A 
 
 VOYAGE 
 
 ROUND THE 
 
 WORLD. 
 
 Being an ACCOUNT of a . 
 
 Remarkable Enterprise, 
 
 BEGUN 
 
 In the Year 1719, chiefly to cruife on the 
 Spaniards in the great South Ocean. 
 
 Relating the 
 
 True historical Fafts of that whole Affair : 
 
 Teftifyd by many imployd therein j and con- 
 firmd by Author! ties from the Owners. 
 
 By WILLIAM BETAGH, 
 
 Captain of Marines in that Expedition. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for T. COMBES at the Bible and Dove in Pater-noftcr 
 Row, J. LACY at the Ship near Temple Bar, and J. CLAKE 
 at the Bbile under the Royal Exchange. MDCCXXVIIL 
 
Sf45 
 X 
 
To the Right Honorable 
 
 GEORGE Vicount TORRINGTON, 
 
 Admiral and Commander in Chief of his 
 
 Maj efty 's Fleet, and Knight of the Moft 
 
 Honorable Order of the Bath. 
 
 JOHN COKBURNE, Efqj 
 Sir JOHN NORRIS, Knt. 
 Sir CHARLES WAGER, Knt. 
 Sir THOMAS LYTTLETON, Bart. 
 The Right Honorable GEORGE Vicount 
 M A L P A S, Knt. of the Bath 5 and 
 SAMUEL MOLYNEUX, Efq, 
 
 LORDS COMMISS IONERS for execut 
 ing the Office of High Admiral of Great 
 Britain, &c. 
 
 My Lords, 
 
 OUR Lord/hips are 
 intrufled by the great- 
 eft and left of Rings, 
 
 the important Office of 
 directing the whole Navy of 
 Great -Britain ; the ftrongeft 
 A 2 Me* 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 fafe-guard to all we poffefs and 
 injoy. Since therefore att ma 
 ritime affairs are under your 
 influence and authority -, I truft 
 your Lord/hips witt not refufe 
 to accept the anfwer of one ', 
 whcfe accujation in print hath 
 already been addreft to your 
 Honorable Board. I had the 
 happinefs of being fever al years 
 a purjer in the Navy, tho after 
 wards unfortunately ingaged un 
 der the command of captain Shel- 
 vocke in this cruifing expediti 
 on. As his pretended narrative 
 is intirely a deception, and his 
 whole conduft an indignity to his 
 country, T thought it my duty to 
 give your Lord/hips a genuine 
 account of the man as well as 
 
 our 
 
DEDICATION. 
 
 our voyage ; which I have done 
 truly and impartially, not with 
 out hopes it may prove entertain 
 ing. lf y my Lords, lam never 
 to meet with any recompenfe for 
 my hardjhips, I have yet thefa- 
 tisfaftion of afferting the honor 
 of his Majefty's commiffion, de 
 fending the caufe of fome of his 
 injured fu&jeflf, and being de 
 voted to his perpetual intereft, 
 to fubfcribe my felf, 
 
 Your Lordfhips 
 
 moft humble and 
 moft faithful iervant, 
 
 WILLIAM BETAGH. 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 ge 80. line 7. read marine, p. 145. I. 17. r. coco-nuts^ 
 p. 1 49. 1. 1 2. fortwentyfoujr r. /wo o/" ^r. p. 1 60. 1. 24. r. 
 
 made a fail. p. 286. 1. 21. r. tfter taking off. p. 311. 1. 3. 
 
 r. QJttejkr. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 SECTION. I. 
 
 *~THE undertaking, outfet and inftruttions. 
 * 4 II 
 
 Separation of the Ships. 1 3 
 
 Captain Clipperton at the Canaries. ib. 
 
 at St. Vincent. 22 
 
 Captain ShelvockeV contempt of his own 
 ers and officers. 1 6 <2O 
 his fon George an interloper. 20 
 arrival at the Canaries. 2 1 
 conceals the places of rendevous. 22 
 confumes the liquors dejignd for 
 
 25 
 
 ^ a liquor, its virtues. ib. 
 
 The Emperor'* colors a protection for pyracy. 
 
 25 
 
 Bad mafters how ufedby py rates. z6 
 
 A busker, what. 27 
 
 Shelvocke'j great generosity. 3 1 
 
 -' ' his artful management and in 
 novations at St. Katherine'j, where he 
 makes himfelf owners agent. 35 -45 
 A 4 Occur- 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Occurrences there, 425 1 
 
 his trifling accufation of Betagh. 
 
 . 5254 
 his mean fhifts to excufe himfelf, 
 
 55 57 
 
 his paffage round cape Home and 
 dangers at NarbroughV ijland and Chiloe. 
 
 57 6* 
 
 his whimflcal discipline. 62. 
 
 his manifefl dejign to deflroy fome 
 
 of his people. 65 
 
 __ his zele for the public. 6S-69 
 
 hisarrivalinthebayof Conception. 70 
 Grenadiers cap y a joke upon the mitre. 71 
 ^Privatiers ambaffador described. ib. 
 
 Hatley in danger from the enemy. 73 
 
 Five men killd thro Shelvocke'j folly. 74 
 Clipoerton in the flr eights of Magellan, 
 . and obfer vat ions there. 76 85 
 
 his confutation of a pretended French 
 
 difcovery. 86 
 
 - - at Fernandes//7^^: his low condition 
 
 and ft ay there. 87 90 
 
 takes federal prizes, one of which 
 
 the Spaniards regain byftratagem* 9195: 
 ShelvockeV not keeping company the ruin of 
 the voyage. 92 97' 
 
 Viceroy 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Viceroy of Peru is informd of the expedi 
 tion. 97 
 
 Shelvocke burns two good Jhips. 9 5 
 
 his injuftice to Betagh and Brooks. 
 
 98- 100 
 
 his wild attack upon Arica 102, 
 gets rid of ffteen of his people. 
 
 104108 
 fights the Peregrine. no 
 
 Indian fwiming remarkable. 
 
 Comical article in a Scotchjournal. 104. 
 
 Shelvocke'j malice to Betagh *which is 
 
 well anfwered. 112119 
 
 SECTION. II. 
 
 Succefss Journal. 
 
 Regulations aboard the Succefs. 121 
 
 Clipperton takes fever al prizes and the Mar 
 quis de Villa Roche prifoner. 122 1 2 8 
 Mitchdwith thirteen Englifh, andtenNigtos 
 fent to difpofe of fome of the effeffs, 1 24 
 An odd inftance of a corpfe floating. 128 
 Indians diving wonderful. 12.9 
 
 New* of capt, Mitchel at Velas. 130 
 
 i A 
 
CONTENTS. 
 A plot of the Marquifs to betray Clipper- 
 ton. 130 
 - Treats about his and his family's ranfbm. 
 
 131 US 
 
 IJle of Tigers described. 133 
 
 A plot among the men, defpairing to meet 
 
 with Shelvocke. 134 
 Clipperton takes more prizes. 13 4- 135 
 A mijlake in his conduct. 1 3 6 
 narrowly ejcapes the men of war, and 
 
 fome of his men taken prif oners. 138 
 Spaniards behave generoufly. 139 
 
 Clipperton chafes the Flying fifli which had 
 
 fome of the Englifh prifoners aboard. 
 
 141, 142 
 his men reduced to one fmall meal in 
 
 twenty four hours. 143, 1 44 
 
 are much refrefht at the ijle of Cocos. 
 
 146 
 
 meets with captain Shelvocke after two 
 
 years parting. 147 
 
 The particulars of their interview, with 
 
 the reafons of their fecond feparation. 
 
 147 151 
 
 Clipperton crojjes over to Afia, and arrives 
 at Guam, 151 
 
 The 
 
CONTENTS. 
 Thegoverner makes him a handfom frefent. 
 
 I5i 
 
 Clipperton iwer-retcht by him and the Mar 
 
 quis. 155 
 
 fnds his error and takes to drinking. 
 
 -his flip runs aground: lieutenant 
 vifon is killd, and the Jhip almojt funk 
 by the enemy. 1 541 5 6 
 
 The {hip at laft floats in a wretched condi 
 tion, and makes for China. 156 
 
 Anchors in the gulf of Amoy. i<5i 
 
 ClippertonV men grow mutinous for their 
 prize-money. ib. 
 
 _ - he is forced by the Chinefe to di 
 vide the fpoil : the amount thereof. 
 
 162 165 
 
 ___ his account of the owners moiety, 
 
 165 
 . .1 his arrival at Macao. 166 
 
 What became of his peofle and the Jhip. 
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 Shelvockc refotoes to lofe the Spcedwel 
 
 and cruife in a new bottom. 170 
 
 i The 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 The manner how he did it, with the proofs, 
 and his new model of government. 
 
 171 i 7 g 
 
 . M celebrates the loth of June at Fer- 
 nandes. 179 
 
 i.i launches the new bark, fome of 
 
 the men ft ay ing behind, 180, 181 
 
 i fghts the Margaritas but wants 
 refolution to board her. i s i 185 
 
 heartily attacks another flip. 183 
 changes his bark for a good prize. 
 
 184 
 
 his account of a wry flrange fort 
 of hogs. 186 
 
 ~ meets with Clipperton after two 
 
 years feparation. 187 
 
 Some account of poor Mitchel and his men. 
 
 188 
 
 Miffing thekzz$\\\ojhip intirely ShelvockeV 
 fault. 190 
 
 takes another prize and is inform- 
 
 ed of a truce. 193, 194 
 
 rids himfelf of Jix men more. 195 
 
 A flory of David Griffith. 197 
 
 Shelvocke extremely reduced, is on the point 
 
 of furrendering upon the coaft* 198, 199 
 
 Four of his men murder d. 200 
 
 His 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 His wife observations thereon. 201, 202 
 The main crifis of Shelvocke's project: his 
 taking a rich prize , and dividing the 
 money into particular foares tho all con- 
 ceald in his book. 202 207 
 
 An account of his own prof ts. 207 -209 
 His indeavours to palliate the flory. 209 2 1 4. 
 He arrives at California 5 his receptionthere; 
 his gallant way of life, and manner of 
 treating the black gentry. 215-^220 
 arrives at China: his flay and beha 
 viour there 5 with remarks upon him. 
 
 221 -227 
 
 Some of his blunderrata as an author. 
 
 227, 22$ 
 
 A full account of him Jince his return to 
 England : with the procedings againft 
 him at law 5 his imprisonment and efcape. 
 
 228 -235 
 
 A lift of his men difperft and loft. 234 
 A final account of captain Clipperton. 236 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 Hatley and others fent a cruifmg in the Mer 
 cury : they fall in with the Brilliams man 
 of war. 2^2, 
 
 would 
 
CO NTENTS. 
 would have efcaped by a trick 5 but 
 through the obftinacy of John Sprake are 
 taken. 245 
 
 Betagh and two more [ent to Piura forty 
 mile up the coaft : Hatley and the reft 
 f ent prisoners to Lima four hundred Mile 
 further. 244 
 
 The manner of travelling to Piura 5 with 
 Betagtur friendly reception and entertain 
 ment there. 245248 
 
 *Defcription of Payta, and the pedlers in 
 Peru. 248 250 
 
 The civility of the admiral and capt. De 
 Grange. 251 
 
 Betagh carried to Lima, where he, capt. 
 Hatley, and his men are likely to fuffer 
 as pyrates. 252 
 
 But through the viceroy's goodnefs they all 
 get off, the fatt being Shelvocke'j. ib. 
 
 Sailors of both jhips new chriflend. 253 
 
 drink punch and quarel, and are put in 
 
 the inquifition. 255 
 
 they are pardond : a good ft or y of 'em 
 after that. 256 
 
 Lima city defcribed. 257 
 
 ^Different mixtures of people diftinguifot 
 
 259 
 
 Their 
 
CONTENTS. 
 Their habit, convents and riches. 260 
 Good remark upon the law. 264. 
 
 Climate, earthquakes, &c. 266 
 
 Why it never rains thereabouts. 268 
 
 How they make butter in Chili. 269 
 
 Women and faftimes at Lima defcribed. 
 
