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A35222	The English empire in America, or, A prospect of His Majesties dominions in the West-Indies ... with an account of the discovery, scituation, product, and other excellencies of these countries : to which is prefixed a relation of the first discovery of the New World called America, by the Spaniards, and of the remarkable voyages of several Englishmen to divers places therein : illustrated with maps and pictures by R.B., author of Englands monarchs, &c., Admirable curiosities in England, &c., Historical remarks of London, &c., The late wars in England, &c., and The history of Scotland and Ireland.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1685 (1685)	Wing C7319; ESTC R21113	146,553	216

great Moose staying there till it was all eaten and then entring upon the Lake a Storm arose which indangered us all but at last we got to an Island and there the Indians went to Powawing or Conjuring the Powaw declared that Benjamin Wait and another were coming and that Storm was raised to cast them away This afterward appeared to be true though then I believed it not upon this Island we lay still several days and then set out again but a Storm took us so that we continued to and fro upon certain Islands about three Weeks we had no Provision but Racoons that the Indians themselves were afraid of being Starved they would give me nothing whereby I was several days without any victuals At length we went upon the Lake on the Ice having a little Sled upon which we drew our Loads before Noon I tired and just then the Indians met with some Frenchmen one of the Indians who took me came and called me all manner of ill names throwing me on my Back I told him I could do no more then he said he must kill me which I thought he was about to do for pulling out his Knife he cut off my Pockets and wrapt them about my Face and then helped me up and took my Sled and went away giving me a bit of Bisket like a Walnut which he had of the Frenchman and told me he would give me a Pipe of Tobacco when my Sled was gone I ran after him but being tired soon fell to a foot pace whereby the Indians were out of sight I followed as well as I could having many falls upon the Ice at length I was so spent I had not strength enough to rise again but crept to a Tree that lay along upon which I continued all the cold Night it being very sharp Weather I now counted no other but that I must here die which whilst I was ruminating of an Indian hollow'd and I answered he came to me and called me bad names telling me if I would not go he must knock me on the head I told him he must then do so he saw how I had wallowed in the Snow but could not me hereupon he wrapt me in his Coat and going back sent two Indians with a Sled one said he must knock me on the head the other said no they would carry me away and burn me then they bid me stir my Instep to see if that were Frozen I did so when they saw that they said there was a Surgeon with the French that could cure me then they took me upon a Sled and carried me to the Fire making much of me pulling off my wet and wrapping me in dry Cloths laying me in a good Bed they had killed an Otter and gave me some of the Broth and a bit of the Flesh here I slept till toward day and was then able to get up and put on my Cloths one of the Indians awaked and seeing me go shouted as rejoicing at it As soon as it was light I and Samuel Russel went afore on the Ice upon a River they said I must go on Foot as much as I could for fear of Freezing Russel slipt into the River with one Foot the Indians called him back and dried his Stockings and then sent us away with an Indian Guide we went four or five Miles before the rest of the Indians overtook us I was then pretty well spent Russel said he was faint and wondred how I could live for he said he had ten Meals to my one I was then laid on the Sled and they ran away with me on the Ice the rest and Russel came softly after whose Face I never saw more nor know what became of him About Midnight we got neer Shamblee a French Town where the River was open when I came to Travel I was not able whereupon an Indian who staid with me would carry me a few Rods and then I would go as many telling me I would dye if he did not carry me and that I must tell the English how kind he was When we came to the first House there was no Inhabitant the Indian and I were both spent and discouraged he said we must now both die at last he left me alone and got to another House from whence came some French and Indians who brought me in the French were very kind putting my hands and feet in cold Water and gave me a dram of Brandy with a little Hasty-pudding and Milk when I tasted Victuals I was very hungry but they would not suffer me to eat too much I lay by the Fire with the Indians that night yet could not sleep for pain next morning the Indians and French fell out about me the Indians saying that the French loved the English better than the Indians The French presently turned the Indians out of doors being very careful of me and all the men in the Town came to see me here I continued three or four days and was invited from one House to another receiving much civility from a young man who let me lie in his Bed and would have bought me but that the Indians demanded an hundred pound we travelled to a place called Surril whither this young man accompanied me to prevent my being abused by the Indians he carried me on the Ice one days Journey for now I could not go at all when we came to the place the People were kind Next day