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VOYAGE
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New Holland, &c.
In the Year, 1699.

| Wherein are defcribed,

The Cazary-Iflands, the Iles of Mayo and
St. Fazgo. ‘The Bay of Al Saints, withthe
Fortsand Towa of Bahiain Brafil, Cape
Salvadore. The Winds on the Brafilian
Coaft. Abroblo-Shoals: A Table of all the
Variations obferv’d in this Voyage. Oc-} |
currences near the Cape of Good Hope.|-
The Courfe to New Holland. Shark’s Bay.

| The Ifles and Coaft, éc. of New Holland.

| Their Inhabitants, Manners, Cuftoms, Trade, Ce.

| Their Harbours, Soil, Beafts, Birds, Fifth, c.|

| Frees, Plants, Fruits, Ge.

|{lluftrated with feveral Maps and Draughts; alfo
divers Birds, Fifhes, and Plants,’ not found in
this part of the World, Curioufly Ingtaven on
Copper-Plates. :

| by Captain Walliam Dampier.) |

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My Lord,
“BE NHE Honour I bad of
being employ’d in the Ser-
t _ vice of His late Majefty
_ of Mbiftrious Memory , at the
_ ume when Your Lordfhip prefi-
_ ed at the Admiralty, gives me
Bu % the

THOMAS
Earl of Pembroke, —

Lord Prefident of Her Maje-
-fty’s Moft Honourable Privy |

SVE SO Eee Tt Mae enV ea, triser ery eeMeeT TP em

o De DLC A TY O'N: |

the Bolanefs to ask Your Prote-
ion—of tbe following ‘Papers.
They confft of fome Remarks
made upon very diftant Climates,
which I {bould bave the vanity
io think altogetber new, cowd I
perfuade my felf they bad efcap’d
Your — Lordfbip’s Knowledge.
However | bave been fo cautious
of publifhing any thing in my
whole Book that is generally
known, that I have denyd my
felf the pleafure of paying the
due Honours to Your Lordfhips

Name in the ‘Dedication. ft am

afbam’d, my Lord, to offer You

fo imperfect a Prefent, having

not time to fet down all the Me-

moirs of my last Voyage: But as

ibe particular Service [ have now
. yndertaken , binders me from fr-
ney he a

paying my Refpetts to Your Lord-
foip in a new one.

The World is apt to judge of

— every thing by the Succe[s ; and

whoever bas ill Fortune will

hardly be allow'd a good Name.

This, my Lord, was my Unbap-

pine(s in my late Expedition
in the Koe-Buck, wmbich
founder'd thro perfect Age near
the Ifland of Atcenfion.I fuffer’d

extreamly in my Reputation by
that Misforiune ; tho’ I comfort
my felf with the Thoughts, that

my Enemies cond not charge any

Neglecé upon me. And fince I
have the Honour to be acquitted —
by Your Lordfbip's Judgment, I

food be very bumble not to value

AZ ea

- DEDICATION. "
— nifbing this Volume, fo f hope it

will give me an opportunity of —

- DEDICATION. ©

my {elf upon fo compleat a Vindi-
cation, This, and aWorld of
other Favours, which I have
been fo bappy as to receive from
Your Lordfhip’s Goodnefs, do en-
gage me to be with an everlafting

Ref,
~ My Lord,

~ Your Lordthip’s
~Moft Faithful and

Obedient Servartt,

- Will. Dampier. |

PREFACE

iy ls HE favourable Reception
my two former Volumes of
Voyages and Defcriptions have already
met with in the World, gives me .
Reafon to hope, That notwith-
ftanding the ObjeGtions which have
been raifed. againft me by preju-
diced Perfons, this Third Volume
likewife may in fome meafure be
acceptahle to, Candid and Impar-
tial Readers, who are curious to
knaw the Nature of the Inhabi-

tants, Animals, Plants, Soil, ¢.

in thofe diftant Countries, which
have either feldom or not at all
been vifited by any Europeans.

A 4 It

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-{t has almoft always been: the
Fate of thofe who have made new ©
Difcoveries, to be difefteemed and

flightly fpoken of, by fuch as el-

eras

ther have had no true Relifh and © ©

Value for the Things themfelves that
are difcovered, or have had fome
Prejudice againft the Perfons by
whom the Difcoveries were made..
It would be vain therefore and un-
reafonable in me to expect to ef
cape the Cenfure of all, or to hope
for better’ Treatment than far .
Worthier Perfons have met with
before me. »;But this Satisfaction.
I .am-,fure of having ,'-that the
Things themfélvesin the Difcovery
of which have been imployed,
ate. molt worthy of our Diligenteft
Search and. Inquiry ; being the’
various’ and wonderful Works: of
God. indifferent Parts “of the
World: And however unfit a Per-
fon 1 may, bein: other refpects to
have undertaken this’ Task, yet
at leaft | have given a faithful Ac-
oe A ‘couhh

fe 2 |

The Preface.
count, and have found fome Things —
- undifcovered by any -before, and
which may at leaft be fome Affift-
tance and Direétion to better qua-
lified Perfons who {hall come after

eke jag
It has been Objetted againft me
by fome , that my Accounts and
Defcriptions of Things ere dry and
jejune, not filled with ‘variety of —
pleafant Matter, to divert and gra-
tify the Curious Reader. How
far this is true, 1 muft leave to the
World to judge. But if I have |
been exaétly and ftrictly careful to
give only True Relations and De-
fcriptions of Things (as 1 am fure
T have; ) and if. my Defcriptions
be fuch as may be of ufe not only
to my felf (which I have already —
in good meafure experienced) but
alfo to others in future Voyages ;
and likewife to fuch Readers at
home as are more defirous of a
Plain and Juft- Account of the true
Nature and State of the Things
Pi oh tea a oak ac

Re ee eT RE Se nie oy ne
2 é oe a
i
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The Preface.
defcribed , than of 2 Pelite and
Rhetorical Narrative : I hope all
the Defects in my Stile, will meet
with an eafy and ready Pardon.
Others have taxed me with bor-

- rowing from other Men’s Journals ;

and with Infufficiency, as if I was
not my felf the Author of what I
write , but publifhed Things di-
gefted and drawn up by othets. —
As to the firft Part of this Obje-
&ion, I affure the Reader, I have
taken nothing from any Man
without mentioning his Name, ex-
cept fome very few Relations and
particular Obfervations received
from credible Perfons who defired
not tobe named ; and thefelhave _
always exprefly diftinguifhed in
my Books , from what I relate as
of my own obferving. _ And as to
the latter; 1 think it fo far from
being a Diminution to.one of my
Education and Employment, to
have what I write, Revifed and

_ Corretted by Friends ; that on the

con- |

eee ett

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contrary, the beft and moft emi-
nent Authors! are not afhamed to
own the fame Thing, and look
upon it as: an Advantage.

Laftly, I know there are fome
who are apt to flight my Accounts
and Defcriptions of Things, as if

_ it was an eafie Matter and of little —
or no- Difficulty to do all thatl
have done, to vifit little more than
the Coafts of unknown Countries,

~ and make fhort and imperfect Ob-
fervations of Things only near the
Shore. But whoever is experien-
ced in thefe Matters, or confiders
Things impartially, will be of a,
very different Opinion. And any
one who is fenfible, how back-
ward and refractory the Seamen

_- are apt to be in long Voyages °

when they know not whither they

are going, how ignorant they are

of the Nature of the Winds and

the fhifting Seafons of the Mon-

foons, and how little even the Of- »
ficers themfelves generally are
3 skilled

The Preface.

skilled’ in ‘the Variation of the
Needle and the Ufe of the Azi-
muth Compafs; befides the Ha-
zard of all outward Accidents in
ftrange and unknown Seas: Any ©
_ one, fay, who is fenfible of thefe
Difficulties, will be much more
pleafedvat the Difcoveries and Ob-
fervations I have been able to
make ; than difpleafed with me
that I did not make more..

Thus much I thought neceflary
to premife in my own Vindica-.
tion, againft the Objettions that
have been made to my former Per;
formances. “But not, to trouble the -
Reader any further with Matters
of this Nature ; what:1 have more
to Offer, fhall be only in relation
‘ to the following Voyage. ;

For the better apprehending the
Courfe of this Voyage, and the
Situation of the Places mentioned
init, Ihavehere, asin the former
Volumes, caufed a Map to be In-
graven, witha prick’d Line, re;
| | | prefenting

OES ee tee pas 5 os i sat Bia oy
‘ BE es ial tia “ bier ale oe

The Preface.
prefenting to the Eye the whole
Thread of the Voyage at one
View ; befides Draughts and Fi-
gures of particular Places, to make
the Defcriptions I have given of |
them more intelligible and ufe-
ful:

Moreover, which I had not the
opportunity of doing in my for-
- mer Voyages; having now had
in the Ship with me a Perfon
skill’d in Drawing, Ihave by this
means been enabled, for the great-
er Satisfaction of the Curious Rea~
der, to prefent him with exaé
Cuts and Figures of feveral of the
principal and moft remarkable of
thofe Birds, Beafts, Fithes and
Plants, which are defcribed in the
following Narrative ; and alfo of
feveral, which not being able to
give any better or fo good an Ac- °
count of, as by caufing them to be
exadly Ingraven, the Reader will
not find any further Defcription
of them, but only that they were
found

The Preface.
found in fuch or fuch particular
Countries. ThePlantsthemfelvesare
~ in the Hands of the Ingenious Dr.
~ Woodward. 1 could have caufed ma-
ny others to be drawn in like man-
ner, but that I refolved to confine
my Self to fuch only, as had fome
very remarkable difference in the
fhape of their principal Parts from
any that are found in Europe. [
have befides feveral Birds and
Fifhes ready drawn, which I
could not put into the prefent Vo-
lume, becaufe they were found in
Countries, to the Defcription
whereof the following Narrative
does not reach. For, being obli-
ged to prepare for another Voy-
age, fooner than I at firft expett-
ed ; I have not been able to Con-
tinue the enfuing Narrative any
further than to my Departure from
the Coaft of New Holland. — But, if
it pleafe God that I return again
_fafe, the Reader may expe a

Continuation of this Voyage from

The Preface.

, my departure from New Holland,

till the foundring of my Ship near

the Ifland of Afcenfion.

In the mean time, to make the
Narrative im fome meafure com-

pleat, 1 {hall here add a Summary

- AbftraG& of that latter part of the

Voyage, whereof I have not had
time to draw out of my Journals a
full and particular Account at
jJarge. Departing therefore from
the Coaft of New Holland in the be-
ginning of September, 1699. (for
the Reafons mentioned Page 154.)

we arrived at Tymor, Sept. 15. and
Anchored off that land. Onthe °

24th we obtain’d a {mall Supply
of frefh Water from the Governor
ofa Dutch Fort and FaCtory there;
we found alfo therea Portuguefe _
Settlement, and ‘were kindly —
treated by them. On the 3d of
December we arrived on the Coaft
of New Guinea; where we found

good frefh Water, and had Com-

merce with the Inhabitants of a

certain

LEOee Pe See ee Oo ER Re a ee Oe ae ee
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it iia ea ats isa a ee Ee ee x a ae ai —_—,

: The Preface.
certain Ifland’ ‘call’d Pulo-Sabuti, —
After which, paffing to the North-_
ward, we ranged ‘along the Coaft
to the Eaftermoft «part of New
Guinea : which 1 found does not
join to the main Land of .New-
Guinea, but isan Iflarid, as I have

defcribed it in my Map, and call'd —

it New Britain.

It is probable this Ifland may
afford many rich Commodities ,
and the Natives may be eafily
brought to Commerce. But. the

‘many Difficulties 1 at this time

met with, the want of convenience
to clean my Ship; the fewnets of
my Men, their defire to haften
home, and the danger of continu:
ing in thefe Circumftances in Seas
where the Shoals and Coafts were
utterly unknown, and muft be |
fearched out with»much Caution
and length of time ; hindred: me
from profecuting any further at _
prefent my intended Search. What
} have been able to do in this: Mat#

| tek |

| The Preface: :
ter for the Publick Service, will

1 hope, be candidly recetv’d ; and
no Difficulties fhall difcourage me
from endeavouring to promote the

_ fame End, whenever | have an op-

portunity put into my Hands.
May 18. in our return, we ar-
rived again at Tymor. ‘Fune 21,
we paft by part of the Ifand Fava.
Fuly 4, we anchored in Batavia-
Road ; and I wentafhore, vifited

- the Dutch General, and defired the

Privilege of buying Provifions that

_ [wanted ; which was granted me.

ote

In this Road we lay till the 17th
of Ottober following ; when, hav-
ing fitted the Ship, recruited my
Self with Provifions, filled all my
Water, and the Seafon of the year
for returning towards Europe being
come ;_ I fet Sail from Batavia, and

on the 19th of December mace the :
Cape of Good Hope; whence de-

parting Fan. 11, we made the Ifland

Of Santa Hellena on the -31f ;
atid February the 21ft. the Ifand
: a

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Pa saa ee ee a ee ee _

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of Afcenfion; near to which my ©

Ship, having fprung a Leak which
could not be ftopped, foundred at
Sea ; With much difficulty we got
afhore, where we liv’d on Gcats
and Turtle; andon the 26th of |
February found, toour great Com- |

aki wile SEE ee RE COR ERR ee a eo eee
f ,
& . us dae

fort, on the S. E. fide of a high |

Mountain, about halfa mile from |

its top, a Spring of frefh Water. |
I returned to England in the Can- |
terbury Eaft-India-Ship. For which
wonderful Deliverance from fo
many and great Dangers, I think
my felf bound to return continual
Thanks to Almighty God ; whofe
- Divine Providence if tt fhall pleafe
to bring me fafe again to my Na-
tive Country from my prefent in-
tended Voyage; Il hope to pub-
lifha particular Account of all the
material ThingsI obferved in the
feveral Places which [have now |
but barely mentioned.

FHE

THE

CONTENTS:

Te aASriet.

_ The A.’s departure from the Downs.

A Caution to thofe who Sail in the
Channel. His Arrival at the Ca-

' nary-Iflands. Santa Cruz in

Teneriffe ; the Road and Town,
and Spanith Wreck. Laguna T,
Lake and Country ; and Oratavia
I. and Road. Of the Wines and
other Commodities of Teneriffe, &c.
and the Governors at Laguna and ,
Santa Cruz. Of the Winds in
thefe. Seas. The Als Arrival at
Mayo. Of the C. Verd Iflands ;
its Salt-pond, compar’d with that

of Salt Tortuga; its Trade for |
ae era 9 Salt,

The Contents.
Salt, and Frape-boats. Its Vege-
tables, Silk-Cotton, &c. Its Soil,
and Towns ; its Guinea-Hen’s,
and other Fowls, Beafts, and Fifh.
Of the Sea-Turtles, &c. laying in
the Wet Seafon. Of the Natives,
their Frade ‘and Livelihood. The
A.'s Arrival at F. St. Jago ; Pro-
ga, and St. Jago Town. Of the
Inhabitants, and their Commodities.
Of the Cuftard-Apple. St. Jago-
Road. -J. Fogo...” |

Cobras R. 2

Lhe A.’s Deliberation on tbe Sequel of
his Voyage, and Departure from
St. Jago. His Courfe, and the
Winds, &c. in crofing the Line.
He flands away for the Bay of All —
Saints in Brazil ; and why. His
Arrival on that Coaft and in the

Bay. Of the feveral Forts ,- the

. Road, Situation, Town, and. Build. —

ings

i tere Be

- The Contents. |
ings of Bahia. Of its Governor,
Ships and Merchants ; and Com-
“ modities to and from Europe. Clay- |
ing of Sugar. The Seafon for the
European Ships, and Cotre Ca-
bles : Of their Guinea-trade, and
of the Goafting-trade, and Whale-
killing. Of the Inbabitants of Ba-
hia ; their carrying in Hammocks :
their Artificers, Crane for Goods,
and Negro- Slaves. Of the
Country about Bahia , its Soil and
Produ. Its Timber-trees ; the
Sapiera, Vermiatico, Comeflerie,
Guitteba, Serrie, and Mangroves,
The Baftard-Coco, its Nuts and
Cables ; and the Silk-Cotton-trees.
The Brafilian Fruits, Oranges, &c.
Of the Sour-fops, Cathew’s, and
Jennipah’s. Of their peculiar
Fruits, Arifah’s, Mericafah’s,
Petango’s, Petumbo’s, Munga-
roo’s, Muckifhaw’s, Ingwa’s,
Otees, and Mufteran de Ova’s.
Of the Palm-berries, Phyfick-nuts,
Mendibee’s, ¢>c. and their Roots
and

—Galde

: The Contents. :
and Herbs, &c. Of their Wild —

Fowl, Maccaw’s , Parrots, &c.
The Yemma, Carrion-Crow and
Chattering-crow, Bill-bird, Curre/o,
Turtle-dove and Wild-pigeons ; the
Jenetee, Clocking-ben, Crab-catcher,

, and black Heron: The
Ducks , Wigeon and Teal; and
Oftriges to the Southward: and of
the Dunghil-fowls. Of their Cat-
tle, Horfes, &c. Leopards and
Tiger's, Of their Serpents ; the
Rattle-Snake , {mall Green-Snake,
Amphisbena, {mall Black and
small Grey-Snake ; the great Land,
and the.great Water-Snake : and of
the Water-dog. Of their Sea-filh
and Turtle; and of St. Paul’s
Lown, 7

ciple
ris,

- The Contents.
CH Ay oP cAIb

‘The A?s Stay and Bufinefs at Bahia :
| Of the Winds, and Seafons of the
Year there, Hts departure for N.
Holland. C. Salvadore. The
Winds on the Brafilian Coaft ; and

Abrohlo Shoal ; Fifh, and Bird. Tete

The Shear-water Bird, and Cook-
ing of Sharks. Exceffive number
of Birds about a dead Whale ; of /
the Pintado- Bird , and the Petrel,
&e. Of a Bird that fhews the C.
of G. Hope to be near: Of the
Sea-reckonings , and Variationis :
And a Table of ail the Variations
obfere’d in this Voyage. Occurren-
ces near the Cape; and the A.’s paf-
fing byit. Of the Wefterly Winds
beyond it: .A Storm, and its Pre-
fages. The A.’s Courfe to N. Hol-

Jand ; and Signs of approaching
it. Another Abrohlo Shole and

Storm, and the A,’s Arrival on

part of N. Holland. That part

be firft Anchors.

Contents.

defcrib’d ; and Shark’s Bay, where

Of the Land |

there, Vegetables, Birds, &c. A e

particular fort of Guano: Fih,

and beautiful Shells ; Turtle, large

Shark, and Water-Serpents. The
A.’s removing to another part of N.

= Holland: Dolpains, Whales, and
_. more Sea-Serpents : and of aPaf-

fage or Streight fn/petted here: —

Of the Vegetables, Birds , and
Fifh.

there, the great Tides, the Vegeta-
bles and Animals, &c:

He anchors on a third Part —
_ of N. Holland, and digs Wells,
but brackifh. Of the Inhabitants

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Plants found in New Holland & Timor.
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Plants Sound 4

Plate 1.

od Fi/h taken on the Coaft of Mw ZHeoliand |

A Flying Fafh taken:
ing open Sta ..

A Remora taken sticking to Sharks backs.

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Sass. MARY Revues ab.

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The Dolphin of the Antients taken near ¥ Lane, called by our seamen aPorpus.

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wd Dolphin as it 15 ufually called by our Sscamen, taken in the open eee ee

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| A Fifh of the Tunng Rindtahen ony Coaft of N. Holland

A Fafh called by the seamen the Old wife ;

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Bt Viaje to Terra Auttralis,
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Me try; and Oratavia ‘T. and Road,

- Of the Wines and other Commodities -
- of Teneriffe, &e. and the Governors .
at Laguna and Santa Cruz. Of the

2 Wad in peheft Seas, The A.’s Ar-
te B rival

* The Ae * departiire from the pas Aa
- Caution. to thofe who Saila in the Cheat a
La nel, His Arrival at’ the Canary Wei * 4s,
- Iflands.’ Santa Cruz ia Teneriffe; f
- the Road and Lown, and Spanifh Me,
ae | Wreck. Laguna 7 Lee and Couns)

Ee ee SENSE AO Beas oN RT

4 The A’.s Departure from England.

An.1699. yjyal at Mayo, one of the C. Verd
~~ Sanandss a “ea compar'd with
that of Salt-Tortuga ; its Trade for
Salt, and Frape-boats. Its Vegeta-

bles, Silk-Cotton, &c. Its Soil, and
Towns; its Guinea-Hen’s, and other

Fowls, Beafts, and Fifh. Of the Sea-

Turtles (&c.) laying in the Wet Sea-

fon. Of the Natives, their Trade

and Livelihood. ‘The A.’s Arrival at
F. St. Jago ; and St. Jago Town.

Of the Inhabitants, and their Commo-

dities. Of the Cuftard-Apple, and
thePapah. St. Jago Road. J. Fogo.

W Sail’d from the Dowas early on Saturdays
Fan. 14. 169%. witha fair Wind, in his
Majefty’s Ship the Roe-buck ; carrying but
12 Guns in this Voyage, and 50 Men and
Boys, with 20 Month’s Provifion. We had
feveral of the King’s Ships in Company,
bound for Spit-head and Plimouth ; and by
Noon we were of Dungene/s. We parted
from them that Night, and ftood down the
Channel, but found our Selves next Morning
nearer the French Coaft than we expected ;
C. de Hague bearing S. E. and by H. 6 L.
There were many other Ships, fome nearer,
fome further of the Fresch Coaft, who all
| feem’d

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on

joe

An Error noted. C. Finifterre. ~~ 2

feem’d to have gone nearer to it than they 4#1699° _

thought they fhould. My Mafter, who was a

- fomewhat troubled at it at firit, was not dif-

pleas’d however to find that he had Company
in his Miftake: Which, as I have heard, isa

- ‘very common one, and fatal to many Ships.

The Occafion of it is the not allowing forthe

_ Change of the Variation fince the making of

the Charts; which Captain Haley has obferv’d
to be very confiderable. I fhall refer the 4 4¢-
Reader to his own Account of it which he ?”/*

‘caus'd to be Publifh’d in’ a‘fingle Sheet of 7 7

— gnore Publick.

: ceffary to
Paper, purpofely for a Caution to fuch as soir

pafs to and fro the Exgli/b Channel: The Ti- in theNa-
tle of it isinthe Margin. And my own Ex- %77™

d
- perience thus confirming to me the Ufefulnefs f°",

of fuch a Catttion, I was willing to take this channel of
occafion of helping towards the making it the seg :
‘ : 0

b §
: ; S. Smith
Not to trouble the Reader with every 2, ao

Days Run, nor withthe Winds or Weather Prince’s

(but only in the remoter Parts, where it may 47” in

- be more particularly ufeful) flanding away
a

St. Pauls — |
. Church-
from C. da Hague, we made the Start about bine |

§ that Afternoon ; which being the laft Land Price 2 d.

we faw of England, wereckon’d our Depar-

ture from thence: Tho’ we had rather have
taken it from the Lizard, if the hazy Wea-
ther would have fuffer’d us to have feen
it.

The firft Land we faw after we were out
of the Channel was C. Finifterre, which we

made on the 1gth; and on the 28th made

B 2 Lan-

hae ae rte iia
Be te) Se a en eT
‘i

“An.1699>

J.Lancerota. J. Allegrance. J.Tener,
Laveerota, one of the Cazary Ilands ; of which,
and of Alegrance , another of them ,’ I have.
here given the Sights, as they bothappeared
to us. at two feveral Bearings'and Diftances.
f Fabled. NSen) ed] ahold 0 Pads tiM ge
We were now flanding away for the Ifland
Teneriffe, where Tintended to take in fome
Wineand Brandy for my Voyage. On Saz-
day, halfan hour paft:2 in the Afternoon, we
made the Ifland, and crouded in with all our
Sails tilh 5 ; whenthe N. E. Pointof ‘the Iile

bore W.S. W. sdift. 7 Leagues : But being

theh fo far off that I could not expect. to get

. in before Night, Ilay by till next Morning,

deliberating whether fhould put in at Santa
Craz, or at Oratavia, the one onthe E. the
other onthe W. fide’ of the Tland ; which
lies moftly North and’ South ; and thefe are
the principal Ports on each Side.’ I chofe ©
Santa Cruz as the better Harbour (efpecially
at this time of the Year) and as beft furnifh’d

_~ with that fort of Wine which’) had occafion
~ to take in for my: Voyage : So'there I come

to an Anchor ‘fam. 30th, in 33\Fathom-wa- |
ter, black flimy Ground’; about: half.a Mile
from the Shore; from’ which diftance I took

the Sight of the Town. [Tablel. N°. 3-]

In this Road Ships mutt ride in 30, 40, or
50 Fathom-water, not above halfa mile from
the Shore at fartheft: And if there are many
Ships, they muft ride clofe one by another.
The Shore is generally high Land, and in
moft Places fteep to. This Road lies fo open

Santa Cruz Road} Lhand Wrecks, 5)
to the Baft, that Winds from that fide make a 421699). 7
great Swell,:iand very*bad going afhore ia “~Y~
Boats >:ThéyShips that ride-here are then of-
ten forced to put to Sea, and fometimes. to
cut or flip their Anchors, ‘not being able to
weighthem.. Thebeft.and fmootheft Land-
ing is in afmall fandy Cove, about a mile to
. the N, E..of the Road, where there is good
Water ,»,with: which Ships that lade here are |
fupply’d; and many times Ships that lade at.
Oratavia, whichis the chief Port for Trade,
fend their Boats hither for Water. That isa
worfe Port for Wefterly than this is for Eaft-
erly Winds; and then all Ships that are'there
_. put to Sea. Between this »Watering-place
and Santa Cras are two. little Forts; which
_ with ome Batteries {catter’d along the Coaft
commandthe Road... Sata Craz its felf is a-
{mall unwalled. Town, fronting the Sea,
guarded with two other Forts to fecure the
Road. »There-are about 200 Houfes in the
- Town, all, 2..Stories. high... frongly built
with Stone,)'and. covered with Pantile... It
hath two Gonvents and one Church, which,
are the beft Buildings’ in the Town. The .
Forts here could, not fecure the Spazi/b Galle- .
ons from Admiral Blake, tho’ they hall’d in
, -clofe under.the main Fort. Many of the In-,
habitants that are now living remember that.
Aion; in which the Ezxeli{b batter’d the
Town, and did it much Damage; and the
marks of the Shot {till remain in the Fort-
Walls.. The Wrecks of the Galleons that.
i «+ Beg were

ears Way from Santa Cruz to Laguna.
_ Anx699.were burnt here lie in 15 Fathom-water :
| “V™ And "tis faid that moft of the Plate lies there,
tho” fome of it was haftily carried afhore at
Blake’s coming in fight.
Soon after I had anchor’d I went afhore
here to the Governor of the Town, who re-
ceived me very kindly and invited me to
Dine with him the next day. TI return’don
board in the Evening, and went afhore again
with two of my Officers the next Morning ;
hoping to get up the Hill time enough to fee
Laguna, the principal Town, and to be back
again to Dine with the Governor of Sazta
Cruz; for 1 was toldthat Lagana was but? _
Mile off. The Road isall the way up a pret-
ty fteep Hill; yet not fo fteep but that Carts
go up and down laden. ‘There are Publick
Houfes fcattering by the way-fide, where we
got fome Wine. The Land on each fide
feemed to be but rocky and dry; yet in many
Places we faw Spots of green flourifhing —
Corn. At farther diftances there were fmall
Vineyards by the Sides of the Mountains, in-
termixt with abundance of wafte rocky Land,
unfit for Cultivation, which afforded only
Dildo-bufhes. It was about 7 or 8 in the
Morning when we fet out from Santa Cruz;
and it being fair clear Weather, the Sun fhone-
very bright and warmed-us fufficiently be-
fore we gotto the City Lagawa, which we
reached. about 10 a Clock, all fweaty and
tired, and were glad to refrefh our felves
with a little ‘Wine in a forry were hos :

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Laguna T. and Gardens.

But we foon found out one of the Exglifb Ani1699.
Merchants that refided here; who enter-' ,
tain’d us handfomly at Dinner, and inthe —
Afternoon fhew’d us the Town.

Laguna is a pretty large well-compacted
Town, and makes a very agreeable Profpett.
It ftands part of it againft a Hill, and part
ina Level. The Houfes have moftly ftrong
Walls built with Stone and covered with
Pantile. They are not uniform, yet they
appear pleafant enough. ‘There are many
fair Buildings; among which are 2 Parifh-.
Churches, 2 Nunneries, an Hofpital, 4 Con-
vents, and fome Chapels ; befides many.
Gentlemen’s Houfes. The Convents are
thofe of St, Aujtin, St. Dominick, St. Francis,
and St. Diego. ‘The two Churches have pret-
ty high {quare Steeples, which top the reit of
the Buildings. The Streets are not Regular,
yet they are moftly fpacious and pretty hand-
fome ; and near the middle of the Town is
a large Parade, which has good Buildings
about it. There is a ftrong Prifon on one
fide of it; near whichis a large Conduit of
good Water, that fupplies all the Town.
They have many Gardens which are fet round
with Oranges, Limes, and other Fruits: In
the middle of which are Pot-herbs, Sallading,
Flowers, ec. And, indeed, if the Inhabi-
tants were-curious this way, they might
have very pleafant Gardens: For as the ©
Town ftands high from the Sea, onthe Brow
of a Plain that is all open to the Haft, and =~
| eee hath

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- An1699-hath confequently the Benefit of. the true.

Laguna Plain, Lake, &c.

Y™' Trade-wind, which blows here, and is moft
commonly fair; fo there are feldom wanting,
at this Town, brisk, cooling, and refrefhing
Breezes allthe Day. - a: we a

* ~On'the back of the Town there is a large

Plain of 3 or 4 Leagues in length and 2 Miles

wide, producing a thick kindly fort of Grafs,

which look’d green and very pleafant, when I

was there, like our Meadows in Exgland in

the Spring. On the Eaft-fide of this Plain,

very ‘near the, back of the Town,, there is a

natural Lake or Pond of frefh Water. It is

about half a, Mile in circumference; but be-
ing flagnant, "tis only us’d for Cattle to drink
of. Inthe Winter-time feveral forts.of wild
Fow! refort hither, affording plenty.of Game
to the Inhabitants of Laguna. This City is
called Laguna from hence; for that Word in |

Spanilb fignifies a Lake or Pond. Ihe Plain
is bounded on the W. the N. W. and the
S. W. with high fteep Hills ; as high above
this Plain. as this is above the Sea; and ’tis .
from the foot of one of thefe Mountains that .
the Water of the Conduit which fupplies the
Town, is conveyed over the Plain, in
Troughs of Stone rais’d upon Pillars, And,
indeed, confidering the Situation of the Town,
its large Profpect tothe Haft (for from hence
you fee the Grand Canary) its Gardens, cool
Arbors, pleafant Plain, green Fields, the
Pond and Aqueduct, and its refrefhing ~
_., Breezes, it is’a very delightful Dwelling; _
. , efpe-

Soames

Pike of Ten, Wines..Oratavia. 899),

| efpecially for fuch as . have not, Bufinefs that 42. 1699-

adjacent Mountains to us, that it looked in-
_ confiderable in re{fpeCt to itsFame. 9

The true Malmefy Wine grows in this

' IMand; and this here is faid to be the beit of

its kind in the World. Here is alfo Cavary-

Wine, and Verdona, or Green-wine.. The '

Canary grows chiefly on the Weit-fide of the |
Ifland ; and therefore is commonly {ent to
Oratavia ; which being the chief Sea-port for
Trade in the Hland, the principal,Ezedifh
Merchants refide there, with their Conful ;
-becaufe we have agreat Trade for this Wine.
1 was-told, That) that Town is bigger than
Laguna, that it has but one Church, but ma-
ny Convents: ‘That the Portis but ordinary
at belt, and is very bad when the N. W.
Winds blow. Thefe Norwefters give no-
| | tice

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Pe ee SS SM ea Pe ae ce OPT tee Nee REE oe NEE NS eT eee ee
~ Ces

Verdona-wine, Fruits, XC.
tice of their coming, by a great Sea that
tumbles in on the Shore for fome time
before they come, and by a black Sky in the
N.W. Uponthefe Signs Ships either get up
their Anchors, or flip their Cables and put to
Sea, and ply off and on till the Weather is
over. Sometimes they are forced todo fo 2
or 3 times before they can take in their Lad-
ing ; which’tis hard to do here in the faireft
Weather: And for frefh Water, they fend,
as I have faid, to Savta Cruz. Verdona is
green, ftrong-bodied Wine, harfher and
Sharper than Cazary. *Tis not fo much e-
fteemed in Earope, but is exported to the We/f-
Indies, and will keep beft in hot Countries ;
for which Reafon f touch’d here to take in
fome of it for my Voyage. This fort of Wine
is made chiefly on the Haft-fide of the Ifland,
and Shipt off at Santa Cruz. a oe
_ Befides thefe Wines, which are yearly
vended in great plenty from the Cazary Iflands
(chiefly from Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and
Palma) here isftore of Grain, as Wheat, Bar-
ly and Maiz, which they often tranfport to
other places. They have alfo fome Beans and

_ Peas, and Coches, a fort of Grain much like

Maiz, fow’d moftly. to fatten Land. They

have Papah’s, which I fhall {peak more of

hereafter ; Apples, Pears, Plumbs, Cherries,
and excellent Peaches, Apricocks, Guava’s,
Pomegranates, Citrons, Oranges, Lemons ,
Limes, Pumpkins, Onions the beft in the
World , Cabbages, ‘Turnips, Potato’s, oe.

