APPENDIX. 



** This conquell: being once effected, would utterly ruiii the Spaniards^ 

 *' for thefe reafons : our fliips lying both here and at 'Jamaica^ would be at 

 *' all times ready to gather up their flraggling fleet, which it is difficult to 

 *• keep embodyed without the help of that port of Havana ; it being im- 

 *• poflible for their great unruly fhips to turn up to windward from the bay 

 *' of Mexico, or Puerto Belloy without feparation : and on the other hand^ 

 *' to pafs the gulph of Florida is for them impoffiblcj J]:ould they lofe the Ha- 



vana, where they always rendezvous, vidlual, water, and provide all 

 ** things neceffary for their return into Spain. When this is done, they wait 



for a convenient feafon of wind and weather, (being much obferved from 

 ** the changes of the moon) in order to pafs that dangerous ftreight : for to 



fay truly, the Spa7iiards are neither very fit for fea nor land-fcrvice, ex- 

 *' cepting fome officers and foldiers bred in Flanders, for the latter, and a 

 *• icvf Btfca?iiers for fea affairs. 



*' They are fo fenfible of their Vv^eaknefs, and jealous of their riches in 



thofe parts, that it is very difficult for any ingenious man, once taken by 

 *' them, to get his liberty, fearing he might give fuch intelligence as would 

 *' be the caufe of their ruin ; witnefs their blind-folding of all flrangers, 

 *« when they pafs their cities and cables : for they much dread an old pro- 

 *• phecy among them, 'That within a Ji:ort time the Englifli will as freely 



walk the Jireets of the Havana, as the Spaniards now do ; which indeed 



had been eahly performed with a third part of the army fent to Jamaica, 

 *' and a far greater advantage to the nation : for I efteem that port and har- 



hour of the Havana in the JVeJi-Indies, to be as great a check upon the 

 *' Spaniards, as Tangier in the Streights of Gibraltar and if we were once 

 ** mafters of both, they would without doubt be fo ftraitened, as abfolutely 

 *' to admit us a free trade into their ports of America, where they import 

 <« our commodities, and fell them for ten times more than they firft coft 

 *' in Spain, by reafon of the great plenty of filver ; which trade would not 

 ** only be a great advantage to us, but alfo prevent their future enflaving our 

 *' nation in chains, as they now do : for being employed about their forti- 

 *' fications, tbt-y are worfe ufed, all things confidered, than if they were 

 ** taken by the Turks. 



** I have feen other parts of xh^JVeJl-Indies, where the Spaniards might 

 *« be fleeced of confiderable quandties of riches : as at Panama, where their 



. P . filver- 



