A True and Exatt Hiftory 
| Fience tobe true, forupon our firft difference with Berzardo and the 
little Ifland, at the entrance of the Pry, thereto cut and pull graf for 
| our Horfes and Cattle, which we made up into Hay, a work quickly 
done where fo much Sun-fhine was our helpers it being perfe@ly dryed,| 
mettle; but they are Contrabanded goods, and whofoever deals in 
them. (without fpecial licence) forfeitsboth Ship and Goods, if they 
have power tocompel them. a 
But I believe they have not, being partly inform’d by the Hermite; 
being obtain’d,he would not {tick to impart fomewhat of the weaknefs 
rance of Ordnances good ftore and large; but we underftood by. him, 
that thofe Forts were neitherregular, nor the Guns Brafsor Iron, but 
fuch as Hery the 8th. took Bulloyze with, and this we found by expe- 
Padre, we weighed Anchor,and removed our {elves out ofthe diftance 
of the Caftle which ftood in the bottom of the Pry, and expected to be 
us, we fhould certainly have heard from them. .« is 
_ Wealfo enquired of our Intelligencer, the Hermite, what Tradesor. 
Manufactures were practifed there 5 but were anfwered , that they 
were few and inconfiderable: Sugar, Sweet-meats , and Coco-nuts.5 
being the greateft Trade they had. \YetsbythesPadre’s leave, we 
carried away. with.us sohead of Cattle;and eight Horfes, which Ber- 
have had for 4 or 5 pound,but he wascontent we fhould rate our Com- 
modities accordingly,and fo we were no great lofers by the exchange. 
~ Having difpatch’d our bufinefS, we got leave to go afhoar upon the 
we ftowed it in ourShip, which was our Jaft work, and fo weighed 
Anchor.and hoyfed Sail, fteertng our Courfe for the Barbadoes, leave! 
ing Bernardo (according to his own defire)»behind.usy:-haying-but two. 
degrees to the Southward, to vary inthe running of 620 leagues Weft- 
ward , St. fago lying in 15 , and the Barbadoes in 13 degrees and 30 
Minutes to the Northward of the Line. ey : 
~ There are feven moreTflands, which arecall'd the Iflands of Cape 
Verd,vizSt. Michaels, St. Vincents, St. -Anthonies, St. Lucia,Bravo Fogo, 
this of St. Fago. 
a diftance, that none of us could difcern it all the day till that hour, 
and then the Ifland interpofing between the Sun and.us, we faw it per- 
feétly thap’d like the neither half of a Sugar-loaf, the upper half being 
cut offeven, and in the midft of thetop of that, a fmoak and fire rifing | 
out, from which we guefs'‘d it took its name. ie : 
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who came often to usto hear news, and beg fomewhat of us, which } 
ofthe Ifland, that would have coft him dear, if it had been known to} 
the Padre. And fome of that which he inform’d us, was, the Forts} 
_,| and Block-houfes on either fide the Pry, on which we.faw. the appea- 
fhot at from thofe Forts and Block-houfes ,: but faw nofire given; andi} 
if they had been furnifh’d with fuch Artillery as would have reached 
nardo made us pay double, for the ufual price being 25 s.a piece, for} 
_| which he made us pay 50 s. and for horfes 10 /. a piece, which others 
and Soll; fomeof which are much larger, but none foconfiderable as} 
As welay at Anchor in the entrance of the Pry, we perceiv’d at Sun-| 
fet, between the Sun and us, the Ifland called Fogo, which wasatfuch| 
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About the Toth. of Augu/? we put out to Sea, andas we failed, we} 
left the Ifland of our Starboard-fide, and did not part with the fight of| 
it till we difcern’d alittle Town near to the Shoar, whichwe were told | 
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