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A02626	A relation of a voyage to Guiana Describing the climat, scituation, fertilitie, prouisions and commodities of that country, containing seuen prouinces, and other signiories within that territory: together, with the manners, customes, behauiors, and dispositions of the people. Performed by Robert Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt Esquire. The pattent for the plantation of which country, his Maiestie hath granted to the said Robert Harcourt vnder the Great Seale.	Harcourt, Robert, 1574?-1631.	1613 (1613)	STC 12754; ESTC S103834	52,578	88

Anguilla vpon St. Lukes day where I thinke neuer Englishmā dissembogued before vs for we found all our Sea-charts false concerning that place those broken Islands being placed therein to the Southward of Anguilla betwene it and St. Martins and wee found them scituat to the Northward thereof When wee had cleered our selues of the broken Islands wee stood away North-East shaping our course the neerest way wee could for Flores and Corues and so continued with faire weather the winde still mending vpon vs vntill the thirtieth day of October about twelue of the clocke that day there began a storme with contrarie windes still variable which continued vntill 4. the next day in the afternoone In this storme wee lost the company of the Pinnesse in the night but had fight of her againe vpon the fourth of Nouember late in the euening and the next day shee came vp vnto vs at two of the clocke in the afternoone Then the winde came faire at West and wee steered away East by North and E. N. Eastamong The seauenth of Nouember I relieued the Pinnesse with more bread and left her to follow after vs not being able to keepe way with vs before the winde which then blew strongly at West for I was very vnwilling to loose the benefit of a speedy passage which the cōtinuāce of that faire winde was like to afford vs. And so following our course on the eleuenth day in the morning we had sight of Fayal one of the Islands of the Terceras which we left on our starboord side and steered away for England the winde continuing faire vntill the twenty foure day But then it changed first to the East by North and then to the East south-east and became so violent and furious that for three daies space we were not able to beare out saile but did driue before the winde at the least three leagues a watch out of our course and the first land wee made was Cape Cleere in the South-west part of Ireland where against our wils we arriued at Crooke Hauen the twenty nine of Nouember Our arriuall there at that present was happy for vs considering our extreame wants and great necessities for of all our store we had remaining but one hogshed of water halfe a hogshed of beuerage all our beere being spent and wasted by leakage sixe peeces of beefe and three of Porke which was all our prouision we had neither fish butter oyle cheese nor pease left to relieue vs whereby we had fallen into a lamentable distresse if almighty God had not in time brought vs vnto this harbour where we supplied our wants by the helpe of Captaine Reignolds commander of his Maiesties Pinnesse called the Moone whom we fortunately met there altogether vnexpected But the winde continuing contrary at the East and like to hold still in that corner presaged new wants to insue if a speedy remedy was not prouided To preuent the worst I resolued to goe by land to Yoghall neere vnto which place remained some friends and acquaintance of mine by whom I might prouide my selfe of meanes to defray my charge vntill my returne into England and therefore gaue commandement to the master of my shippe to wage a Pilot and vpon the first shift of winde if it fauoured him in any time to bring the shippe about to Yoghall where I ment to abide his comming resoluing thence to goe for Bristol And I appointed if the winde did hold against him to send him mony to supplie their victuals vntill it pleased God to alter it but he regarding his owne priuate ends more then my commaund and direction vpon the first shift of wind went away with my shippe without my knowledge to Dartmouth in the west Country and left me behind in Ireland whereof as soone as I had intelligence I presently tooke the opertunitie of a speedy passage in a barke then reddy bound for Bristol and so the next morning being the fifteenth of December I departed from Yoghall and arriued at Bristol the seuententh day My Pinnesse which we left at Sea to follow after vs was likewise by the aforesaid storme driuen into the west of Ireland to a place caled Dingen le Coushe and there remained along time wind-bound but at the last by Gods permission arriued at Bristol the second day of February During the time of my voyage we left but one land-man who died in Guiana and one sailer and an Indian boy