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3. The Experience I have had by foretelling of Hur- 
ricanes, and the Benefit my feif and others have received 
thereby. 
4. And Laflly, Additional Rcafons of the Caufe of 
the Hurricanes and their Bounds. 
/vrf?, How I came to the Knowledge of the Signs or 
Prognofticks of the Hurricanes. 
In the Year 11557. I. With Three Merchant-men 
bound for Nevis and Jamaica^ came under the Ifland 
DominkOy whGxe I had need to take in Provifion for 
Cartel ; but knowing the great hatred the Natives had 
againft our N-arion, (except his Highnefs Prince Rupert^ 
DOtwithftanding all the Means the Governors of thofe 
Wands had ufed to the conirary, I was forc'd to put up 
Holland Colours, and by that Means drew Three of 
the Indians aboard me, and by the civil Entertainment I 
gave them, overcame fo much their Jealoufies of our 
being fi»g/(/&, that returning a Shore,^they brought with 
them a eonfiderable Number of Men, Women, and 
Children 5 furnilhing me with the things I wanted : 
And many of the Men flaying with me all Night, where 
the Entertainment we gave them, undeceivtd them fb 
much of the ill Opinion they had of our Nation, that 
when in the End they difcovered us to be Englijh^ in 
Return to our Civilities, they promifed to (end fbme of 
their chiefeft Families after me to Nevis j to conclude a 
firm Peace with us. And to that purpofe they left me 
Three Hoftages. And when the reft, that followed me, 
were, by one Courtman^ a Matter of a Ship, intercepted 
in order to make them Slaves, I prevailed with the Go- 
vernor of St. ChriJlopherSy who, confidering the end they 
came 
