AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1595. 



thing high land, but al overgrowen with woods. The 

 14 we departed from thence, & the 16 sailing South- 

 westward, we had sight of Granada, but landed not there. 

 The yks called The 1 7 we arrived at the Testigos & ankered there, and 

 Testtgos. consorted with the 3 ships of Hampton, wherin captaine 



Willis was. The 18 we landed our men & tooke 

 view and muster of all, & the same night set saile away. 

 The 19 we had sight of Margarita, where the Spaniards 

 by their Indians fish for pearle : we stood in very neere 

 the rode, but saw nothing there. Therefore we went 

 no further in, but stood from it againe. The same day 

 toward night, we had sight of a litle yland, betweene 

 Margarita & the maine, called Coche. We came neer 

 it in the night with our ships within some 3 leagues, & 

 there ankered under the maine side, and about midnight 

 we manned our pinnesses & boats, and in the morning 

 about breake of day, we landed on the yland, wherein 

 are few or none inhabitants, but they commonly come 

 from Margarita in boats on the munday, and remaine 

 there fishing for pearles untill the Saturday, and then 

 returne & cary al that they have taken to Margarita. 

 Certaim Here we tooke some few Spaniards and Negros their 



Spaniards and slaves with them, and had some smal quantitie of pearls. 

 in the '^le of ^^ remained on this iland the 20 and 21, in which time 

 Coche where we went a fishing with our seine, and tooke good store 

 they fish for of mullets and Other fish, and amongst the rest drew 

 pearle. ^ shore in the seine a fish called by the Spaniards Lagarto, 



and by the Indians Caiman, which is indeed a Crocodile, 

 for it hath 4 feete and a long taile, and a wide mouth, 

 and long teeth, & wil devour men. Some of these 

 Lagartos are in length 16 foot, some 20 foot, and some 

 30 foot : they have muske in them, and live as wel on 

 the land, as in the water. The 2 1 of May we departed 

 for Cumana, thinking to have gotten in that night to 

 have landed : but the current striketh so strong out 

 of the bay that we could not recover the towne till 

 day light. In the morning we espied 2 sailes before 

 the towne, but could not fetch them. Here we plied 



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