These Lance
Heads Are Formed Like A Scoop, And Jagged At The Edges Like A Saw Or
Eel-Spear; So That A Person Wounded By Them Dies, If Not Cured In Seven
Days.
The great annual ship between Manilla and Acapulco touches here for
refreshments, and the Spaniards said there were sometimes eight ships in
one year at this place from the East Indies.
They said also, that they
had built a ship here, in 1684, of 160 tons, to trade with Manilla, and
pretended to have a garrison here of 600 men, most of the Indians being
in rebellion.
The Nicholas sailed from Guam W. by S. and on computing that they were
206 leagues from that island, they changed to due W. The 23d, when they
reckoned themselves 560 leagues west of Guam, they met with a very
strong current, resembling the race of Portland, and fell in with a
cluster of islands in lat. 20 deg. 30' N. to the north of Luconia, [the
Bashee Islands.] They sent their boat ashore on the northermost of
these islands, in order to get some fish, and to examine the island, on
which they found vast quantities of nutmegs growing, but saw no people,
and as night was drawing on they did not venture to go any distance from
the shore. To this island they gave the name of Nutmeg Island, and
called the bay in which they anchored English Bay. They observed many
rocks, shoals, and foul ground near the shore, and saw a great many
goats on the island, but brought off very few.
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