A T R LI E AND EXACT 



HISTORY 



or tHE ISLAND OF 



BARBADOES 



Aving httn ccnfuv'd by fbmc ( vvHofe Juclgertlent^ 

 I cannot controlJj and therefore am glad to allow) 

 formy vveaknelsandindifcretion, that having ne- 

 ver made proof of the Sea's operation, and the Icve- 

 ral faces thatwatry Element puts on, and the chan- 

 ges and chances that happen theire, froni Siiiodth to 

 Rough5from Rough to Raging Seas^and High going 

 Billows, (which are killing to fome Conftitutions,)! ftiould ia the laft 

 Scene of my life, undertake to run fb long aRifcoas from England to 

 the Barbadoes , And truly I fhould without their help conclude my Iclf 

 guilty of that Cen(ure, had I not the refuge of an old Proverb to fly 

 to, which is, [Need ma^s the old Wife trot'] for having loft (by a Bar- 

 barous RiotJ all that I had gotten by the painful travels and cares of 

 my youth , by which means I was ftript and rifled of all I had, left de= 

 ftituteofalubfiftance, and brought tofuch an Exigent, as I muft fa- 

 milh or fly , and looking about for friends, who are the beft foppor- 

 ters in fo ftaggering a condition, found none, or very few, whom griefs 

 and afflidions had not depreft'd, oi woiuout, BauiOimentablented, 

 or Death devoured 5 fo that in fteadofthefe near and Native coni>- 

 forters, I found my lelf aftranger in my own Countrey, and therefore 

 refolv'd to lay hold on the firft opportunity that might convoy nie to 

 any other part of the World, howfar diftant (bever, rather than abide 

 here. I continued not many weeks in this expeftatiort, when a friend, 

 as willing to Ihift his grouna as I, gave me an Overture which I accep- 

 ted, and fo upon the fixteenth day o^Jfihe^ 1 647. we embark 'd in the 

 t>ovpns^ on the good Ship called the Achilles ^ a veifel of35otunns, 

 the Mafter Thomas Crowder oitondon'i^ no fooner were we all aboard, 

 but we prelently weighed Anchor, and put to Sea , in fo cold weather 

 as at that tinie of the year, I have not felt the like, and continued fo 

 till we came to Fdmouth'Harbour : where we put in, and refted for 

 a night 5 but in our paflage thither, were very uncertain upon What 

 Coaftwewere, by reafon of the unfteadinefs of the winds, and 

 cloudinefs of the weather, fo that I perceived more troubles and 



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