who died at Sea in our returne and during the space of these three yeares last past since the voiage of all the men which I left in the country being in number about thirty there died but six whereof one was drowned another was an old man of threescore yeeres of age and another tooke his death by his owne disorder the rest died of sicknes as pleased God the giuer of life for which small losse his holy name be blessed now and euer Hauing thus most noble Prince declared the whole course of my voiage to Guiana performed in the yeare of our Lord 1609. I hold it needefull for the better satisfaction of the fauourers and wel-willers of this action by adding of a speciall note or two and by a briefe reremembrance of some points mentioned in the former discourse to expresse the worthinesse of the enterprise being of importance and not to bee regarded lightly In euery forraine action vndertaken by the subiects of a Christian Prince they ought to haue especiall regard to three principall ends and designes First that it may bee for the glory of God Secondly for the honour of their Soueraigne Thirdly for the benefit and profit of their Countrey Which three principall ends and intendements if they faithfully prosecute and labour to aduance with constant resolution they shall infallibly bring their vndertakings to blessed prosperous and honorable end And now if it shall appeare that this enterprise for discouery and plantation in Guiana is chiefely grounded vpon these three designes I hope there is not any man bee hee neuer so malitious and full of enuy that can with iust exp●●●tions scandalise it or worthily contemne it First then for the glory of God it hath been and euer will bee held cleere and vnquestionable that God cannot be more honoured nor his holy name by any meanes more glorified then by the prosperous grouth and happy increase of his Church through the conuersion of those that bee heathen and barbarous Nations to the knowledge of him our true God his Sonne Iesus Christ and the holy Ghost the blessed indiuiduall Trinity and to the profession and practise of Christianity which heauenly and euer memorable worke may through Gods good blessing and assistance without which indeede all our trauell therein and all the labour of the world is but lost bee easily effected and accomplished in Guiana the people thereof being of a louing and tractable nature towards the English whom they loue and preferre before all other strangers

my ship and about six more I followed the Coast to the Westward stering due West and passing by the riuer of Meccooria I lodged that night in the mouth of the riuer Courwo which hath a narrow deepe entrance and within affordeth a good harbour which may in time to come for some speciall purpose bee of great vse The next day and the night following I proceeded Westward with full saile and passing the riuers of Manmanury Sinammara Corassowini Coonannonia Vracco and Amanna I arriued the twenty fiue day at the riuer of Marrawini which openeth a faire riuer but is shoale vpon the Barre which lyeth two or three Leagues off at Sea hauing but two fadome water within the Barre the Channel is three foure fiue and six fadome deepe Fiue leagues within the ruier wee passed by certaine Islands called Curewapory not inhabited for at the rising of the waters they are alwaies ouerflowen of which sort the riuer hath very many wee lodged that night a litle beyond these first Islands at a village called Moyemon on the lefthand the Captaine thereof is called Maperitaka of the Nation of the Paragotos a man very louing and faithfull to our Nation whereof wee haue had good proofe The next day wee proceeded vp the riuer three leagues and stayed at a towne called Coewynay on the right hand at the house of Minapa the chiefe Charib of that Signiory to prouide two Canoes to prosecute our iourney for the discouery of this riuer The twenty eight day wee went forward passing many villages and townes which I forbeare to name and hauing gone about twenty leagues from the Sea wee found the riuer in a manner barred vp with rocks ouer which the water falleth with great violence yet notwithstanding wee aduentured to proceed and the further wee went the more dangerous we found the ouerfalles and more in number but when we had passed the first Mountaine towards the high Countrey of Guiana called Sapparow and discouered far off before vs other high Mountaines called Matawere Moupanana and had proceeded 6. daies iourney vp the riuer which was more thē forty leagues we met with such shoale rocky streame great ouerfalles that there to our griefour iourny ended Being thus for that time debarred from our intended discouery wee prepared our selues with Patience to returne towards our shippes and the third day of September wee turned downe the riuer shooting the ouerfalles with more celerity