146 A Voyage to 



to fet out on the Feaft of Corpus Chrifih Mod of them take 

 their Wives and Children with them, who are feen to go 

 to that Servitude with Tears in their Eyes, and with Re- 

 pugnance ; however, after the Year's Duty, there are ma* 

 ny who forget their Habitations, and continue fettled at 

 Potofi) which is the Oecafion of that Place's being fo popu- 

 lous. 



The Mines are much decreased of their Value, and the 

 Mint does not coin one Quarter of what it did formerly t 

 There were once 120 Mills, at this time there are only 40; 

 and for the moll part, there is not Employment for half 

 of them. 



That Place is faid to be fo cold, that formerly the Spa- 

 nifo Women could not lie-in there, but were obliged to 

 Conceited Re- g 0 twenty or thirty Leagues from thence, to avoid bc- 

 mark. m ^ ex p 0 f e d to the Danger of Dying with their Infants > 

 but now fome lie-in there. That Effe£t of their Tender- 

 nefs was look'd upon as a Punifliment from Heaven, becaufe 

 the Indian Women are not fubjeft to that Inconveniency r 

 The other Particulars of that Town are to be found in 

 feveral Relations. 



PavelJen Having pafs'd Cobija y we were becalm'd in 21 Degrees 

 Jfland. Latitude, near the little Ifland call'd Pamellon, becaufe it 

 looks like a Tent the upper Half black, and the lower 

 white. Behind that Ifland, on the Continent, is a little 

 Creek for Boats : On that Coaft there are Beafts, which the 

 Inhabitants call Lions, tha' much differing from thofe of 

 Africa.. I have feen their Skins fluff d full of Straw, the 

 Lions <>/Pe-*Head whereof fomewhat refembles a Wolf and a Tiger,. 



but the Tail is lefs than that of either of them* Thefe 

 Creatures are not to be fear'd, for they fly from Men, and 

 do Harm only among the Cattle. We continued two Days 

 becalm'd, near the Ifland Pavetton, without being fenfible 

 of any Current. 



Carapucho Some fmall Gales fet us forward to the Land's Head 

 Kue calrd Carapucho, at the Foot whereof is the Ifland of Iqui- 

 Jflml quty in a Creek where there is Anchorage, but no Water; 



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