A True and Exd&^HiJlory 



mettle 5 but they are Contrabanded goods , and whofbever deals in 

 them (without fpecial licence) forfeits both Ship and Gaods^ if they 

 have power to compel them. 



But I believe they have not ^ being partly informed by the Hermite, 

 who came often to us to hear news, and beg fomewhat of us, which 

 being obtain djhe would not fticktoimpartfbmewhat ofthe weaknefs 

 of the Ifland, that would have coil: him dear, if it had been known to 

 the Padre. And (bmeof that which he informed us , waSj the Forts 

 and Btock-houfes on either fide the Prjr^ on which we faw the appea- 

 rance of Ordnances good ftore-and large ^ but we underftood by him, 

 that thofe FortjS were neither regular, nor the Guns Brafs br lron , but 

 fuch as Hef/r) the 8th. todk Buliojine with, and this we found by expe- 

 rience to be true, for upon our firft difference with Bernardo and the 

 Padre, we weighed Anchor,njid removed our felvesout of the diftance 

 of theCaftle which ftoodin the bottom of the iV^jand expeded tobe 

 (hot at from thofe Forts and Black-houfes , but faw no fire given 5 and 

 if they had been furnifh'd with fuch Artillery as would have reached 

 us, we fhould certainly have heard from them. f' 



We alfo enquired of our Intel iigehcer, the Hermite, what Trades or 

 Manufactures v;ere praftifed there 5 but were anfwered , that they 



! were few and inconfiderable: Sugar, Sweet-meats , and Coco-nuts, 

 being the greatefl Trade they had. Yet by the PadrcV leave, we 

 carried ^way with us 50 head of Cattle, and eight Horfes, which Ber- 

 nardo made us pay double , for the ufual price being 2 5 s-^-^. piece , for 

 which he made us pay 50 s. and for horfes 10 /. apiece, which others 

 have had for 4 or 5 pound,but he was contentiwe fhould ratejour Com- 

 modities accord ingly,and lb, we were no.grcat.ldfersbytherexehaage. 



Having difpatch'd our bufinefs, iwe gotJeav.e. tO-go:afhoar upoff the 

 little Ifland, at the entrance of the Fry ^ there to cut and pull grafs for 

 our Horfes and Cattle, which we ixade up into Hay, a work quickly 

 done where fo much Sun-(hine was our helper^'tt being perfedly dryed, 

 we flowed it in our Ship, which was our lafl work, and fb weighed 

 AnchQr and hoyfed Sail, fleering ourCourfe (or the Barbadoes, leav- 

 ing Bernardo (according to hisowndefire) behind us, having but two 

 degrees to the Southward, to vary in the running of 6:0 leagues Wefl- 

 ward , St. 'jago lying in 15 , and the Barbadoes in 15 degrees and 50 

 Minutes to the Northward of the Line. 



There are feven morelflands, which arecall'd the Iflands of Cape 

 i Ferd^v'iz.St. Mickaels^St. Vincents^ St. Anthonies^St. Lucia^Bravo^FogOy 

 \md Soil'-) fome of which are much larger, but none fb confiderable as 

 I this of St. Jago. ... ■ 



I As we lay at Anchor in the entrance of the. Vry^ we percei v'd at Sun- 

 !fet, between the Sun and us, the Ifland called F^>,g(?, which wasatfiich 

 a diftance, that none of us could difcern it all the day til] that hour, 

 I and then the Ifland interpofing between the Sun and us, we faw it per- 

 fectly fhapd like the neither h^lf of a Sugar-loaf, the upper half being 

 cut off even, and in the midft of the top of that, a fmoak and fire riling 

 out, from which We guefs'd it took its name. 



About the loth.of Augufl we put out to Sea, and as we (ailed, we 

 left the Ifland of our Starboard-fide, and did not part with the fight of 

 it till we difcern d a little Town near to the Shoar, which we were told 



was 



