I am now cast in Prison, by the subtle practices of some, whom I have formerly called Friends; But the eternall and mercifull God has been pleased to visit and comfort me, and to raise me up such friends, as have kept me from cold and hunger, whose charities in an Age, where cruelties and tyrannies are exercised in so high a measure, may be accounted a prodigie. But, I doubt not of my release out of this restraint, by the power of him, who is able to do all in all. For, as _David_ said to _Saul_, that God, who had delivered him out of the paw of the Lion, and out of the paw of the Bear, would deliver him from that uncircumcised Philistine, _Goliah_ of _Gath_: So may I now say; that God, which has delivered me from a sicknesse to death, on land, and from shipwrack and hazards at Sea, will also deliver me from this uncircumcised Philistine, the _Upper Bench_, than which, the burning fire of a Feavour, nor the raging waves of the Sea, are more formidable: But, we have seen and suffered greater things. And when the great Leveller of the world, Death, shall run his progresse, all Estates will be laid eeven. _Mors Sceptra Ligonibus æquat._ [Illustration: (decorative banner)] A TABLE, Of the severall things mentioned in this _HISTORY_. _A View of_ Porto Sancto, Madera’s, _and_ Desertes. pag. 2. _A view of_ Bonavista, _Isle of_ May _and_ Palma. pag. 3. _Hunting and Hawking at Sea._ pag. 4. _Shark and Pilot fish_. pag. 5. _Carvil, a fish that sails._ pag. 6. _Observations upon the Ship’s way, as also the treachery of_ Bernardo, _a Portugall_. pag. 7. _The first sight of the Iland of Saint_ Jago. pag. 8. _Description of the Bay there, which they call the_ Pry. pag. 9. _The_ Padre Vadago’s _house and entertainment_. pag. 10. _Our landing on the Iland, and what hapned to us there._ pag. 13. _There are seven Ilands more, which are neighbours to this._ pag. 18. _The first sight of the_ Barbadoes. pag. 21. _The Iland first discovered by a ship of Sir_ William Curteen’s. pag. 23. _The Scituation of the Iland._ pag. 25. _The extent and length of daies._ pag. 26. _Temperature of the aire._ pag. 27. _How watered._ pag. 28. _Meat and drink for supportation of life._ pag. 29. _Bread and drink._ pag. 31. _Severall sorts of meat._ pag. 33. _The manner of killing a Turtle._ pag. 36.