off by the former. One or two of the Pease is supposed to be eaten by Vermin. They were planted at about two Foot distance, and are ripe in two months, gathered when dry, and boiled as Pease in England. They are good nourishment for Negroes. They are uncertain in Seasons, or Rains here, therefore plant no Cotton.
Indian Corn cannot be set to grow but after Rain. It is best to be hung up in its Membranes to be hardened and kept from Weevils.
of White Cajfada not poyfonous, which boil'd as Yams are, may be eat like them. was informed here that Snails Calcin'd,? and a water made of them like Lime-water, it is a good Remedy in Bloody-Fluxes.
There
is
a fort
For the better underftanding of fcveral natters in the Well-Indies tliink it proper to fubjoiri fome accounts I receircd from feveral
who had lived,
and made Voyages to feveral parts Thefe follow without any othec he Neighbourhood of Jamaica. order than that of the time they were told me, and enter'd in my Journal which was generally when the Perfons came upon their fir ft arrival to wait on the Duke of Albemarle as Governouc of Credible Perfons
Ifland.
One King
Jeremy
came
froni the Mof^uitos (an Indian People near
the Provinces of Nicaragua, HonduraSy
and
Cofta
^ca) he pretended
King there, and came from the others of his Country, to beg of the Duke of Alhemark^ Governor of Jamaica^ his Protection, and that he would fend a Governour thither, with a power to War on the Spaniards^ and Pirats. This he alleged to be due to his Country from the Crown of England, who had in the Reign of King to be a
tohim. ThcDukcof Albemarle did nothing in this matter, being afraid it might be a trick of fome people to fee up a Government for (Bucaniers or Pirats. This King Jeremy^ in coming to Town, asking many qucftions about the Ifland, and not receiving as he thought, a fatisfa<5tory account, he puU'd off his Eurojiean Cloaths his Friends had put on, and climbed to the top of a Tree, to take a view of the Country. The Memorial, and fubftance of what he, and the people with him, reprefentcd to the Duke Alkmark j was, That in the Reign of King Charles I. of ever Bleffed Memory, the Earl of Warwick (by virtue of Letters of Re prizal granted by his (aid Majefly for Damages received from the Subjects of his Catholick Majefly) did poflefs himfelf of feveral Iflands in the Weft-Indies^ particularly that of ^roVidencCy (fince called the Spaniards^ St, Catalina,) which is fituate in ij deg, ions. K° Lat. lying Eafl from Cape Cratias de TiioSy (vulgarly known by the name of the Muskitos) between Thirty and Forty Leagues j which put the faid Earl upon trying all ways and means of future Charles
I.
fubmitted
itfeif
Corre-