that time,) wee perceived the valleys to put on new liveries; so fresh, so full of various greens, intermixt with flowers of severall kinds, some growing on stalkes, some on trees, so full of varietie, of the most beautifull colours, as if nature had made choyce of that place to shew her Master piece. So that, having feasted our eyes with this delighted object, we desired to try whether their smel was as pleasant and odoriferous, as their beauty was admirable; and to satisfie our selves of this curiosity, would willingly have gone a shoare but wee were advised to stay a little, till we were better assured of our _Portugall Bernardo_. Which stay, gave us time to take a view of the Harbour or Bay, which they call the _Pry_, and is about a league over from land to land. And, as I guest, somewhat more; from the poynts of land, to the bottome; and, as we enter, we leave a small Iland on our Larboard side This _Bay_ or _Pry_, lies to the _Leeward_ of the Iland; by reason whereof we found so great, so insufferable heate, as you will hardly imagine that bodyes comming out of cold Climates, could indure such scorching without being suffocated. I had in a Cabinet two pieces of hard waxe, in the hold of the ship both melted and clave together; and the Cement of that Cabinet, that was made to hold the Inke, melted and became flat. So that finding the _Ayer_ so torridly hot, I thought good to make triall of the water; and I leapt into the sea, which appeared to my sense no more colder than the _Ayer_; than the Queens bath (at _Bathe_) is hotter in _June_ here in England. At the bottome, or inward part of the _Pry_, there appeared to us, a faire round rising hill, neere halfe the bredth of the _Pry_, not much unlike the How at _Plimouth_, with a valley on either side; And on the brow of the Hill towards the right hand, a very high and steep precipice of a rocke; in which stood the house of the _Padre Vagado_, fixt on the top of the rocke. A house fit enough for such a Master; for though he were the chiefe Commander of the Iland: yet by his port and house he kept he was more like a _Hermite_ then a Governour. His familie consisting of a _Mollotto_ of his own getting, three Negroes, a Fidler, and a Wench. Himselfe a man grave enough to be wise, but certainly of no great learning; for upon the differences between _Bernardo_ and us, Colonel _Modiford_ writ him a letter in Latin, which he did his best endeavour to answer but fell two bowes short in substance and language, and though his Quarrell were to us, yet he revenged himselfe on _Priscian_, whose head he broke 3 or 4 times in his letter.