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A True and Exa& Hiftory 



Voyage, (carrying Hor(es and Cattle with us) which we were to take 

 in there ^ he Commanded the Mafter, by the power he had over him^ \ 

 to (end a (hore all the empty Cask he had aboard 5 with intent to i 

 detain them 5 and fo maJie us comply jby little and little, to his ends, \ 

 But the Mafter abfolutely denied the Landing our great Cask , but 

 told him he would fend our quarter Casks, in our Long boat, and 

 jfoby making often returns, to fill our Pipes and Buts. But finding 

 i himfelfata lofs in this defign, thought good to keep us from any water 

 at all 5 and fo appointed our men to dig in the valley under the Padres 

 houfe,where he was well alfured no Springs of water were to be found» 

 But fome of our men, who (poke good Spanifh , by their enquiries- 

 heard. That there was a very good well on the other fide of the hill, 

 under the Caftle, and were brought to the fight of it by fome of the 

 Country people , Which when he perceiv'd we had knov/ledge of 3 

 he was much out ofCountenance,andufed his beft eloquence to make 

 us believe he had never heard of that Well- 

 So finding that this pradice would not ferve his turn, he tryed ano- 

 ther : and that was to command our Mafter, to carry a fhore that part 

 of theCargofoon that was confign'd for that place, which wasCloath, 

 j Bayes, Stuffs of feveral kinds, Linnen Cloath, Hats with broad brims, 

 fuch as Spaniards ufe to wear, and were made in London purpofe^y 

 to put olf there 5 and thefe goods being valued, when they wejre re- 

 ceived at Land, there fnouid be a return made, in Horfes, and Cattle. 

 But as we had Caufe tojufped hira for the Cask, fo we had for the 

 Cargo, and fo return d him this anfvyer, that we would not land any 

 of our goods, without receiving the like value in Cattle 5 andfo by 

 parcels to receive the one^ and deliver the other. 



On which meflage, we font the Purfor of our fhtp, that (poke good 

 Spanijtj 5 But Bernardo^ being vext to the height that his PJot was dif^ 

 covered, kept him prifoner. We font another to demand him, which 

 was likewife detained, chen we font three or four more,and fome of the 

 Soldiers of the Caftle gave fire upon them.So that we refolv'd to weigh 

 Anchor and put to Sea for a week or ten dayes, and return in the night 

 (the weathev being dark and fit for our purpofe) and forprifothe Pa- 

 dres houfo with 50 Musquettiers, which we could mufter very well of 

 the Gentlemen and other paffengers in the fhip,and fome of the Saylers, 

 and take the Padre Vagago^ and Eerrtardo Mendes de Soufa^ and carry 

 them to the Barbadoes. But the Padre notknowing of this defign in 

 Bernardo^ font to us a very kind mefl&ge, inviting himfelf aboard our 

 (hip, receiving hoftages from us, andfo upon treaty with himaboardy, 

 fettled a trade, and got our prifoners releas'd , whereupon we were 

 invited to his houfo, or rather his Rock,for it was moft part of it form'd 

 in a Rock, with afteep and very high precipice. 



But I am mifled into this digreflion by this wicked Foftugal^ whofo 

 unlucky Countenance before we came to the ///^rW,gave metheocca- 

 fion to lay fome what of him, and his miicarriage in the IJland-:, before I 

 came at it. 



But when v,?e came within fight of it, itappcared to us full of high 

 andfteep R.ocks,(the higheftof which were meerftone, without any 

 foyl at all ) and they of fo great a height , as we foldom faw the 

 tops, whilftwe lay before it 5 being interpofed by mifts, and Clouds, 

 which rife and darken the sky in the time of the 'rnrnado. But the day 



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