 27Q 
 
 Story of a lady who killd her lover. 275 
 Story of two Englifhmen who fought A 
 frixe there. 27$ 
 
 An attempt to find Solomon'^ ijland. 276 
 Full account of the mines of Chili ^WPeru. 
 
 279 
 
 None but Indians work in them. 281 
 The difcoverer has one half, the king the other. 
 
 282, 
 
 Grinding-mltts defcribed. 285 
 
 Gold furifjd fooner than filler. 2 84 
 
 Vafl quantities of mercury ufed. 287 
 
 Silver ore ; the different names thereof. 288 
 Mine countries ^ery cold and dry. 2 90 
 An obfervation thereon. 291 
 
 Lavadcros or wafting f laces very remarkable. 
 
 292 296 
 
 FineJcituatienofCoquimbo, or Serena. 294 
 Good account of the creation of metals. 
 
 297 301 
 FrezierV 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Frczier^ notion about giants. 301 305 
 
 An opinion about the Mofaic hiftory, and 
 religion of the Indians. 307 
 
 Chap. 5 . Being a new account of Capt. Mar 
 tinet^ expedition ; with remarks on the 
 trade to Chili. 308 
 
 French interlopers dedroyd: "they and the 
 Spaniards difagree. 313 
 
 The Ruby which met Shelvocke at St. Ca 
 therine, a 'very rich flip but then unknown. 
 
 316 and 50 
 
 Some observations conclude the voyage. 
 
 317 324 
 
 The Jefuits fettlement in Paraguay, curious 
 
 and entertaining, translated fromthe French. 
 
 325 
 
 Two remarks omitted. 340 
 
A 
 
 VOYAGE 
 
 ROUND THE 
 
 WORLD* 
 
 By Way of the GREAT 
 
 SOUTH SEA. 
 
 VOYAGES have been always well 
 receiv'd, and efpecialiy by Englifh* 
 men. They feem to fute the genius 
 of ihcBritifi nation, whofe people are par 
 ticularly diftinguifh'd for the curiofity of 
 their temper, and the many great exploits 
 of their fhipping in all parts of the world. 
 Tis true, this fort of hiftory is often writ by 
 unskilful hands; and a faft fometimes lofes 
 credit for want of method in telling it : but 
 if the reader meets with fomething new and 
 authentic, he is generally fatisfied : the 
 
 B greatcft 
 
2 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD^ 
 
 greatcft pleafure of the mind being an addi 
 tion to our knowledge. 
 
 The following book is a united journal of 
 two {hips, written chiefly to undeceive man 
 kind in the fpurious account of a voyage 
 round the world, publifh'd by captain George 
 Shehocke: which account is not only inju 
 rious to me, but is intirely the moft abfurd 
 and falfe narrative that was ever deliver'd 
 to the publick. And furely a man may be 
 excus'd for fetting the world right in any pub 
 lic affair 5 much more in an enterprife, where 
 the credit and dignity of his country arc 
 concern'd. And if our refentments are al- 
 low'd to be equal to injuries received, what 
 jnuft mine be, when ftript of property and 
 good name ? Both which the faid Shehocke 
 has done his utmoft to accomplifh : And 
 though fome of this trcatife is to obviate 
 his many abufes and forgeries, yet I have 
 endeavoured to make even that part enter 
 taining 5 to avoid giving the reader a mere 
 dry ftory of his wickednefs. 
 
 Befide our fea journal, I have collected 
 the obfcrvations I made while in the king 
 doms of Chili and Teru, concerning thei5^- 
 mjh dominions in America. The trade, 
 
 cuftoms, 
 
\ 
 
 A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 3 
 euftoms, luxury, and gallantry of the Creo- 
 lians. To which I have added an account 
 of their gold and filver mines, their manner 
 of feparating the mineral from the ore, and 
 many other things 5 all which together, I 
 need not doubt, will prove an agreeable 
 hiftory of this voyage. 
 
 In the preceding of pur two (hips I have 
 the pleafure to be well afljfted 5 having pro 
 cured the original journal of Mr. George 
 Taylor, chief mate to captain Clipperton^ who 
 commanded this expedition, which I (hall 
 make ufe of to invalidate captain Shefoocke's 
 falfe accounts: which journal will at once 
 let the reader into the moft material tranf- 
 aftions of Clipperton, and convince man 
 kind of his faithful intentions, tho' Shel- 
 vocke has taken fuch mighty pains to vilify 
 him. 
 
 Befides which, I have the concurring evi 
 dence of many who were aboard the Speed 
 well ; fome of which are now in London 
 ready to fpeak the truth : and tho I am 
 thorowly fatisfyd our ftory will fpeak it 
 felf, yet fome of the chief fads are already 
 fworn to 5 the affidavits being filed in 
 
 Chancery, 
 
4 A VOYAGE rottnd the WORLD. 
 Chancery, and to be feen at the office in 
 Chancery-lane. 
 
 In the year 1718, during the war between 
 their Imperial and Catholic Majefttes, and 
 while a rupture was daily expefted between 
 Great Britain and Spain \ fome perfbns of 
 diftinftion, and merchants of the city of 
 London agreed upon a fubfcription, to fit 
 out two private fhips of war, under the Em 
 peror's commiffion, to cruife upon the Spa 
 niards in the South Seas. The chief motives 
 for fuch an expedition were the defire of 
 being better acquainted with the navigation 
 of that part of the world, to put their fea- 
 faring friends into a promifing imployment, 
 and the many views they had of a profperous 
 return from fo well concerted an under 
 taking. But tho the faid breach between 
 Great Britain and Spain was known to be 
 unavoidable, yet, upon the delay of adual 
 hoftilities, the aforefaid gentlemen were de- 
 firous to take the advantage of the war be 
 tween the Emperor and the king of Spain: 
 and in order to have their fhips in the South 
 Sea before the feafon was far advanced, they 
 obtained his Imperial Majefty's commiffion, 
 and mand their fhips with a good number 
 
 of 
 
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 of his fubjeds. They named their firftfhip 
 the Trince Eugene, and the other the Sfa- 
 renberg. Of this armament George Shefoocke 
 was appointed to be commander in chief, 
 who had fometime ferv'd as a lieutenant in 
 the Britijh navy. Whereupon he was forth 
 with order'd to Oftend, there to receive the 
 Flemijh officers, the feamen and commif- 
 fion aboard thcStaren&erg: and among other 
 things, received orders not to fire any guns,, 
 or hoift aoy colours, while in that portj 
 and to take aboard no more than fixty 
 Flemings, with three officers 5 and when he 
 had got his men, wine, and brandy, to pro- 
 cede dire&ly to the 'Downs. 
 
 In the mean time the ^Prince Eugene ar 
 rived in the T)owns, having been fitted and 
 man'd in the river. Three of the owners 
 went to 'Deal, expeding to meet with both 
 the fhips 5 but were uneafy to find captain 
 Shefoocke was not yet come. However up 
 on his arrival, they inquir'd into the caufe 
 of his delay, and were furprifed to find he 
 had idly negiefted joining his confort as 
 early as he ought ; had broke thro' his or 
 ders, made entertainments, hoifted Imperial 
 colours, brought over ninety Flemings and 
 B 3 fix 
 
6 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 fix officers, fir'd away five barrels of powder, 
 began upon his wine and brandy which the 
 owners had put aboard him, and was defign'd 
 as the whole ftock for both fhips, to comfort 
 them in their long and hazardous voyage. 
 And in fhort fo ill did he behave, as to bring 
 his owners to change the command, and in 
 his room appoint John Clipperton captain of 
 the larger fhip, and commander in chief, 
 who had made two voyages to the South 
 Sea before. Befides, the Flemings were fo 
 many in number, and fo ill chofen, that 
 the Briti/h feamen grew uneafy. The for 
 mer having their own officers, feem'd to 
 over-value themfelves upon their fovereign's 
 commiffion, which was not relifhed by the 
 Englishmen. It occafion'd a mix'd com 
 mand, and produc'd frequent animofities 5 
 fo that it was judged impra&icable for them 
 to go the voyage together. At length the 
 war being begun between Great Britain and 
 Spain in the Mediterranean, \ the owners 
 agreed to get his Majefty King George's com 
 miffion, and to fend over the foreign com 
 miffion, men and officers to Flanders, pay. 
 ing their charges, and allowing two months 
 wages to the men. After which the owners 
 
 order'd 
 
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 order'd their fhips, being now called the 
 Succefs and Speedwel, to Tly mouth, to be 
 there recruited in their provifion, and get 
 their complement of men. 
 
 Clipperton being thus appointed comman 
 der in chief, had alfo the biggeft fhip, the 
 Succefs, of thirty fix guns and 1 80 men. Shel- 
 <vocke had the Speedwel, twenty four guns, 
 and one hundred and fix men, under wfaofe 
 command I was appointed captain of ma 
 rines. The (hips lay near three months at 
 ^Plymouth for a wind 5 in which time Shel- 
 <vocke continually (hewed his refentment at 
 the change of command, in fuch a manner 
 that there was a fadion fermented from the 
 captains to the cabin boys. * Arid tho' he 
 did endeavour to curb his reftlefs fpirit, yet 
 \vas it fo publicity apparent, that one of 
 the owners, who was chief director of this 
 affair, wrote to him to mind him of his 
 conduft, and warn him of his duty : to which 
 very man this Shelvocke owes his having the 
 Speedwel, being the fecond command in this 
 undertaking. The fame gentleman has alfo 
 affur'd me, that, when Shelvocke apply'd by 
 
 * See pag. 28. of his preface, where he fays he ftified his 
 refentment, not fuffering it to break out into an open flame. 
 
 B 4 letter 
 
s A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 letter to him for employment, his circum- 
 flances were fo low, that he did not fcruple 
 to declare he had no bread to eat 5 nor a 
 friend in the world except him, to expedany 
 favour from. Whereupon the faid gentle 
 man having ferved with him in the navy 
 aboard the fame fhip, generoufly invited 
 Shefopcke to his country houfe, where he 
 made him a prefent of a twenty pound note 
 on his goldfmith, till he could effectually 
 provide for him, having then this enter- 
 prife in view. When he firft told him he 
 fliould command one of thefe (hips, Shel- 
 vocke was fo throughly pleas'd with the 
 news, that he vow'd it was greatly beyond 
 his expectation 5 and rather than not go the 
 voyage at all, he would content himfelf to 
 be boatfwain's mate. 
 
 The purport of the aforefaid letter fent 
 to ^Plymouth, was to advife Shelvocke of his 
 mutinous behaviour and rudenefs to captain 
 Clipperton 5 and that by return of the mail, 
 if the owners did not receive affurances of 
 his intire contentment with thepofthe had, 
 a commillion would be fcnt down for ano 
 ther perfon to command the Speedwel in 
 
 his 
 
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 his room. Upon which captain Shehocke 
 wrote at feveral times as followcth. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 <e TT Am favoured with yours; but furpris'd 
 JL " very much at fo fudden a change : 
 " but the many favours I have received from 
 " your hands, has eafily brought me to are- 
 " folution of fubmi tting. - *Dec. 13.1713. 
 " I am eafy, perfectly eafy, and very hearti- 
 " Jy thankful for all your favours. I am 
 " far from thinking it a difrcputc to fervc 
 " you in any capacity. For God's fake, Sir, 
 pardon fmall falts : I ftarve without your 
 friendfliip. I know the world fo well, that 
 I have no other friend - *Dec. 19. laf- 
 fure you I lhall always aft like a faithful 
 fervant : and no fpirit fhall proceed from 
 me, but fuch as honour and gratitude di- 
 " refts. I lhall with the greateft chearful- 
 " nefs fhew captain CUfperton all the refped 
 " in the world. - Jan. 27. 1719. "All 
 " refentments are laid afide by me long fince, 
 " and don't doubt of brotherhood with cap- 
 <c tain Clipperton. Our fhips are much bet- 
 <c ter man'd than ever, both bearing more 
 ^ than their complement 5 and I am very 
 
 glad 
 
 " 
 
 " 
 
1 e A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 " glad of the addition you have been pleaf- 
 * ed to make of fo many gentlemen to the 
 '* fervice. 
 
