Hif. Horekcope rtra*i - 
 
 By Mars and Mercury dignify d, _ 
 
VIEWED: 
 
 All the Ports, Harbours, and their 
 feveral Soundings, Towns, and 
 Settlements thereunto belonging. 
 
 together. 
 
 With the nature of its Ornate , fruitfulnefs 
 of the Soil, and its fuitablenefs to Englifh 
 Complexions. \ I 
 
 With feveral other collateral Obfervations 
 arid Reflexions upon the IS L A N D. 
 
 The Third Edition. 
 
 By Captain HICKERINGILL. 
 
 LONDON ;• ^ 
 
 Printed: and Sold by B. Bragg , at the fypmiall in 
 Ave-Mary-Lane. MDCGV. 
 
THE 
 
 S T A T IQ N E R 
 
 TO THi; 
 
 READER. 
 
 HIS View (or Defcription ) of Jamaica was 
 1 Printed, and by Two Editions Publifhed in 1661. 
 
 . 'I . at . his Eetjin 1 from 
 
 ifoon Vftet’ the Reflauration of King 
 Charles II. (to whom the Book is Dedicated, and at whofe 
 Command, it was Compiled* to give His Majefty inteD 
 ligence .of.a Territory he knew little of: And in Grati¬ 
 tude. to the Author, for .His jPaiiis , that King made him 
 Secretary to theEarljpf j^m 0 r y th'en going Goveriiour jto, 
 Jamaica $ whole Bjlm&ionY^mno fo fit to ; drab, tip) as he 
 that had been there, and made Obfervations, and had a 
 Map of the Soundings toward the Ifland of Jamaica 
 given to him, (to publilh for the Benefit of *kll-Mariners 
 that touch upon that Coaft ) by Governor p'oyly, the 
 Authors dear Friend and intimate Acquaintance, &c. 
 Mt vHiy the Reverend Author left the Secretaries Place 
 
 mm* (f0 
 
(fo very Profitable and Honourable) to be a Divine, I 
 do not know; This-I-know-,-that the Book is out of Print, 
 and fcareely to be had for Love or Mony ^ and I having 
 the Happinefs to publilh the Authors T wo Books of Brlett¬ 
 er aft, with good Succefs, ■ cannot but think that I gratify 
 the Reader , as well as my felf with renewing an old 
 Book, efp^cially^t this-time,, whence have a War, with 
 Spain, vefy ufeful arid profitable, as well as pleafant to 
 the Reader 5 in a Stile fo peculiar to the Author, that 
 it is near almoft needlefs to prefix-his-Name, but that the 
 Stile of his Youth (45 Years ago) is more Florid mi 
 Juvenile than can be expected now, flagging near the Au¬ 
 tumn of Fourfcore Years, when tis time to exped the 
 Fall of the Leaf. But the Book is-reprinted now in1705. 
 verbatim, as at firft in 1660. without any one word either 
 added, alter'd or diminifdd, and therefore if any Phrafe 
 feem too Aiery. and Comical for a Divine, ’tis fuitable 
 enough to what he then .was —~ a jolly Captain, by 
 Sea and Land. Which may the better compound for 
 thefe feemingly wanton Flights of Juvenile Fancy in his 
 Satyr dgairijl Marriage 3 and his athletical Conjlitution 
 and numerous IJJiie. fecures him from being accounted a 
 Woman-hater 3 he feems to like Wives well enough, fo. 
 they be content to be Houfe-Wives, and keep in their 
 Hatchings and Fktrfeftes, ' and riot run Salt and Rank to ’ 
 Campaigns, and ^^, Debatiching' the Carup 3 and 
 Young Ladies ( VktVenable's) to be Leaguer-Ladies. . 
 
TOT HE 
 
 kINGs 
 
 Moft Excellent 
 
 M A J E S T Y. 
 
 'May it fleafe Tour Majefty. 
 
 A LL your Dominions, being 
 the happy SubjeSs of your 
 Care, are therefore the proper 
 ObjeSs of your View; If in the 
 throng then, Jamaica here humbly 
 fcefents her felf to your Royal Pre¬ 
 fence, 
 
fence, lepleafedto Interpret this her 
 dbfequioujhefs to he Duty , not In- 
 trufion. For fince your Majefly has 
 already gradoufly deign'd this Ifle 
 your Royal Patronage, Vouchfafe , 
 Great Sir, at‘ fome to 
 
 Grace It wth ydur aufpidousAfped, 
 in this Mirrour, with all Humility 
 prefented hy tl 
 
 ¥our Majdfy’s 
 
 Faithfully Devoted Servant, 
 
 Edm. Hickeringill. 
 
T H E Pavihl 'tenfures and Nicknames 
 which Prejudice and Intereft. have in* 
 jurioufly Impo/ed upon the Ifland of 
 Jamaica ‘ (after it,became the Refuge of that Englijh 
 Colony, that of late, unhappily Invaded Hifpa- 
 niola) /mov'd; mev in- the negligence of bettec 
 Pens, to Apologize for it, in this enfuing De- 
 Icription 5 For indeed;, to DsCcr^DtJamaica^ is to 
 Praife it 1 " ndrcan^f, 
 
 own Face, exempt, from . the adulterate Fuats of 
 artificial filiary i And believe' me, Reader, twas. 
 no Private nor Politick Defign,V':t'liereby;.t9i'al¬ 
 lure and but 
 
 Zeal to Truth, that engag’d me; by my oppor¬ 
 tune coiiti t ctpa4ice- fhere^.to dothis Right to that 
 injur’d Ifland, 
 
 * £%uid dm2 Quid non dm ? renms ti,quodjubet Alter.' 
 
 To 
 
To ray Honoured Friend 
 
 Capt. Edm. Hickeringill ; 
 
 Upon his , 
 
 1lefle&ions on Jamaica: 
 
 At his Return. ■-, 
 
 T His VJdcom&-home, how blunt foe re it be, 
 
 Thou wilt accept. Bear Mun, coming, from me: 
 
 'Aid deign it to attend thy fmoother Line, 
 
 Mine's honour’d with an Hand-maids place to thiiie: ' * 
 
 Andtho’thou.knoweff, thou had’Jl my: Heart before, 
 Methinks I love thee for this Book the more , 
 
 -Wbich l would Preface with Jpplaufesfit, 
 f Praifing therein my Judgment, and thy WitJ 
 But thatthou dofl iUteJl- befpokenBayes. - : - ;: - * 
 
 Tet Truth compels me to prefix this Pfaife r.' ’i ; 
 That as Thy pregnant Lines now Life doth give ; 
 
 Unto Jamaica; here long jhall it live; 
 
 And thisepitomiz d Urnjball retain 
 
 The Indies Memory when they're Bead again. - ^ 
 
 1 Obfext. amicitiae ergd &btfipoiuit " J ' ; 
 
 G.E. Med. D. 
 
 '*vw,,itw&vt c ; «w»W Xm\* 
 
;ri wwp n v 
 
HAT 'the' Ifland- of Jamaica was rather the 
 1 Grave than Granarytothefirft Englijb Colo- 
 1 -2ijr.‘(feated there, after theifrinaufpicious En- 
 
 ' vMki ■ terprize ;■ s r 0p oft f&fpaniola ^.cannot; modeftly; 
 
 ; 'Whether occafioned by ! thkgriping Monopoly of forae 
 hoarding-Officers or through want of timely Recruits , 
 always found neoeffary for fueh InfantTfettlements: or, 
 thro fom&.fatal ConjmSHotP O £ the Superior Luminaries 
 (that/fyirnby courfe with'a ^yu^arldm^lignaut Afpeft 
 on'bifc'’Nfafida'‘ ornow dispute., ! 
 
 • : But that fuch a Mortality ffiould proceed, either from 
 the Clime , being fituate in the Torrid Zane t ( a Herefie 
 unpardonable in the AndentS} )' or; from <aniy : accidental 
 Malignity in'idy^of ^e Etemerits,' peculiarly entail’d 
 upon it, Whereby' it-ffibuld be lefs habitable than any 
 other moft aufpicious Settlement remains here to be con¬ 
 troverted. ‘ " ; - . ‘ 
 
 TheOeeilioh'Whereof-Can be : no better evidence, than 
 by a faithfuf ' ' 
 
 . : 
 
 Defcription 
 
2 
 
 Jamaica View'd, 
 Defcriptiorij 
 
 t Client 
 
 Of the nature of the ) ami 
 (Soil 
 
 i. T"Trft therefore, its Climate is placed betwixt the 
 Tropicks, in 17 and 18 degrees of Northern La¬ 
 titude ; and therefore twice every Year fubjefted to the 
 perpendicular Beams of the Sun, whence it borrowed 
 the ftyle of Torrid Zone ; .a name'which did fo bugbear 
 and affright the credulity of. our- Anceftors, that they 
 unjuftiy exil'd andrtfAYit out from the habitable'part 
 of the World, (then ihcmop.bljVd-inthe temperate Zones) 
 till the more daring Spirits of Columbia, and others^.Con- 
 vot’d us to sn experimental; confidence in-.the contrary; 
 the Cheribj Blands-, Barbados:, Sir-Kits, Mevis, 
 tegon, Nc. having-prov’d .as. happy-to-the Complexions, 
 and Conftitutions-'.of ,;a sFifginia^., Kefc 
 
 England ; nif'.zs.Pffrtdgd, -Spain,, Jpafy:, -orfany- other. 
 Confines 'upon the. MeSierdpean Sea; all vvhich not- 
 witnftanding, .arer.fituate in'the Temperate Zone- y a- 
 Term of Art that- how' Ironically feandalize-s.that 
 vulgar divhion of -the-World- .into- Zones Habitable, (the 
 Temperete. Zone: ;A and; Inhabitable, the (TrighLand Tor¬ 
 rid Zctfcij. •' Fof if •muftca\ f du€hr , thatY| : Aaye/f6undthp 
 Air as Sulnhurous-and Hot in England, -in .the Months of 
 June, July, and Jugufl, elpecially whilft the Sun.was 
 rear the fieridian, y a's, inthghptteft Seafons at ( Jamaica, 
 v.diihf the Sun makes a double in Cancer ; or. in Guiana, 
 in the Months of March, and September ; whll’ft tht 
 Sun gallons o'er their Zenit&Ei the /Equinox,. 
 
