50 OUR POOR SETTLEMENT. [169I. 



able Meal on this new and unknown Dish. The next day (tlie 

 ] st of May 1691) I follow'd my Companions, and went ashoar. 

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

 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 Slioar, 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 that 

 wliicli 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 Eeader 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 Mcqo I set before 

 ihim, he will see I distinguisli it from the General Plan of 

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

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

 'Ltsigning, 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 Ptelation 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 

 :bc GO great, but he may himself easily supply them. 

 :' The little Piiver 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 Ptock 

 to Kock, and several Basons {et 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 



