muzzles of cannon.]

[Footnote 4: Handspike.]

[Footnote 5: Plates.]

[Footnote 6: Skeins of marline, soft line used for seizings.]

[Footnote 7: 24 fathom of rope for gun-tackle falls.]

[Footnote 8: Flasks.]

[Footnote 9: Scouring-rods, ramrods.]

_164. Suggestions as to plundering Hispaniola._[1]

[Footnote 1: Massachusetts Historical Society. Inserted as a specimen
of a kind of information, useful to marauders, which privateers often
brought home. The fragment is undated, but it is one of the papers of
the _Revenge_, presented to the society by Professor Norton, and is no
doubt of the same period as those which precede. It relates to the
French or western part (now Haiti) of the island of Hispaniola; for
the war with Spain which had begun in 1739 had widened in 1743 into a
war with France also, the "War of the Austrian Succession", which
continued till 1748.]

The Tradeing Vessells from France that comes to Highspanyola puts in
At St. marks where They Sell Some part of their Cargo payeble in
Indego from thence they go to Lugan, Pettygouas, and queldesack[2] to
Sell The Remainder of their Cargo and Load with Sugars and then Return
to St. Marks, to Take in their Indego. their is a plain that is Called
Lertibonnee[3] adjoyning to St. Marks. The Inhabitants have Two or
Three Hundred negros a peice. The plantations Lye near the water Side
and it is Very Easey Landing and no fortafacations. in Sending of a
man a Shore That can Speak french to the negro Houses to ask to Speak
to the negro Commander promise him his freedom and a Little money. by
that means he will Bring all the negros to the water Side. If your
Intent is to Cruce off Cape francoy,[4] Mr. Granshon merchant Their
Expects a Sloop from Portobello[5] The Latter End of august or the
Begining of Sepr. which went from their Richley Loded aboute Three
months ago, and is Expected Home with one Hundred and fifty Thousand
Peices of Eight on Board. Their is allways Vessells comeing to Buy
Goods at the Cape from the Havannah, Carthagena and Portobello, which
bring their money to buy the Goods.

[Footnote 2: St. Marc is in the middle coast of Haiti, at the east
side of the great bay that indents the island from the west. Leogane
and Petitgoave lie at the south side of that bay. The Cul-de-Sac is
the great plain, then famous and rich for sugar, which lies north of
Port-au-Prince, at the southeast corner of that bay.]

[Footnote 3: L'Artibonite.]

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