For in thofe at Sea I loft not a Sail, Yard, or Mafl: i 
they being two great Hurricanes, And in the Year 
1667. I being a-fhore at Nevis^ there was a Hurricane 
on the 19th Day of Augujl ; and Fourteen Days before, 
I did take notice of the foregoing Signs, on a Full Moon ; 
and I acquainted Sir John Berry, who was Commander 
of his Majefty's Ship, Coronation, and feverai other 
Commanders there who did make their Ships ready for 
the Sea and in the Morning about Four of the Clock, 
-the Wind coming hard Northerly, they put to Sea and 
by God's Bleffing, came all back, in Four or Five Days 
time, fafetoihe Road again, to the great Admiration of 
xh^ French, then our Enemies infomuch chat I was told, 
that a Capucin Fryar , in his Sermon to the French, af- 
ter the Hurricane, fnould ufe this Expreffion : ' You 
may now fee your Wickednefs, in Praying for a Hur- 
ricane to deflroy the Engltjh Fleet, when you fee they 
-are all come back fafe; and we have not a Houfe left 
* to fei-ve God in, nor for our own Convenience, nor 
* Forts nor Amunicion left to defend our felves againfl: 
* thefe preferv'd Enemies. And the Governor of Nevis, 
^and Planters, were for perfwading the Commanders of 
the Ships to ftay, and not regard my falfe Prophefies, 
as they calfd it, they being very much offended with 
me for giving Sir John Berry this Councel; infomuch 
that when Sir John Berry returned back ftom the Hurri- 
cane, I was the firft chat went aboard him, where he fa- 
luted m.e with many Thanks, and likewifi; ufed this 
Expreffion ; Is the old Governor's Houfe down as well 
as the refl ? 1 told him. It was down to the Ground, 
I am not forry, faid he, f3r him, for he would not be- 
lieve it had been a Hurricane elfe ; though he was forry 
to fee the great Dsftrudtion it had made on the Shc^-e. 
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