They

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Animals and Trade of the Canarie’s, tt
They are alfo well ftocked with Horfes , 4n.1699
Cows, Afles, Mules, Sheep, Goats, Hogs,\“V©
Conies, and plenty of Deer. The Lazcerot
Horfes are faid to be the moft mettlefome, .
fleet, and loyal Horfes that are. Laftly, here .
are many Fowls, asCocksand Hens, Ducks, - |.
Pidgeons, Patridges, Gc. with plenty of Fifh;
as Mackril, ec. All the Canary Ilands have

_ of thefe Commodities and Provifions more or

Tefs: Butas Lancerota is moft fam’d for Hor~
fes, and Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma
for Wines, Texeriffe efpecially for the beft
Malmefy, (for which reafon thefe 3 Iflands
have the chief Trade). fo is Forteventura for
Dunghil-Fowls , and Gomera for Deer.
Fowls and other Eatables are dear on the
Trading Iflands; but very plentifuland cheap
on the other ; and therefore ’tis beft for fuch
Ships as are going out on long Voyages, and
who defign to take in but little Wine, to
touch rather at thefe laft; where alfo they
may be fupply’d with Wine enough, and —
good cheap: And for my own part, if I had
known it before I came hither, I fhould have
gone rather to. one of thofe Iflands than to
Teneriffe: But enough of this.

’Tis reported they can faife 12000 armed
Men on this Hland. The Governor or Gewe-
ral (as he is call’d) of all the Cazary Iflands
lives at Laguna: His Name is Don Pedro de
Ponto. He is a Native of this Iland, and
was not long fince Prefident of Pazama in the
South Seas ; who bringing fome very rich
: a | oe Pearls

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i

Governors Isaguna’and Santa Cruz.

ee 1699: Pearls from thence, ‘which he prefented tothe

Queen of Spaia, was therefore, as ’tisfaid,’
made General of the Canary: Iflands. . oThe>
Grand Canary is:an land much fuperior ‘to!
Tenerife both in Bulk and Value ;’ but this?
Gentleman chufes:rather to:refide in this ‘hiss
native Ifland.'; He hasthe Chara€ter ofa ve-)
ry worthy Perfon; and governs with’'Mode«:
ration and» Juttice , benig? said well ‘bes
loved. ifs Ae

“One of ‘his\: Deputies was ‘the: Ghree: of
Sixt Craz,' with whom I) was to ‘have
Din’d; but faying fo long at Lazuna, I came
but time enough’to Sup with him. ©He:is:a’
civil, difcreet'Man. He-refides in the’ main.

Fort clofe by the:Sea. There is a Centinel’

ftands at his Door; andihe hhasia few 'Ser-
vants to wait-on hime I was ‘Treated inia>

large dark Lower Room,) which has but. one

{mall Window. | There wereiabout 200.Muf-
kets: hung:up againft the Walls, and fome:
Pikes; no Wainfcot, erie iormuch:
Furniture. There was only afmall old Table;,
afew old Chairs, and 2 or 2 pretty long
Forms to fit on-.’ “Having Supp’d: with him;
Linvited him oa Board, and went off in my.
Boat. The inext Morning he came aboard

with another Gentleman. im his Company;

attended by’ 2 Servants: But hewas.prefent-:
ly Sea-fick,;. and fo much out of order that:
he could fearce’ Bat or Drink any Thing, — :
went quickly y'afhore again. 7

Having

ken dn what we “had occafion for, I SaiPd au
‘way from Santa Cruz on Feb. 4. inthe After:
noon ;“haftening out all I could, -becaufe the
Nv EsWinds growing ftormy made fo great
Sea; that the Ship was {carce‘fafein the Road;
and ul was glad to get out, tho’ weleft behind
feveral Goods we had bought’ and’paid for:
For‘a Boat could not go afhore and the ftrefs
was'fo'great in weighing Anchor, ‘ that the
Cable broke.’ I'defign’d next: for the I. of
Mayo, one of the C, Verd lands; and ran

‘Having refrefl?d'my Men afhore, and tal 4n1699:

away witha ftrong N. E. Wind, right afore

— atyvall chat Nightand the next Day, at the
rate of: 10 or 1% Miles an hours; when it
flacken’d to a more moderate Gale. © The Ca-
zary Mlands are,* for’ their Latitude; within
the ufual Verge’ of: the True or. General
Trade-W ind:;?' which I have obferv’d to be)
on'this: fide the Equator, N. Hafterly: Bue
then lying not- fat from: the African’ Shore;
they ‘are moft fubject to a N: Wind, which
is the Coafting! and conflant Trade, {weeping
that Coaft down as low as'to C. Verd; which
{preading in breadth, takes in moftly the cz-
wary Mlands ; tho”it ‘be there interrupted fre-
quently with the True Trade-Wind , N:
_ Weft-Winds, or other Shifts of Wind that
Iflands are Subje&t to ; efpecially where they
. lie many together.."\The Pzke’ of Teneriffe,
which had generally: been Clouded while we
lay'at Santa Cruz, appear’d now all white
with Snow , hovering over the other sa

Tradé-Wind. Pike of Tén.

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| on’ Mayo, one of the C. Verd’s.

| ‘4n.1699-but their heighth made it feem the lefs confi--
| “v™~ derable; for it looks moft remarkable to Ships

that are to the Weftward of it. We had
brisk N. N. E. and N. E. Winds from Tene-
rife, and faw Flying-fifh, and a great deal
of Sea-thiftle Weed floating. Bythe gth of
Feb. at Noon we were in the Lat. of 15d.
4m. fo we fleered away W.N. W. forthe
I. of Mayo, being by Judgment, not far to
the E. of it, and at 8 a Clock in the Evening ~
lay by till Day. The Wind was then at W.
by S. and fo it continued all Night, fair
Weather, and a fmall eafie Gale. All thefe
were great Signs, that we were near fome
Land, after having had fuch conftant brisk.
Winds before. In the Morning after Sun-
rife, we faw the Ifland at about 4 Leagues
diftance: But it was fo hazy over it, that we
could fee but a {mall part of it ; yet even by
that part_I knew it to be the Ifle of Mazo.
See how it appear’d to us at feveral Views, as
we were compaffing theE. the S. E. andthe S. |
of it, to get to the Road, on the S. W. ofit,
_ [Table If. N°. 1, 2, 3.] and the Road it felf
IN®. 4] are
I got not in till the next Day, Feb. 11.
when I come to an Anchor in the Road,
which is the Lee-ward part of the Ifland ;
for ’tis a general Rule never to Anchor to
Wind-ward of an Ifland between the Tro-
picks. We Anchored at 11 a Clock in 14
Fathom clean Sand, and very fmooth Wa-
ter, about three quarters of a Mile from the
Shore,

OM SN ae

Coafts of J. Mayo. [a rs oa |

Shore, in the fame Place where I Anchor’d 40.1699:
in my Voyage round the World; and found rid- |
ing here the Newport of London, a Merchant

_ Man, Captain Barefoot Commander , who
welcomed me with 3 Guns, and I returned
one for Thanks. He came from Fayal, one of
the Weffern Iflands; and had ftore of Wine
and Brandy aboard. He was taking in Salt
to carry to ew-found-Land, and was very glad
to fee one of the King’s Ships, being before
our coming afraidof Pyrates ; which, of late

_ Years, had much infeited this and the reft of
the Cape Verd Iflands. >

Ihave givenfome Account ofthe Ifland of

Mayo, and of other of thefe Iflands, in my
Voyage round the World, (Vol.1. p. 70.] but

I fhall now add fome further Obfervations

_ that occurr’d to mein this Voyage. Thel.
of Mayo is about 7 Leagues in Circumference,
of a roundifh Form, with many fmall rocky
Points {hooting out into the Sea a Mile, or
more. Its Lat. is 15 d. N. and as you Sail
about the Ifle, when you come pretty nigh
the Shore, you will fee the’ Water breaking

off from thofe Points ; which you mutt give
a Birth to, and avoid them. I Sail’dat this
time two parts in three round the [fland, but

_ faw nothing dangerous befides thefe Points ;
and they all fhew’d themfelves by the Break-

‘Ing of the Water: Yet ’tis reported, That
onthe N. and N. N. W. fide there are dan-
gerous Sholes, that ly farther off at Sea ; but
I was not on that Side. There are 2 Hills

: On

\
~

“Sepia f ; Mayo.
ee 1699°6 ‘on this: Iflind:.of-a confiderable heighth 3 one
ev pretty bluff, the other peeked at top. The
reit of the Hland i is pretty level, and ofa good
heighth from: the Sea. ~The’ Shore. clear
yound hath'fandy Bays, between the Rocky
Points I fpake.of; and the whole ete isa
very. dry fort of. Boil lias ¢2b:

On ‘the: Weft-fide. of the Ifle pee the
Road for Ships is there is alarge Sandy Bay,
and a Sand-bank, of about 40 Paces wide’
within it, which runs along the Shorei2 or 3
Miles ;, within which there is a large Salzwa
or Salt-pond, contained. between the Sand-
bank and the Hills beyond it.» The whole
Salina is about 2 Miles inlength, and half a
Mile wide; but above one half of it is com-
monly.dry, The Northendionly of the Pond
never wants Water, producing Salt from No-
vember till May, which is here the a Seafon of
the Year... The. Water which yields this Salt
works in from out of the Sea through a ‘hole:
in the Sand-bank before mentioned, like a’
Sluce, and that only in Spring- tides ; when
it fills the Pexd mtore or lefs, according to the
heighth of the Tides. If there is any Sale’
in the Ponds when the Flufhiof Water comes’
in, it prefently diffolves: But then in twoor

three Days. after it begins to Kern’; and‘fo

contisiues Kerning till either all, or the ereat-

elt part of the Salt-water is congeal’d or

kern’d; or till a frefh Supply of it comes in

again from the Sea.. ‘This Water is ‘known

tocome in only at that one Paflageon the N.-
part _

GSN SN OE ENE STN eee ge

Salt-kerning, and Trade. ay
part of the Pond; where alfo it is deepeft. 4n.1699-
Tt was at a Spring of the New Moon when “*
1 was there; and I was told that it comes
in at no other time but at the New Moon
Spring-tides : but why that fhould be I
can’t guefs, They who’come hither to | .
- lade Salt rake.it up as it Kerns, and lay-it i
in heaps onthe dry Land, before the Wa- |
ter breaks in anew: And this is obfervable
of this Salt-Pond, that the Salt kerns only
in the Dry Seafon, contrary to the Salt-
Ponds in the West-Indies, particularly thofe ©
of the Ifland Salt-Tortuga, which I have
formerly mentioned [Vol. I. p. 56.] for
they never Kern there till the Rains come
_-in about April; and continue to do fo in
May, Fane, Fuly, &c. while the Wet Sea-
fon lafts ; and not without fome good
Shower of Rain firft : But the Reafon al-
fo of this Difference between the Salt- =
Ponds of Mayo, and thofe of the Weé-
Indies, why thefe fhould Kern in the Wet
Seafon, and the former in the Dry Seafon,
I fhall leave to Philofophers. ’ Be te
_ Our Nation drive here a great Trade for
Salt, and have commonly a Man of War
here for the Guard of our Ships and Barks
that come to take it in; of which I have
' been inform’d that in fome Years there
have not been lefsthan 100 in a Year. It
cofts nothing but Men’s Labour to rake it
together, and wheel it out of the Pond,
3 ih except

18 — .Frape-boats defcribed.
‘An.1699. except the Carriage: And that alfo is very
cheap; the Inhabitants having plenty of
Affes, for which they have little to do be-
fides carrying the Salt from the Ponds to |
the Sea-tide at theSeafon when Ships are —
here. The Inhabitants lade and drive.
their Affes themfelves, being very glad to ©
be imploy’d; for they have fcarce any o-
ther. Trade but this to get a Penny by.
The Pond is not above half a Mile from —
_ the Landing-place, fo that the Affes make _
» a greatmany Tripsinaday. They have
| a fet numiber of Turns to and- fro —
both Forenoon and Afternoon, which
their Owners will not exceed. At the
Landing-place there lies a Frape-boat, as.
Our Seamen call it, totakeinthe Salt. °Tis _
made purpofely for this ufe, with a
Deck reaching from the Stern a third part
of the Boat; where there is a kind of
‘-Bulk-head that rifes, not from the Boats
bottom, but from the Edge of the Deck,
to about 2 foot in heighth; all calk’d very -
tight. The Ufe of it isto keep the Waves |
from dafhing into the Boat, when it lies
with its Head tothe Shore, to take in Salt: ©
For here commonly runs a great Sea ; and
when the Boat lies fo with its Head to
the Shore , the Sea breaks in over the
Stern, and would foon fill it, was it not
for this Bulk-head, which ftops the Waves
‘that come flowing upon the Deck,
. spe: and

ee ee ne

Frape-boats defcribed. 19
and makes them run off into the Sea on 42.1699:
each fide. To keep the Boat thus with the ~V~
Head to the Shore, and the Stern to the

Sea, there are two {trong Stantions fet up )

in the Boat;-the one at the Head, the o- |

ther in the middle of it; againft the Bulk- — )

head, and a Foot higher than the Bulk- a
head. There is a large Notch cut in
the top of each of thefe Stantions big
enough-for a {mall Hazer or Rope to lie
in; ofie end of which is faften’d to a Poft
afhore, and the other toa Grapling or An-
chor lying a pretty way off at Sea: This
_ Ropeferveth to haletheRoat in and out,and
_ the Stantions ferve to keep her faft, fo that
fhe cannot {wing to either fide when the
Rope is hal’d tight: For the Sea would
elfe fill her, or tofs her afhore and ftave
. her. The better to prevent her flaving
and to keep her the tighter together, there
aretwofets of Ropes more: The firft go-
ing athwart from Gunnal to Gunnal,
which, when the Rowers Benches are laid,
bind the Boats fides fo hard againft the
Ends of the Benches that they cannot eafily
fall afunder , while the Benches and Ropes
mutually help each other ; the Ropes
keeping the Boats fides from flying off, and
the Benches from being crufh’d together
inwards. Of thefe Ropes there are ufual-
ly but two, dividing the Boats length, as
they go acro{fs the Sides, into there equal
Care a Cae

Me PL Soe ee ee te ee ee) ree

‘ie Frape-boats bow manag’d.

4n.1699: parts. ‘Ehe other fet of Ropes are more |
in number, and are fo plac’d asto keep the
~ Ribsand Planks of the Boat from ftarting
off. For this purpofe there are holes made
at certain diftances through the Edge of
the Keel that runs along on. the infide of
the Boat ; through which thefe Ropes paf-
fing are laid along the Ribs, fo as to line
them, or be themfelves as Ribs upon them,
being made faft to them by Rattan’s
brought thither,or {mall Cordstwifted clofe
about both Ropes and’ Ribs, up to the
. Gunnal: By which means tho’ feveral of
the Nails or Pegs of the Boat fhould by
any fhock fallout, yet the Ropes of thefe
two fets might hold her together : Efpe-
~ cially with the help of a Rope going quite
round about the Gunnal on the out-fide, as
our. Long;boats have. And fuch is the
Care taken to ftrengthen the Boats; from
which girding them with Ropes, which
our .Seamen call Fraping, they have the
Name of Frape-boats. —Two-Men fuffice

to hale her in and out, and take in the |
Salt from Shore (which is brought in
Bags) and put it out again. As foon as
the Boat is brought nigh enough to the

Shore, he who ftands by the Bulk-head °
takes inftantly.a turn with the Hazer about
the Bulk-head-Stantion ; and that flopsher
faft before the Sea can turn her afide: And
when the two Men have got in their Lad-

ing,

eee ee as) eS ee ee) AMET ed

I. Mayo. Silk-Cotton.

ing, they hale off to Sea, till they comea 4n.1699-
little without the fwell; where they re.“ “~~

move the Salt into another Boat that car-
ries it on board the Ship. ‘Without fuch
a Frape-boat hereis but bad Landing at any
time; for tho” *tis commonly very fmooth
in the Road, yet there falls a great $ea on
the Shore, fo that every Ship that comes
here fhouldhave fuch a Boat, and bring,
_ ormake, or borrow one of other Ships
that happen to be here; for the Inhabi-
tants have none. I have been thus parti-
cular in the Defcription of thefe Frape-
boats, becaufe of the Ufe they may be of in

any Places wherea great Sea falls in upon
the Shore; as it doth efpecially in many
- open Roads in the East and W’est-Indies ;

-where they might therefore be very fer-
viceable; but I never faw any of them
there. ?

‘The Ifland Mayo is generally barren, be-
-ing dry, asIfaid; andthebeft of itis but |
a very indifferent Soil. The fandy Bank
that pens in the Salt-pond hath a fort of
Silk Cotton growing upon it, and a Plant
that runs along upon the Ground, branch-
- ing out like a Vine, but with thick broad
Leaves. The Silk-Cotton. grows on ten-
der Shrubs, 3 or 4 Foot high, in Cods as
big as an Apple, but ofalong fhape; which
when ripe open at one end, parting leifure-
ly into 4 quarters; and at the firft open-

| | C 3 ing

eet er Digs pb SS Se Ph ee ee a ee ee es eee ONL ee ee ee eS errs Ss ee

|
| . 22 | Silk andsother Cotton.
| 4n.1699.ing the Cotton breaks forth. It may be of
“Vv™ ufe for {tuffing of Pillows, or the like ;
| : but elfe is of no value, any more than that
of the great Cotton-tree. I took of thefe
| Cods before they were quite ripe, and laid
them in my Cheft; and in two or three
days they would open and throw out the
: Cotton. Others I have bound faft with
| ~ Strings, fo that the Cod could not open ;
andin a few Daysafter, as foon as I flack-
2 ned the String never fo little, the Cod
) ~~ would burft, and the Cotton fly out forcee
ably, ata very little hole, juft as the Pulp
out of a roafting Apple, till all has been
out of the Cod. I met with this fort of
Cotton afterwards at Timor (where it
was ripe in November ) and no where
elfe in all my Travels; but I found two o-
F ther forts of Silk-cotton at Brazal, which I
i fhall there defcribe. The right Cotton-
; Shrub grows here alfo, but not on the
: Sand-bank. Ifaw fome Bufhes of it near .
| - the Shore; but the moft of it is planted
in the middle of the Ifle, where the Inhabi-
tants live, Cotton-cloth being their. chief
Manufacture ; but neither is there any
great ftore of thisCotton. There alfoare
{ome Trees within the I{land, but none to
'. be feen near the Sea-fide; nothing but a
few Bufhes {cattering up and down againft
‘ the fides of the adjacent Hills; for, as I
4 faid before, the Land is pretty high ine :
MeN Orn Gao ea Nae Sar the

| og Rape cou i aie mas isa es te sl” ll fe Nias 0 ¥ Ne
me # 5

Soil of I. Mayo, Towns, &c.' 93
the Sea. The Soil is for the moft part 4m1659.
either a fort of Sand, or loofe crumbling “VY
Stone, without any frefh Water Ponds or
Streams, to moiften it ; but only Showers
in the Wet-feafon, which run off as faft as
they fall: except a {mall Spring in the
middle of the Ifle, from which proceeds a
— little Stream of Water that runs through -
a Valley between the Hills. There the
Inhabitants live in three {mall Towns, hav- °
ing a Church and Padre in each Town:
And thefe Towns, as I was inform’d, are
~ 60r7 miles fromthe Road. Pino/e is faid
to be the chief Town, and to havetwo
_ Churches: St. Johus the next; and the
third Lagos. The Houfesarevery mean ;
{mall , low Things. They build with
Fig-tree; here being, as 1 was told, no
other Trees fit to build with. The Raf-
ters are a fort of wild Cane. The Fruits
of this Ifle are chiefly Figs, and Water-
Melons. They have alfo Calavances (a
fort of Pulfe like Frexch Beans) and Pump-
kins, for ordinary Food. The Fowlsare
Flamingo’s, Great Curlews, and Guwinea- He
_ Hens; which the Natives of thofe Iflands
call Galena Pintada, or the Painted Hen; .
but in famaica, where I have {een alfo thofe-
Birds in the dry Savannah’s and Woods, .
(for they love to run about in fuch Places)
they are call’d Guinea-Hens. They feem
to be much of the Nature of Partridges,
(on! cs he

FMP. Oe CO et ed OR tS aes? ner CLT) Rey eth te Fem ee — pa a ct See es 2

94 Guinea-Hens defcribed.
4n.1699- They are bigger than our Hens, have
| long Legs, and willrun apace. They can ’
h . fly too, but not far, having large heavy
& . Bodies, and but-fhort Wings, and fhort .
| Tails: As I have generally obferv’d that
) Birds have feldom long Tails unlefs fuch as
i fly much ; in which their Tails are ufual-
« ly ferviceable to their turning about, as a
e ~ Rudder to a Ship or Boat. Thefe Birds
I have thick and ftrong, yet fharp Bills,
. pretty long Claws, and fhort Tails. They
| feed on the Ground, either on Worms,
| -which they find by tearing open the
| * Earth ; or on Grafhoppers, which are
) plentiful here. ..The Feathers of thefe
Birds are fpeckled with dark and light
. Gray ; the Spots fo regular and uniform,
that they look more beautiful than many
Birds that are deck’d with gayer Feathers.
Their Necks are fmall and long; their
Heads alfo but little. The Cocks have a
{mall rifing on their Crowns, like a fort of
' .aComb. Tis of the colour of a dry Wall
Nut-fhell, and very hard. They have a
{mall red Gill on each fide of their Heads, ~
like Ears, ftrutting out downwards; but
the Hens have none. They are fo {trong »
that one cannot hold them; and very ~
| hardy. They are’ very good Meat, ten- —
a der, and {weet ; and in. fome the Flefh is
o.. extraordinary .white; tho’ fome others
| : have black Flefh: but both fortsare very
| | | ; cood.

ee pe a eee ee eee Se NE Cn Re oe a ee ee eee |. bag ee ae abe ieee —
me: Fee ’ . s ay
x

Birds and Beafts of 1. Mayo. a5
good. The Natives take them with Dogs, 41699.
running them down whenever they pleafe; “¥™ ©
for here are abundance of them. You
fhall fee 2 or 300 in a company. I had

- feveral brought aboard alive, where they °
throve very well; fome of them 160r 18 >
Months; when they began to pine. When
they are taken young they will become
tame like our Hens. The Flamingo’s I
have already defcrib’d at. large, [ Vol. I.
p- 79.) They have alfo many other fore.
of Fowls, viz. Pidgeons and Turtle-doves ;
Miniota’s, a fort of Land-fowlsas big as
Crows, ofa grey colour, and good Food ;
Crufias, another fort of grey -colour’d
Fow! almoft as big as a Crow, which are
only feen in the Night (probably-a fort of
Owls) and are faid to be good for con-
fumptive People, but eaten by none elfe.
Rabek’s, a fort of large grey eatable Fowls
_ with long Necks and Legs, not unlike
Herons ; and many kinds of fmall
Bitds. ,
Of Land-Animals, here are Goats , as
I faid formerly, and Affes good {ftore.
When I was here before they were
faid to have had a great many Bulls
and Cows: But the Pirates, who have
fince miferably infefted all thefe Iflands,
have much leffen’d the number of thofe ;
not having fpar’d the Inhabitants them-
felves: for at my:being there this time the
' Gover-

| 26 Fifh, and laying of Turtle.
_ 4.1699: Governor of Mayo was but newly return’d
“V™ from being a Prifoner among them, they
having taken him away, and carried him
_ about with them fora Year or two.
The Sea is plentifully ftock’d with Fifth’
of divers forts, viz. Dolphins, Boneta’s,
Mullets, Snappers, Silver-fifh, Garfifh,
@c. and here is a good Bay to halea Sain
or Net in. I hal’d mine feveral times,
and to good purpofe ; dragging afhore at
one time 6 dozen of great Fifh, moft of
them large Mullets of. a foot and a half
or two foot long. Here are alfo Porpofes,
and a {mall fort of Whales, that common-
ly vifit this Road every day. I have al-
ready faid, [Vol. I. p. 75.] That the
2 Months of May, June, July and August,
a _. (that is, the Wet Seafon) are the time,
| when the Green Turtle come hither, and
go afhore to lay their Eggs. I look upon
it as a thing worth taking Notice of, that
: the Turtle fhould- always, both in North
H and South Latitude, lay their Eggs in the
2 , Wet Months. It might be thought, con-
fidering what great Rains there are then-
in {ome places where thefe Creatures lay, ©
that their Eggs fhould be {poiled by them.
But the Rain, tho’ violent, is foon foaked
up by the Sand,wherein the Eggs are buri-
ed ; and perhaps finks not fo deep into it as
the Eggs arelaid : And keeping down the
‘Heat may make the Sand hotter below
| : than

The Natives of 1. Mayo. Ls
than it was before, like a Hot-bed. What-.n.16992
ever the Reafon may be why Providence“ww
determines thefe-Creatures to this Seafon
of laying their Eggs, rather than the Dry,
in Fact it is fo, as 1 have conftantly ob-.
ferv’d ; and that not only with the Sea-
Turtle, but with all other forts of Amphi-

-bious Animals that lay Eggs; as Crocos
dils, Alligator’s, Guano’s, oc. The In- | -
habitants of this Ifland, even their Gover= | )

_ nour and Padre’s, are all Negro’s, Wool-
pated like their Africaz-Neighbours; from
whom ’tis like they are defcended ; tho? |
being SubjeCts to the Portugue/e they have 3 a
their Religion and Language. They are |
ftout, lufty, well-limb’d People, both Men
and Women, fat and flefhy ; and they |
and their Children as round and plump |
as little Porpofes; tho’ the Ifland appears )
_ fo barren to a Stranger as fcarce to have |
Food for its Inhabitants. I inquired how
many People there might be on the Ifle ;
And was told by one of the Padre’s, that
here were 230 Souls inall. The Negro-
Governor has his Patent from the Porta-
guefe Governor of St. fago. He is a very
civiland fenfible poor Man; and they are |
generally a good fort of People. He ex- |
pects a fmall Prefent from every Com-
mander that lades Salt here; and is glad to
be invited aboard their Ships. He fpends
moft of his time with the Ezg/i/b in the ,
NE ae : Salting 7

a 5 8 Employments of the Natives.
4n.1699. Salting Seafon, which is his Harveft ; and
‘“V™ indeed, all the Iflanders are then fully em-
ployed in getting fomewhat; for they
have no Veflels of their own to Trade
with, nor do any Portuzuefe-Veflels come .
hither: fearce any but Exelifb, on whom
they depend for Trade; and tho’ Subje€ts
of Portugal, havea particular Value for us.
We don’t pay them for their Salt, but for
the Labour of themfelves and their Beafts
“in lading it: for which we give them Vi-
€tuals, fome Mony, and old Cloaths, viz.
. Hats, Shirts, and other Cloaths: by which
‘Zz means many of them are indifferently well
Po rige’d; but fome of them go almoft Naked.
ae When the Turtle-feafon comes in they
watch the Sandy-bays in the Night, to
turn them; and having {mall Huts at pare |
ticular Places on the Bays to keep them
from the Rain, and to fleep in: And this
isanother Harveft they have for Food; for
by Report there come a great many Tur-
tle to this and the reft of the Cape Verd
Iflands, When the Turtle Seafon is over
they’ have little to do but to hunt for’
Guinea-Hens, and manage their {mall Plan-
tations. But by thefe means they have all
: the Year fome Employment or. other ;
whereby they ‘get a Subfiftence, tho’ but
" - ' . little elfe. When any of them are defirous
4 to go over to St. Fago they get a Licence’
from the Governor, and defire paflagein

BS any

a si Ga 0 ee

Affes. V.St. Jago. Praya. 29
any Engljb Ship that is going thither : 4#.1699-

_ And indeed all Ships that lade Salt here “VY
will be obliged to touch at St. Fago for
Water, for here at the Bay is none, not
fo much as for Drinking. ’Tis true there
isa{mall Well of brackifh Water not half
amile from the Landing-place, which the
Affes that carry Salt drink at ; but ’tis very
bad Water. Afles themfelves are a Com-

‘modity in fome of thefe Iflands, feveral of
ourShips coming hither purpofely to freight
with them, and carry them to Barbadoes
and our other Plantations. I ftay’d at
Mayo 6 days, and got 7 or 8 Tun of Salt
aboard for my Voyage: In which time
there came alfo into this Road feveral Sail
of Merchants Ships for Salt; all bound
with it for Newfoundland. Ae
The 19th day of February, at about One
a Clock in the Morning I weighedfrom
Mayo-Road, in order to Water at St.fago, |

_which was about 5 or 6 Leagues to the |
Weftward. We coafted along the Ifland |
St. Fago, and paft by the Port on the Eaft
of it, 1 mention’d formerly [Vol.I. p.76.]
which they call Praya; where fome Eng- ,
lifh outward-bound East-India Men till | |

_ touch, but not fo many of them as hereto-

fore. We faw the Fort upon the Hill, the
Houfes and Coco-nut Trees: But I would
not go in to anchor here, becaufe I expe-
ted better Water on the S. W..of the

Ifland,

- ig ee eee hae ee oe ey Tt ST ety s = = Re Py A ee ee. eee
NE ah J . i a ARETE ,
ae Bi t

go © The A. arréves at St. Jago T.
“4n.7659-Uland, at St. ago Town, By 8 a Clock
w~r~ in the Morning we faw the Ships in that
_ Road, being within 3 Leagues of it: But
were fore’dto keep Turning many hours
to get in, the Flaws of Wind coming fo
‘uncertain; asthey do efpecially to the Lee-
ward of Mflands that are High Land. At
length two Portuguese boats came off to
help tow us in; and about 3 a Clock in
‘the Afternoon we came to an Anchor ;
and took the Profpe&t of the Town,
[Table I]. N°. 5.) We found here, be-
fides two Portuguefe-Ships. bound ‘for
Brazil, whofe Boats had tow’d us in;
an Englfb Pink that had taken > in
Affes at one of the Cape Verd IMflands,
and was bound to Barbadoes with them.
Next Morning I. went Afhore with my |
Officers to the Governor, who treated us -
with Sweet-meats : I told him, the occa-
fion of my coming was chiefly for Water ;
and that Idefired alfo totake in fome Re-
frefhments of Fowls, cc. He faid I was
welcom, and that he would order the
Townfmen to bring their Commodities to
j acettain Houfe, where I might purchafe
i} | what I had occafion for : I told him I had
- not Mony, but would exchange fome of
| ~ the Sale which I brought from Mayo for
| their Commodities. He reply’d, that Sale
| was indeed an acceptable Commodity with
the poor People, but that if 1 defign’d to
. buy

my ie te 8 a. Soi a eae ena! <p eb toe oy bY ok OA

St. Jago T. defcribed. Bi
\ buy any Cattle, I muft give Mony for 4n.1699.
them. Icontented my felf with taking in “~V™ >
Dunghil Fowls: The Governor ordering
a Cryer to goabout the Town and give ;
noticetothe People,that they might repair == :
to fuch a place with Fowls, and Maiz for ==
feeding them, where they might get Salt in
exchange for them : So Ifent on board for
Salt, and ordered fome of my Men totruck
the fame for the Fowls and Maiz, while
the reft of them were bufie in filling of Wa-
ter. Thisisthe effect of their keeping no
Boats of their own on the feveral Iflands,
that they are glad to buy even their own
- Salt of Foreigners, for want of being able
to tranfport it themfelves from Ifland to
Ifland. :
St. Fago Town lies on the S. W. part of
the Ifland, in Lat. about 15 Deg. N.
and is the Seat of the General Governour,
and of the Bifhop of all the Cape Verd = -
Iflands. This Town ftands fcattering a-
eainft the fides of two Mountains, be-
tween which there isa deep Valley, which
is about 200 Yards wide againft the Sea;
but within a quarter of a mile it clofes up
fo as not to be 40 Yards wide. Inthe
Valley, by the Sea, there is a ftragling
Street, Houfes on each fide, and a Run of
Water in the bottom, which empties it
felf into a fine: {mall Cove or fandy Bay,
where the Sea is commonly vey floors
Q

22 _ _ Natives of St. Jago.
‘4n.1699.f0 that here is good Wat’ring and good
“V™~ Landing at any time; tho’ the Road be

rocky and bad for Ships. Juft by the ~
Landing-place there is a {mall Fort, almoft
level with the Sea, where is always a
Court of Guard kept. Onthe top of the
Hill, above the Town, there is another
Fort; which, by the Wall that is to be
feen from the Road, feems to be a large
Place. They have Canon mounted there,
but how many I know not: Neither what
ufe that Fort can be of, except it be for Sa-
lutes. ‘The Town may confit of 2 or 300
Houfes, all built of rough Stone; having
alfo one Conyent, and one Church.