Jmndca¥tet? : i* 3 
 
 And this will' appear to be no fuch prodigious a Para¬ 
 dox, if we be undeceived of that vulgar Error, that the 
 Neighbourhood of the Sun is the only, caufe of extream 
 Heat, and its elongation the reafon : of extremity of Cold: 
 for if fo, our Summers would be equally Hot one Year 
 as another, and each Day (after the Sun’s departure 
 from the Winter Soiflile ) Hotter than another, ’till he 
 had polled over his half dired Stages to face about in re¬ 
 trograde Cancer ) loth which experience doth difprove; 
 for though his appropriation and- ■ elongation bz the fame 
 every Year, yet our. Summers and. Winters .are not equal¬ 
 ly Hot and Cold, and therefore we mull feek out for 
 more intrinfical and occult Caufes3 which now (are not 
 the Afiylum of Ignorance ) ■ lince .we can certainly afcribe 
 them to Sun s ConfimBiok f improperly term’d an Af- 
 petl ) and his Afp.eBs with other Planets j together with 
 his configurations with the Fix’d Stars : for the Weather 
 is ufually the Hottell with .us in England, after the Sun 
 hath, taken his leave of us .from his nearelt vilit, and moll 
 fervent .-Complement,!, in the ; foot ■ of Gemini, with his 
 old falhion’d Co?ige_ in the Right .-Kiwi and Shoulder . of 
 Orion, and Auriga: and,our Hottell Seafons are the Dog- 
 T)ays - 0 yet doth not the Sun accompany the .lefler Hea¬ 
 venly Dogge , jtill he come to his Feminine Nodurnal and 
 unfortunate Lodging* : which: is ini the .’eighteenth De¬ 
 gree of Cancer 5 ol which more at-large you may confuk 
 Afironomy y.,my bufin'efsjhere, being ’QnlytJto prefent you 
 with an Hijhrkal Truth.- • ;; L 
 
 And as the Coldnefs of our Night-Air in England tem¬ 
 pers our Hotted and mod canine Seafons 5 fo the frelh 
 Breezes that rife always witN the Sun, do Fan.- the. fweU 
 tering mifiiitry Climes•withitt. r th^ 3 u^/rjbf. -fo.tharihe 
 Days are ufually as Cold as the Nights, except towards 
 B 2 the 
 
4 Jamaica Viera do 
 
 the Morning, and then a culinary Fire is had in requeft 
 tho : the Inhabitants are thought to be dandled in Apollo 1 s 
 Lap, or (as the Poets feign), to have been fcorch’d, 
 when rafn '’Phaeton miftook his wav, in his unftilled and 
 unhappy Journey-, 
 
 - tnagrm pereunt cum ntosnibus urbes: 
 
 Czwque fuis torn populis incendia Gentes 
 
 In cmerem vertunt, Jylva cunt montibv.s ardent, 
 
 Ardet Ethos —- : ■ 
 
 Quetlque fug Tagus omne veldt, fiiit ignibus aur/.m. 
 
 Ovid. Met. 1. 2 „. 
 
 This fcorch’d foil Phaeton to Cinders burn’d. 
 
 When he his Father’s Chariot overturn’d 5 
 • With hotter Flames (if Fame we Credit may ) 
 
 Than.thofe he fmutch’d in a.Ethiopia . 
 
 But the Native Indians are fenfible of no fuch extra¬ 
 ordinary warmth always making a Fire under their 
 Hammocks, that the piercing Air difturh not their deep. 
 
 And-the Engiijb themfelves that inhabit almoft under 
 the Line in Surinam y contemn not their Coverlets in the 
 Night; though indeed very few of them reft in Beds s 
 but Hammocks, which do fomewhat the more expofe 
 the Body to- -the inquifkion of the- fearehing Va¬ 
 pours. 
 
 : ■ Yet as the extremities of cold in tftefe Regions Betwixt 
 the Tropicks are indifputably more remifs than mEngtand'^ 
 and the reft of Europe - 7 fo the Heat qualified, with the 
 benefit of the Breezes, more juftiy ftyles them Temper set 
 than thofe Climates that have already falfiy, ( thef with, 
 vulgar confent) nfurp'd the Titfc 
 
Jammed View'd. 5 
 
 And I muff not credit my Senfes, if I Ihould not af¬ 
 firm, that upon an impartial compare, I never came in 
 more tempei.ue Climes then thofe of Jamaica, Hifpani- 
 cla , St. Kits, Barbadoes , Ac. fo llanderoufly calumina- 
 tedj the Heat in the Daytime being always Alloy'd with 
 the Sea Breezes ^ and the Nights, naturally Cool, are 
 by an interchangeable and never-failing intercourfe, re- 
 frelhed with Land Brezes 3 and therefore authentically 
 renown’d (bp the Lord Verutam , and others,) above 
 Bar bay, Spain, and Italy (tho’ fam’d to be the-.World’s 
 Garden) as being neither fo in temperately Hot nor 
 Cold. 
 
 Though the Lord Bacons Arguments are only drawn 
 from the Diftates of his Reafon, neither back’d nor re¬ 
 inforced with Experience 3 now fufficiently confirm’d by 
 every Mariner, to take off the greateft fn-fajl of incre¬ 
 dulity. And this ihall fuffice for our information touch¬ 
 ing the Clime „ 
 
 Secondly, 
 
 The Nature of the Soil. 
 
 2, Hp ki'S Fertility of the Soil of this Hand may. befr 
 Ji be examined;, and appear by its 
 
 ( Wild and purely Hatural^ 
 KdodiiSions, f or,. 
 
 (Improved and' Artificial .. 
 
 Firff 
 
6 Jamaica View'd. 
 
 Firft then, 
 
 Of the purely Natural, or wild productions of thk 
 Iftxnd . 
 
 i. With which the Soil is fo Pregnant and'Fertile, 
 that Nature hath ftor’d it in no niggardly nor novercal 
 benevolence, with Oranges, Lymes, (or baftard Li- 
 mons,) Guavars, Pomegranates, a kind of Pepper, that 
 taftes like Cloves, and very Aromatick (known by the 
 name of Jamaica -Pepper J) with innumerable kinds of 
 kve~raf Amh-r that havefcarcely found a Name in Englijb, 
 with which the Woods .ar-e fo univerfally crowded , that 
 they are likewife incomparably flock’d with abundance 
 of mu Hoggs, Jk and Large, that cannot but Thrive 
 well upon fo bountiful Commons , as falls from the Trees 
 in a very liberal Contribution^ yet their Ordinary is |Ot 
 fo free, but that it fometimes' cofts them their Lives5 
 Their Fat backs betraying their Throats, to the no fmali 
 advantage of the Hunters, and the whole Ifland. 
 
 Nor are the Woods, a more plentiful Kurferj for the 
 Hoges then the Savands are for the Beeves and Wild 
 Cartel^-in;foir.e of:which One Thoufand-woi^d Graze 
 in a Drove, till the too greedy avid repented Eag^rndfs of 
 felling them by Gun-ihot, frighted them to the ilielter of 
 the Woods and Mountains;' from whence now they dare 
 Icarcelv peep, except fecur’d with the coveytof.they^Jight, 
 (their row uiv.al.-feeding-time inythe Savands , ) and 
 now but in fmaller numbers. 
 
 An 
 
Jamaica View'd 7 
 
 An Inconvenience wifely prevented by the Spaniard 
 (that lately inhabited, and iirft flock'd the Wand) who- 
 Ov/ays onHorfe-back Jingled out the Bead: he intended to 
 hill, (if To wild as not to come to his ?<?//, amongfthis 
 tamer Fellows) and with a (harp Iron in form of an 
 Half-moon , fattened to a Staff, hough'd him on both his 
 Hind-leggs $ afterwards difpatching him at hisleifure. 
 
 With which two iingular Advantages for the railing 
 and encreafe of Stock, (either of Swine in the Woods, 
 or Beeves in the Savona's or Plains,) is happy in Jamaica 
 above any other Ifiand or Settlement 5 (whether upon 
 the Continent (or Wands of America Jat this Day peopled 
 by any Englifi Colony and Plantation 5 and will foon 
 flourilh above any other, if it want no due Encourage¬ 
 ment for the preservation and defence of the Planters. 
 
 . Every Ship that comes from the Wind-ward Wands of 
 Barbadoes , Mevis , St. Chriflophers , &c. being"crouded 
 above Convenience with all forts of People. 
 
 For befides that the Soil yields not to any of the Cha¬ 
 rily Wands in the plentiful Produce.of Sugar-canes, To¬ 
 bacco, Cotton, Mai a or Indian Corn, Potatoes, Yawmes, 
 and the like American Provilions: it hath three or four 
 lingular and extraordinary Advantages to enrich the 
 Planter. 
 
 Firjl, By the fpeedy railing a Stock of Cattel, though 
 from., a very mean Principle and Beginning: a notable 
 Policy- in the thriving Spaniard upon Hifpaniola , and ef- 
 pecially 611 Cuba, (which is better .Pcopied f and Tis this : 
 Near feme convenient Place, in the Wood, that is belt 
 flored with all forts of Fruit-bearing Trees, as Orange- 
 trees, a fort ol Cabbage-trees, rag’d with Berries, 
 they build two or three little Hordes, or more, by them 
 called a Crawl s and in thefe fliey firft inclofe thef'e tame 
 
 Hogs, 
 
8 Jamaica yierfcl 
 
 Hogs, with which they begin their Stock, and there feed 
 them} that after (being let oat) they will come to the 
 Haunt, at the found of a Horn} But if they be out of hear¬ 
 ing, (they many times fulpending all care of them for a 
 Week together) they go out with three or four Dogs, that 
 hunt them in } the whole Herd making homewards fo 
 foon as ever the Dogs do Bay them} unto which Difd- 
 plins , if any of the Hogs be not Conformable, his Re- 
 iraAorinefs colts him his Life} his Keeper (for Exam¬ 
 ple fake) fcarceiy indemnifying him for the firft Fault 
 
 Thus two or three Spanijh Slaves, (for a native Spani¬ 
 ard fcorns the ’-Employ) will look to fix or feven hun¬ 
 dred Hogs, ana provide them Meat, not putting their Ma¬ 
 ilers ro a Peny charge. 
 
 Which Courfe may as effectually be managed upon 
 nuica, in any part of the Hand } unparalld'd by any 
 other 'Settlement in the more Wind-ward Hands, 
 
 For a ltock of Sheep, Cows, Horfes, Goats, and the 
 like, there is excellent Pafture in the Savands } fome of 
 them forty, feme fifty Miles in Circumference, wherein 
 the Grafs'fprings Fre’fh and Green all the Yearlong. 
 
 The Earth never recalling her lent Sap (as fhe does 
 rnock the Europeans) by giving and taking again, every 
 Month being an April } The Trees and Plants being ne¬ 
 ver difro'bed of their PJsary-liveries, but wear their belt 
 deaths every Day} in which Prodigality they are li¬ 
 cens'd and born out, by their indulgent Parents, the Sun 
 and the Earth} Thefe Regions being their Darlings, and 
 ftou'fe Sir Walter Rawleigh’s Stile) The Paradife of the 
 World. 
 
 lnfomuch as here is plenty of Food to relieve the Plan¬ 
 ter’s Cartel throughout the Year, needing no Y\ inter¬ 
 ior:/} The providence of the Ant being ufelefs here. 
 
 2. Ano- 
 
,9: 
 
 Secondly, Another lingular Benefit to the Planter, is 
 the large numbers of wild Tlorfes, well fliaptf and very 
 ferviceable, being all bred of the Spanijh Gennets, one of 
 thfefe tam’d and .well manag’d may bedtodght for three 
 Pounds Sterling, which would yield fix-thouifand Pounds 
 of Sugar at the Barha,foes : of which fpecial Advantage, 
 in eafmg the charge of making Sugars, needs no difpute. 
 
