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Shallop, and taken away the Soldiers Arms •, but the Miif- 
kets being let fly attlongft them, kept them from Robbery 
at that time. This Ifland they called the Ifle 'without 
; Ground ', becaufe they could not anchor there. It 'is not 
broad, but fomething long, and full of Trees, which they 
guelfed to be Cocos and Palmitos. It is a white fahdy 
Ground, and lies in 15 0 South Latitude, and about 100 
Leagues from Dog Ifland. Seeing nothing to be done here, 
they fet Sail, and held their Courfe Weft: to Seaward •. here 
Laving but a flight Water, and no Billows, as the Day 
'before out of the South, they guelfed that Southward there 
was "mdre Land. 
1 3. The 16th, they came to another Ifland that lay 
Northward, and was about 15 Leagues diftant from the 
other : This appeared to be all drowned Land, though, on 
the Sides, well fet with Trees ; and here alfo they found 
no Bottom for anchoring. It yielded them nothing for 
Food but a few Herbs, like thofe in Dog Ifland , with fome 
Crabs, and other Shell-fifh, which were well-tafted Meat : 
But it afforded them fome good frefh Water, which they 
found in a Pit not far from the Shore. The Pottage, made 
of the Herbs they gathered here, proved very ferviceable 
to thofe of their Company that were troubled with the 
Flux. They called this Ifland Water Ifland , becaufe it 
fupplied them with Water. They left it prefently, and 
failed Weftward, making that Day 14 0 46' South Lati- 
tude. The j 8th, they came to another Ifland, lying to 
the South-weft, about 20 Leagues diftant from thelaft, and 
ft retching but North-weft and South-eaft a cohfiderable 
Way. The Boat, being diipatched to found the Depth, 
brought Word, that they had found a Bottom by a Point 
of Land, from whence they came to a gentle Stream of 
Water, at Twenty-five and at Forty Fathom, about a 
Musket-fhot from the Land : This News of Water made 
them fend their empty Cask in the Boat, in hope to have 
it well filled ; but after they had taken a great deal of Pains 
to land, and had been a good while beating up-and-down 
in the Wood to find fome Spring or other to fupply them, 
the Sight of a wild Man frightened them away, and put 
an End to their Inquiry after Water for that time : And 
quickly after they were got into their Boat, there came Five 
or Six more of thofe Savages, and fhewed themfelves upon 
the Shore *, but, feeing they were gone off, prefently retired 
into the Yfoods. But though they got clear of thefe more 
formidable Adverfaries, yet there were others very tr6u- 
•blefome that ftuck very clofe to them, of which they brought 
many Millions along with them out of the Woods. Thefe 
were a fort of black Flies, of which there were fuch pro- 
digious Swarms thereabouts, that they came Home covered 
over with them from Head to Foot , their Hands and 
Faces fo befet, that there was no feeing what Complexion 
they were of ; their Cloaths intirely, hidden by the Multitudes 
of thofe Animals crawling upon them, which did them- 
felves compofe another fort of Apparel •, befides, their 
very Boat and Oars were all over in the fame Drefs as them- 
felves ; fo that, when they came back, the Plague of Flies 
began to rage in the Ship, and every Man was bufy to de- 
fend his Face and Eyes as well as he could : 5 Twas the beft 
Part of the Day’s Work to be flapping the Flies away ; 
and ’twas hard for a Man to open his Mouth, either to 
Apeak; or to eat, without taking in a Mouthful of thefe 
Vermin at the fame rime. This dreadful Perfecution ’tailed 
about Three or Four Days, in which time the Flaps did 
fuch Execution, that their Suffering was pretty well at an 
End, and few of the Flies left alive to torment them. They 
called this Ifland, for this Realon, Fly Ifland, and, by the 
Help of a good Gale of Wind, left it as fall as they 
could. 
14. The 23d, they were under 1 5 0 4', and there again 
had great Billows out of the South, which continued alfo 
the next Day: Here they concluded, that th oPerra Auftra- 
lh , which they fought far, lay yet 250 Leagues, further. 
