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A93183	A brief and perfect journal of the late preceedings and successe of the English army in the West-Indies, continued until June the 24th 1655. Together with some quæres inserted and answered. Published for satisfaction of all such who desire truly to be informed in these particulars. / By I.S. an eye-witnesse.	I. S.	1655 (1655)	Wing S35; Thomason E853_29; ESTC R8777	20,305	31

so great want that Dogs and Cats was the best part of their diet with such sort of food as they had formerly tasted at Hispaniola as Horses Asse Necoes and such like there being strict order that on pain of death none should presume to kill any Cowes or Oxen and if at any time there went forth by especiall order some small party that brought in Beeves they were distributed amongst the superiour Officers of the Army the Inferiour men having onely inferiour meat the often use whereof made them somewhat participate of the nature of the Beasts sometimes living the life of Dogs and at other times bearing the burthen of Asses and what other encouragement or comfort could they have than to ponder in their mindes thus Solamen miseris socios habuisse dolores Jamaica Harbor May the 24. It was resolved at a Councell of Warre That the Generall of the Navy and Reer-Admirall in the Ships Swiftsure and Panagon with most of the Flemmish ships should return for England Orders being given for their speedy fitting and recruit with fresh water and other necessaries May the 25. There hapned an ill accident in the Fleet the ship called the Discovery of the States a vessell of good force and burthen was unhappily fired by f●●ling brandy wine in the Steward-room the flame of the candle taking hold of that combustible liquor so vehemently increased the fury of the fire that there was no prevention Wherefore to avoid further danger most of the ships boats that could be had in readinesse towed her off on a bank of sand some distance from the Fleet where after she had consumed about four howres her Magazine of powder blew up and did no more harm the ship Swiftsure being then ready to carreen had most of her best Guns there onboard which were all afterward by industry and art taken up notwithstanding that they lay in above three fathome water June the 1. Colonell Bullard after a long march to little purpose returned with his party to the Town bringing with him some Cattel and giving notice of great abundance that are in the more remote parts of the Countrey since which time there hath gon forth divers Parties who have also brought in Droves of Cattell and amongst the rest a Spanish Lady with some Attendants who were she but as good as great as virtuous as ponderous and as fair as fat certainly she would farre exceed any three Ladies of England in worth weight and beauty June the 6. The ship Cardiffe set saile for England as the Harbinger of the rest of the Fleet which were to follow after And the 9th following a generall Muster was taken of the Land Army whose number was found to be much diminished of late not so much by any pestilentiall or violent disease as for meer want of naturall sustenance which in common reason may seem strange that of all men Souldiers should starve in a Cooks shop as the saying is or perish for want of food in a Countrey so abounding with Flesh Fish and other vitall provisions but it is to be hoped that for the future they may have an allowance of better and more wholsome diet than yet they have had if the tyranny of their Commanders or slothfulnesse of themselves or both prevent not There lately arrived at Jamaica divers Victualers with provisions for the Fleet also Armes and Ammunition for the Army but Hoes and Haschets were more ficter for them June the 20. There came in hither three smal Vessels Prizes which were taken by the Selby and Grantham Frigots who were ordered to lie plying to and agen off the Island of Hispaniola some Spaniards in them taken reported that at the first appearance of the English Fleet before the Town of Domingo the Inhabitants deserted the place and went all into the woods where they continued three daies leaving their Magazine of powder behinde which they had once intended to have blown up but perceiving that in that time neither the ships approached the Harbor which they much dreaded nor any else came to molest them they re-entred the Town and being much encouraged and strengthned by those of the Countrey who daily came in thither fortified what they might and blocking up the mouth of their Harbour with some Vessels which they there sunk resolved to use their uttermast undeavours to maintain the place Oristano June the 24. There was this day a rumour that Generall Venables was departed this life which was but a rumour not reall but his Excellency hath not been currant since his being at Hispaniola The grand businesse that the Army is now upon is to settle each Regiment in their severall Quarters where they have parcels of Land equally aproportioned unto them which being subdivided amongst the Officers according to their respective places some small share is