or 3 great Hollanders guarded with a man of warre, by way
of Salue gave them a peece of ordinance, or two: (vnwilling
to wrong the priviledge of that pmisshend plantation, to
which they had giuen time till one halfe years end to be gone
and pvide them elsewhere, or else to expect blowes to enforce
them, this plantation was once afore destroied by the Spaniard,
saue some few hidden in the mountaines, by whome with
much miserie the place was againe restored:) the holland man
of warre for his salute, returned a bullet, and weighing
anchour made to sea, to enter fight, and withall engaged the 2
English barkes to doe the like: of those fiue English and
Hollands, onely 2 had ordinance; but the Spaniards each
about 30 brasse peeces, the manner of this feight I know not,
but in fine all runne away except the man of warre, who
either fired her selfe or sunke when she could hold out no
longer, for she cannot be heard of. If we had come the
whilest, tis like enough we had beene to forward with the
rest, haveing so pft a ship soe well gunn'd and man'd, and
whether we had wonne or lost, our ship had certainly spoiled
for saile til she had been repared, but god who endeareth the
8pirituall good of Maryland pserved vs from danger, Pro-
tector noster et merces nostra magna nimis: the 24 of
January we weighed from Barba: and by noone next day
made S^t Lucia=s one the Charybbies, divided in it selfe, the
servants (being Negroes) against the Saluage masters; then
about 4 in the evening we came before Matilena¹ where we
came to ankor, and 2 Canowes, of starknaked Indians came
paddleing aboard vs, with paruats, pumpkins, callabashes,
bonana-s muskmellons watermellons and the like to exchange
with vs; they much feared at first the greatnesse of our ship,

¹Probably Martinique; called by the Spaniards Martinieca, and formerly
by the natives Madiana.