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Soul, his Corpfe being held out to Sea on the Ship fide, with Ropes ready to let him fall, all the Ship crying out three time?, luen Vt4d (that is a good Voiage) to his Soul chiefly, and alio to his Corpfc ready ro Travel to the deep to feed the Whales s at the firft cry all the Ordnance were ihot off, the Ropes on t iuddain loofed,and John de la Cueva with the weight of heavy Stones plunged deep into the Sea, whom no mortal f yes ever more beheld. The like we faw performed in the Ship of Santa Gertrudis* to another Jefuite, one of the three who had been dangeroufly wounded by the Indians of Guadalupe ; wholikewife died like our Frier, his body being fwelledas With Poyfon. Now our Sailing was more comfortable then before; for we parted in fight of the Land Puerto Rh&, and then of the great Ifland of S. Domingo » and here our company began to be leffened, fome departing to Puerto Rico, and S. Domingo, others to Cartagena, and Havana, and Honduras, Jamaica, and Jucatan. We remained now alone the Fleet for Mexico ; and fo Sailed till we came to what the Spaniards call la Sonda, or the Sound of tJMexlco* % for here we often founded the Sea; which was fo calme, that a whole week we were flayed for want of wind, fcarce ftirring from the place where firft we were caught by the calme. Here likewife we had great fport in Fifhing, filling again our bellies with Dorados, and faving that Proviiion which we had brought from Spain. But the heat was fo extraordinary, that the day was no pleafure unto us; for the repercu/Tion of the Suns heat upon the ftill Water and Pitch of our Ships, kindled a fcorching fire, which all the day diftempered our bodies with a conftant running fweat, forcing us to caft off mod of our Clothes. The evenings and nights werefome- what more comfortable, yet the heat which the Sun had left in the Pitched Ribs and Planks of the Ship was fuch, that under Deck and in our Cabins we were not able to fleep, but in our ihirts were forced to walk, or fit, or lie upon the Deck. The Mariners fell to wafhing themfelves and to fwiming, till the infonunate death of one in the Ship called St. Francifcoi made them fuddainly leave off that fporr» The nearer we came to the main Land, the Sea abounds

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