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A86321	Jamaica viewed with all the ports, harbours, and their several soundings, towns, and settlements thereunto belonging together, with the nature of it's climate, fruitfulnesse of the soile, and its suitableness to English complexions. With several other collateral observations and reflexions upon the island. / By E.H.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1817; Thomason E2267_1; ESTC R203343	22,599	106

JAMAICA VIEWED WITH All the Ports Harbours and their several Soundings Towns and Settlements thereunto belonging TOGETHER With the nature of it's Climate fruitfulnesse of the Soile and it's suitablenesse to English Complexions With several other collateral Observations and Reflexions upon the ISLAND The second Edition By E. H. LONDON Printed for Iohn Williams at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1661. TO THE KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY May it please your Majesty ALl your Dominions being the happy Subjects of your care are therefore the proper objects of your view If in the throng then Jamaica here humbly presents her self to your Royal presence be pleased to Interpret this her obsequiousnesse to be duty not intrusion For since your Majesty has already graciously daign'd this Isle your Royal Patronage vouchsafe Great Sir at some vacant houre to grace It with your auspicious Aspect in this Mirrour with all humility presented by Your Majesty's faithfully devoted Servant Edm. Hickeringill TO THE READER THE Partiall Censures nick-names which prejudice and interest have injuriously impos'd upon the Island of Jamaica after it became the Refuge of that English Colony that of late unhappily invaded Hispaniola mov'd me in the negligence of better Pens to Apologize for it in this ensuing Description For indeed to describe Jamaica is to praise it nor can it look better then with it 's own face exempt from the adulterate Fucus of artificial Piliary And believe me Reader 't was no private nor politick designe hereby to allure and duccoy the unwary world but mere zeale to truth that engag'd me by my opportune continuance there to do this right to that injur'd Island Quid dem Quid non dem renuis tu quod jubet alter Hor. To my honoured Friend Capt. Edm. Hickeringill Upon his Reflexions on Iamaica At his Return THis Welcome-home how blunt so e're it be Thou vvilt accept Dear Mun coming from me And deign it to attend thy smoother Line Mine's honour'd with an Handmaid's place to thine And though thou knovv'st thou had'st my Heart before Methinks I love thee for this Book the more Which I vvould Preface vvith Applauses fit Praising therein my Iudgement and thy vvit But that thou dost detest bespoken Bayes Yet Truth compells me to prefix this Praise That as Thy pregnant Lines now life doth give Unto Jamaica here long shall it live And this epitomiz'd Vrn shall retain The Indies Memory vvhen they 're dead again Observ amicitiae ergo composuit G. E. Med. D. JAMAICA JAMAICA VIEWED THat the Island of Iamaica was rather the Grave then Granary to the first English Colony seated there after their inauspicious Enterprize upon Hispaniola cannot modestly be denied Whether occasioned by the griping Monopolie of some hoarding Officers or through want of timely Recruits alwayes found necessary for such Infant-settlements or through some fatal Conjunction of the superiour Luminaties that frown by course with a squint and malignant Aspects on one Nation or other I will not now dispute But that such a Mortality should proceed either from the Clime being scituate in the Torrid Zone a Heresie unpardonable in the ancients or from any accidental Malignitie in any of the Elements peculiarly entail'd upon it whereby it should be lesse habitable then any other most auspicious settlement remains here to be controverted The Decision whereof can be no better evidenced then by a faithfull Description Of the nature of the Clime and Soile 1. FIrst therefore it 's Climate is placed betwixt the Tropicks in 17 and 18. degrees of Northern Latitude and therefore twice every year subjected to the Perpendicular Beams of the Sun whence it borrowed the style of Torrid Zone a name which did so bugbear and affright the credulity of our Ancestors that they unjustly exil'd and raz'd it out from the habitable part of the world then monopoliz'd in the temperate Zones till the more daring spirits of Columbus and others convoy'd us to an experimental confidence in the contrary the Chariby Islands Barbadoes St. Kits Mevis Antego c. having prov'd as happy to the complexions and constitutions of English men as Virginia New England nay as Portugal Spain Italy or any other confines upon the Mediterranean Sea all which notwithstanding are scituate in the Temperate Zone a term of Art that now Ironically scandalizes that vulgar division of the World into Zones habitable the Temperate Zones and inhabitable the Frigid and Torrid Zone For I must avouch that I have found the Air as sulphurous and hot in England in the moneths of Iune Iuly and August especially whilest the Sun was near the Meridian as in the hottest seasons at Iamaica whilest the Sun makes a double in Cancer or in Guiana in the moneths of March and September whilest the Sun gallops or'e their Zenith in the Aequinox And this will appear to be no such prodigious a Paradox if we be undeceived of that vulgar errour that the neighbourhood of the Sun is the only cause of extream heat and it's elongation the reason of extremity of cold for if so our Summers would be equally hot one year as another and each day after the Sun's