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year 1494, then on his fecond voyage in thefe parts, and at that time at fea, chiefly 



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obferve the ifland of Cub 



be a part of 



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f which the natives of Hijpamola had already given him Ltc.Iigcnce. 



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the veflel proving leaky, and being no longer able to keep the feas with fafety, he 



put in at Chi 



the north fide of this ifland 



d landed foon aft 



though 



ft made fome (hew of reftftance. He then called this ifland St. J ago 



d was obliged to continue there until he had put his veflel in tolerable ord 



fea 



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during which 



the people lived in great friendship with the 



natives. 



hofe poffeliion the ifland ftill continued until the y 



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when 



Don Di eg? Columbus ^ fon to Chrijlopher, (then Admiral in thofe feas) fent Juan de 

 Efquibello with a party of men to invade the place ; the other conqaefts and fettle- 

 ments being at that time under the government and direclion of Don Nicuejfa and 



Ojed 



both appointed from horn 



d now in high difputes about this ifland, from 



whence they were generally fupplied with proviiions on emergent occasions. This 



party landed, and foon made a conqueft 



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pla 



ce 



they were alwa} 



ed in a friendly manner, whenever either chance or neceiiity had driven them upon 

 the coaft ; and for many years after the Ifland continued in the poffeffion of the Spa- 



niards (c) 

 quently 



lulled 



hmuch negledted on account of their other conqueft 



d not unf 



vaded (d) by other 





The firft improvement undertaken here by the Spaniards was the town of MclllL 



hich was built about Port Maria, on the north fide of this ifland ; but the fituat 



:ir fatisf. 



proving to th 



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they removed fome leagues more to the weft 



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buiit the famous town Sevilla, the ruins of which are ft 



be (cQn on the b 



of the hill immediately above St, Amies Bay, But as the colony grew more popu 



from Pahs in Andalufia about the 3d of Augujl 1492. The people, after having patted a confiderable 

 time at fea, began to mutiny, and- refolved forthwith to return; they were, howevc > perfuaded to con- 

 tinue the voyage a few days longer, and in a day or two after (which was about the nth of October] 

 came in view of feveral iflands, whereof Hifpaniola was the principal, on which they landed about the 

 1 8th. On the firft approach of the Spaniards the Indians retired to the woods, but one of the women, 

 who was overtaken in her flight,' being treated with great humanity and decency, and then fet at liberty, 

 joined the reft, and brought them foon after to an amicable interview; at which fi h a friendship v 

 contracted between both parties, that the natives treated our adventurers with the gr'eat< : g6oc!-n. * 

 and liberality for fome time after. 



Aboult the £th of January following Colon fet out on his voyage homewards, 1 ving firft built a Cm 1 

 fort at the Nativity (where he hitherto had beenj for the fecurity of about 80 of his people whom ha 

 dbfigned to leave -behind ; but he carried 10 of the natives with him, that he might be the ctter able to 



fatisiy the curiofity of tht Royal Family at his return. 



When he arriv J at the court of Spain, he met with a molt gracious reception, and 

 appointed Prefer or Admiral of the SpaniJJ) navy in the v/eftern leas. About the mi^l 



was foon after 



• of {he year he 

 b6gan to prepare for another voyage, for which there had beemio Icfs than 1 7 fhips app nted ; on board 



of which he put no left> than i2co men, among whom he had been careful to mix peon' f all forts of 

 trades well provided with toots, and a great variety of cattle and grain. 



With this fleet he failed about the 7th of Ottober 1493, an ^> after PWfttag fome weeks' at fea, fell m 



with the Caribbcc ijlands, whofe inhabitants he difcovered to be cannib; ;. 



He pad fome day:, amoiv : 



thefe iflands, Lo which he gave thofe names many of them ftill retain; and then failed dire&ly for H 

 pan la, where he arrived about the 4th of the nones of February following. 



After he had fettled his new colony in this ifland, he put to fea again with a defign to obferve die land 

 of Cuba, takmg it to be a part of the main continent, which (he was informed) had been iituai 1 more 

 to the weftward ; but meeting with a hard gale of wind on the coaft of that ifland, after he had ran 

 down a confiderable diftanceon the foiith fide thereof, he was forced out to fea, and foon after difcovered 

 the high lands of Jamaica for which he failed directly, and anchored in one *>f the ports en the north fide 

 of the ifland, where he continued fome time to refit his veflel. 



(c) De la Cafas affirms that the Spaniards had foon deftroyed above five thoufand of the natives, there 



being not above two or three hundred left in his time, which was but a few years after they had taken po. 

 feffion of the place. 



(d) Sir Anthony Shlrly was the firft that invaded this ifland after it was in the hands of the Spaniards ; 

 he landed there in 1592, without opposition ; but left it foon after, not thinking it then worth' keeping. 

 It was afterwards invaded by Colonel Jack/on, former General of the Leeivard I/lands, who in i6?8. 



had fitted out a final! fleet with which he failed down among the Spanift) fettlements, and plundered b h 

 St. Domingo and St. Jago* This valiant officer landed with about five hundred men at VaJJage Fort, and 

 cut his way through the feveral brcaft- works caft up by the Spaniards, to the very town of St* Jag?, from 



ence he carried a very confiderable booty. See HUhringill^ &c. 



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