 Thirdly, The laid Sav/mds, are common to every Man 
 •that will make life of them ; for as they-are good for lit¬ 
 tle elfe: Tim rawed’ GiOund'-producuVgthe beft Provifions 
 for a Family, ris Corn, Potatoes, Plantanes, Cailauder, 
 Sugar Canes, &c. fo fearing your felf upon the Skirt of 
 i M in'i ] o ■lering upon a Wood, you may with conve¬ 
 nience enjoy the Benefit of both. 
 
 ^ mu may Mock thefe Plains without limit ; 
 
 f to i m nave fifty ' Acres per-Head,. for.your felf.and 
 "n it , ue ly ajjignd and.made over to you, in-any 
 'place you ocu: like to make your choice ; fo that the Teat 
 you pitch'upon, be not firft taken up by another; where¬ 
 as Til St lilts, Barba does, &c, you cannot.turn a Horfe 
 out but he prefently trefpaffech upon his.Neighbour, if 
 not- upon your, own Canes: the mold barren Rocks’{even 
 in the Scotland of Barbadoes) owning a Proprietor, and 
 .he whole Ifland peftered with a fuper-numerary^/ztf 6fi 
 Inhabitants; tooT.iw.II aHivefor.Tuch z-fwarm of Feop1& 
 Laflly, I fhall concludethe tfanfcendenfey.bfithisf-Ifie; 
 fcjtt.he abundant plenty of choice TithberAprees arid Wood 
 for the DyeiC idb,. &-Tufti}kpKtdfilma;l Ebonies) f anda 
 land of’ Logwood-, .(.but not. fo effedual as that which 
 grows, m theJh??/ of Campeachee) together with choice of 
 hchoaJ ^aigd; 1 as China Roots,ui%rit Gimm'itijgitimi* 
 v '-Treoh Caljmy&cT. Anddhus miichbf.'-the'ivild'ahd 
 curdy iwu-rai Pi’cdtidiorislof.'thisjhappyfS^/.'”’A T'dw 
 C Red- 
 
10 
 
 Jamaica View'd* 
 
 Reddit ubi venerem tellus mar at a quotannu: 
 
 The Virgin-earth’s not barren here. 
 
 But will unoccupy’d Fruits bean 
 
 Second General 
 
 If. Of the improv'd TroduFlions of the Ifle* 
 
 I N the next place, the Fruits of Jamaica, that are pro¬ 
 duc’d by the improvement of Art, will moft metho¬ 
 dically prefent themfelves to be eonfidered 3 wherein I 
 fhall purpofely omit to give the Reader any Account of 
 thofe ufual Houfhold Provifions, of Cajfawder-, Corn* 
 potatoes, &c. nor of thofe Merchantable Commodities 
 of Cotton , Indifo, Tobacco , Sugar, &c, common to it 
 with the reft of the Englijb Plantations: But prefuming 
 the Reader’s acquaintance with thofe Fruits and Mer¬ 
 chandize fo vulgarly known, I fhali only treat of thofe 
 that are more rare, and not to be found in any other of 
 the Englijb Colonies in America. 
 
 1. The firft that I fhali mention is. she G«&/*rWalks, 
 which are not few in this Iiland, fome of them 1 - contain¬ 
 ing ten or twelve Acres of Ground, fome more, fome 
 iefs: The Trees are about the bignefs of our largeft 
 Plum-Trees--in England, orderly fet, lil-re our 'Orchards, 
 at the difknce.of fix or.feYen Foot from each 'Other 3 
 which Inter.Jtitium are'carefully weeded, mild cleared 
 
"rammcaVievfd. n 
 
 from the Grafs, that the Cacoa -Trees may, without a 
 Rival, engrofs the Sap and Subftance of the Soil, which 
 is chofen the riioft fertile that can be got, and naturally 
 ilcreen’d and fhaded from the piercing Rays of the Sun: 
 Nor, indeed, can any Ground be better employ’d } the. 
 Spaniard (who heft underftands the value of them) 
 reckoning every one of his Cacoa -Trees to be worth him 
 a Piece of Eight per An. after it begins to bear, which is 
 ufually about feven Years after its firft planting} in which 
 time they are once or twice tranfplanted for the firft two 
 Years, and efpecially in their Infancy muft be protected 
 from the fcorching Sun by the favourable interpofition of 
 fome fhady Trees} and therefore the Plantane -Walks are 
 ufually made choice of, for fuch Idurferns. 
 
 Of the Fruit or Nuts of thefe Trees is made the fo 
 fam’d Chocoletta , whofe Virtues are hyperboliz’d upon 
 every Pofc in London : though we muft confefs it of ex¬ 
 cellent Nourifhment. 
 
 The Spaniard victualling for a long and, wildernefs 
 Journey, with no other Refrefhment, than Cakes made 
 of the Kernels of thofe CW^-Nuts} which he diffolves 
 in Water for his Meat and Drink. 
 
 The Compofition of thefe Cacoa Cakes or Chocoletta is 
 now fo vulgar, that I will not difparage my Reader by 
 doubting his Acquaintance in fo known a Recipe, a very 
 Crambe in other Authors. 
 
 Yet will it not bejmpertinent to render a moft exact 
 Defcription of the Nuts, than is hitherto extant, either 
 in the Englifi or Spanifj Writings, that have as yet come 
 to my Hands. Herrera and Acofia report this Fruit to be 
 Ms than an Almond} whereas Doftor Hernandez, or ra¬ 
 ther, Anthonius Recehhis in Hijl. Plant, in Amer. excufs. 
 P.mna 1651, defcribes it to be bigger then a Musk-million. 
 
 C 2 He j- 
 
i2 Jmaka-Vim'di 
 
 Hernandez was implored by the King oi-Spain, to give, 
 an Account of the Physical Rarities and Plants of Ame~- 
 rka,’ml to thar-purpofe difpatched tftithei>byithe : {aid- 
 CatW.kk King, and is therefore more Creditable'a’nd Au- 
 rhentick then Herrera or Accfia; though indeeddle does* 
 fomewhat- hyperbolize when he equals this Fruit with 
 the largenefs of a Mu Pa-mi I! ion for the Husk or Cod is 
 no bigger than the largeft Pears in England ; growing, im¬ 
 mediate!'.'out of the Bole or Body of the Tree, and Stock 
 of 'the Branches, admitting not lo much as the inter;.nedi- 
 v.m or u'herage of a Twig, J(routing from the bottom to 
 the top, twice efpeciallv every Year, viz-, m theMontlls 
 of January and May, the chief Months for the Harvest 
 of them. 
 
 The outward cruft, or pittaminous Hlisk, being broken, 
 appears full of little Kernels , or Nuts, each.of them in- 
 velcpedm a (limy Subftance and film, of a phlegmatick 
 Complexion, but of amoftreliiliingTafte: under which 
 is another Shell, which when bak'd in the Sun, refetn- 
 cles the Colour and'Subftance of a Chefnut 5 but .the 
 Kernel is of a Chefnut-hue both within and'without, 
 and of this is made the Chocoletta Cake- 5 iull-of an oily 
 Subftance, not unlike that of the Oil of Almonds per ex- 
 preff.onem: and of this the meaneftLabourer hr Jamaica 
 compounds his Morning-draughts, wherein though he 
 fare? like a Gallant, vet his following Mufick upon tile 
 Hoe-bov (wherein he'pracnfeth to keep his Hand in ufe, 
 and fometimes till his Heart akes) doth more melodioufly 
 affect his Matter’s Ears then his own, and feeins more 
 •Harmoniouflv Confonant to his Canvas-Drawers, which 
 are alfo the fometimes Ornament cf the Petficoat-Sb: 
 (throuen the rigour of- their Matters unnumumitied y) -10 
 
•[’nat'-here likewife the Women, (though not with that 
 Complacency) fomefimes'V/ear the Breaches, 
 
 In the Bay of Honduras, the Coaft of Carihagcnai 
 auioalfoeiirntoft .Fihces oi$oi'a-!$tff>anwltK j '/o;'!Q$$ $de 
 little G7ckiMntC(or(Eerneia)' paTcoumnnfot-qngTaw 
 thing,.with which "(as-good Sterling)'they truck-in the 
 Markets.- . 
 
 ;iw.."Thp;Cc , M- : h T ut c , nhhh nor i ^ h iootb P n 
 der Tree, whofeev/s (m r normf. nee wu th M 0 U 
 a'Maifhy butits 'Ste we IcMCs nn Tagm 
 Upon the top of whofe T> P, the i u s m fin 11 n i 
 ilers do gemmate immediately from the Tree, at the 
 looting of the Brandies, , - 
 
 CThe.-Nuts. (-with' the ; ii-ushypn.). is, of •Pyr’amld-J 
 Form, and. why iv/TDimenfiohs -with the greater: Log-, 
 ger-head." - :)nei- ; - : ~ w ■ : • ' 
 
 ' ’ The outward livid or Husk is of a fibrous., fpongy Sub' 
 ikmce,- about an Inch thick, warily guarding., with i'u- 
 p'eihtious Channels, the,inclo/cd$hel! ; -y hcfe Kegro-ftadl 
 ijnofeaiilyhrokecf u , . inuU. .. 
 
 .aIn : fome^Cohiiti’ies^fas. m\Gr.hteo) tholhuives, card 
 out this Rind into a kind of courfe Tow, which ferves 
 them for Cordage,-.Cables, Okam. and Topes to rigg their 
 Ships y-whofe HitUs.W&M'tlisX as is reported 1 are ihapT- 
 our df/kheBodyof'thedFrle andT-LLT/n/, only .with 
 the'JVhb,. m.hwhoie.i contort-. ivdtrrcPH nn.-bct-h Dani: 
 and'Bread a. mUkytLiq.bcL running out:. ib.-foor-. as-you 
 give it vent: for,'which purpcfe 1'!ature hath trim'd it 
 with three hbng-holes at the top, ' 
 
 - FThuB one-Tree/ felts tip a Morrhicr, and an Brevard 
 •lets out a Fleet ^ and at the return of. •hejUpvgw, the . 
 8eamen.tu-e. -contentedly: paid off with thus T-tuit alone 
 which ferves for Monyp Meat and UmnC 
 
And indeed the milky juice is a mod Ambrofian Dain¬ 
 ty, very Diuretick, and proper Fhamacy for Nephritick 
 Difteinpers. 
 
 Of the Shells (policedJ are ■ made very liandfome 
 Drinking-cups, in Which Office; they icrve'us.for rarity 
 here in Europe. But they make no fuch ufe of the Rind 
 at Jamaica $ the inner Bark of a kind of Fig-tree fur- 
 nilhing them ("by the Negroes ArtJ) with all forts of 
 Cordage, ■ ufeful -iri : a-Plantation, 
 
 This Tree parturiatss every Month, and will have 
 Fifty or Sixty Nuts at a Burthen. 
 
 If you cut the Bark of the Tree or Fruit (whil’fc 
 green ) there iffues forth a Nectar, like that of the 
 Wounded Vine; or the Englijh Birch-Tree perforated m 
 the Spring, but of -a-far mor e-Aroma tick tafte. 
 
 I purpofely omit to fpeak of other pleafant Fruits in 
 the Country, that are either common with other Blands, 
 / or not tranfported into Europe , becaufe I would not 
 puzzle the Reader with hard-Names, nor Tantalize him 
 with a Difcourfe of Dainties, that he is never like to 
 Tafte in Europe^ and thofe to go thither, need no 
 Tutor. 
 