 All thefe particulars I had from the faid 
 gentleman fince my return from the voyage > 
 and captain Shehocke's letters are here in- 
 ferted to (hew how forward he was to pro- 
 mife, and how little he meant to perform. 
 
 By the fequel of his behaviour through 
 out this book, all mankind will fee what 
 conceal'd revenge he had in his heart : Be 
 ing determined henceforth pyratically to 
 at, arbitrarily to manage and deftroy fo 
 well concerted a fcheme for the intereft of 
 all parties, and to difappoint the hopes of 
 many other people, who were defirous to 
 fliew the Spanijh nation how fmall a force 
 from England could annoy and plunder them 
 in their moft powerful, diftant fettlements. 
 
 Here it muft be obferv'd with what care 
 Shehocke has avoided giving the true reafons 
 why the command was changed 3 and has 
 iabour'd to throw the mifcarriage of the 
 expedition on Clippertoris incapacity, the 
 change of officers, and the frequent muti 
 nies of his own men : whereas I (hall ful 
 ly prove that the xuin of our voyage was 
 
 4 the 
 
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 the confcquence of his own pride, avarice 
 and treachery. 
 
 Tis to be noted that captain Clifferton died 
 before Skehocke had any thoughts of writing 
 a book: And it's highly probable that if Clip- 
 ferton were alive to anfwer for himfclf, Shel- 
 vockehzA never been bold enough to print 
 fuch a fcandalous hiftory. And as to Shel- 
 vocke's officers, they were fo far from being 
 acceffary to any*mifcarriage, that he never 
 confulted us on any occafion whatever ; 
 tho' he, as well as Cliff erton, had ftrift 
 orders in all enterprizes to follow that ex 
 cellent fcheme framed and pradifed by 
 captain Woodes Rogers in his memorable 
 voyage round the globe; which is certain 
 ly the fafeft method for all navigators, who 
 mean to execute any projed of this kind 5 
 and for which end Rogers 's printed jour 
 nal was put aboard each fhip. It was his 
 rule never to undertake any thing of mo 
 ment, without firft calling a council of his 
 chief officers, who in writing teflify'd their 
 approbation of, and concurrence in the 
 execution of the defign : But our captain 
 was above confining himfelf to any prece 
 dents or orders, his will being the only 
 
 rea- 
 
1 2 A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD r 
 
 reafon for all he did, fo that he never 
 kept any journal or diary at all 5 which is 
 perfedly agreeable to his fefolution, and 
 the defign he fait had in view, never to 
 join the Succefs after he loft company with 
 her in the ftorm mentioned in the third 
 page of his book : And tho' he feems forry 
 at the reparation, yet the Succefs had moft 
 reafon to be fo, for Shefoocke had the whole 
 ftore of wine and brandy aboard the Speed 
 well ,- fo that Clipperton was forc'd to go a 
 tedious comfortlefs voyage without any. 
 Shefoocke, indeed, fays he offer'd him his 
 liquors when at fea, and the other negleft- 
 cd to take them in 5 which, if true, is not 
 a material obje&ion, becaufe Clipperton ex- 
 pefting no treachery, but a punftual meet 
 ing to the windward of grand Canary, the 
 firft place of rendezvous, doubtiefs thought 
 It might be then time enoughs but I quef- 
 tion the fad, becaufe Taylors journal takes 
 no notice of their fpeaking with each other 
 that day, which runs thus. 
 
 " Succefs feb. 15. thefe 24 hours frefh 
 " gales andfqually with rain. This evening 
 " unbent our beft and fmall bowers, ftow'd 
 ^ our anchors, and have been oblig'd to fliort- 
 
 " en 
 
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 f - en fail feveral times for the Speedwell. 
 But, however, to (hew that Shelvoeke was 
 well enough pleas'd to part with his con- 
 fort, he ftcer'd a courfe quite different from 
 the SuccefSy and contrary to his duty ; as 
 appears by Taylor's journal. " Feb. 20. 
 " Thefe 24 hours frefh gales and cloudy 
 " with fmall rain. At two this afternoon, 
 " the dorm being fomewhat abated, we 
 " wore and made fail, fleering away foutfa 
 " and by eaft. " And continuing his courfe 
 to the Southward, arrived off the Canaries 
 the fixth of March following, which rua 
 he made in fourteen days : Whereas Shei- 
 <vocke p. 4. has it thus. " Feb. 20. We 
 " had no fight of the Succefs or any other 
 " veffeL At noon we fet the mainfail 
 <( double reefed, and at midnight the top-. 
 " fails, and flood to the north- weft, " whea 
 it's plain, he might have fteer'd the fanv: 
 courfe to the fouthward, but for views of 
 his own went to the northward 5 and ac 
 cordingly did not arrive at the Canaries, 
 till he might well judge his con fort was 
 gone: For page 9. he owns his arrival there 
 on the feventeenth of March, which is 
 eleven days difference, and with this aggra- 
 
 vation 3 
 
14 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 vation, that inftcad of going to the wind* 
 ward, I well remember we hawl'd clofc in 
 under the lee of the faid ifland, being the 
 north-eaft ftde thereof; becaufe the winds 
 govern there moft part of the year in the 
 fouth-weft board. 
 
 The next day after lofing company, Shel- 
 vocke feeing a piece of a wreck float along 
 the Speedwell's fide, endeavoured to per- 
 fuade us, that CUpperton was loft in the 
 ftorm, alledging, for his reafons, that the 
 Succefs was built very flight, greater regard 
 being had to her failing than burdening 
 well, and that her weight of metal had torn 
 her fides out, and fo was gone to the bot 
 tom. But finding this did not pafs with 
 us, he then infifted that (he bore away for 
 France or Ireland, to purchafe wine or bran 
 dy, without which, according to him, no 
 thing at all was to be done : And I own it 
 was very hard to be forc'd on a long voyage 
 to the fouthward, when the fun was in his 
 northern courfe, without either of thofe 
 chearful fupports of nature. But to prove 
 that CUpperton could do his duty without 
 wine and brandy, he like a good officer 
 fail'd to the Canaries, being the firft place 
 
 of 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. " 1 5 
 
 of rendezvous $ and cruifing there his limi 
 ted time, preceded to St. Vincent ', one 
 of the Cape de Verd iflandsj at one of 
 which places he doubted not of meeting us, 
 Taylor's journal has it thus, 
 *' Success, March 15, 1719. Having cruif- 
 " ed ten days off the Canaries, without 
 <c meeting our confort or taking any prize, 
 " and in little hopes of either, we fleer 
 " away to the Cafe de Verd iilands : And 
 " at fix this forenoon the ifland Gomera 
 " bore north half weft, diftant nine leagues, 
 " latitude 28:00 north, longitude 00:00 
 " weft, whence I take my departure. 
 
 But Shefoocke, who never defign'd to give 
 the owners any true account of his captures 
 or procedings, from this time flood rcfolved 
 to aft independently on Clipperton, and ne 
 ver meet him again, except by chance : for 
 as foon as we had loft the Succefs, Hendrie 
 and *ZW, as well as my felf, who were at 
 his tabie, often heard him declare, he ne 
 ver would join her again, or words to that 
 effed : wherein he fulfilled his promife by 
 knocking his (hip on the head at Fernandez, 
 the circumftances of which, as I fhall here 
 after relate them, will make it plainly ap 
 pear 
 
1 6 A VOYAGE round the WORLD." 
 
 pear to be done on purpofe. And further, 
 he afTur'd us all at feveral times, that on his 
 return to Europe* he would avoid England, 
 and go to Hamburgh, or fome other free 
 port, and there remain till he ihould bring 
 his owners to a competition 5 adding with 
 an oath, that if they went to law, he would 
 hold them to it with their own money. And 
 herein alfo he has kept his word ; for though 
 he has been in London thefe five years, he 
 ftill refufes giving the owners any fatisfafti- 
 on : taking care however by abfconding, to 
 avoid being ferved with a writ in Chancery ; 
 which I believe would foon put an end to 
 the fuit fo long carrying on by the gentle 
 men adventurers, on the evidence of many 
 who ferv'd on board the Speedwell, as well as 
 my own. 
 
 And fucli was this man's particular affec 
 tion for ftrong liquors, that we have often 
 heard him fay, there was but one honeft 
 fellow among all the gentlemen adventu 
 rers ; for he fpoke well when he defired we 
 might have brandy and wine enough ; tho' 
 all the time we were fitting out, he was 
 pleas'd to call them men of worth and ho 
 nour, and never failed at every frefh bottle 
 
 to 
 
A VOYAGE round the Wo RL&. 17 
 
 to drink their healths : But now 'tis damn 
 them $ and for his part he would take care 
 of number one. This new way of treating 
 our Patrons, whofe property we were then 
 making very free with, fomewhat Itartled us : 
 and I fearing thefe frequent declarations of 
 his would rather tend to difunite the fhip's 
 company, and ruin our fcheme, look'd often 
 towards Hatley our fecond captain, as ex- 
 pefting he would fpeak firft $ but finding him 
 iilent, I addrefs'd my felf to our comman 
 der in thefe words : Sir, if I may have leave 
 to offer my thoughts upon thefe frank de 
 clarations of your defigns, it is my humble 
 opinion, that to ad: leparately from captain 
 Clipperton, will terminate in the ruin of 
 this expedition. To which he anfwered, 
 no, no, we have a good (hip, well man'dj 
 and found with all neceflaries j we fhall do 
 well enough : I reply'd, that furely our 
 owners would have hardly put themfelves 
 to the expenfe of two fliips, could they 
 have had any reafonable profped of making 
 a good voyage with one in thefe remote 
 parts. This threw Sbehocke into a great 
 rage : He us'd me ill 5 faid I was infolent^ 
 and ask'd me if I meant to ufurp the com- 
 
 C mand 
 
i & A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 mand of 'the (hip? The next day at dinner 
 I drank, as ufual, the gentlemens health to 
 whom we were all indebted for this favou 
 rable profped of making our fortunes. At 
 this he flung his cann at my Head, while I 
 was drinking, and took it for an infult of 
 his authority. Nor did he fpare any of his 
 other officers i but at one time or other 
 ftruck us all, except Mr. ^Dod, whofe greater 
 advance in years perhaps protected him. 
 
 This fcandalous treatment I was forc'd to 
 undergo for the honour I did the gentlemen 
 owners, and refpeflfully mentioning the ne 
 ceffity of our rejoining the Succefs. And 
 from this time a univerfal difcontent appeared 
 in the fhip's company, not only among the 
 officers, but was vifible in the faces of the 
 meaneft of the crew. For Shfjtiocke, to im 
 prove his own defign, went fo far as to in- 
 finuate, that at our return the gentlemen 
 would be cunning enough to defraud us of 
 our proper dividends 5 tho' I dare fay there 
 was none among us, who did not think it 
 more difhonourable to miftruft a fet of wor 
 thy gentlemen, than to find our felves de- 
 eiv'd by them at laft. 
 
 Thus 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo R ID; 1 9 
 Thus may the impartial reader fee that all 
 the uneafmefs of Shefoocke's men was occa- 
 fioned by his own inhumanity and perfidi- 
 oufnefs : And tho' none of his officers, ex 
 cept my felf, ever offered to controvert his 
 bafe conduft, or abfurd fentirnents, yet he 
 has the afiurance />. 4- to fay his people mu 
 tinied, and pretended the (hip was incapa 
 ble to go through the voyage. 
 
 I will allow the men that the fhip was 
 very full and much pefter'd, but can't allow 
 Shelvocke that fhe was fo crank or tender as 
 not : to carry faiL The wind was then at 
 S. W. or S. W. by W. and he owns he car 
 ried his topfails the next day after the 
 ftorm, which was the 2o th of Feb. Could 
 fhe not then make as good way to the 
 fouthward with her ftarboard tacks aboard, 
 as fhe could to the northward with her lar 
 board \ 
 
 Page 7. Shelvocke gravely tells his rea 
 ders that Hatley, fecond captain, difputed 
 the command with him. The Story in 
 fiiort is thus : Some queftions arifing about 
 feamanfhip, and both of them fuddled, 
 Hatleykcm'dtoo tenacious of his opinion; 
 at which Shefaocke in a fury bolted up, 
 C 2 Sec, 
 
ao A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLIX 
 
 " See, gentlemen, do you mind how the 
 " villain difputes the. command with me ? 
 Thefe were his very words, ufing him but 
 in a fcurvy manner before all the company, 
 and upon the quarter-deck : after which he 
 order'd the men to call him no otherwife 
 than Mr. Hatley. This well fuppofe they 
 fubmitted to, and indulged the mighty Shel- 
 vocke in his mean vanity. 
 