being in much pain I asked the Indians to carry me to the Chyrurgions as they had promised whereat they were angry one taking up his Gun to knock me down but the French would not suffer it falling upon them and kicking them out of doors we went away from thence to a place two or three Miles off where the Indians had Wigwams some of whom knew me and seemed to pity me while I was here which was three or four days the French came to see me and it being Christmas time they brought me Cakes and other Provisions the Indians tried to cure me but could not then I asked for the Chyrurgion at which one of them in anger struck me on the face with his Fist a Frenchman being by who spoke to him some words and went his way soon after came the Captain of the place to the Wigwam with about twelve Armed men and asked where the Indian was that struck the Englishman and seizing him told him he should go to the Bilboes and then be hanged The Indians were much terrified at this as appeared by their countenance and trembling I would have gone away too but the Frenchmen bid me not fear the Indians durst not hurt me When that Indian was gone I had two Masters still I asked them to carry me to that Captain that I might speak in behalf of the Indian they answered I was a Fool did I think the Frenchmen were like the English to say one thing and do another they were men of their words But at length I prevailed with

or Olive which neither Sun nor Wind but nature it self imprinted on them as appeared by their Infants and seems to be the complexion of all the Americans their clothing was Seals Skins the women were painted on the Cheeks and about the Eyes with blew streaks These Savages intercepted 5 Englishmen and their Boat they took also one of them whom they brought into England where they arrived Oct. 2. 1576. having taken possession of the Country in right of the Queen of England every man of the company being commanded to bring home somewhat in witness thereof one brought a piece of black stone like Sea-coal which was found to hold Gold in a good quantity Whereupon the next year a second voyage was made to bring home more of this Ore and coming into these Streights in July 1577. they found them in a manner shut up with a long wall of Ice which very much indangered their Ships They found a Fish as big as a Porpice dead upon the Shoar twelve foot long having a Horn of two yards growing out of the Snout wreathed and streight like a wax tapor was thought to be a Sea Unicorn It was broken on the top wherein the Sailers affirmed they put Spiders which presently died It was presented to the Queen at their return and sent to Winsor to be reserved in the Wardrope for a curiosity They went on Shoar and had some skirmishes with the Inhabitants who were so fierce and resolute that finding themselves wounded they leapt off the Rocks into the Sea rather than fall into the hands of the English the rest fled only one Woman and her Child they brought away and another man who seeing the Picture of his Countrey-man in the Ship that was taken the year before thought him to be alive and was very angry that he would not speak to him wondring how our People could make men live or die at their pleasure It was very pleasant to observe the behaviour of the man and woman when they were brought together who though put into the same Cabbin shewed such signs of Chastity and Modesty as might justly shame Christians who come so far short of them when these Savages would trade their manner was to lay down somewhat of theirs and go their ways expecting the English should lay down something in exchange if they like the value when they come again they take it otherwise they take away only their own they made signs that their Catchoe or King was higher of stature than any of ours and carried upon mens Shoulders They could not hear what became of their five men taken the year before only they found some of their Apparel which made them judge the Savages had eaten them Having laden their Ship with Oar they returned The next year 1578. with fifteen sail another Voyage was made by Captain Frobisher for further discovery He went on shoar June 20 on Frizeland which is in length about 25 Leagues in 57 degrees of Latitude which he named West England where they espied certain Tents and People like the former who upon their approach fled in the Tents they found a Box of small Nails red Herrings and boards of Fir-tree with other things wrought very Artificially so that they were either ingenious workmen themselves or traded with others some think this to be Friesland and joined to Greenland In going from hence one Ship called the Salamander sailing with a strong gale struck with such violence upon the back of a Whale with her full stem that she stood still without motion whereat the Whale made a hideous roaring and lifting up his body and tail above water sunk instantly to the bottom Two days after they found a dead Whale which was supposed the same July 2. they entred the Strieghts the mouth whereof was barr'd with Mountains of Ice wherewith a Bark was sunk with part of a house they designed to erect there the men were all saved and the other Ships in much danger by the severity of the Ice Fogs and Snow These Islands of Ice seem to be congealed in the winter further North in some Bays or Rivers the waters thereof being fresh and the Sun melting the tops of the Ice rills of fresh water run down which meeting together make an indifferent Stream these Rocks being by the summers Sun loosed and broken from their natural Scituation are carried whither the