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being still contrary and variable, intermixed with many 

 calms, and so continued until the second of 06lober, 

 when we arrived at Porte de Hispania. 



Within two da)'s after our arrival there, DON Sanches 

 DE MendosO, the teniente for that year, with certain 

 other Spaniards, came aboard us : we gave them the best 

 entertainment that our means, the time, and place would 

 afford, and had much friendly conference together. They 

 told me, that they lately had a confli6l with the Caribbees, 

 wherein they had lost seven or eight of their men, and 

 had many others hurt and wounded, whereof some came 

 to my surgeon to have their wounds dressed during our 

 abode there ; and they plainly confessed, that they are 

 very much molested by the Caribbees, and knew not how 

 by any means to suppress them. 



We staid at Porte de Hispania until the seventh day, 

 in hopes to get some good tobacco amongst the Spaniards, 

 who daily fed us with delays and fair words ; but, in 

 truth, they had none good at that present for us, which 

 we perceiving, departed thence upon the seventh day, 

 about one o'clock in the morning, leaving the other ships 

 to attend their trade, and stood away for the passages 

 called Les sciot boccas de Drago, and disembogued 

 about eight o'clock the same morning." 



27. Sir Thomas Roe was sent ' upon a discovery to 

 the West Indies', by Prince Henry, the eldest son 

 of King James I. Writing to the Earl of Salisbury, 

 from Port d' Espaigne, Trinidad, on the 2gth of Feb- 

 ruary 161 1, Sir Thomas said, he had seen more of the 

 Coast, from the Amazon to the Orinoco, than any English- 

 man alive, having passed the Wild Coast and arrived at 

 Port d' Espaigne^ The Spaniards there were proud and 