‘The People in general are black, or at
leaft of a mixt colour, except only fome
few. of thebetter fort, vzz. the Governor,
the Bifhop, fome Gentlemen, and fome of

_ the Padres; for fome of thefe alfo are black.
The People about Prayaare Thievith; but
thefe of Sz. “fago- Town, living’ under their
Governour’s Eye , are more orderly ; tho’ .
generally poor, having little Trade: Yet
befides chance Ships of other Nations ,
there come hither a Portuguefe Ship or two |
every Year, in their way to Brazil. Thefe
| vend among them afew Earopean Com-
modies, and take of their principal Manu-
faétures, viz. {triped Cotton-cloth, which ~
they carry with them to Brazil. Here is
alfo another Ship comes hither from Por-
| tug al

—— hl SSS

Sugar. Wine. | Fruits.’ 23
tugal for Sugar, their other Manufa@ture, 4.16992
and returns with it’ dire€tly thither; For “~Y¥ ™
"tis reported that there are feveral {mall
Sugar-works on this Ifland, from which
_ they fend:'home near 100 Tun every year 3,
and they have plenty of Cotton growing
upinthe Country, wherewith they cloath
themfelves; and fend alfo a great deal to
Brazil. They have Vines, of which they
make fome Wine: but the Earopeaz Ships
furnifh them with better ; tho’ they drink
but little of any. Their chief Fruits are,
(befides Plantains in abundance) Oranges;
Lemons, Citrons, Melons, (both Musk
_ and Water-melons) Limes, Guava’s, Pom- _
- granates, Quinces, Cuftard-Apples, and
Papah’s, ce. Pere ia
The Cuftard-Apple (as wecall it) isa
Fruit as big as a Pomegranate, and much of
the fare colour. ‘The out-fide Husk,
Shell or Rind, is for fubftance and thick-
_nefs between the Shell. of a Pomegranate;'
and the Peel of a Sev#/-Orange ; lofter than
this, yet more brittle than that. The Coat
or Covering is alfo remarkable in that it is
befet round with {mall regular Knobs or
Rifings; and the infide of the Fruit is full of
a white foft Pulp, {weet and very pleafant, ;
and moft refembling a Cuftard of any .
thing , both in Colour and Taft: From
“whence probably it is called a Cuftard-
Apple by our Exglijh. 1t has inthe mid-
es D die

24 Cuftard-Apple. Papah.
‘An.1699.dle a few {mall black Stones or Kernels ;
UV™ but no Core, for ’tisall Pulp. The Tree

that bears this Fruit is about the bignefs of _
a Quince-tree, with long, {mall, and thick-
fet Branches fpread much abroad: At the
Extremity of here and there one of which
the Fruit grows upon a Stalk of its own
about g of 10 Inches long, flender and
tough, and hanging down with its own
weight. A large Tree of this fort does not ©
bear ufually above 200r 30 Apples ; fel-
dom more. This Fruit grows in moft _
Countries within the Tropicks. I have -
feen of them (tho’ I omitted the Defcri-
‘ption of them before) all over the West.
Indies, both Continent and Iflands ; as _al-
foin Brazil, and inthe East-Indies. .
The Papah too is found in all thefe |
Countries, though I have not hitherto de-
ferib’d it. It isa Fruit about the bignefs
ofa Musk-Melon, hollow as that is, and
much refembling it in Shape and Colour,
both outfide and infide: Only in the mid-
dle, inftead of flat Kernels, which the Me-
lonsshave, thefe have a-handful of {mall
blackifh Seeds, about the bignefs of Pep-
per-corns; whofe Tafte isalfo hot on the
Tongue fomewhat like Pepper. ‘The Fruit
it felf is fweet, foft and lufeious, when
ripe; but while green ’tis hard and un-
favory : tho’ even then being boiled and
eaten with Sale-pork or Beef, it ferves in-
: : ftead |

CS ee ee ee A en Se ee ee
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Papah. Beats of St. Jago. 38
ftead of Turnips, and is as much efteemed. 4n.1699;,
The Papah-Tree is about 10 or 12 Foct
high. ‘The Body near the Ground may
be a Foot and an half or 2 Foot Diameter ;
_ and it grows up tapering to thetop. It
has no Branches at all, but only large
Leaves growing immediately upon. Stalks
from the Body. The Leaves are of a
roundifh Form and jag’d about the Edges,
having their Stalks or Stumps longer or
fhorter as they grow near or further from
the top. They begin to {pring from out
of the Body of the Tree at about 6 or7
Foot heighth from the Ground, the Trunk
being bare below: but above that the
Leaves grow thicker and larger ftill to-
wards its Top, where they are clofe and
broad. The Fruit grows only among the
Leaves ; and thickeft among the thickeft
of them ; infomuch that towards the top
of the Tiree the Papsh’s {prings forth from
_ its Body as thick as they can ftick one by
another. But then lower down, where
the Leaves ate thinner, the Fruit is larger,
and of the fize I have defcrib’d: And at ~
the ‘Top, where they are thick, they are
but fmall, and no bigger than ordinary
Turnips ; yet tafted like the reft.
_ Their chief Land-Animals are their
‘Bullocks ; which are faid to be many 3_
tho’ they askt us 20 Dollars apiece tor
them: They have alfo Horfes, Affes, and
D 2 Mules

at se Nike cella eee te enna | 6p as De ER OE EO POL ONS NRE ERE NT ten ch NO RARE Pere Tne aN Ty Tee See ey ea
; $3 hs a

26 ~— Animals of St. Jago. Its Road.

4n.1699' Mules, Deer, Goats, Hogs, and black-

“V™ fac’d long-tai?d Monkeys. Of Fowls they
have Cocks and Hens, Ducks, Guinea-
Hens, both tame and wild, Parakites,
Parrots, Pidgeons, ‘Turtle-Doves, Herons,
Hawks, Crab-catchers, Galdens, (a larger
fort of Crab-catchers)Curlew’s, oc. Their
Fifh isthe fame as at Mayo and the reft
of thefe Iflands, and for the moft part thefe
Iflands have the fame Beafts and Birds alfo:
But fome of the Ifles have Pafturage and
Employment for fome particular Beafts
‘more than other; and the Birds are in- |
courag’d, by Woods for fhelter, and Maiz
and Fruits for Food, to flock rather to
fome of the Iflands (as to this of St. Fago) -
than to others. | |

St. ago Road is one of the worft that f
have been in. There isnot clean Ground
enough for above 3 Ships ; and thofe alfo _
muft lie very near eachother. Oneeven of |
thefe muft lie clofe to the Shore, witha
Land-faft there: And that is the beft for a
fmall Ship. I fhould not have come in
here if I had not been told that it was a -
) good fecure Place ; but I found it fo much
a - etherways, that I was in pain to be gone.

Captain Larefoot, whocame to an An-

chor while I was here, in foul Ground,

loft quickly 2 Anchors ; and I had oe a
aed mall

; fe 1 ‘woe / ee

fmall,one. The Ifland Fogo hews: its felfamiéog)
{rom this Road very plain, at about zor8 “VY, |
Leagues diftance ; and inthe Night we faw 7 eet,
the Flames of Fire iffuing from its Top. ©

D3 CHAP.

SA ET SS ee te eee Seer ayer oe Bid) o> 9 te tte haty en

ee : The Contents. :

CHAP. Th

The A.’s Deliberation on the Sequel of
his Voyage, and Departure from
St. Jago. His Courfe, and the —
Winds, &c. in crofing the Line. -
He ftands away for the Bay of All
Saints in Brazil; and why. . His
Arrival on that Coaft and in the
Bay. Of the feveral Forts, the
Road, Situation, Town, and Build- _
ings of Bahia. Of its Governor, —
Ships and Merchants ; and Com-
__ modities to and from Europe. Clay-
ing of Sugar. The Seafon for the
European Ships, and Coire Ca-
bles: Of ther Guinea-trade, and
of the Coafting-trade, and Whale-
killing. Of the Inhabitants of Ba-
hia ; their carrying in Hammocks :
their Artificers , Crane for Goods, —
and Negro - Slaves, — Of the
Country about Bahia, its Soil and
Product. Its Timber-trees ; the
€. fe ee eg CAEN @ ee ae Se a : /Sapi-.

iy )

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ve > - oS
. x

The Contents.

- Sapiera, Vermiatico, Comefserie, #71699

Guitteba, Serrie, aad Mangroves. ~

The Baftard-Coco , its Nuts and

Cables; and the Silk-Cotton-trees.

. The Brafilian Fruits, Oranges, &c.
Of the Sour-fops, Cafhew’s, and

Jennipah’s. Of their peculiar

Fruits, Arifah’s, Mericafah’s, —

Petango’s, Petumbo’s, Munga-
roo’s , Muckifhaw’s, Ingwa’s,
Otee’s , and Mufteran de ova’s.
Of the Palm-berries, Phyfick-nuts,
Mendibee’s, ¢5°c. and their Roots
and Herbs, &c. Of their Wild

Fowl, Maccaw’s, Parrots, &c.

The Yemma’, Carrion-Crow and
Chattering-crow, Bill-bird, Currefo,

Turtle-dove and Wild-pigeons ; the

Jenetee, Clocking-hen, Crab-catcher,
Galden , and black Heron: The
Ducks, Wigeon and Teal ; and

Offriges to the Southward : and of .

the Dunghil-fowls. Of their Cat-
tle, Horfes, &c. Leopards and
Tiger's. Of their Serpents; the

the Rattle-Snake, fmall Green-Snake,

D 4 Am-

The A. defigns for Brazil.

e369, Amphisbena, fmall Black and

fmall Grey-Snake; the great Land,
and the great Water-Snake : and of

_ the VWater-dog. Of their Sea-fi/h
and Turtle; and of St. Paul’s-
Lome), 1c WER |

_.¥ Aving difpatch’d my fmall Affairs at

the C. Verd-Iflands, I’ meditated on
the procefs of: my Voyage. I thought it
requifite to touch once more at a cultivated
Place in thefe Seas, where my Men might
be refrefh’d, and might have a’ Market
wherein to furnifh themfelves with Ne-
ceflaries:. For defigning that my next |

Stretch fhould be quite to N. Holland, ‘and

knowing that after fo long a Run nothing

_ was to be expected there but frefh Water,

if I could meet even with that there, I re-

-folved upon putting in firftat fome Port

of Brazil, andto provide my Self there
with whatever I might have further Oc- —
cafion for. Befide the refrefhing and fur-
nifhing my Men, 1 aim/’d alfo at the inuring
them gradually and by intervals to the Fa-
tigues that were to be expected in the re-

mainder of the Voyage, which was to be

ina part of the World they were altogether
Strangers to; none of them, except two
young Men, having ever crofst the Lize.

Laren * With

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int . ;

The A, departs from St. Jago. — 4t
_ With this Defign I fail’d from S+. Fago 4m.1699- |
onthe 22d of February, withthe Windsar @“™
-E.N.E. and N.E. fair Weather, anda
brisk Gale. We fteered away S. S. E. and
S. S. E.. half Eaft, till in the ‘Lat. of
7 deg. 50 min. we met with many Rip-
lings in the Sea like a Tide or ftrong Cur-
rent, which fetting againft the Wind ©
caus’d fuch a Ripling. We continu’d to
- meet thefe Currents from that Lat. till we
- came into the Lat. of 3 deg. 22 N. when
they ceafed. During this time we faw
fome Boneta’s, and Sharks; catching one of
thefe. We had the true General Trade-
Wind blowing frefh at N. E, till in: the
Lat. of 4 deg. 40 min. N. when the Wind
_ varied, and we had {mall Gales, with fome oo
Tornadoes. We werethen to the Haft of :
(St. Jago 4 deg. 54 min. when we got :
into Lat. 3 deg. 2 min. N. (where I faid
the Ripling ceas’d) and Long. to the
Eaft of St. Fago 5 deg. 2 min. we hadthe
Wind whiffling between the S. by E. and
E. by N. fmall Gales, frequent Calms, | a
very black Clouds, with much Rain. In |
the Lat. of 3 deg. 8 min. N. and Long. E.
from Sr; J 5 deg. § min. we had the
Wind from the S. S. E. totheN.N.E. .
faint, and often interrupted with Calms.
While we had Calms-we had the opportu- |
nity of trying the Current we had met
with hitherto, and found that ic fet N. ca |

————— a

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The A. craffes the Line.-

a _ 4n.1699.by E. halfa Knot, which is 12 mile in

24 hours: So that here it ran at the Rate
of half a milean hour, and had been much
ftronger before. ‘The Rains held us by
intervals till the Lat. of : deg. o min. N.
with {mall Gales of Wind between S.S. E. |
and S.E. by E. and fometimes calm: Af-
terwards we had the Wind between the
S. & S.S, E. till we crofst the Line, fmall
Winds, Calms, and pretty fair Weather. —
We faw but few Fifth befide Porpofes;
but of them a great many, and ftruck one
of them.

Tt was the 10th day of March, about the
time of the Eguisox, when we crofst the
Equator, having had all along from the ©
Lat. of 4deg. 40 min. N- wherethe True
Trade-Wind left us, a great {well out of
the S. E. and but fmall uncertain Gales,
moftly Southerly , fo that we crept to the
Southward but flowly. Ikept up againft
thefe as well as I could to the Southward,
and when we had now and thena flurry of
Witd at E. I ftill went away due South,
purpofely to get to the Southward as faft —
asi could; for while near the Line I expe-
éted to have but uncertain Winds, fre-.
quent Calms, Rains, Tornadoes, ¢c.
which would not only retard my Courfe,
but endanger Sicknefs alfo among my Men:

-efpecially thofe who were ill provided with —

Cloaths, or were too ‘lazy to fhift them-
qa felves

ee ee ee ee ee Pee ee ee eae ee See Se Nee phew). sth ee Se
Nong ul

Obfervations for crofing the Line. 43
* {elves when they were drench’d with the 4n1699
Rains; The Heat of the Weather made)
them carelefs of doing this; but taking a

Dram of Brandy,which Igave themwhen __ |
-wet, with a Charge to fhift themfelves, ,
they would however lie down’ in their a
Hammocks with their Wet Cloaths; fo.
that when they turn’d out they caus’d anill
{mell where-ever they came,and theirHam-
mocks would ftink fufficiently: that I-
think the Remedying of this is worth the
Care of Commanders that crofs the Lize;
efpecially when they are, it may be, a
Month or. more e’er they get out of the
Rains, at fome times of the Year, asin
Fune, fuly, or August.

_ What I have here faid about the Cur- |
rents, Winds, Calms, @c. in this Paffage
is chiefly for rhe farther Illuftration of what
I have heretofore obferv’d in general about |
thefe Matters, and efpecially as to Croffing -. a
the Line, in my Di/courfe of the Winds, &c.

in the Torrid Zone: |See Vol. If. Part 3.

p- 5,6.) Which Obfervations I have had

very much confirm’d to me in the Courfe |
of this Voyage ; and I fhall particularize POs
in feveral of the chief of them as they come

in my Way. And indeed I think I may

fay this of the Main of the Obfervationsin

that Treatife, that the clear’ Satisfaction I

had about them, and how much I might

rely upon them, was a great Rafe ce oy

BE ee erie : in

44 The A. defigns for Pernambuc:
42.1699. Mind during this Vexatious Voyage ;
“V™ wherein the Ignorance, and Obftinacy

ee ett SE Dee ee
7 tae
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—withal, of fome under me, occafion’d me
a great deal of Tronble: tho’ they found»

all along, and were often forc’d to acknow-
ledge it, that I was feldom out in my Con-
jeCtures, when I told them ufually before-
hand what Winds, @c. we fhould meet
with at fuch or fuch particular Places we
fhould come at. ; ’
Pernambuc was the Port that I defigned
for at my firft fetting out from St. Fago; it
being a Place moft proper for my purpofe,
by reafon of its Situation, lying near the

Extremity of C. St. Augu/ftine, the Eaftern- ;

moft Promontory of Brazil; by which

_Means it not only enjoys the greater bene-

fit of the Sea-breezes, and is confequently

more healthy than other Places to the |

Southward, but is withal lefs fubje&t to
the Southerly Coafting-Trade- winds, that
blow half the Year on this Shore; which
were now drawing on, and might be
troublefome to me: Sothat I might both
hope to reach fooneft Perzambuc, as moft

directly and neareft in my Run} and might’

thence alfo more eafily get away to the
Southward than from Bahia de Todos los
Santos, or Ria Faneira,

But notwithftanding thefe Advantages

T propos’d to my felf in going to Pernambuc,

Iwas foon put by that Defign through the

ré-

- And why be quitted that Difign. ge
refractorinefs of fome under me, “and 4% 1699.
the Difcontents and Backwardnefs. of “V™

fome. of my: Men. For the Calms

and Shiftings of Wind. which I met

with, as 1 was to expe , in croffing

the Line, made them, who were un-—

- acquainted with thefe Matters, almoft
heartlefs asto the perfuit of the Voyage,
as thinking we fhould never be able to
weather C. St. Augufline: And though
I told them that by that time ‘we

fhould: get to abour three Degrees

South of the Line, we fhould again

have a True brisk General Trade-Wind

from the North Haft, thae would carry
us to. what part of Brazil we. pleas’d,
yet they would not> believe it till they

found it fo. This, with fome other un- °
forefeen Accidents, not neceflary to be

-mention’d in this place, meeting with
the Averfion of my Men to a long

unknown Voyage, made me juftly ap-

prehenfive. of their Revolting, and
“was a great Trouble and Hindrance to
me. So that I was obliged partly to
-alreer my Meafures, and met with ma-
ny Difficulties, the Particulars of which
‘I fhalfl not trouble the Reader. with :
But I mention thus much of it in ge-
neral for my own neceflary Vindica-

, - 8i0n,

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oP:

46 He refolves for the B. of AllSaints. |
; (41699-tion, in my taking fuch Meafurés.fome- —
: times for profecuting the Voyage as the
ftate of my Ships Crew, rather than
my own Judgment and Experience, de-
termin’d me to. The Diforders of my.
, Ship made me think at prefent that
Pernambuc would not be fo fit a Place »
for me ; being told that Ships ride there
‘ - two or three Leagues from the Town,
a under the Command of no Forts; fo
i | that whenever I fhould have been a-
.. -fhore it might have been cafy for my
; difeontented Crew to have cut or flipt |
3 their Cables, and have gone away from
i ~ me: Many of them difcovering already
:

an Intention to return to England, and
fome of them ‘declaring openly that —
they would go ‘no further onwards than
Brazil. J alter’d my Courfe therefore,
and ftood away for Bahio de todos los
Santos, or the Bay of All Saints, where
I hop’d to have the Governor’s help, if —
need fhould require, for fecuring my Ship
from any fuch Mutinous Attempt; be- —
ft ing fore’d to keep my {elf all the way —
ee. upon my Guard, and to lie with my OF
x ficers, fuch as I could truaft, and with
i fmall Arms, upon the’ Quarter-deek ;
it fcarce being fafe for me to lié in my -
Gabbin, by Reafon of the Difconténts
among my Men.. Per :

: \ r f : On ES

Arrival at Brazil.

On the 23d of March we faw the Land 41.1699.
of Brazil; “having had thither, fromthe “VY

time when we came into the True Trade-
_ Wind again after croffing the Line, very

fair Weather and brisk Gales, moftly at BE. -

NLE. The Land we faw was about 20
Leagues tothe North of Bahia; {fo I coaft-

- ed along Shore to the Southward. This

_ Coaft is rather low than high, with Sandy-
_~ Bays all along by the Sea. ©

A little within Land are many very

_ white Spots of Sand, appearing like Snow;
and the Coaft looks very pleafant, being
_ checker’d with Woods and Savanahs. The
_ Trees in general are not tall; but they

are green and flourifhing. There are ma-

y ny {mall Houfes by the Sea-fide, whofe In-
_ habitants are chiefly Fifhermen. They

come off to Sea on Barklogs, made of feve-
_ ral Logs faften’d. fide to fide, that have
one or two Mafts with Sails to them.

- There are two Men in each Barklog, one

_ at either end, having {mall low Benches,

| fraifeda little above the Logs, to fit and
_ fifth on, and two Baskets hanging up at
_ the Maft or Mafts ; ‘one to put their Pro-
| vifionsin, the other for their Fifh. Many

_ of thefe were a Fifhing now, andtwoof

_ them came aboard , of whom I bought
fome Fifth. Inthe Afternoon we failed by
One very remarkable piece of Land, where,
| Ona fmall pleafant Hill, there was a
/ Church

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i 48. The A. anchor’d at Bahia de T.S.
Ht An.1699. Church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. See —
V™ a Sight of fome parts of thisCoaft [Table —

Ill. N°. 1, 2,35 45 5.] and of the Hill the
Church flandson [Table III. N°-1.9

I coafted along till the Evening, and
then brought to, and lay by till the next
| Morning. About 2 hours after we were
i brought to, there came a Sail outof the
Offin (from Seaward) and lay by about a

( Mile to Windward of us, and fo lay all .
i Night. In the Morning, upon fpeaking —
} with her, fhe proved to be a Puwrtuguefe

Ship bound to Bahia; therefore I fent my
: , Boat aboard and defired to have one of his
i: Mates to Pilot mein: He anfwer’d, That
he had not a Mate capable of it, but that
. he would fail in before me, and fhew me
' the way; and that if he went into the
Harbour in the Night, he would hang out
i a Light for me. He faid we had not far
"1 ! in and might reach it before Night witha
tolerable Gale; but that with fo {mall an
one as now we had wecould not doit: So
we jog’d on till Night, and then he ac-
cordingly hung out his Light, which we
fteered after, founding as we went in. I
kept all my Men on, Deck, and had an
Anchor ready to let go on occafion. We
had the Tide of Ebb againft us, fo that
We went in but flowly ; and it was about —
the middle of the Night when we anchor’d.
Immediately the Portuguefe Mafter came
, aboard

Se, A Le eR SR Ree ke

* Fe anchotane Bahia

aboard to fee’'me, to whom I returned 4

aA OY ees

16993

Thanks for his Civilities; and indeed I ~V™

found much Refpe&t, not only from this
Gentleman, but from all of that. Nation

both here and in other. Places, who.were

ready to ferve me on all Occafions. The
Place that we anchored in was about two
Miles from the Harbour where the Ships
generally ride; but the Fear I had left
my People fhould rin away with the Ship

_ made me haften to get a Licence from the
_ Governor, to run up into the Harbour,

and tide among their Ships, clofe by one
of their Forts. So on the 25th of March

_ about 10a Clock in the Morning the Tide

{erving J went thither, being Piloted by
the Super-intendant there, whofe Bufinefs
it is to carry up all the King of Portagal’s

_ Ships that come hither, and to fee them

well moored. He brought us to an An-

- chor right again{ft the Town, at the outer

part of the Harbour, which was then full
of Ships, within 150 yards of a {malt

Fort that ftandson a Rock half a mile from
_ theShore. Seea Profpett of the Harbour
and the Town, as it appear’d to us while —

we lay at Anchor, [Table III. N®. 5.]

. Bahia de todos los Santos lies in Lat: i.

_ deg. S. It is the moft confiderable Town

in Brazil, whether inrefpect of the Beauty
of its Buildings, its Bulk, or its Trade and
evenue.' Jt has the convenience of a

Sood

re) ae

5°:

- Bahia Harbour and Forts.

4n.1699. s00d Harbour that is capable of receiving

Ships of the greateft Burthen: The En-
trance of which is guatded witha {trong
Fort ftanding without the Harbour, call’d
St. Antonio: A Sight of which I have gi-
ven [Table II. N°. 4.] as it appear’d to
us the Afternoon before we came in; and
its Lights (which they hang out purpofe-
ly for Ships) ‘we faw ‘the fame Night.
There are other fmaller Fortis that com-
mand the Harbour, one of which ftands on
a Rock in the Sea, about half'a mile from
the Shore. Clofe by this Fort all Ships

muft pafs that anchor here, and muftride |

‘dlfo within half a mile of it at fartheft
_ between thisand another Fort (that ftands
on a Point at the inner part of the Har--

bour and is called the Datch Port) but muft
ridé neareft to the former, allalong againft
the Town: where there is good holding

‘Ground, and lefs expofed to the Southerly

Winds that blow very hard here. They
commonly fet in about April, but blow

hardeft in May, Sfane, Fulyand August:

but'the Place where the Ships ride is ex-

pofed to 'thefe’°Winds not above 3° Points
of the Compafs- .

Befide thefe there is another Fort front- —

ing the Harbour, and ftanding on the Hill

upon which’ the Town ftands. The

Town it {elf confitts of about 2000 Houfes ;

the major part of which cannot be feen
bes from

Bahia Town deferibid,

from the Harbour : but fo many as appear 4n.1699:

in fight, with a great mixture of Trees be- +
tween them, and ali placed on a rifing
Hill, make a very pleafant Profped; as

‘nay be jude’d bythe Draught, [Table III. —
N®. 5]

There are in the Town 13 Churches,
Chapels, Hofpitals, Convents, befide one
Nuonery ; wz. the Ecclefia Major or Ca-

__thedral, the Jefuits College, which are

the chief, and both in fight from the Har- -

bour: St. Antonio, Sta. Barbara, both Pa-

rifh-Churches; the Francifcans Church,

_ and the Dominicans ; and two Convents

of Carmelites ; a Chapel for Seamen clofe
by the Sea-fide, where Boats commonly
land, andthe Seamen go immediately to
Prayers; another Chapel for poor People,
at the farther end of the fame Street,

__ which runs along by the Shore ; anda
_ third Chapel for Soldiers , at the edge of

_ the Town, remote from the Sea; and an
_ Hofpital in the middle of the Town. The

—-

Nunnery ftands at the outer-edge of the

Town next the Fields, wherein by Report,

there are 70 Nuns. Here lives an Arch-

bifhop who has a fine Palace in the

- Town; andthe Governor’s Palace is a fair
* Stone-building, and looks handfome to the
_ Sea, tho’ but indifferently furnifh’d withs

in: both Spaviards and Portuguefe in their

Plantations abroad; as I have generally

E 2 bs

3 bie cic ciel
4 52 The Governor and Soldiers.

An.1699: obferv’d, affecting to have large Houfes ;
: but are little. curious about Furniture, ex- -
i} cept Pictures fome of them. ‘The Houfes
of the Town are 2 or 3 Stories high, the
Walls thick and ftrong, being built with
| 7 Storie, with a Covering of Pantile; and
i@ many of them have Balconies. The prin-
oe cipal Streets are large, and al! of them
a pav’d or pitch’d with fmall Stones. There
are alfo Parades in the mott eminent Places
ofthe Town, and many Gardens, as well
within the Town as in the Out- parts of it,
wherein are Fruit-trees, Herbs, Salladings
and Flowers in great variety, butorder’d —
with no great Care nor Art.
| The Governor who refides here is call’d
| Don “fohn de Lancaftario, being defcended,
| as they fay, from our Englifb Lancafter Fa-
mily ; and he has a refpeCt for our Nation
on that account, calling them his Country-
men. I waited on him feveral times and
always found him very courteous and civil.
Here are about 400 Soldiers in Garifon,
They commonly draw up and exercife in:
a large Parade before the Governor’s Houfe;
and many of them attend him when he
goes abroad. The Soldiers are decently.
clad in brown Linen, which in thefe hot
Countries is far betterthan Woollen; but
T never faw. any clad in Linen but only
thefe. Befide the Soldiers in Pay, he can
foon have fome thoufands of Men up in
| | Arms

sad

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The Merchants of Bahia. : 53

Arms on occafion. The Magazine is on 4n.1699-

the Skirts of the Town, on a fmall rifing
between the Nunnery and the Soldiers

| Church. ’?Tis big enough to hold 2 or

3000 Barrels of Powder ; but I was told it
feldom has more than 100, fometimes but
80.. There are always a Band of Soldiers

to guard it, and Centinels looking out both

Day and Night.

A great many Merchants always refide
at Bahia; for tis.a Place of great Trade :
I found here above 30 great Ships from
Europe, with two of the King of Portugal’s
Ships of War for their Convoy ;_befide
two Ships that Traded to Africa only,

either to Axgola, Gamba, or other Places

on the Coaft of Gainea; and abundance of

fall Craft, that only run to and fro oa

this Coaft, carrying Commodities from
one part of Brazil to another. suis
The Merchants that live here are faid
to be Rich, and to have many Negra
Slaves.in their Houfes, both of Men and
Women. Themfelves are chiefly Porta-

_ guefe, FPoreigners having but little Com-

merce with them; yet here was one Mr.
Cock an Englifb Merchant, a very civil
Gentleman and of good Repute. He had

_ aPatent to be our Exglifb Conful, bus did

_ hot care to take upon him any Publick

Character, becaufe Ezglifb Ships feldom

_ come hither, here having been none in 11

FB 3 Or

A \"Vn!

