A flrange 

 kind of ba- 

 boon. 



5x4. AMERICA. Chap. VII. 



Seamen rebelled againft their Commanders, faying, TW they had been out long enough, 

 and that they would notftay waiting any longer for the fleet from New Spain or Honduras : 

 Wherefore fleering Home, they all arriv'd fafe at the Jexel and other places in 

 Holland. 



In our foregoing Relation we have given you an Account of the Fleet which 

 came to afllft the City of St. Sahador, divided into two Squadrons 5 eighteen Sail 

 Boudewyn Henrickfooon kept under his Command, and twelve Sail remained in the 

 Admiral Veron s Squadron, who Sail'd to the Inlet Serre Leona, where he found the 

 Admiral John Dirkfoon Lam with three Ships, which had lay'n there above two 

 Moneths, by reafon of the Sicknefs amongft the Seamen. 



Frambore, King of this Place, granted Lam and Veron free liberty to Hunt, and to 

 gather as many Oranges and Lemmons as they pleas'd, with which the Seamen 

 were fo refreflh'd, that they fet Sail again, and amongft many other things carry'd a 

 Baboon with them from Sierra Leona, which fo exactly refembled a Man, that it 

 was wonderful to behold, having a Body, Hands, Eyes, Ears, Feet, and Actions 

 like a Man, fmoak'd Tobacco amongft the Seamen, made a noife like a Child when 

 beaten. The Inhabitants of Sierra Leona, where thefe Monfters run in great Com» 

 panics through the Woods, believe that the Souls of the Deceafed rcfide in them. 



John de Laet, in his annual Journal of the Tranfattions of the Wejl-India Com- 

 pany, affirms, That he faw a Female of thefe monftrous Creatures, which ufually 

 had her monethly Flowers. 



The Fleet, as is before mention'd, Sailing from Siena Leona, came to an Anchor 

 at Commany, and Landed twelve hundred Men at Toquena, befides a hundred and 

 fifty Negro's* which Regiment Jndries Veron and Arend Jacobfcoon carry 'd to the 

 Tfcjsub* Caftle Del Mine, whither they before fent a Company, Commanded by Hans Gryf, 

 before the to prevent the Sallies of the Enemy. The Hollanders in d and thirfty, Encamp'd 

 therafelves near the Fort, and whileft fome of the Men were fceking for Water, 

 others fmoaking Tobacco, and lying without their Arms and in diforder on the 

 Ground, and the Commanders were taking a view of the Fort from a neighboring 

 Hill, two hundred Negro's fell upon the fcatter'd Army with great rage and fury, 

 and fo much the greater, in regard the Wortuguefe had promised them great fums of 

 Money for every Hollander they kill'd : never any Army was in fuch a diftra&ion, 

 they being difpers'd and kill'd like fo many Sheep, the Admiral Veron and all the 

 Officers (lain, and in a fliort time four hundred and forty Men cut off ; and had 

 not Captain Jrendjacobf^pon been in League with the Inhabitants of Qommany, whi» 

 ther the routed Regiments fled, not one Man had efcap'd that bloody Slaughter : 

 Nor was it to much purpofe to Befiege the Caftle Del Mine, becaufe the Bullets hit- 

 ting againft the Walls of the Caftle, built all of RocLftones, did no Execution. 

 But the four Ships inform'd of this miferable deftru&ion, fell down to Commany, 

 to fetch thofe that were left alive, and returned home with the other eleven. 



During the unfortunate Expedition of this Fleet, the Weft,lndia Company fitted out 

 nine great Ships and five Ketches in the beginning of the Year 1616. under the 

 Command o{Tetcr Veterjzoon Hein, to Cruife for the Spanifl? Ships that were expe- 

 cted from 2S£ra? Spain and Honduras. 



The Fox Frigat being fent before to inform Henrickfoon otHeyn's coming, reach'd 

 about the latter end of May beyond the Iflcs Vominico, Guadalupa, MeVis, St. Chrijlo* 

 phers, and by Santa Crux ; there not finding a Harbor on the South-fide, becaufe of 

 the Rocks, die Sail'd from Mona over to the Main Coaft, where feven Leagues Weft- 

 ward of Carakefi, he difcover'd a high broken Land, whole Mountains fcem'd to 

 reach to the Clouds- from thence flie ftee/d to the Prorcontcry Caldera, the Ifles 



Marga- 



Atint. 



