. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . y high uponthe blowing of the least south-east and south-west winds upon it. I have observed this difference betwixt this sea and that ofthe north, that let the wind be ever so violent, as soon asit ceases, this sea proves as calm as if it had never blown ;whereas in the other, for all the wind is allayed, it continuesseveral days in the same violent agitation as when it blewhard. I have als
. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . y high uponthe blowing of the least south-east and south-west winds upon it. I have observed this difference betwixt this sea and that ofthe north, that let the wind be ever so violent, as soon asit ceases, this sea proves as calm as if it had never blown ;whereas in the other, for all the wind is allayed, it continuesseveral days in the same violent agitation as when it blewhard. I have also taken notice, that the windy storms, that areformed to leeward, are much more dangerous in the formerthan those that come from the windward ; but in the other, itis contrary, where a ship generally esteems not herself to be indanger, but from those that arise to windward of her, at least-wise, if the wind be not subject to a very great variation ; towhich we may add one difference more, that the South Sea ispacific enough upon the main, and very turbulent upon thecoast; and that of the North is oftentimes very impetuous farout, and almost always calm near the shore. THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. ^55. 356 THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. The South Sea breeds, in divers parts of it, a very greatnumber of serpents, in color like spotted marble, and are gen-erally about two feet long ; their sting is of so venomous andkilling a nature, that when a man is once stung by them, thereis no human remedy that can secure him from a sudden death ;and that which is indeed very surprising, in regard to thesecreatures, is, that when the sea by the boisterousness of its wavesthrows them upon some bank or other, though they do not goout of the water, yet they no sooner touch the sand, but theypresently die. On the 9th, having still kept our course along the coast,we put fifty men in three canoes ashore, to go and take thetown of Esparso, which is three leagues from Caldaira, and isthe place that serves
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