The 025th, the hollow Billows out of the South frill con- 
tinued, fuch as are commonly in the Spanifh Seas out of 
the North-weft. May the 3d, they failed Weftward, and 
made at Noon 15 0 of \ and that Day they faw feverai great 
Dorradoes, which Were the firft they had been in the 
B 011th Sea. T he.. 9th, they - made 1 .5 0 2 o V and giteffed 
they ..were : 151.Q Leagues from the Coaft of Peru; The 
fame Day they perceived a' Bark coining towards them, 
which they went to meet, and gave her a Gun or Two, 
to make her fir ike •, but thofe that were in her, either not 
under Handing the Language of the Guns, or refilling to 
do what they commanded, the Dutch fent out their Shal- 
lop, with Ten Mufqueteers, to take her ; upon which 
Ihe endeavoured to make her Efcape, but the Shallop in- 
tercepted her •, fome of her Men, in a very great Fear, 
threw themfelves overboard, and difpofed of their Goods 
the fame Way that they did their Bodies. When they 
had boarded her, thofe that were left made no manner of 
Refiftance, but quietly refigned themfelves to the Difpofal 
of the Conquerors, who ufed them Very kindly, dreffed 
thofe that were wounded*, and having the Lives of fome 
that had leaped over-board, and entertaining all of them 
in their Ship. There were, befides the Men, Eight Wo- 
men, and feverai Children ; fo that the whole Number 
amounted to about Twenty-three. They were a cleanly 
neat fort of People, of a reddifh Colour, quite naked, 
except the obfeene Parts, which were covered. The Men 
had long curled black Hair, and the Women Ihort, like 
the Men in Holland. The Bark they were in was of a 
very peculiar Figure and Structure ; it confifted of Two 
Canoes faftened together, in the Midft of each of which 
were iaid Two broad Planks of red Wood to' keep out the 
Water, and feverai others went crofs from one Canoe to 
the other, which were made very fall and clofe above, and 
hung a good way over on both Sides. At the Find of one 
of the Canoes, on the Starboard-fide, there flood a Mali: 
with a Fork in the End of it, where the Yard lay •, the Sail 
v/as made of Mats •, and the Ropes of fuch Stuff as the 
Fig-frails in Spain confift of. They had no Compafs nor 
Chart, nor any Furniture for the Seas, but only a few 
Fifning-hooks, the upper Part of which was Stone, and 
the other black Bone, Tortoife-fhell, or Mother of Pearl: 
They had no need to lade their Veflfel with frefh Water,, 
for they fatisfied themfelves with the Liquor of a few Coco- 
nuts •, and when that was fpent, they had recourfe to the 
great Ocean for Supply, themfelves, and their fmalleft Chil- 
dren, drinking the Salt Water very heartily. T ho Dutch 
fent them all back to their Veffel again, where the Women 
welcomed their Husbands with joyful Embraces, and thus 
happily freed, they failed away to the South-eaft ; But to 
return to our Difcoverers. 
15. The 1 oth, they held a Weft and South-weft Courfe* 
and that Day faw very high Land on their Larboard, lying 
South-eaft by South, about Eight Leagues off ; but, 
though they had a good Gale, they could not reach it that 
Day. The 1 ith, they came up with a very high Ifland *, 
and, about Two Leagues Southward, with another much 
lower, and the fame Day failed over a Bank of Fourteen 
Fathom deep, and a ftony Bottom, lying about Two 
Leagues from the Land, which, being paft, they could 
find no more Ground. About this Time, another of the 
fame kind of Barks came up to them, which had (as they 
generally have) a loofe Canoe in her, to put out upon 
Occafton. She failed at that Rate, that few Dutch Ships 
could out-ftrip her; her Men fleered -.behind with Two 
Oars, in each Canoe one ; and, when they had a mind to 
tack, they rowed before : But all thefe Veffels wind 
themfelves, by only pulling the Oars out of the Water, 
and letting them go. Sending their Shallop to found by 
one of the Elands, they were informed, that there was 
Ground, though fhelvy, at 12, 14, and 15 Fathom, 
about a Cannon-fhot from the Land ; fo they refolved to 
anchor there. The Negroes, indeed, by Signs, directed 
them to go to the other Ifland, and failed thither before 
them ; but they anchored at the End of the former Ifland 
at Twenty -five Fathom fandy Ground* a Cannon-fhot from 
the Land. This Ifland lies in 16 0 10 : It is one in tire 
Mountain s and looks like one of the Moluccas 5 5 tis all 
covered over with Coco-trees, for which Reafon they 
called it Coco Ifland. The other Ifland is much lower 
than this, but longer, lying Raft and Weft: Being at 
Anchor, there came Three Ships, and Nine or Ten 
Canoes, which had Three or Four Men in each, about 
them *, fome of which had put out white Flags, In Token 
of Peace, as they did the like. The Canoes were flat 
before, and iharp behind, hewed out of the whole Piecs 