 His fbn George too contributed much to 
 the company's uneafinefs, tho' he had no 
 real bufmefs to go with us 5 for his name is 
 not among thofe who fubfcrib'd the arti 
 cles: and he knew nothing of fea affairs, 
 or indeed of any thing el fe that was com 
 mendable or manly. His imployment at 
 London was to dangle after the women, 
 and goffip at the tea-table 5 and aboard us, 
 his whole bufmefs was to thruft himfelf in 
 to all fociety, overhear every thing that 
 was faid, then go and tell his father : fo 
 that he was more fit for aboarding fchool 
 than a fliip of war. Yet had this infigni- 
 cant fellow a dividend of 660 pound out 
 of one prize, in prejudice to many honeft 
 brave men, deftroy'd, loft and begger'd at 
 the captain's plcafure. 
 
 We 
 
r A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 21 
 
 We arc now to the leeward of Grand 
 Canary, where our captain takes a little 
 fifherman's bark, I'm pofitive not above 
 eight or ten ton, and which we all pray'd 
 might be turn'd adrift for the poor owner's 
 ufe, but in vain 5 for tho' of no import at 
 all to us, yet to him flic ferv'd as a good pre 
 text for fantering away ten or twelve days, 
 fitting her out in a warlike manner to peep 
 into every creek of the lee of that and 
 the neighbouring iflands, till Cltpperton may 
 be well fuppofed gone far enough a-head. 
 
 The next place of rendezvous he con 
 ceals from his officers. By his own ac 
 count, which follows, one would fufpeft 
 him to be guilty; but by the help of 
 Taylor's journal I ftiall convift him 
 throughly. 
 
 Shefoocke p. 9. "Having finifh'd my 
 " cruife without meeting or hearing of the 
 " Succefs, I found my felf in a very melan- 
 * c choly ftate, when 1 came to confider 
 t that the next appointed rendezvous was 
 " at the ifland John Fernandes in the great 
 " South Seas" And yet p. 1 1 . he fays, " We 
 " took our departure from Faro, one of 
 ^ the Canaries, in hopes of meeting cap- 
 
 C 3 tain 
 
a 2 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD." 
 
 " tain Clifperton among the Cafe de Verd 
 " iflands, and took our prize along with 
 " us. " - which I am fure was not worth 
 a commifllon (hip to be troubled with 300 
 leagues. 
 
 He well knew this was the next place 
 agreed to meet at, tho' carefully concealed 
 from us > however Taylors journal con 
 firms it. 
 
 Succefsy March 21. Frefh gales, &c. 
 " At fix this afternoon we faw St. Vincent y 
 " at ten next morning we anchored in the 
 " bay and found a French merchant fhip 
 tc and the 'Diamond of Briftal, captain Cle- 
 " ade-fy taking in an odd fort of cargo for 
 <e Jamaica, viz. affes. This being appoint- 
 " ed the next place of rendezvous, we were 
 
 in hopes to find the Speedwell, but are 
 
 convinced of the contrary, to our great 
 furprife, and greater concern for the want 
 of our liquors, without the moderate 
 " ufe of which, it's dull living either afhore 
 ^ or at fea j fo that I cannot help faying we 
 " all look like the cargo aforementioned, 
 " for fuffering Shdvocke to keep our wine 
 *' and brandy. 
 
 Now 
 
 " 
 
r A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 2 3 
 New let any indifferent perfon judge 
 whether 'tis probable that Fernandes could 
 be the next appointed rendezvous, from the 
 Canaries, being a run of no lefs than 120 
 degrees. 
 
 We arrive next at the ifle of May, and 
 are taken for pyrates; Shelvocke gives it 
 the fofter name of freebooters. Here I re 
 member we had fix filver goblets for our 
 common drinking, and he, like a careful of 
 ficer, left they fhould be loft, calls up the 
 armourer to melt and hammer five of them 
 into circles to adorn the outfide of a fine 
 pail, made by the cooper, for the more glo 
 rious drinking of Hip fir, a liquor com 
 pounded of wine, water and brandy, which 
 by the admirers of it, isalfocaird meat, drink 
 and cloth. And now I took leave of a 
 glafs of pure wine $ for Shelvocke labour 
 ing a little with the gout, imagined this 
 compound to be its beft antidote, and fa 
 we all lived upon it in a wanton manner, 
 till our wine and brandy was exhaufted j 
 which, tho* defigned for the ufe of both 
 fhips, hardly ferved us a twelve month. 
 
 This alfo proved a means of dividing us ; 
 for thofe, whom hard drinking did not a- 
 
 C 4 
 
24. A VOYAGE round the WORLIX, 
 
 gree^with, he diftinguifh'd with a four mo- 
 rofe behaviour, 3nd look'd on them as male-, 
 contents $ v fo that the quantity of Hiffy was 
 t{ie only title tp a proportion of merit in 
 our captain's favour. 
 
 Taylors journal gives the following ac 
 count of the ifland of St. Vincent^ which 
 I thought not improper to infert. " That 
 " it affords but little provifion or refrefh- 
 " mentsof any kind, except goats and young 
 " affes, which he fays are good food, their 
 cc men having eat very freely thereof. That 
 " it's alfo but a poor place to wood and 
 " water at, there being but one fmall drein : 
 " and that your boats are always in danger, 
 <e from the greatnefs of the furf. " From 
 hence they took their departure on the 2d 
 of April 1719. 
 
 But Shelv&cke, who was not in fo much 
 hafte, got no farther than the ifland of St. 
 jfago, on the i8th of the fame month, 
 where he fold his fmall prize to the gover- 
 ner for but 80 dollars, tho* he fays 150, 
 Then he fends away his kinfman Adams, 
 our Surgeon, to the chief town of this 
 ifland, to inform himfelf privately all that 
 he could learn of the Succefs $ and to purchafe 
 
 z fugar, 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 2 5 
 
 fugar, without which there was no making 
 Hipfjr. He returned with the agreeable news 
 of Clipperton's being gone from St. Vin- 
 cent's, which, however, was concel'd from 
 us. And now Shelvocke being paft all 
 fears of meeting Clipperton, refolves to put 
 it out of the power of chance to fall in 
 with him any more, by forming a defign of 
 wintering at St. Catharine's, on the coaft 
 of Bra/it: and accordingly, on the zoth 
 of April, weighs anchor and fails towards 
 the continent of America, 
 
 On the 5th of June, 1719. we met a. 
 *Portuguefe merchantman near Cape Frio- 
 Our captain order'd the Emperor's coldurs to 
 be hoiftcd, which, without any refledion, 
 look the moft thief-like of any worn by 
 honeftmen : thofe of his Imperial Majefty 
 are a black fpread eagle in a yellow field, 
 and thofe of the pyrates a yellow field and 
 black human skeleton 5 which at a fmall 
 diftance are not eafily diftinguifhed, efpe- 
 cially in light gales of* wind. So he brings 
 her to, by firing a musket thwart her fore 
 foot ; fends aboard her the beft busker (as he 
 himfclf caird/fo^y) with a boat's crew 5 each 
 inan arm'd with a cutlafs and a cafe of piftols. 
 
 The 
 
25 ^A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD? 
 
 The 'Portuguefe not only imagines his 
 fhip made prize, but thinks alfo how he 
 ihall undergo that piece of difcipline ufed 
 by the merry blades in the Weft-Indies, call'd 
 blooding and fweatingj which is done by 
 making the captain, on the ill report of 
 his men, or his declining to difcover where 
 his money is hid, to run the gantlet naked 
 thro* the pyrate's crew 5 each of them fur- 
 nifh'd with a fail-needle, pricking him in 
 the buttocks, back and fhoulders 5 thus bleed- 
 Ing they put him into a fugar cask fwarm- 
 ing with cockroaches, cover him with- a 
 blanket, and there leave him to glut the ver 
 min with his blood. 
 
 *Don Tedro, to fave his bacon, took care 
 however to be very officious or yare handed 
 (as we fay) with his prefent : For no fooner 
 \sasHatleyon his quarter-deck, but the Tor- 
 tttguefe feamen began to hand into the boat 
 the fruits and refrelhments they had aboard, 
 ss plantins, bananas, lemons, oranges, pom- 
 granates, &c. three or four dozen boxes of 
 marmalade and other fweatmeats; fome 
 *Dutch cheefes, and a large quantity of fu- 
 
 g ars . If they had ftopp'd here, it was well 
 
 enough, and might pafs as a prefent 5 but af 
 ter 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 27 
 
 ter this there came above a dozen pieces of 
 filk, feveral of which were flowcr'd with 
 gold and filver, worth, at lead, three pound 
 a yard, by retale; feveral dozen of China, 
 plates and balms, a fmall Japan cabinet 5 
 not to mention what the men took, who 
 on feeing the Tortuguefe fo brisk at hand 
 ing their things into the boat, concluded 
 immediately they had as good a right to a 
 prefent, as arfy body elfe. So on board they 
 go, laying hold on what came next to hand : 
 In fhort, as 'twas all a prefent, I can't fee 
 who could pretend to reftrain them. Among 
 other things, Hatley brought the laft and 
 handfomeft prefent of all, a purfe of 300 
 moydors. 
 
 This convinced Shelvocke he was not dc- 
 ceiv'd in calling Hatley the belt busker, that 
 is, an impudent fharp fellow, (from the Sfa- 
 nifh word bufcar^ to look out fharp,) who, 
 perhaps, to reingratiate himfelf, did the 
 devil's work ; by whofe laudable example our 
 boat's crew robb'd the man of more than I can. 
 pretend to fay : but I remember the boat 
 was pretty well laden with one trade or 
 other 5 and none of the officers dared fo 
 much as peep into her, till all was out, 
 
 While 
 
2,3 A VOYAGE round the 
 
 While thefe things were handing into the 
 fhip, a ham kind of quarel cnfues between 
 our chieftains. 
 
 Shel. Zounds ! what do you mean by all 
 this, Sir ? 
 
 Hat. By what, Sir? 
 
 Shel. Bringing we thefe baubles ? 
 
 Hat. Sir they are 'very cheag. 
 
 Shel. But I fhall want my money for 
 ether ufes. 
 
 Hat. Thef II fetch double the coft at our 
 next fort. 
 
 Shel. Ton always aff contrary to my or 
 ders. 
 
 Hat. Sir, I laid out my own money in the 
 fame things as I did yours. 
 
 Shel. It's a hard cafe I have no officer 
 worth trufling j / can have nothing well 
 d6ne> except I go out of the fhij> myfelf up 
 on every occafion. 
 
 Hat. / thought I had done for the bet- 
 ter. 
 
 Shel. Til have you know-, Sir, Tllbeobefd. 
 
 Hat. Jour commands Jhall always be to 
 me as a law. 
 
 SheL 
 
'A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 2 9 
 
 Shel. Where's the account or bill of par 
 cels? 
 
 Hat. Sir, not eajily underflanding one an<> 
 other * we lump'd it ; but I can draw one 
 out. 
 
 Shel. 'Pray fee you do. 
 
 Shel. Whither is he bound? 
 
 Hat. To Pernambucco. 
 
 Shel. Where belonging to ? 
 
 Hat. To Rio Janeiro, whence he brought 
 thefe fruits and refreshments, which hepre- 
 fents you with ; defiring me to give you his 
 humble firvice, and that any thing in his 
 {hip is at your difpofaL 
 
 Shel. Well, 1 believe he's a very honeft 
 fellow. Take the trumpet; tell him I thank 
 him, and that he may perfue his voyage. 
 
 Hatley with the fpeaking trumpet. Ofe~ 
 nior capitan, O ho ? 
 
 Capt. Ho lafenior. 
 