like to fall unto the Common Souldiers but what improvement may be made thereof or how it wil please Almighty God farther to deale with this Army let time and truth manifest the good hand of Providence having taken me from amongst them that so according to my earnest desires I might no longer be a spectator or recorder of their actions I shall therefore now conclude only including brief description of the Island of Jamaica by comparing it in divers respects with Hispaniola together with some few passages by the way homeward The Island of Jamaica is scituate betwixt the Main and the Isle Cuba distant from the one 96. Leagues and from the other 20 the center whereof lyeth directly in the same Lat with the Town of Sancta Domingo in Hispaniola already described and hath Longitude West from thence 2 deg 18. Min It 's magnitude is scantly one 3. of the said Islands being in length 46 and breadth 14. Leagues Notwithstanding for the quality and quantity of Land it is no lesse fruitfull and altogether as plentifull in Fish Fowle and Cattell of all sorts It is more Mountainous and lesse Woody Rivers there are divers but the Spring-heads of some arising from Copper Mines the Water is somewhat unholsome and unsavory unlesse corrected by boyling which the Spaniards used It s chiefest defects and impediments are these It produceth not any Mynes of Gold and Silver as doth Hispaniola and other parts of the Indies It is also ill scituated for Traffique lying such a distance to Leeward that it is a most difficult thing for vessells to turne up so farre to Windward as to get cleare of the Islands and Rocks and are therefore necessitated to make their passage thorough the Gulfe of Florida which is accounted dangerous except at some seasons of the yeare June the 25. The Fleet bound for England set saile from Iamaica Vice-Admirall Goodson in the Torrington Frigot being left Admirall of that Squadron ordered to remaine in the Indies they consisting of all the English Frigots of this Fleet also three of the best sayling Flemish Ships which compleated the number of 12 sayle besides victualers and prizes there remaining July the 8. The Fleet gained the length of Cape St. Anthonia being the Westermost Cape of the Isle Cuba and the thirteenth Foll they plying to Windward having a fresh gale Easterly came neer under the Tropick and short of the Cape of Florida about thirty Leagues where there hapned another sad disaster The Paragon Navy a Ship of the second ranke and at that time Reare-Admirall took sire and consumed to her Powder-room and so blew up the Reare-Admirall Dakins and some others with much danger and difficulty escaped divers Ships Boats which were neerest coming in to their assistance notwithstanding there perished about one hundred and forty Men. By what meanes this lamentable accident was first occasioned is not yet certainly knowne but too certaine it is that the chiefe neglect was in the Stewards rooms from whence the fire brake forth violently encreasing past remedy as the people were assembled together at Divine Exercise in the forenoon July the 19. Having hitherto had the Weather variously inclined many calmes and some stormes with diversity of Winds but all of short continuance the Fleet now entred the Gulfe of Florida and the 22 Foll passed forth of the same the extent thereof being in length from the Cape of Florida to the uttermost Islands North of Cuba 68 Leagues and in breadth from those Islands to the main 20 Leagues the current there setting N N E. the swiftnesse or flacknesse whereof dependeth on the falling of the Raines which about the Month of August are constantly very great many exceeding large American Rivers being augmented thereby the spacious Bay of Mexico becomes their receptacle and so disburtheneth its swelling Floods through this narrow strait into the Virgivian Ocean it is therefore of some called the Gulfe of Mexico August the 4. The Fleet gained the length of the Barmudas since when for the generality being favoured with faire Windes and seasonable weather The 22. of this instant they had also the length of the Westerne Islands August the 30. They discried the English Shore neer Lyzard and having a strong gale S. S. W. the day following the Fleet Anchored at Spithead neer Portsmouth three sayle having been separated from the rest by obscure weather in the night before their entrance into the Gulfe came in hither also this day some few houres before the other And now for ever blessed be the Divine Creator who hath dealt thus mercifully with us the unworthiest of his Servants giving us so large experience of his abundant goodnesse towards us and bringing us once more unto the Land of our Nativity The Lord in mercy so encline the hearts of this Nation that those grand sinnes of Presumption and Covetousnesse may no longer reigne amongst them lest seaking after shadows they lose the reall substance or coveting the good or Gold of others they incurre the high displeasure of Almighty God upon themselves and so become the scorne and derision of their Enemies and a by-word to other Nations Avertas Deus FINIS