34^ An HIJiorical Journal of 



Hafle was attended with ftill worfe. We foon loll Sight of 

 tand, and at the End of an Hour's Sail, after having had the 

 Pleafure of feeing the W aters of the River and thofe of the Sea 

 mix together v/ithout being blended, we no longer perceived 

 any Difference,, finding only Salt W ater. 



It may be faid, perhaps, that we had quitted the right Chan- 

 nel, and I allow that it may be true ; but that Struggle which 

 we obferved fo near the Mouth, does not fhew a River vidori- 

 ous, that opens itfelf a free PafTage, and for tv/enty Leagues 

 gives Laws to the Ocean. Befides, if this Fadt was true, at 

 leafl: in the Time of the Inundation, in which Time we were, 

 how came we to have fo much Trouble to find the Mouth of 

 the River? The Difl'erence alone of the Colour of the Waters 

 would have difcovered it to any the leaft attentive. 



In Regard to this Colour, I have faid that the MiJJlJJlpfiy af« 

 ç.i r . ter its Jundion with the Mijfouri, took the 



.7 Tiz-^y^ Colour of the Waters of that River, which 



the yV aters of the i- -o^ u . 



MiiTilTi pi white : But would you believe it, Ma- 



^ ^ * dam, that of ail the Waters, that we can take 



for a Ship's Provifion, there are none which keep fvveet fo long 

 as thefe ? Befides this, they are excellent to drink when they 

 have been left to fettle in Jars, at the Bottom of which they 

 leave a Kind of white Tartar, which, in all Likelihood, ferves 

 equally to give them the Colour they have, to purify them, 

 and to preferve them. 



The 1 2th at Noon, after having fuffered excefTive Heats for 

 Deic'-'htion of ^^^^^^^ Days, and more intolerable {lill in the 

 4i AT^ ^ ^^r a Night than in the Day, v/e difcovered Cape 

 ^ 'cuba ^'"^^ '''' the North Coail of the lile 



^ * of Cuhay and very high. At Sun-fet we were 



over-againft it, we then fleered to the Eail, and failed in Sight 

 of the Shore ; the next Morning, at Day-break, we were over- 

 ^gainfl the Havannah : This City is about eighteen Leagues 

 frôm Cape Sed^ and about half-way we difcover a very high 

 Mountain, the Top of which is a Kind of Platform. They call 

 it the Table ef Marianne. 



' Two Leagues beyond the Ha<va?i7iahy there is a little Fort on 

 the Coafc, which is called la Hougue, from whence we begin to 

 difcover the p.ain de Matance (the Bread of Matance), This is a 

 Mountain, the Top of v/hich refenibles an Oven, or if you pleafe, 

 pi Loaf. It ferves to reconnoitre the Bay of Matance, which 

 is fourteen Leagues Diiiance from the Ha^aimah. The Heat con- 

 tinued increafing, and indeed we v/ere on the Confines of the 

 Torrid Zone : And withal, we had fcarce any Wind, and got 

 forward only by Favour of the Current; which runs to the 



The 



