atest part; so that, soon after, they were forced to
seek more by the same unlawful means they had got the former.

CHAPTER VIII

_Lolonois makes new preparations to make the city of St. James de Leon;
as also that of Nicaragua; where he miserably perishes._

LOLONOIS had got great repute at Tortuga by this last voyage, because he
brought home such considerable profit; and now he need take no great
care to gather men to serve under him, more coming in voluntarily than
he could employ; every one reposing such confidence in his conduct that
they judged it very safe to expose themselves, in his company, to the
greatest dangers. He resolved therefore a second voyage to the parts of
Nicaragua, to pillage there as many towns as he could.

Having published his new preparations, he had all his men together at
the time, being about seven hundred. Of these he put three hundred
aboard the ship he took at Maracaibo, and the rest in five other vessels
of lesser burthen; so that they were in all six ships. The first port
they went to was Bayaha in Hispaniola, to victual the fleet, and take in
provisions; which done, they steered their course to a port called
Matamana, on the south side of Cuba, intending to take here all the
canoes they could; these coasts being frequented by the fishers of
tortoises, who carry them hence to the Havannah. They took as many of
them, to the great grief of those miserable people, as they thought
necessary; for they had great use for these small bottoms, by reason the
port they designed for had not depth enough for ships of any burthen.
Hence they took their course towards the cape Gracias a Dios on the
continent, in latitude 15 deg. north, one hundred leagues from the
Island de los Pinos. Being at sea, they were taken with a sad and
tedious calm, and, by the agitation of the waves alone, were thrown into
the gulf of Honduras: here they laboured hard in vain to regain what
they had lost, both the waters and the winds being contrary; besides,
the ship wherein Lolonois was embarked could not follow the rest; and
what was worse, they wanted provisions. Hereupon, they were forced to
put into the first port they could reach, to revictual: so they entered
with their canoes into the river Xagua, inhabited by Indians, whom they
totally destroyed, finding great quantities of millet, and many hogs and
hens: not contented with which, they determined to remain there till the
bad weather was over, and to p