tfi a M EXl C A. Chap. XVIII. 



Climate, that being extraordinary healthful, but to their ill Diet. Befides the trou- 

 blefom Difeafe call'd <Pyans, which makes their Bodies fweli full of great Knobs, 

 they have been much troubled with peftilentiai Sores, occafion'd by the eating of 

 Crabs, and poyfonous Tortoifes, Lamantins, and Hedg-hogs. Againft which Evils 

 they wanted not Medicines, confiding of Herbs, Roots, Gums, and Oyl. The bit- 

 ter Bark of the ChipiovTvec, fteep'd in Water, and mix'd with Lanbys, hath a love, 

 raign operation. The like vertuc is in the Juyce of the MjbyTrte, which they us'd 

 to take inwardly : and for outward Means, they us'd a Salve made of burnt Canc- 

 aflies,temper'd with a Water prefs'd out of a certain Tree. To draw the Matter 

 out of the Sores, they us'd the Juice of Junipa. Letting Blood was never cuftomary 

 amongft them, but to cut and fcratch the fore part was to them in (lead of Phlebo- 

 tomy. But if all the fore-mention'd Medicines would not help them, they fled for 

 aid to the Bojejfc who immediately order'd the Hut wherein the Patient lay to be 

 made clean, the Table call'd Matoutou to be over-fpread with CajfaVe, Ouycou, and 

 Garden Fruits, for an Offering to the evil Spirit Maboya, and as many Stools to be 

 plac'd about the fame as there were People to be prefent at the Ceremony ; and af- 

 ter that all the Fire and Candles were put out, the Soye cnter'd into the Hut about 

 Midnight with a Lighted Roll of Tobacco, then muttering fome words to himfclf, 

 ftamp'd with his left Foot, and blew the Smoak of the Tobacco up into the Air, 

 which done, and tearing the Tobacco in pieces, he threw the fame over the Hut, 

 and call'd up his Spirit, who (baking the Roof of the Houfe,made a terrible noife ; 

 then the Boye drew near to the Patient, fuck'd his Sores, and anointed them with 

 the Juice of Junipa ; after which if the fick Perfon recover'd, he made a great 

 Feaft, and an Offering to the aforefaid Spirit : But if t>e Diftemper were mortal, 

 then the Boye inform'd the Patient's Relations, That his Spirit had companion up- 

 on the Sick, and was rcfolv'd to carry him above the Stars, to accompany the other 

 Gods which refidc there. 



Thus much in general of the Inhabitants of the Ides that lie before Tiprthem 



Jmerica ; it will next be requifite to give you an Account of them in particular. 



ihe number There are generally reckon'd of thefe Iflands twenty eight by Name, though 



Wi&riL there are many more in number . for befides that there are a multitude of fmall ob* 



fcure Iflands that are not nam'd, there are of the more confiderable fometimes two 



Thm feve. & tn ree that go under one Name ; the twenty eight are thefe following : Anegada, 



«i Names. SmlrmU$ Virgmes,Anguilla, Saba, St.Crux, St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, Barboutbos or 



Barboude, <I(ptonda, Z^V/*, Euftatbius, Antego, Montferrat, Guadalupe, Defeado, Mariga- 



lanta, Todos Santtos, De Aves, Vominieo, Martinego,St. Luciafiarbados, St. Vincent, Bekia, 



Granada, Tabago, St. Cbriftopher. 



Situation of 

 Atugada and 

 Somhtros. 



Sect, II. 



Anegada and Sombrero. 



Towards the North-Eaft of Torto <Kjco, at eighteen Degrees and thirteen Mi* 

 nutes, lies Anegada, feven Leagues long, furrounded with Shoals and 

 Banks, as alfo the neighboring Sombrero, being in the fame Latitude with 

 the other, and fo call'd by the Spaniard, becaufe it appears like a Hat : Both of them 

 The Manf. being uninhabited, harbor abundance of Birds, amongft which is the Mansfeny, 

 ft *'' a little Eagle, and the remarkable Colibry, whofe Body being a little bigger than a 

 ihecw/%. Wren, is adorn'd with divers colour'd Feathers, refemblinga Rain*bowe ; about 

 its Neck is a Carbuncle xed Circle j the Belly and ends of the Feathers are of a 



Golden 



