Capt. Bartho. Roberts. 9if 



0S their Poireffions, three or four hundred Miles in- 

 to the Country. A Country abounding with fine 

 Failures and numerous Herds of Cattle, and yields 

 a yaft Increafe from every thing that is Ibwn; 

 Hence they bring down to us Parrots, fmall Mon^* 

 kies. Armadillos and Sanguins, and I have been aC. 

 jfijred, they have, (far In-land,) a Serpent of a vaft 

 Magnitude, called Siboyay able, they fay, to fwallow 

 a whole Sheep-, I have feen my felf here the Skin 

 of another Specie full lix Yards long, and therefore 

 ■think the Story not improbable. 



The Harbour of Permmbuca is, perhaps, Angular^ 

 it is made of a Ledge of Rocks, half a Cables length 

 from the Main, and but little above the Surface of 

 the Water, running at that equal Diftance and 

 Heighth feveral Leagues, towards Cape Auguftine^ a 

 Harbour running between them capable of receiving 

 Ships of the greateft Burthen : The Northermoft 

 End of this Wall of Rock, is higher than any Part of 

 the contiguous Line, on which a little Fort is built, 

 commanding the Paffage either of Boat or Ship, as 

 they come over the Bar into the Harbour : On the 

 Starboard Side, (Le, the Main) after you have en- 

 tered a little way, fiands another Fort (a Pentagon) 

 that would prove of fmall Account, I imagine, a-^* 

 ' gainft a few difciplined Men and yet in thele coi^ififts 

 ftll their Strength and Security, either for the Har* 

 hour or Town : They have begun indeed a Wall, 

 Since their removing from OUnda^ defigned to fur-^ 

 round the latter but the flow Progrefs they 

 make in raifmg it, leaves Room to fulped 'twill be a 

 long time in finifliing. 



The Road Without, is u led by the Portugueze^ 

 when they are nigh failing for Europe^ and wait for 

 the Convoy, or are bound to Bahia to them, and by 

 Strangers only when Keqeffity compels- the beft pf it 

 is in ten Fathom Water,'near three Miles W. N, W. 

 from the Town ^ nigher in, is foul with the many 

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