50 OUR POOR SETTLEMENT. [1691. 



able Meal on this new and unknown ])ish. The next day (the 

 Ist oi May 1691) I follow'd my Companions, and went ashoar. 

 This Isle, which is call'd either Diego- Bodrigo, or JDiego- 

 Ruys, or Rodrigo, is situated in nineteen Degrees of South 

 Latitude. 'Tis about twenty Miles (licucs) in Circuit. Its 

 Length from East to West, and its Shape, are as may be 

 seen in the Map. 



We seated our selves near the Sea, on the North North- 

 West Shoar, in a lovely Valley, by the side of a great Brook, 

 the Water of which was clear and good. We went all over the 

 Island, and chose this Place as the most convenient, and tliat 

 which Providence design'd for us, by conducting us first to it. 

 I have observ'd that every one to whom I have told my 

 Adventures, have had a great Curiosity to know the Disposi- 

 tion of our little Habitations ; 'tis for tliat reason I now lay 

 ^ down a Plan of them. For l)y my own Experience, I know 

 ]'very well that when the Reader by this means conceives any 

 *,,Idea of the Places where Things happen'd, he is the more 

 •. concern'd about the Things themselves. 



^ Let him therefore cast his Eyes on the il/rtj? I set before 

 Jiim, he will see I distinguish it from the General Plan of 

 tb6 Island, because Things cou'd not have been so distinctly 

 -mark^l there. I desire he wou'd pardon my deficiency in 

 'Ifesigiiing, which I profess not to understand, I give him 

 •what I have, and I can do no more. As I have made but 

 'an imperfect Relation of Things, so I have drawn but an 

 imperfect Design, in this small Delineation of our poor 

 Settlement. And I hope my Defects will not be found to 

 be GO great, but he may himself easily supply them. 



The little River he sees, comes from the middle of the 

 Island, and at four or five thousand common Paces below 

 our Cabbins, it forms several Cascades, falling from Rock 

 to Rock, and several Basons (ct napes d'eau), that wou'd 

 adorn a Prince's Garden. In a hot and dry Time it 

 receives very little Water from its Fountain ; But in all 



