How and for what reasons it was necessary to keep watch for the enemy at one season of the year more than at other times.

Hessus. He had been stationed in the island of Sancte Vincente in an Ingenio where they make sugar. This Ingenio belonged to a Genoese named Josepe Ornio,41 and Heliodorus was his clerk and manager. (Ingenio is used to designate the houses where sugar is made.) I had had dealings with this Heliodorus previously, for when I was shipwrecked with the Spaniards I found him in the Island of Sancte Vincente and he showed me much kindness. He came to see how I was situated, for he had heard perchance that I was sick.