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Pl r md, which lasted 3 Dajs more, but asterwafds we had it more Variableth.an is usual in that place os the Sea.

The 28, we made Defeada, a finali High Iskrtd, about a LeagueinLengthand asmuch in Breadth, ic is full.ot Trees, but Uninhabited. NextMorning we were betwixt Antego and Montferat, belonging to the Englißt.Their Product is Sugar and Tobacco. We were in the Afternoon cloie byRedonda, a small Rock about a Mile long, Inhabited only by Noddies andEoobks. When we were fome Leagues from Redonda, we saw at the fametime Antego, Montferat, Redonda , Nieves , St. Christophers, and Statia.

The next Day (which was the 30 th,) we came in fight of SantaCruz., belonging to the Spaniards-

OH. 2. We came into Crab-Ißand , and sent fome of our People a»Qiore,and took Poßejßon of it in the Company' s Name.

Ocl. 4. Westoodto the Leeuw<sf t hearing there was k Harbour thcrr; andwhen we came we säw rhe Danes Colours nying on the Shore, for the Go-vernour of St. Thomas (a fmall Ifland belonging ro the Danes, and a Free-Tort) had sent 14 Men and a Captain to take Posieffion of h' in the Kingof Denmarks Name .* but we found that we had taken Pofleslion of thePlace before they came from St. Thomas, They gave in their Protest, yet >seem’d to be glad enough of our Neighbourhood.

On the Sto we lest this place, and on the ijtb made Nefira Signor a deflaTopa, we lay aside there along the Lasst, until the zd Day of Nozienihr,generally Losingby Night what we had Gain’d all Day. Crab-ißand ia»about 6 Leagues long, and m fome plades 5 brpad ; the Stil is very good.

It is all füll of Treef, all the South-side is füll of Baysvery fit for Anchor-ing in, but the bellos ali is to the Lmvard, where the Danet Hoised hisColours. It is call’d Crab-Ißand , from the Multitude of Land-Crabsthere. ...

Now. z. We Anchor’d before Golden Ifland , and sent in our Piimace tothe Bay. The Natives had Hofsed a White Flag ui Sign of Peacd* andtold usa great many Storiesof Capt.Aw<w^Capt. Dandes, andorhers,for theytook us for Englißt, by reason of ourRedFfy ; but ws took to Norice of oheMen they Nam’d. At last they ask’d us out Busineß, we told them we defigtfdto Settle amongst them, and to be their Frlends. They told us, we were veryVVelcome, and that by PrediHim they had expected us thesi! 2 Tears ; for they 'fay that z Tears ago it - was foretoldrhem, That a People fhould come and 1Live amongst them, that would Trcat them Civilly, and Teach them GoodManners. WeConvers’d fomecime withchem, and aster .Viewing the Har-bour we came a-board.

The 4^, we came into the HarboUr of Caledonia : lr is a most excellentone, for it is about aLeague in length from N. W. to S. E. It is abouthalf a Mile broad at the Mouth, and in fome Places- a Mile and more fartherin. It is Large enough to contain 500 Sail of ShipJ. The greatest part ofit is Land-hcDd, so that it is Safe, and cannot be toucht by any Wind,that can Blow; the Harbour and the Sea make the Land that lies betwixt-thema Peninsula, There is a Point of the Peninsula ac the Mouth of the

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