New
and
Strange
News
from
St.
Christophers
,
of
a
tempestuous
Spirit
,
which
is
called
by
the
Indians
a
Hurry
Cano
,
which
happeneth
in
many
of
those
Islands
of
America
,
or
the
West-Indies
,
as
it
did
in
August
last
the
5.
1638.
GOD
,
who
is
every
way
infinite
and
incomprehensible
,
is
pleased
sometimes
in
his
just
Judgments
,
to
punish
or
restraine
by
Terrours
and
Affrightings
,
most
obstinate
and
rebellious
sinners
:
for
those
that
will
not
lovingly
be
allured
to
obey
him
for
his
Goodnesse
and
unspeakable
Mercies
,
will
be
fearefully
inforced
to
abide
the
rigour
of
his
most
upright
and
severe
Justice
,
by
which
meanes
Hee
makes
his
wayes
to
be
knowne
upon
Earth
,
and
his
saving
health
amongst
all
Nations
.
And
it
is
to
be
noted
,
that
where
God
is
least
knowne
and
honoured
,
there
the
Devill
hath
most
power
and
domination
.
But
hee
that
drew
light
out
of
darknesse
,
hath
often
(
and
can
when
he
wil
)
draw
good
out
of
evill
?
for
through
slavery
and
bondage
many
people
and
Nations
that
were
Heathens
,
and
barbarous
,
have
beene
happily
brought
to
Civility
and
Christian
Liberty
.
The
Great
Alexanders
conquests
,
those
whom
hee
overcame
,
learned
to
build
Townes
,
Cities
,
and
defencible
places
,
to
apparell
their
naked
bodies
,
in
their
thraldome
they
found
Religion
:
and
whereas
in
their
Freedomes
they
did
use
to
kill
their
aged
Parents
inhumanely
,
to
eate
them
with
savadge
,
ravenous
,
most
greedy
Gormandizing
,
by
Servitude
they
learned
more
reverend
Duty
;
they
were
taught
the
Rites
and
Lawes
of
Matrimony
:
And
whereas
in
their
licentious
freedome
,
they
bedded
with
their
Mothers
,
Sisters
,
Daughters
,
and
Neeces
,
not
sparing
any
Kindred
,
Aliance
,
Propinquity
,
or
any
degree
of
blood
or
consanguinity
,
they
by
Servitude
learned
better
life
and
manners
;
and
also
by
being
conquer'd
and
overcome
,
they
were
taught
the
use
of
Armes
,
the
practice
of
Arts
,
and
the
laudable
Experience
of
Tillage
and
Husbandry
.
And
such
as
these
rude
people
were
in
ancient
times
;
even
such
were
the
first
Inhabitants
of
this
our
Island
of
great
Britaine
,
untill
such
time
as
more
civiller
Nations
did
conquer
,
tame
,
and
teach
us
.
Yet
in
the
latest
Daies
of
the
World
all
are
not
civilliz'd
;
there
are
yet
many
Heathens
,
Indians
,
and
barbarous
Nations
unconverted
:
as
for
the
knowne
Examples
in
America
,
and
in
divers
Islands
adjacent
,
where
this
Hurri
Cano
is
frequent
;
of
which
with
the
manner
of
the
Description
of
it
as
followeth
.
From
whence
the
name
of
it
is
derived
,
I
know
not
;
but
the
Indians
doe
call
it
Hurri
Cano
,
or
Hurri
Caenae
,
or
Cani
:
some
say
that
it
comes
to
the
same
place
once
in
five
yeares
,
but
that
is
uncertaine
,
for
it
hath
no
certaine
or
set
times
of
either
yeares
or
dayes
for
the
comming
of
it
.