 But the Caco'a and C<?o?-Nuts are Merchantable Com¬ 
 modities, enhanfed for their fingular Ufe and Delight. 
 
 I lhal! conclude with one Rarity more, of which in 
 Jamaica is too great a Plenty:, and that is the Alligator , 
 qt Indian-Grocodile, an Amphibious Creature, that (like 
 an Otter) haunts both the Land and Water. 
 
 I have feen many of them upon Hifpaniola , but never 
 any in!the C/w^y-Iftands, nor in the Windward Settle¬ 
 ments upon the Main. 
 
 It would be too long to tell what large Feats are Stc- 
 ■ried of this Beaftj as, that he will .pull the Bulls into 
 
 the 
 
Jctmtika View% iy 
 
 die'WateJ, f catching them life a ;keen Maftiff by the 
 Cheek ) when they come to Drink, &c. 
 
 This is true, that they have an incomparable ftrength 
 in the Water, in which as their molt Friendly Element, 
 they do ufually encounter the trey, efpecially, if the 
 maftery will reqtike their utmoft ftrength in the 
 Grapple . 
 
 But though he wins the Field m the Water, ( with a 
 Bull) yet he muft fhare the Spoil on the Shore 3 for he 
 cannot (without the danger; of Drowning) iwallow 
 his Booty, through an -impediment in his Throat. Some 
 of them ( 1 have feen ) Six or Seven Yards long, but 
 their ufual ftretch, may bate the half 5 And indeed, tho’ 
 they are Fierce and Ravenous , yet at the approach of a 
 Man, whil'ft they lie Basking upon the Sands, they be¬ 
 take themfelves,(tho’ with no great hafte) into the Watery 
 yet is it not very Me Sleeping near'-the Shore where 
 they Haunt, left they take you Napping. Yet can they 
 not prejudice a Child that is but aware cf them: For 
 their Motion is very Slow 5 neither'can they turn the 
 Head, but the whole Body muft wheel for 1 Company. 
 
 Bat Bens immiti cornua curta — 1 • 
 
 There is as good Civet in the Cods of an Old rammifli 
 Alligator , as 'mitiiB-innejtGivei Catts, ■- 
 
 I fnall not mention- hgre : th& plenty of all forts of 
 Fifh, and Wild Fowl, ^ Ducks, Wild 
 
 Pigeons, &c. becaufe thefe Golle&jons (hall take notice 
 only of what is fingular in this ifland, 'without a Co¬ 
 partner, or any Parallel in? any other Settlements of our 
 Country-Men, '> ' T'-w"' •' ,! - 
 
 : ,r MkH-rv 
 
 But 
 
1 6 
 
 - . B'itipbiTiUV ; ’aKia6gft A?fe'.Rafci£'i.es. fo/gie \yiU :5 eXpe&4 
 ihouid (as the inoft’:vaeJcome-.News;) difcoverpforae 
 Mines of Siver or Gold-, .as the inoft undoubted tranfeen- 
 dency. of a Rich Lam}. -;h.rh .., r v '-' . .■ .,. -: 
 
 Scilicet uxorem cim dote; : jMemqiis : & _ atoms, pf ,, 
 
 Ei Genus &formarn, regin a , pecmiia donut. 
 
 Ac bene nummatum decor at Juadela, Venufque . 1 • - 
 
 Tivs Juri-facra. /(tithes. . of. the Iprkky^is nfualfy the 
 Grand.. Inqueft ^anil:.without>ii'tiOthfcr-. things', feem.-.to 
 -want-their Tafte, .or'Relilh'Fut -Unfayoiiriy, efpecially 
 to fuch an Epicurean as that -was, that Charm’d his Sen- 
 fes with this Lullaby 5 
 
 Forbear your Stoiek-Rules, fgo read.: - , : 
 
 To bed-rid Age-y-for-JlI .not heed-..-,-. - 
 
 Your peevifn Morals,'’ till dull feiifcd 
 Defpairs to have.coiicupifcence. 
 
 No, Cvhiift my Spirits are young and good, 
 Revelling-in-ray Fro lick Blood) : •- .. f 
 Compar’d to me old Epicure , 
 
 Shall be a Puritan .demure; . -.- 
 
 Each fenfe fnail play the Parahte, 
 
 To humour ,my coy .Appetite,. .. 
 
 Till I (bidding all:joys.goodmight) .; ; ,ndh 
 
 Prove.the -Nil tiki# oft. delight.CiVirDru t-m Ad- 1 
 ..For .Virmes oniylthatuatAend ; f-«,o * ! Ed l:;; AHY 
 A State notlneedyT CGrrimendy,' - •• • \-y‘ l 
 
 For on your beggar-virtues ,■ . 
 
 Dote not.(except-integrity,;) k Ayi.. ; -y,m m.ww 
 Such as is Patience per force , m .-mod 
 
 A Virtue practis’d by my Horfe 
 
17 
 
 Jamaica View'd, 
 
 When him to th’ Manger I do tie 
 
 From Meat, long’d for with leering Eye. 
 
 And let Humility be gone. 
 
 When I have nought to be proud on. 
 
 Rather than fuch poor Virtues have, 
 
 Some court rich Vices or a Grave. 
 
 Such is fome Mens Prophane Boulimy and Infatiable 
 P-oludip/ie after Gold, through the depravement of their 
 canine and pica] Appetites. 
 
 —~ iiec 
 
 Tenet mlmjlus Phaeton avaras fpes. Hor. 
 
 Neither Heat nor Cold can baracade the entrails and 
 womb of the Earth, from the Cafarean SeBion, and De¬ 
 bauch’d midwifery of the greedy Miners 5 which ( as 
 ’tis thought') would not in Jamaica , prove Labour in 
 Vain; for fome Melottoes and Negroes, (that were lately 
 Slaves to the Spaniards in this file ) tell us, that their 
 Mahers did certainly know of two Silver Mines; yet 
 are they not hitherto found by the EngliJJ) ; whofe font- 
 tiny therein, is not very prying and exaB, the which, 
 tho’ allured, were no Policy to Divulge, till their Num¬ 
 bers be encreafed, and their fooot-hold fecured; Argu¬ 
 ments, that yzvfoxiAta the Spaniards to reclofe and dam 
 up a Rich Silver v em in a Mountain near the Sea, a 
 few Leagues to the Norward of Cape St. Nicholas, at 
 the wefl-end of HJpaniola: not daring to prefent fuch 
 a temptation to me Princes of Europe , till his Mines in 
 Fetozo, Fern, and New Spaine be worn out; that his 
 fpare liands then mar not only extrad, but fecurethe- 
 Qar 3 a wliicfe if now expoied to public* note - . .. 
 
18 Jamaica Viercdo 
 
 would create him many an unwelcome Rival , that would 
 not be to feek of Pretences enough, to further his Suit; 
 fince our Mother Earth doth indifferently proftrate her 
 Womb to the common Embraces of any Ravijher, that 
 hath Arms ftrong enough to fecure him in the Rape 3 
 the only Patent that the Spaniard can fhow for his India- 
 Mines. 
 
 . Which himfelf very well knows, and is therefore ve¬ 
 ry unwilling to difpute his Title, but where he can cm- 
 pannell an Army, inftead of a Jury to make good the 
 Claim 3 the which he can hardly Levy upon Hifpaniola 3 
 it being fo thinly Peopled, that he can fcarcely mufter 
 five hundred fighting Men, (in the whole Ifkndj though 
 he fhould put forth 2 general Prefs ('enforc’d with the 
 ftrickeft Commiffion of Aray 3; except only in dieTown 
 of St. Domingo 3 which is difhant above one hundred and 
 fifty Miles from the foremeutioned Mine; and are not 
 able with all their Skill and Strength to root out a few 
 Buckaneen or Hunting French-men, that follow their 
 Game, .'in defpight of them, though they cannot number 
 three Hundred at a general Rendezvous : and thofc dif- 
 perfed at three hundred Miles diftance from one another, 
 on the North and WeB (ides of the Iflandj of whom per- 
 adventure I may havehereaf more occafion to Difcourfe, 
 
 Therefore it is not much material, whether or no,; 
 Jamaica own any Silver Mines, though it be more than 
 probable that time will difeover fome: 
 
 Quicquid fub terra eft, in apriaim proferei at as. 
 
 For if there were but Strength of Hands in Jamaica^ 
 they might procureMony with lefs Labour than Digging 3 
 except the Spaniard will quietly fuffer them to reap the- 
 
Jamdics View'd. 19 
 
 Fruits of the common Earth. For the Propriety where¬ 
 of lie ratifhow-ao J 3 ill of Sale but his Sword. 
 
 Thus much in General. 
 
 [hall now vCk you a more particular Defer tption of 
 ibis id >’ h us Harbours > Towns , forts, Sound- 
 tag J T/j } n prefeiited in this Map, to your 
 Fieft. 
 
 ffj Herein the chief Harbour at Point Cagway merits 
 - ' 1 ' ■ V Precedency , lying Nortlfff from the faid Point 
 in 211 Arm of the. Sea, that [hoots in three or four Leagues 
 within the Land, 
 
 Where one Thoufand tall Ships may fafely ride at one 
 time, and ail Sufficiently [belter d from Winds and Waves 5 
 and if they pleafe, clofe aboard the Shore, for an Eng- 
 B[J) Mile in length, incomparably convenient for careen¬ 
 ing Ships of ah Burthens. 
 
 ‘'Upon[’tliio Point or fandy Bay Is now built above five 
 Hundred houfes, by the Englijb , chiefly for the accom- 
 o'ouautnof e >-,ncn, efpecially the Privateers, who are 
 their bef OuLmefS $ and foinetimes, as'now it-is, the 
 f efidtucr L +V General, and feme Merchants'and Ma¬ 
 in fa-flute' hofe Shares to build upon is. meafured out 
 
 to them by die foot, and that immediately forfeited, if 
 not forthwith improv’d by Buildings, which now almoft 
 cover the tace of the Bay for a Mile in length 5 the 
 breadth thereof being variable, fometimes borrowing of 
 D 2 the- 
 
20 Jamaica View'd, 
 
 the two Seas, in whofe Arms it lies, and then repaying 
 with unequal Tnterett $ fo that about a Mile from the 
 Harbour’s Mouth, it is almoft Bankrupt. 
 
 The Bank in that Place not extending to above half n 
 Cables length in breadth : where, if cut through from 
 Sea to Sea, (which very little Labour would effecl,) 
 this Ifiktnus would lofe its Name in an Ifland: And the 
 Converfion conduce much to its Security, 
 
 For there is no landing upon the 'Sovth-fide of the 
 Bay (which is wafli’d and Burs upon the main Seas) by 
 reafon of the Fury of the Waves (not pacified by any 
 Breakers ,) even in the becalmed: Seafons, 
 
 And the Entrance into the Harbour is commanded 
 with a Fort, built by the Englijh: wherein there are at 
 this Day, fome as good Canon planted,, as the Tower of 
 'London would afford, yet the Bay\ (or faid Town) con- 
 fifting on nothing but loofe Sand ( in moft Places where¬ 
 of you have Water, in finking but three or four Foot) 
 admits no fufficient defence inTeneable Bui works, with¬ 
 out the Tribute of Foreign Materials 5 which are not 
 'far to feek. 
 
