of the Ifland of Barbadoes, 



Maladies, and indeed very unfit for his eareSjyet when Ifliall prefcribe 

 the Remedy, which may happen to concern him , I may hope to 

 I make him amends : for truly my touching upon the di(ea(e, wa? but 

 tooOie-r in the cure, which (hall follow clofe after,and 'tis briefly thus. 

 Take the PiOeofa green Turtle which lives in the Sea, dry it with a 

 moderate heat, pound it in a Morter to powder, and take of this as 

 much as will lye upon a fl.ii]ling,in Beer or the like, Ale or White wine, 

 and in a very fnort time it will do the cure. If this fecret had been 

 known in Europe but a dozen years fince, no doubt we had been well 

 ftor'd with it by this time, for 'tis to be had both at the Charibby and 

 Lucay!ckl'^2inds^ where thefe fillies abound. 



Yet fo llow was my recovery of the main ficknefs, and my relaples 

 fb frequent , as I was ever and anon , looking out to meet my 

 familiar Companion Death 5 my Memory and Intelled lufFering the 

 lame decay es with my body, for I could hardly give an account of 1 

 \ of the time I wasfick 5 but as my health increaft, they returned. In I 

 three months more I was able to ride down to the Bridge, where 

 finding a Ship bound for England^ I agreed for my paflageand dyet 

 by the way 5 and (as the manner of all Mafters ofShipsis) he made me 

 large promilcs of plentiful provifions aboard, as Beefe, Porke, Peafe, 

 Fill], Oyle, Bisket, Beere, and Ibme Wine. This Ship had been fifteen 

 months out of Ez/glaf/d^ and had traded at Guw^yand Binny for Gold 

 and Elephants teeth, but thofe commodities taking up but little room, 

 the Captain made the liarbadoes in his way home, intending 

 to take in his fall lading of Sugar, and (uch other Commodities as 

 that Ifland afforded and fo being ready to let Sayle, my folf and 

 divers other Gentlemen embarkt, upon the fifteenth of April 16503 

 ut Twelve a Clock at night, which time cur Mafter made choyceof 

 that he might the better pals undefcry'd by a well known Pi- 

 rate, that had for many dayes layn hovering about the Ifland, to 

 take any Ships that traded for London^ by vertue of a Commiffion 

 as he pretended, from the Marqucfs of Omi?W. This Pirate was an 

 Irifh man, his name rlunquet^ a man bold enough 5 but had the Cha- 

 rader of being more mercilcls and cruel , than became a valiant 

 man. To confirm the firft part ofhis Charafter, he took a Ship in one 

 of the Harbors of the Ifland, out of which he furnilht himfelf with 

 fuch things as he wanted, but left the carkafe of the Veflcl to floate 

 at large. He had there a Frigot of about 500 Tunns, and a final! 

 Vellel to wait on her, but the night covered us from being dif- 

 cerned by him, and fo v/e came fafely off the Ifland. About a 

 fortnight afiier we had been at Sea, our Mafter complained that his 

 men had abus'd him, and ( for fome Commodities ufeful tothcmfelves) i 

 had truckt away the c^rcateft part of his Bisket , fo that inftead ) 

 of bread, we were ferv'd with the fweepings and duft of the Bread- i 

 I Pvoome, which caufed a general complaint of all the Paflengers ,1 

 but no Remedy : our Peafe muft now fupply that want, which! 

 with fome Phyfical perfwafion of the Mafter, that it was hearty 

 and binding as bread, we refted (atisfied, with this Motto,' 

 Fatunie Tip on force. The next thing wanting, was Fifh, an ex-! 

 cclleat food at Sea 5 and the want ofthat troubled us much, yet the j 



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