a 6 Fi/^, and laying of Turtle. 
Governor of Majo was but newly return’d 
from being a Prifoner among them, they 
having taken him away, and carried him 
about with them for a Year or two. 
The Sea is plentifully flock’d with Fifh 
of divers forts, viz. Dolphins, Boneta’s, 
Mullets, Snappers, Silver-fifh , Garfifh, 
&c. and here is a good Bay to hale a Sain 
or Net in. I hal’d mine feveral times, 
and to good purpofe ; dragging alhore at 
one time 6 dozen of great Fifh, moft of 
them large Mullets of a foot and a half 
or two foot long. Here are alfo Porpofes, 
and a fmall fort of Whales, that common- 
ly vifit this Road every day. I have al- 
ready faid , [Vol. I. p. 7$.] That the 
Months of May, ‘dune., July and AuguH, 
(that is, the Wet Seafon ) are the time, 
when the Green Turtle come hither, and 
go alhore to lay their Eggs. I look upon 
it as a thing worth taking Notice of, that 
the Turtle fhould always, both in North 
and South Latitude, lay their Eggs in the 
Wet Months. It might be thought, con- 
fidering what great Rains there are then 
in fome places where thefe Creatures lay, 
that their Eggs Ihould be fpoiled by them. 
. But the Rain, tho’ violent, is foon foaked 
up by the Sand, wherein the Eggs are buri- 
ed •, and perhaps links not fo deep into it as 
the Eggs are laid : And keeping down the 
Heat may make the Sand hotter below 
than 
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