departure from the winter Solstice hotter then another 'till he had posted over his halfdirect stages to face about in retrograde Cancer both which experience doth disprove for though his appropriation and elongation be the same every year yet our Summers and Winters are not equally hot and cold and therefore we must seek out for more intrinsecal and occult causes which now are not the Asylum of ignorance since we can certainly ascribe them to the Sun's Conjunction improperly termed an Aspect and his Aspects with other Planets together with his configurations with the Fixed starres for the weather is usually the hottest with us in England after the Sun hath taken his leave of us from his nearest visit and most fervent Complement in the foot of Gemini with his old fashion'd Congee in the Right knee and shoulder of Orion and Auriga and our hottest seasons are the Dogge dayes yet doth not the Sun accompany the lesser heavenly Dogge till he come to his feminine nocturnal and unfortunate Lodging which is in the eighteenth Degree of Cancer of which more at large you may consult Astronomy my business here being only to present you with an Historical Truth And as the coldnesse of our Night-air in England tempers our hottest and most canine seasons so the fresh Breezes that rise alwayes with the Sun doe fanne the sweltering and sultry Climes within the Tropicks so that the dayes are usually as cold as the nights except towards the morning and then a culinary fire is had in request though the Inhabitants are thought to be dandled in Apollo's Lap or as the Poets feign to have been scorch'd when rash Phaeton mistook his way in his unskill'd and unhappy Journey magnae pereunt cum moenibus urbes Cumque suis totas populis incendiae Gentes In cinerem vertunt sylvae cum montibus

that are thus o're-mated works my pity rather then scorn moving my bowels more then my spleen for though the Kingdome was the loser he is none of the gainers and the thraldome of his sheets out-vies the Halter furnishing us with this conclusion That he 's unfit to be Pater Patriae that is not Domt Dominus nor to head an Army that must kneel at his own Fire side nor to ride Admiral of a Fleet that cannot carry the Flag at home but is forced to lowre his Top sail to a Petty coat In defiance whereof I have here with their own worded weapon taken up the Gantlet to my no little hazard of a scolding though if they knew the respect and honour I have for the worthy thy Ladies as those that knows me know I am no woman hater nor in this relation any thing of kin to the Noble Blake the nicest coynes would easily vouchsafe me an Act of Grace All my quarrell with their Sex consisting only in the defence of those poor men that stand in need of Abasuerus his Decree Reflex V. 5. THat the most promising designs though launch'd out and promoted with all the appertinent utensills that policy can contrive are many times easily defeated by uncalculated Accidents sometimes a mistaken letter in the sound of a word hath rooted great Armadoes and the whistling of the wind in the Sicamour trees destroyed an Host Thus Gideon founded the Midianites with the sudden surprizal of Trumpets Lamps and broken Pitchers The very looks of the Germanes affrighted the Gaules And the very flashes in the besmeared faces of the Picts did gawle the Saxons Thus did the hellish visage of the grim Negroes and Molettoes beyond all imagination at the first assault nonplus our men at Hispaniola which yet had not signified so much if it had not been seconded with the unhappy Conduct of Gen. Venables whose crazy management of affairs shared so sinister an influence to his better deserving Followers The Indulgent Heavens till now suspending the Award of any Damages to the English Nation in repair of the losse of that invincible Armado in Eighty Eight Reflex VI. 6. THat Necessity often trains up a Militia better then Plenty For had not the Belly been Magister artis putting the Soldiers to their shifts to silence it's importunities they had never prov'd so good Marks-men nor had come so familiarly acquainted with the Woods whose skill therein hath now stood them in so good stead for the stubbing up those Spanish Negroes that till then lay as thorns in their sides that they could scarce stir abroad without being prick'd Thus the Alpes prov'd less fatal to Hannibal's Army then Capua and hunger cold spur'd and egg'd on the weather-beaten Goths and Vandalls to better their Sun till they did Lord it in France and Italy This only inconvenience attended the Soldiery of Iamaica that finding their leggs and able to stand by themselves without the assistance of a Providore they became more refractory and head-strong and of a lesse bounded discipline acknowledging but small Homage where they received so small Pay which did the rather subject them to mutiny and easie to be wrought upon by more working Pates Nor did this licentiousness long want the misimproved subtilty of a Gentleman one Lieut. Col. Raymond a discontented Souldier that wanted nothing but a better Employ to set out his vast Parts and had he not encountred with a General that is cunning enough and prov'd himself at all Machievilltan assayes his Match he had certainly reduc'd the Forces in Iamaica into a self-destroying Flame especially now their discontents had heated them to so tinder-like a touchinesse that they were ready to take fire on all occasions Nor were these Incendiaries to seek of all plausible Pretexts that witty usurpation doth use to colour and gild blacker Designes But what the aimes of Lieut. Col. Raymond were are not easily to be discovered but