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A Relation of the Voyage to two parts by an Arm of the Sea, called the Salt-River, by which Barks may pass up when the Tide is in ; the Land is high, but fruitful in Sugar, Indico, and Cotton : Here also they have Rocou, Cassia, Cocoe, and very good Comfits. Fruits and Fowl are very common there ; and they have a fort of Birds about the formentioned sulphurous Cavity, which they call Dia-bolins, which are very large, and as good as Pullets; they live upon nothing else but Fish, which they vomit up to feed their Young withal, and the Inhabitants send out their Negro’s to take them; but whether it be that they are not used to it, or that the Cold, or the Air of the faid sulphurous Cavity seizes upon them, they are taken with fuch a languishment upon it, that they cannot surmount without much Difficulty; they also find several boyling Fountains in this Island. That part of the Island which stands to the Northward, because of its being larger than the other, is called The Great Land, and hath been inhabited a long time, but at prelent has not above an hundred Inhabitants. The other, which is known by the Name of Guadalupa,