 Hat. Arnlgo , Tro/iga v, m,fu camino con 
 dios 5 that is, go on friend, and God blefs 
 you. 
 
 Capt. muttering. T, v,m,elvoeftroconmil- 
 le demomos, perro ladron $ that is, go you 
 .on, you thieving dog, and a thoufand devils 
 along with you. The 
 
3 o A Vo YAG E round the WORLD.' 
 
 The fortuguefe captain thus fleeced, hoift- 
 cd his topfails and away he goes, glad e- 
 iiough 'twas no worfe. Shelvocke will have 
 it, p. 1 6. that there were but four or five 
 pieces of filk, but I have as good a memo 
 ry as himfelf : And fuppofing, tho' not al 
 lowing there was no more, and as the So 
 dollars, prize money, was laid out in fugar 
 and fome refrefhments at St. Jago, whence 
 rnuft the coft of thofe filks, china and ca 
 binet come ? fince I am pofitive we could 
 not mufter up five pounds amongft us all 
 when we left Tlymouth ; anfwering in that 
 refpeft the character of right privatiers men 5 
 but in no other inftance. 
 
 He like wife fays, p. 22. that Hat ley's moy- 
 dors were but 80 or 100, whereof tnn were 
 given the cockfwain, and fix to each of the 
 boat's crew, which fhail, in the fequei, be 
 fet in a fairer light, when Hatley and I 
 were taken prifoners, and 96 of the moy- 
 dors found upon him. 
 
 In a few days after this, all our petty of 
 ficers and boat's crew appeared in their fine 
 filk waiftcoats, caps and breeches; our com 
 mander himfelf in a filken skin, as the 
 word peaud'foy implies, and the beau 
 
 gentleman 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD? 3 1 
 
 gentleman his fon, in a cinnamon colour'd 
 fute of fine filk, all wondrous gallant and 
 gay! 
 
 Shehocke foon perceived by the whi 
 pering and fhy nefs of his officers in the cabin, 
 that this management did not pleafe them, 
 tho' none of us dared to fpeak the leaft 
 about it : So to make us eafy, as he would 
 have it (tho' in reality to make us accom 
 plices) he order'd us to bring into the cabin 
 all our fcarlet futes 5 the Gentlemen who 
 fitted us out, having given the chief offi 
 cers, to the number of twenty five in both 
 
 fhips, a fcarlet fute each ; When he 
 
 made us the following fpeech. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 " We have yet a long voyage in hand, 
 " and 'tis uncertain where or how we (hall 
 " be furnifh'd with deaths, when thefe we 
 " have are worn out or impaired. To (hew 
 " you therefore that I have your intereft as 
 " much at heart as my own, I have confider'd 
 cc that your fleeve cuffs and pocket flaps 
 " will be firft fubjeft to the injuries of time; 
 " which to prevent, I here make each of 
 " you a prefent of as much gold and fdver 
 i flower'd 
 
3 A Vo YAG E found the Wo RL>. 
 
 " flower'd filk as will ferve to cover them* 
 " To you gentlemen fea officers, fcarlet with 
 *' gold 5 and to you gentlemen of the; ma- 
 " rines, green with filver." For this kind of 
 fer we ail returned humble thanks, beging 
 leave at the fame time to be excus'd from 
 this piece of finery : but all in vain s for our 
 captain would not be outdone in point of 
 generofity : we muft appear fomething like 
 himfelf, And he in his black peaud'foy fute ' 
 trim'd with large filver loops down the breaft, 
 made a ridiculous figure enough. 
 
 He has fomewhere, I think, call'd me a 
 Cape of Good Hope man j which noted head 
 land I never faw, and therefore know not 
 what he means by it : But 'tis certain this 
 tranfaftion with the Tortuguefe proved Shel- 
 *uocke a right Cape Frio man, which I be 
 lieve is very eafily underftood. 
 
 Tho* Shehocke never kept any journa^ 
 or intended to give the gentlemen any fair 
 account of his adions 5 yet at his arrival in 
 England, finding this ftory was blown, he 
 was under a neceffity of removing from 
 himfelf the imputation of Pyracy as well 
 as he could : and therefore confidently tells 
 the world, page 2 3 . that he made a proteft 
 
 againft 
 
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 againft Hatley, and delivered it to captain 
 Cltpperton y in the South-Sea, which, if true, 
 inftead of mending makes the ftory worfe. 
 
 Now, this is mere invention, founded up- 
 on the difficulty there feems to be of con 
 futing him 5 for Cliff erton died in June 
 1722. I was left a priibner at Lima'm Te- 
 ru y and probably facrificed. As for Hatley, 
 he indeed did arrive at London in 2 3 , but 
 went immediately for Jamaica, never (hew 
 ing his face to any one of the owners : fo 
 that Shel-vocke imagin'd there was no wit- 
 nefs of confequence to reveal his craft and 
 treachery 5 having had three or four years to 
 frame and complete this romantic libel. 
 
 However, I defire this invifible gentle 
 man to anfwer me thefe following queC 
 tions. 
 
 Why fuch proceft was not made while 
 Hatley was on board the Speedwell* to be 
 confronted by a cloud of witneffes? 
 
 Why that proteft (if any fuch ever was 
 made) (hould be deliver'd to captain Clip- 
 pert on? whom Shelvocke from page 22. to 
 25 of his preface, and all along has made 
 fuch a fad infignificant fellow ; and to whom 
 he had too much pride to think himfelf 
 accountable? and, D Why 
 
34 ^ %> Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 Why was not a copy of that proteft print 
 ed in his book, fairly vouch'd by his chief 
 officers, as well as that long impertinent 
 one againft the governer of Sanfonate, on 
 the oppofite part of the globe? page 340. 
 I really believe one would have been much 
 more to his credit than the other. 
 
 We arrive next at St. Catherine's on the 
 coaft of Brazil, lat. 27 : 30 S: where our 
 captain (hews us a mafterpiece of machia- 
 vilian politicks j making by the following 
 ftratagem the greateft number of his (hips 
 company rogues againft their own inclina 
 tions : and knowing this could not be fud- 
 denly brought about, he had long been pre 
 paring for that purpofe his inftrument, one 
 Mathew Stewart j who, as his own fteward, 
 waited on us in the cabin, till our arrival at 
 the Canary iflands, when and where Shel- 
 vocke had promoted him to be firft mate 
 of the ihip, tho' not feaman enough to dif- 
 tinguifh between a brace and a bowline. 
 This was done to gain him greater credit 
 with the men,- tho' it was a direct preju 
 dice to three or four clever young fellows 
 who were good feamen and artifts. His ac 
 cepting a fteward's place at firft is an unde 
 niable argument he was no feaman. The 
 
y Vo Y AG E round the Wo R LD. 3 5 
 
 The weight of my argument depending 
 much on proving Stewart no feaman, the 
 reader I hope will pardon my inferring this 
 account of him. He was the fon or ap 
 prentice of a fhopkeeper at Glafgow inNortb 
 Britain, and went fupercargo of a fmall 
 fhip to Maryland or Virginia. On his re 
 turn from his firft voyage he touched at Lon 
 don, where he fquander'd away moft of his 
 money : fo not caring to look his friends 
 in the face, he defir'd of captain Shefoocke 
 to be imploy'd in our expedition ; who made 
 him his fteward. He was a young man of 
 good fenfe and good education : fo that it's 
 plain if he were qualified for doing the du 
 ty of a fea-officer, his ambition would not 
 have fuffer'd him to accept a fte ward's pi ace : 
 and how fit this man was for firft mate of a 
 private fliip of war, I leave other judges 
 than my felf to determine. In this article 
 I appeal to Mr. James Moffat and Company, 
 mercers in Si. Marlins le Grand. 
 
 This fpark had not been long tampering 
 with the men, before he brought them to 
 any thing he pleafed; efpecially when they 
 faw he always had the captain's ear, and 
 was fo very much in his favour alfo 5 which 
 
 D 2 gave 
 
3 6 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 gave us all a kind of emulation, wonder 
 ing what rare qualifications Shehocke could 
 difcover in a fellow, who but a few days 
 before rinfed our glafies and filled us our 
 wine. 
 
 But the myftery was here unraveird, on 
 our finding a round robine fent up by the 
 men to Shefoocke, by this minion of his. 
 Robine is a mutinous letter, at the bot 
 tom of which every fubfcriber fets his hand 
 in a round ring, to avoid being called firft 
 in the mutiny. The tenor of this letter 
 fet forth their diffidence of the gentlemen 
 owners, and their fears of being all cheat 
 ed : which the fellows before had no no 
 tion of, if not prompted to thefe appre- 
 henfions, as I faid before, by Shehocke 
 himfelf 5 who finding all that he had done and 
 faid fail of the defired effed, had now made 
 ufe of this emiffary Stewart, to poifon the 
 men's minds, when otherwife they would 
 have been quiet at their duty. I need no 
 ftronger argument to prove the honeft and 
 orderly difpofition of the {hip's company, 
 than this writer's own words, page 4. who 
 fays himfelf, they were four fifths landmen j 
 whofe firft complaint, 'tis well known, is 
 
 always 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD^ 3 ^ 
 
 always for want of provifions $ which they, 
 however do in a more fubmiffive manner. 
 But this was quite out of the cafe 5 as what 
 they never could or did complain of. Be- 
 iides, if the boatfwain and his mates were 
 fupported in the difcharge of their duty, 
 they were fufficient enough to keep them 
 under. Add to this, that we were nine officers 
 at his table, an unufual number for fuch a 
 fhip, being fo defign'd that we might ef- 
 fedually oppofe any intended mutinies : but 
 this defpotic man had fo intimidated us, 
 that had we offered our fervice, by pro- 
 mifing to affift him in bringing thofe pre 
 tended mutiniers to reafon, the very pro- 
 pofal from us would have been conftrued 
 a real mutiny. And further it may be eia- 
 fdy imagined, that no one would have had 
 the confidence to deliver this arbitrary cap 
 tain any propofal favouring of difcontent' 
 and mutiny, except a pupil fo inftrufted ; 
 and fuch was Stewart, whom I might more 
 properly n\\ quart ermafter y fmce he officiated 
 as one who had rather been ufed to the 
 Jamaica difcipline, than a well regulated 
 private fhip of war. 
 
 D 3 None 
 
3 8 A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 None therefore but a man void of truth 
 and fliame could impute, as Shelvocke does, 
 all his innovations and wilful mifmanage- 
 ments to the mutinies of his men ; when 
 any fix of his cabin officers, having the 
 fmall arms always in our own cuftody, 
 would have drove the rafcals over the fore- 
 caftie, without deferving to be recorded 
 as heroes. 
 
 In fine, new regulations and articles were 
 made and introduced by Stewart, allowing 
 an additional perquiftt to Sbefoocke himfelf 
 of 5 per cent, upon the whole capture to 
 be madej which, after his example, we all 
 Jign'd. 
 
 To give the better countenance to this 
 proceding, Shefoocke asked us officers of 
 his mefs, whom we would chufe for our 
 agent } to this not one of them even dared 
 to fay a word, waiting his own dire&ion 
 to point out the man : At laft I faid, that 
 fmce the whole fhip's company, except our 
 felves, had vefted fuqh a power in Mr. Stew- 
 arty I could fee no realon why he might, 
 not make one trouble of it, and pay us 
 all our refpeftive (hares.; To this he. anf- 
 Wer'd with a menacing fneer, ay by god, I 
 
 fuppofe 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 fuppofe you want that preferment your felf. 
 I replyd, I was ib well fatisfyd with my own 
 fhares, and the imployment given me 
 by the Gentlemen at home, that I never co 
 veted or thought of any other. This too 
 gave a great deal of offenfe. However Shel- 
 <uocke modeftly told us, that unlefs we chofe 
 his own nephew Adams the furgeon , we 
 fhould make a voyage for a knife m&Jheath* 
 It was no fooner faid than done : the doc 
 tor drew up an Inftrument immediately, and 
 we were conftraind to fign it. 
 
