presently being to stand for the Havana, we were fain to ply to the
windward some three or four days; in which plying we fortuned to take
a small bark, in which were two or three hundred hides, and one most
necessary thing, which stood us in great stead, viz., a pump! which
we set in our frigate. Their bark because it was nothing fit for our
service, our Captain gave them to carry them home.

And so returning to Cape St. Antonio, and landing there, we refreshed
ourselves, and besides great store of turtle eggs, found by day in the
[sand], we took 250 turtles by night. We powdered [salted] and dried
some of them, which did us good service. The rest continued but a small
time.

There were, at this time, belonging to Cartagena, Nombre de Dios, Rio
Grande, Santa Marta, Rio de la Hacha, Venta Cruz, Veragua, Nicaragua,
the Honduras, Jamaica etc., above 200 frigates; some of a 120 tons,
others but of 10 or 12 tons, but the most of 30 or 40 tons, which all
had intercourse between Cartagena and Nombre de Dios. The most of which,
during our abode in those parts, we took; and one of them, twice or
thrice each: yet never burnt nor sunk any, unless they were made out
Men-of-war against us, or laid as stales to entrap us.

And of all the men taken in these several vessels, we never offered any
kind of violence to any, after they were once come under our power; but
either presently dismissed them in safety, or keeping them with us
some longer time (as some of them we did), we always provided for their
sustenance as for ourselves, and secured them from the rage of the
Cimaroons against them: till at last, the danger of their discovering
where our ships lay being over past, for which only cause we kept them
prisoners, we set them also free.