then when wee came vp dispatching three daies iourney in one and the fifth day returned safe to Moyemon but before I departed thence Captaine Fisher told mee of certaine plants which hee had then found much like vnto Rose-trees growing about halfe a yard in height whereof for the strangenesse of them I cannot forbeare to adde a word or two These plants or little trees had assuredly the sence of feeling as plainely appeared by touching them for if you did but touch a leafe of the tree with your finger that leafe would presently shrinke and close vp it selfe and hang downe as if it were dead and if you did cut off a leafe with a paire of cisers then all the other leaues growing vpon the same tree would instantly shrinke and close vp themselues and hang downe as if they were dead and withered and within halfe a quarter of an hower would by degrees open themselues againe and flourish as before and as often as you did either touch or cut off any of them they would doe the like which did euidently shew a restriction of the spirits inuincibly arguing a Sence Howsoeuer this may seeme strange and incredible to your Highnesse and to them that haue not seene it yet forasmuch as Scaliger and Bartas make mention of the like I dare bee bold to affirme it vpon my credit hauing seene and shewed it to forty others I gathered two of the plants and did set them in pots in their owne earth and carried them aboord my shippe where I kept them fairely growing almost a fortnight vntill they were destroied by certaine Munkies that brake loose and pulled them in peeces which might haue been preuented but that I was constrained to set them in the open ayre the better to preserue them The seuenth day I went to Wiawia a great towne of Paragotos and Yaios foure leagues to the West of Marrawini whereof Maperitaka aboue mentioned and Arapawaka are chiefe Captaines At this towne I left my Cozen Vnton Fisher and Humfrey Croxton an Apothecary to beare him company and one seruant to attend him called Christopher Fisher hauing first taken order with Maperitaka for their diet and other necessaries both for trauell and otherwise who euer since according to his promise hath performed the part of an honest man and faithfull friend I gaue directions to my Cozen Fisher to prosecute the discouery of Marrawini and the inland parts bordering vpon it when the time of the yeere and the waters better serued and if it were possible to goe vp into the high Countrey of Guiana and to finde out the City of Manoa mentioned by Sr. Walter Raleigh in his discouery He followed my directions to the vttermost of his ability being of a good wit and very industrious and inabled to vndergoe those imployments by obtaining the loue and gaining the languages of the people without which helpes there is little or no good to bee done in those parts When the waters of Marrawini were risen and the riuer passable much differing from the riuer of Wiapoco which is not to bee trauelled but in the lowest waters He began his iourney for the discouery thereof in company of the Apothecary his seruant Fisher the Indian Maperitaka and eighteene others and proceeded eleauen daies iourney vp the riuer to a towne of Charibes called Taupuramune distant from the Sea aboue an hundred leagues but was foure daies iourney short of Moreshego which is also a towne of Charibes scituate vpon the riuer side in the prouince of Moreshegoro the chiefe Captaine thereof is called Areminta who is a proud and bold Indian much feared of all those that dwell within his Territories hauing a rough skin like vnto Buffe leather of which kinde there bee many in those parts and I suppose proceedeth of some infirmity of the body Hee vnderstood by relation of the Indians of Taupuramune and also of Areminta that six daies iourney beyond Moreshego there are diuers mighty Nations of Indians hauing holes through their eares cheekes nostrils and nether lippes which were called Craweanna Pawmeeanna Quikeanna Peewattere Arameeso Acawreanno Acooreo Tareepeeanna Corecorickado Peeauncado Cocoanno Itsura and Waremisso and were of strength and stature far exceeding other Indians hauing Bowes and Arrowes foure times as bigge what the Indians also report of the greatnesse of their eares I forbeare to mention vntill by experience we shall discouer the truth thereof Moreouer hee learned that there fall into Marrawini

