Thus Having The Town, With Some Circumstance, As Partly By The
Spaniards' Desire Of Negroes, And Partly By Friendship Of
The
treasurer, we obtained a secret trade; whereupon the Spaniards resorted
to us by night, and bought of us to
The number of two hundred negroes:
in all other places where we traded the Spaniards inhabitants were glad
of us, and traded willingly.
At Cartagena, the last town we thought to have seen on the coast, we
could by no means obtain to deal with any Spaniard, the governor was so
strait, and because our trade was so near finished, we thought not good
either to adventure any landing or to detract further time, but in
peace departed from thence the 24th of July, hoping to have escaped the
time of their storms, which then soon after began to reign, the which
they call Furicanos; but passing by the west end of Cuba, towards the
coast of Florida, there happened to us, the twelfth day of August, an
extreme storm, which continued by the space of four days, which so beat
the Jesus, that we cut down all her higher buildings; her rudder also
was sore shaken, and, withal, was in so extreme a leak, that we were
rather upon the point to leave her than to keep her any longer; yet,
hoping to bring all to good pass, sought the coast of Florida, where we
found no place nor haven for our ships, because of the shallowness of
the coast.
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