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other frute of the country) till the last of December. In 

 sayling by the south coast of Trinidado I say (saw ?) in one 

 day to witt the 16 of December 15 rainebowes, and 2 wind 

 galls, and one of the rainebowes brought both ends 

 together att the sterne of the shipp making a perfait 

 cirkell which I never saw before nor any man in my shipp 

 had seene the like.* 



The last of December we wayed ancor and turned up 

 northest towards Conquerabo, otherwise called the port 

 of Spayne being new yeers eve, and wee came to Ancor 

 at Terra de Bri, short of the Spanish port some lo 

 leagues. This Terra de Bri is a peece of land of some 2 

 leagues longe and a league brode, all of ston pich or 

 bitymen which riseth out of the ground in little springs 

 or fountaynes and so running a little way, it hardneth in 

 the aire, and covereth all the playne ; ther are also many 

 springs of water and in and among them fresh water fishe. 

 Here rode att ancor, and trymd our boates, we had here 

 some fashe, and many of the country fesants somewhat 

 bigger then curst, and miny of the henns exceeding fatt 

 and delicate meat, 



The 19 of Januarie we sent vp Sir J. Ferns shipp to 

 the Spanish port, to try if they would trade for Tobacco 



* In the spray of the sea or a cascade a circular rainbow is often 

 seen, and if it were not for the interruption of the earth a circular spectrum 

 would be seen at all limes when the conditions are favourable for 

 forming a rainbow. — Schomburgks Note. 



t Several species of birds from Guiana and other parts of South 

 America have been compared with the pheasants of the Old World, but 

 chiefly Penelope cristatus Gmel., P. pipile Jacq. and Phasianus Mamot 

 Gmel., the Catraca of Buffon. The first is the most common, and is 

 called Marudi in British Guiana; the flesh is tasteful, though sometimes 

 (as we know by experience) very tough. — Schomburgk's Note, 



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