54 Commodities from and to Kurope.
47.1699-or 12 years before this time. Here was
“V™ aioa Dane, anda French Merchant or two;
| but all have their Effects tranfported to ~

and from Ezrope in Portuguefe Ships, none
of any other Nation being admitted to
Trade hither. There is a Cuftom-houfe
by the Sea-fide, where all Goods imported
or exported are entred. And to prevent
Abufes there are 5 or 6 Boats that take .
their turns to row about the Harbour,
fearching any Boats they fufpect to be run-
ning of Goods. a
‘The chief Commodities that the Ea-
vopean Ships bring hither, are Linnen-
cloaths, both courfe and fine ; fome Wool-.
lens alfo, as Bays, Searges, Perpetuana’s, .
ec. Hats, Stockings, both of Silk and
Thread, Bisket-bread , Wheat-flower ,
Wine (chiefly Port ) Ouil-Olive, Butter,
Cheefe, exc. and Salt-beef and Pork would
there alfo be good Commodities. . They
bring hither alfo Iron, andall fortsofIron- —
Tools; Pewter- Veflels of all forts, as
Difhes, Plates, Spoons, ec. Looking-
glaffes, Beads, and other Toys and the
Ships that touch at Sz. ‘fago bring thence,
-as I faid, Cotton cloath, which is after-
-. ‘wards fent to Azgola. :
The European Ships carry from hence

Sugar, Tobacco, either in Koll or Snuff,

never in Leaf, that | know of: Thefe are

the Staple Commodities. Befides which,

He ween ters eerses pe

NE PE eens cals ets Fay DOF Me NE TYME A OC SY ROPER ay oe ne |

Claying of Sagar. ns?

Brazil, &c. ‘They alfo carry home raw
Hides, Tallow, Train-Oil of Whales, &c.

Here arealfo kept tame Monkeys, Parrots,
_ Parakites, @&c. which the Seamen’ carry

home. :
~ The Sugar of this Country is much bet-
ter than that which we bring home from

our Plantations: for all the Sugar that is -

made here is clay’d, which makes it whiter

E _-and finer than our. Mafcovada, as we call
our unrefin’d Sugar. Our Planters feldom

refine any with Clay , unlefs fometimes a
little to fend home as Prefents for their
_ Friends in Exgland. Their way of doing
it is by taking tome of the whiteft Clay and

mixing it with Water, 7cilltis like Cream. -

With this they fill up the Pans of Sugar,

thatare funk 2 or 3 Inches below the Brim
’ by thedraining of the Molofles out of it:
Firft f{craping off the thin hard Cruft of
the Sugar that lies at the top, and would
hinder the Water of the Clay from foak-
ing through the Sugarof the Pan. The
refining is made by this Percolation. For
ro or 12 days time that the Clayifh Li-
- quor lies foaking downthe Pan, the white

_ Water whitens the Sugar as it paffes thro’
it; and the grofs Body of the Clay it felf .

grows hard on the top, and may be taken
off at pleafure ; when fcraping off with a
E 4 Knife

Be ts Min ig eal KS cs

here are Dye-woods, as'Fuftick, oc. with 42.1699:
Woods for other ufes, as fpeckled Wood, rww™

35 ie ai pa

56 ~ Seafon for European Ships. :
4n.1699. Knife the very upper part of the Sugar,
VY™ which will bea little fullied, that. which
isunderneath will be White almoft to the

bottom: and fuchas is called Brazil Sugar
is thus Whitened. WhenI was here this
Sugar was fold for 50s. per 100 tb.and the —
Bottoms of the Pots, which is very courfe
Sugar, for about 20 5. per'100 jp. both forts
. being then fcarce ; for here was not enough
to lade the Ships , and therefore fome of
them were to lic here till the next Sea-
on. |
The Ezropean Ships commonly arrive
here in Febraary or March, and they have
generally quick Paflages; finding at that -
time of che Year brisk Gales to bring them
- tathe Line, little Trouble, then, in crof-
fing it, and brisk E. N. B., Winds after-
wards to bring them hither. They com-
monly returs from hence about the latter
end of May, or in fume. ?T was faid when
I was here that the Ships would fail hence ©
the 20th day of May; and therefore they
were all very bufy, fome in taking in their
Goods, others in Careening and making
themfelves ready. The Ships that come
hither ufually Careen at their firftcoming ;
here being a Hulk belonging to the King
for that purpofe. This Hulk is unger the
charge of the Superintendent I {poke of,
who has acertain Sum of Mony forevery —
Ship that Careens by her. He alfo nae
Stare eo Soc hares oe ° vides

Guinea-Irade. Coafting-Trade. 57

ae ee ee Oe ee Oe ee ee RS Sel ee ee er ee ee eee
err geihee hs A a ss iy . “ ae pti.

vides Firing and other Neceflaries tor that 41.1699.

-purpofe: and the Ships do ,commonly *
hire of the Merchants here each 2 Cables
to moor by all the time they lie here, and
fo fave their own Hempen Cables ; ..for
thefe-are made of a fort of Hair,. that
grows on a certain kindof Trees, hanging
down from the Top of their Bodies, and
- is very like the black Coyre in the East-In-
dies, if not,the fame. . Thefe Cables
-are {trong and lafting: And fo much for
the Ewropean Ships. |
The Ships that ufe. the Gwizea-Trade

___ are {mall Veflels in comparifon of the for-

mer. They carry out from.hence Rum,
Sugar, the Cotton-cloaths of St,.‘fago,
Beads, @c. and bring in return, Gold,
Ivory, and Slaves; making very good re-

_ turns. :

_. The fmall Craft that belong to this
Town are chiefly imployed in carrying
Exropeaw Goods from Bahia, the Center of

the Brafilian Trade, to the other Places.on

this Coaft; bringing back hither Sugar,
Tobacco, Gc. They are failed chiefly

__with Negro-Slaves; and about Chriftmas

_thefe are moftly imployed in Whale-kill-
ing: for about that time of the Year a fort
Whales, as they call them, are very thick
—onthisCoaft. ‘They come in alfo into the
Harbours and inland Lakes , where the
_ Seamen go out and killthem.. The ah of
EOF them

PE EN RS en Oe Ce eee MY sO a ee Le ee en ee } eS tee ee ee ey eee

58 © Whale-Oyl. Shipping.
4n.1699. them is boyled to Oyl; the Lean is €aten -
“V™ by the Slaves and poor People: And I was
| told by one that had frequently eaten of ic
that the Plefh was very fweet and whole-
fome. Thefe are faid to be but fmall
. . Whales: yet here are fo many, and fo
eafily kill?'d, that they get a great deal of
_ Mony by it. ‘Thofe that ftrike them buy
their Licence for it of the King: AndI
was informed that he receives 30000 Dol-
lars per Annum for this Fifhery. All the
{mall Veffels that ufe this Coafting Traf-
fick are built here; and fo are fome Men of
War alfo for the King’sService. There was
-onea Building when I washere, a Ship of
400r 50 Guas: And the Timber of this
Country is very good and proper for this
purpofe. I was told it was very ftrong,
and more durable than any we have in
Europe: and they have enough of it. As
for their Ships that ufe the Ezropean Trade,
fome of them that I faw there were Eng-
_ lifh built, taken from us by the Frezch dur-
ing the late War, and fold by them to the
Portugefes** *
- Befides Merchants and others that Trade
by Sea from this Port, here are other pret-
ty Wealthy Men, and feveral Artificers
and Trades-men of moft forts, who by
Labour and Induftry maintain themfelves.
very well; efpecially fuch as can arrive’ at
the purchafe of a Negro-Slave or amie
: An

a“

Carriage in Hammocks. ‘Ye
And indeed, excepting People:of the low- An.1699:
eft degree of all, here are fearce any bur “WN.
_ what keep Slaves in their Houfes. The
_ Richer Sort, befides the Slaves of both |
Sexes whom they keep for fervile Ufes in
their Houfes, have Men-flaves who wait
- on them abroad, for State ; either run.
ning by their Horfes-fides when they ridé
out, or to carry them to and fro on
_ their Shoulders in the Town when they
_ make fhort Vifitsnear home. Every Gent
_ tleman or Merchant is provided with
_ Things neceflary for this fort of Carriage.
_ The main Thing is a pretty large Cotton
_ Hammock of the We.t-India Fathion, but
‘moftly dyed Blue, with large Fringes of
_ the fame, hanging down onmeach fide. This
' iscarry’d on the Negro’s Shoulders by the
help of a Bambo about 12 or 14 Foot long,
_ to which the Hammock is hung; anda
Covering comes over the Pole, hanging
_. down on each fide like a Curtain : So that
the Perfon fo carry’d cannot be feen unlefs
he pleafes; but may either ly down, hav-
ing Pillows for his Head ; or may fit up
_ by being a little fupported with thefe Pil--
lows, and by letting both his Legs hang
out over one fide of the Hammock. When
he hath a mind to be feen he puts by his
Curtain, and falutes every one of his Ac-
_ quaintance whom he meets in the Streets : -
for they take a piece of Pride in greeting
. : ; One

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60 Artificers. Butchers, &c.

4n.1699.0ne another from their Hammocks, and

~Y™ will hold long Conferences thus in the -
Streets: But then their two Slaves who
carry the Hammock have each a ftrong
well-made Staff, witha fine Iron Fork at
the upper end, and a fharp Iron below,
like the Reft for a Musket, which they
ftick faft in the Ground, and let the’ Pole
or Bambo of the Hammock reft upon
them, till their Mafters Bufinefs or the
Complement is over. There is fcarce a
Man of any fafhion, efpecially a Woman,
will pafs the Streets but fo carried in a
Hammock. Thechief Mechanick Traders
here, are’ Smiths, Hatters, Shoemakers,
‘Tanners, Sawyers, Carpenters, Coopers,
ec. Hereare alfo Taylors, Butchers, cc.
which laft kill the Bullocks very dexte-
roufly, fticking them at one Blow witha
fharp-pointed Knife in the Nape of the
Neck, having firft drawn them clofe to a
Rail; but they drefs them very flovenly.
It being Lest when I came hither there .
was no buying any Flefh till Ea/er-Eve,
when a great number of Bullocks: were
kill'd at once in the Slaughter-houfes with- |
in the Town, Men, Women and |
Children flocking thither with great Joy
to buy, and a multitude of Dogs, almoft

| ftarv’d, following them; for whom the

Meatfeem’d fitteft, it'was fo Lean. All
thefe Trades-men buy /Vegro’s, and train —
ae them

ee Sara Oe eee ea ee eee ee ee ee le ee en ee

_ Negro’s.. Crane for Goods. 61
them up to their feveral Imployments , 42:1699.
_ which isa great help tothem: and they
~ having fo frequent Trade to Angola, and
_ other parts of Guinea, they havea conftant
- fupply of Blacks both for their Plantations
and Town. Thefe Slaves are very ufeful
inthis Place for Carriage, as Porters ; for
as here is a great Trade by Sea, and the
Landing-place is at the foot of a Hill, too
_fteep for drawing with Carts, fo there is
_ great need of Slaves to carry Goods up in-
_ to the Town, efpecially for the inferiour
- fort : but the Merchants have alfo the
_ Convenience’ of a great Crane that goes
with Ropes or Pullees, one end of which
- goesup while the other goes down. The
Houfe in which this Crane is ftands on the
_ Brow of the Hill towards the Sea, hanging’
" over the Precipice: and there are Planks
fet fhelving againft the Bank from thence
to the Bottom,againft which the Goods lean
or flide as they are hoifted up or let down.
The Negro-Slaves in this Town are fo nu-
merous, that they make up the greateft
part or bulk of the Inhabitants: Every
Houfe, as I faid, having fome, both Men
-and Women, of them. Many of the Por-
_ tuguefe, who are Batchelors, keep of thefe
black Women for Mifles, tho’ they know
_ the danger they arein of being poyfon’d
' by them, if ever they give them any occa-
~ fion of Jealoufy. A Gentleman of my Ac-
3 quaintance,

6a The Country about Bahia.
4n.7699.quaintance , Who had been familiar
“W™~ with his Cook-maid, lay under fome fuch
' Apprehenfions from her when I was there.
Thefe Slaves alfo of either Sex will eafily
be engaged to do any fort of Mifchief ;
even to Murder, if they are hired to do it,
efpecially inthe Night : for which Reafon, —
I kept my Men on board as much as I
could; for one of the French King’s Ships
being here had feveral Men murder’d by
them in the Night, as 1 was credibly ins |
form’d. 20
» Having given this account of the Town
of Bahia; I fhall next fay fomewhat of
the Country. There isa dshseapes Lake
runs 40 Leagues, as I was told, up the.
Country, N. W. from the Sea, leaving
the Town and Dutch Fort om the Star=
board fide. The Country all round a-_
bout is for the moft part a pretty flate- ~
ven Ground, not high, nor yet very low :
Ic is well watered with Rivers, Brooks
an Springs, neither wants it for good
Harbours, Navigable Creeks, and good’ -
Bays for Ships to ride in. The Soil in»
general is good, naturally producing very
latge ‘Trees of divers forts, and fit for any
_ wufes. The Savannahs alfo are loaden with
_ Grafs, Herbs, and many forts of {maller
Vegetables ; and being cultivated, produce
any thing that is proper for thofe hor
Countrys, a Sugar-Canes,. Cotton, Indi-
EO;

» The’ Dhitiliag ‘Trees, Ke. 63

‘ + CO) brcbaetion Maiz, FruiesTrees of feve- Anit699.
Sat kinds, and Hatable Roots. of all forts. stil died |
__ OF the feveral kinds of Trees that are here, 7
; I fhall. give an account of fome,: as T had’
it partly from an Inhabitant of Babin, and:
_ partly from my knowledge of them other-
_ wile, ‘viz. Sapiera, Vermiatico, Comeffe~
| rie,Guitteba,Serrie,as they were pronounc’d
to me, three forts of Mangrove, {peckled
_ Wood,’ Fuftick, Cotton-Trees of three
: B sits, Cre. ‘together with Fruit-Trees of
divers forts that grow wild, beéfide fuch
as are planted. ~
Of Timber-Trees, the Sapserd iS faid to
_ be large and tall; it is very good Ttmber,
and is made ufe of in building of Houfes ;
foi is the Vermiatico, a tall ftreight-bodied
5 tree, of which they make Plank 2 Foot
broad, and they alfo make Canoa’s with
i it. Comelferie and Guitteba are chiefly u-
_ fedin ‘building Ships; thefe are as. much -
_ efteemed here, as Oaks are in England, and
they fay either fort is harder and more
~ durable than Oak. The Serrie is a fore
of Tree much like Elm, very durable in’
_ water. - Here are alfo all the three forts
of Mangrove Trees, viz. the Red, the
— White, and the Black, which T have de-
“feribed [Vol.1. p. 54.1 The Bark of the
_ Red Mangrove, is here ufed for Tanning
of Leather, and they have great Tan-pits
"for it. The Black Mangrove grows lar-
i | - ger .

as
if

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5

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Bets

P.O PEE ee ITE MRT Sera ee a ey Oe ee ee ee eo

‘64 Baftard Coco, :\Silk'Cotton,
‘4n.169>.9er here than in. the Weff-Indies, and of
“V™ it they make good Plank. The White ~
| Mangrove is larger and tougher than in |

the Wefl-Indies ; of thefe they make Mafts
wand. Yards for Barks. es
_ There grow here Wild or Baftard Co-
co. Nut ‘Trees, neither fo large nor fo tall
as the common ones in the Ea/t or We/f-
Indies. . They bear Nuts asthe others, but’
not a quarter. fo big as the right Coco- ©
Nuts. The fhell is full of Kernel, with-
out any hollow Place or Water in it; and
the Kernel is {weet and wholefome, but
very hard both for the. Teeth and for Di-
| gator: Thefe Nuts are in much efteem
or making Beads for Pater-nofter’s, Boles
of. Tobacco-pipes, and other Toys: and.
every {mall Shop here hasa great many of |
them to fell. At the top of thefe Baftard
Coco-trees, among the Branches, there
grows a fort of. long black Thread like
Horfe-hair, but much longer, which by
the. Portaguefe is called Trefabo. OF this
they make Cables which are very fervice-
able, {trong and lafting ; for they will not
rot as Cablesmade of Hemp, tho’ they ly
expofed both to Wet and Heat. Thefe are.
the Cables which I faid they keep in their
Harbours here, to let to hire to European
Ships, and refemble the Coyre-Cables.
Here are three forts of Cotton Trees that,
bear Silk-coston. One fort is fuch = i
Rae, nave

Cotton-Tree of Brazil.

have formerly defcribed, [Vol. I. p. 16 5,} 41.1699.
by the Name of the Cotton-tree. The“V™

other two forts I never faw any where but
here. The Trees of? thefe latter forts
are but {mall in comparifon of the former,

ee which are reckon’d the biggeft in all the

_, Weit-India Woods ; yet are however of a
good bignefs and heighth. One of thefe
laft forts is not fo full of Branches as the
other of them; neither do they produce
their Fruic the fame time of the Year:
for one fort hadits Fruit juft ripe, and
was fhedding its Leaves while the other
fort was yet green, and its Fruic fmall and
growing, having but newly done bloffom-

_ ing; the Tree being as full of young Fruit
as an Apple-Tree ordinarily in England.
Thefe laft yield very large Pods, about 6.
Inches long, and as big as a Man’s Arm.
{it is ripe in September and Ofober; then
the Pod opens, and the Cotton burfts out |
in a great Lump as big as a Man’s Head.
They gather thefe Pods before they open :
_otherways it would fly all away. Ie
_ opens as well after "tis gathered ; and then
_ they take out:the Cotton, and preferve it
to fill Pillows'and Bolfters, for which ufe
’cis very much efteemed : but’tis fit for no-
thing elfe, being fo fhort that it cannot
befpun. ’Tis of a tawney Colour; and
the Seeds are black, very round, andas .
bigasa white Pea. The other fort is ripe
ee ER, in

66 Silk-Cotton: Cotton. Fruits.
An.1699.in March or | April. ‘The Fruit or Pod is
likea large Apple; and veryround. The
out:fide Shell is asthickas the top of ones
Finger. Within this there is a very thin ~~
whitifh Bag or Skin which inclofeth the —
: Cotton. Whenthe Cotton-Apple is ripe
: the outer thick green Shell fplits it felf into
, | 5 equal parts from Stemb to Tail,and drops
off, leaving the Cotton hanging upon the
Stemb, ‘only pent up in its fine Bag. A day
or two afterwards the Cotton {wells by
the heat of the Sun , breaks the Bag and
burfts out, as big asa Man’s Head: And
then as the: Wind blows ’tis by degrees
driven away, a little ata time, out of the
Bag that ftill hangs upon the Stemb, and is
{catter’'d about the Fields; the Bag foon
following the Cotton, and the Stemb the
Bag. Here is alfo a little of the right
Weft-India Cotton Shrub ; but none of the
Cotton is exported, nor do they make much
Cloth of it. :
This Country produces great variety of
fine Fruits, as very good Oranges of 3 or 4
forts ; (efpecially one fort of China Oran- _
ges;) Limes in abundance, Pomgranets,
Pomecitrons, Plantains, Bonano’s, right
Coco-nuts, Guava’s, Coco-plumbs, (call’d
here Munfberos’s) Wild-Grapes, fuchas I
have defcrib’d [Vol. If. Part 2. p. 46 .]
befide fuch Grapes as grow in Europe.
Here are alfo Hog-plumbs, Cultard-Ap- > |
ples, |

_— Mi 5
5

‘

Brafilian Fruits : The Sour-fop. 67
» ples, Sour.fops., Cafbews , Papah’s (called 4.1699,
2 per Paces Fennipah’s ( called here “V™
_ Feani-papal?s) Manchineel- Apples and Man-
j go’s. . Mango’s are yet but rare here: J

_ faw none of them but in the Fe/uit’s Gar-

den, which has.a great many, fine Fruits,.

. and fome Cinamon-trees... Thefe, both of
_ them, were firft brought from the Eaits |
| Indies, and they, thrive here very well? | -
80 do Pumplemuffes, brought alfo from
thence; and both China and Sevil Oranges
__ are here very plentiful as well as good,

_ .. The Sour-fop (as we call it) is a large

Fruit as big asa Man’s Head, - of a long or

_ oval Shape, and of a green Colour ; but
one fide is Yellowifh when ripe. The out-

_ fide Rind or Coat is pretty thick, and very
_ rough, with {mall fharp Knobs; the ine —
fide is full of {pungy Pulp, ‘within which

_ alfo are many black Seeds or Kernels, in

thape and bignefs like a Pumkin+feed,

_ The Pulp is very juicy, ofa pleafant Tafte,

_ and wholefome. You fuck the Juicd out

_ of the Pulp, and fo fpit it out. The Tree
__ or Shrub that bears this Fruit grows about
jo or 12 Foot high, with a fmall fhort
| Body ; the Branches growing pretty
ftrait up; for I did never fee any of them
fpread abroad. The Twigs are flender
and tough; and fo is the-Stemb of the
Fruit. This Fruit grows alfo both in the

| East and VV est-Indies.
*. Fe The

A
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68 The Cafhew-Fruit, and Jenipah.
An.1699- ‘The Cafbew isa Fruit as big as a Pippin,
AV™ pretty long, and bigger near the Stemb
; than at the other end, growing tapering.
| The Rind is fmooth and thin, of ared and
yellow Colour.The Seed of thisFruit grows
at the end of it; ’tis of an Olive Colour
fhaped like a Bean, and about the fame |
bignefs, but not altogether fo flat. The
Tree is as big as an Appletree, with
Branches not thick,yet {preading off. The .
- Boughs are grofs, the Leaves broad and
round, and in fubftance pretty thick. This
Fruit is foft and fpongy when ripe, and
fo full of Juice that in biting it the Juice
will run out‘on both fides of ones Mouths.
It is very pleafant, and gratefully rough
on the Tongue; and.is accounted a very
wholefome Fruit.. ‘This grows both in
the East and West Indies, where I have
{een and eaten of it.
The Fenipah or Fenipapab is a fort of
‘ Fruit of the Calabafh or Gourd-kind. It |
! ES is about the bignefs of a Duck-Egg, and
| - fomewhat of an Oval Shape ; and is of a
grey Colour. The Shellis not altogether —
fo thick nor hard as a Calabafh : ’Tis full
pe of whitifh Pulp mixt with {mall fiat Seeds ;
and both Pulpand Seeds muft be taken in-
to the Mouth, where fucking out the Pulp
you fpit out Seeds. It is of a fharp and
-pleafing Tafte, and is very innocent. . The
‘Tree that bears it is much like an Afh,
{trait =

ftrait-hodied , and of a good heighth ;
clean from Limbs till near the top, where
there branches forth a fmall Head. The
Rind is of a pale grey, and fo is the Fruit.

. Weus’d of this Tree to make Helvesor

Handles for Axes (for which it is very pro-
per) in the Bay of Campeachy; wherel
have feen of them, and no where elfe but
here.

Befide thefe,here are many forts of Fruits
which I have not met with any where
but here; as Arifah’s, Mericafah’s, Petango’s,
exc. Arifah’s ave an excellent Fruit, not
much bigger than alarge Cherry; fhaped
like a Catherine-Pear, being {mall at the
Stemb, and {welling bigger towards, the

have fmall Seeds as big as Muftard-Seeds.
They are fomewhat tart,yet pleafant,and ve-

j _ ry wholfom,and maybe eaten by fick People.

Mericafah’s, are an excellent Fruit, of
which there aretwo forts; one growing
ona {mall Tree or Shrub, which ts count-
ed the beft; the other growing ona kind
of Shrub like a Vine, which they plant
about Arbours to make a fhade, having
many broad Leaves. The Fruit is as big

The Arifah- Fruit, and Mericafah. 69

4n.1699-

_end. They are ofa greenifh colour, and |

as a {mall Orange, round and green. When —

they are ripe they are foft and fit to eat;

full of white pulp mixt thick with Jitrle

black Seeds, and there is no feparating
one from the other, till they are in your
‘f RK 3 Mouth ;

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,

7° Petango. Petumbo. Mungaroo, yc.
4x.1699- Mouth ; when you fuck in the white Pulp
and {pit out the Stones. They are tart, —
pleafant, and very wholfome.
Petango’s are a {mall ved Fruit, that |
grow alfo on {mall Trees, and are as big
as Cherries, but not fo Globular, having
“one flat fide, andalfo 5 or 6 {mall protule-
rant Ridges. Tis a. very pleafant tart
Fruit, and hasa pretty large flattifh Stone
in the middle. |
_ Petumbo’s, are a yellow Fruit ( grow- —
ing on a fhrub like a Vine) bigger than
Cherries, with a pretty large Stone: Thele
are {weet, but rough inthe Mouth.
_Mungaroo’s, are a Fruit as big as Cher-
ries, red on one fide and white on the o-
ther fide: They are faid to be full of fmall
Seeds, which are commonly fwallowed ih
- eating them. a f,
Muckifbaw’s, are {aid to be a Fruit as big
as Crab-Apples, growing on large Trees.
They have alfo {mall Seeds in the mid-
die, and are well tafted. _
« Ingwa’s, are a Fruit like the Locuft-
‘Fruit, 4 Inches long, and one broad. They
grow on high Trees. ive thaebiia
Otee, is a Fruit as big-as a large Coco-
Nut. It-hath a Husk on the outfide, and
a large Stone within, and is a-accounted a
‘very fine Fruit. fon tins dad ai

Mafteran-

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\ ;
{

Mufteran-de-ova. Palm-berry, &c. 71
Mauafteran-de-ova’s, are a round Fruit as 42.1699. _
big as large Hazel-Nuts, cover’d with thin ‘
brittle fhells of a blackifh colour: They
havea fmall Stone in the middle, inclofed
within a black pulpy fubftance, which is
_ of a pleafant tafte. The outfide fhell is
chewed with the Fruit, and fpit out with
the Stone, when the pulp is fuck’d from /
them. The Tree that bears this Fruit is .
tall, large, and very hard Wood. Ihave
nat feen any of thefe five laft named Fruits,
but had them thus defcribed to me by an
Irifo Inhabitant of Bahia 5 tho’ as to this

laft, I am apt to believe, I may have both

feen and eaten of them in Achéa in Su-
_ matra. | |

~ Palm-Berries (called here Dendees) grow
plentifully about Bahia; the largeft are as
big as Wall-nuts; they grow in bunches
on the top of the Body of the Tree, a-
mong the Roots of the Branches or Leaves,
_as all Fruits of the Palm kind do. ~'Thefe
are the fame kind of Berries or Nuts as
thofe they make the Palm-Oyl with on the
' Coaft of Gainea, where they abound : And
. I was told that they make Oyl withthem . .
- here alfo. They Poislersiries roaft and eat
them ; but when] had one roafted to prove
it, I did not like it.

Phyfick-Nuts, as our Seamen call them,
; are called here Piveon ; and Agnus Cajftus
' is calledhere Carrepat: Thefe both grow

hie hed here:

Sy.

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sai 5 ees ae ee ee

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72 — Brafilian Fruits, Roots, and Herbs. -
4n.1699. here: fo do Mendibees, a Fruit like Phyfick-
_YN™ Nuts. They {corch them in a Pan over the
: fire before they eat them. i

Here are alfo great plenty of Cabbage-
Trees, and other Fruits, which I did not
get information about, and which I had
‘not the opportunity of feeing; becaufe
this was not the Seafon,it being our Spring,
and confequently their Autumn, when
their beft Fruits were gone, tho’ fome were
left. However I faw abundance of wild
Berries in the Woods and Field, but I
could not learn their Names or Nature.

They have withal good plenty of ground
Fruit, as Callavances, Pine-Apples, Pum-
kins, Water-Melons, Musk-Melons, Cu-
cumbers; and Roots, as Yams, Potato’s
Caflava’s, cc. Garden Herbs alfo good
ftore; as Cabbages, Turnips, Onions,
Leeks, and abundance of other Salading,
and for the Pot. Drugs of feveral forts,
viz. Saflafras, Snake-Root, @c. Befide the
Woods I mentioned for Dying, and other
Ufes, as Fuftick, Speckled-wood, ce.

I brought home with me from hence a
sood number of Plants, dried between the’
leaves of Books ; of fome of the choiceft of
which, that are not {poil’d, I may givea —
Specimen at the Exd of the Book.

Here are faid to be great plenty and va-
riety of Wild:Fow],uzz. Yemma’s,Maccaw’s
Cwhich are called here fackoo’s, and are
alarger fort of Parrots, and fcarcer) Par-
Ra hes Ho POEs,

A
Pr

Birds. The Yemma, and | Crows.

#8 tt 5 gata ee

rets, Parakites, Flamingo’s, Carrion-Crows, 47.1699-

Chattering-Crows, Cockrecoes, Bill-Birds
finely painted, Correfoes, .Doves, Pigeons,
Fenetees, Clocking-Hens, Crabcatchers,
Galdens ,‘ Currecoo’s, Mofcovy Ducks,
common Ducks, Widgeons, ‘Teal, Cur-
lews, Men of War Birds, Booby’s, Nod-
dy’s, Pelicans, Cc. :

The Yemma is bigger than a Swan, grey-

_ feathered, with a long thick fharp-point-

ed Bill. )
The Carrion-Crow and Chattering-

Crows, are called here Mackeraw’s, and are

like thofe I defcribed in the We/-Indies,
[ Vol. Vl. Pare Ul. p.67.] The Bill of the
Chattering-Crow 1s black, and the Upper-
Bill is round, bending downwards like a
Hawks-Bill, rifing up in a ridge almoft
femicircular, and very fharp, both at the
Ridge or Convexity, and at the ha or
Extremity: The Lower-Bill is flat and
fhuts even with it. Iwas told by a Por-
tegueze here, that their Negro-Wenches

-make Love- Potions with thefe Birds. And

the Portuguefe care not to let them have
any of thefe Birds, to keep them from that
Superftition: As I found one Afternoon
when I was in the Fields with a Padre
and another, who fhot two of them, and
hid them, as they faid, for that reafon.
They are not good Food, but their Bills
are reckoned a good Antidote againft Poi-
in a atl The

PNW

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i < F i

4. Bill-bird. Currefo. Turtle-Dove, &c.
\ A7.1699. The Bill-Birds are fo called by the Ex- —
; ~~ glifb, from their monftrous Bills, which |
are as bigas their Bodies. I faw none of

thefe Birds here, but faw feveral of the

7 Breafts flea’d offarid dried, for the beau-

| ty of them; the Feathers were curioufly
colour’d with red, yellow, and Orange-
I colour.
— _ The Carrefo’s ( called here Mackeraw’s)

e are fuch as are in the Bay of Campeachy ~
a, [Vol. 2. Part 2. p. 67.) a
a , Turtle-Doves are in great plenty here ;

| and two forts of Wild Pigeons ; the one |
| fort blackifh, the otHer a light grey: The
blackifh or dark grey are the bigger, be-
ing as large as our Wood-Quefts, or Wood-
Pigeons in Exgland, Both forts are very
good Meat ; and are in fuch plenty from
May till September, that a Man may fhoot

8 or 10 Dozen in feveral Shots at one
ftanding, ina clofe mifty Morning, when
they come to feed on Berries that grow in
the Woods. ;

The Fenetce is a Bird as big as a Lark,
with blackifh Feathers, and yellow Legs
and Feet. "Tis accounted very wholfom
Food. ; a se
Clocking-Hens, are. much like the Crab-
catchers, which Ihave defcribed [Vol, TT.
Part 2. p. 70.) but the Legs are not alto-
gether fo long. They keep always in
{wampy wet places, tho’ their il

ike

~ Birds of the Heron-kind, &c. 75
like Land-Fowl’s Claws. They make a 4n.1699:
Noife or Clack like our Brood-Hens, or “VN

- Dunghil-Hens, when they have Chickens,
and for that: reafon they arecalled by the
Exglifb Clocking Hens. ‘There arémany
of them in the Bay of Campeachy (tho I
omitted to {peak of them there) and elfe-.
where in the Weft-Indies. Thereareboth . -

. here and there four forts of thefe long- a8

leg’d Fowls, near a-kin to each other, as

fo many Swb-Species of the fame Kind ;

_ wiz. Crab catchers, Clocking-Hens, Gal-

_ dens ( which three are in fhape and co- .
lour like Herons in Evxgland, but lefs; thé

Galden, the-biggeft of the three, the Crab-

_ catcher the fmalleft ;}) and a fourth fort

_ which are black, but fhaped like the other,

_ having long Legs and fhort Tails; thefe

are about the bignefs of Crab-catchers, and

_ feed as they do. Piles

_ Carrecoos, are Water Fowls, as big as

_ pretty large Chickens, of a bluifh colour, _

_ with fhort Legs and Tail; they feed al-

_ fo in {wampy Ground, and are very good

' Meat. I have not feen of them elfe-

| where. — !