It
is
held
by
the
Natives
to
be
a
Spirit
,
it
comes
with
such
an
extraordinary
violence
,
with
Thunder
,
Lightning
,
and
impetuous
gusts
of
winde
,
(
as
it
hath
done
many
times
)
for
it
touches
not
all
places
there
,
but
sometimes
it
comes
but
once
,
or
never
in
a
mans
age
to
one
place
,
and
more
often
to
another
,
according
as
it
is
sway'd
or
hurried
with
its
owne
robustuous
motion
,
or
as
the
influences
and
force
of
the
Planets
doe
drive
it
:
and
the
Indians
are
so
skilfull
,
that
they
doe
know
two
or
three
or
foure
dayes
before
hand
of
the
comming
of
it
,
and
then
they
doe
make
provision
to
prevent
the
harme
which
it
may
doe
unto
them
,
by
such
meanes
as
shall
be
related
in
the
latter
end
of
this
Treatise
:
the
Indians
doe
know
when
it
will
come
,
by
the
markes
or
signes
here
mentioned
.
They
doe
observe
that
just
so
many
daies
as
it
will
be
before
the
Hurri
Cano
doth
come
,
so
many
Circles
will
bee
as
it
were
fringed
and
gleaming
about
the
Moone
:
as
if
it
bee
but
one
day
before
it
come
,
then
there
will
be
but
one
Circle
;
if
two
Circles
,
then
it
wil
be
two
daies
;
and
so
perhaps
three
or
foure
Circles
,
as
it
did
lately
at
Saint
Christophers
,
where
it
came
in
that
fearefull
and
unresistable
fury
,
on
the
fifth
day
of
August
last
,
1638.
Where
,
although
that
the
Dutch
and
English
had
warning
of
the
comming
of
it
,
by
the
knowledge
that
the
Indians
had
by
observation
of
the
Moone
and
the
Circles
,
and
that
all
possible
meanes
was
used
for
the
safeguard
of
men
ships
,
and
goods
,
yet
when
it
came
,
the
force
of
it
was
so
great
,
and
continued
so
vehemently
the
space
of
foure
dayes
and
nights
without
intermission
,
that
maugre
all
the
industry
that
could
be
,
it
sunke
five
Shipps
,
whereof
two
were
English
,
and
three
were
Dutch
;
and
of
Englishmen
,
Dutchmen
,
and
Indians
,
it
did
drowne
and
kill
to
the
number
of
Seventy
and
five
persons
,
besides
the
harme
it
did
to
many
Houses
and
goods
.
Where
the
Here
or
Hurri
Cano
comes
,
the
Winde
doth
blow
so
strong
and
forcible
,
that
it
will
puffe
men
from
the
ground
into
the
Aire
five
or
sixe
foote
high
,
as
if
they
were
no
more
but
ragges
,
clouts
,
or
feathers
;
and
so
violent
it
is
,
that
it
leaves
not
a
lease
upon
any
Bough
or
Tree
:
and
likewise
it
overthroweth
many
Trees
,
rending
them
up
by
the
roots
,
so
that
the
Inhabitants
(
when
they
are
warned
of
the
comming
of
the
Hurri
Cano
by
the
Circles
about
the
Moone
)
they
doe
lop
off
the
limbes
and
great
heads
off
from
the
Trees
,
because
the
violent
and
outragious
Tempest
of
the
tempestuous
Windes
shall
have
the
lesse
force
and
power
to
overturne
them
;
and
especially
those
Trees
which
they
doe
intend
to
preserve
and
keepe
for
bearing
of
fruite
,
they
doe
commonly
cut
off
,
and
graffe
them
againe
by
our
English
advice
.
The
people
all
of
them
forsake
their
Houses
,
as
not
daring
to
remaine
in
them
for
feare
that
they
should
be
blown
down
about
their
eares
;
at
which
dangerous
times
they
do
creep
for
safety
into
holes
Caves
,
pits
,
Dens
and
hollow
places
of
the
earth
,
which
are
either
naturall
of
themselves
,
or
digged
and
framed
by
Art
or
laborious
industry
of
man
,
which
places
are
good
harbours
and
defences
against
the
Hurry-Cano
.
They
doe
likewise
tye
or
make
fast
Hamackoes
or
hanging
Cabin
unto
two
Trees
that
are
lopy'd
,
and
then
the
people
do
get
into
those
Cabins
,
&
so
they
do
lye
downe
in
them
,
being
hang'd
above
the
ground
sixe
or
seaven
foot
,
eyther
with
strong
Ropes
or
iron
chaines
;
and
so
they
swing
two
and
againe
like
a
Bell
when
it
is
rung
,
when
this
tempest
is
;
their
Hamackoes
are
made
either
of
course
linning
cloath
,
or
of
strong
stuffe
made
of
twisted
threads
spun
out
of
the
rindes
of
trees
;
some
who
have
not
these
Cabins
,
do
for
feare
bind
themselves
with
cords
,
singlely
or
severally
to
divers
trees
,
and
so
they
do
remaine
bound
untill
the
fury
of
the
Hurry-Cano
is
past
.
