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file had failed from Jamaica two years before in a large canoe with ten 

 of her countrymen, to fifh at certain fmall Wands, and that the current 

 had driven them hither, where the natives had killed and facrificed her 

 hufband and all her companions. Our captain thought that this woman 

 might be ferviceable in inducing the natives to return ; he therefore fent 

 her on a meffage to that effect, for which he allowed them a period of 

 two days ; but on theenfuing one fhe came back and informed us that flie 

 could not prevail on any of them to do fo. We named this place Santa 

 Cruz, having difcovered it on the day of that holy feflival. In the 

 town we found a quantity of honey in hives, vegetables, fuch as boniatos 

 and potatoes, and droves of hogs of the fpecies of the country with the 

 navel on the baek. There were two fmaller towns in the Ifland which 

 we did not vifit, Grijalva perceiving further flay to be lofs of time, 



Purfuing the route of F. H. de Cordova, in eight days we arrived 

 at Champoton, and cafting anchor at the diftance of a league from the 

 fliore, on account of the height of the tides, we difembarked one half 

 of our foldiers, landing them clofe to the town. The natives, proud of 

 their former fuccefs, attacked us im'mediately on our landing in great 

 bodies, and with much military parade. Experience had taught us to 



go well prepared, and accordingly we brought falconets "in pur boats. ^'^ k^J -'f ^'^^^^a-r^ 

 Half our number was wounded before we reached the land, but when we 

 formed, and had received a reinforcement hy a fecond embarkation, we 

 foon drove them to the marfhes, with the lofs however of three of our 

 foldiers, and our captain received three arrows, and had two of his 

 teeth beaten out. When we entered the town after the defeat of the 

 natives, we found that they had removed all their ejflPe(5ts. Three of 

 them whom we had taken prifoners we thought by kind ufage to have 

 made friends of, and that they would have induced their countrymen 

 to return, but after we had difmiffed them they never came back to us, 

 and we fufpe6ted that our interpreters had treacheroufly fpoken to them in 

 oppofition to our intentions. The field where we fought with thefe 

 people was very ftony, and there was on it a prodigious fwarm of 

 iocufts. Thefe animals during the adtion fprang up and ftruck us in 



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