' The Wild-Ducks here are faid to be

» of two forts, the Mafcovy, and the com-

' mon-Ducks. Inthe wet Seafon here are

_ abundance of them, but in the dry time

_ but few. Wigeon and Teal alfo are faid

_ to bein great plenty here in the wet Sea-_

76 Oftridges. Dunghil-Fowl, Beafts,&c.
47.1699. Tethe Southward of Bahia there are al-
“V™ fo Oftridges in great plenty, tho’, ’tisfaid, —

they are not fo large as thofe of Africa: —
They are found chiefly in the Southern |
Parts of Brafil, efpecially among the large
Savanahs near the River of Plate; and
‘from thence further South towards the
Streights of Magellan.

As for Tamé Fow] at Bahia, the chief
| befide their Ducks, are Dunghil-Fowls, —
| of which they have two forts; one fort

much of the fize of our Cocks and Hens;
the other very large: and the Feathers of
thefe laft are a long time coming forth;
fo that you fee them very naked when half
grown; -but when they are full grown
and well feathered, they appear very large
Fowls,. as indeed they are ; neither do they
want for price; for they are fold at Bahia
for half a Crown or three Shillings apiece,
juft as they are brought firft to Market
out of the Countrey, when they are fo
lean as to be fcarce fit to Eat. |
The Land Animals here are Horfes, ©
black Cattle, Sheep,, Goats, Rabbits,
Hogs, Leopards,‘ Tigers, Foxes, Mon-
keys, Pecary (a fort of wild Hogs, called
here Pica) Armadillo, Alligaters, Guano’s
(called Qustiee) Lizards, Serpents, Toads,
Frogs, and a fort of Amphibious Crea-
tures called by the Fortaguefe Cachora’s de —
agua, in Englifh Water-Dogs. ,

The

2 Buel eete Saleh ie NN CaN, SOs, ee ee rm Se ee a ee ee
eee 2 :

are

_. Wild-Beafts. Serpents. Amphisbena. 77
The Leopards and Tigers of this Coun- 42.1699.
try are faid to be large and very fierce: |
_ But here on the Coaft they are, either de- |
_ ftroyed, or driven back towards the heart
of the Country ; and therefore are feldom |
_ found but in the Borders and Out-planta-

tions, where they oftentimes do Mifchief.

Here are three or four forts of Monkeys,

of different Sizes and.Colours. One fort
is very large; and another fort is very
_ fmall: Thefe laft are ugly in Shape and
_ Feature, and have a ftrong Scent of

Musk. | 7

_ _Hereare feveral forts of Serpents, many
of them vaftly great, and moft of them
' very venomous: As the Rattle-fnake for

one: and for Venome, a fmall Green
_ Snake is bad enough , no bigger than the
' Stemb of a Tobacco-pipe, and about 18
» Inches long, very common here.
_.. They have here alfo the Amphisbena, or
_ Two-headed Snake ,\ of a grey Colour,

mixt with blackifh Stripes, whofe Bite is
-reckon’d to be incurable. ’Tis faid to be

blind, tho’ it has two fmall Specks in each

| Head like Eyes: but whether it fees or not
- I cannot tell. They fay it lives like a
~ Mole, moftly under Ground; and that

- when it is found above Ground it iseafily
_ kill’d, becaufe it moves but flowly: Nei-
_ ther is its Sight (if it hath any) fo good as
_ to difcern any one that comes near to Kill

, peo i

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ty
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78. , Land.and Water-Serpents.'
- 4n.1699.as few of thefe Creatures fly ata Man, or
/ ““v'~hurt him but when he comes in their Way.
Tis about 14 Inches long, and about the
bignefs of the inner joint of a, Man’s mid-
dle Finger ;* being of one and the fame
bignefs from one end to the other, with
a Head at each end, (as they faid ; forI
cannot vouch it, for one I had was cut
fhort at one end) and both alike in fhape
_and bignefs; and tis faid to move with _
either Head formoft, indifferently ; whence
"tis called by the Portugueze, Cobra de dos
Cabefas, the Snake with two Heads.

The {mall black Snake is a very veno-
mous Creature. :

There is alfoa grey Snake, with red
and brown Spots all over its Back. .*Tis
as big as a Man’s Arm, and about 3 Foot
long, and is faid tobe venomous. I faw
one of thefe.

Herearetwo forts of very large Snakes
or Serpents: One of ’em a Land-{nake,
the other a Water--{nake. The Land-
{nake is of a grey colour, andabout 18 or
20 Foot long: Not very Venomous, but
Ravenous. I was promifed the fight of
one of their Skins, but wanted opportu-
nity.

The Water-fnake is faid to be near 30
Foot long. Thefe live wholly in the Wa-
ter, either in large Rivers, or great Lakes,
and prey upon any Creature that comes

: within

ei OT SS

j Great Water-Snake of Brazil.
_ within their reach, be it Man or Beaft.4n.1699.
_ They draw their Prey to them with their

Tails: for when they fee any thing on the

_ Banks of the River or Lake where they

lurk, .they. fwing about their Tails 10 or
12 Foot over. the Bank ; and. whatever

ttands within their Sweep is {natcht with

great Violence into the River, and drown-

_ edby them. Nay ’tis reported very cre-
_ dibly that if they fee only a fhade of any
- Animal at all on the Water, they will

: flourifh their Tails to bring in the Man or
_. Beaft whofe fhade they fee, : and are often-

times too fuccefsful in it. Wherefore Men

_ that have Bufinefs near any place where
_ -thefe Water-Monfters are fufpected to lurk,
- ate always provided with a Gun, which
_ they often fire, and that {cares them.away,
or keeps them quiet. They are faid to
- have great Heads, and ftrong Teeth a-
_ bout 6Incheslong. Iwas told by an Irifh
Man who lived here, that his Wives Fa-

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_ ther was very near being taken by one of
_ them about the time of my firft Arrival
. here, when his Father was with him up in
_ the Country: for the Beaft flourifht his
_ Tail for him, but came not nigh enough

_ bya yard or two ;. however it {cared him
. fufficiently. . ; ;
_« The Amphibious Creatures here which. -

I faid are called by the Portaguefe Cachora’s

de Agua, or Water-dogs, are faid to beas

big

Ba:

80 Cuchora de Agua. Fi/h, Shell-Fi/h. —
4#.1699. big as {mall Maftives, and are all hairy and —
: ‘fhagey from Head to Tail. They have
- 4 fhort Legs, a pretty long Head and
Short Tail; and are of ablackifh colour.
They live in frefh Water-ponds, and of-
tentimescome afhoreand Sun themfelves ;
but retire to the Water if affaulted. They
~ areeaten, and faid to be good Food. Se-
veral of thefe Creatures which I have now
fpoken of I have not feen, but inform’d
my felf'about them while I was here at
Bahia, from fober and fenfible Perions a-
mong the Inhabitants, among whom I
met with fome that could fpeak Exglijh.
~ In the Sea upon this Coaft there is great
ftore and diverfity of Fifh,vé=. Jew-fifh, for
‘which there isa great Market at Bahia in
Lent : Tarpom’s, Maullets, Groopers,
Snooks, Gar-fifh (called here Goolion’s),
Goraffes, Barrama’s, Coquinda’s, Caval-
lie’s, Cuchora’s ( or Dog-fifh) Conger-
Reles, Herrings (as I was told) the Ser-
rew, the Olio de Boy, (1 write and fpell
them juft as they were named to me)
Whales, cc. |
Here is alfo Shell-fifh (tho’ in lefs plenty
- about Bahia than on other parts of the
Coaft) viz. Lobfters, Craw-fith, Shrimps,
Crabs, Oyfters of the common fort,
Conchs, Wilks, Cockles, Mufcles, Perri-
winkles, cre. Hereare three forts of Sea-
Turtle, vzz. Hawksbill, Loggerhead, and
3 Green ;

Green: but none of them ‘are in any 4#.1699:
efteem , neither Spaniards nor Portuguese ;
loving them: Nay they have a great An-

tipathy againft them, and would much ra- |

ther eat a Porpofe, tho’ our Exg/ifb count

_ the Green Turtle very extraordinary Food.

_ The Reafon that iscommonly given in the.

_ West-Indies for the Spaniards not caring to

_ eatof them, is the fear they have left-be-

| ingufually foul-bodied, and many of them

' pox’d (lying, as they do, fo promifcuouf-

' ly with their Negrines and other She-

flaves) they fhould break out loathfomely

like Lepers; which this fort of Food, ’tis -

_ faid, does muchincline Men todo, fearch-

_ ing the Body, and driving out any fuch

' grofs Humors: for which caufe many of

' our Enxglib Valetudinarians ‘have gone

| from, Jamaica (tho? there they have alfo

' Turtle) to the I. Caimanes, at the Laying-

' time, to live wholly upon Turtle that

' thenabound there; purpofely to havetheir

Bodies fcour’d by this Food, and their Di-

| ftempers driven out: and have been faid

' to have found many of them good Succefs ©

' init. Butthisbythe way. The Hawkf-

_ bill-Turtle on this Coaft of Brazi/ is moft ers

? fought after of any, for its Shell,.which *

» by Report of thofeI have convers’d with

) at Bahkia,; is the cleareft and beft-clouded ~~

| Tortoife-fhell inthe World. I hadfome ~~

| of it hewn me, which-was indeed as good

| i G as

oe)

TT Es, SRE US ee ny mene 2

Dying =
aa

St Paul's. yo'c..'4

n Brazil.

An.1699.a5 TE ‘ever faw. They get a pretty dealof
~ it in fome Parts on this Coaft; but ’tis ve- .

ry dear. es

Befides this Port of Bahia de todos los San-
tos, there are two more principal Ports
on Brazil, where European Ships Trade,
viz. Pernambuc and Ria Faneira; andl was.
told that there go as many Ships to each of
thefe Places as to-Bahia, and. two Men of
War toeach Place for their Convoys. Of
the other Ports in this Country noné is —
of greater Note than that of St..Pawl’s,
where they gather much Gold; butthe ~

‘Inhabitants are faid to be a fort of Banditti, ©

or loofe People that live under no Govern-
ment: but their Gold brings them all forts —
of Commodities that they need, as’Cloths,

Arms, Ammunition, Gc. The Town is

faid- to be large and ftrong. a

Ge The Contents. | | 83 1
"°C HAPS Tie

The As Stay and Bufinefi at Bahia : |
Of the Winds, and Seafons of the
Year there. His departure for N.
Holland. CC. Salvadore." The
Winds on the Brafilian Coaft ; and

42.1699;
Vv

4 Abrohlo Shoal ; Fifh, and Birds :

‘The Shear-water Bird, and Cook-

= ing of Sharks. Exceffive number

of Birds about a dead Whale ; of

the Pintado-Bird, and the Petrel,

&¢e. Of a Bird that shews the C.

. of G. Hope to be near : of the Sea-

_ “ reckoniigs, and Variations: and a
> Table of all the Variations obfere’d
| in this Voyage. Occurrences near thé

Cape ; and the A.’s paffing by it.
Of the Wefterly Winds beyond it :.

| A Storm, and its Prefages. The

A’s Courfe to N. Holland ; and
Signs of approaching it. Another
Abrohlo Shole and Storm, and

the A.’s Arrival on part of N: Holz _ .
Jarid. That part defcrib’d ; and ~
Shark’s Bay, where he firft Anz

2 G3 chor;

a See ;
a co ae Ee De

4 -

E .

z 4b
3

a Be ee Als ftay at Bahia’ :

chors. Of the Land there, Vege-
tables, Birds; &c. A particular

fort of Guano: Fifh, and beauti-

ful Shells ; Turtle , large
Shark, and Water-Serpents. The
A’s removing to another part of N.

Holland : ‘Dolphins, Whales, and
more Sea-Serpents: and of a Paf-
fase or Streight fufpected bere: —

Of the Vegetables, Birds , and
Fifh. He anchors on a third Part
of N. Holland, and digs Wells,
but brackifh. . Of the Inhabitants

u Cee a4,
best et Se ‘2 Le ee ee
ES STO, oe. See Cee

there, the great Tides, the Vegeta-

bles and Animals, &c. «

W AY ftay here at Bahia was about a _

‘Vai. Month: during which time the
Vice Roy of Gea came hither from thence

ina great Ship, faid to berichlyladen with

all forts of Izdia Goods ; but fhe did not

break Bulk here, being bound home for _ :

Lisbon: only the Vice-Roy intended to re.

frefh his Men’ (of whom he kad loft many,
and moft of the reft were very fickly,
having been 4 Months in their Voyage hi-
ther) and foto take in Water, and depart

for Exrope, in Company with the other ©

UP or-

6 ey ig Dt 2 A i a a Seca iat rah hk Lio Kashi IS a ea a ry ei tk on RUE cate og 6 a
ee Saks ; e ey
a. , 4 a

: and Preparation to go away. 85

| Portuguefe Ships thither Bound ; who %.1699.

| had Orders to. be ready to Sail by the “YY

twentieth of Ma. He defir’d me to car- .

' ry a Letter for him, directed to his Suc-

ceflor, the new Vice-Roy of Goa: Which

I did; fending it thither afterwards by

| (Captain Hammond, whom 1 found near

| the Cape of Good Hope. The, Refrefh-

' ing my Men, and taking in Water, was

_ the main alfo of my Bufinefs here ; be- «

_ fide the having the better opportuni-
ty, to compofe the Diforders among my
Crew : Which, as I have before relat-

_ ed,-were grown to fo great a Heighth,

' ‘that they could not without great Dif-

| ficulty be appeafed : However, finding
Opportunity, during my flay inthis Place,

' to allay in fome meafure the Ferment
that had been raifed among my Men,

_ Inow fet my felf to provide for the car-

rying on of my Voyage with more

Heart than before, and put all Hands
to work, in order to it, as faft as the

backwardnefs. ofmy Men would per-
mit-; who fhew’d continually their un-

| willingnefs to. proceed farther. Befides,
| their Heads were generally filld wih
| ftrange Notions of Southerly Winds
| that were now fetting in (and there
had been already fome Flurries of them) —
DC eeigs 3 which,

ei eh STS NES Ty tee ee Oe Ct a a ee

86 Of the Winds and Seafons at- Bahia, ~
An. 1699. which, as they furmiz’d, would hindér

“Y™ any farther’ Attempts of going on to”

the Southward, fo long as they fhould
Jaft.
_ The Winds begin to fhift here in

i 7

ia
)
i
4
|

April and September, and the Seafons of
the Year (the Dry and the Wet) alter |

with them. In Apri the Southerly

Winds make their entrance on this

. Coaft, bringing in the Wet Seafon, with

violent ‘Tornado’s, ‘Thunder and Lighe-
ning, and much Rain. In September the
other Coafting Trade,. at Eaft North.
Raft comes in, and clears the Sky, bring-

of Wind, is what I have obferv’d Vol.
II. Part 3. p. 19. but as to the change
of Weather accompanying it fo exactly
here at Babia, this is a particulat Excep-

other Places of South Latitudes that ¥
have been in between the Tropicks , or
thofe I have heard of ; for there the Dry
Seafons fets in, in April; and. the Wet
about Odtober or November , fooner or

ing fair Weather. This, as tothechange —

,tion to what I have Experienc’d in all |

later (as I have faid that they are, inSouth _

Latitudes, the Reverfe of the Seafons, or

Weather, inthe fame Months in N.La-
titudes Vol. If. Part 3.p.77.) whereas on —

this Coaft of Brazil, the Wet Seafon
: comes

Seafon for cutting Sugar-canes, 87
comes in in April, at the fame time chat dm1699-°
it doth in N. Latitudes, and the Dry @s‘“V¥™
' Ihave faid here) in September, the Rains
| here not lafting fo far in the year as in o-
f . ther Places: for in September the Weather 4 «- |
| is ufually fo fair, that in the latter partof =
that Month they begin to cut their Su-
‘gar-Canes here, as I was told ; for I en-
quired particularly about the Seafons :
Though this, as to. the Seafon of cut-
ting of Canes, which I was now af-
fur’d to be in September, agrees not very
|. well, with what I was formerly told
[Vol. If. Part 3. p.82.] that in Brazil
they cut the Canes in ‘faly. And fo, as to
what is faid a little lower in the fame
Page, that in managing their Canes they
are not confin’d to the Seafons, this oughr

) to have been exprefs’d only. of Planting” a
» them; for they never cut them but in the 4 4
_ Dry Seafon. ae il #)
' But to return to the Southerly Winds, © he

which came in (as I expected they would)
while I was here : Thefe daunted my
| Ship’s Company very much, tho’ I had.
q told them they. were to look for them:
® But they being ignorant asto what Itold
* them farther, that thefe were only Coaft-- 3
| ing-Winds, fweeping the Shore to abour =
Ie 40.0r 50 Leagues in breadth from it; and
| - imagining that they had blown fo all the |
Im Sea over, between. America and Africa,
| G4 and. 2% 4

ee eee ee

Pe Mii ES aoe Sd aa
On ay ie “

88 _ Watering-place at Bahia ;

| 4n.1699.and being confirm’d in this their Opinion
| “WV™ by the Portuguefe Pilots of the European
q _ Ships, with whom feveral. of my Officers
| converfed much, and who were them-
| | felves as ignorant that thefe were only
m Coafting Trade-Winds (themfelves going
i _ away before them, in their return home-
wards, till they crofs the Line, and fo ha-
ving no experience of the Breadth of them)
| being thus poffefs’d with a Conceit that
}- we could not Sail from hence till September;
| this made them ftill the more remifs in
| _ their Duties, and very liftlefs to the gete
a. ting Things in a readinefs for our Depar-
} . ture. However I was the more. diligent
ih my Self to have the Ship fcrub’d, and to
fend my Water-Casks afhore to get them
trim’d, my Beer being now out. I went. :
alfo to the Governor to get my Water
~filPd; for here being but one Watering-
a place (and the Water running low, now
=” : at the end of the Dry Seafon) it was al-
a ways fo crouded with the Earopean Ships
ro Boats, who were preparing to be gone,
a thar my Men could feldom come nigh it,
till the Governor very kindly fent an Of
3 ficer to clear the Water-place for my Men,
and to ftay there till my Wates-Casks were
all full, whom 1 fatished for his Pains. —
4 Herel alfo got Aboard g or 10 Tun of ,~
a - Ballaft, and made’my Boatfwain fit the ~
; deh : Rig-

and pleafant Fields about it. 89
Rigging that was amifs: and ¥ enquired 4.3699
alfo of my particular Officers whofe Bu- ~
finefs it was, whether ‘they wanted any
Stores, efpecially Pitch and Tar; for that
here I wou’d fupply. my felf before I pro-
ceeded any farther : but they fay they had
enough, tho’ it did not afterwards prove fo.

I commonly went afhore every day,
either upon Bufinefs, or to recreate my
felf in the Fields, which were very plea-
fant, and the more for a fhower of Rain
now andthen, that ufhers in the Wet Sea-
fon. Several forts of good Fruits were al-
fo ftill remaining, efpecially Oranges ,
which were in fuch plenty, that I and all
my Company ftock’d our felves for our
~ \ Voyage with them, and they did us a
_ great kindnefs; and we took in alfoa good
quantity of Rum and Sugar: But for
Fowls, they being here lean and dear, I
was glad I had ftockt my felf at St. Fago.
But by the little care my Officers took for
freth Provifions, one might conclude, they
did not think of going much farther. Be-
fides, 1 had like to have been imbroiled
with the Clergy here (of the lxquifition,
as I fuppofe) and fo my Voyage might
have been hindred. What was faid to
‘them of me, by fome of my Company
that went afhore, I know not; but
was affurd by a Merchant there, that
if they got me into their Clutches (and
it

Be eR hts a
re
fet
i

e950 The ‘A.’s departure from Bahia.
_ Ax, x695- it feenis, when I was laft afhore they had
_ “Y™ narrowly watch’d me) the Governor him-'
felf could not releafe me. Befides I might
either be murther’d in the Streets, as he
fent me ,word, or Poyfoned, if I came a-
Bic. Thore any more;. and therefore he advifed
| _ meto ftay aboard. Indéed I had now no
i further Bufinefs afhore but to take leave of
| the Governor, and therefore took his Ad- >
Vices) 48h |
} « .. Our Stay here was till the 23d of April.
a J would have gone before ifI couldfooner
have fitted my felf; but was now earneft
| tobegone, becanfe this Harbour liesopen ©
t tothe S. and S. $. W. which are raging
Winds here, and now was the Seafon for
~ them. We had had two orthree Touches
of them ; and one pretty fevere: and the |
| ‘Ships ride there fo mear each other, that
: ifa Cable fhould fail, or an Anchor ftart,
| you are inftantly aboard of one Ship or
other: and I was more afraid of being dif
abled herein Harbour by thefe blultring
Winds, than difcouraged by them, as my
People were, from profecuting the Voy-
age; for at prefent Leven wifh’d fora _
brisk Southerly Wind as foon as f fhould
be once well out ofthe Harbour, to fer me:
oo the fooner into the True General Trade-
! Wind. :
xs he Tide of Flood being fpent, and
} having a fine Land-Breez on the 22d. in
, ! x the

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i
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j
:
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‘|

lay by till Day-light that we might fee the

had a Pilot belonging to Mr. Cock who
went out with me, to whom I gave three
- Dollars; but I found I could as well have
- gone out my Self, by the Soundings I made
» at coming in. The Wind was E. by N,
© and fair Weather. By 10 a Clock I was
/ got paft all danger, and then fent away my
© Pilot, At 12 Cape Salvadore bore N..di-
' flant 6 Leagues, and we had the Winds
| between the E. by N. and 8. E. a confi-
' derable time, fo that we kept along near
the Shore, commonly in fight of it. The
eee Blafts had now left us again ;

and fhift to other Points (for 10 or 12
days fometimes) before they are quite fet
in: And we had uncertain Winds,between
Sea and Land-Breezes, and the Coafting-
| Trade, which was its felf unfetled.

The Eafterly-Winds at prefent made me
doubt I fhould not weather a great Shoal
which lies in Lat. between 18 deg. and

ea, directly from the Land, Eafterly.
deed the Weather was fair (and conti-
nued foa good while) fothat. I might the
better avoid any Danger from ir: and if

‘the Wind came to the Southward I iiew

_ better how to go out of the Harbour. 1 -

or they, come at firft in fhort Flurries, —

19 deg. S. and runs a great way into the

C. Salvador: Winds and Breezes, 91.
the Morning, I went away from the An- 4n.1699. _
choring-place before ’ewas light; and then “VW

92 Longitude taken from C. Salvador. 1
4n.1699.1 could ftretch off to Sea; fo that I joge’d
“V™ on couragioufly. The 27th'of Aprilwe —

_faw a {mall Brigantine under the Shore
. _ plying to the Southward. We alfo faw
many Men of War-birds and Boobies, and
abundance of Albicore-Fifh. Having ftill
.. fair Weather, {mall Gales, and fome
Calms, I had the opportunity of trying
the Current, which f found to fet fome-
times Northerly and fometimes Southerly :
and therefore knew I was {till within the
Verge of the Tides. Being now in the
Lat. of the Abroblo Shoals, which Texpe€ted ~
to meet with, I founded, and had Water ©
leflening from 40 to 33. and foto 25 Fa- ©
thom: but then it rofe again to 33, 35,
-37-c7¢. all Coral Rocks. Whilft we were
on this Shoal (which we crofst towards
‘the further part of it from Land, where it
lay deep, and fo was not dangerous) we —
caught a great many Fifh with Hook and
Line; and by evening Amplitude we had
6deg. 38 min. Eaft Variation. ‘This was
the 27th of April; we were then in Lat.. —
18 deg. 13 min. S. and Eaft Longitude
from Cape Sa/vadore 31 min. On the
\ ggth, being then in Lat. 18 deg. 39 min. S.
we had {mall Gales from the W. N. W.
tothe W.S.W. often fhifcing. The 3oth
we had the Winds from W. to S. S. E.
Squals and Rain: and we faw fome Dol-
phins and other Fifh about us. We-were’
.. | now

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Shear-water’s. Shark’s cook’t. ey 4G
now out of fight of Land, and had been 41.1699. 7

fo 4 or 5 Days: but the Wind’s now hang- “V~

ing in the South was an apparent Sign

that we were ftill too nigh the Shore to -

receive the True General Eaft-Trade; as

the Hafterly Winds we had before fhew’d

_ that we were too far off the Land to have

_ the Benefit of the Coafting South-Trade :

‘ and the faintnefs of both thefe Winds, and

_ their often fhifting from the S. S. W. to the

! S. E. with Squalls, Rain and fmall Gales,

_ were a Confirmation of our being between

_ the Verge of the S. Coafting-Trade, and

that of the True Trade; which is here,

~ regularly, S. E. | :

_. Thethird of Mzy being in Lat. 20 deg.

- oo min. and Merid. dittance Weft from

_ Cape Salvadore 234 Miles, the Variation ~

' was 7 deg. co min. We faw no Fowl

- but Shear-waters,as our Sea-men call them,

being a {mall black Fowl that {weep the

_ Water as they fly, and are much in the

Seas that lie without either of the Tvopicks :

_ they are not eaten. We caught 3 {mall

' Sharks, each 6 Foot 4 Inches long; and

_ they were very good Food for us. The

next day we caught 3 more Sharks of the

fame fize, and we eat them alfo, efteem-

ing them as good Fifh boil’d and prefst,

and then ftew’d with Vinegar and Pep-'

per. )

POO hah lite Da: gett 62

| <a oe

94 Whales. Innumerable Fouls. 4
4nx699. We had nothing of Remark from the ©
“Vv™~ 3d of May to the roth, only nowandthen —
feeing a {mall Whale fpouting up the §
Water. We hadthe Wind Eafterly, and —
we ran with it to the Southward, running
in thistime fromthe Lat. of 20 deg. oom. |
to 29 deg. 5 min. S. and having, then,7 dv |
3 m. E. Long. from C. Salvadore; the Va- |
tiation increafing upon us, at prefent, —
notwithftanding we went Haft. We |
had all along a great difference between the: |
Morning and Evening Amplitudes ; ufual- |
ly a degree or two, and fometimes more. |
We were now in the True Trade, and ©
therefore made good way. to the South- 7
ward, to get’ without the Verge of the |
General Trade-Wind into a Wefterly —
Wind’s way, that might carry us towards
the Cape of Good Hope. Bythe rethof : |
May, being in Lat. 31 deg. 1o min. we |
began to meet with Welterly Winds, |
which frefhned on us, and did not leave ys
S till a little before we made the Cape. Some- ©
4 _ .- times it blew fo hard that it put usunder |
q | a fore-courfe. ; efpecially in the Night: |
but in the day-time we had commonly our |

' Main Top-fail rift. We met with nothing
of moment; only we paft by a dead |
Whale, and faw millions (as I may fay).

of Sea-Fowls about the Carkafs (and as |
far round about it as we could fee) fome |
- Feeding, and the reft flying about, or fits |
ting, 4

Pee.
ea.”
eect!

_ the Fowls; for indeed I did never fee fo
_ many Fowls at once in my Life before,
~ their Numbers being inconceivably great:
They were of divers forts, in Bignefs,
_ Shape and Colour. Some were almoft as
big as Geefe, of a grey Colour, with
White Breafts, and with fuch Bills, Wings,
-and Tails. Some were Pivtedo Birds, as
big as Ducks, and fpeckled Black and

Petrels; and there were feveral forts of
_ large Fowls. We faw of thefe Birds, ef-
~ pecially the Pzstado-birds, all the Sea over

_ Coaft of Brazil, to within much the fame
diftance of New Holland. . The Pintado is a
_ Southern Bird, and of that ‘Temperate
‘Zone; for I never. faw of them much to
_ the Norward of 30deg.S. The Piztado-
> bird is as big asa Duck; but appears, as
‘it flies, about the bignefs of a tame Pigeon,
having a fhort Tail, but the Wings very
fuch as thefe that fly far from the shore,
and feldom come nighit: for their Reft-
ing is fitting afloat upon the Water ; but

three forts of thefe Birds, all of the fame

5 The

Tae o |

Pintado-birds,Shear-waters,Petrels,&c. 95

_ ting on the Water, waiting to take their dn1699.
Turns. We firft difcovered the Whale by mal,

White. Some were Shear-waters; fome _

from about 200 Leagues diftant from the ©

~ long, as moft Sea-Fowls have ; efpecially _

they lay, Ifuppofe, afhore. There are

make and bignefs., and are only different. ”
-inColour. The firft is black all over:

wee? ke Oe ae

‘An. 1699s

dhe, Pins

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Y Sth ® oe a nes : p *

Bits x ae eas
The Pintado-bird defcrib'd. ;
The fecond fort are grey, with white |
Bellies and Breafts. "Thethirdfort, which ~
isthetrue Piztado, or Painted- bird, is CU- |
rioufly {potted white and black. Their
Heads, and the tips of their Wings and

. Tails, are black for about an Inch; and '

their Wings are alfo edg’d quite round —
with fucha {mall black Lift ; only within
the black on the tip of their Wings there
is a white Spot feeming asthey fly (for |
then their Spots are beft feen) as big as a |
Half-crown. All this ison the outfide of |
the Tails and Wings; and as there isa ©
white Spot in the black Tip of the Wings, ©
fo there is in the middle of the Wings |

‘which is white, a black Spot; but, this, |

towardsthe Back of the Bird, turns gradu-’ |
ally to a dark grey.. The Back its felfp |
from the Head tothe Tip of the Tail, and ©
the Edge of the Wings next tothe Back,. —
are all over-fpotted with fine fmall, round,
white and black Spots, as big as a Silver
Two-pence, and asclofeas they can ftick |
one by another: The Belly, Thighs, Sides, —
and inner part of the Wings are of alight |
Grey. Thefe Birds, of all thefe forts, fly —
many together, never high, but almolt |
fweeping the Water. Wefhot oneawhile —
after. on the Water ina Calm, anda Wa- |
ter-Spaniel we had: with us brought it in: ©
have givena Picture of it [See Birds. Fig: |
1.] but it was fo damaged, that the PiGure |

doth |

hes very much refembles
NY Guarauna , defercbed ;

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The-Petrel. Variation, 97
doth not fhew it to advantage; and its 47.1699. —
Spots are beft feen when the Feathers are
{pread as it flies. — | ‘
The Petrel is a Bird not much unlike a
Swallow, but {maller, and with a fhorter
Tail, °Tis all over black, except a white
Spot on.the Rump. They fly {weeping
like Swallows, and very near the Water.
They. are not fo often feen in fair Weather ;
_ being Foul-weather Birds, as our Seamen —
_ call them,and prefaging a Storm when they
' come about a Ship; who for that Reafon
7 don’t love to fee them. In a Storm they
will hover clofe under the Ship’s Stern, in
__ the Wake of the Ship (as’tis call’d) or the
_ {moothnefs which the Ship’s paffing has
! made on the Sea: and there as-they fly
~ (gently then) they. pat the Water alter-
_ nately with their Feet, as if they walke
_ upon it; tho’ ftillupon the Wing. And
_ from hence the Seamen give them the name
_ of Petre/s, in allufion to St. Peter’s walking
- upon the Lake of Gennefareth.
; We alfo faw many. Bunches of Sea-
weeds in the Lat. of 39. 32. and by Judg-
ment, near the Meridian of the Ifland Trz-
ftiand Aconha : and then we had about 2 d.
20 min. Eaft Variation; which wasnow “
_ again decreafing as we ran to the Ealtward,
till near the Meridian of Afcention; where .
we found little or no Variation: But from
thence, as weran farther to the Eaft, our
Variation increafed Wefterly. artis
Ps | Two

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fi saa

98 Fowls fhowing theC. of G: Hope near.
4n.1699. Two days before I made the Cape of }
“V~ G. Hope, my Variation was 7 deg. 58 min.
Weft.. 1 was then in 43 deg. 27 min.
Raft Longit. from C. Salvador, being in |
Lat. 35 deg. 30 min. this was the firft of |
“ye. The fecond of fare 1 faw alarge |
black Fowl, with a whitifh flat Bill, fly |
by us ; and took great notice Of it, becaufe
in the East-India Waggoner, or Pilot-book, . |
there is mention made of large Fowls, as |
big as Ravens, with white flat Bills and |
black Feathers, that fly not above 30 —
Leagues from the Cape, and are looktonas |
a Sign of ones being nearit. My Reck- |
oning made me then think my felf above |
go Leagues from the Cape, according to the
Longitude which the Cape hath inthe com- |
mon Sea-Charts: fo that I was in fome |
doubt, whether thefe were the right |
Fowls fpoken of in the Waggoner ; or |
whether thofe Fowls might nor fly farther ©
of Shore than is there mentioned; or whe- |
ther, as it prov’d, I might not be nearer 1
the Capethan I reckoned my felf to be: for |
T found, foon after, that 1 was not then |
above 25 or 30 Leagues at moft from the |
Cape. Whether the fault were in the 4
Charts laying down the Cape too much to.
the Eaft from Brazil, or were rather in
our Reckoning, I could ‘nor tell : but our 4
Reckonings are liable to fuch Uncertain- |
ries from Steerage, Log, Currents, Half |
; Minute- 3

Re.

