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iCompIexion, and ferioiis countenance. 'His features were, if fault^r," 

 .rather too fmall ; his eyes mild and grave.. His beard was black, thin,,- 

 ;and fcanty ; his hair in the fame manner. His breaft and fhoulders 

 were broad, and his body very thin. He was very well limbed, and » 

 his legs rather bowed ; an excellent horfeman, and dexterous in the ufe 

 ,of arms. He alfo poflelfed the heart and mind, which is the princi- 

 pal part of the bufineifs.. J have heard that when he was a lad in Hif- 

 paniola, he was very wild about women, and that he had feveral duels 

 with able fwordfmen, in which he always came oft with vidiory. He 

 had the fear of a fword-wound near his under lip, which appeared 

 through his beard if clofely examined, and which he received in fome 

 of thofe affairs. In his appearance, manners," tranfadiions, converfa- 

 tion, table, and drefs, every thing bore the appearance of a great lord.' 

 His cloaths were according to the fafhion of the time j he was not fond 

 of iilks, damafks, or velvets, but every thing plain, and very hand- 

 ibmej nor did he wear large chains of gold, but a fmall one of prime 

 workmanfliip, bearing the image of our Lady the Bleffed Virgin with 

 her precious fon in her arms, and a Latin motto j and on the reverfe, 

 St. John the BaptiH with another motto. He wore on his finger a ring 

 with a very fine diamond, and in his cap, which according to the fafh- 

 ion of that day was of velvet, he bore a medal, the head and motto of • 

 which I do not recollect j but latterly he wore a plain cloth cap, with- 

 -pu.t any ornament,. 



His table was always magnificently attended and ferved, with 

 four major domos or principal officers, a number of pages, and a great 

 quantity of plate both gold and filver. He dined heartily at mid-day, 

 and drank a glafs of wine mixed with water, of about half a pint. He 

 was not nice in his food, nor expenfive, except on particular occafions 

 where he faw the propriety of it. He was very affable with all his 

 captains and foldiejrs, efpecially thofe who accompanied him in his firfl 

 expedition from Cuba. He was a Latinifl, and as I have been told, a 

 baphelor in laws. was alfo foroething of a poet, and a very good 



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