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CHAP. VII.
They leave the Isle of Plata. Cape Passao. The Coast between that and Cape St. Francisco; and from thence on to Panama. The River of St. Jago. The Red and the White Cotton-tree. The Cabbage-tree. The Indians of St. Jago River, and its Neighbourhood. The Isle of Gallo. The River and Village of Tomaco. Isle of Gorgona. The Pearl-Oysters there and in other parts. The Land on the Main. Cape Corrientes. Point Garachina. Island Gal- lera. The Kings, or Pearl-Islands; Pacheque. St. Paul's Island. Lavelia. Nata. The Clam- fish. Oysters. The pleasant Prospects in the Bay of Panama. Old Panama. The New City. The great Concourse there from Lima and Por- tobel, &c. upon the Arrival of the Spanish Armada in the West Indies. The Course the Armada takes : with an incidental Account of the first Inducements that made the Privateers undertake the passage over the Isthmus of Da- rien into the South Seas, and of the particular beginning of their Correspondence with the Indi- ans that inhabit that Isthmus. Of the Air and Weather at Panama. The Isles of Perico. Ta- bago a pleasant Island. The Mammee tree. The Village Tabago. A Spanish Stratagem or two, of Capt. Bond their Engineer. The Ignorance of the Spaniards of these parts in Sea Affairs. A Party of French Privateers arrive from over Land. Of the Commissions that are given out