EARLY ENGLISH COLONIES IN TRINIDAD. 15 
Cittie, consisting of abc ut 500 houses, in the bottom of 
y® grand bay upon the river Carone, wch, the founder 
named ST, JOSEPHS, this DON ANTONIO the Governor, 
soe devided the Indians in blowing up the coales of the 
former differences, wch he did by the accommodation of 
a Fryer that had lived at the Island Margaritta and had 
some judgment in thir language and manners, by 
wch. meanes the Spaniard greatly depopulated the Is- 
land and in less than two yeares gave lawes to those 
native inhabitants, and subjeéted them to the Spanish 
Yoake. 
Anno 1594, Sir ROBERT DUDLEy,* undertooke a 
voyage into ye West -ndies, and sayled first to Cape 
Blanco in Africa, wher2 making little stay ordered the 
master of his stip and pilot of the fleet one Mr. ABRAHAM 
KENDALL, to direét his course to ye Island Trinidada 
where he arrived from :he sd. Cape in two and twenty 
dayes, and although he designed to fall upon the Spa- 
niards, yett such was tie power the Spaniard had over 
the natives that he could not learne the strenth of the 
Spanyard untill he discovered the succourse the Spanish 
Governour had gotten from Comona and Margaretta, 
wch, were made knowne to him, by five Indian Captaines, 
of the Nepoyes and A:awaco nations which ye Spanish 
Governor came afterwaids to understand, by one of their 
servants, wch, he catched and extraéted the secrett from 
him by torments; anc soone after decoyed the said 
Captaines into his Fort, and kept them all in one chayne, 
where Sir WALTER RALEIGH found them the yeare after, 
* Particulars of Dudley’s visit to Trinidad will be found in Seétions 
10 to 15, Supra, 
