A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume X - By Robert Kerr


















































































































 -  The prisoners owned that all this gold was brought from
the island of St Mary, from mines discovered only three - Page 194
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The Prisoners Owned That All This Gold Was Brought From The Island Of St Mary, From Mines Discovered Only Three Years Before; And That There Were Not More Than Three Or Four Spaniards On That Island, And About 200 Indians, Only Armed With Bows And Arrows.

[Footnote 77:

Perhaps Huasco in lat. 28 deg. 27' S. or it may possibly have been Guacho, in 25 deg. 50' S. - E.]

The 5th September they came in sight of the Ladrones, and came on the 16th to Guam, one of these an island of about twenty Dutch miles in extent, and yielding fish, cocoa-nuts, bananas, and sugar canes, all of which the natives brought to the ships in a great number of canoes. Sometimes they met 200 of these canoes at one time, with four or five men in each, bawling out hiero, hiero, meaning iron; and often in their eagerness they run their canoes against the ships, overturning them and losing all their commodities. These islanders were a sly subtle people, and honest with good looking after; for otherwise, they would sell a basket of cocoa-nut shells covered over with a small quantity of rice, as if full of rice. They would also snatch a sword from its scabbard, and plunge instantly into the water, where they dived like so many ducks; and the women were as roguish as the men, stealing as impudently, and diving as expertly to carry off their prizes.

The 17th of September they sailed for the Philippines; and on the 20th they met with ice, though then only in the latitude of 3 deg.

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