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Cattle eat them and died, and so did several Men, and others struck out in Botches. The other Canary Islands were so troubled also, they were forced to bury their Provisions for fear of being oblig'd to relieve their common Necessity with what was to produce for their own Families. They were troubled forty Years before with the like Plague.

A very credible Person, on the Agreement of the Assiento or Spanish West-India Company, with the Merchants call'd Grillo's of Genoa, and of them with the Royal African Company, went to Cartagena, in a Spanish Ship, with Five hundred Negroes, he was sent from thence to Porto-Bello, where they could not get Liberty to go on Shoar, but received their Money and good Entertainments in their Ship. They return'd to Cartagena, where buying Spanish Habits, they went about the Town. It is, as he told me, twice as big as Port-Royal, stands almost encompass'd by the Sea, is wall'd with Stone, and has several Forts or Castles in it. Its Houses are built of Stone or Brick two Stories high, with Balconies and Roofs jetting over them. Things here are twice as cheap as at Porto-Bello, because of the vent of Commodities from this last place to Panama.

When the English, under the Command of Sir Henry Morgan, came from Porto Bello, and Panama, (which places they had taken) after certain contagious Fevers, they, for the most part, fell into the Yellow-Jaundice, grew worse and died of it, after languishing a great while in the greatest Degree of it, which is commonly call'd the Black-Jaundice. They look'd with the Jaundice like Indians, and were, when remediable, chiefly cured by the Infusion of Goose-Dung.

A Sea-man related that he washing his blue Jacket on the Forecastle, coming hither, the Ship having fresh way he lost it, but two Days after, having been becalm'd, they took a Shark, and found in his Belly the blue Jacket, not otherwise alter'd than by the holes of his Teeth in chawing.

Several Persons who used the Logwood Trade, or who were imploy'd in cutting that Wood, otherwise call'd Campeche-Wood, used by Dyers, inform'd me, that at about fifteen Leagues from the Town of Campeche, are two Creeks, the Eastern and Northern, in which last they cut Logwood. This is call'd the Logwood-River, the Inhabitants live in Huts on each side of this narrow Creek, near Two hundred English, and are ready on the appearance of any Enemy to hinder their landing by firing on them on each side, every