 The word; is, their Water, which is infected (hv the 
 intrufion of the Neighbour-Teas) with a brackiih Tafte 5 
 and therefore they make life of none but what is fetch’d 
 three or four Leagues in Boats and Canoues. 
 
 Which inconvenience dilTwaded the Spaniards from 
 gracing it withfo-muchas oneHoufe, feating themfelves 
 near a pleafant River, and by the fide of a molt lovely 
 Savana , in the famous Town of 
 
Jamaica Yiew'ii m 
 
 St. Jago de la Vega. 
 
 W Hieh was'as well built, and as large as any Town 
 in England $ but now has loft much of its Pri- 
 jline Luftre, fince the Landlords became Englift) $ for it 
 did contain Two Thoufand Houfes, and upwards, witlx 
 'Sixteen Churches and Chappels, when it was firft fazed 
 upon by the Army conduced by General Venables 5 now 
 there remains only the Skeletons of Two Churches and 
 an Abbey, with about Five or Six Hundred Houfes 3 fome 
 of which are yet very pleafant and habitable. . 
 
 This Town was firft Founded, by Columbus , to whofe 
 happy fearch the Weft-Indies, hrft difcovered it felf;'-( all 
 former Commerce and Traffick thither being till then ad¬ 
 journd bey end the Records of Time and Memory) but 
 now by him reviv’d to Correspondency. He was the firft 
 Father and God-father to this Town, giving it the Name 
 of St. Jago.de la Vega ( which it reciprocally retorted to 
 •him in his, and his yet .remaining Families Title of Ho¬ 
 nour ) by the good Pleafure of the King of Cajliie, cre¬ 
 ated Duke de la Vega ,' Famous in Spain , even to this 
 Day.' 
 
 Here is plenty of CaJfta.Ligneq , and Oranges of excel¬ 
 lent. Relifii,! in abundance, yyitli fome otherchoice Fruits y 
 the Fruits .of the Spanift) Jndu.ftry,; • ; 
 
 , . The 1 mentioned Savana that faces the .-.Town is now 
 pretty well ftockt with Sheep, Goats, Cow's, and efpe- 
 cially tameHorfes. But it did contain many Thou fluids 
 of. each whilft the Spaniard own’d, it.. . : 
 
 . '.The- back-fide of the Town isnyafh’dwjth a fair, but 
 unnavigable River, which buries it felf in the Sea at 
 Faffage-Fort. About 
 
22 JrttMk/i Ykikti* 
 
 About Twenty or Thirty Years ago, this Town was 
 won by a little Fleet of Englishmen, fitted out from the 
 Cbariby lilands, chiefly from St, Kits , under the Com¬ 
 mand of General Jackfon, who landed about Five Hun¬ 
 dred Men at P-jffkge-Ht&t, and Fought his way. up to the 
 Town, againit Two’Tiioufaud Spaniards, who liili fled 
 before him; but foffiewhat retarded his Career, by Six 
 or Seven feveral Breftworks, calf up athwart the Roacy 
 on purpofe to Bulwark this Town, (the jewel of this 
 Ille) fromfUch Inroads and fudden-Surprizals; for the 
 prevention whereof, they kept continual Watch upon a 
 great Hill that overlooks the Sea, the Harbour, y.itd the 
 Town, from whence the Centineis, in the twinkling or 
 an Eye, by tokens agreed upon, fignifled the immmency 
 of apprpachingciangefs; As ar this time When General 
 Jackfon made theOnfet; the Strength of the Iile being 
 drawn up on the Shore, before he could land his Men 5 
 whom, tho 5 the Spaniards fomewhat refilled, and at their 
 feveral Breft-works caus’d them to make an unwilling 
 Halt; yet the fury of Jackfons Men, greedy.of Spoil., 
 overcame all. Difficulties, neglecting Dangers m cornpa- 
 rifon thereof: Thus with the Lofs of Fourteen Men, 
 forcing to the Town, Plunder’d it s to their no imall en¬ 
 richment. The Booty iikewife being advanced by a 
 large Fine paid him'by the Spaniards , on condition the 
 Town might be preferred from Burning; which was.ao'- 
 cordingly faved, andtheir retreat to tire Fleet undifturb’d.. 
 
 But when the fwelling Armada with General F” enables, 
 attempted this Town, ( after their worfe Succefs againS 
 St .Domingo) they beat the Buffi fo long, till the Birdyvas 
 flown. For the Subtle Spaniard, delaying our .Men 
 with parleys, and fair Words, in the interim difpatches 
 away Bag and Baggage; f<?nietjmes fending Beeves £0 ftay 
 
■jamkd zj* 
 
 the Stomachs of the Hungry Soldiery'* and' bearing Ge¬ 
 neral Venables, in hand with choice Viands ; and Sganij!) 
 Dain ties prefented to. his; Lady, who had more mind to 
 Eat. thaw Fight.' : • - ' "W . 
 
 Thus having them olf/tilfrfidr Train and heft Mo¬ 
 veables had : got fo much Law, that afterwards the fwift- 
 eft purfuit could not give thenWa Turn, before they had 
 got Covert m their Fa^nefs, the Woods. 
 
 And .certainly,' tile "Treafurehhey 'carried -with, them 
 could not but be very -boi-mderable if ! we niay guefs-' at 
 the worth of tiiejewel,' ! by'the fplendorof the’Cabinet, 
 that kept it: or efeiraate the largenefs of the Bird by the 
 Neft: the Town being then even to magnificence, adorn’d 
 with fpacious Tloufes./' ■ 
 
 For the fate-guard whereof,.the- Spaniards never durft 
 cope with our Men ill'the plain'Field *;■ yet Would fome- 
 tnnes gawl them, when befriended with the treachery, 
 that Night and the Woods do afford; in which clan- 
 defline encounters, tho’, at fkfl the Spanifi Succefs was 
 too fortunate $ yet clear bought Experience did in a little 
 time train up our Men in the fame Mvftbnes'. in which 
 now they are grown fo perfect, that they never ceaft 
 Beating both Spaniard and Negro at their own Play, and 
 with their own Weapons, till they had clear’d ghe Ifland 
 of them* In defpair now of Recovery >, being : fo often 
 fruftrated in their reattempts ,) except by fome Invinci¬ 
 ble Armado, which yet will find vfork' enough, ere they 
 make the Ifland too Hot for the Englijb, now Naturaliz’d 
 to the. Country, and can never want Shelter nor Vi&uals 
 whilrftbey have the Woods to befriend $ with which 
 now they are fo well acquainted, that the Molottoes and 
 Negroes, ( which‘the SpiiniardAzh behind them to keep 
 polfeflion of the Bland, therein reckohhig- without their 
 
24 . Jammed View'i, 
 
 Hoft , presuming them Unconquerable, and paft finding 
 out) are now fo overmatch’d in their own Arts , that 
 their Captain and the n -ajor part of them have fubnmted^ 
 thereby leffening their Matters Title bv Eleven Points of 
 the Law i, and crating Englifi Protection; into which, 
 they are upon Submiffion received, by the truly Honour¬ 
 able General Datvlej, and now authorized to Prey upon, 
 and Hunt their Fellows, that in fcattered Parties yet 
 ttand it out, having already fealed their Allegiance with 
 the Blood of their old AiTociates, not without the dex¬ 
 trous con.trivement of that Noble General, whole happy 
 Policy in the wary preservation of this Forlorn-in Ja¬ 
 maica , hath already without the fufpicion of Flatmi v, au¬ 
 thorized the Style. To whom our Nation, in fome 
 •meafures, ftands indebted for the Reprisal of that 
 Honour at Rio-JSovo, which was fo fhamefully Loft un¬ 
 der the Debauch’d conduct of General Venables in Hifpa- 
 niola : the Spaniards till then having fo mean and defpicaple 
 Thoughts of Englifi Courage, that upon the Onfet at 
 Rio-Nevo, they upbraided our Men with the opprobri¬ 
 ous mention of Sancia. Domingo , till the repeated Allay 
 of their Valour, difcipiiii'd them into better manners. 
 
 For though the numbers of the Spanijb Forces at Rio- 
 TJova doubled the Englifi (being fent from Cuba to rein¬ 
 force and refettle the Ifland) and thofe ftrongly En¬ 
 trenched $ yet fuch was the enraged earneftnefs of the 
 Soldiery to redeem their wounded Honours, that (re- 
 gardlefsof ail odds and difadvantages) they jiormd them 
 in their Trenches with a refolution as undaunted as the 
 fuccefs was profperous. Hereby not only retrieving the 
 Prifiine Fame of their Country-men i but aifo hitherto 
 fruflrating all hopes in the Spaniards of further Attempts 
 •to regain the Ifland, 
 
Jammed View'd,"’ 25 
 
 -Another Party of Spaniards refeating themfeives at 
 Voint-Pedro, being attended with a no lefs inaufpicious 
 Fate. 
 
 And the truth is, the Iiland, tho’ it were Jefs Fruit¬ 
 ful, is worth the Fighting for, tho’ it fliould coll the 
 Spaniard fome of his heft Blood $ for it lies within his 
 Bowels, and in the Heart of his Trade. ■ 
 
 For all the Treafure that his Plate Fleet brings Home 
 from Carthagena, fleer diredlly for St. Domingo in Hifpa- 
 inola, and from thence mull pafs by one of the ends of 
 this llland to recover the Havatia, the common Rendez¬ 
 vous of this whole Armado, before it returns home thro' 
 the Gulf of Florida. Nor is there any other way (where¬ 
 by to rnifs the liland of Jamaica ) becaufe he cannot in 
 any reafonable time turn it up to the Windward of Hi- 
 fpaniola $ the which tho 5 he might with difficulty per¬ 
 form, yet he would thereby lofe thefecurity of his uni¬ 
 ted Forces, which at the Havana ( from all the Parts of 
 the Bay of Mexico , Few Spain, and the Rich Merchan¬ 
 dize that comes by Mombre de Dios, from the South Seas,) 
 accompany each other Home, from the faid general R.en- 
 de&vous. 
 
 So that the privateers from Jamaica are often Finger¬ 
 ing the Plate, and. other Precious Commodities, that 
 was never confgnd to them 5 by picking up their (ingle 
 and ftragling VdTeis, before they are enfur-ed by their 
 embodied Fleet. 
 
 In which refpects ( as in many others) Neceffity hath 
 made a better choice of a Seat for the Englijh Dominions, 
 then their intended furprizal of Hijpaniola, l!io’ it had 
 been Archieved: And their Winnings, (if the Game be fol¬ 
 lowed) will unespededly outvie th t flakes. 
 
 And 
 
26 Jamaica View'd. 
 
 And, here I cannot but take notice of the man y conve¬ 
 nient Harbours y adjudged by the moft experienced Ma¬ 
 riners to equal the belt that they ever came to Anchor in. 
 For befides that already mentioned at Point Cagg-way. 
 There is another (nothing inferiour) below it to the 
 Lee-ward at about Four or Five Leagues diftance; and 
 may as conveniently ferve the Town of St. Jaga, as that 
 other at Cagg-way ; they being Triangularly fituated: 
 It is ufually known by the name of Old Harbour , where 
 Four Hundred Tall Ships may ride together, without 
 danger of falling Foul upon one another. 
 
