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The first of January , 1565. theBarks and Boats went into a River cal-led Cafjerroes, and having dispatchedtheir Business, on the sixth, returned totheir Ships, which were at Anchor atTaggarin. They continued on the Coaststill the nine and twentieth, and then,having compleated their Number ofNegroes, set Sail for the Wjl-lndies.Being becalmed at Sea, for eighteenDays, they did not arrive at the Islandof Dominica till the ninth of March,when they were reduced to the veryBrink of Despair, for Want of Water ;And then, with great Danger of beingcut off by the Cannibals, only got someRain-Water, which drained from theHills, and lay in Puddles in the Dales.

They departed the tenth, the fifteenthhad a Sight of the Tejligoes, and the six-teenth arrived at the Island of Margari-ta, where they were kindly entertainedby the Alcalde, who furnished themwith Bullocks and Sheep 5 But the Go-vernour not only refused them the Li-berty of trafficking there, and deniedthem a Pilot whom they had actuallyhired ; But sent a Caravel to inform theGovern our of St. Domingo of their Ar-rival, who, thereupon, sent aCommandto the Spaniards, all along the Coasts, tohave 170 Dealings with the English.

Hawkins, finding there would beno Traffick for him here, departed onthe twentieth, and came, on the twenty-second to a Place on the Continent, cal-led Santa Fe, where they found excel-lent Watering, and some other Refresh-ments. From hence they departed, onthe eight and twentieth, and, the nextDay, passed between the Continent, andthe Island of Tortugas. They kept a-long the Coast, ’till, on the third of A-pril, they came to a Town called Bur-'boroata. Here Hawkins was obliged toride at Anchor, and sollicit fourteenDays,for Liberty of Traffick, and when he atlast obtained this Freedom, it was clog-ged with an Article of such extravagantDuty, to the King of Spain, as wouldmore than have eat up the Profit. Find-ing , therefore, that nothing was to bedone by fair Means, on the sixteenth,he landed a Hundred Men, well armed,and marched directly up to the Town-

By this Means he brought the Spaniards 1565,to Reason, who afterwards suffered himto traffick peaceably, and upon payinga moderate Duty.

Having finished their Commercehere, they departed, on the fourth ofMay, and came, on the sixth, to theIsland of Curasao, where they drovean advantageous Trade for Hides, andhad what Pro Visions they pleased, osBullocks, Sheeps and Lambs, for no-thing, paying only for the Hides.

The fifteenth, they departed fromCuracao, the sixteenth, passed by an I-sland, called Aruba, and anchored, theseventeenth, at the West End of Ca bo,de la Vela. The eighteenth, they came t j Jgto La Rancheria, where the Spaniards fame at Rioused to fish for Pearl; And, the 19th de la Hacha,to Rio de laHacha. TheKing of Spain'sTreasurer for the Indies residing here,he applied to him for Liberty of Trade;

But met with the same Difficulty hehad found at Burboroata, ’till he madeUse of the same Method to bring themto Reason; And marching a HundredMen, compleatly armed, towards theTown, obtained whatever-he required.

T h e thirty-first oi May, they depart-ed, and shaped their Course for Hi/pa-niola ; But were driven by the Currentsso far to theLeeward, that, on the fourthof June, instead of the West-End ofHifpaniola, whither thpy proposed togo, they fell in with the'Middle of Ja-maica ; And, in the same Manner, Haw-kins being then ignorant of the Force ofthe Current, they afterwards, supposing.

Jamaica to be Hifpaniola, overshot Ja-maica, and Santo Cruz in Cuba, to theirgreat Disadvantage. The sixteen, ththeyanchored at the Island of Pynas, andboiling Anchor, on the seventeenth, fellin, on the twentieth, with the WestEnd of Cuba, called Cape St. Anthony's ;

But being put off from the Shoar, bythe ordinary Breezes, on the four andtwentieth, he stretch’d to the North-West, till, the nine and twentieth, theyfound themselves in seven and twentyDegrees, and in the Soundings of Floruda.

The fifth of July, they made the I-siands of Tortugas,{prTortoifes,)so calledfrom the great Number of those amphi-bious Creatures which breed there.

They afterwards designed for the Ha-vana, which they, by relying to muchupon the Judgment of a Frenchman, whodeceived them, likewise overshot, andcould not come up with it again,

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