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come in to his fpeedy refcue,which occafioji'd a bloody Conflift,whercinfeve- 

 ral Spaniards were wounded, eight kiird,and one of their fmall Boats funk ; for 

 the Americans fought fo valiantly , that they purfu'd the Spanifl? Ships into the Sea. 

 Pinion being at laft freed of thefe AfTailants, got into a frefh-rwater Sea, caus'd 

 by the confluence of many Rivers falling in there : from hence he got fight of 

 the Parian Coaft, and with admiration beheld a Tree which fixteen Men could 

 not compafs ; Between thefe Trees he law as ftrange a Monfter, the foremoft 

 part refembling a Fox, the hinder a Monkey, the Feet were like a Mans, with 

 Ears like an Owl ; under whofe Belly hung a great Bag,in which it carry'd the 

 Young, which they drop not, nor forfake till they can feed themfelves. Pinion 

 caught one of them with three Young, which died in the Voyage, but the 

 Dam he prefented alive in Granada to the King. 



This Captain having Sail'd fix hundred Leagues along the Parian Coaft, 

 in a great Tern peft two of his Carvils in his view were overfet, their Keels 

 turn'd upward j the third driven from her Anchor, and the fourth fo fliaken, 

 and full of Leaks, that ready to fink they ran her'afliqre to fave their lives,, and 

 though he efcaped himfelf the danger of drowning, then being afhore, yet he 

 was no ways freed from far greater inconveniences, for he faw nothing but 

 death either for want of Provifions , or barbaroufnefs of the Inhabitants : 

 whereupon they refolv'd to free themfelves of their miferies by felf-flaugJiter, 

 killing one another • but fome better advifed to fpend their Lives like Qbrifti- 

 ans upon the unbelieving Salvages : Whilft they were in this defperate condi- 

 tion, the Storm ceafed, and Providence prefented their fafety, the Ship driving 

 in before the Wind • at which every one taking frefti courage, they mended 

 the two fhatter'd Ships as well as they could y wherein venturing to Sea, and 

 fetting Sail, they came on the laft of September, Amo 1500. into the Spanifh 

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