Cap. XX. The Carifaby-Iflands. 



they have had with them upon feveral occasions, to keep their 

 ranks, and to encamp in advantagious places., and to make fome 

 kinds of fortifications in imitation of the others : The French 

 found it fo by experience;, fome years fince, at the taking of 

 Granada : They imagined that the Caribbians would not have 

 made any refinance 5 but they found them in a defenfive po- 

 fture,to prevent their landing, and conteft their pofleffion of 

 that place '-, for befides the mifchief they did them by an ex- 

 traordinary fhower of Arrows., and the Barricadoes they pla- 

 ced in the avenues 3 they couragioufly oppofed their landing, 

 and laid feveral ambufties for them 3 and when they few that 

 the French;, notwithftanding their refiftance, were refolv'd to 

 come, and forced them to make their retreat into the woods, 

 they rallied on an eminent place which they had fortified : and 

 whereas it was fomewhat fteepy on all fides fave only one, 

 which had a lpacious avenue, they had cut down certain trees^ 

 of the boals whereof they had made long Rollers, which being 

 lightly faften'd at the top of the Mountain, might be rolled 

 down the defcent, with a more than ordinary force and vio- 

 lence againft the French, if they had attempted any aflault : 

 Out of this Fort they alfo made feveral (allies upon the Enemy, 

 who was building one where they might fafely expect the fop- 

 ply which was to be fent them from Martinko-^ there they 

 kept them in as it were befieged for certain days, during which 

 they had made hollow places in the^ earth to fecure themfelves 

 from the Muskets $ and thence mewing only their heads, they 

 (hot their Arrows at thofe who had the confidence to come 

 without the Trenches 3 nay, in the night time they made a ftiift 

 to get a pot full of burning coals,on which they had cafta hand- 

 ful of F?«w»-feed$ into the Hut which the French had fet up 

 at their firft arrival in the Ifland, purpofely to ftifle them, if 

 they could, by the dangerous fume, and the ftupifying vapour 

 of the Pytnan: But their ftratagem wasdifcovered $ and fome 

 time after the expected fupply being come to the French, the 

 Caribbians treated with them, and left them the abfolute pof- 

 feffionof the Ifland 3 but the differences they have fince had 

 with the French Inhabitants of Martinko have occasioned ano- 

 ther War which lafts (till. 



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