 But the merrieft agent of all, was Shel- 
 <vocke himfelf, who calling the next day to 
 Mr Hendrie, the Gentlemen's agent, told 
 him that he himfelf would now be agent 
 for the owners, and Hendrie might be pur- 
 fer of the (hip, if he pleafed : at which ar 
 bitrary ufurpation, Mr. Hendrie was very 
 much fhockt 5 well knowing that as agent 
 he had a right to twenty fhares ; but as pur- 
 fer, only what Shefaocke was pleafed to 
 allow 5 for as yet we had no fuch officer 
 mentiond aboard the fhip : wherefore 
 feeing the difficulties we lay under, hebe- 
 lieved it was in vain to ftruggle, and only 
 made this gentle return.- Sir, I hope I 
 $ have 
 
*o 
 
 4i A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 have done nothing unbecoming my duty, 
 either in my office, or perfonally to you > 
 and therefore beg leave to remind you, that 
 thofe gentlemen who gave you your com- 
 miflion in this fhip , made me alfo their 
 agent for all fuch captures as (he fliould 
 make: for which Hendrie got no fatisfac- 
 tion, but SbcliMckss adding with an oath 
 that if he did not accept a purfer, he fhould 
 neither be one nor the other. Whereupon 
 Mr. Hendrie demanded, in his own right, 
 to have a council of the officers calid who 
 fliould hear and determine the cafe; which 
 being abfolutely refufed,. Hendrie drew up 
 a proteft againft the captain's arbitrary pro- 
 cedings, a copy of which he gave into his 
 own hand, and deliverd one to each officer 
 of his mefs : which is a proof of Hendrie's 
 honeft fpirit, and that he was worthy of the 
 port the gentlemen gave him. 
 
 My reader may poffibly queflion how fo 
 much craft, fo much treachery, fuch an 
 abufe of power, could meet together in 
 the perfon of one man : but I here folemn- 
 ly aver every circumftance of this affair to 
 be true j and appeal to all perfons concernd 
 therein, bcfides the depofitions aforefaid. 
 
 3 Nor 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 41 
 
 Nor is it fo much to be wonder'd at, if 
 we confider a commander of a fhip in a far 
 diftant latitude, with unlimited power, 'bad 
 views, ill nature and ill principles all con 
 curring. - 1 fay, it's not to be wondered at 
 whatever fuch a Man does, for he is paft 
 ail reftraint. 
 
 A late inftance of this kind is captain 
 Jayne^ofBriftolwho, in a moft extraordinary 
 lingering manner, cruelly ftarved and tor 
 tured his cabin boy to death ; nor could his 
 whole (hip's company hinder it, tho' it was 
 long a doing : however, when afhore, the 
 men were freed from that tyrannical power, 
 and were bold enough to fpeak the truth, 
 which hanged him. 
 
 But to return. Thus was Shelvockes great 
 eftate to be got fuddenly, without any one 
 in the fhip to be a check upon him, or even, 
 a witnefs of the quantum or quomodo, how 
 or how much > for now 'tis evident all muft 
 pafs through his own and his two creatures 
 hands; Shelvocke being agent for the owners, 
 his kinfman for us of the cabin, and Stew 
 art agent for the petty officers and men. 
 
 Nor did he flop here $ for he alfo pro- 
 pofed to reduce me from captain of ma 
 rines 
 
42 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 rines to lieutenant, and the two lieutenants 
 of marines to petty officers : but- 1 having 
 a letter from Edward Hugkes y Efq; directed 
 to captain Mitchel, then the commanding 
 officer of the Speedwel, to receive me and 
 my fervant on board, and to enter me on 
 the roll of equipage, as captain of marines, 
 which I produced, he defifted, and I heard 
 no more of it : but this I remember, that 
 in two days time my pocket-book was ftole 
 from me, wherein I kept the faid letter, 
 and fome memorandums of our captain's 
 very fine procedings. 
 
 Inftead of coming into this harbour of 
 St. Catharines, it's plain Shclvocke's duty was 
 to make the beft of his way to the fouth- 
 ward, that he might be early with the ene 
 my the Spaniard-, for Clipperton, about this 
 time, was a&ually in the great South -Sea- 
 But our commander found it more comfor 
 table to pafs the winter away near that 
 glorious luminary the fun, than at the ha 
 zard of lofing his liquors to follow his or 
 ders and his commodore into the frozen 
 ftraits of Magellan, where Clipperton and 
 his men fuffer'd extreme hardfhips, being 
 quite deftitute of thofe fupports which we 
 fuper-aboundecl with. To 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 45 
 
 To palliate thefe mifmanagements. Shel- 
 <vocke tells ye, p. 51. that to fave his Eng- 
 lijh provifions, he bought twenty one head 
 of black cattle $ which, I am fure, was but 
 four : one hundred and fifty bufhels of caf- 
 fader meal ; which was no more than five 
 or fix : and as for other provifions (except 
 ing three or four hogs) 'tis a forgery ; for 
 the inhabitants hearing from our deferters 
 of the Cape Frio ftory, would no longer 
 deal with us , tho* Monfieur Laport, one of 
 our lieutenants, who was a roman catholic, 
 apply'd to the padre , one Sunday after 
 divine fervice, to fell Shefoocke what he 
 wanted. 
 
 He fays, in his home made ftory, page 
 48. that Hat ley burn'd the 'Portuguefe 
 houfe, tho' we have often heard him blame 
 Randal^ his lieutenant, for fo doing, he 
 being really the man. This indeed was but 
 a brutifh return to the people, who out of 
 fear or complaifance had quitted their houfe, 
 for our coopers and fail-makers to work in, 
 and likewife ferved us for a guard houfe. 
 But Shefaocke fays nothing of Coldfea the 
 mafter, .the moft quarelfome turbulent 
 fellow in the fhip, becauie whatever imper- 
 
 fed 
 
44- d Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLP. 
 
 fe& reckoning they had, was kept by him, 
 having made the tour of the globe toge 
 ther. This man at St. Catharine's was 
 doom'd by Shehocke for tranfportation to 
 Europe, becaufe he infulted his kinfman 
 Adams $ and to fave himfelf an oath, that 
 he never fliould come over the ftiip's fide 
 again, he fuffer'd him, at the intreaty of 
 Mr. *Dddd, to enter at a gun-port. 
 
 As to the awning, which he fet up page 
 51. and which he intends as, a justification 
 of his coming in here, it proved rather a 
 nufance than a benefit ; for as the place af 
 forded not the proper materials, he could 
 not make it ftaunch and tight, fo that the 
 rain, as it fell from the clouds, was not 
 Kalf io troublefom, as the ftreams it made 
 through this imperfeft piece of work, into 
 the poor men's necks : befides, it very 
 much hinder'd our walking the deck. Cap 
 tain Clipper ton had twice made the voyage 
 before, and therefore was fomething of a 
 judge; and he, as well as the gentlemen at 
 home, thought the Speedwel completely 
 enough fitted out without any additions 
 of captain Shefoocke's* 
 
 It's 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD[ 45 
 
 It's merry enough to obfcrve how Shel- 
 vocke p. 25. makes Monf. La Jonquiere* 
 who was a gentleman of good fenfe, com 
 mander of a fifty gun (hip in the King of 
 Spain's fervice, and in time of war with 
 England, hold forth to the fuppofed mu 
 tinous crew of an English privaticr, then 
 going to take, fink, burn and deftroy as 
 many of the {hips belonging to the fubjeds 
 of the king his m after, as fhould have the 
 misfortune of falling into their dutches^ 
 and to this effed, that they fhould behave 
 themfeives dutifully and obediently towards 
 their honeft commander, who was leading 
 them to make their fortunes. The abfur- 
 dity of this is plain enough, when I confider 
 there were not above four or five in our fhip 
 at moft,who understood any thing of French: 
 and I am fure La Jonquiere did not (peak 
 , a word of Englijh: belides, he had fome- 
 thing elie to mind -, all this being only a 
 drunken frolick, occafion'd by the french 
 man's coming aboard us to make merry. 
 
 Another, but a worfe blunder he com 
 mits in the fpeech, he pretends was made 
 to captain Hatley, by Monfieur La Rivi 
 ere, commander of a Tortugnefe man of 
 
 war 
 
46 A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 war of forty guns, which arrived there fome 
 time before \ve fail'd. p. 26. " That it 
 " was very likely he might receive a gra- 
 " tuity from the matter of the fhip *, 
 " to prevent his being troublefome : but 
 " that his captain's coming immediately in- 
 " to a port of the fame nation, was a con- 
 " vincing demonftration to him (befides 
 " the meannefs of the ftory ) that there could 
 " not be any public or general bafe de- 
 " fign, and that he was far from miftruft- 
 " ing there could be any private one, and 
 " defired him to give his humble fervice to 
 " me, and tell me, that he had a great deal 
 " of honour and refped for me ; and begg'd 
 " I would let him have the conveniencies 
 " I had afhore (when I had done with them) 
 " if the French captain had not preingag- 
 " ed them. 
 
 Now, 'tis very unlikely that a captain of 
 a. man of war, of double the force, and in 
 a harbour of his own nation, fhould beg 
 leave in fo obfequious a manner for convene 
 cncies, which he might eafily command; and 
 I know of no conveniencies there, except 
 
 * That is the Portugttefe off Cape Frio. 
 
 the 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 47 
 
 the houfe which Randal burn'd 5 for Shel- 
 <vocke owns himfelf, p. 57. that he faw no 
 houfe or fortification, except the woods. 
 And whereas he (for reafons beft known to 
 himfelf) will have it thztHatley was fo odi 
 ous to the Tortuguefe inhabitants, charging 
 him with things quite foreign to the truth ; 
 it was not his cafe alone : we were all equal 
 ly hated by them 5 for they were by this 
 time acquainted with the ill treatment the 
 fortuguefe captain met with from us; as 
 he himfelf plainly allows, p. 45. faying, 
 " I made no doubt but that captain Hat- 
 " lefs affair would be reported to this gen- 
 " tleman, by fome of the inhabitants 5 and 
 " therefore told him, that I expe&ed he 
 " would go and vindicate himfelf to the 
 * Tortuguefe captain, to prevent any dif- 
 < turbances that might arife, by the account 
 " of his mifmanagement on board the Tor- 
 <c tuguefe we met at fea. To which he 
 " readily replied, that he would. There- 
 " fore to give him an opportunity of 
 " doing it, I fent a complement by Mon- 
 " fieur La Riviere. 
 
 Now had the bufinefs with the Tortu- 
 
 guefe, off of Cafe Frio> been a fair mer- 
 
 4 chandize 
 
48 A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 chandize, as Shefoocke relates it, p. 1 6. how 
 comes he here to call it mifmanagement, 
 and cautioufly to fend Hatley with a com 
 plement to vindicate himfelf ? 
 
 A Creolian Spaniard, fervant to one 
 of captain Jonquieres lieutenants, hav 
 ing robb'd his Mafter of a hundred qua 
 druples, each of which is four piftoles, ab- 
 fconded in the woods, defigning to take 
 his paffage with us round Cape Home, to 
 his own country again. La Jonquiere and 
 the lieutenant applied to Shelvocke, defiring, 
 that in cafe the fervant (hould be found, 
 and the money upon him, he would 
 fecure him and take it from him; giving 
 Shehocke diredions how to remit the money 
 to France , on his arrival in Europe, all 
 which he faithfully promifed to perform. 
 As foon as the Ruby fail'd, the fellow ap- 
 pear'd to our men at the watering place, 
 with one rnoiety of the money in his poc 
 ket, defigning, I fuppofe, to pay for his paf 
 fage with it : but Shehocke not content 
 with that, order'd him to be feiz'd to the 
 jears, where he was whipp'd and pickled, 
 which was repeated every Munday for a 
 month : but the fellow, who had run the 
 4 rifque 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo R LD. 49 
 
 rifque of hanging for it, and knew the 
 value of money as well as the captain, flood 
 the lafh without confeffing he had any more : 
 fo he remained on board and had his paf- 
 fage. Thus was $betvocke y with his whole- 
 fome fcverities, teaching the Spaniard the 
 heinoufnefs of defrauding his matter ; when 
 we all very well knew Shelvocke deferved 
 the fame difcipline himfelf: which brings 
 to my mind an excellent diftich of Dr, 
 Garth. 
 
