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mov'd the pieces that were in it 5 That he had already burnt all 

 their Huts, and made havock of all the Plantations of the Quar- 

 ter. They were in perpetual expectation when he fhould 

 come, and fall on them with all his forces, and in that appre- 

 henfion fome endeavour'd to make their efcape by Sea, or ftiel- 

 ter themfelves in the Mountains, while others fomewhat more 

 courageous were confulting how to fend Deputies to Dom Fre- 

 deric, to entreat him to admit of fome accommodation : But 

 all the Anfwer they receiv'd, was an exprefs command imme- 

 diately to depart the Iiland, which if they did not, they mould 

 be treated with all the rigour which the Law of Arms permits 

 to be ufed towards thofe who againft all right poffefs them- 

 felves of what belongs not to them. 



To facilitate the departure which Bom Frederic had fo impe- 

 rioufly commanded, he gave order that thofe Ships which his 

 Fleet had taken away from the Englijh neer the Iiland of Mevk 

 (hould be reftorM to them, and that they mould embarque 

 without any delay, and immediately fet fail for England. But 

 whereas it was impoffible thofe Veflels mould contain fo great 

 a number of people, he permitted the fupernumerary to conti- 

 nue in the Ifland till they had a favourable opportunity for 

 their tranfportation. 



Thefe things difpatch'd, Dom Frederic weigh'd Anchor, in 

 order to the continuation of his Voyage, but as foon as the 

 Fleet was out of fight, the Englijh who had been left behind in 

 the Ifland began to rally, and took a refolution courageoufly 

 to carry on the fetlement of their Colony. 



While thefe things were in agitation at S. Chrijiophers, the 

 French who had left it at the beginning of the diftra&ion had 

 fufFer'd fo many inconveniences at Sea, partly through want of 

 Provifions, and partly by reafon of contrary Winds, that they 

 were forc'd to put in at the Iflands of S. Martin and Montferrat^ 

 after they had by the way touch'd at that of Ant ego. They 

 wifti'd themfelves fo happy, as that they might have fetled in 

 any of thofe places 5 but they Iook'd on them as dreadful De- 

 farts in comparifon of that out of which they had been fo un- 

 happily forc'd : The pleafant Idea of that was ftill before their 

 eyes, it was the continual fubjeft of their regret $ and the de- 

 lightful remembrance of that pleafant abode, to the recovery 

 whereof they were by Divine Providence re-invited by ways 

 unknown to them, rais'd in them a defire to be inform'd what 

 condition the Spaniard had left it in, fince they were then fo 

 neer it : To fati^fie that commendable curiofity, they fent one 

 of their Ships to S. Chrijiophers, which returning gave them an 

 account, that the Enemies Fleet was gone 3 and that the En- 

 glijh who were left behind were courageoufly employ 'd in re- 

 building their Hutts, planting Provifions, and repairing their 

 defolations. 



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