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the Island endures ye cold foggs that arrives from the 
Great River Oronoque; wch. the Trade wind will not lett 
passe to ye North, and East partes of the Island, and- 
meeting wth. repulse, falls down to the South and Wes- 
terne part, and most of all in the Cod of that bay, where 
those gentlemen settled : all these thinges concurring to 
make these people unhappie (in the loss of their health) 
wch. they too late deserned, for such violent feavours 
seized them, that in a few months yé liveing could scarce 
bury the dead, and those left, the yeare following, de- 
serted the Collonie they had begar to settle, and em- 
barqued some for Barbados, and others returnes back 
againe for England. It was observed, that in their 
greatest extremities, the Arawacoes and Nepoyes Indians, 
shewed them Extraordinary kindnesse.* 
The other Collonie under the Command of Major 
HARTLEY, although they had lived there five yeares, 
wth. out any considerable Mortallities, as being the 
greater part planters, from St, Christopher’s and other of 
the Islands in those parts; and had more Judgment to 
make choice of a dryer and fitter peice of land, to build 
on, then the other Collonie, who were most of them 
strangers to the businesse of plantacions, yett these 
people had likewise settled on the Leeward side of the 
* In Colonial Papers, Vol. XX, No. 202, is a description of the 
Caribbee Islands, supposed to have been written about 1666. It is 
therein stated, under the head of Trinidad, that the English planted a 
Colony there in 1646 (?1644), but finding it unhealthy they deserted it 
within two years. Calendar of State Papers—Colonial, 1574 to'1660, 
Pp. 436. 
On page 529, of the same Calendar, it is stated that, between 1643 
and 1647, 600 persons emigrated from Barbados to Trinidad and 
Tebago, 
