kinds, Parakites, Macaws, Pelicans, and a hundred more Birds we have got no name to. There are moreover Land-Crabs, Souldiers, Land-Turtle, Lizards, Guanha's, Cock-Lizards, and Scorpions: I had almost forgot Partridges, Pheasants, and a kind of Turkey. All the Birds in this Country are beautiful, but none of them that I could observe have any Notes. We have a Monkey aboard that chirms like a Lark, it will never be bigger than a Rat. This Place affords legions of monstrous Plants, enough to confound all the Methods of Botany ever hitherto thought upon. However, I found a shift to make some Specimens, and that is all I can do. I say some Specimens, because if I should gather all, 'twould be enough to load the St. _Andrew_, for some of their Leaves exceed three Ells in length, and are very broad; besides these Monsters, reducible to no Tribe, there are here a great many of the _European_ kindred, (but still something odd about them) as _Lingua Cervina_ of different kinds, _Filix_ of different kinds, _Polypodium_, several of the _Plantæ Papilonaceæ_, _Musci_, _Fungi_, _Convolvuli_, and a great many more I cannot now remember. Now come we to their People. The Men are generally very Civil and Sagacious, have all of them good Faces, are of low stature, but very well built; they are of a Copper Colour, and have black Hair; they us'd to go naked, but are now as well Cloath'd as our selves; they wear a Plate of Gold in their Nose, and a great many rows of Beads about their Neck and Wrists. They cover their Yard with a piece of Bark, or sometimes Silver, of the very shape and bigness of that Paper-case we use to put a dose of Pills in; they seem to be very ill furnish'd, for I never saw any of them have it half an Inch long, yet no doubt it's longer, but I fancy they sheath it up, as Dogs and Horses do. The Women are generally the most pitiful like things that ever Man saw; their Habit differs from the Men, for they ordinarily wear a Ring in their Nose; they have Petticoats and a Veil over their Face. They are under no formal Government, but every Captain commands his own River, Bay or Island, where he lives; the greatest of them all is one Captain _Ambrosio_, he commands particularly the Country about the _Samballoes_ Point, but when he pleases he can Levy all the Men betwixt that and the Gulf about 20 Leagues. There is another Captain _Pedro_, that lives in the House with _Ambrosio_, and is his Nephew and Son in Law; there is a 3d Captain _Andreas_ that commands the River _Das armas_; a 4th Captain _Brandy_, that commands about the _Golden Island_; a 5th Captain _Andreas_, that commands the Country adjoining to our Settlement; and a 6th Captain _Pedro_ his Consort; a 7th Captain _Pacigo_, who commands at _Carret Bay_, and Captain _Diego_ that commands the Gulph. _Ambrosio_ seems to be the greatest, and _Diego_ next, both old Men; they are all very much our Friends, and fond of us. All have been frequently here except Captain _Diego_ who is Goutish.