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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.

There is a sort of White Cassada not poysonous, which boil'd as Yams are, may be eat like them.

I was inform'd here that Snails Calcin'd, and a water made of them like Lime-water, it is a good Remedy in Bloody-Fluxes.

For the better understanding of several matters in the West-Indies, I think it proper to subjoin some accounts I received from several Credible Persons who had lived, and made Voyages to several parts in the Neighbourhood of Jamaica. These follow without any other order than that of the time they were told me, and enter'd in my Journal which was generally when the Persons came upon their first arrival to wait on the Duke of Albemarle as Governour of the Island.

One King Jeremy came from the Mosquitos (an Indian People near the Provinces of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica) he pretended to be a King there, and came from the others of his Country, to beg of the Duke of Albemarle, Governor of Jamaica, his Protection, and that he would send 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 Charles I. submitted itself to him. The Duke of Albemarle did nothing in this matter, being afraid it might be a trick of some people to set up a Government for Bucaniers or Pirats. This King Jeremy, in coming to Town, asking many questions about the Island, and not receiving as he thought, a satisfactory account, he pull'd off his European Cloaths his Friends had put on, and climb'd to the top of a Tree, to take a view of the Country. The Memorial, and substance of what he, and the people with him, represented to the Duke of Albemarle; was, That in the Reign of King Charles I. of ever Blessed Memory, the Earl of Warwick (by virtue of Letters of Reprizal granted by his said Majesty for Damages received from the Subjects of his Catholick Majesty) did possess himself of several Islands in the West-Indies, particularly that of Providence, (since called by the Spaniards St. Catalina,) which is situate in 13 deg. 10 m. Nᵒ Lat. lying East from Cape Gratias de Dios, (vulgarly known by the name of the Muskitos) between Thirty and Forty Leagues; which put the said Earl upon trying all ways and means of future