Part IL. Travels into the Levant. 
Sailed by that Ifland about midnight, but we faw it not, though we had all along 
light enough, todifcern a little of the main Land near to which it lyes. » 
We concluded then, that we had pall: that Ille of L^r^? in the night-time, but _ 
next day we found that we were out in our reckoning. Neverthelefs, feeing We 
did not out our miftake till after noon s about fix a Clock in the morning, wc . 
Steered away E^r/f, bearing in towards the Land, for fear we might be caft too far 
to the Leeward of Congo. About half an hour after fix our Long-Boat that was 
fattened to the Stern filled full of water, and funk under the furface of the Sea : 
we prefently furled all Sails but the Sprit- Sail, and three Seamen fwam to tlie 
Boat to fatten another Rope to it which they held by lie end -, then they went into 
it, and we hailed it to the Leeward fide of the Ship, and took out a little Anchor 
that was in her i this being done our men attempted to hall her oat of the water 
by one fide, that (he might be emptied by the other i but the weight of the water 
bulged one of her fides, and then (he overfet ; fo that defpairing to recover her, 
unlefs with much labour and the lofs of a great deal of time, and fearing befides 
that (he might dafh againft the Hold of the Ship, becaufe it was then a very rough 
Sea, they cut the Ropes and' let her go, though it was near a hundred Piajires 
lofs to the Owner of the Ship, This made us lofe a whole hours time, and in 
the mean while one of the Ships (which the day before was to our Starboard,) got 
a Head of us. About half an hour after feven in the morning, we made Sail 
with a North Wind. About half an hour after nine, we were off of an Ifland 
to our Larboard, which we took to be Audarvia, but we were mittaken. About 
ten a Clock the violence of the Wind began to abate, and we Steered away Eafl^ 
South-Eaft. About two a Clock after noon, we made a little Ifland to the Lar- 
board very near the main Land, and knew it be Audarvia^ and that the other 
which we paft about half an hour after nine in the morning, and took for Au- 
darvia^ was Lara. This Ifle of Lara is a little Defart very low place, clofe by Lara^ 
the main Land, which is the rcafon that it is not eafily difcovered ; it bears nothing 
unlefs it be fome wild Trees, and that too only at one end of it, which lyts to 
the f^Tejl, North-Weji^ and was to us the beginning of the Ifle, as our Courfe lay 
it may be known by thefe Trees. It lyes in length from JFefi^ North- Weft ^ to Eajî^ 
SoHth-Eafi -■» and is threefcorc and ten Leagues from Care^. The Ifle of Audarvia Andirvle» 
is in like manner little, low, and very near the main Land, and lyes in length as 
LataàotsïiomWejt^ North-Weji^ to Eaji^ South-Eafi : there is good water in this 
Ifland, and in the middle of it fome wild Trees, and the Cottages of fome 
Fiftiermen, who come from the main Land to Fifli there j it being feven or eight 
Leagues from Lara. It is worth the obferving that though thefe two Ifles be very 
near the Land, (as I have been faying,) yet they leave a paffage betwixt them and 
the main Land, which may admit of Ships, becaufe it is very deep water, and 
Ships fometimes flioot that paflage. The Wind frelhning in the afternoon, at three 
quarters of an hour after two a Clock, we were got to the farther end of the Ifland, 
and an hour after, made the Ifle of Keis to the South-Eaft. About half an hour 
after four, we got on Head of the Ship that was before us in the morning, and at 
the fame time we were off and on with the hithermoft end of the Ifle of iCei/, K^is. 
which was to our Starboard fide. This Ifland is about two Leagues and a half 
from the main Land, or three at moft, and about five Leagues from Audarvia^ 
though they, reckon it fifteen Leagues from Lara to Keis : it reaches in length from 
Weft, South-Weft, to Eaft, North- Eaft, and is about five Leagues in Circuit \ it is 
very low and flat like the two former, but it is inhabited by feveral people, who 
have Houfes difperfed here and there upon it. 
I was told that heretofore the Inhabitants of that Ifland, having killed a For- 
tuguefe who had gone a flioar there , for fome infolence which he had commit- 
ted i fometime after, other Foriugneje Ships coming thither, the Admiral called 
Koui-Fereyra-Andrada, went afhoar upon the Ifland, and taking a Sucking-Child, 
put it into a Mortar i and by an unparalelled piece of cruelty, made the Father and A horrid 
Mother of the innocent Babe pound it ihemfelves in the Mertar. This General P|j^^Qf°g 
was a Devil incarnate, and it was hisufual way fo to revenge himfelf on the Inha- ^^Jnefe, ' 
bitants of thofe Coafts, when they had done him .any difplcafure: his name is 
to this day fo terrible unto them, that they ufe it to ftill their little Children 
when they cry, threatning them with Loms de Fereyra. In the mean time that 
inhumanity made many forfake the Ifland, that they might not be expofed to fuch 
crue^ 