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7 ; 8 , Sa é i

Errors in Ships Reckonings. = 99
Minute.Glaffes , and fometimes want of 47.1699:
Care, asin folong a Run caufe often a dif-
ference of many Leagues in the whole Ac-
count. sie

| -Moft of my Men that kept Journals im-
puted it to the Half-Minute-glaffes ; and
indeed we had nota good Glafs in the Ship
_ befide the Half-watch or Two Hour-Glaf-
- fes. As for our Half-Minute-Glafles we
- tried them all at feveral times, and we
found thofe that we had us’d from Brazil
as much too fhort, as others we had us’d
_ before were too long: which might well . —
‘make. great Errors in thofe feveral Reck- °
onings. A Ship ought therefore to have
its Glaffes very exact: and befides, an ex-
traordinary Care ought to be ufed in heav-
‘ing the Log, for fear of giving too much
Stray-Line in a moderate Gale ; and.alfo to :
ftop quickly in a brisk Gale; for when a
~ Shipruns 8, 9, or 10 Knots, half a Knot
ora Knot isfoonrun out, and not heeded:
But to prevent danger, whena Man thinks.
» himfelf near Land, the beft way is to look
' out betimes, and lie by in the Night: for
aCommander may err eafily himfelf; be-
- fide the Errors of thofe under him, tho’
im never fo carefully eyed,. ;
Another thing that ftumbled me-here
was the Variation, which, at this time, by
the laft Amplitude I had I found to be but
7 deg. 58 min. W. whereasthe Variation
| ‘a 2 - at

100

Difficulties in taking the Variation.

An-1659-at the Cape (from which I found my felf
Y™ not 30 Leagues diftant) wasthencom- ©

puted, and truly, about 11 Deg. or more:
And yet a while after this, when I was got
10 Leagues to the Eaitward of the Cape, I
found the Variation but 10 Deg. 40 Min. |
W.whereas it fhouldhavebeenrathermore |
than at the Cape. Thefe Things, Icon- —
fefs, did puzzle me: neither was I fully
fatisfied as to the Exa€inefs of the taking
the Variation at Sea: For in a great Sea,
which we often meet with, the Compafs
willtraverfe with the motion of the Ship ;
befides theShip may and will deviate fome-
what in Steering, even by the beft Helmf-
men: Andthen when you come to take an
Azimuth, there is often {ome difference ‘be-
tween him that looks at the Compafs, and.
the Man that takes the Altitude heighth |
of the Sun; anda fmall Error in each, if ©
the Error of both fhould be one way, will 4
make it wide of any great Exatnefs. Bur |
what was moft fhocking to me, I found
that the Variation did not alwavsincreafe |
or decreafe in proportion tothe Degrees of |
Longitude Ealt or Weft; asT hada No- |
tion they might do to a certain Number of |
Degrees of Variation Eaft or Weft, at —
fuch or fuch particular Meridians. But |
finding in this Voyage that the Difference —
of Variation did not bear a regular pro- ©
portion to the difference of Longitude, I |

| was |

Capt. Halley’s Scheme of the Variat. 101
was much pleas’d to fee it thus Obferv’d in 42.1699.
a Scheme fhewn me after my Return home, ~V~ |
__.? wherein are reprefented the feveral Vari- -
ations in the Atlantick Sea, on both fides.
the Equator ; and there, théLine of no
Variation in that Sea is not a Meridian
Line, but goes very oblique, as do thofe
alfo which fhew the Increafe of Variation
on each fide of it. In that Draught there
is.fo large an Advance made as well to-
wards the Accounting for thofe feemingly
Irregular Increafes and Decreafes of Vari-
‘ation towards the S. E. Coaft of America,
as towards the fixing a general Scheme or
_ Syftem of the Variation every where,
-_ which would be of fuch great Ufe in Na-
vigation, that I cannot but hope that the
Ingenious Author, Capt. Halley, who to
his profound Skill in all Theories of thefe
kinds, hath added and is adding continu-
ally Perfonal Experiments, will eer long
oblige the World with a fuller Difcovery
of the Courfe of the Variation, which hath
hitherto been a Secret. For my part I pro-
' fefs my felf unqualified for offering at any
_, thing of a General Scheme ; but fince
- Matter of Fa, and whatever increafes _
the Hiftory of the Variation, may be of
ufe cowards the fetling or confirming the
> Theory of it, I fhall here once for all in-
© fert a Table of all the Variations 1 oblery’d
beyond the Equator in this Voyage, both
S "3 if

102 . Variation’s abled 3 in this Caen.

s pa ‘in going out, and returning back; and
| what Errors there may be init, I fhalf leave q
to be Corrected by the Obfervations of |
- Others.

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108 Meeting the Antelope of London.
47.x695. But to return from this Digreffion; |
Having fair Weather, and the Winds hang-
_ ing Southerly, I jog’d on to the Eaftward, |
to make the Cape. Onthe third of Fuze |
we faw.a Sail to Leeward of us, fhewing |
Englifb. Colours... I, bore away to {peak |
. with her, and found her to be the Avtelope
of London, commanded by Captain Hamm.
mond, and bound for the Bay of Bezgel in
the Service of the New-Eaj/t-India Compa- |
ny. There were many Paffengers aboard, ©
going to fettle there under Sir Edward Lit-
tleton, who was going Chief thither: I |
went aboard, and was known by Sir Ed- |
ward, and Mr. Heages, and kindly received ©
and treated by them and the Commander ; §
who had been afraid of us before, tho’ I
had fent one of my Officers aboard. They |
had been‘ in at the Cape, “and camé from ©
thencethe Day before, having ftockt them- ©
{elves with Refrefhments. They told me |
- ‘ that they were by Reckoning, 60 Miles to |
I the Weftof the Cape. While I was aboard ©
them, a fine {mall Welterly Wind fprang |
up;therefore I fhortned my ftay withthem, |
becaufeI did not defign to go in to theCape,
»When I took leave I was preferited with |
half a Mutton, 12 Cabbages, 12 Pum- |
kins, 6 Pound of Butter, 6 Couple of |
Stockfifh, and a quantity of Par{nips ; |
fending them fome Oatmeal, which they |
wanted, » %- aa a
From |

we ft, ee ee ee eee A ee ee ee eT. ee Sor i eee SS Sa. a ee

The A, paffes the G. of G. Hope. 109
From my firft fetting out from England, 4n.1699-
‘I did not defign to touch at the Cape ; and

that was one Reafon why I touch’d at Bra.

_ xil, that there I might refrefh my Men,

_ and prepare them for along Run to New
Holland. We had not yet feen the Land ;
but about 2 in the Afternoon we faw the

Cape-Land bearing Eaft, at above 16 |
‘Leagues diftance. And Captain Hammond. -
_ being alfo bound to double the Cape, we
jog’d on together this Afternoon and the
next Day, and had feveral fair Sights of it ;
which may be feen [Tab/e III. No. 6.
8.9 =
f To proceed, having ftill a Wefterly
Wind, I jog’d on in company with the
Antelope, till Sunday Fane the 4th at 4 in

_ the Afternoon, when we parted; they
{teering away for the Ea/f-Indies, and 1
keeping an E. S. E. Courfe, the better to

_ make my way for New Holland: For tho’

| New Holland lies North-Eafterly from the

Cape, -yet all Ships bound towards that
Coaft, or the Streights of Swady, ought to
keep for a while in the fame Parallel, or in
a Lat. between 35 and 4o. at leaft a little to

_ the S. of the Eaft, that they may continue
in a variable Winds way; and not venture ,
too foon to ftand fo far to the North, as to :
be within the verge of the Trade-Wind,
which will put them by their, Eafterly |
Courfe. The Wind increafed upon us; but

110 © Colour'd Clouds boding a Storm, ‘
4n.i699. we had yet fight of the Aztelope, and of the »
“v™ Land too, till Tuefday the 6th of Fuze: —

not above 2 deg. high, it entered into a dark |

with the Horizon, from whence prefently
thick one by another; and fuch of them |
and very bright; above them they were of a |

darker Colour ftill, to about 60 or 70 deg. |

rally obferved fuch colour’d Clouds to ap. |

And then we faw alfo by usan inumerable,
Company of Fowls of divers forts; fo |
that we lookt about to fee if. there were not —
another dead Whale, but {aw none. q

_ The Night before, the Sun fet ina black |
Cloud, which appeared juft like Land ; and ©
the Cloudsabove it were gilded of a dark |
red Colour. And onthe Tvefday, as the Sun ©
drew near the Horizon, the Clouds were |
gilded very prettily to the Eye, tho’ at the ©
fame time my Mind dreaded the Confe- |
quences of it. When the Sun was now |

{moaky-coloured Cloud that lay parallel |

feem’d to iffue many dusky blackifh Beams. |
The Sky was at this time covered with |
{mall hard'Clouds (as we call fuch as lie”
{cattering about, not likely to.Rain) very ©

as lay next to the Bank of Clouds at the |
Horizon, were of a pure Gold colour to 3
or 4 deg. high abovethe Bank: From thefe |
to about 10 deg. high they were redder, ©

high ; where the Clouds began to be of their |
common Colour. Itook the more particu- |
Jar. Notice of all this, becaufe 1 have gene- |

aR aR A sk es i I Se Sg rt CR i AR a r
. » set ° - oy Se aaah

A Storm.» , et
pear before an approaching Storm: And 4n.1699.°
_ this being Winter here, and the time for “V™
__ bad Weather, I expetted and provided for .
a violent Blaft of Wind,by riffing our Top-
fails, and giving aftrict charge to my Of
ficers to hand them or take them in, if
the Wind fhould grow ftronger. - The ~
Wind was now at W. N. W. a very brisk
Gale. About 12a Clock at Night we had
a pale whitifh Glare in the N. W. which
was another Sign, and intimated the Storm
to be near at hand ;and theW ind increafing
upon it, we prefently handed our Topfails,
furled the Mainfail, and went away only
with our Forefail. Before 2 in the Morn-
ing it came on very fierce, and we kept
right before Wind and Sea, the Wind ftill
increafing: But the Ship was very govern-
able, and Steer’d incomparably well. At
_ 8 inthe Morning we fettled our Fore-Yard,
lowering it 4 or 5 Foot, and we ran very
- {wiftly; efpecially when the Squalsof Rain
or Hail, trom a black Cloud, came over
head, for then it blew exceffive hard.
‘Thefe, tho” they did ‘not lait long, yet came
very thick and faft one after another. The
_ Sea alfo ran very high: But we running fo
violently before Wind and Sea, we Shipt
little or no Water; tho alittlewafht into )
our upper Deck-Ports; and with it a Scuttle 7
or Curtle-Fifh was caft upon the Carriage
of a Gun, bias
The

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3 - Bis Sa ois is ay . aie | FO eee teeter pr ae an te % hes eee, mea

112 - Seafon of Wefterly Winds bere. :
| 4n.1699. The Wind blew extraordinary hard all
UV™ Wednefday, the 7th of Fume, but abated of ©
its fiercenefs before Night: Yet it continu- ~

ed a brisk Gale till about the 16th,and fill

‘a moderate one till the 19th Day ; by which

time we had run about 600 Leagues: For ©

the moft part of which time the Wind was —

in fome point of the Weft, vzz. from the |

W.N. W. totheS. by W. . It blew hard- |

eft when at W. or between the W.andS. |

W. but after it veered more Southerly the ©

foul Weather broke up: This I obferved ©

at other times alfoin thefe Seas, that when —

the Storms at Weft veered to the South- |

_ ward they grew lefs; and that when the |

\ Wind came.to the E. of the S. we had 7
ftill fmaller Gales, Calms, and fair Wea- |
ther. As forthe Wefterly Winds on that |
fide the Cape, we like themnever the worfe |
for being violent, for they drive us the ~
fafter to the Eaftward; and are therefore |
the only Winds coveted by thofe who fail ©
‘towards fuch parts of the Eafl-Indies, as ©
lie South of the Equator ; as L'amor, ‘Java, |
and Sumatra; and by the Ships bound for 7
China, or any other that are to pafsthrough |
the Streights of Swzdy. Thofe Ships having |
once paft the Cape, keep commonly pretty ©
far Southerly, on purpofe to meet withthefe 7
Weft Winds, whichin the Winter Seafon 7
of thefe Climates they foon meet with ; for |
then the Winds are generally Wefterly ac |

: the |

= ae
| inds and Courfe towards New H. 113 ~
the Cape, and efpecially to the Southward 47.1699:
of it: But-in their Summer Months they “
getto the Southward of 40 deg. ufually
e’er they meet with the Wefterly Winds. I
was not at this timeina higher Lat. than
36 deg. 40 min. and oftentimes was more
Northerly, altering my Latitude often as
Winds and Weather requir’d; for in fuch
long Runs ’tis belt to fhape ones Courfe ac-
- ~cording to the Winds. And if in Steering
to the Haft, we fhould be obliged to bear
alittle to.the N. or S. of it,. °tis no great
matter; for tis but Sailing 2 or 3 Points
from the Wind, when’tis either Norther-
ly or Southerly ; and this not only eafeth
the Ship from {training , but fhortens the
way more than if a Ship was kept clofe on
a Wind, as fome Menare fond of doing.
The 19th of Jue we were in Lat. 34
eg. 17-min. S.and Long. from the Cape
39 deg. 24 min. E. and had {mall Gales
and Calms. The Winds wereat N. E. by
E. and continued in fome part of the E.
till the 27th Day. When it having been
fome time at N..N. E. it came about at N.
and then tothe W. of the N. and continu-
_ edin the Weft-board (between the N.N.
_ W.and S.S. W.) till the 4th of Faly; in
which time we ran 782 Miles; then the
Winds came about again to the Haft, we.
reckoning our felvesto be in a Meridian
1100 L. Eaft of that of the Cape; and having
fair Weather founded, but had no dey
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Re A Te eee ge eee ee eee tt mers

Te
‘An.1699-

Signs of being near Land. ©

We met with little of Remark in this
Voyage, befides being accompanied with
Fowles all the way, efpecially Pintado-
Birds, and feeing now and then'a Whale:
But as we drew nigher the Coaft of New-
Holland, we faw frequently 3 or-4 Whales
together. When we were about go
Leagues from the Land we began to fee
Sea-weeds, all of one fort ; and as we drew
nigher the Shore we faw them more fre-
quently. At about 30 Leagues diftance we
began to fee fome Scutle-bones floating on
the Water ;- and drawing ftill nigher the
Land we faw greater quantities of them.

“July the 25th being in Lat. 26 deg. 14 |
min. S.and Longitude E. from the C.of G. |
Hope 85 deg. 52 min. we fawalarge Gar- |
fifth leap 4 times by us, which feemed to
be as big asa Porpofe. It was now very
fair Weather, and the Sea was full of a fort
of very {mall Grafs or Mofs, which as it
floated in the Water feemed to have been |
fome Spawn of Fifh; andtherewasamong 4
it fomefmall Fry. Thenext Day the Sea ©
was full of {mall round things like Pearl, —
fome as big as white Peas; they werevery |
Clear and Tranfparent, and upon crufhing |
any of thema drop of Water would come |
forth: The Skin that contained the Water 7
was fo thin that it was but juft defeernable. 7
Some Weeds fwam by us, fothat we did ©

not doubt but we fhould quickly fee Land. j
Pores On

ie eee be:
Whales. Skipjacks: Fowls, &c, 115 .
On the 27th alfo, fome Weeds {wam by 4z.1699: -
~ us, and the Birds that had flown along with ¥
us all the way almoft from Brazil, now
left us, except only 2 or 3 Shear- waters.
On the 28th we faw many Weeds fwim
_ by us, and fome Whales, blowing. On
the 29th we had dark cloudy Weather ,
with much Thunder, Lightning, and vio-
lent Rainsin the Morning: But in the E-
vening it grew fair. Wefawthis Day a
_ Scutle-bone {wim by us, and fome of our
_~ young Men a Seal, as it fhould feem by
their Defcription of its Head. I faw alfo
fome Boneta’s, and fome Skipjacks, a Fifh
about 8 Inches long, broad and fizable,
not much unlike a Roach; which our Sea-
men call fo from their leaping about.

The 30th of Fal, being itill nearer the
Land, we faw abundance of Scutle-bones
and Sea-weed, more Tokens that we were
not far from it; and faw alfo a fort of
Fowls the like of which we had not feenin
the whole Voyage, all the other Fowls ha-
ving now leftus. Thefe were as big as
Lapwings ; of agrey Colour, black abourc
their Eyes, with red fharp Bills, long
_ Wings, their Tails long and forked like
_ Swallows; and they flew flapping their
Wings like Lapwings. Inthe Afternoon
> we met witha Ripling like a Tide or Cur-
"rent, or the Water of fome Shole or Over-
' fal; but were paft it before we could found.

L 2 The

ae Sa
ie :

i 4¢ Abrohlo-Shoal near N. Hottand.

‘An. 1699° The Ste laft mention’d and this were

further Signs of Land. In the Evening
we had fair Weather, and a {mall Gale at
Weft. At 8 a Clock we founded again 5
but had no Ground.

We kept on ftill to the Eaftward, with
an eafy Sail, looking out fharp: "for by
the many Signs we had, I did expeé that
we were near the Land. Aty 2a Clock
in the Night I founded, and had 45 Fa-
thom, courfe Sandand {mall white Shells.
I prefently clapt on a Wind and ftood to
the South, with the Wind at W- becaufe
I thought we were to the South of a Shoal
call’?d the Abrobles (an Appellative Name |
for Shoals, as it feems tome) which ina |
Draught I had of that Coatt is lay’d down
in 27 deg. 28 min. Lat. ftretching about |
7 Leagues into the Sea. I was the Day |
before in 27 deg. 38 min. by Reckoning.
And afterwards fteering E. by S. purpofely —
to avoid it, I thought I muft have beento |
the South of it: but founding again, at —
~ Onea Clock inthe Morning, Azz. the firft,
we had but 25 Fathom, Coral-Rocks ; and
fo found the Shoal was to the South of us.
We prefently tackt again, andftood tothe #
North ,. and then foon deepned our. 7
Water ; for attwoin the Morning wehad
26 Fathom Coral ftill: At three we had
28 Coral-ground: At 4 we had 30 Fa- |
thom, courfe Sand, with fome Coral: At

5we @

The A. arrives at NeHolland. 117 ©

5 we had 45 Fathom, courfe Sand and 4n,.1699-

Shells; being now off the Shole, as ap-
pear’d by the Sand and Shells, and by hav-
ing left the Coral. By all this knew wehad _

fal?n in to the North of the Shole, and
‘that it was laid down wrong in my Sea-
Chart: for I found it lie in about 27 deg.
Lat. and by our Run in the next day, I
found that the Outward-edge of it, which
I founded on, lies 16 Leagues off Shore.
When it was day we fteered in E. NE.
with a fine brisk Gale ; but did not fee the
Land till 9 in the Morning, when we
faw it from our Topmaft-head, and were
diftant from it about 10 Leagues; having
then 40 Fathom-water, and clean Sand.
About 3 Hours after we faw it on our
Quarter-Deck , being by Judgment about
6 Leagues. off: and we had then 40 Fa _
thom, clean Sand. As we ran in, this
day and the next, we took feveral Sights
of it, at different Bearings and Diltances;
from which it appear’d as you fee in [Ta-
ble IVINS 15-25-3545 5), And here t
“would Note once for all, That the Lati-
tudes mark’d in the Draughts, or Sights
here given, are not the Latitude of the
Land, but of the Ship when the Sight was
taken. ‘This Morning, <Aaguit the firft,
as we were ftanding in we faw feveral
large Sea-fowls, like. our Gannets on the
Coatt of England, flying three or four ta-.
3 I 3 gether ;

118 ~~ N. Holland in Lat. 26. S.

_ Amx699- gether ; and a fort of white Sea-Mews;
but black-about the Eyes, and with forked -
Tails. We ftrove to run innear the Shore
to feek for a Harbour to refrefh us after
our tedious Voyage; having made one

_ continued ftretch from Brazil hither of a-
bout 114 Deg.; defigning from hence al-
fo to begin the Difcovery I had a mind to
make on NV. Hollandand N. Gaizea. The
Land was low, and appear’d even, and as
we drew nearer to it, itmade (as you fee
in TableIV. N°. 3, 4,5.) withfome red —
and fome white Clifts; thefe laftin Lat. 7
26.108. where you will find 54 Fathom
within four Miles of the Shore. )

- About the Lat. of 26 deg. S. we faw
an Opening, and ran in, hoping to finda
Harbour there: but when wecametoits —
Mouth, which was about two Leagues
wide, we faw Rocks and foul Ground
within, and therefore ftood out again: —
There we had 20 Fathom-water within 7
two mile of the Shore. The Land every
' where appear’d pretty low, flat and even ;
but with fteep Cliffs to the Sea; and when
we came near it there were no Trees,

Shrubs or Grafs to be feen. ©The Sound-
ings in the Lat. of 26 deg. S. from about
8 or 9 Leagues off till you come within a
League of the Shore, are generally about
40 Fathom; differing but little, feldom
above three or four Fathom. --But the
. Pe a ea | Beam

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; aes — eae? 3 oer see Nee

The A. flands off again. 119
Lead brings up very different forts of 47.1699.
Sand, fome courfe, fome fine ; and of fe-
veral Colours, as Yellow, White, Grey,
Brown, Bluifh and Reddifh. :

When I faw there was no Harbour here,
nor good Anchoring, I ftood off to Sea a-
gain, in the Evening of the fecond of dz-
gust, fearing-a Storm on a Lee-fhore, in a
place where there was no fhelter, and de-
firing at leaft to have Sea-Room: For the
Clouds began to grow thick in the Weft-
ern-board, and the Wind was already
there , and began to blow frefh almoft
upon the Shore; which at this Place lies
along N.N. W. and $8. S.E.. By Nine a
Clock at Night we had got a pretty good
Offin; but the Wind ftill increafing, I
_ took in my Main Top-fail, being able to
' carry no more Sail than two Courfes and
_ the Mizen. Attwointhe Morning, Aag.

3. it blew very hard, and the Sea was
much raifed; fo that I furled all my Sails
but my Main-fail. Tho’ the Wind blew
fo hard, we had yet pretty clear Weather
till Noon: But then the whole Sky was
blackned with thick Clouds, and we had
fome Rain, which would laft a quarter of
an hour ata time, and then it would blow
very fierce while the Squals of Rain were
over our Heads ; but as {oon as they were
gone the Wind was by much abated, the
> ftrefs of the Storm being over. We found-
| 4 veed

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120

Arrival at Sharks-Bay in N. H.

An.1699. ed feveral times, but had no Ground till.
wY™ 8 a Clock Ag. the ath. in the Evening ;

and then had 60 Fathom-water, Coral-
sround. At Ten we had 56 Fathom fine
Sand. .At Twelve we had 5 Fathom,
fine Sand, of a pale, bluifh Colour. It
Was now pretty moderate Weather ; yet
I made no Sail till Morning: but then,
the Wind veering about to the S. W. I
made Sail and ftood to the North: And
at 11 a Clock the next day, Axg.' 5. we
faw Land again, at about 10 Leagues di-
ftance. This Noon we were in Lat. 25
deg. 30 min. and in the Afternoon our
Cook died, an Old Man, who had been
fick a great while, being infirm before we
came Out of Exgland. ee
The 6th of Aagas in the Morning w
{aw an Opening in the Land, and we ran
in to it and anchored in feven and a half
Fathom-water, 2 miles from the Shore,
clean Sand. It was fomewhat difficult
getting in here, by reafon of many Shoals
we met with: But I fent my Boat found-

ing before me. The Mouth of this Sound,

which I call’d Shark’s Bay, lies in about
25 deg. S..Lat. and our Reckoning made
its Longitude from the €. of Good Hope
to be about 87 Degrees; which is lefs. by
195 Leagues than is ufually laid down in
ourcommon Draughts, if our Reckoning
was right, and our Glafles. did not deceive

| 7 us,

IV. N°. 6.) Ifent my Boat afhore to
feek for frefh Water: But in the Evening
my Men returned, having found none.
The next morning I went afhore my felf,
carrying Pick-axes and Shovels. with me,

_ to dig for Water; and Axes to cut.Wood..

We tried in feveral places for Water, but
finding none after feveral Trials, norin

- feveral miles compafs, we left any farther

fearch for it, and {pending the reft of the

day in cutting Wood, we went aboard at —
' Night.n¢ ; .
The Land is of an indifferent heighth, —

fo that it may. be feen 9 or 10 Leagues off.
It appears at a diftance very even; but as

- you come nigher you find there are many

gentle Rifings, tho’ none fteep nor high...

’Tis alla fteep Shore againft the open Sea :

but in this Bay or Sound we were now
in, the Land is low by the Sea-fide, ri-

fing gradually in within the Land. The

_ Mould is Sand by the Sea-fide, producing

a large fort of Sampier , which bears a
white Flower. Farther in, the Mould is
reddifh, a fort of Sand producing fome
Grafs, Plants, and Shrubs. The Grafs
grows in great Tufts, as big as a Bufhel,
here and there a Tuft: being intermix’d

_ ‘with much Heath, much of the kind we

ah
oe

have growing on our Commons in Ezxg-

land.

Soil of Sharks-B. in.N. Holland. 121
us. As foonas I came to anchor in this 42.1699.
Bay (of which I have givena Plan, Table “¥™

A See ee ee ee ee ee eee

122 Vegetables and Birds of Sharks-B.

An.1699. land. Of Trees or Shrubs here are divers

forts; but none above ten Foot high:
Their Bodies about 3 Foot about, and
s or 6 Foot high before you come to the

Branches, which are bufhy and compos’d |

of {mall Twigs there fpreading abroad,
tho’ thick fet, and full of Leaves; which
were moftly long and narrow. ‘The Co-
lour of the Leaves was on one fide Whi-
tifh , and onthe other Green: and the
Bark of the Trees was generally of the

fame Colour with the Leaves, of a pale |

Green. Some of thefe Trees were {weet-

{cented, and reddifb within the Bark, like . |
Saffafras, but redder. Mott of the Trees —
and Shrubs had at this time either Blof —

fomsor Berrieson them. ‘The Blofloms of
the different fort of Trees were of feveral
Colours, as Red, White, Yellow, cc,
but moftly Blue: and thefe generally {mele
very {weet and fragrant, as did fome alfo

ee eT Ee ST a RAE eT

of the reft. “There were alfo befide fome _

Plants, Herbs, and tall Flowers, fome ve-

’ yy fimall Flowers, growing on the Ground, |

that were {weet and beautiful, and for the
moft part unlike any J had feen elfe-

where.
There were but few Land-Fowls: we
faw none but Eagles, of the larger forts of
Birds; but 5 or 6 forts of fmall Birds. “The
biggelt fort of thefe were not bigger than
Larks ; fome no bigger than pe all
. . fing-

Place this Pm

A Noddy. of N. Halland. Pry

of ¢ neck of this bird 1s
red, & therein differs

the Avofetta of Traly .

‘ i MSS Pi ai MMR i oe Pe eNO bias fee De ie.
A particular fort of Guano. 123

finging with great variety of fine fhrill 42.1699.
Notes; and we faw fome of their Nefts “WY
with young Ones in them. “The Water-

- Fowls are Ducks, (which had young Ones
now, this being the beginning oftheSpriog . >

_ inthefe Parts; ) Curlews, Galdens, Crab-.* .
catchers, Cormorants, Gulls, Pelicans; ~~”
and fome Water-Fowl, fuch as I have not ~

_ feen any where befides. I have given the

_ Pitures of 4 feveral Birds on this Coaft.

B [See Birds : Fipee,'3, 4, 5.7 : ss

_ The Land-Animals that we faw here

_. wereonly a fort of Raccoons, different

| from thofe of the West-Indies, chiefly as

}

totheir Legs; for thefe have very fhort
_ fore Legs; but go Jumping upon them
q as the others do, and like them are very
' good Meat:) and a fort of Guano’s, of the
» fame fhape and fize with other Guano’s,
_ defcrib’d [ Vol. 1. p. 57.] but differing
_ from them in three remarkable Particu-
’ jars: For thefe had a larger and uglier
Head; and had no Tail: And at the
Rump, inftead of the Tail there, they had
a ftump of a Tail, which appear’d like ©
_. another Head; but not really fuch, being’
| without Mouth or Eyes: Yet' this Crea-
_ Aare feem’d by this means to havea Head
~ ateach end; and, which may be reckon’d
a fourth difference, the Legs alfo feem’d afl
four of them to be Fore-legs, being all a- |
like in fhape and length, and feeming by
peng” aa : the

oFyh of Sharks-Bay.

4n.1699.the Joints and’ Bending to be made asif 2

‘they were to go indifferently either Head
or Tail foremoft. They were fpeckled

black and yellow like Toads, and had
Scales or Knobs on their Backs like thofe of

Crocodiles, plated on to the Skin, or ftuck ©
into it, as partof the Skin. They areve-
ry flow in motion; and when a Man |

comes nigh them they will fland {till and

hifs, mot endeavouring to get away. —

Their Livers are alfo {potted black and

yellow : and the Body when opened hath _
a very unfavory Smell. I did never fee —

fuch ugly. Creatures any. where but here.
The Guano’s I have obfcrv’d to be very

them with pleafure: But tho’ I have eaten
of Snakes, Crocodiles and Allegators, and

many Creatures that look frighttully e-
nough, and there are but few I fhould |
have been afraid to eat of if preft by Huns —
ger, yet I think my Stomach would fearce —
have ferv’d to venture upon thefe V.Hol- —
~ fand Guano’s, both. the Looks and the ©

Smell of them being fo offenfive.

