Captain _Prinn,_ Captain _Stone,_ and divers others came in about _Christmas;_ so that this last year, there hath been about thirty Sail of _English, French,_ and _Dutch_ Ships, and all the _Indians_ forced out of the Isle, for they had done much mischief amongst the _French,_ in cutting their Throats, burning their Houses, and spoiling their Tobacco; amongst the rest _Tegramund,_ a little Child, the King's Son, his Parents being slain, or fled, was by great chance saved, and carefully brought to _England,_ by Master _Merifield,_ who brought him from thence, and bringeth him up as his own Children. {MN-1} It lieth seventeen degrees Northward of the Line, about an hundred and twenty Leagues from the _Cape de tres Puntas,_ the nearest main Land in _America,_ it is about eight Leagues in length, and four in breadth; an Island amongst 100 Isles in the _West Indies,_ called the _Caribbes,_ where ordinarily all them that frequent the _West Indies,_ refresh themselves; those, most of them are Rocky, little, and Mountainous, yet frequented with the _Canibals;_ many of them inhabited, as Saint _Domingo,_ Saint _Mattalin,_ Saint _Lucia,_ Saint _Vincent, Granada,_ and _Margarita,_ to the Southward; Northward, none but Saint _Christophers,_ and it but lately, yet they will be ranging _Marigalanta, Guardalupo, Deceado, Mountserat, Antegua, Mevis, Bernardo,_ Saint _Martin,_ and Saint _Bartholomew,_ but the worst of the four Isles possessed by the _Spaniard,_ as _Portorico_ or _Jamaica,_ is better than them all; as for _Hispaniola,_ and _Cuba,_ they are worthy the Title of two rich Kingdoms, the rest not respected by the _Spaniards,_ for want of Harbours, and their better choice of good Land, and profit in the main. But Captain _Warner,_ having been very familiar with Captain _Painton,_ in the _Amazon,_ hearing his information of this St. _Christophers;_ and having made a years trial, as it is said, returned for _England,_ joyning with Master _Merifield_ and his Friends, got Letters Patents from King James to plant and possess it. Since then, the Right Honourable the Earl of _Carlisle_ hath got Letters Patents also, not only of that, but all the _Caribe_ Isles about it, who is now chief Lord of them, and the _English_ his Tenants that do possess them; over whom he appointeth such Governours and Officers as their affairs require; and although there be a great Custom imposed upon them, considering their other charges, both to feed and maintain themselves; yet there is there, and now a going, near upon the number of three thousand People; where by reason of the rockiness and thickness of the Woods in the Isle, it is difficult to pass, and such a snuff of the Sea goeth on the Shoar, ten may better defend, than fifty assault. {MN-2} In this Isle are many Springs, but yet Water is scarce again in many places; the Valleys and sides of the Hills very fertile, but the Mountains harsh, and of a sulphurous composition; all overgrown with _Palmetas, Cotten_ Trees;