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havefujfered by the f aid Roberts and his Accomplices^ 

 during our forcible Detainment y by the [aid Company : We 

 mofl humbly implore your Majejiy\s mofi: royal Ajfent^ 

 to this our humkle Petition, 



And your Petitioners lhall ever pray., 



. This Petition was fent home by a Merchant 

 Ship bound to England y from ^amaica^ who promi-' 

 led to fpeak with the Petitioners, in their Return, 

 about 20 Leagues to Windward of that Ifland, 

 and let them know what Succefs their Petition 

 met with. When this was done, the Pyrates re-| 

 tires to the Ifland before prOpofed, with the Ship 

 and Brigantine. 



This Ifland (which I have no Name for^ lies off 

 the Southweft End of Cuba^ uninhabited, and lit- 

 tle frequented. On theEaft End is a Lagune, fo 

 narrow, that a Ship can but juft go in, tho' there'^s 

 from 1 5 to 2 2 Foot Water, for alinoft a League up : 

 On both Sides of the Lagune grows red Mangrove 

 Trees, very thick, that the Entrance of it, as well 

 as the Veffels laying there, is hardly to be leen. 

 In the Middle of the Ifland are here and there a 

 fmall thick Wood of tall Pines, and other Trees 

 fcattered about in different Places. 



Here they ftaid about nine Months, but not ha- 

 ving Provifion for above two, they were forced to 

 take what the Ifland afforded, which was Fiftx of 

 feveral Sorts, particularly Turtle, which latter 

 was the chiefeft Food they lived on, and was found 

 in great Plenty on the Coafts of this Ifland ^ whe- 

 ther there might be any wild Hogs, Beef, or other 

 Cattle, common to feveral Iflands of the tVefi- Indies^ 

 or that the Pyrates were too idle to hunt them, or 

 whether they preferred other Provifions to that fort 

 of Diet, I know not ; but I was informed by them, 

 that for the whole Time they eat not a Bit of any 

 kind of Flefti-Meat, nor Br€a4 i the latter was 



fupply'd 



