And about four
o'clock recovered a big island in our way, where we stayed all night,
by reason that there was great store of fish, and especially of a great
kind of shell-fish of a foot long. We called them whelks.
The next morning (9th October), we were clear of these islands and
shoals, and hauled off into the sea. About four days after (13th
October), near the island of St. Bernards, we chased two frigates
ashore; and recovering one of these islands, made our abode there some
two days (14th-15th October) to wash our pinnaces and to take of the
fish.
Thence we went towards Tolou, and that day (16th October) landed near
the town in a garden, where we found certain Indians, who delivered us
their bows and arrows, and gathered for us such fruit as the garden
did yield, being many sorts of dainty fruits and roots, [we] still
contenting them for what we received. Our Captain's principal intent in
taking this and other places by the way, not being for any other cause,
but only to learn true intelligence of the state of the country and of
the Fleets.
Hence we departed presently, and rowed towards Charesha, the island of
Cartagena; and entered in at Bocha Chica, and having the wind large, we
sailed in towards the city, and let fall our grappers betwixt the island
and the Main, right over against the goodly Garden Island.
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