The Sea-fifh thac we faw here (for here (
was no River, Land or Pond of Frefh Wa- ~

ter to be feen) are chiefly Sharks. . There

-are,abundance of them in. this particular ©
Sound, that I therefore gave it the Name —
of Shark’s; Bay. Here are alfo Skates, —

Thornbacks, and other Fifh, of the Ray-

kind; —

nifA Si a Sioa EE
‘age ar aI BS

bik DEA ee | a ee

Shells, Turtle, large Shark, = 146
kind; (one fort efpecially like the Sea- 4.1699,
Devil) and Garfifh, Boneta’s, ce. Of
Shell-fifh we got here Mufcles, Periwink-
les; Limpits, Oyfters,. both of the Fearl-
kind and alfo Eating-Oyfters, as wellthe |
common fort ‘as long Oyfters'; ‘befide
Cockles, ¢c. The Shore was lined thick
with many other forts of very ftrange and
beautiful Shells, for variety of Colour and
Shape, moft finely fpotted with Red,
Black, or Yellow, cc. fuch as ‘I have not »
feen any where but at this place. I brought
away a great many of them ; but loft all,
except a very few, and thofe not of the
bette: 3 | en

‘There arealfo fome green Turtle weigh-
‘ing about 200 tb. Of thefe we caught 2
_ which the Water Ebbing had left behind

a Ledge of Rock, which they could‘not
_ ereep over. Thefe ferved all my Company
2 Days; and they were indifferent fweet
Meat. Of the Sharks we caught a great

_. many, which our Men eat very favourily.

Among them we caught one which was 11
Foot long. ‘The fpace between its 2 Eyes
was 2a Inches, and18 Inches from one
Corner of his Mouth to the other, Its
Maw was likea Leather Sack, very thick,
and fo tough that a fharp Knife could fcarce
cut it: In which we found the Head and
Boans of a Hippopotomus ; the hairy Lips
’ of which were {till found and not alld
f | an

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~

126 The A's flay in Sharks-Bay.
4n.1699.and the Jaw. was alfo firm, out of which |
“Wwe pluckt a great many Teeth, 2 of them
8 Inches long, and as big asa Mans Thumb, |
{mall at one end, and a littlecrooked ; the |
reft not above half fo long. The Maw —
was full of Jelly which ftank extreamly : —
However I faved fora while the Teeth and —
the Sharks Jaw: The Flefh of it was divi-
ded among my Men; and they took care —
that no wafte fhould be made of it. :

>? Twas the 7th of Azgujt when we came ©
into Shark’s-Bay; in which we Anchor’d
at three feveral Places, and ftay’d at the —
firftof them (on the W. fide of the Bay)
till the 11th. During whichtime we fearch- _
ed about, as I faid,. for frefh Water,
digging Wells, but to.no purpofe. How-

_ ever, wecut good ftore of Fire-wood at
this firft Anchoring-place; and my Com- ~
pany wereall here very wellrefrefhed with ~
Raccoons, Turtle, Shark and other Fifh, —
and fome Fowles; fo that we were now _
all much brisker than when we came in hi- ©
ther. Yer till I was for-fianding farther —
into the Bay, partly becaufe I hada Mind ~
to increafe my {tock of frefh Water, which ©
was began to be low ; and partly for the ©
fake of Difcovering this part of the Coaft. (

I was invited to go further, by feeing from
this Anchoring-place all open before me; _
which therefore I defigned to fearch before —

I left the Bay. Soon the 11th about Noon, ~

: | \ fteer’d

or:

Sailing. about Sharks-Bay. 499 |

I fteer’d farther in, with aneafie Sail, be- 42.1699.
caufe we had but fhallow. Water : We kept “Y¥™
therefore good looking out for fear of
Sholes; fometimes fhortning, fometimes
deepning the Water. | About 2. in the
Afternoon we faw the Land a Head that

makes the S. of the Bay, and before Night

we had again Sholdings from that Shore:

And therefore fhortned: Sail. and ftood off

and’on all Night, under 2 Topfails, conti-

nually founding, having never more thea

10 Fathom, and feldom lefs than.7.. The

Water deepned and fholdned. fo very gent- _

ly, that in heaving the Lead 5 or 6 times

we fhould fearce have a Foot difference.

When we came into 7 Fathom,either way,

_ we prefently went about. From this S. part
of the Bay, we could not feethe Land from
whence we came in the Afternoon: And
this Land we found to bean Iflandof 3 or 4

_ Leagues long, asis feen,in the Plain, [Ta-
ble [V. No. 6.}] but it appearing barren,

I did not ftriveto go nearer it; and the ra-
ther becaufe the. Winds would not permit
us to doit without much Trouble, and at
- the Openings the ‘Water ‘was generally
. Shole. Itherefore made no farther attempts
in thisS. W. and S, part of the Bay, but
fteered away to the Haftward, to fee if
there was any Land that way, for as yet
we had feen none there. .On the 12th m
the Morning we pafs’d by the N. koma’
that

) 198 ~~ Going-out of Sharks-Bay.
| 4n.i6g9that Land, and were confirm’d in the Per- —
u-v~ fuafion of its being an:Hland, by feeing
an Opening to the Eaft of ir, as we had
doneonthe.W.: Having fair Weather, a
{mall Gale and. {mooth Water, we ftood —
further on inthe Bay , to fee what Land —
was on the H.-of it. Our Soundings at
firft were 7 Fathom, which held foa great —
while, but at length it: decreas’d to 6.
Then we faw the Landrighta-head, that —
4n the Plan makes the E.of the Bay. We —
could not'come near it with the Ship, hav- —
ing but Shole-water: and it being dange- —
rous lying there, andthe Land extraordi-
narily low, very unlikely to have frefh
“Water (though it had a few Trees on it,

feemingly Mangroves) and much of it pro- _
bably covered at High-water, Iftoodout
again that Afternoon, deepning the Water, —
and before Night anchored in 8 Fathom, _
clean white Sand, about the middle ofthe _
Bay: The next day we got up our An- —
chor; and that Afternoon cameto an An-
chor once more near two Iflands, and a —
‘Shole of Corral Rocks that face the Bay. —
Here I fcrubb’d my Ship: and finding it
very improbable I fhould get any thing —
further here, Imadethe beft of my way ~
out to Sea again, founding all the way:
but finding by the fhallownefs of the Wa-
ter that there was no going out to Seato —
the Haft of the two Iflands that face the ~
Ray, ic

See eat

Pio var. Tee ee Pa | Fi tn glia ate, barat é Tote ees. > ead ee

The A. departs from Sharks-Bay. 129
Bay, nor between them, Treturn’d to -the 42.1699:
Weit Entrance , soing® out by the fame “V™
Way I cameinat, only on the Haft inftead
of the Weft-fide of the fmall Shole to be
feen in the Plan : in which Channel we had ) |
10, 12, and 13 Fathom-water, ftill deep:
ning upon us till we were out at Sea: The .
day before we came out I fent a Boat a- a
fhore to the mott Northerly of the Two |
Iflands, which is the leaft of them, catch-.
ing rnany {mall Fifh in the mean while
with Hook and Line. . The Boat’s Crew
returning, told me, That the Ifle produces
nothing but a fort of green, fhort, hard,
prickly Grafs, affording neither Wood nor
frefh Water ; and thata Sea broak between
the two Iflands, a Sign that the Water
was fhallow. They faw a-large Turtle;
and many Skates and Thornbacks, but
caught none. } far
’ It. was Aagust the 14th when I fail’d out
of this Bay or Sound, the Mouth of which
lies, as I faid, in 25 deg. 5 min. defigning
to coaft along tothe N. E. till I might —
commodioufly put in at fome other part of
NV. Holland. (n paffing out wefaw three
Water - Serpents fwimming about in the
~ Sea, of a yellow Colour, fpotted with
dark, brown Spots. They were each a-
bout four Foot long ,;. and about the big-
nefs of a Man’s Wrilt, and werethe frit
_ I faw onthis Coaft, which abounds with
: K feverat

-"Pable IVs: N®g4

Anr699:

_and then we jogg’d on again tothe North- 7
ward, and faw many {mail Dolphins and.

~ Coafting along N. Holland.
feveral forts of them. We had the Winds
at our firft coming Out at N. andthe Land
lying North-Eafterly. We plied offand on,
setting forward but little till the next day :
When the Wind coming at $. S. W. and
S. we began to Coaft it along the Shore to
the Northward, keeping at 6 or 7 Leagues
off Shore ; and founding often, we had
between 40 and 46 Fathom-water, brown
Sand, with fome white Shells. This
15th of August we were in Lat. 24 deg.
41 min. On the 16th Day at Noon we
were in 23 deg. 22min. The Windcom-
ing at E. by N. we could not keep the -
Shore aboard, but were forced to go far-
ther off, and loft. fight of the Land. Then ~
founding we had no Ground with 80 Fa-
thom-line; however the Wind fhortly af
ter came about again to the Southward, _

Whales, and abundance. of Scuttle-fhells
fwimming on the Sea; and fome Water-
fnakes every day. The 17th wefaw the
Land again, and took a Sight of it. [See

- The 18thin the Afternoon, being 2 or P)

’ 4 Leagues off Shore, I faw a Shole-point, 7

ftretching from the Land into the Sea, a
League or more. The Sea broke high on
it; by which I faw plainly there was a
Shole there. I ftood farther off, and.coaft-

ed @

Sholes, and noify Whales. = 13
ed along Shore, to about 7 or 8 Leagues 4.1699: |
diftance: And at 12 a Clock at Night we
founded, and had but 20 Fathom, hard
Sand. By this I found I was upon ano-
ther Shole; and fo prefently fteered off W.
half an-hour, and hadethen 40 Fathom.
At One inthe Morning of the 18th day we.
had 85 Fathom: : By Fwovwe could find
no Ground; and then'I ventur’d to fteer
_ along Shore-again, due.Nv which istwo -_
Points wide of the Coaft» (that lies here
N. N.-E)> for fear of. another Shole:-» I
would not: be too far off fromthe Land,
being defirous to fearch into it where-ever
I fhould find an Opening of any Conveni-
ence of fearching about, for Water, oc.
When we were of the Sholespoint { men-
-tion’d where we had but 20 Fathom-wa-
ter, we had in the Night abundance of
Whales about the Ship, fome a head, o-
‘thers a-ftern, and fome on each fide blow-
ing and making a very difmal Noife ; but
when we came out again into deeper Wa-
ter they left us. Indeed the Noife that:
they made by blowing and dafhing of
the Sea with their Tails, making it all of
a Breach.and Fome; was very dreadful to
us, like the breach of the Waves in very
Shole-water ,. or among Rocks. The
Shole thefe Whales were upon had depth

_. of Water fufficient, no lefs than twenty

y Fathom, as I faid; and it lies in Lat. 22
Ke : - deg.

= ee 7 PN a a ee

Sao ee ae OE ee
weir n eS sored

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122
4n.1699. deg. 22 min. “The Shore was’ generally
V™ bold all along ::we had met with no Shole

‘firft fell on the NV. Holland Coatt in the Lat.

‘to have beens11 Leagues off Shore, we —
were but 4-fo that either our Draughts —
cwere. faulty; which yet hithertoand after-
awards wefound true enough:as to the ly- —

Onthis 18th of Auga/t we coafted witha
brisk Gale of the True Trade-wind at —

haling off in the Evening to Sea, were next ~

Coafting along N. Holland. —

at Sea fince the~Abroblo-fhole, when we

Ses fie se eI

of 28. till yefterday in the Afternoon, and
this Night. ‘This Morning alfo when we —
expected by :the Draught we had with:us —

ingeof the Coaft, or elfe here was a Tide
unkfown tous that deceived us; tho’ we —
had-found very little of any Tide on this —

Verge of the General Trade (tho” intei- |
rupted by theStorm I mention’d) from the —
Latvof 28, when we firft fell in withthe ~
Coaft: and by that time we were in the —
Lat: of 25. we had. ufually the regular —
Trade-wind @whichishere $.S0E.) when |
we were at any diftancefrom Shore: but —
we had often Seaand Land-Breezes, efpe-
cially when near Shore, and when in-
Sharks:bay ;-and had a particular N. Weft |
Wind, or Storm, that fet usin thither. —

S, S.E. very fairand clear'V Veasher; but 7

?
Land @

Morning, out of fight of Land: and the ~

OE a Ta a ee a ae Ra SS at 3 Saal bt at ce ati ate FT NA CRT Ne SRN RS Ben Tare so oy EE aE ee) 5 ee

Breezes on the Coaft of N. Holland.’ 132
Lard now trending away’ N. Hafterly | 4n.1699-
and we being:to the Norward of it, and
the Wind alfo fhrinking from the S$. 8. .
to the E. S. E. (that is, from the True a |
_ Trade-Windto the Sea-Breeze,as the Land |
now lay) we could not get in with the
Land again yet a-while, fo as to fee it;
tho’ we trim’d fharp and kept clofe on a
Wind. We were this roth day in Lat.
at deg. 42 min. The2oth we were in
Lat. 19 deg. 37 min. and kept clofe on a
Wind to get fight of the Land again, bur
could not yet fee if. We had very fair
Weather ; and tho’ we were fo far from
the Land as to be out of fight of it, yet
we had the Sea and Land-Breezes. In the
Night we had the Land-breeze at S. S. E.

a {mall gentle Gale; which in the Morn- —
ing about Sun-rifing would fhift about
sradually (and withal increafing in
Strength) till about Noon we fhould have
it at E.S. E. which is the true Sea-breeze
here. ‘Then it would blow a brisk Gale,
fo that we could {carce carry our Top-fails
double rift : and it would continue thus
till 3 in the Afternoon, when, it would
‘decreafe again. ‘The Weather was fair all
the while, not a Cloud to be feen ; bur
very hazy, efpecially nigh the Horizon.
We founded feveral times this goth day,
and at firftt had no Ground : but had after-

wards from 52 to 45 Fathom, courfe

: K 3 »' - DroMva:

ee e we é fi

134 Sea-Serpents. N. Holland. |
1699-brown Sand, mixt with f{niall, brown and
* white Stones, with Dints befides. in the
Mallow. js ch :
~~ "The aift day alfo we hdd forall Landa 4
sera inthe Night , and Sea-breezes in ©
% - the day: and as we faw fome Sea-{nakes
every day, fothis day we faw a great ma-
ny, of two different forts or fhapes. One
fort: was yellow, and about the bignefSof —
a Man’s Wrift, about 4 Foot long, hav- ~
ing a flat Tail about 4 Fingers broad.
~ The other fort was much fmaller and
-fhorter, round and fpotted blaci. and Yel |
low. This day we founded feveral times,
and had 45 Fathom, Sand. We did not _
make the Land ‘till: Noon, and then fawit
firft from our Topmatt- head. ItboreS.E.
. by E. about 9 Leagues diftance; and it
a appeared like a Cape or Head of Land. ‘
4 The Sea-breeze this day was not fo {trong |
_asthe day before, and it veered out more 3
fo that we had a fair Wind to run in with’
to the Shore, and at Sun-fet anchoredin
20 Fathom, -clean Sand, about 5 Leagues —
from the bluff Point; which was not a
Cape (as it appear’d ata great diftance)
but the Eaftermoft end of anIfland, about
5 or 6 Leagues in length, and oné in
breadth. There were 3 or 4 Rocky Iflands.
about a League from us between us and —
the bluff Points and we faw many other
ifandsboth ro the aft and V Velt of it, Me

eT Ne RR RS. WEE PON FS RL SR Ue Se ee EL, (Ne ee Mae TP Me Pe eae rr Lee ee Se oN

Iflants by N. Holland. = =—s* 35
far as we could fee either way from our 47.1699.
‘Topmaft-head: And all within them to “V™
the S. there was nothing but Iflandsof a ”
pretty heighth, that may be feen 8 or 9
Leagues off. By what we faw of them
they muft have beena Range of Iflands of
about 20 Leagues in length, ftretching
from E. N. E. to VY.S.. VV. and for
- ought I know, as far as to thofe of Sharks-
Bay ; and to a confiderable breadth alfo,
(for we could fee 9 or 10, Leagues in -a-
mong them) towards the Continent or
main Land of NV. Holland, if there be any
fuch thing hereabouts: and by the great
Tides I met with awhile afterwards, more
- tothe N. Haft, I had a ftrong fufpicion - —
that here might be a kind of Archipelago —
of Iflands, and a Paflage poffibly to the S.
of NV. Hollandand N. Guinea into the great »
S, Sea Baftward; whichI had Thoughts
alfo of attempting in my Return fromlV.
Guinea (had Circumftances permitted) and
told my Officers fo: but I would not at-
tempt itat this time, becanfe we wanted |
VVater, and could not depend upon find- be
ing it there. This Place is in the Lat.of —
20 deg, 21 min. but in the Draughe that’
{ had of this Coaft, which was 7 4/man’s,
it was laid down in 19 deg. 50 min. and
the Shore is laid down as all along joining
in one Body: or Continent, with fome
Openings appearing like Rivers ; and not

A K-42 like

RO ee gts ek ee ewe ee nS ee ;
" : yi 1

136 Tafman’s Draught reétified.
An.1699. like Iflands, as really they are. See feveral
“V™ Sights of it, TablelV. N®.8,9, 10. This
Place therefore lies more Northerly by
4o min. than is laid down in Mr. Ta/man’s
Draught : . And befide its being made a
firm, continued Land, only with fome
Openings like the Mouths of Rivers, I
found. the Soundings alfo different from
what the prickt Line of his Courfe fhews
them, and generally fhallower than he
makes them : which inclines me to think
that he came not fo near the Shore as his
_ Line fhews, and fo had deeper Soundings,
and could not fo well diftinguith the Iflands.
-His Meridian or Difference of Longitude
from Sharks-Bay agrees well enough with
my Account, which is 232 Leagues tho’ we
. differ in Lat... And to confirm my Conje-
€ture that the Line of his Courfe is made
too near the Shore, at leaft not farto the
‘ Eaft of this place, the V Vater is there fo
| {hallow that he could not come there fo
nigh. ° | | |
But to proceed; in the Night we hada
{mall Land-breeze, and inthe Morning
I weighed Anchor, defigning to run in a-
a mong the Iflands, for they had large Chan-
ae nels between them, of a League wide at
leaft, and fome 2 or 3 Leagues wide. I
fent in my Boat before to found, and if
| they found Shole-water to return again ;
but if they found Water enough, to go a-

a ee eS ee ee ee ee ee re Sen reer genre

Ranging along N. Holland. Jfands. 127
fhore on one of the Iflands, and flay till 4n.2609°
the Ship came in; where they might in “Wo
the mean time fearch for Water. So we
followed after with the Ship, founding as .
we went in, and had 20 Fathom, till with-
in 2 Leagues of the Bluf-head, and then |
we had fhole Water, and very uncertain
Soundings: Yet we ran in ftill, with an ea-
fie Sail, founding and looking out well,
for this wasdangerous Work. When we
came abreaft of the Bluff-head; and about
2 Mile from it, we had but 7/ Fathom :

Then we Edged away from it, but had
no more Water; and running ina little
farther, we had but 4 Fathoms: So we
Anchored immediately ; and yet when we »
had veered out a third of a Cable we had
7 Fathom Water again ; fo uncertain was
the Water. My Boat came immediately
aboard, and told me that the Ifland was ve-
ty Rocky and Dry, and they had little:
hopes of finding Water there. I fent them
tofound, and bad them, if they founda

_ Channel of 8 or 10 Fathom, Water, to keep
on, and we would follow with the Ship.

_ Wewere now about 4 Leagues within the

- outer fmall Rocky Ulands, but ftill could:
fee nothing but, Iflands within us; fome 5
or 6 Leagues long, others not above a Mile.
round. The large Iflands were pretty
high; but all appeared Dry, and moftly
Rocky and Barren. The Rocks look’d of
RK | Ne Teer

oY ESOS NTE ee Te ae ee eee =

138 “Rofemary-I. its Vegetables, &c.
) An.1699.a rufty yellow Colour, and therefore, I
| “v™ difpair’d of getting Water on any of them; ©
but was in fome hopes of finding a Channel
to run in beyond all thefe Iflands, could I
have {pent time here, andeither get tothe
Main of New Holland, or find out fome o-
ther Iflands that might afford us Water and
other Refrefhments: Befides, that among
fo many Iflands, we might have found ©
fome fort of Rich Mineral, or Ambergreefe,
‘ it being a good Latitude for both thefe.
oe But we had not Sailed above a League far-
| ther before our Water grew fholer again,-
and then we Anchored in 6 Fathom hard
sand.) when | =
Pt . We were now on the inner fide of the ~
| : Ifland, on whofe outfide is the Bluff-point.
' . _ We rodea League from the Ifland, and I 7
- prefently went afhore, and carried Shovels ©
| to dig for Water, but found none. There ©
a - grow here 2 or 3 fortsof Shrubs, one juft ©
| like Rofemary ; and therefore I call’d this |
ae Rofemary land. It grew in great plenty 7
| here, but had no fmell. Some of the o- |
ther Shrubs had blu¢ and yellow Flowers ; @
and we found 2 forts of Grain like Beans: 7%
| _. Theone grew on Bufhes; the other ona
fort of a creeping Vine that runs along on
the Ground, having very thick broad
Leaves, and the Bloffom like a Bean Blof. 7
fom, but much larger, and of a deep red 7%
| ~.. Colour, looking very Beautifal: Wefaw 3%
. here @

ee nS ey

te eee ee TR Og Re ee ep eh ee a ee N= Sl
BN t Be

Departure from Rofemary-I.° 139

here fome Cormorants, Gulls, Crabcatch- 42.1699:

ers, ce. afew fmall Land: Birds, andavvw

_ fort of white Parrots, which flew a great
- many together. We found fome Shell-

fifh, viz. Limpits, Perriwinkles, and a-

Rocks, .which were very fweet. In the °
Sea we faw fome green Turtle, a pretty.

- many Sharks, and abundance of Water-
‘Snakes of. feveral forts and fizes. The
Stones were allof rufty Colour, and Pon-
derous.

We faw.a Smoak on an Ifland 3 or 4
Leagues off; and here alfo the Bufhes had
been burned, but we found no other fign.
of Inhabitants ?Twas probable that on’
the [land where the Smoke was there were
Inhabitants, and frefh Water for them.
In the Evening I went aboard, and confult-
ed with my Officers whether it was beft
to fend thither, or to fearch among any o-
ther of thefe Iflands with my Boat; or elfe
go from hence, ‘and Coaft along Shore

with the Ship, till we could find fome bet-
ter Place than this was to ride in, where
we had fhole Water, and lay expos’d to
Windsand Tides, They all agreed to go
from hence; fo I gave Orders to weigh in
the Morning as foon asit fhould be light,
and to get out with the Land-breeze.

Accordingly, Augu/t the 23d. at § in

. the Morning we ran out, having a pretty

frefh

140 ~~. Strong Sea- Breezes, Fifh..
4n.1699-frefh Land-breezeat $. S.E. By 8 a Clock
“V™ we were got out: and very feafonably ; for

before 9 the Sea-breeze came on us very’
ftrong, and increafing, we took-in our —
Topfails and ftood off under 2 Courfes and
a Mizan, this being as much Sailas we
could carry. The Sky wasclear,there being —
-not one Cloud to be feen; but the Horizon
appeared very hazy, and the Sun at fetting
the Night before, and this Morning’atri-
fing, appeared very Red. The Wind con-
tinued very {trong till Twelve, then it be-
ganto abate: Ihave feldom met with a ~
ftronger Breeze. Thefe ftrong Sea-breezes |
lafted thus in their ‘Turns 3 or 4 Days:
‘They fprung. up with the Sun rife: Byg
a Clock they were very ftrong, and focon-
tinued till Noon, when they began toa- 7
bate: And by Sun-ferthere was little Wind, 7
or aCalm tilltheLand-breezescame; which —
we fhould certainly have inthe Morning
about 1 or 2 a’Clock. ‘The Land-breezes 7
were between the S. S: W.and -S.S. E. |
The Sea-breezes between the E. N. E. and @
N.N.E. Inthe Night while Calm we |
fifh’d with Hook and Line, and cauglit —
good ftore of Fifh, viz. Snappers, Breams,
Old Wives, and Dog-fifh. When thefe

: _laft came we feldom caught any others;
for if they did not drive away the other
- Fifh, yetthey would be fure to keep them

from taking our Hooks, °fer-they would

7 firft

es ee ee or —— oe >

— oe 4 ere ee a eee ae 2 ee ee eee oe

SC re fe

Coafting along N.Holland. — gr.
firft ‘have them themfelves, biting very 41699
greedily. We caught alfo a Monk-fifh, “VY
_ of whichT brought home the Piéture. See
>rOnthe 5th of dagu/?, we ftill Coafted
along: Shore, that we might the better fee
any Opening ; kept founding, and had a-
bout:20 Fathom clean Sand. The 26th
Day, being about 4 Leagues off Shore
the Water began gradually to fholden
from 20to14 Fathom. I was Edging in
a littletowardsthe Land, thinking tohave
Anchored: But prefently after the Water
decreafed almoft at once, till wehad but 5
Fathom.} I durft therefore adventure no
farther, but fteered out the fame way that
Wecame in; andina fhort time had ro
Fathom (being then about 4 Leagues and
a half from the Shore) and even Sound-
ings. I fteered away E.N.E. Coafting
along asthe Land lies. ‘This Day the Sea-
breezes began to be very moderate again,
and we made the belt of our way along
Shore, only in the Night Edging off a lit-
tle for fear of Sholes. Ever fince we left
Sharks- Bay we had had fair clear. Weather,
and fo for agreat while ftill.

The 27th Day, we had 20 Fathom Wa-
ter all Night, yet wecould not fee Land
till x in the Afternoon from our Topmaft-
head. By 3 we could juft difcern Land
_ from our Quarter-deck: We had then 16

: Fathom. |

142 _ Noddy-Birds of N. Holland.

_ ‘Anx1699: Fathom. The Wind was:at N. and we
CV™ fteered E. by N. which is but one point in
‘onthe Land: Yet we decreafed our Water:
very faft ; for at 4 we had but 9 Fathom 3
the next Caft but 7, which frighted us ; and
we then tackt inftantly and ftoed of: Bur
ina fhort timethe Wind coming at N.W.
. and W. N. W. we tacktagain, andfteered
~-f N.N. E. andthen deepned our Water a= 7
: -. gain, and hadall Night from15 to. 20 Fa- ©
_ . thom. gored 4 ee _
The 28th Day we had between 20.and: ©
40 Fathom. We fawno Land thisDay, ~
but faw a great many Snakes, andfome ~
Whales. We faw alfo fome: Boobies; and
Noddy-birds; andinthe Night caught one ~
of thefelaft. It wasof another Shape and
Colour than any Ihadfeen before. Ithad ~
a {mall long Bill, as all of them have, flac ~
Feet like Ducks Feet; its Tail forked ©
3 like a Swallow, . but longer and broader,
q and the Fork deeper than that of the Swal- ~
-low, with very long Wings: The Topor 7
Crown of the Head of this Noddy was 7
Coal-black, having alfo {mall black Streaks 7
round about and clofé to the Eyes; and ©
round thefe Streaks on each fide, a pretty ©
broad white Circle... The Breaft, Belly, ©
‘and under partof the Wings of this Nod: ~
dy were white: And the Back and upper ©
partof its Wings of a faint black or fmoak 7
Colour. . Seea PiGture of this, and of the 7
€om- |

si :

we): =a a i ha ae ee on eee ne ee ai ieica Ft rode DR ee al nce ate ake od Lan eee A
Nees e = ¥ . ve hae

An Ecclipfe of the Moon. — "143
Common one, Birds, Fig. 5, 6. Noddies 42.1699:
are feen in moft Places between the Tropicks, “V™
as well in the Ez/t-Indies, and onthe Coaft
of Brazil, asin the West-Indies.- They reft
a Shorea Nights, and therefore we never

_ fee them far at Sea, not above 20 or 30
Leagues , unlefs driven off in a Storm.
When they come about a Shiptheycom- .
monly perch inthe Night, and will fit ftill . =
tillthey are taken by theSeamen. They 3
Build on Cliffs againft the Sea, or Rocks, :
as Thave faid Vol-I. p.53.
The 30th Day beingin Lat. 18 deg. or
min. we made the Land again, and faw
_ many great Smoaks near the Shore ; and
having fair Weather and moderate Breezes,
I fteered in towardsit. At 4in the After-
noon I Anchored in § Fathom Water ;
clear Sand,about 3 Leagues and a half from
the Shore. TI prefently fent my Boat to
Sound nearer in, and they found 10 Fa-
thom abouta Mile farther in: and from
thence ftill farther in the Water decreafed
gradually to g, 8, 7. and at 2 Mile diftance
to 6 Fathom. This Evening we faw an
Eclipfe of the Moon, but it was abating
before the Moon appear’d to us; for the
Horizon was very hazy, fo that we could
not fee the Moon till fhe had been half an
hour above the Horizon: and at two
_ ‘hours, 22 min. after Sun-fer, by the reck-
. Oning of our Glafles, the Eclipfe was quite |
i ‘ Zone,

»~ ~~

144 ae again in N. Hol 1
4n.1699-gone, which was not of many Digits.
“V~ The Moon’s. Center was ea 33 deg.

40 min: high.