A VOYAGE TO Guiana performed by Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt in the Countie of OXFORD Esquire IN the yeare of our Lord 1608. and the three and twentieth of March when I had furnished my selfe with one ship of fourescore Tunnes called the Rose a Pinnesse of sixe and thirtie Tunnes called the Patience and a Shallop of nine Tunnes called the Lilly which I built at Dartmouth and had finished my other businesse there and prepared all things in readinesse to begin my voyage the winde reasonably seruing I then imbarked my companie as followeth In the Rose I was accompanied with captaine Edward Fisher captaine Edward Haruey master Edward Gifford and my cosen Thomas Harcourt And besides them I had of Gentlemen and others one and thirtie land men two Indians and three and twentie Mariners and Saylers In the Patience my brother captain Michael Harcort had with him of gentlemen and others twentie land-men and eleuen Mariners and Saylers In the Lilly Iesper Lilly the Master had one landman and two Saylers so that my iust number too great for so few ships of no greater burden was in all fourescore seuenteen wherof threescore were land-men Being thus imbarked wee set saile from the Rainge at Dartmouth the said three and twentieth of March but the winde altering vpon a sudden put vs back againe that euening and about two of the clock the next morning it comming better for vs we weighed anchor and put to Sea the euening following we lost sight of the Lyzart and steered away for the Canaries Vpon Saturday the first of Aprill 1609. towards the euening the winde increased and grew so violent that my Shallop which we towed in a Cablet by reason of the foule weather was that night seperated from vs for by the rage and fury of the winde and Sea the Cablet brake in sunder and the little Barke was in great danger to be cast away but it pleased God to preserue her for the next morning we discryed her to Leeward of vs contrary to our expectation hauing giuen her lost Then holding on our course the seuenth day wee fell with Alegranza and Lancerote two Islands of the Canaries wee stoode in with Alegranza and came to anchor on the South-west side thereof that euening and the next day I landed my company to exercise their limbs on shoare in this Island we found no inhabitants nor fresh-water neither fruitfull tree plant herbe grasse nor any thing growing that was good onely an abundance of vnwholsome Sea-foule which after one meale were vnsauory distasteful a few wilde Captitos or wilde Goats which the craggy rocks defended frō our hands and hungry mouthes The eighth of Aprill we departed from Alegranza and directed our course for Tenerife another of the Islands The eleuenth day I sent the Pinnesse and the Shalloppe to water at the calmes and there to attend my comming but with my Shippe I held my course for Orotauo a towne on the other side of the Island in hope to get some wine amongst the Merchants there but not being able by reason of a contrary winde to double Punta de Nega wee altered our course from wine to water And the twelfth day wee Passed by Santa Cruz and watered that euening at the Calmes This watering place is very conuenient for all such as passe by those Islands and is thus to bee found there is a wooden crosse neere vnto it the high Pike of Tenerife beareth due North from it There is also a ledge of rockes to the Eastward of the landing place which is a short Sandy bay When you are landed you shall finde the place about fourty or fifty yardes from the Sea side The next day we met againe with the Pinnesse and the Shalloppe who missing of the right place had not yet watered wherefore wee stood backe againe to guide them to it but the winde preuenting vs enforced them to seeke for water elsewhere which with some dificulty they obtained vpon the fifteenth day in the morning Then wee stood on our course for the riuer of Wiapoco in Guiana hauing aprosperous winde faire weather and a smooth Sea The ninth day of May wee fell into the current of the great and famous riuer of Amazones which putteth out into the Sea such a violent and mighty streame of fresh water that being thirty leagues from land wee drunke thereof and found it as fresh and good as in a spring or poole This riuer for the great and wonderfull breadth contayning at the mouth neere Sixty leagues is rightly termed by Iosephus Acosta the Empresse and Queene of all flouds and by Hieronimus Giraua Tarraconensis it is said to bee the greatest not only of all India but also of the whole world and for the greatues is called of many the sweete Sea It riseth and floweth from the Mountaines of Peru and draweth out her streams in many windings turnings vnder the Equinoctiall for the space of one thousand fiue hundred leagues and more although from her fountaines and springs vnto the Sea it is but six hundred When wee entred into the aforesaid current wee sounded and had fouerty fouer fadome water sandy sounding The tenth day the colour of the water changed became muddy whitish and thicke then wee sounded againe at twelue of the clocke at noone and had thirteene fadome and seauenteene at fower in the after noone The eleauenth day at eight of the clocke in the morning we made land the vttermost point thereof bearing West from vs and came to anchor in fiue fadome water