 But little villains muftfiibmittofate, 
 That great ones may injoy the world inflated 
 
 This ftory I mention, becaufe he hasbeea 
 cunning enough to skip it over, and only- 
 fays, p. 3 1. " 'twas well for him he had 
 " fome money from one of the Rubfs pco- 
 " pic," which muft be the faid lieutenant's 
 fervant. 
 
 I think it needs explanation, how fuch 
 friendfhip could exift between two warlike 
 fliips of nations already declared enemies, 
 efpeciaily fince Sbel-vccke has faid nothing 
 Of it ; fancying the world might afcribe it 
 to his own wife conduft, or rafher his 
 
 E gafco- 
 
50 A Yo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 gafconading Monjieur into that complaifant 
 temper. 
 
 I muft therefore acquaint the reader that 
 Lajonqtiiere had on board his (hip a good 
 fum of the King's money, and near twenty 
 fathers 5 fome of which had been many 
 yecrs in *Peru, CHli and ^Paraguay miffio- 
 naries de propaganda fide* and had well 
 fiird their purfes, the gofpel there proving 
 very great gain : befides many other wealthy 
 paflengers from thofe parts. Thefe pacific 
 gentry did by no means like the noife of 
 great guns, or changing the pleafures of 
 this world for the uncertainties of immor 
 tality: and Monfieur, no doubt, had found 
 how to turn that difpofition of theirs into 
 a good article in his accounts. Befides, to 
 my knowledge he had not at his firft com 
 ing in, above fixty well men, tho' he had 
 near 400 aboard, paflengers included 5 which 
 ill date of his people was chiefly occafi- 
 oiVd by his paffing Cape Home in the win 
 ter with indifferent provifion, which the 
 Spaniards in America know not how to cure 
 or pack up. 
 
 Before we fail'd, there arrived a French 
 merchant fiiip from St. Mak> commanded 
 
 by 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 5 1 
 
 by Monfieur ^umaln Gtrard, bound fot 
 Chili ; who meeting La Jonquiere at fea, 
 had got an order on Shehocke to pay him 
 the money : But Shelvocke refuVd it, faying 
 he would remit it, on his return to England* 
 to the lieutenant, whofe money it was; 
 which, if he has done, is Very extraordinary, 
 being contrary to his dealings in other 
 cafes, with thofe who have had his acquain 
 tance in this voyage. 
 
 At length we fai I'd from St. Catharine's, 
 but faw no more (hips to try the projeft of 
 the Emperor's colours with : fo that no 
 thing to my prefent purpofe happens, till 
 we got round Cape Home. Where, as we 
 approach the enemy, Shehocke fearing 
 fome of us might be (pies upon his a&ions, 
 thought it the wileft way to get rid of thofe 
 whom he had hitherto obferved uneafy at 
 his procedings ; and fets his fon George and 
 Adams his kinfman, to tell us, in a formal 
 manner j That fuch of us, as did not like 
 to ferve under captain Shefoocke, flhould 
 foon be found with other imbarkations* 
 And this was often tepeated. 
 
 Let the reader then be pleafed to ob- 
 
 ferve, that he has placed this affair p. 62, 
 
 E z before 
 
52 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 before we got to Cape Home: but this is 
 another proof that he kept no regular jour- 
 nal,for all this happened when we were in the 
 great South-Sea, and liquors began to grow 
 fcarce. 
 
 He begins, p. 60 : where he fays, as we 
 advanced to the fouthward, the men's fto- 
 machs increafed with the (harpnefs of the 
 air. Here he fays I grew a champion for 
 the officers, and wanted a greater allow 
 ance at his table : which is intirely a falfe 
 infmuation, for no one was better pleaied 
 with the allowance, and To were the peo 
 ple : and having ferved as an officer feveral 
 years in the navy, I muft needs know that 
 any man, in fuch an expedition, guilty of 
 what Shelvocke lays to my charge, well de- 
 ferved to be fliot through the head. After 
 wards he aggravates this ftory, by faying Be- 
 tagh had a voracious appetite, and eat more 
 than came to his fhare. I need not won 
 der at any thing Shelvocke fays on this head ; 
 for he being a very fmall eater himfelf, fan 
 cied all other people gluttons : J verily be 
 lieve he never eat above two ounces in a 
 <fey, as long as hipfy lafted$ but was a great 
 drinker all the voyage j whereas I never 
 
 loved 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 5 3 
 
 loved drinking : fo that the difference be 
 tween us is only this, I eat more than he, 
 and he drank more than I : and when I am 
 to tell the (lory, the reflection is turned: 
 He appears a drunkard, and I a moderate 
 man. 
 
 Now this is fuch mean pitiful fcandal 
 for an author who fets out with the noble 
 title of a voyage round the world, that it 
 muft convince mankind how trifling his 
 obfervations have been, how ill grounded 
 his malice is to me, and how far fetched 
 his revenge. Tis a poor reflexion upon a 
 man, who in his appetite is as moderate 
 as moft are, and hardly deferves the ant 
 fwer I have given it. 
 
 Tis in the fame page, where he fays I 
 had the infolence to tell him publickly, that 
 the voyage fliould be fhort with him. I 
 frankly own I faid the words, and fcorn 
 to deny it : but faid them not in that or 
 der he has malicioufly put them. For to 
 avoid his brow- beating me, I often ufed to 
 fit crofs the fpitfail-yard arm in fine wea 
 ther, with a book, or the fifhgigg to ftrike 
 the fifli, and one time coming down pret 
 ty thirfty, I found them all drinking hug- 
 E 3 ger 
 
54 <A Vo? AGE round the Wo RLD. 
 ger mugger in the cabin, upon which I 
 faid, Faith, now I find I muft drink in fpight; 
 which Shefaocke furioufly refented, as an ar 
 gument that I would drink in fpight of him, 
 whether he would or no : upon which I 
 thus addreft him, and faid, fince we are pad 
 the Cape, themoft dangerous and fatiguing 
 part of our navigation, and are fo near the 
 enemy, 1 beg of you, Sir, to let us live as 
 eafy as poffible 5 for now I hope in God the 
 voyage will be fhort with us. Thefe were 
 infallibly my very "words: but according to 
 his way of perverting them, what muft the 
 reader imagine, but that I defigncd to throw 
 my captain over-board, or murder him ? 
 
 As Shetoocke has turn'd it, it can bear 
 Ho better meaning. This I think a very 
 cruel mifchicvpus way of perverting a man's 
 \vords, and not unlike the Devil's method 
 of quoting fcripture. 
 
 However, my good captain, for thefe and 
 Other reafons that I have fct forth, was 
 pleafed to order me under confinement : 
 and it may be here thought ftrange, confi- 
 dering what a troublefome creature he has 
 jeprefcnted me, that I bore this with iuch 
 temper and fubmiffion j 'tis much -he don't 
 
A Vo TAG E round fbeWo RLD. 55 
 
 fay I mutinied. But I was taken into cufto- 
 dy, laid at my full length on the arms-cheft 
 at the bulk-head in the fteerage, and con 
 fined juft there : and, what with the height 
 of the cheft and the bedding, the upper 
 deck was fo very clofe, I had hardly room 
 to lie extended upon it, there being no 
 poflibility of fitting up, fo that my victu 
 als was brought me there 5 and when I of 
 fered to make water upon deck, the centi- 
 nel was always clofe at my heels with a 
 drawn fword : and thus I continued twelve 
 or fourteen days, no body daring to fpeak 
 to me, except Mr. Hendrie, who before 
 this was alfo turn'd out of the mefs. 
 
 Liberty is what we are all fond of; but 
 the ridiculous manner of my confinement 
 made it more irkfom and tedious: fo that it 
 was natural for me to try any method for in- 
 largement. And ifSbehocke had preceded le 
 gally, I fhould have been try'd by a council of 
 our own officers, according tp captain Ro- 
 gers's method, which we wereorder'd to fol 
 low : but being paft all hopes of that, I foon 
 found it plain, that all he wanted was an hum 
 ble letter under my hand 5 for by what his fon 
 George had faid (that we fhould be foon 
 E 4 found 
 
56 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 found with other imbarkations) I believe I was 
 intended a facrifice to the Spaniard: there 
 fore finding by Adams> that a letter was 
 expected, I e'en writ five - or fix lines in as 
 handiome a manner as I could, but not that 
 long forg'd letter, p. 26, fram'd and con 
 trived juft to ferve his own pnrpofe, by 
 making him appear innocent and me guil 
 ty : the original of which, if he can pro 
 duce of my hand writing, I here promife 
 to own all the reft of his book to be true. 
 And doubtlefs, if I ever wrote liich a let- 
 t^r, Shelvocke would be wife enough to 
 prefcrve it, not only for his own credit, but 
 
 to put me to confufion. Wherefore I here 
 
 dare hiai to it : and whatever I did write, 
 the reader may eafily fee that the nature of 
 my circumftances extorted it. 
 
 As for the additional allowance, which 
 he fpeaks of p. 62. 'tis inferred there on 
 ptirpofe to make that inference, p. 74, 
 \vhcre he fays he could not precede direft- 
 Jy to the northward, becaufe the fupernume- 
 rary allowance aforementioned had wafted 
 our wood and water 3 and fo truly Shefcocke 
 fays he was. obliged to go to Narbrougtis 
 ifland to recruit thcfe two articles. 
 
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 Sure this man has the grcattft (hare of 
 hypocrify that I ever met with. This ftory 
 is a mere vile fidion made here at home, 
 to excufe himfelf to the Owners, who have 
 all been inraged at his condud. Shehocke 
 was ftill fearful of meeting his confort ; 
 and goes to Narbrough's ifland, for nothing 
 but to loiter time away, and avoid any pro 
 bable chance of feeing Clipperton .* befides 
 no private (hips have any bufinefs to touch 
 to the fouthward, there being nothing at 
 all to be got 5 and by his own account you 
 fee it was a foolifh attempt, for he came 
 back as he went, and narrowly cfcaped 
 lofmg his (hip. 
 
 While he is going round Cape Home, he 
 gravely tells us, p. 73. how melancholy 
 it was to be without his confort. " I muft 
 tc own (fays he) that this navigation is 
 " truly melancholy, and wa$ the more fo 
 to us, who were by our felves, without a 
 " companion, which would have fomewhat 
 " diverted our thoughts from the reflexion of 
 " being in fuch a remote part of the world, 
 tc and as it were, feparated from the reft 
 t of mankind, to ftruggle with the dan- 
 ^ gers of a ftormy climate/' ~p poor fbel- 
 
 vocke ! 
 
 " 
 
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 oockel Now this is all fiich a jeft, that it 
 makes the reader laugh : for after all your 
 whining, 'tis plain it better fated your 
 fcheme to be without captain Clipper- 
 ton^ who having no {lore of wine or 
 brandy, muft needs be very melancholy in 
 this wretched climate 5 and therefore thefc 
 reflections of yours would feem much more 
 natural from Chpperton, who wanted your 
 company more than you did his. 
 
 Still to confirm this, as we came into 
 the parallel of the illand of Chiloe, on the 
 continent, latitude 40 South, Shelvocke 
 would go in there, and all the arguments 
 we could ufe to the contrary, fignified no- 
 thing : for late as it was, if we had gone 
 to Fernandes, there were fome hopes of 
 meeting captain CUpperton, that being the 
 laft place of rendezvous, and where only 
 all private fliips do firft touch for wood and 
 water, without going to any part of the 
 continent for fear of alarming the coaft : 
 befides, he well knew that no Brittfo>French y 
 or any other (hip ever touch'd there ; nor hath 
 ;my chart ever defcribed it : yet he would 
 Venture in, where we almoft miraculoufly 
 fcaped with our lives 5 and all this, like 
 
 the 
 
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 the reft of his (ch ernes, to avoid joining 
 captain Clipperton. 
 
 We were no fooner enter'd, but we 
 found our felvcs furrounded with terrible 
 breakers; for fuch is the uncertainty and 
 rapidity of the feveral tides or currents meet 
 ing there, that 'twould at once aftonifh and 
 baffle the moft judicious mariner to de- 
 fcribe it. 
 