swift Current and the outragions Winds drive them Some of these Icy Rocks or Islands are half a mile about and fourscore fathoms above water besides the unknown depth beneath the usual rule being that only one part of seven is seen above water strange is their multitude more strange their deformed Shapes but most strange that instead of destroying they sometimes save both men and Ships suffering the mooring of Anchors entertaining them with sports as walking leaping shooting forty miles from Land without any Vessel or Ship under them presenting them with running Streams of fresh water sufficient to drive a Mill. The People represent the Tartars in apparel and living It is colder here in 62 than in ten degrees farther North which happens from the cold North East Winds which brings this sharp Air off the Ice The Natives are excellent Archers they wear the Skins of Deer Bears Foxes Hares and of Fowls sowed together in the Summer the hary side outward in the Winter inward yet many go naked they shoot Fish with their Darts and kindle Fire by rubbing two sticks together The Beasts Fowls and Fishes they kill are their Houses Bedding Meat Drink Hose Shoes Apparel Sails Boats and indeed all their riches they eat all things raw yea Grass and Shrubs and suck Ice to satisfy their thirst there is no flesh or fish which they find dead though never so filthy but they will take it up and eat it yet somtimes they parboil their meats in little kettles made of Beasts Skins the bloud and water they drink and lick the bloody Knife with their Tongues and use the same remedy for curing their wounds that is licking them only with their Tongues They have great plenty of Fowl our men killing 15 hundred in one day they have thicker Skins and more Feathers than ours which requires them to be flea'd before eaten They have no hurtful creeping things but Spiders and a Gnat which is very troublesom nor any Timber but what the undermining water brings from other places They are great Magicians and when their heads ake they tie a great Stone with a string into a stick and using certain Charms the Stone cannot be moved with all the force of a man yet at other times seems as light as a Feather they lie grovelling with their Faces on the Ground making a noise as if they Worshiped the Devil under the Earth they use great black Dogs like Wolves to draw their Sleds and some of a lesser kind they feed upon In the midst of Summer they have Hail and Snow sometimes a Foot thick which Freezeth as it

Falls and the Ground is Frozen 3 Fathom deep at which time the Sun is not absent above 3 hours and an half during which it was so very light that we could see to read There are no Rivers or Running Springs but what the Sun causes to come from the Snow They Row in their Leather Boats faster with one Oar than we can ours with all our Oars They seem to have commerce with other Nations from whom they have a small quantity of Iron III. In 1585. Mr. John Davis made his first Voyage for the Northwest Discovery and in 54 Degrees they went on Shore on an Island where they saw divers Savages who seem'd to Worship the Sun pointing up to it with their Hands and therewith striking their Breasts the English answering them with the same Actions they took it for a confirmed League and Agreement between them they then leaped and danced with a kind of Timbrel which they struck with a stick their Garments were the Skins of Birds and Beasts they killed white Bears one of whose Forefeet was fourteen Inches broad and the Flesh so fat they were forc't to throw it away by their dung they seem'd to feed on Grass which was like Horse-dung they heard tame Dogs howl on the Shore for killing one he had a Collar about his Neck he had a Bone in his Pizel and seem'd inured to the Sled two of which they found Next year Captain Davis made a second Voyage and found the Savage People very tractable they are great Idolaters and Witches having many Images which they carried about them and in their Boats they found a Grave wherein many were buried and covered with Seals Skins with a Cross laid over them they are very Thievish eat raw Fish Grass and Ice and drink Salt Water here they saw a Whirlwind ●ake up a great quantity of Water which mounted vio●ently into the Air three hours together with little in●ermission In 63 Degrees they met with a vast Mass of ●ce in one piece so very large that it appeared like an Island with Bays and Capes like a high Cliff Land whereupon they sent their Pinnace to discover it who found it to be only Ice this was July 17. 1586. and they Coasted it till the 30th following In 66 Degrees they found it very hot and were much troubled with Musket to Flies all the Coasts hereabout seemed broken Islands then returning Southward they Coasted Greenland but were hindred from Harbour by the Ice their Houses near the Seaside were made with pieces of Wood crossed over with Poles and covered with Earth our Men plaid at Football with the Islanders upon the Ice Captain Davis his third Voyage was performed the next year 1587. wherein he discovered to 73 Degrees finding the Sea all open and forty Leagues between the Shore on each side having Greenland on the East and America on the West near which was another Island which for its dreadful aspect being covered with Snow without Wood Earth or Grass to be seen and the terrible noise of the Ice he named the Isle of Desolation but the untimely death of Sir Francis Walsingham hindred the further Prosecution of these Discoveries IV. In 1602. Captain George Weymouth set forth with two Flyboats at the charge