Chap. III. 



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which they darken the Water ? when any one goes to take them in the night, 

 they make a great (hadow ; they feed on Fifh , the Female lays little white 

 Eggs, not unlike ordinary Hail-ftones. 



Vefyutim having left this defolate Ifle, three hundred Leagues a Stern, enter'd 

 a Haven, to which he gave the name of St. Abdy, where he ftay'd two Months, 

 expecting the return of thofe which he had fent into the Countrey ; but feeing 

 it in vain to wait any longer, he proceeded on his Journey, and Sailing in be- 

 tween the Abrelhos, in the River Curnbabo y he built a ftrong Fort, Garrifon'd it 

 with twenty four Men, twelve pieces of Ordnance, and Provifions for fix 

 Moneths : Five Moneths Vefyutius had fpent in the building this Caftle; when 

 he returned home with one Ship, laden with Brafill Wood, where approaching 

 Lisbon , beyond all expectation , the Inhabitants of the City ran to Congratu- 

 late his happy return. And from this Americm Vetyutius, the NeTb World is to this 

 day call'd America* 



Sect. VII. 



The Expedition of Alphonfo, Fogeda, Diego Nicuefa, Ancifus , and Roderick 

 Colmenares. 



A Mericus Vesjutius was fcarce fitted out in Lisbon , when Fogeda fet Sail with 

 "*" ^ three hundred Men from fieata , the chiefeft Haven of Hifyaniola , to the 

 Ifland Codego, inhabited by Naked People, but of comely Perfonage,and withal 

 expert and moft excellent Archers : Here he found a very ftrange Tree, Wonderful Tree «jc%,. 

 which bears a Fruit not unpleafing to the Palate , yet deadly Poyfon, and be- 

 fides , whoever chances to deep under their fhadow , loofe both their under- 

 ftanding and Eye-fight , and never attain to their former Sences , except they 

 take fome Opiates, as dangerous, and fo by long ileep, recover. 



Here Fogeda fet upon a poor Village near the Sea=fide, where without mercy ^r^cnieityanddcftru^ 



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