At night the Patience putting in to neare the shoare came to anchor in 2½ fadome water vpon the floud which fell from her vpon the ebbe and left her dry vpon the Oaze and the next floud comming in did so shake and beate her against the ground that before shee could get off her rudder was beaten away and her ribbes so rent and crased that if Almighty God had not preserued her she had been wrackt but God bee thanked with much adoe shee came off into deeper water and mended her rudder as well as the time and place would afford meanes Then wee followed on our course coasting along to the North-north-west the land so trending It is very shoale all along this coast the ground soft oaze but no danger to bee feared keeping our ship in fiue fadome water When wee came to the latitude of two degrees and a halfe wee anchored in a goodly bay by certaine Islands called Carripapoory I did at that time forbeare to make particular discouery of this coast intending if God spare me life to make a perfect discouery of the famous riuer of Amazones and of her seuerall branches and countries bordering vppon it and of all this tract of land from the Amazones vnto the riuer of Wiapoco which containeth many goodly Prouinces and Signiories which are in this

with such a courage shewing also our men vnto them who had their match in cocke ready to discharge that he strooke such a feare into them all by reason of our mens presence that they presently agreed to peace performed what conditions he required and then departed home with all their company Here may your Highnesse note the factions among the Indian Nations the discipline and order they hold in war the feare the Charibes conceiued at the sight of our Englishmen and the policy of the Indian Leonard to take aduantage by their feare and make our men his Guard and chiefe protection against them These things in time will much auaile vs being well obserued and rightly applied according to occasion But to our former discourse The power and strength of these Countries being so thinly peopled is not very great to withstand the might of forraine enemies the vsuall weapons of the Indians are before described sauing that their arrowes are oft-times poisoned But since our trade and commerce with them they haue gotten a few good swords muskets caliuers and some small quantity of shot and powder and haue learned to handle their peeces very orderly and some of them are good shot The seasons of the yeere vpon this coast and in this climate are diuers for in the East parts of Guiana towards the Amazones the dry weather which we call their Summer beginneth in August and the violent raines and tempestuous winds which we count their winter doe begin in February But in the Westerne parts towards Orenoque the dry season beginneth in October and the raines and windes in Aprill There is little difference of heate and cold in this diuersity of seasons beeing so neere the Equinoctiall where the day and night are alwaies equall the sunne euer rising and seting at six of the clocke or neere thereabout which climat by the ancient Philosophers in respect of the neerenes of the Sunne which causeth excessiue drowth and heate was accounted the vnhabitable and burning Zone but our dayly experience doth assure vs of their certaine mistaking in that point for in those parts wee finde that when the Sunne declineth furthest from them towards the Tropicke of Capricorne the ayre is then cleerest and the season of the yeare most dry as in the Easterne parts of Guiana in August September October Nouember and December and when the Sunne returneth towards the Tropicke of Cancer then doe the raines begin increase and decrease from February to Iuly but sometimes they begin to fall and the riuers to rise swell and ouerflow sooner or later by a moneth and the yeare is sometimes more or lesse windie and wet according to the disposition of the heauens and of the Planets and as the Sunne approcheth or declineth little or much euen so the earth wanteth or aboundeth with water and moisture The reasons of these strange diuersities from other regions without the Tropickes are very excellently declared by Ioseph Acosta in the second book of his natural morall history of the Indies to which Author I refer you for your better satisfaction therein but withall I must aduertise you that when you reade his first and second bookes you haue regard to the place where they were writtē which was in Peru reputed by vs to be beyond the Equinoctiall towards the South or Pole Antarticke lest you erre by mistaking his meaning for in those two bookes when hee mentioneth any place beyond the Equinoctiall hee meaneth towards the North or Pole Articke And also you must note that this generall rule for the heauens temprature is only limited to the Region of the burning Zone within the Tropickes They haue