of the Muscovy Company to find out the Northwest Passage he saw the South part of Greenland the Water in an 120 Fathom was black as puddle and suddenly clear again the breach of the Ice made a noise like Thunder and indangered the overturning both their Vessels they had thick Fogs and Mists which Froze as they fell in 68 Degrees they met with an inlet Forty Leagues broad and sailed therein an hundred Leagues West and by South V. In 1605. Captain James Hall Sailed to Greenland and had the like Encounters of Ice which made as much noise as five Cannons discharged at once the People were like those mentioned by Frobisher they make Sails of Guts sowed together and deceive the Seals by raking them with their Seals Skin Garments ● the Countrey is high Mountainous and full of broken Islands along the Coasts the Rivers are Navigable and full of Fish between the Mountains are such pleasant Plains and Valleys as is hardly to be imagined in that cold Countrey He saw store of Fowl no Beasts but black Foxes and Deer The Natives wander in Companies in Summer for Hunting and Fishing removing from one place to another with their Families Tents and Baggage they are of a reasonable Stature Brown Active and Warlike eat their Meat either raw or parboil'd with Blood Oil or a little Water which they drink their Arrows have two Feathers and a Bone Head they have no Wood but what the Sea drives ashore In 1606. He made a second Voyage thither and found their Winter Houses Built with Whalebones and covered with Earth with Vaults two yards deep and square underground The next year he sailed thither a third time and in a fourth Voyage 1612. was Slain by a Savage in revenge as was thought of some of theirs formerly carried away from thence They have Hares as white as Snow Dogs that live on Fish their Pizles as of their Foxes being Bone their work in Summer is to dry their Fish on the Rocks Every Man and Woman hath a Boat made of long pieces of Fir covered with Seals Skins and sowed with Sinews and Guts about 20 Foot long and two and an half broad like a Weavers Shuttle so light and swift that no Ship with any Wind is able to hold way with them and yet use but one Oar which they hold by the middle in the midst of their Boar wherewith they Row forward and backward at pleasur● they generally Worship the Sun to which they pointed at the approach of the English striking their Breasts and crying Ilyout not coming near till they had done the same they bury their dead in their cloths on the tops of Hills in the midst of heaps of Stones to preserve them from the Foxes making another grave hard by wherein they place his Bow Arrows Darts and other Utensils The next year Mr. John Knight made a North-west Voyage Iosing his Ship which was sunk in the Ice and was with three more of his company surprized by the Savages VI. About this time three of our Countrymen named Stephen Burrough Mr. Pet. and Mr. Jackman went toward the North-West touching upon the Northerly parts of Greenland and sailed from 80 degrees to Nova Zembla in one place they saw red Geese and in another blue Ice but at length loosing their Ship by the Ice they were forced to set up an House to winter in the Isle of Desolation they began their bulding about the 10 of September the cold even then kissing his Newcome Tenants so eagerly that when the Carpenter did but put a nail into his mouth the Ice would hang thereon and the bloud followed in plucking it out In December their Fire could not heat them their Sack was frozen they were

forced to melt it their Beer when thawed drunk like water They endeavoured to remedy it with Sea-coal fire as being hotter than wood and stopped the Chimney and Doors to keep in the heat when they instantly swounded away for want of Air Their Shoes froze as hard as horns to their feet and when they sate at the fire while they were almost burnt on the forepart they were frozen white on their backs The Snow rose higher than the House which in clear weather they endeavoured to remove cutting out steps and ascending up as out of a Vault or Cellar when neither Cloths nor great fires would keep out the cold they were forced to heat Stones and apply them burning hot to their feet and bodys in one night a barrel of water was turned into Ice They saw no Sun from November 3. to Jan. 24. a long night of fifty two days When the Sun had left them they saw the Moon continually day and night never going down the twilight likewise remaining several days and they saw some daylight sixteen days before the return of the Sun The Bears who had held them beseiged and often endangered them forsook them with the returning Sun these Bears are very large and cruel some of their Skins being thirteen foot long and yeilding and hundred pound of fat which served them for Oyl in their Lamps the flesh they durst not eat some of them losing all their own skin by eating a Bears Liver they devour any thing even their own kind for having killed one with a Gun another Bear carried it a great way over the Ice in his mouth and then fell to eating it whereupon making to him with their weapons he fled leaving his purchase half eaten and four men could hardly carry the other half when the whole body seemed to be very lightly carried by his fellow The white Foxes continually visited them of which they took many whose flesh was good Venison to them and their Skins in the linings of their Caps a comfortable remedy against the extream cold they used Pattens of wood with Sheepskins above and many Socks and Soles under their feet with shoes of Rug or Felt Their Diet was very mean