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 Lowther cruied a pretty while among the Ilands without any extraordinary Succes, and was reduced to a very mall Allowance of Proviions, till they had the luck to fall in with a Martinico Man, which proved a eaonable Relief to them; and after that, a Guiney Man had the ill Fortune to become a Prey to the Rovers; he was called the Princes, Captain Wickted Commander.

It was now thought neceary to look out for a Place to clean their Sloop in, and prepare for new Adventures: Accordingly the Iland of Blanco was pitched upon for that Purpoe, which lies in the Latitude of 11° 50 m. N. about 30 Leagues from the Main of the Spanih America, between the Ilands of Margarita and Rocas, and not far from Tortuga. It is a low even Iland, but healthy and dry, uninhabited, and about two Leagues in Circumference, with Plenty of Lignum Vitæ Trees thereon, growing in Spots, with hrubby Buhes of other Wood about them. There are, beides Turtle, great Numbers of Guanoes, which is an amphibious Creature like a Lizard, but much larger, the Body of it being as big as a Man’s Leg; they are very good to eat, and are much ued by the Pyrates that come here: They are of divers Colours, but uch as live upon dry Ground, as here at Blanco, are commonly yellow. On the N. W. End of this Iland, there is a mall Cove or andy Bay, all round the ret of the Iland is deep Water, and teep cloe to the Iland. Here Lowther reorted to, the Beginning of October lat, unrigged his Sloop, ent his Guns, Sails, Rigging, &c. ahore, and put his Veel upon the Careen. The Eagle Sloop of Barbadoes, belonging to the South-Sea Company, with 35 Hands, commanded by Walter Moore, coming near this Iland, in her Voyage to Comena, on the Spanih Continent, aw the aid Sloop jut careen’d, with her Guns out, and Sails unbent, which he uppoed to be a Pyrate,