An account of several late voyages and discoveries

108 $ir John Narbrough's Vtryage Tbe fmaller Boats which they h:ive here 3te (:anoas, being cut out of the Body of a largc Trce, and íhaped fomewhat like a Shallop at the ends : Sorne are thirty fcet long'\ and built one ~trcak of Board upon them, to raife them higher pn their Sides; they will carry near twenty Mc 11 ~-piece : Some are rowed with Oars, and fom ~re lefs, and rowed with Paddles ; thofc whicl .are walt, have a great Be:m1 lafhed faíl: a.long cae $idewithom Board,which kecps thcm from ovcr (etting~ Thefc Boats ar~ very m built; for I fa .not any one of them fit to row in .iny Sea-gat 9r for anyScrvke, orto carry any Pcrfon of Q!a Jity in. The Jndianr are thc Spaniard1 Sbves row them to and fro, and to do all mann~r µboµr; for the Spaniardr will not lay their Han ~o ar¡y thing in that nat11re, accounting it benea th:m to ;oul the:r Fingers with Work; for th fcom to be Servants one to another, let the on l>e never fo Potent, and the other not worth t r, Jlags which he weareth; yet he fcorns to be Serv.int to him, and live in Amcrica. The Land about the Harbour of Balda'Via is ?- good hcighr, and in Land it rifcth in lar Hills : lt is low by the Water-fide, and the Sho is fandy in fome Bays, and broken fharty bits glittcring Rocks, like Gold? lie fhatter' d a.long die Shorc-fiq.c• . All the w11ole Country is ov grown witb green W oods, as what I could . of it, apd by the Rivers Sidcs : There is no r. vclling in· the \Voods, they are fo thick w Under-brnni, old rotten Trees., and Leaves, a fuch Trafh. T