but at length despairing of relief they made them two open Scutes wherein they sailed above a Thousand miles after ten months continuance in this disolate Habitation and though incompassed with a thousand dangers from the Ice which surrounded them like Tents Towns and Fortifications yet at length happily returned to their own Country However no further progress was made till the English several years after made more profitable Discoveries and found in Greenland not far off a very beneficial Trade of Whale-fishing which continues to this time Now though this Countrey is reckoned to be in Europe and therefore out of our present survey yet being so near adjacent it may not be unpleasant to give a brief relation of an hunting spectacle of the greatest chase which nature hath created I mean the killing of Whales when they spy him on the top of the water ●o which he is often forced to get breath they row toward him in a Shallop wherein the Harponier stands ready to dart his harping Iron with both his hands to which ●s fastened a line of such length that the Whale finding himself wounded and sinking to the bottom may carry it down with him it being contrived the Shallop shall incur no danger thereby when he rises they strike him again with Lances about twelve foot long the Iron being eight therof and the blade eighteen inches the harping Iron being chiefly intended only to fasten him to the Shallop and thus they hold him in hot persuit till after having cast up first Rivers of Water and then of bloud as being angry with both Elements for suffering such weak hands to destroy him he at length yields his slain Carcass a prey to the Conquerors The Tragedy is thus exprest by the Poet. When the Whale felt his side so rudely goar'd Loud as the Sea that nourisht him he roar'd As a broad Bream to please some curious taste While yet alive in boyling water cast Vext with unwonted heat boyls flings about The Scorching brass and hurls the liquor out So with the barbed Javeling stung he raves And ●courges with his tail the suffering waves His fury doth the Seas with Billows fill And makes a Tempest though the winds be still He Swims in bloud and bloud do's spouting throw To Heav'n that Heav'n mens Cruelties might know Roaring he tears the Air with such a noise As well resembles the conspiring voice Of routed Armies when the Field is won c. Being dead they tow him to the Ship with two or three Shallops joined together and then floating at the stern of the Ship they cut the blubber or fat from the flesh in pieces three or four foot long which are cut smaller ashore and boiled in Coppers which done they take them out and put them into wicker Baskets which are set in Shallops half full of water into which the Oil runneth and is thence put into Buts The ordinary length of a Whale is sixty Foot his brains are said to be the Sperma Caeti his head is the third part of him his mouth sixteen foot wide the Whalebones or Finns are no other than the rough and inward part of the mouth of which he hath five hundred which close in the shutting thereof like the fingers of both hands within each other he hath a Trunk or breathing hole in his head he hath no teeth but sucks his meat his Tongue is monstrous great and deformed like a Woolsack about eight Tun in Weight part of which yeildeth eleven Hogsheads of Oyl His food that nature might teach the greatest to be content with little and that greatness may be maintained without rapine as in the Elephant and Whale the greatest of Land and Sea Monsters is grass and weeds of the Sea and a kind of water-worm like a Beetle whereof the Finns in his mouth hang full and sometimes little birds all which striking the Water with his Tail and making a small Tide he gapes and receives into his Mouth neither is any thing else found in his Belly as is affirmed by Eye-witnesses this great Head hath little Eyes not much unlike an Ox and a little Throat not greater than for a Mans Fist to enter with such huge Bones on each side as suffer it not to stretch wider his body is round fourteen or fixteen Foot thick his Genitals hang from him as in Beasts in Generation they go into shallow Waters near the Shore and in the Act join Bellies as is said of the Elephant at which time much of their Sperm Floats on the Water their Tail is like a Swallows at least twenty Foot broad at the end they have but one young one at a time which is brought forth as in Beasts about the bigness but longer than an Hogshead the Female Whale hath two Breasts

the top from whence next Morning they had a beautiful Prospect of the Atlantick Ocean washing the Virginian Shores but to the North and West other higher Mountains hindred their sight Here they wandred in Snow three or four days hoping to find some passage through the Mountains but the coldness of the Earth and Air seizing their hands and feet caused their return and put a stop to their further Travels In a second Expedition he came to another sort of Indians enemies to the Christians yet ventured among them because they hurt none whom they do not fear and after he had given them some sin all Trifles of Glass and Metal they were very kind to him and consulted with their Gods whether to admit him into their Nation and Councils and oblige him to stay among them by a Marriage with their Kings or some of their great Mens daughters but he with much ado waved their courtesies and got leave to depart upon promise to return in six Months At length he came to a Town more populous than any he had seen before in his Journey The King whereof though his Dominions are large