it is more then presum'd that his want of employment having never had any Charge in Iamaica though not uncapable of the greatest that this Isle could afford made him unable to bear Neglects thus over busie and too too active in moulding poor Lieut. Col. Tison to what shape he pleas'd his Heart being better then his Head and his Armoury better blazoned with the Dove then the Serpent and I am very confident did not foresee the evil and danger that those lawless Bandyings do incurre which Relation may admit the more credit in that I am altogether unconcerned in either Party and neither prejudic'd nor byassed with Partiality Nor were those fickle-headed Souldiers so soon invited to rise in Arms with them but they sooner deserted them leaving them to the Mercy of their Opponents Court-Mashalls who presently doom'd them to be shot to death Lieut. Col. Tison died with some reluctancy and regret but Lieut. Col. Raymond like himself with an undismay'd Resolution answerable to his wonted Magnanimity on whose Interment a busie Wit threw this Epitaph AT thy Nativity the Heaven's have worn Such visage as when Cataline was born Your Significators sure must be th' same And Aspects since you differ but in name His vaster soul Rome 's walls could not confine Thine daign'd no Pere scarce that of Cataline His stile long-winded Tully 's did surpasse And thine so ravishing too perswasive was He knew no fear scarce of his own deem'd Gods Oh that in this of thee he 'd had the odds His soul engross'd th' Monopoly of Arts And thy Orphaean skill could ravish Hearts His to w'ring Genius could not bend the knee And thine was fitter for a Throne then thee The King of Terrours could not him affright And thou did'st seem to court eternal might Not un bewail'd was his Catastrophe And ev'n thine enemies lamented thee He lives though not entomb'd by'is famous facts Thy Grave scarce known but well enough thine Acts. Reflex VII 7. THat though Infant-Settlements like Infant-years are usually most fatal yet their Blossomes once Set are not so easily Blasted Happily experimented in Iamaica whose Blooming hopes now thrive so well and their Stocks so well Rooted that they are not easily Routed The Major part of the Inhabitants being old West-Indians who now Naturalized to the Countrey grow the better by their Transplantation and flourish in health equivalently comparable to that of their Mother-Sotl For which I need not beg credit since there is no Countrey Disease as at Virginia and Surinam endemically raging throughout the Isle nor any new and unheard of distempers that want a name So that a wise man needs no other Physick there but his Temperance scarcely craving Hospital assistance so much as we in England nor have any more reason to deify an Aesculapius And therefore we consult our fears rather then the dangers when the very name of Travell into Foreign Parts doth so much affright us especially into so serene an Aire as breathes in Iamaica that owns nothing but it's distance to dismay us from it's visit The Indies being no such Bugbear as they are usually pourtray'd In vindication therefore For Travel take this APOLOGY PRithee perswade me not my Dear You do mistake my Fates I fear My Glass will run no sooner out Though I do range the World about Could my stay here bribe a delay From the pale Sisters I would stay But 't is too true though 't be a Fable The Sisters are Inexorable And are as nimble with their Knife To those that lead a Home-bred life Brave Rawleigh found too soon a Tomb Not in the Indies but at home The Destinies did Drake forbear In the Antipodes not here And do like Ladies coy neglect Those most that Court them with respect But will Embraces beg pray Of those that are as niceas they Or if the froward Stars dispence With their Malignant influence Adjourning Plagues they use to bring In peccant Autumns or the Spring Yet a Consumption or the Gout In Chimney-corner finds us out Or what is worse old driveling Age With all it's loathed Aequipage Arrests us till we have unsaid The Pray'rs which we for long life made Yet they 're forc'd soonest to recant That fruits of youthful Travel want For knowledge onely doth commend Old Age whilest listening Nephews'tend With greedy ears to catch up all Old stories Grand-sires does let fall Thus shortening long Winters Night This paliiates Age with some delight For when the cold Palsey doth seize On other members Tongues at ease And is the old man's Commendamus Which without Travel is less famous Nay damn'd Exile in this was blest Of Kings it has made ours the best Thus Ioseph's Brethrens meant Abuse Rais'd him the Honour of his House Aeneas thus enhanc'd his fame From Trojan to the Roman Name Reflex VIII 8. THat an Army once cow'd especially in their first foreign attempt seldome bound their fear till it become altogether Panick like that Punick amaze that epidemically invaded Carthage after the first defeat of Hannibal by the more thriving Genius of Scipio Africanus This is certain that after the first check given to our Forces by the Negroes and Molettoes in Hispaniola The very mention of their coming though bruted but for experiment caus'd some to hasten their march beyond the pace of gravity and valour Though after Tryals approv'd them to be English men rather then Normans daring to Rally defeated Courage The truth whereof many an Aethiope hath now unwillingly asserted by the lavish expence of his sooty bloud And here I intended to publish some Essayes touching the future Settlement of Iamaica which now are upon second thoughts condemn'd to privacy FINIS * Amer. desc p. ult 1655. * Caes Com. de bell Gallic