And
this
is
the
true
relation
of
the
nature
and
quality
of
it
,
and
also
partly
of
the
harmes
which
it
did
in
the
moneth
of
August
last
past
.
The
Indians
do
fore-know
it
by
certain
circles
which
appear
about
the
Moone
,
and
those
Indians
that
are
servants
under
our
English
,
did
give
some
notice
,
or
else
far
more
hurt
had
insued
;
and
is
when
the
Moon
hath
divers
circles
like
mists
and
fogs
about
it
,
and
of
a
flaming
colour
,
and
by
some
other
signes
,
the
people
doe
sometimes
save
themselves
and
their
goods
,
in
making
caves
or
cellers
in
the
ground
,
or
else
they
loose
all
.
But
for
a
late
remarkable
proofe
of
Gods
mercy
and
power
,
in
drawing
good
out
of
Evill
;
I
desire
the
Reader
to
note
that
in
the
year
1609.
eight
ships
were
bound
from
London
unto
Virginia
,
Sir
Thomas
Gates
,
and
Sir
George
Sommers
Knights
,
were
General
and
Admirall
of
the
Fleete
,
and
Captaine
Newport
was
Vice-Admirall
.
The
Admirall
Ship
,
wherin
Sir
George
Sommers
was
,
was
by
a
Hurry-Cano
disperst
and
sundred
from
the
rest
of
the
Fleete
,
and
with
the
greatnesse
of
the
storme
driven
between
two
rocks
at
the
Iland
of
Bermudas
,
where
his
ship
stucke
fast
,
and
was
there
lost
and
split
.
But
hee
landed
all
his
men
safe
,
with
some
of
his
chiefest
goods
,
where
hee
found
good
reliefe
of
Swine
,
Fish
,
and
Fowle
.
But
Sir
Thomas
Gates
and
the
other
Ships
did
give
Sir
George
with
his
men
to
be
utterly
lost
&
cast
away
,
but
he
made
such
shift
,
that
with
Timber
that
hee
found
,
and
fell'd
in
the
Island
,
he
caused
two
Ships
to
be
built
,
with
the
which
he
sayled
from
the
Bermudaes
to
Virginia
,
(
after
hee
had
beene
tenne
Moneths
supposed
dead
)
where
he
was
most
joyfully
welcomed
:
and
thus
out
of
this
great
danger
(
which
in
mans
imagination
was
evill
)
God
was
graciously
pleased
to
make
it
the
happy
finding
and
discovery
of
that
good
and
fruitfull
Island
,
the
Plantation
whereof
is
now
so
profitable
and
beneficiall
to
the
English
Adventures
;
and
the
Bermudaes
,
with
some
other
Islands
,
are
at
this
time
called
the
Sommer
Islands
,
in
memory
of
Sir
George
Sommers
,
who
was
the
first
discoverer
of
them
:
and
thus
much
shall
suffice
for
the
true
Report
and
Description
of
the
Hurri
Cano.
Innumerable
of
other
the
like
of
such
things
as
these
,
I
have
formerly
related
,
and
many
of
them
are
Recorded
in
our
owne
Histories
,
to
have
happened
in
our
owne
Country
,
which
who
so
doe
desire
to
read
more
,
may
see
them
amply
and
truely
recorded
in
the
workes
of
the
learned
Cambden
,
painefull
Speed
,
Stowe
,
and
Howes
,
Histories
and
Chronicles
,
wherein
they
may
bee
certainely
inform'd
,
that
former
Times
have
afforded
as
strange
and
fearefull
Signes
and
warnings
,
as
this
prodigious
Tempest
and
lamentable
Accident
at
Worthycombe
,
neare
Dartmoores
in
Devonshiere
,
as
you
may
read
in
these
ensuing
Verses
the
whole
truth
,
as
followeth
.