 And about fourteen Leagues to Wind-ward^ is another 
 fafe Port, called by the Spaniards , Porto Morant , which 
 yet retains the Name. In the Confines whereof a Regi¬ 
 ment is Seated5 who with many other Planters, have 
 now made themfelves confiderable in the Produce of Sugar, 
 Tobacco, Cotton, &c. 
 
 But it is befide my fcope to mention every Harbour 
 on this and the Nor’th-fide of the Ifle, left this Volume 
 extend beyond the Compendious Dimenfions of Journal 
 Notes; calculated only for thofe that are moft remarkable, 
 efpecially fince the ’fore-inferted Plat may fatisfie a more 
 critical enquiry; and be fufficiently Authentick to con¬ 
 fute thofe traditional Heterodoxes , that fome * Mens 
 Rafhnefs hathpublilhedtothe contrary, upon bare report. 
 
 But I fhall adjourn a more plenary difcovery to thefe 
 enfuing Animadverjions. 
 
 * Amer.defC't.ult, 1655. 
 
 REFLE- 
 
2 7 
 
 reflections 
 
 Upon the prefent Affairs of 
 
 JAMAICA; 
 
 And the Expedition againft 
 
 HISPAN 10 L A = 
 
 Under the Condu& of 
 
 General V E N N A B L E S, 
 
 ^'■nr-^HAT Bulky Jmadoesaremmy times funk with 
 .1; their own weight; which, if parcell’d.out in- 
 1 to feafonable Recruits, had fignified more by 
 tzcli Retail, then the prodigal wafteof fucn 
 whok-Jtile Adventures. 
 
 'The' diipenfions of this ; great Preparation vaftly ex¬ 
 ceeding, the. difficulties that could encounter them, from 
 aU the uriited Forces in ffifpaniola; and fitted out with 
 
 ■ " - ■ - ' “ • ' E '2 ' ' Strengths 
 
aS RefleSio wvr 
 
 Strengths fufhcient to make P;w:e i 
 PJare-Fleet, rather than the fire hi? 
 or an unpeopled Land, fucli a? in S; 
 
 tneir rimes ; ana nngnt grow ncn oy me iraae, a.a 
 i:ot their iavifn Rioting? in Expence (at the neighbo’ir- 
 To'-iuJoes • exceed the hard’hip of their Incomes. Their 
 comfort is, then can merer be broke whiift they have a 
 Dog and a Gun ^ both which, are more induftrioufly 
 tended than themfelves. 
 
 Theie Act eon Straglers (that feldom Number above 
 Five or Six in a Company ) are often Affronted with the 
 Spanish Rounds ( confiding uf about One Hundred Fire- 
 Locks-)- that Once a Year compafs this Ifland, yet dare 
 them never cope with thefe Refolute Champions, and 
 wandring Knights^ who, Letting Back to Back, would 
 make fare to fell their Lives at a double rate, and in that 
 Ppfiure bid Defiance to the Enemy. 
 
 The Grave Seignior Doming to barter ofFcznifi 
 Blood, in exchange for an Ocean of fucli Rafcal Gaul. 
 
 And I am very confident that the fmall Remnant left in 
 Jamaka ( knowing how to Victual their Camps with 
 what the Woods afford) wiilbeabibto Jifaray tht Spa¬ 
 niards in Eifpamola oi Cuba, ( even to admiration,) ind 
 above what* the moil favouring ' p'rfage can exued’or 
 Autumn. And 
 
. upon Jamaica. n g 
 
 ' Andcertainly this -Foot-hold (yet fecured, maugre the 
 Spaniih ( VAt and Power J foiled twice by them in their 
 reattempts doth open fo fare a paffage into the Indies ; 
 that if His Sacred Majejly, our mod excellent Prince do 
 not'in mere? baulk the Spaniard, , a few Years will humor- 
 tali-ze- Him one of the greateft Emperors' of the World:' 
 being hanpy, and not only in an invincible Navy., but 
 in the Dorn in'on of Northern Kingdoms, that are there¬ 
 fore fo fruit an, that they {lore him 1 with more Men than 
 lloomt, >»To are faoneft likely to leave juftling when 
 rhe v are \uted' with more Elbow-room : The very Divi- 
 ilon of that united Abraham and Lot, who by too near 
 correfpodeoce fell together by the Ears. Thus too.nigh 
 Ne'ghbm.fncod begets Contentions, whilft diftance and 
 ablenceuf.u.ily enhanfeth the Affeftions of near Friends. 
 
 Ileflea. K 
 
 2, MpHat fudderi Surprizes from an Amhtfcade, ufually 
 A piep h n'oie than open Force. .The whole 
 Strength of Nifp ., mb, tho’ embodied and in view, not 
 being able to dime that terrour,. and make fuch havock 
 of our amazed GoHiers,; as Forty or Fifty Negroes and 
 Molettoes etTecred bv an unlook’d for Onfet. 
 
 Gaining; more by this jugling delunon, than their 
 whole Army could by Play above-board. The Spaniards 
 (like Hannibal) obtaining conqueft with their Heads 
 rather than cheir Hands. 
 
 Nor are they fo ufually Foiled, -as when encountred 
 with their own Weapons.:, .a wa : ry plodding Fahim -figni- 
 
 fying mote than a. Hot SpuF MatceMi 
 
 To 
 
30 RefleBions on Jamaica. 
 
 To which fquint-eyd Mode in War, ' Sc'anderbeg ftands 
 dndebtedfor moftof his Victories againft the Ottomans 5 
 ^s alfo Jofhua, tho’ back’d with a Divine referve , for the 
 iDefeatof.^/.. . ],:/ •••.< . 
 
 Thus.alfo do. therNa’tive Indians encounter their ad- 
 •verfe Nations, rather Healing upon them, than availing 
 them; efpecially, praftifedby the Meridional , and .more 
 •oriental /Americans^ whofe diminitive fixtures call for the 
 afliftance ;of Wily. Stratagems, neglefted by the more 
 •Northerlyand armftrong Regions; whofe Charafter, ( ac¬ 
 cording to mine own knowledge and experience ) efpe* 
 •cially of thofe Gut ana and Chariby Indians , that cohabit 
 with the Englijb in Surinam, I deem not much extrava- 
 igant here to infert. 
 
 Under the tine that equals Night and Day 
 Guiana ftands, part of dmerica : 
 
 'On whofe HeadP^ztflhoots his fiery Steams, 
 
 Twice every Year, with down-right darted Beams. 
 
 In his Twelve Houfes, as he travels forth 
 &\oi\g t\[t Zodiack, ’twixt the South and North. 
 
 . Whofe Native Iridian hath not, nor, needs.Art 
 To cloth himfelf, Nature fupplies that Part, 
 
 :; They’re true Philofo phers, not much they have. 
 
 Nor do they want much, nor much do they crave. . 
 They care not for to Morrow; no fupply, . 
 But juft fromHandto Mouth, no Granary :; 
 
 If they want Flefti,' they take their Bow in Hand, r 
 And then for Hare or Deer, hunt o’re the Land. 
 
 For all Game here moft eas’ly taken be, r V : . 
 Since they .take Goyertm'fqrtieHollow Tree., 
 
 Qr fbrhefqchijerazy,'('Refuge;R whence they are . 7 n <iw 
 Dig’d forth atleifure&r. theHuaWsifare.;:: om gui -u 
 
, Reflexions on jdmakai jr 
 
 Or if theStomach do in FIfh delight, 
 
 -With wily feats he gluts his Appetite. 
 
 His Bread and Drink both made of one Root are, 
 Cajfmder call’d, cook’d by the Womens care j 
 Who fliew their beftof Duty to their Home, . 
 When their Mates wearied with their Booties come.. 
 For every Man in’s Houfe is Lord and King, 
 
 Hath pow’r of Life and Death, and every thing: 
 
 His Wills his Law, from him there’s no appeal,.' 
 
 No other Monarchy or Common-weal.. 
 
 If Wives and Children offenders are,. 
 
 His Will’s the Judge 5 Hand, Executioner : 
 
 To none but to their Chief, they Homage owe, 
 
 That’s the Eldeft Son, when Marry’d, t’ him they Bow,- 
 His Father, Mother, Brethren, Nephews all; 
 
 Muff low’r to him, and on the Knee muft fall: 
 
 Till his firft Son be Married, then he 
 ( Depos’d,) muft to his own Son bend the Knee.- 
 THus do they live by Families, thus then. 
 
 They’re always Govern’d by middle ag’d Mem. 
 
 When any Dies, into his Urne is hurl’d 
 All that he hath, (toufe, i’th’other World:) 
 
 His Axe, Bill, Knife, his Bow and Hammock too. 
 And this the beft of fervice they can do 
 For their Dead Friend.: If he a Captain be, / 
 
 Then if he have a Slave, he then- muft-Pie 5 
 And the fame burn both 5 thus is fupply’d ; 
 
 Each one i’th’ other World, as’fare he Dy’d. 
 
 But ufually their Slaves, when .Captive ta’en, 
 
 Are v tothe Engiijk Sold.; and dome are Slain, 
 
 And their Fldh forthwith Barbacu’d and Eat „ 
 B^them* their Wives and Childtea as choice Meat. 
 
 Thence 
 
Reflections upffit jdrnuttdo 
 
 Thence are they call’d Gariks, ox'Cannibah 5 
 The very fame that we Man-eaters call. 
 
 And yet herein lies not their chief content 
 To Eat for Food, but as a Sacrament5 
 To bind them and their Children to be fierce; 
 
 And into th’ Entrails of their Foes to pierce. 
 
 Tho 1 in the World no greater Cowards be, 
 
 Managing all their Fights with Treachery, 
 
 Moft of their Feats by Stealth and Night are done,, 
 
 If once it come to Handy-gripes they run. 
 
 Thus much I’ll fay; I would not wifldto have 
 A better Friend, or Foe, or better Slave 
 Than is an Indian ; where he once affefts. 
 
 In- Love and Sen-ice lhall be no negle&s. 
 
 Command him as your Slave, his Life, his All, 
 
 If he do once you but Bone-aree call ; 
 
 And who would wifh an eafier Foe than he, 
 
 That (like a Buck ) at noife of Guns will Flie 5 
 But then your Slave, if that an Indian be. 
 
 No other Caterer you need but he. 
 
 He Plenty fhall provide for yours and you, 
 
 With his Dogs only, and his Bill and Bow, 
 
 And thus much for their Men. Their Women are 
 Lovely, tho’Brown; Modeft, hiding their Ware. 
 With feveral colour’d Beads- together Knit 
 With Art methodical together fet 5 
 And this they ufe whilft they are Young'and Fair, 
 
 But when they’re old, they’re heedlefs, all is : bare. 
 
