TheHifiory of Book II 



agues appointed to be eaten. They have at this prefent in the 

 Iiland of St. Vineents fome young Boys and Girls of the E«- 

 glijh Nation, who being carried away very young, have clearly 

 forgot their Parents, and would hardly return with them, Co 

 well are they pleafed with the humour of the Caribbians, who 

 for their part treat them as mildly as if they were of their own 

 Nation 5 they are now known only by the fairnefs and flax- 

 ennefs of their Hair , whereas the Caribbians are generally 

 black-hair'd. 



As for the Spaniards, at the firffc difcovery of America, the 

 Caribbians. who were then poftefs'd of all the Garibby-lfands, 

 were cruelly treated by them 3 they perfecuted them with fire 

 and fword, and purfu'd them even into the woods, as wild 

 beafts, that they might carry them away Captives to work in 

 the Mines : Which kind of procedure fore VI this people,which 

 is valiant and generous, to oppofe the violence, and to lay am- 

 bufties for their Enemies, nay to affault them in their Ships 

 which lay in their Roads, which they borded without any fear 

 of fire-Arms, making their way through Swords and Pikes; 

 In which attempts they were many times fo fortunate,that they 

 became Mafters of divers Skips richly loaden, difpatching all 

 that oppos'd them, carrying away all the booty, and then fet- 

 ing the Ships on fire : True it is, they pardoned the Negro-Jlaves 

 they met with, and having brought them afhore put them to 

 work in their Habitations 5 thence came the Negroes which 

 which they have at prefent in St. Vincents and fome other 

 Iflands. 



The Spaniards being fenfible of thefe loffes, and perceiving 

 they had a ftubborn Enemy to deal with, and that when they 

 had ruin'd that Nation, they (hould not advantage themfelves$ 

 and confidering further, that the Iflands they were pofleffedof 

 lay convenient for their Ships in their long Voyages, to take in 

 refrefhments of water, wood, and provifions if need were, and 

 to leave fuch as were fick in their Fleet, they refolved to treat 

 the Caribbians more kindly 3 and thereupon having fet fome of 

 them at liberty whom they had Captives, and fent them back 

 into their Country with prefents, they made ufe of them to 

 treat concerning a peace with that People, the conditions 

 whereof being accepted by fome of the Iflands, they fet aftiore 

 therein fome fwine which they had brought out of Europe 5 and 

 afterwards they left there behind them the fick they had in 

 their Ships, and took them in again recovered at their return. 

 But the Caribbians of St. Vincents, thofewho lived at Do* 

 minko would not confent to that agreement, but drill perfift in 

 the averfion they had for the Spaniards, and the defire they 

 have to be revenged of them. 



As to what concerns their defenfive wars, they have learnt 

 by their acquaintance with the Chriftians, and the differences 



they 