no diuision or account of times or numbers they onely reckon by the Moones as one two three foure or fiue Moones or by daies in like manner Their numbers they reckon thus one two three and so to tenne then they say tenne and one ten and two tenne and three c. And to shew their meaning more certainely they will hold vp one two three or more of their fingers expressing the numbers still making signes as they speake the better to declare their meaning when they will reckon twenty they will hold downe both their hands to their feete shewing all their fingers and toes and as the number is greater so will they double the signe When they appoint or promise any thing to bee done by a time limited they will deliuer a little bundle of sticks equall to the number of daies or Moones that they appoint and will themselues keepe another bundle of the like number and to obserue their appointed time they will euery day or Moone take away a sticke and when they haue taken away all then they know that the time of their appointment is come and will accordingly performe their promise As touching Religion they haue none amongst them that I could perceiue more then a certaine obseruance of the Sunne and Moone supposing them to bee aliue but vse no religious worshippe towards them nor offer sacrifice to any thing vnlesse they vse a superstition in their drinking feasts by sacrificing Iarres of drinke for at the death of any of their Cassiques Captaines or great friends whom they esteeme they will make a solemne feast their chiefest prouision being of their best and strongest drinke which they call Parranow which feast shall continue three or foure daies or as long as their liquor lasteth spending their time in dancing singing and drinking excessiuely in which vice they exceede all other nations whatsoeuer accounting him that will bee drunke first the brauest fellow during this solemnity of their drinking some woman being neerest of kin vnto the party dead doth stand by and cry extreamely thus their manner is vntill their drinke bee spent and then the feast is ended Whether they vse any superstition in this custome I know not time will reueale and also reforme it It is most certaine that their Peeaios as they call them Priests or Southsayers at some speciall times haue conference with the diuell the common deceiuer of mankinde whom they call Wattipa and are by him deluded yet notwithstanding their often conference with him they feare and hate him much and say that hee is nought and not without great reason for hee will often times to their great terror beate them blacke and blew They beleeue that the good Indians when they die goe vp and will point towards the heauens which they call Caupo and that the bad Indians goe downe pointing to the earth which they call Soy when any Cassique Captaine or chiefe man dieth amongst them if hee haue a slaue or prisoner taken from their enemies they will kill him and if he haue none such then wil they kill one of his other seruants that hee may haue one to attend him in the other world The quallity of the land in those Countries is of diuers kindes by the Sea side

diuers great riuers called Arrennee Topannawin Errewin Cowomma Poorakette Arroua Arretowenne Waoune Anape Aunime and Carapio whereof some he hath seene himselfe That it was twenty daies iourney from Taupuramune to the head of Marrawini which is inhabited by Arwaccas Sappaios Paragotos and some Yaios and that a daies iourny from thence to the land-ward the Countrey is plaine and Champian ground with long grasse Hee passed in this iourney aboue eighty ouerfalles of water and many of them very dangerous of some of them I had experience the yeere before Hee proceeded no further at that present being vnprouided for so long a iourney supposing that it had been neerer then hee found it to the head of the riuer by a fortnights trauell and so returned backe in six daies space intending better preparation for a second iourney but his purpose was preuented by an vntimely death for shortly after hee was drowned by misfortune whereby we see that man determineth but God disposeth The tenth day of September being Sunday I left the main of Guiana and in my ship-boat stood off into the sea to seek my ships which were forced to ride foure leagues from shoare by reason of the shoales but as wee passed ouer them wee were in danger to bee cast away by the breach of a sea which verily had sunke our boat if with great celerity we had not lightned her by heauing ouerbord many baskets of bread of Cassaui Maix Pinas Platanas Potatoes and such like prouision wherewith our boat was loaden by which meanes it pleased God to deliuer vs from present destruction and to bring vs safe vnto our ships When I came aboord we weighed anchor and steered away from the Island of Trinidado and vpon the 18. day in the morning