 If of your Wine and Brandy, you’ibbe' free, 
 
 They’ll not leavehiil theycDrunk as'Beggars : be/ : > 
 The)- call;the ; Devil 'Terkin ,'him alone : 1 .■ 1 ; 
 They :: WorIhip, faying, 'God wills harm tc none; ' 
 
 BuE 
 
But is jiitkel^gool^;and;t&ereiQfefhey:,''' 
 
 .The Mercy of theirlb-fzw only pray. , 
 
 When they; are. lick,. Terkin ioth. bear the.bl-ame,. 
 
 ' Of him they, beg deliverance from: the fame,. 
 
 The Mufes-and.their,Flamensthey.Caftiier,. :! 
 
 Only Troops are Iftabli'flied here,, - .. 
 
 Except fomeiPriefts,; which they do: call Psei\ 
 
 With mumbling Charms Ter kin to pacify. - 
 (In fum to fay ) they’re all fimplicity, 
 
 •Almoft like ins Innoceney.... . 
 
 Whatever Nature or their Appetite 
 
 Does dilate, they do follow'with:delight; : : 
 
 Not once with Confcience check embittered, . . 
 
 Being by the Law of Nature only led. 
 
 Not coveting.large Barns, with Hoards to ftuff. 
 
 When once their Belly’s full, they have enough ; 
 
 For Avarice^ here;-never makes.them jar. 
 
 Nor Warrants by Religion's varnifti, War. 
 
 His pride fo natural, (if’t be a Vice,) 
 
 - Tet.cofts him nothing, or but little Price 5 . 
 
 ; ?Tti.m8ver makes; him fell his Land, nor fluit 
 : :Shop-windows up, mof a fpare Jewel put ; 
 
 -To trouble, in'a Pawn for Cloak or Gown. 
 
 ., His only Pride’s a Feather.on his Crown.* 
 
 : The cafe-cloths of feme gaudy Bird fits him. 
 
 For which 'Heheeds mot venture Life nor. Limb, ; • u/;l- 
 :;N6r Heffor it,.norilift under ,Sir Hugb.i : 
 
 When known by .the old S,uit,v,tO; filfifor new.;). 
 'Nor cringe.to Velvet Tit/ej, with a gape, . ; , . .. 
 
 Like fawning Cur, or mopping Jack-an-Ape. : 
 
 .: .Nor need to.be light finger d in a Crowd5 
 ^Norii^htiheerdTb procure aiScarfior Hood,, :; 
 
 1 "" F 
 
j4 itefleSiom upon Jamaica* 
 
 Nor with ftretch’d Fancies beg a Ladies Smile. 
 
 Which the ( poor Soul) forceunderfiands thev/hile. 
 They make no mintage hereof Brains, nor be 
 The Sterling Pence coin’d vrith a Comedo. 
 
 For Pomp and Fine Cloths onlv are the caufe 
 Of all our ihirking Trades, and endlefs Lam?. 
 
 Since Nature ne re brought forth a Creature vet, 
 Unfurnifned, with what Coverlets were hit. ’ 
 
 The Back (if not mifus’d) in coldeft Land. 
 
 Craving no wafte Cloaths, more than Face or Hands, 
 
 But this Diverfion is fomewhat out of our way tc 
 Jamaica. 
 
 Reflect IIL 
 
 3. HFHough in multitude of Ccunfellors there is Life- 
 X ty, yet multitude of Commanders equally fnaring 
 in Power, are ufually attended with Confulion, And 
 therefmc'fho’ the wary Romans inverted their Confuls 
 with equal Authority, (left the unmatted Intereft of 3 
 {ingle General, ihouldby happy Victories win fo -mucn 
 upon the Affeftions of his concern’d Folk 
 infringe the Liberties, with which they bin, r 
 felves in their Arijlocracy s ) yet the Coiirtil (Hi 1 c 
 edby turns, by intermitting Days5 and very reldorn. m 
 one and the fame Province j 
 Counter to the Inftructions in this Expedition, which 
 obliged the General to a ft nothing without the joint con- 
 fent of Gown-Commiflioners, for that purpofe confthu- 
 
Refietilth is upon Jamaica .. 3 5 
 
 ted Which , tho’ it pleads fomewhat in Apolg, for 
 General Vennables, yet neverthelefs it raifeth out this 
 Model from the more Genuine Maxims of. Policy; as 
 invented only by the Jealoufies of Tyrants and Ufur- 
 persj but found ufelefs and prejudicial to more juftlyin- 
 idalled Princes; whofe undifputed Titles need not the 
 broke-age of fuch drifting and by-way Stratagems to en- 
 fure their Negotiations. 
 
 Refled. IV. 
 
 y... HPHat Soldiers Wives are more properly feated in 
 il their liulband’s Kitchin, than his Tent. Gene¬ 
 ral Vennables Lady being not unjuftiy Blamed, both for 
 his fluggifh and liftlefs Proceedings, as alfo, for his un- 
 licenfed and immature Return, farther d, if not procur’d 
 by her too opportune Inculcations. A Dalliance of fo fad 
 a confequence to the Englijl.) Nation, that Zeal to my 
 Native Country whets my Paflion to fo Satyrical an edge, 
 that I can fcarce forbear, here to Mi out, againft her 
 whole Sex, did not the Virtues of fome others inter- 
 ceea. However I mull have a touch at the Married 
 State, that warrants fuch unfeafonable Companions for 
 tile Wars; wifely prevented by the Turks in their Eunuch 
 Generals. 
 
 The belt oift is i am not aw’d (thanks to my fates) 
 with the dreadful Citechifm of a Curtain Lecture. 
 
 I. cannot think on wretched Cleopatra, 
 
 But fie doth move my Spleen, and Bilis atra ; 
 
 F 2 
 
 Who 
 
3 6 Reflections upon Jamaica 
 
 JVbo caus'd filly Mark Anthony to [mart 5 
 Lofing hi r Head, when'he gave her his Heart . 
 
 He fir ft embrac'd the Serpent in his Arm, 
 
 But (he, long after ■, both, with equal harm. 
 
 How call you thofe veto Fool'd Old Solomon 3 
 Andjbamelefs pul the Royal Breeches on d 
 What can fecure v.s from the Petticoat <? 
 
 When Wit, nor Samfonh Strength can five the Throat} 
 If Pins and Laces Emperors Enthral, 
 
 Wonder not at a puny General 
 
 But if you muf Wed 3 fee fame Charm you get. 
 
 Inclofe 1 th' W-idding-Ring an Amides : 
 
 Nothing can be too fafe 3 we Thunder fear, 
 
 A Toy to th' Curtain-rvhifper in the Ear, 
 
 Thus Socrates Curfi Zeno, (when in strife , ) 
 
 Vying for Curfes, wijb’d, he had a Wife, 
 
 Thus the grave Judge in rigour did decree, 
 
 To him that had tivo Wives, Hejhould have three , 
 
 ( As the Monk Jhriving the Drunkard') for his Pain , 
 Ordaining that hejhould be Drank again ,) 
 
 If Expiations merit, nones more meet. 
 
 Then to do Penance in the Nuptial Jkeet: 
 
 For fire they need not Purgatory fear 
 Hereafter, that (poor Souls) endure it here, 
 
 There's no fuch Joy in this betmiid State then. 
 
 If any, th' Women get it, not the Men, 
 
 Thd I muft fay, thofe pretty Sweetmeats pleafir 
 Sometime-. But to cloy'd Stomachs a Difeafe, 
 
 Such is the Nuptial Surfeit, a mere Glut, 
 
 Like loathed Baggage to the naufeom Gut, 
 
 Enough is better than a Feaf, each One. 
 
 After a Fuji doss fad the Keener on\ 
 
Reflections upon Jamaica,, 3 7 
 
 But to lie wallowing in Cates , though rare , 
 iv <?»Y, roF'Zj fr it but a hoggijh fare) 
 
 If then at befl no better Chear you meet , 
 
 How doth he fare that’s lodg’d i’th’ loathed Sheet .<? 
 
 If the rnofifately Prifons cannot pleafe, 
 
 What fall we find i’th’ Jakes _ and Little-eafe .<? 
 
 Is there no Paradife in Cherry-cheek, 
 
 What a plague is that then, that's as green as Leek ? 
 
 If that your pretty Maids be things, but filly, 
 
 (Compar'd ly ancient Bards, to Rofe and Lilly) 
 
 Then Jure, that look mnjl needs be out of date. 
 
 Bedaub'd (like Ulcers) with Precipitate. 
 
 If Females, at the befl, but Pefler Men, 
 
 He's Match’d , that hath a Leagure-Lady then . 
 
 But I’ll forbid no Barnes $ nor roufe the Nefl 
 Of little angry Wafps ; I’m but in Jefi - 0 
 Though, whilfi fame read thefe lines, their Wives in view , 
 They ll Whifper to themfelves, and fay, they re true. 
 
 For by your leave, Venus though you’re match, 
 
 There is no doubt but you are Coney-catchtt 
 
 But fucii poor Men, as this General Vennables, (that 
 are thus ore-mated) Works my pity rather than fcorn, 
 moving my. Bowels more than my Spleen 5 for though 
 the Kingdom was the lofer, he is none of the Gainers, 
 and the Thraldom of his Sheets out-vies the Halter; fur- 
 milling us with this Gonclufion, That he’s unlit to - be 
 Pater P atria that is not Domi Doin’mis x, nor to Head an 
 Army, that mud Kneel at his own Fire fide 5 nor to 
 ride Admiral of a Fleet, that .cannot carry the Flag at 
 home, but is forced to lower his Taprfail, to a fetty-coat. 
 Jn defiance whereof, I have here,, with their own; word¬ 
 ed Weapon, taken up the Gantlet 3 to my no little ha- 
 
zard of a fcolding : though - if they vkiSew the refpeff- 
 and honour I have for the Worthy ladies; (as thofe 
 that knows me, know! am m Woman ffaier,^) nor in 
 4 tis Relation any thing of Eih 
 niceft Coins would eafiiy vouchfafe'tne an A 8 of Grace. . 
 Air my Qyarrel with their Sex confiding only in the 
 Defence of thofe poor Men that ftand .m need of Aha- 
 fuerushis Decree, ' y. 
 
 Rcflca. v*. 
 
 5.rpH A T. the moft promifingDefigns, tho* launch'd 
 X out, and promoted with all the appertinent U-; 
 tmfils, that Policy can contrive ; are many times eafiiy- 
 defeated by uncalculated Accidents: Sometimes a mi- 
 ftaken Letter,.inthe found of a Word, Hath'rooted great 
 Armados : and the whittling of the Wiftdvin Sicartiour 
 Trees deftroyed an Hoft. Thus Gideon confounded the 
 Mdianites with the fudden furprizal of Trum- 
 t pits, Lamp/, and broken Pitchers, f The very 
 looks of the Germans affrighted the Gyuls ry Afid ; 
 v i ■ the very flatties in the Hefmeared 'Faces' of the 
 Pi 8 s, - did gaule the Saxons. Thus did the helllfli Vifage- 
 of the grim Negroes s^iMolettoes^&j&tipM imaginatibn;- 
 at the firft affault Nonplus our Wiznte'Hifpmiola ; which 
 yethad -ndte fignifiedvfo much, if it had not been fe- 
 conded with the unhappyCondutt of General Vennables^ 
 whofe crazy’Management of Affairs (hared fo fthifter&A 
 influx to his bettes defetvisg Followers. , ;i 
 
The; Indulgent Heavens' fcjli now ,: fufpending the 
 Award of any Damages to the Englijb Nation, in repair 
 pf the lofs of -that invincible Armado in Eighty Eight. 
 