and populous is in continual fear of his Neighbour Indians who are a People so addicted to Arms that even their Women come into the Field and shoot Arrows over their Husbands Shoulders The men it seems fight with Silver hatchets for an Indian told him they were of the same metal with the hilt of his Sword They are a cruel Nation and steal their Neighbours Children to sacrifice them to their Idols The Women delight much in Ornaments of Feathers of which they have great Variety but Peacocks are most in esteem because not common in that Countrey They are reasonably handsom and more civil in their Carriage than their Neighbours but miserably infatuated with the Illusions of the Devil it caused no small horror in him to see one of them with his neck all one side foam at the mouth stand barefoot upon burnings Coals for neer an hour and then recovering his senses leap out of the fire without hurt or s gn of any this he was an Eye witness of Southwest from hence he arrived at a Nation who differ in Government from all the other Indians of these parts being slaves rather than Subjects to their King their Monarch was a grave man and courteous to Strangers yet our Authour could not without horror observe his Barbarous Superstition in hiring 3 Youths to kill as many young Women of their Enemies as they could meet withal to serve his Son then newly dead in the other World as he vainly imagined These youths during his stay returned with Skins torn off the Heads and Faces of three young Girls which they presented to their King and were by him gratefully received Our Author in his sleep was stung by a Mountain Spider and had not an Indian suckt out the Poyson he had died for receiving the hurt at the rip of one of his Fingers ●he venom shot up immediately into his Shoulder and ●o inflamed his side that it is not possible to express ●he Torment the means used by the Indian was first ● small Dose of Snake-root Powder which he gave him ●n a little Water and then making a kind of Plaister of ●he same applyed it neer to the place affected which when he had done he swallowed some himself by way ●f Antidote and then suckt the wounded Finger so ●iolently that the patient felt the venom retire back ●rom his side into his Shoulder and from thence down his ●rms The Indian having thus suckt half a score times and ●pit as often our Author was eased of all his pain and ●refectly recovered He thought he had been bit with a Rattle-Snake for he did not see who hurt him but the ●ndian found by the wound and the effects of it that it was given by a Spider one of which he saw the next ●ay much like our great blue Spider only somewhat longer It is probable the nature of this Poyson is much ●●ke that of the Tarantula being thus beyond hope and expectation restored to himself he with his fellow travellers resolved to return back to Carolina without mak●ng any further discovery CHAP. XI A Prospect of Bermudas or the Summer Islands with the Discovery Plantation and Product thereof Having travelled thus long upon the Main Land of America let us now venture again to Sea and look into the Islands belonging to his Majesty in the West Indies The first which offers it self is Bermudas or the Summer Islands which are a multitude of broken Isles some write no less than four hundred scituate directly East from Virginia from which they are distant five hundred English Miles and three Thousand three hundred Miles from the City of London so named from John Bermudaz a Spaniard who first discovered them Oviedo writes that he was near it and had though● to have sent some Hogs on Shore for increase but by force of Tempest was driven from thence it being extreamly subject to furious Rains Lightning and Thunder for which and the many Shipwracks tha● have hapned upon the Coast it is called the Island of Devils Job Hartop relates that in the height of Bermudas they had sight of a Sea-Monster which shewed it self three times from the middle upward in shap● like a man of an Indian or Mulatto Complexion I● was after named the Summer Islands from the shipwrack of Sr George Summers who was so much delighted with the misadventure that he endeavoured what he could to settle a Plantation there together with Sr T●o● Gates They found there plenty and Variety of Fish● abundance of Hogs which probably escaped out of some shipwrack Mulberries Silkworms Palmettos Cedars Pearls and Ambergreice but the most surprizing thing was the Variety of Fowl taking a Thousand of one kind in two or three hours as big as a Pigeon laying speckled Eggs as large as hens on the Sand which they do dayly without affright though men sit down by them Other Birds were so tame that by whistling to them they would come and gaze at you while with your stick you might kill them when they had taken a Thousand soon after they might have as many more They had other Eggs of Tortoises a bushell being found in the belly of one of them which were very sweet and good they took fourty of these Turtles or Tortoises in a day one of which would serve fifty men at a meal This shipwrackt Company built here a ship and a Pinnace two of their Company being Married and two born among them whereby they took the most natural possession thereof for our Nation These Islands seem rent asunder with Tempests which threaten in appearance to swallow them all in time the storms in the Full and Change keep their unchangable ●ourse Winter and Summer rather thundring than ●lowing from every Quarter sometimes for 48 hours ●ogether The North and North-West Winds cause Winter in December January and February Yet