we arriued at Punta de Galea where wee found three English ships at anchor which was no small comfort vnto vs considering our great defects wants One of these shippes was called the Diana belonging to Mr. Lula Dutch merchant dwelling in London The other two the Penelope and the Indeuor belonging to Mr. Hall a merchant also of London We staied at this place 6. daies to mend our bad caske and to take fresh water during which time I was kindly intreated feasted by the Merchants and had supply of al such things as I stood in need of which curtesie I requited in the best manner I could for the present Vpon Sunday the twenty foure of September we weighed anchor so likewise did the Diana the other two shippes being gone two or three daies before vs but the wind shifting to the north-east inforced vs backe againe almost to the same place from whence we departed The twenty fiue we weighed againe and plied along the shoare towards Cape Brea about three leagues This Cape is so called of the Pitch which is there gotten in the earth whereof there is such abundance that all places on this side of the world may be stored therewith It is a most excellent Pitch for trimming of shippes that passe into these Regions and hot Countries for it melteth not with the Sunne as other Pitch doth The twenty six day wee stood along againe the winde being still contrary and variable intermixt with many calmes so continued vntill the second of October when we arriued at Port de Hispania Within two daies after our arriuall there Don Sanches de Mendosa the Teniente for that yeare with certaine other Spaniards came aboord vs we gaue them the best entertainement that our meanes the time and place would affoord and had much friendly conference together They told me that they lately had a conflict with the Charibes wherein they had lost seuen or eight of their men and had many others hurt and wounded whereof some came to my Chirurgion to haue their wounds dressed during our aboad there And they plainely confessed that they are verie much molested by the Charibes and knew not how by any meanes to suppresse them We staied at Porte de Hispania vntill the seuenth day in hope to get some good Tobacco amongst the Spaniards who daily fed vs with delaies and faire words but in truth they had none good at that present for vs which we perceiuing departed thence vpon the 7. day about one of the clocke in the morning leauing the other ships to attend their trade and stood away for the passages called Les●●iot boccas de Drago and disembogued about eight of the clocke the same morning Then we steered away for an Island called Meues and leauing the Islands of Granado Saint Vincent Guadalupa and Monserate in our starboord side wee arriued there the twelfth day where wee stopped to take in Ballast and more water for our shippes were very light In this Island there is an hot Bath which as wel for the reports that I haue heard as also for that I haue seen and found by experience I doe hold for one of the best and most soueraigne in the world I haue heard that diuers of our Nation haue there been cured of the Leprosie and that one of the same persons now or lately dwelt at Wollwich neere the riuer of Thames by whom the truth may be knowne if any man desire to bee further satisfied therein As for my owne experience although it was not much yet the effects that I found it worke both in my selfe and others of my company in two daies space doe cause mee to conceiue the best of it For at my comming thither I was grieuously vexed with an extreame cough which I much feared would turne mee to great harme but by bathing in the Bath and drinking of the water I was speedily cured and euer since that time I haue found the state of my body I giue God thankes for it farre exceeding what it was before in strength and health Moreouer one of my company named Iohn Huntbatch seruant to my brother as he was making a fire burned his hand with Gunpowder and was in doubt thereby to loose the vse of one or two of his fingers which were shrunke vp with the fire but he went presently to the Bath and washed and bathed his hand a good space therein which soopled his fingers in such manner that with great ease hee could stire and stretch them out and the fire was so washed out of his hand that within the space of twenty foure houres by twice or thrice washing and bathing it the sorenesse thereof was cured onely the eye-sore for the time remained Furthermore two or three others of my company hauing swellings in their legges were by the Bath cured in a day This can I affirme and boldly iustifie hauing been an eie witnesse thereof Hence wee departed the sixteenth day of October in the afternoone and leauing the Islands of St. Christopher St. Martin and Anguilla on the Starboord side wee dissembogued through the broken Islands on the North side of