 ; . ■ Reflea. vi. ; 
 
 6.rrT’H A T Neceffity often trains up a Militia better 
 I - than Plenty. For had hot the Belly been Magi- 
 fier Artis y putting the Soldiers to their Ihifts, to filence 
 its Importunities, they had never proved fo good Marks-r 
 Men, nor had come io familiarly acquainted with the 
 Woods: whofe Ikill therein hath now flood them in fo 
 good Head, for the flubbing up thofe Spanifi Negroes ” 
 that till then lay as Thorns in their lides,that they could 
 fcarce flir abroad without being prick’d. 
 
 1 Thus the Alps proved lefs Mai to Hannibal’s Army, 
 than Capua 5 and Hunger and Cold fpur'd and egg’d 
 on the. Weather-rbeaten G^j and Vandals to; better 
 their Sun,-; till; they did Lofd. it in France md Italy. 
 
 This only inconvenience attended the $oldiery hf^W: 
 waica , that-finding their Legs, and able to ftand by 
 themfelveSj without the Atliftance of a Providore, they 
 became:nawetefradlory, arid head-ilrong, and of a lefs 
 bounded difcipiinef -acknowledging but {mail Homage 
 where'-tHey received ifo fmallPiy- which did thenatlaer; 
 fpbje&themfo fhutmyj u and‘oafie fo be :wrpughy fipon; 
 by : more workihg.Pate8Ji; rnhihM-v; -.Mrc 
 v-Ndf want; theamljn^fcte; 
 
 ved fubtilty of a Gentleman, one Lieut. ColiviRa^a^,: 
 #'difcontented .Soldier, that wanted nothing but a better 
 
 Employ^ 
 
40 RefleBtonsnpon Jamaica* 
 
 Employ, to fet out his vafi Parts: and had he not en~ 
 ■countred with a General, that is cunning enough, and 
 prov'd himfelf, at all Matchiavilhan Alfays,his Match 5 
 he had certainly reduc'd the Forces in Jamaica , into a 
 felf-deftroying Flame 5 efpecially now their difcontents 
 had heated them to fo (tinder-like) a touchinefs, that 
 they were ready to take Eire on all occafions. Nor were 
 thefe Incendiaries to feek of all plaufible Pretexts that 
 Witty Ufurpation doth ufe to colour paid gild blacker 
 ■Defigns. Eut what the aims of Lieut, Col. Raymond 
 were, are not eafilv to be difeovered, but it is more 
 than prefam'd, that his want of Employment: ("having 
 never had any Charge in Jamaica) though not uncapa- 
 ble of the greateft, that this Ifle could afford; made him 
 (unable to bear Ideglects) thus over-bufie 3 and too too 
 active in moulding poor Lieut. Col. Tifon to what fhape 
 he pleas'd; his Heart being better than his Head, and 
 his Armory better blazoned with the Dove than the Ser¬ 
 pent $ and I am very confident did not forefee the evil 
 and danger that thofe Lawlefs Bandyhgs do incurr, 
 which Relation may admit the more Credit in that I am 
 altogether unconcerned in either Party , and neither pre¬ 
 judic’d nor byajjed with Partiality. 
 
 Nor were thofe fickle-headed Soldiers fo foon invi¬ 
 ted to rife Arms with them , but they fooner defected 
 them: leaving them to the Mercy of their Opponents 
 Court-Maflials, who prefently doom’d them, to be (hot 
 to Death. Leut. Col. Tifon died with feme Rdu&ancy 
 and Regret 3 but Lieut, Col. Raymond f like himfelf.”, 
 with anundifmay'd Refolution anfwerable to his wont¬ 
 ed Magnanimity, on whofe Interment a bufie Wit threw 
 this Epitaph. 
 
Repawns upon Jamaica . 41 
 
 A T thy Nativity the Heavens have worn 
 1 j! Such vifage as when Cataline was born. 
 
 'Tour Sign'ficators Jure mufl be tld fame. 
 
 And Afpe'cls 5 fineeyon differ but in Name. 
 
 His refer Soul Homeh Walls could not confine 5 
 Thine deign d no Fere, fcarce that of Cataline. 
 
 His Stile long-winded TullyV didJwpafs, 
 
 And thine Jo Tariffing, too perfwafive was. 
 
 He knew no fear, fcarce of his own deenid Gods, 
 
 Oh that in this , of thee he’d had the odds! 
 his foul , engrofsd tti Monopoly of Arts, 
 
 And thy Orpbaan Skill couldraviff Hearts. 
 
 His tc/wring Genius could not bend the knee , 
 
 And thine was fitter for a Throne than thee. 
 
 The Xing of Terrors could not him affright , 
 
 And thou dul’fi feem to Court eternal might. 
 
 Not unbewail'd was his Cataflrophe, 
 
 And evn thine Enemies lamented thee. 
 
 He lives (though not entomb'd) bys famous Falls, 
 
 Thy Grave, fcarce known j but, well enough thine APIs. 
 
 Eefleft. VP., . , : 
 
 7 <,HpHAT though Infant-Settlements, like Infant¬ 
 as Tears , are tifually moft fatal ^ yet their Bkffoms 
 once Set, are not fo ealily Blafted. Happily experi¬ 
 mented in Jamaica, whole Blooming- hopes now thrive 
 fo well, and their Stocks-fo well Rooted, ■ .that they are 
 not eafily Routed. The Major part of the Inhabitants 
 being old Wefi-Indians, who, now Naturalized to the 
 G Country 
 
Country, grow ihe better by their Transplantation , and 
 flourifh in Health eqiiivalently comparable; to that of 
 their MotherrSdl3oxwHchl need not begCredit^ fince. 
 there is no Country Difiafe. (as at Virginia miSurinamy - 
 endemically raging throughout the Ifle y \nor .any new, 
 and unheard of Diftempers that want a riame^, V: ;' 
 
 So that a.Wife Man needs no,other; Phyjick there but ; 
 his Temperance,, fcarcelyv.craying Htfpital ABi&mce, fo 
 much as we mEnglan^^ haye t reafpn^^ 
 deify an MfeuUpius., v>v.-.;\ V 1 c". :r ! '"v 
 
 And therefore- . wenonfult nur Feat%, ratjier than the’* 
 dangers, when the-yery name of Trrivel. into Foreign 
 Parts, doth fo much affright us, efpecially into fo Se¬ 
 rene an Air as.breathies'ihi^^^j that , owns nothing 
 but its diftancevto: difmay usyfrom its -Vifit 6, The Ir^, 
 dies being no fuch Bugbear,as they are, (ufually pour- 
 tray’d.) In Vindication therefore, • ■ 
 
 
 P Rithree,_perfwade me not, my Dear, 
 You do miftake my Fates, I fear. 
 
 S '' Glafs wil|ip# no fooner out,; 
 
 ough I do range the World about. 
 Could ipy ftay here, bribe a delay, 
 
 ; : froiripafe^^I ! ^dibfrv 
 But ’tis tbcftfife (thought be a Fable) 
 r: TheSrJ?^are inexorable 3= ./-■ j ; ; 
 
 :! A!ndard,as : nimbiewifri tliefr'ICnife.v-.'.'.,-?A-'_ 
 ■; Tothof^that lea&a? HoraebrddLife. 
 
 ; Brave 
 
Brave" fT&mlbon^&TomHT 
 
 Not in th&Inckesy'but athoine;/ > [• hi i/. ;k i 
 The Deftinies did .Drake ; forbear .;. 
 
 In the Antipode/,. not :hSr©$b « j ,T rnirrl 
 And do, like Ladies Coy, negled . 
 
 - Thofe moft, that Court them with Refpe& 
 But will Embraces Beg and Pray 
 Of thofe thatiarf as nic^gsthey. 
 
 Or, if the* froward Stats-difpoiCe. 
 
 With their Malignant influence, 
 
 ’d?i^ ^ Adjourning Plagues’fhey:ufe to bring,;; s.i ‘ 
 In peccant Autumiis, or the Spring: ’ 
 
 Yet a Confumption,: or the Gout, 
 
 -vu jlniGhimney^cprnef.fiiidsiusjout : mik 
 tl'},. jiOj, ^wihat is:;Worfe)jOld driveling.Age*v- 
 With all its loathed Equipage, 
 
 . rcr, Arrefe.;uvtilf , vre.tevejflifeid’ .. :/ 
 -The .Pray’rs which we for Long Life madej. 
 •:.3 -Ye4,the^re.fordd foppeftito recant,, / 
 biiuT^^feffimits ofeyouthfial'Travfiljwant;. ,j 
 For knowledge only;doth commeridt \0 ■ 
 
 •' -i/Dld^e^dvMft. Jiftehin^Ni^hdwsftend' 
 
 .,;With.greedy Ears?to,eat&iup alls ,v,.. rr, 
 
 .. €)ld Siories, Grahd^firesidp^ det fell $■. ,, 
 
 t hus fhort’iuhgf.iloi^ WintersNighf) --Ji - < 
 13^te^er^thlomdDtoght, tit f 
 
 ■ lOCj feizfe--tr ’ ’i 
 
 ' On other dVlenfljpfs,MTongtjg|s. at eafe.' < : J 
 And is the Old Man’s Commendamus , ” 
 
 Which without Travel is lefs Famous. 
 
 Nay damn’d Exile in this was bleft. 
 
 Of Kings, it h& n$dev$ur& th« beftr 
 
44 RefteBiomvpm. Jnmmea. 
 
 Thus Jofeptis Brethren (meant)' Abufe s 
 Rais'd him th e Honour of .his Houfe. 
 
 TEueas thusenhans'd his Fame, . 
 
 From Trojan to th c Reman Nam?- '. 
 
 .RefieQc - Ylil 
 
 8. nr Hat an Army once Could, efpeciaily in. their 
 X firft Foreign Attempt, feidom bound their Fear 
 till it become altogether P snick: like that Punic k Amaze 
 that epidemically invaded 'Carthage, after the hrft De¬ 
 feat of Hannibal, by the more thriving Genius of Scipio 
 Africanus. 
 
 This is certain, that after the hrft check given to out 
 Forces by tns, Negroes Moieuoes in Hifpanwla , the 
 very mention of their coming, (tho’ bruteA but for ex¬ 
 periment )hcaufed 'fome to haften their March, beyond 
 the pace o^ravity and Valour. - 
 
 Tho 1 tf/^FT? 3 F^vapproved'rhem--to be : Eng!tfe Men, 
 rather than Normans , 'daring to Rally defeated Courage. 
 The truth whereof many an JPthiopo hath now unwil¬ 
 lingly alferted Byi the-iawfh expenee of his fdbtyPAooi. 
 
 And here I-intenledtoTublifn Tome-Eiiays -touching 
 the future Settlement of Jamaica, which now are upon 
 Second Thoughts condemned to Privacy,, . 
 
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