The Htftory of Book II. 



Barbouthos, Mountferrat, Antego, and the Barbados, which are 

 grown very numerous there, and famous for the Trade of the 

 rich Commodities they are furnifh'd with s as maybefeenby 

 the particular defcriptions we have given thereof in the prece- 

 dent Book of this Hiftory. 



What Colonies the Dutch have in the Caribbjt-lftands were 

 eftabliuYd fome time after thofe of the French and Englijh, and 

 their efcablimments were not upon the account of the States, 

 but upon that of fome particular Companies of Merchants, 

 who, the better to carry on the Trade which they have in all 

 the Iflands whereof the EngUJh and French are poffefs'd, were 

 defirous to have fome places of fafe retreat for the refrefhment 

 of their Ships. The raoft ancient of thofe Colonies which 

 have any dependence on the States-General of the United Pro- 

 vinces, is that in the Ifland of S. Eujtace : It was eftablifh'd 

 much about the fame time that Sir Thomas Warner fetled that 

 of Mont-ferrat, which was in the Year M. DC. XXXII. It is 

 confiderabJe upon this account, that it is a place naturally well 

 fortify 'd t, as alfo for the number and quality of the Inhabi- 

 tants, the abundance of good Tobacco which it ftill yields 3 

 and for feveral other remarkable advantages, whereof we 

 have given an account in the fifth Chapter of the former 

 Book. 



Monfieur Defnambuc exprefs'd no lefs earneftnefs and genera- 

 lity in the dilatation of his Colony then other Nations did in 

 that of theirs 3 but having not been fo feafonably reliev'd as 

 was requifite at the beginning, and his defigns having been 

 many times check'd by feveral unhappy obftructions, he had 

 this further difpleafure, to fee divers of the moft confiderabJe 

 Iflands poflefs'd by others before he was in a condition to put 

 in for a fhare, and dilate his Conqueft beyond the limits of 

 S. Chrijiophers. He had a long time before caft his eye on that 

 of Gardeloupe, as being one of the nobleit and greateft Iflands 

 of all the Caribbiesj but while he was taking order for the 

 tranfporting of men thither, he was prevented in his defign by 

 Monfieur de V Olive, one of the principal Inhabitants of his 

 own Colony, who making his advantage of a Voyage he had\ 

 made into France about fome private affairs of his own, as he 

 pretended, joyn'd with Monfieur du Plejfis, and fome Mer- 

 chants of Dieppe^ for the eft ablifhment of a Colony there by 

 Commiflion from the Company which had the direction of 

 the Iflands of America. 



Thefe two Gentlemen being made joint Governours of the 

 Ifland of Gardeloupe, and inverted with equal authority, ar- 

 riv'd there the 28 th of June, M. DC. XXXV. with a Company 

 of five hundred men, who prefently after their arrival were 

 prefs'd with a famine, and divers difeafes, which took away a 

 great number of them. It is conceiv'd that the former mii 1 



fortune 



