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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35254	A view of the English acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies with an account of the religion, government, wars, strange customs, beasts, serpents, monsters, and other observables in those countries : together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their voyages to the Indies : intermixt with pleasant relations and enlivened with picture / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1686 (1686)	Wing C7356; ESTC R27846	109,445	213

considered how they may consist with the Policy and good Government of our Countrey and likewise whether the Fathers of the Church may not judge the divulging them prejudicial to the Affairs of the Catholick Faith and Religion which by those wonders I have seen above any mortal man before me I am instructed to advance with my utmost endeavours without respect to any temporal advantage whatsoever But to proceed with my Narrative this huffing Captain aforenamed pretended much discontent for the death of the said Delgades who was indeed some Kin to him however he was willing to be quiet if I would have given him a thousand Duckets I had now besides a Wife two Sons whom I was not willing to begger only to satisfie the avaritious humour of this Boaster and was therefore necessitated to take some other course I imbarkt in a stout Carrick bound for the East-Indies carrying the value of two thousand Duckets to Trade with leaving as much more for the support of my Wife and Children behind me whatever misfortune might happen to me In the Indies I thrived exceedingly laying out my Stock in Diamonds Emeralds and Pearls which I bought at such easy rates that my Stock safely arriving in Spain as I understood it did must needs yield ten for one But for my self having doubled Cape buona Esperanca in my way home I fell dangerously sick expecting nothing but death which had then undoubtedly happened but that we just then recovered the Blessed Isle of St. Hellens the only Paradice I believe on Earth for healthfulness of Air and fruitfulness of Soil producing all necessaries for the Life of man It is about three Leagues in compass and has no firm Land or Continent within 300 Leagues nay not so much as an Island within an hundred Leagues of it so that it may seem a Miracle of Nature that out of so vast and tempestuous an Ocean such a small Rock or piece of ground should arise and discover it self On the South is a good Harbour and near it divers small Houses built by the Portuguess to accommodate Strangers with a pretty Chappel handsomely beautified with a Tower and a fair Bell therein Near it is a Stream of excellent fresh water divers handsome walks planted on both sides with Orange Lemmod Pomegranate Almond-trees and the like which are Fruit all the year as do also divers others There are store of Garden Herbs with Wheat Pease Barley and most kinds of Pulse but it chiefly aboundeth with Cattel and Fowl as Goats Swine Sheep Partridges wild Hens Pheasants Pigeons and wild Fowl beyond credit But especially about February and March are to be seen huge Flocks of a kind of Wild Swans whereof I shall have occasion to speak more hereafter who like our Cuckoes and Nightingales go away at a certain Season and are no more seen that year On this happy Island did they set me ashore with a Negro to attend me where praised be Heaven I recovered my health and continued there a whole year solacing my self for want of Humane Society with Birds and bruit Beasts Diego my Black-moor was forced to live in a Cave at the West-end of the Isle for had we dwelt together Victuals would not have been so plenty with us But now if one succeeded well in Hunting or Fowling the other would find means to invite and treat him and if both mist we were then fain to look out sharply but this very seldom happened since no Creature there fears a man more than they do a Goat or Cow whereby I easily tamed divers kinds of Birds and Beasts in a short time by only muzling them so that till they came either to me or Diego they could not seed At first I much delighted in a kind of Patridges and a tame Fax whereof I made good use For if I had occasion to confer with Diego I would take one of them muzled and hungry and tying a note about his Neck beat him from me whereupon he would streight away to Diego's Cave and if he were not there would beat about till they found him yet this conveyance being not without some inconvenience needless to be mentioned after a while I perswaded Diego who though a Fellow of good Parts was content to be ruled by me to remove to a Promontory or Cape on the north-west part of the Island being though a League off yet within sight of my House and Chappel and then when the weather was fair we could at all times by signals declare our minds each to other in an instant either by Night or Day wherein we took much pleasure If in the Night I would signifie any thing to him I used to set up a light in the Bell Tower which was a pretty large Room with a fair Window well glased and the Walls within being plaistered were exceeding white by reason whereof though the light were but small it made a great show and would have done much farther off if there had been need After this light had stood half an hour I covered it and then if I saw any signal of light again from my Companion at the Cape I knew he waited for my notice and so by hiding and shewing my light according to a certain Rule or Agreement betwixt us I certified him of what I pleased In the day I advertised him by Smoke Dust and sometimes by a more refined and effactual way This Art contains many Mysteries and may be very useful if well imployed Notwithstanding after a while I grew weary of it as too painful and again used my Winged Messengers Upon the Shoar especially about the Mouth of our River I found great store of a certain kind of Wild Swans aforementioned feeding usually upon prey and that both of Fish and Birds and which is more strange having one Claw like an Eagle and the other like a Swan These Birds commonly breeding here in infinite numbers I took thirty or forty of them young and bred them up by hand for recreation yet not without some thoughts of that Experiment which I after put in practice These being strong and able to continue a great flight I taught them first to come at call afar off not using any noise but only shewing them a White Cloth and here I found it true what Plutarch affirms That Creatures which eat Flesh are more decible than others 'T is wonderful to think what Tricks I taught them ere they were a quarter old amongst others I used them by degrees to fly with Burdens wherein I found them able beyond belief and brought them so forward that a White Sheet being displayed to them by Diego upon the side of a Hill they would carry from me to him Bread Flesh or whatever I pleased and upon the like call come to me again Having proceeded thus far I began to consult how I might join a number of them together so as to carry a heavier weight which if I could compass I might thereby enable a man to fly and