WILLIAM KING a.d. 



1592. 



Canaria, where wee boorded a barke lying at anker : out 

 of which wee were driven by great store of shot from the 

 Island. From thence wee directed our course for the 

 West Indies, and fell with the isle of Dominica about the 

 tenth of April. There at a watering place we tooke a 

 shippe of an hundred tunnes come from Guiny, laden 

 with two hundred and seventy Negros, which we caried 

 with us to S. Juan de Puerto Rico, and there comming 

 thorow El passaje, we gave chase to a frigat which went 

 in to S. Juan de Puerto Rico, and in the night we sent 

 in our shallope with foureteene men. And out of the 

 harborow we tooke away an English shippe of seventy 

 tunnes, laden with threescore tunnes of Canary-wines, 

 in despight of the castle and two new bulwarks, being 

 within caliver shot. These two prizes we caried away to 

 the Westermost part of the island, and put the Negros, 

 except fifteene, all on land in a Spanish caravell which the 

 Jane Bonaventure tooke : and we caried away one of the 

 former prizes, and set fire on the other. We passed 

 thence by the isle of Mona, where we watered, and re- 

 freshed our selves with potatos and plantans, and so came 

 to the isle of Saona : and from thence arrived at the 

 mouth of the river of Santo Domingo. And as we sailed 

 to Cape Tiburon, three leagues to the Westward of Santo 

 Domingo we tooke a boat of fifteene tunnes, which had 

 certeine jarres of malosses or unrefined sugar, with three 

 men ; which men with their boat wee caried with us to 

 Cape Tiburon, which, in respect of service done unto 

 us in furnishing us with fresh water, we dismissed. 

 Thus contrary to other Englishmens courses we shaped 

 ours to the Southward of Jamaica, and our shallop with Jamaica. 

 12 men ranged the coast but found nothing. Thence we 

 ranged the three islands of the Caimanes, and landed at 

 Grand Caiman, being the Westermost, where we found no 

 people, but a good river of fresh water ; and there we ^ S^od river 

 turned up threescore great tortoises ; and of them we °ff^^^ J^^^'* 

 tooke our choise, to wit, fifteene of the females, which Caiman. 

 are the best and fullest of egges, whereof two served an 



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