ABSTRACT
John Twitt'S account of Newport's 1592 expedition, published by Hakluyt in 1600, remains the chief source for this voyage. On the West Indies part of the voyage some valuable Spanish records have already been printed by I. A. Wright. Until the first repulse at La Yaguana everything went well for Newport and his men. Leaving London a day before King, they reached Dominica six days ahead and captured a prize of negro slaves, whom they eventually landed at La Aguada on the northwest of the island of Puerto Rico. Still making good time, they passed on to Mona, thence to Saona and thence along the south coast of Hispaniola. After an interesting encounter with the natives of 'certeine islands within the point of Florida'—doubtless the Calusa Indians of southwest Florida, of whom relatively little is otherwise known—Newport and Merrick, with the Dragon and the Prudence sailed for the Azores.
