of John Cockburn 9 &c. ! 27 

 been taken in the Manner we had been, and 

 fet on Shore with feveral others, who were 

 all now dead, and he only left alive to be- 

 moan his hard Fate, He faid, that he had 

 tried every Way he could think of, to get 

 home to England, but that all his Endea- 

 vours had proved unfuccefsful ; fo that now 

 he never expefted to leave this Country : 

 He faid likewife, that the laft Effort he 

 made to that End, was by prevailing with a 

 Matter of a Velfel, which was bound from 

 Granada to Porto-bello, by the Way of the 

 Lake, to take him along with him, but 

 that when they came to the Caftle of St. 

 John he was difcover'd, and turned back ; 

 for that the Spaniards fliould lay, if once 

 the Englijh came to know the Nature of this 

 Lake, they would foon become Matters of 

 this Part of the Country. 



The Lake of Nicaragua vents itfelf into 

 the North-Sea, and tho' it be very lhallow, 

 is about fifteen Leagues broad in the wideft 

 Part, but near the Caftle it is not above a 

 Mile over, as Barnwell informed us. When 

 we had heard thus much of his Story, we ac- 

 quainted him with Part of ours, and faid, 



that 



