wife who affourded us such fruits as their Hand 

 yeelded, viz. swines flesh, Potato rootes, &c. 



From thence along wee passed to Saona, a long Hand 

 and very fruitfull, replenished with store of wilde beastes 

 and swine, where we landed, hunted, and trained our men. 



Passing from hence Westward along the South coast of 

 Hispaniola, wee descryed a frigat, which wee chased and 

 tooke : wherein were 22. jarres of copper-money, being 

 bound for S. Juan de Puerto rico, to buy wine there. 



The next day we tooke 2. small frigats more, but 

 nothing of any value in them. 



The 15. of Aprill at night wee sacked a towne in the 

 sayde Hand of Hispaniola called Ocoa, where was an 

 Ingenio, wherein we found sugar & poultrie great store, 

 but the people had discovered our ships over night, and 

 were fled into the mountaines. This town standeth a 

 league from the seaside, consisting of some fortie or fiftie 

 houses. They brought us much cattell, and two wayne 

 loades of sugar, to ransome the towne. While this action 

 was perfourmed, Robert Freed of Harwich, captaine of 

 the Margaret, tooke two frigats with certaine Spaniards on 

 the other side of the bay, which came to lade sugar there 

 at an Ingenio. 



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