The gift of August esis in rie Morn-
ing I went afhore with 10.0r t1 Mento
fearch for Water. “We went armed with
Muskets and Cutlaffes for our Defence, ex-

~ petting to fee People there ; and carried” {

alfo Shovels and. Pickaxes to dig Wells.
When wecame near the Shore we faw 3
tall black naked Men on the fandy Bay a~
head of us: But as we row’d in, they went
away. When we were landed I fent the
Boat with two Men inher to ly a little
from the Shore at an Anchor, to prevent ~

being feiz’d.; while the reft. of us went af= _
ter the 3 black Men, who were now got
on the top of a fmall Hill. about a quarter
of a Mile from us, with 8 or 9 Men more
in their Company. They feeing us com-
ing, ran away. When we came on the
top of the Hill where they firft ftood, we
faw.a plain Savannah, about half a mile
from us, farther.in from the Sea. There ©
were feveral Things like Hay-cocks,
-ftanding in the Savahnah; which at adi- ©
.. lance we thought were Houtes, looking —
-jaft like the Hottentor’s Houfes at the Cape
of G. Hope: but we found them to be fo
many Rocks. We fearched about thefe
“for Water, but could find none, nor any
Houfes; nor People, for they were alk 7

: cone.

soggy Cp MMM 5 eo 7 A a a a

Natives of N. Holland. ase
Then we’ return’d again to the Place 4% 1699
where we landed, and there we dug for
Warter.. at
While we were at work there came 9
or to of the Natives toa fmall Hilla little
way from us, and ftood there menacing '
and threatning of us, and making a great
Noife. At laft one of them came towards
us, and the reft: followed at-a diftance.. I
went out to’ meet him; and came within |
50 yards of him, making to him all the -
Signs of Peace and Friendfhip I could ;
but then he ran'away, neither would they
-any of them ftay for us to come nigh
them; for we tried two: or three times.
At laft I took two Men with me, and
went inthe Afternoon along by the Sea-
fide, purpofely to catch one of them, if I
could, of whom I might learn where they
got their frefh Water. . There were 10
or'12 of the Natives alittle way off, who
feeing us three going away from the reft
of our Men, followed us at adiftance. I
thought they would follow us: but there
_ being for awhile a Sand-bank between us
and them, that they could not then fee us,
we made a halt, and hid: our felves in a
bending of the Sand-bank. They knew
we mult be thereabouts, and being. 3 or 4
times our Number, thought to feize us.
So they difpers’d themfelves, fome going —
to the Sea-fhore, and others beating about
L

the

Tae
4n.1699-the Sand-hills. . We knew by. what Ren-

oO on ONE eee ee A Oe Oe or. ae a eer en
eat

Natives of N. Holland. |

“counter we had shad with them in the, —
Morning that we could eafily out-run
them: fo a nimble young Man that was
with me, fecing fome of them near, ran
towards them ; and they for fome time,
fan away before him. But he foon over-
taking them, they facd about and fought
him. He had a Cutlafs, and they had
Wooden Lances: with which, being ma-
ny of them, they were too hard for him.
When he firft ran towards them 1 chas’d
two more that were by the Shore: but —
fearing how it might be with my young ©
Man, Iturn’d back quickly, and went up ©
to the top of a Sand-hill, whence I faw
him near me, clofely-engag’d. with them.
Upon their feeing me, one of them threw
a Lafce at me, that narrowly mifst me.
f difcharg’d my Gun to feare them, but
avoided {hooting any of them: till finding
the young Manin great danger from them,
and my felf in fome; and that tho’ the
Gun hada little frighted them at firft, yet
they had foon learnt to defpife it, toffing
up their Hands, and crying Pooh, Pooh,
Pooh ; and coming on afrefh with a great
Noife, I thought it high time to charge a-
gain, and fhoot one of them, which I did.
Fhe reft, feeiag him fall, madeaftanda-
sali; and my young Man took the op- —
portunity to difengage himfelf, and come |

off

eee oo ee

Natives of N.Holland. 147°

off to.me : my other:Man.alfo was with 4.1699. - —

me, who had done nothing all this while,
having come.out unarm’d ; and I return’d
back with my Men, defigning to.attempt

, the Natives. no farther , being very forry

for what had happen’d already. They
took up their wounded Companion : and

my young Man, who had been ftruck -

through the.Cheek by one of their Lances,
was afraid it had been poifon’d: but I did
not. think that likely. . His Wound was
very painful to him, being made witha
blunt: Weapon: but he foon recover’d of
it. .
Among the NV. Hollanders., whom.we
were thus engag’d with, there was one
who by his Appearance and Carriage, as
well in the Morning .as this Afternoon,
feem’d to be the Chief of them, and.a kind

of Prince or Captain among them... He ,
‘was a young brisk Man, not very-tall; nor

fo perfonable as fome of the reft, tho’ more
active and. couragious: He was painted
(which fone of the reft were at all) with
a Circle of white Pafte or Pigment (a fort
Lime, as wethought) about his Eyes, and
a white ftreak down his Nofe from his

_ Forehead to the tip of it. Andhis Breaft

and fome part of his Arms were alfo made
white with the fame Paint : not for Beauty
or Ornament, one would chink, but as
fome wild Indian Warriors are faid to do,he

L 2 feem’d

bay ae PRS
Se

Set ee eee ee Te Oe ee. eee. eT ee Pe ten Oe eee ee ere
* Fg a ss ‘ ‘

“148 Natives of N. Holland. — :

“An. 1699 feemn’d thereby to defign the looking more
‘terrible ; this his Painting adding very —

“much to his natural Deformity; forthey

‘all of them of the’ moft unpleafant Looks ~

‘and the worft Features of any People that

‘ever I faw, tho’ I have feen great variety

“Of Savages. “"Thefe N. Hollanders were “|

. probably the fame fort of People asthofe
T met with on this Coaft in my Voyage —

round the World; (See Vol. 1. p. 464, ec.)

for the Place I then touch’d at was not a-

) ‘hove 40 or 50 Leaguesto the N. E. of this:
‘And thefe were much the fame blinking

Creatures (here being alfo abundance of

the fame kind of Flefh-flies teizing them) _

‘and with the fame black Skins, and Hair
frizled, tall and thin, Gc. as;thofe were: —

But‘ we had not the opportunity to fee —

whether thefe, asthe former, wanted two
“of their fore-Teeth. . Ke
~~ We faw a great many places where they _
‘had made Fires ; and where there were —
commonly 3 or 4 Boughs {tuck up to _

Windward of them; forthe Wind (which —

a‘. is the Sea-breeze) in the day-time blows
‘i -alwaysone way with them ;, andthe Land- —
breeze is but fmall.. By their Fire-places
we {hould always find great heaps of Fifh-
Thells, of feueral forts; and °tis probable
that thefe poor Creatures here lived chiefly

on the Shell-fifh, “as thofe I before defcrib’d —

eS ee Tee Ne ee Pel Le eet, te ee LE Te er, eg i eae

Tidesin N. Holland. 9 149)

Wires or Holes inthe Sand at Low-water. 47. 1699.
Thefe gather’d their Shell- fifh om the“
Rocks at Low-water ; “but had’ no! Wires
(that we faw)) whereby to ‘get. any. other
forts of Fifh:» As among the former I faw
not any heaps of Shells as here, though)J,
know they alfo gather’d’ fome Shell-fifhy
The Lances alfo of thofe were fuch asthefe
had; however they being upon an Iland,
with their,.Women arid Children, and-all
in our Power, they did not there ufé them
againft us, as here on the Continent, where:
we {aw none but fome of the Men under
Head, who come out purpofely to obferve
“us. We {aw no Houfes at either Place;
and I believe they have none, fince the for-
mer People-on the Ifland:had. none, tho’
they had all their Families‘with them. ©,
- Upon returning to my Men I faw-thae
tho’ they. had dug 8 or g Foot deep, yee
found no. Water. So I returned aboard
that Evening, and the'next day, being
September st, 1 fent my Boatf{wain afhore
to dig deeper, and fent the Sain with him
_ tocatch Fifh. Whilel ftaid aboard I ob- A
ferved the flowing of the. Tide, which
runs very {wift here, fo that our Nun-buoy
would not bear, above the Water. to’ be
feen. It flows here (as on-that part of
N. Holland V defcrib’d formerly, about:5
Fathom; and here the Flood runs S.-H

by S. till the. laft Quarter/;. then. it :fets
* 2 night

i ti - oo DAe, Be | See) AG Sb we eG IE El Cee, CT eR) ele er ee a
« - , Se)

150 - Nem Paffageito the South-Sea, :
4». 1699. right in. towards the Shore (which les
“V™ here S.S. Wi and N.N. BE.) andthe Ebb
runs N. Wy by'oN. When ‘the Tides
flackned we Fifl’d with Hook afid Liné,
as we had alreddy done in feveral Places on
this Coaft; on which in this*Voyage hi-
therto, we had found but little Tides: but
by the Heighth, and Strength, andCourfe
of them hereabouts, it fhould feem that if
there be fuch a Paflage of Streight going
through Haftward tothe Gréat Soath Sea;
as I faid one might fufpet, one would exs
ped to find the Mouth of it fomewhere
between this Place and Rofemary Uland,
which was the part of VV. Holland Y come
laft from. ye 3 7.
Next Morning my Men came aboard _
and brought a Rundlet of brackifh Water —
which they got out of another Well that —
they dug in a Place‘a mile off, and about
half as far fromthe Shore; but this Water —
was not fit to drink. However we ail E
concluded that it would ferve to boil our —
Oatmeal, for Burgoo, whereby we might
fave the Remains of our other Water for
drinking, till we fhould get more; andac- —
cordingly the next day we brought aboard _
4 Hogtheads of it: but while we were at _
work ‘about the Well we were fadly peft-
er’d with the Flies, which were mor
troubleforie to us than the Sun, tho i
fhone clearand {trong upon us allthe while, -
on | : very

“Plants in N. Holland. org 1
very hot. All this while we faw no mote 4*- 1699.
of the Natives, but faw fome of othe~~

“Smoaks of fome of their Fires at 2 or.3
miles diftance.: Aen

The. Land hereabouts th aval die :

that part of New Holland that 1 formerly
. defcribed [Vol. L. p. 463.] "tis low,, but
_ ‘feemingly barricado’d with a long Chain

of Sand-hills to the Sea, that let’s nothing

be feen of what is farther within Land. -

At high Water the Tides rifing fo high as
they do ; the Coaft fhews very low: but
when ’tis low Water it feems to be of an
indifferent heighth. At low Water-Mark
the Shore is all Rocky, fo that then. there
isno Landing with a Boat; but at high
Water a Boat may come in. over thofe
Rocks to the Sandy Bay, which runs all

along on this Coaft. . Theduand by the |

Sea for about 5.0r 600 yards.is a dry San-
dy Soil, bearing only Shrubs’ and Bufhes
of divers forts. Some of \thefe had them
at this time of the year, yellow Flowers or
Bloffoms, fome blue, and fome white);
moft of them of a very fragrant Smell.
Some had Fruit like Peafecods; in each.of
which there were juft ten {mall Peas: I
opened many ofithem, and found no.more
nor lefs. “Phere are alfo here fame of that
fort of Bean’ which I faw at. Rofemary-
¥fland: and-another fort of {mall , -red,
hard Pulfe, “growing in Cods alfo, with

L4 little

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152 Nature of the Land in N. Holland.
An. 1699slittle black Eyes like Beans. I know not
“V™ their Names, ‘but have feen them ufed of-
: ten in the EaS-Indies for weighing Gold ;

and they make the fame ufe of them at

Guinea, as 1 have heard, where the Wo-

men alfo make ‘Bracelets with them to

wearabout their Arms. Thefe grow on

Bufhes: but here are alfo-a Fruit like

Beans growing on a creeping fort of Shrub-

like Vine. ‘Thete was great plenty of all

thefe forts’of: Cod-fruit growing on the

Sand-hills by the Sea-fide, fome of them —

green, fome ripe, and fome fallen’ on the —

Ground: but I could not perceive that any

of them had been gathered: by the Na-

tives; and might not probably be whole-

fome Food.«:: « 7

The Land farther in, that is lower than
what borders ‘onthe Sea, was, fo muchas
we faw of it, very plain.and even. part-
iy Savannahs, and partly Woodland. The _

Savannahs bear a fortof thin courfe Grafs. —

The Mould is alfo a courfer Sand than

that by the Sea-fide, and in fome places —

tis Clay. Here are a great many Rocks —
in the large Savannah we were in, which —
are 5 or 6 Foot high, and round at top ©
‘like a Hay-cock, very remarkable; fome —
red, and fome white. The Woodland ~

lies farther in ftill; where there were di-

vers forts of fmall Trees, fearce any three

Foot in circumference ; their Bodies 12 0r

mY ewes er ead ER) i esp oe ee ee ee

Their Beafts, Fowl and Fifh. 153 )
14 Foor high, witha Head: of fmall Knibs 4a: 1699.
or Boughs. By thefides of the Crecks, ef. “¥™
pecially nigh the’ Sea, there grow a few
{mall black Mangrove Trees.

There are but few Land-Animals, I
faw fome Lizards ; and my Men faw two
or three Beafts Itke hungry : Wolves, lean .
like fo many Skeletons, being nothing but
Skin and Bones: ?Tis probable that it was
the Foot of one of thofe Beafts that I
mention’d as feen by us in ZV: Holland,

[Vol. I. p. 463.) We faw a Rackoon or
two, and one {mall {peckled Snake. , |

The Land-fowls that we faw here were
Crows (juft fuch as ours: in Exgland )

{mall Hawks, and Kites; a few of each
fort: but here are plenty of {mall Turtle-
Doves, that are plump, fat and very good
Meat. Here are 2:or 3 forts of fmaller
_ Birds, fome as big as Larks, fome lefs;
but not many of either fort. The Sea-
Fowl are Pelicans, Boobies, Noddies,
Curlews, Sea-pies, cc. and but few of
thefe neither. = *

The Sea is plentifully ftock’d with the
largeft Whales that I ever faw: but.not to
compare with the vaft ones of the Nor-
thern Seas. We faw alfo a great many .
Green Turtle, but caught none ; here be-
ing no Place to fet a Turtle-Netin; here
being no Channel for them, and the Tides
‘Tunning fo ftrong. We faw fome oh

i an

Fibin N. Holland.

Wives. Of Shell-fifh, here were Oyftets

both of the common kind for Eating, and
of the Pearl-kind: andalfo Wilks, Conchs,

Mutcles, Limpits, Perriwinkles, cc. and

AU gather’d a few ftrange Shells; chiefly.a

fort not large, and thick-fet.all about with

Rays or Spikes growing in Rows: |

__ And-thus having ranged about, a confi-

derable time, upon this Coaft , ‘without

finding any good frefh Water, .or any con-

venient Place to clean the Ship, as Lchad

shop’d for» .And it being moreover: the

heighth. of the:dry Seafon, ‘and my Men

growing Scorbutick for want’ of Refrefh-
-ments, fothat I had little Incouragement
“to fearch further ; I-refolved:to leave this

of Seprember. fev Sailtowards Temor. >

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Beso f OF feveral | hecead

PLANTS

'Golleted in

Braftl, New Holland,’ ‘Timor, and
“New Guinea ; referring to the
_ Figures. Engraven on the Cop-
oper Plates. ound ait:

AB. 1. Fig. 1. Cotton-flomer from

Bh Baya m’Brifil. The Flower con-
~ fifts ofa great many Filaments, almoft as
{mall as Hairs, betwixt 3'and‘ 4 Inches
long, of a Murreéy-colour ; on the top of
them ftand fmall afh-colour’d ‘apices. ‘The
pédicule of the Flower is inclos’d at the
bottom with five narrow ftiff Leaves, a-
bout fix Inches long. There is one of this
genus in Mr. Ray’s Supplement, which a-
an Ro grees

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_ An Account of Plants.
grees exactly with this in every refpett,

only that. is twice larger at the leaft. I

was fent from Surinam by the Name of
Momoo. | ayia

Tab. 1. Fig. 2. Safminum Brafilianum
luteum, mali limonie folio nervofo , petalis
crafis. = —

Tab 1. Fig. 3. Criffa Pavonis Brafiliana
Bardane folits. The Leaves are very
tender and like the top Leaves of Bardana
major, both as to fhape and texture: Inthe
Figure they arereprefented too ftiffand too
much ferrated. | g- | ,

Tab. 1. Fig. 4. Filix Brafiliana Ofmunde
minori ferrato folio. ‘This Fern is of that
kind, which bears it’s Seed-Veffels in Lines
on the edge of the Leaves. gh

Tab. 2.. Fig 1.. Rapantiam-Nove Hol-
landia, flore magno coccineo.. The Perian-
thium compos’d of five long pointed Parts,
the Form of the Seed-Veffel and thefmal-
nefs of the Seeds, together with the irre- —
gular fhape of the Flower-and thinnefs-of
the Leaves, argue this Plant to bea Ra-
puntium. .... 1 aa ng Tae
> Tab. 2. Fig. 2. Fucus foltis capillacees
breviffimis, veficulis minimis donatis. ‘This
elegant.fucus-is of the Erica Marina or
Sargazo.kind , but has much finer parts 7
than thar. ~ It was collected onthe Coaft —

of New Holland.

pike vi

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An Account of Plants.
- Tab. 2. Fig. 2. Ricinoides Nove Hol-
lande angulofo craffo folio. This Plant is
fhrubby, has thick woolly Leaves, efpeci-

ally on the under fide. Its Fruit is tricoc-

cous, hoary on the out-fide with a Calix
divided into five parts. It .comes near
Ricini frattu parvo frucofa Curaffavica,
folio Phylli, P.B. pre

| Tab. 2. Fig. 2. Solanum [pinofum Nove
Hollandiea Phylli foliis fubrotundis. This
new Solanum bears a blewifh Flower like
the others of the fame Tribe; the Leaves
are of a whitifh colour, thick and woolly
on both fides, {carce an Inch long and near
as broad. The ‘Thorns are very fharp and
thick fet, of a deep Orange colour, efpeci-
ally towards the Points. |

Tab. 3. Fig. 1. Scabiofa (forte) Nove
Hollandia , (latices foliis fubtus argenteis.
The Flower ftands on a Foot-ftalk four
. Inches long, included in a rough Calix of
a yellowifh colour. The Leaves are not
above an Inch long, very narrow like
Torift, green on the upper and hoary on
the under fide, growing in tufts. “Whe-
‘ther this Plant be a Scabious, Thrift or
Helichryfum is hard to judge from the im-
perfect Flower of the dry’d Speeimen.

Tab. 3.. Fig. 2. Alcea Nove Hollandie
foliis auguftis utringue villofis. ‘The Leaves

ftalk and under fide of the Perianthium of -

this Plant are all woolly, The Petala are
very

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An Account of Plants.
very tender, five in number, {fcarce fo
largeas the Calix: In the middle ftands a
, “a Columella thick fet withthrummy apicale,
which argue this Plant to belong to the
Malvaceous kind. Oe
Tab. 3. Fig. 3. Of what gezus this
Shrub or Tree is, is uficertain, agreeing
with none yet defcrib’d, ‘as far as can be ©
judg’d, bythe State itis in. It hasawvery
beautiful Flower, of ared colour as far as ~
can be guefs’d by the dry Specimen, con- —
fifting of ten large Petala, hoary on beth
fides, efpecially underneath ; the middle
of the Flower is thick fet with Stamina,
which are ‘woolly at the bottom, the
~ length of the Petala, each of them crown’d —
é with its Apex. The Calix is dividedinto —
: five round pointed parts. The Leavesare ~
like thofe of Amelanchier Lob. green atop —
and very woolly underneath, not running
to a point, as is common in others, but
with an Indenture at the upper end. :
- Tab. 3. Fig. 4. Dammara ax Nova Hol. —
landia , Sanamunde fecunde Chyfii foltis: —
This new genus was firft fent from 4m- —
boyna by Mr. Rumphias, by the Name of —
_Dammara, of which he tranfmitted two, ©
. kinds; one with narrow and long ftiff —
Leaves, the other with fhorter and broad- —
er. The firft of them is mention’d in
Mr. Petiver’s Centuria, p. 350. by the
Name of Arbor hortenfis. favanoram foliis

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An. Account of Plants.

vifce auguftioribus aromaticis florébus, fpicatis

flamineis lute{centibus; Muf. Pet... As alfo
in Mr. Ray’s Supplement to his Hiftory of
Plants now inthe Prefs. This is of the fame
genus With them, agreeing both in Flower
and Fruit, tho’ very much differing in
Leaves. The Flowersarefiamincous and
feem to be of an herbaceous colour, grow-
ing among the Leaves, which are fhore
and almoftround, very ftiff and ribb’d on
the under fide, of a dark green above, and

a pale colour underneath, thick fet on by

pairs, anfwering one another crofs-ways,

fo that they cover the Stalk.. The Fruic |

is as big as a Pepper-corn, almoft round,
of a whitifh colour, dry andtough, with
a Hole onthe top, containing {mall Seeds.
Any one that fees this Plant. without its
Seed-Veffels, would take it for an Erica

_. or Sanamunda.. The Leaves of this Plant
- areof avery-aromatick Taft...

Tab. 4. Fig. 1. Equifetum Nove Hol.
landia frutefceus foliis longiffimis.. ?Lis

_ doubtful whether this be an. Eguifetam or

not; the texture of the Leaves agrees beft
with that gezes of any, being articulated
one ‘within another at each Joint, which

is only proper to this Tribe. .Thelongeft —

of them areéabout nine Inches.

Tab. 4. Fig..2.Colutea Nove Hollandi«

— floribus amplis coccineis, umbellatins dif pofitis

macula purpurea notatis. ‘There being no
Leaves to this Plant, ’tis hard to fay what
£enUus

Pee ay eRe) fel eee) eet ae Fe ae ee eee nee.

as Cotyledon aquatica and Faba Aigyptia.

An Account of Plants.
genus it properly belongsto. The Flow-
ers are very like to the Colatea Barbe ‘fovis
folio flore coccineo Breynii; of the fame
Scarlet colour, with a large deep purple
Spot in the vexillam, but much bigger,
coming all from the fame point after the —
manner of an Umbel. The rudiment of |
the pod is very woolly, and terminates in
a Filament neartwolIncheslong. = -
Tab. 4. Fig. 3. Conyza Nove Hollandia
anguftis Rovifmarini foliis. This Plant is
very much branch’d and feems to be
woody. ‘The Flowers ftand on very fhort
Pedicules, arifing from the fizus of the
Leaves, which are exaétly like Rofemary,
only lefs. It tafts very bitter now dry.
. Tab. 4. Fig. 4. Moboh Infule Timor.
This is a very odd Plant, agreeing with
no defcrib’d gesus. The Leaf is almoft —
round, green on the upper fide and whi- ©
tifh underneath, with feveral Fibres run-
ning from the infertion of the Pedicule
towards the circumference ’tis umbilicated

The Flowers are white ftanding on fingle
Foot-ftalks, of the fhape of a Stramonium, —
but divided into four points only, as isthe —
Perianthium. | 4
Tab. 5. Fig. 1. Fucus ex Nova Guinea
uva marina dittus, folits variis. This
beautiful facus is thick fet with very {mall
fhort tufts of Leaves, which by the aa
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An Account of Plants.

of a magnifying Glafs, feem to be round
_ and articulated, as if they were Seed-Vef-

fels; befides thefe, there are other broad
Leaves, chiefly at the extremity of the
Branches, ferrated on the edges. The
veficule are round, of the bignefs exprefs’d
in the Figure.

Tab. 5. Fig. 2. Fucus ex Nova Guinea
Flaviatilis Pifane J. B. foliis.. Thefe
_ Plants are fo apt to vary in their Leaves,
according to their different States, that tis
hard to fay this is diftin& from the laft.
It has in feveral Places (not all exprefs‘d.
in the Figure) fome of the fmall fhort
Leaves, or Seed-Veflels mention’d in the
former; which makes me apt to believe it
the fame, gather’d in a different ftate ; be-
fides the broad Leaves of that and this
agree as to their Shape and Indentures.

oF a
ie

In Account of fome Fifbes that are
_ Figured in Plate 2. & 3.

See Plate 3. Fig. §.

Hisisa Fith of the Tunny-kind,and —

agrees well enough with the Fi-
sure in Tab. 3. of the Appendix to Mr.

Willughby’s Hiftory of Fifhes under the a

Name of Garabuca ; it differs fomething,

in the Fins efpecially, from :Pz/o’s Figure

of the Gwarapucu.
See Plate 3. Figure 4. < -
This refembles the Figure of the Gua-

perva maxima candata in Willughby’s Ich- q
thyol. "Tab. 9, 23. and the Guaperva of —
Péfo, but does not anfwer their Figures in —

every particular.

See Plate 2. Figure 2.

There are 2 forts of Porpuffes: The one ‘
the long-fnouted Porpu/s, as the Seamen ~

call it; and this isthe Dolphin of the Greeks,
‘The other is the Bottle-nofe Porpu/s, which

is generally thought to be the Phecena of

Ariftoile,
Plate 2. Figure 9.

, This is the Guaracapema of Pifo au a

Maregrave, by others call’d the Dorado.
| *Yis Figured in Willaghby’s Ichthyol. Tab.
O. 2. under the Name of Delphin Belgis.

THE

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INDEX.

‘e

Licgrancs, one of the Canary Iflands,
Page 4. its View from feveral

Points, ibid.
Amphisbena ( Suake ) aeferibed, 17
Amplitude ; Difference between “the Morning

and Evening Amplitude, ee Oe
Arifah (Fruit) deferibed 6

Arn Account of feveral Plants colletted pA
Brafil, New Holland, Timor, avd New
Guinea, frig to the Figures Tab. 1,
2, 33 4 45

An Cees of Some Fifhes that’s Figured on

Plate 2. 8° 2.

B.
| Baha de todos los Santos z# + Bralil its Har-

bour and Town defcribed, 49, &e.
M 2 The

| The INDEX.
The Product and Trade of the Country, §§

a ‘Their Shipping and Timber, ‘58 4
The Soil and Fruit of the Country, 62, &c. —
- The Winds and Seafons, -- 86
The time of cutting Sugar-canes, 87
Its view from feveral Points, | 48
Bill-Bird de/cribea, | 74 7
Birds of N. Holland, . 192,123 ©
Blake, fank the Spanifb Galleons near Tene- —
riffe,.~ SS ee ‘5s a
Brafil, the View of its Coaft, ee
See Bahia.

- Britain (New) an Ifland difcovered by the —
Author, well-inhabited, and probably af- —
fording rich Commoaities, Preface

Gables made of 4 fort of Hair growing on —
Trees in Brafil, 5 tga C4 ae
Callavances, 4 Fruit in Mayo, 23 8

_ Canary-Iflands, their Product and Trace, 11 7
The Character of their prefent Gover-. §

Bilin. oi has > 13," he
Cape of Good Hope, its View from feveral
Points, 5 48

»' Cafhew (Fruit) defcribed, 1 ek OS
Channel (Englifh) 4 neceffary Caution to
: : thofe that Sail through tt, 2
~ ..... Chattering-Crow of Brafil defcribed, 73
oC 4 . Clocking-

Oe ee a a Te Ee Oe eS tT ee aia
5 : 2 Ree ROM TT ee

sig sh OS Oa ee Nilhae some Sah Sa a oa a Al
Z .¥ se

Faas CAP Sag ae ioe Ney nega

The INDE X.
Clocbini ens of Brafil, : 74
Coco-Nat-Tree iz Brafi I 64
Cotton ( Silk ) its growth and defcription,

21, 22, 65

Crufia, 4 Fol, : aes

Curlew, 2 Fowl, . aia Ys

Currecoo (Bird) defcribed 5

Currents iz the Sea, from 7 deg. 50 min.

Lat. to 3 deg. 22 min. N. 41

Currefo (Bird) | 74

Cuftard-Apple, decribed 33

~ Cuttle- Fy, Plate 1. Fig. 3.
D.

Dendees, « fort of Palm-bverries in Brafil, 71

Dogs, fee Water-Dogs.

Dung-hill. Fow!s ie Brafil, 16
F. \

Fith of N. Holland, 124, 125
Fifh of the Tunny kind, and account of,
162

Fifh called by the ae de Old Wife,
account of, 162
Flamingo, «4 bowks 23.
Flying-Fifh, betwixt the Canaries and C.
Verd- -Iflands 14
Frape-Boat, its afe at the Salt-Pond at
Mayo, Fier 18, XC,

M 3 : Cc,

BS; ilediy ay AUR RES 5 SOS Bla aaah ara ake al OS ei ae oe bee uaa Nera Si Silt a ok a. Sy
¥ wey; pe ‘ 7 7 : ?

The INDEX.
| G.

Gatlena Pintada, a Bird, Mowe 23,kc.
Galleons (Spanifh) funk by Admiral Blake, . —
near Teneriff, and continue ftill ey: 4

Gerret- Dennis-Ife, its Inhabitants difer bed,

Preface —

Guano (Beaft) of N. Holland, 123. 7
Guinea-Hens, fee Gallena Pintada.

Guinea (New) ts Natives, &c. Pref.

Hammocks ; Gentlemen carried about in them
at Bahia iz Brafil,

5
Holland (New) Coat decribed, 121, ge

132, &c. 137.

Jago (St.) Iflend and Town, 29, &c.
ts Inhabitants, | 32 2
Its Produk, 33, &c.
Its Animals, | 35, &c.

The INDEX.
Jenipah, or Jenipapah (Fruit) bees.
68

Ingwa (Fruit) defevibed, ae

Laguna ia Teneriff, deferibed, 7
Lancerota, ove of the Canary Lflands, 4
Its View from feveral Points, ibid.

Mackeraw (Bird) deferibed 72

Malmfey-Wine grows in the Lana Eee
riff, 9, 11. .

Mayo, one of C. Verd Iflands, its View, i

_ Its Defcription, 15
A large Account of the ERE Salt there,

16, &e.
Its Soil ana Produd, 21, &C
Its Inhabitants, ‘29
Its View from feveral Points, 14
Mendibee (Fruit) 72
Mericafah (Fruit) defcribed, — 69
Miniola, 2 Fowl, ‘in Se
Monk- Fi/h, 14k
Muckifhaw (Fruit) defcribed, 70
Mungaroo (Frait) deferibed, 70

Mofteran-de-ova (Fruit) defcribed, 7%

M 4 N.

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-ThRINDEX J

Noddy-Bird deleribed,

Northweft-Winds give Notice bferebard
of their coming, at Port Oratavia in'Te- — (a
neriff, azd how provided Rs “9,10 @

0. : |
Oratavia, 4 Port in Teneriff, er 9.1
Otee (Fruit) defcribed, she 70 4
a | | rae : :
a Palm-Betries ia Brafil, ~ ny 4 |

Papah, 4 Fruit deferibed
Paflage poffibly to the South of ee Hol 7
Jand azd New Guinea into the great South

cae Sea Eaftward, 135,150 :
. Pernambuc more Healthy than other Places
oo tothe Southward, | AA a
Petango (Fruit) deferibed, Aosta OM
— Petret (Bird) defcribed Oa
tS ' Petumbo (Frait) pele i 70 —
» | Phyfick-Nuts = 74a
| Pineon (Frait), Ibid
Pintado Bird defcribed or hoe DRO
Plants, a” account of them, 1550
. Plants ch ee on Copper, Tab. 1, 2, 3,8
ee rr at | 7
| ; i Fig eg 4
ee DS is: 3 4

wal bake a5) 2

The INDEX. |
Plants of N. Holland,

15!
Porpufles, Pag. 162. ‘and Figured in Plate 2
of Fifbes, |

Portugueze Civil to the Author, 49
Rabek, a Fowl, 3 25
Raccoon of N. Holland, 123

Remora (Fi(b) Plate 11. Fig. 6.
Rofemary-I/land in N. Holland, 138
The Plant refembling Rofemary , from
which the Author gives this Nametothe
Iland, is Figured Tab. 4: Ne 3:

Salt, 4 large Account of the Method of make
- ing it at Mayo, us SOg cs
Salt- fe Ponds oy at Mayo, kerx only in the dry Sea-
Son, and others inthe Welt-Indies 1 the
wet only, 17
Santa-Cruz im Teneriff, its Road, Town and
Harbour defcribed by5
Seamen in great Danger of Sickne/s, by neg-
letting to fbift their wet Cloaths in bot Conn-
tries,
Their Ignorance and Obftinacy, 4 great ee
re Aa long Voyages, 45, 85, 86,
8

Sea. Weeds, See Weeds. )
Shark of N. Holland aeee 125
Sharks-Bay ## N. Holland defcribed, 121,

126, I 27: AAG

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Th INDEX. —
Shear-Water (Bird) deferibed, 93
Ship (the Authors) foundred at Sea, Pref.
Ship of 50 Guns built at Brafil, 58
Skip-jack (Fifh) defertbed.

7 11g
: serail » Jee Water-Snake, amd Amphif-

Sour-fop_ (Fruit) defcribed, 67
Sugar, the way of refining it in Brafil ae 3
Clg, ‘ Gn$h |
ie
Tafman’s Drake Needs, 136

Teneriffe, 4
Its Wines and Fruits and Animals, 9, 1
Its N.W. view,

- ~ Timber af Brafil as good and more deca

than an) in Barope, ae 58
Timo + Preface
Trees FE N. Holland, 122

Turtle, lay their Eggs in the wet Seafon, 26
Ww hy not eaten by the Spaniards, as by the
Englifh, 81

‘ Turtle-Doves of Brafil, 74

Ui.

‘Variation, where tt. snaredled's in Sailing Eaft-

er), 94
Where it decreafed in Seilibe Eafterly, 97 |
Its minihaha ‘and the difficulty of taking

ity } 99) 100, ar

The INDEX.
A large Table of Variations obferved in

this Voyage, ee 102, &c. ©
W.
Water-dog of Brafil, aes
Water-Snake of Brafil, its Eos Mas
ner of catching its Prey, 79
Of N. Holland, 129, 134.

Weeds floating in the Sea, 14,97, 114, 115
‘ Whales (dead) eaten by Fowls, 94
Whales, the catching and ufe of them in

Brafil, | 57 58
Whales of N. Holland, 138
Winds uncertain near the Pe, ‘42

Yemma (Bird) deftribed, 73

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