of the I (land of BdLrbadocs. 



I But before we arrive at our next Harbour, St. J-ngo^ one of the TJief j 

 , df Gape Fenl^ and now revolted from the King otspuin^ to the rortii- \ 

 \^al 5 Let ire tell you, one little obfervation I made of the Ships way 

 : which in flack winds, and dark nights , we fiw nothing under [ 



water, bur darkneft but in ftiff winds, and ftrong gayles , \vc (aw j 

 I perfeftly the keel of the Ship^ and llllies playing underneath , as j 

 I lighted by a torch, and yet the nights of equal darknefs. Which 

 I putme in mind ofa point ofPhilolbphy I had heard difcours'd of, a- 1 

 i mong the Learned 5 That in the Air, Rough hard bodies, meeting j 

 ; with one another, by violent ftroaks, rlarine the Air, foastomakej 

 I fire. So here, the Ship bemg ofa hard fubftancc, and in a violent | 

 j motion,meeting with the ftrong reliftance of the waves; (whothough 

 - they be not hard , yet they are rough, by reafon of their laltttels,) 

 I dd Gau(e a light, though no fire, and I may guels , ttiat that light 



would be fire, were it not quencht by the fea, in the inftant it is 

 : made 5 which in his own Element, hath the greater power andpre- 

 ! dominancy. \ 

 I But before wecaaie to St.j^cj.'^, we were to have vifited a fmall: 

 [ Ifland called Sollt, by the intreaty ofa Portngd we carried with us, 

 I whofe name was Berfuirdo Alef/cles deSonju ^ who pretended, to have i 

 ia great part of the Ifland (' if not the whole) to be his own 5! 

 ! but for that, it lay fomewhat out ol our way , and we could not i 

 i recover it 5 by reafon the wind wasCrofs^ and partly for that we 

 j were informed by fomeof the Say lets, who told us it was uninha- 

 bited by any, but GoatSj Dogs 3 and the like 5 and we guels'd , he 

 would (out ofa vain glory J (hew us fomething that he calfd his. 

 But the Matter, who well knew the Condition of the place , would 

 not lofe fo much time to no purpofe* Which gave fome difcontent- 

 ment to the Portitgal^ which he expreft in his Countenance , by a 

 fullen dogged look , till we eanieto St. Jago. But that was but a 

 whetflone, to fharpen a worfe humour he was big with, for though 

 I our Merchants redeera'd him out of prlfon in London^ intending him 

 ja Main director inthe whole voyage:, whole Credulous cars he highly i 

 jabufed, by telling them^ T^xAtxh^Padyc Viigddo (Chief Governor of 

 i " ^ ^^^s his brother, and that by the power he had with him , 

 I to lay illl trade open, for Negroes, Horll-s, and Cattle, which were 

 I the Contrabanded goods 5 By w hich perfvvafion , they gave him the | 

 I power and Command of the Ihipand godds. But he intended nothing 1 

 ! k(s. than the performance of that truft , but inftead of i , meant to | 

 i make prey of both, and of our Liberties, and probably lives to boot,! 

 if we had not been very wary of him. 



The firft thing we perceiv'd in him, was a ftrange look he put 

 On, when we came near the Illand 5 which cauied us to (ufpeft fome 

 great and bad defignhe vvas bent on, (tor bcMng Jolly and Very good 

 Company all the Voyage, to change his Countenance when we were 

 il^ar the place where we hop'd to enjoy our fclves with happinefs and 

 Contentment, was a prelage of fome evil intent to be put inpradfice^ 

 which hourly we expefted 5 and were all at gaze what part of it was 

 firft to beaded^ which he (more fpeedily than he needed) difcovered, 

 and it was thusi 



Our Water, being a good part fpcnt in our pafiagc thither, and we 

 being to make new and large provifions for the remainder of our 



C 2 Voyage, 