 We were firft taken under the bow with 
 a current fetting from the lee of one ifland : 
 (there being feveral) then immediately un 
 der the quarter with another, fo that the 
 fhip could not anfwer her helm. At laft 
 the moft powerful of thefe currents horfed 
 her away on the weft fhore, into three fa 
 thom and a half, where the torrent ran 
 with fuch impetuofity, and the ground was 
 fo foul, that the fand appeared on the furface 
 from the bottom : all which together af 
 forded us a difmal profpeft. However the 
 anchor brought her up, which if we had 
 not let go when we did, every man of us 
 muft inevitably have perifh'd : for had flic 
 touched the bottom there, (he muft in ^ 
 moment have gone to pieces, or overfet 
 by the ftrength of the Current. 
 
 Accord? 
 
60 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 According to this defcription, the reader, 
 tho' unacquainted with feamanfhip, will 
 eafily conceive that every foul of us was in 
 the utmoft danger by the unwarrantable 
 procedings of this one obftinate man : Tho f 
 to do juftice to my enemy, I muft allow 
 captain Shelvocke to be as able a feaman 
 and artift as perhaps any whatever, which 
 ftili makes his guilt in this affair the more 
 enormous. 
 
 To confirm what I have already faid, the 
 {hip, while riding here, kept continually on 
 the fheer, till the cable was fo rubb'd and 
 gaul'd by the rocks, that it wasftranded, and 
 then it parted: But Shehocke will have it, 
 p. SQ. that the great ftrain it then bore, 
 was occafiqn'd by the wind blowing frejh : 
 whereas if it had blown more than a mo 
 derate gale, we could not have kept our 
 topiails loofe; which very providentially 
 faved all our lives : for asfoon as we found 
 her adrift, we back'd her off to the eaft- 
 ward, the tide being chang'd 5 but had fhe 
 caft with her head to the weftward, our 
 voyage muft infallibly have terminated there 
 with our lives. 
 
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 As to the reafons he gives for going to 
 this place, they are all invented and made 
 at home. He fays, p. 77- La Fontaine, 
 the Frenchman we had out of the Ruby* 
 gave him great hopes and ideas of the 
 place, for that he had been there *, but I 
 am fure that (hip never touch'd to the 
 fouthward, farther than Conception: and 
 then he fays that Frenchman's affurances 
 prevailed upon us all unanimoufly to go to 
 this ifland : whereas, as I laid before, we 
 all too well knew the danger and vanity 
 of it, (to call it no worfe) and labour'd in 
 vain to difiuade him from it. 
 
 I have given the reader many fpecimens 
 of Shelvocke's hypocrify and bafenefs; here 
 follows an inftance of his ill manners. At 
 our arrival in the harbour of Chiloe, Shel- 
 <vocke, by the advice of La Tort our third 
 lieutenant, hoifted French colours, and af- 
 fumes the name of Janis le Breton > and 
 the Speedwel he calls the St. Rofe y in which 
 the faid Le Breton had made feveral voy 
 ages in thefe Seas. 
 
 Here he puts in praftice the ftrangeft 
 
 dilcipline that ever I heard of. As foon 
 
 as we were in the harbour, the night ap- 
 
 3 preaching, 
 
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 proaching, our captain orders the watch 
 upon deck to divide into three parties: on 
 the forecaftle, a midfhips, and on the quar 
 terdeck; and to call out every five minutes 
 to lookout well afore there, look out well 
 abaft there, each party in their turn an- 
 fwering aloud, Ay, *-Ay. and this to be con 
 tinued every night. This hollowing and 
 hooping (o terrified the people afliore, that 
 they never dared to appear by day 5 and had 
 nothing .to do all night, but drive theif 
 cattle into the woods too far for us to fol 
 low them, and fecure their beft effeds as 
 well as they could. Add to this the terri 
 ble Icarecrow figures we made by day in 
 our grenadiers caps, which he made us all 
 put on to fright the enemy, and which 
 were at lead two and twenty inches high, 
 So that the people aboard the canoe, which 
 firft came to us, and carried Shelvocke's firft 
 letter to the governcr, were fo feared at us,, 
 that they never had courage enough to re- 
 turn with an anfwer : but ereded a pole with 
 a white flag of peace, in the night time> 
 and ^t the foot of it left a letter from the 
 governer, with a prefent of twelve large 
 hams for our captain. 
 
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 By this letter, p. 84. it was great condef- 
 cenfion in the governer to take that notice 
 of us : for tho' we indeavour'd to pafs for 
 the (hip above mentioned, yet by this odnefs 
 of difcipline, and monftrous kind of caps, 
 I rather think they took us for fome wild 
 creatures from a country yet unknown. 
 Now if Shelvocke had at heart the intereft 
 of his owners, he would have improved 
 this difpofition of the governer, who had, 
 as it were kindly broke the ice, by making 
 the firft prefent : For all the governers for 
 his Spanish Majefty are ftriclly forbid to 
 deal in any wile; but particularly ordered 
 to oppofe all nations having any provifions 
 whatever, as being moft jealous of that 
 clandeftine way of trade. 
 
 The governer, no doubt, expeded fome 
 fort of return for his prefent : at leaft a gen 
 tleman like one : for none of the gover 
 ners in this part of the world come to 
 take the air, but to make their fortunes. 
 But our Janis Le Breton returns about a 
 pound and half of butter, at leaft eighteen 
 months in fait ; a pound of black pepper, 
 and two 'Dutch cheefes about the bignefs 
 of ninepin bowls. Now any one may 
 
 imagine 
 
64- A Vo VAG E round the Wo RU>. 
 
 imagine how ftupidly ridiculous this appear 
 ed to a gentleman, governer of a province 
 flowing indeed with milk and honey. How 
 ever, in his next letter he thanks our cap^ 
 tain in terms as civil as the former. 
 
 ItShefoocke had fent the governer ahand- 
 fome piece of filk of the Cape Fr/^acquifition, 
 for his lady, it would have been a genteel 
 return, and futable to the gaiety of the 
 American Spaniards. I make no doubt we 
 fhould have had fat beeves and hogs, as 
 many as we wanted : but the whimfical 
 duty which our commander order'd us 
 to perform, together with his own auk- 
 ward behaviour, made us really appear both 
 frightful and ridiculous: and if he had aded 
 as he ought, what pretext could remain for 
 his loitering here, and not going immedi 
 ately to the place of rendezvous? But his 
 coming in and all he did here, was in* 
 tirely vain amufement, idly wafting five 
 or fix weeks, ordering us every day afhore, 
 in our fcxols caps, in the perfuit of game 
 or (hooting the wild boar. 
 
 So that what we were chiefly fupplied 
 with, was the produce of two fmall iflands 
 on the ftarboard-lide going in j for "which 
 
 we 
 
A V p YAG E round the Wo RLD^ <5 J 
 
 \^ere indebted to lieutenant Brooks 
 goo4 management, who at our firft com 
 ing fecured all the fmall imbarkations he 
 found in the bay, which hindered the in 
 habitants carrying off their cattle. 
 
 I come now to the ftory, p. 98. relating to 
 my felf, which he has drefl up with filly 
 falfities only to expofe me. In fhort, Shei- 
 vocke order'd me and lieutenant ^Doddj with 
 as many marines as the pinnace could- carry, 
 to go afhore at the flag place, to exercife only j 
 whereas he falfly fays it was to get fupplies 
 from the Sfaniards. I who had never learu- 
 cd, feeing the reft of our officers had taken 
 it in their heads to learn, thought it would 
 appear fingular, if I did not learn too : fo 
 we exercifed about half a dozen times mak 
 ing but one line of about fifteen men (tho* 
 he talks of ranks) and went {trait aboard. 
 The real defign of this was quite otherwife 
 than he would have the world believe : for 
 the fccond or third day after our arrival, 
 two canoes approached us to form fome 
 judgment of our defigns; and for thatrca- 
 fon we were order' d to exercife afhore, ia 
 this manner, to appear as formidable as we 
 could : but it was in hopes the Spaniards} 
 F taking 
 
66 A Vo VAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 taking it for a formal landing to plunder 
 them, would knock us on the head, which 
 was eafily enough to be done ; for Shel- 
 vocke when he fent us, faid there was no 
 need of any powder or (hot, tho' we cau- 
 tioufly took fome unknown to him : befides, 
 had it been only to exercife, it might have 
 been done aboard, or at the watering place 
 the other fide the bay, where there was none 
 but our own people. 
 
 There was no reafon to fend us in the 
 very mouths of the Spaniards, with fo few 
 men, unfurnifh'd (as he thought) with am 
 munition, to a place where only danger 
 could be expected, if it was not with fe- 
 cret hopes to have us cut off: For *Dodd 
 and I being two of thofe who were a check 
 upon him, he did not want above half his 
 number of men to carry on his feparate 
 views and bafe defigns. And tho' he fays 
 Hatley commanded the boat, I ferioufly 
 aver that Hatley was not among us : but it 
 was the pinnace, and no foul with us but 
 the marines, who rowed her aftiore and 
 off again, by eleven a clock the fame morn 
 ing, tho' he fays I was left all night. 
 
 But 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 07 
 
 But fully to prove that Shefoocke never 
 kept any journal at all ; I do own that about 
 five weeks after this time, I being aftiore 
 on one of the two iflands on the other fide 
 the bay to keep a guard at the watering. 
 place, where was no body but our own men 5 
 captain Hatley came in the evening for a 
 longboat load of wood and water, when it 
 began to blowfrefh, and a great fwell to tum 
 ble in, which obliged him to hawl the long* 
 boat further out to her grapling, to prevent 
 her thumping againft the rocks j fo that 
 the men were forced to wade middle high 
 to carry in their burthens of wood : the 
 fwell ftill increafing, I did not care to be 
 fowfed over head and ears, and defired 
 captain Hatley to go off without me, which 
 he did j and lieutenant Brook came in an 
 hour's time afterwards and carried me and 
 my guard off. 
 
 This is the plain fliort truth: and the 
 reader by this time may ghefs what a fine 
 life we had of it, under the arbitrary di 
 rection of a captain, who had neither prin 
 ciples to ad honeftly> nor confcience to 
 fpeak wuth. 
 
 At 
 
6 $ A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 At the clofe of this tale he endeavours 
 to be witty, by faying that the men refufed 
 to carry me to the boat ; for that they would 
 not load themfelves with the weight of one 
 who was neither feaman nor foldier. Whe 
 ther they faid fo, or no, I (hall not inquire, 
 for wit and truth may be as far diftant as 
 the poles. It's the only place in all his 
 book where he aims to be witty, and the 
 fingularity of it makes me take this notice 
 of it : though I can fee no reafon for his 
 giving it that turn here 5 becaufe bringing 
 a boat off fliore could not require a man to 
 be much of a foldier or failor: but if he 
 means want of courage or condud, I allow 
 he has Always been witty enough not to 
 tell me fo fince we came home. 
 
 J^/wrfe" 'flufhed with his imaginary fuc- 
 eefs at this ifland of Chiloe, now affefts 
 the Statefman , and offers to the public a 
 fcheme of the advantages which might ac 
 crue to Great Britain) by taking that ifland, 
 p. 113, 1143 with hopes, no doubt, of be 
 ing at the head of fuch an undertaking : 
 but one may eafily forefee, without pre 
 judging the man, that he who has behaved 
 fo ill in this expedition, will never be truft- 
 
 cd 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 6$ 
 
 ed with any command in another: and 'tis 
 well enough known, without his medling, 
 that no people can make fettlements in 
 the Spanish Weft -Indies, with fo much eafe 
 and fafety, as the Englifh if they pleafe ; as 
 having skill and power to do any thing .# 
 fea, if they have good commanders. 
 
 But it muft appear very abfurd to the go 
 vernment, to whom he fubmirs this notiori 
 of his, that a mariner who has circumnavi 
 gated the globe, can difcover no better 
 place than Chiloe for his Britannic bAz)dky'$ 
 fubje&s to poffefs themfelves of, from the 
 great dangers, of which he owns all of us 
 to be but providentially cfcaped : for ac 
 cording to his own, and my defcriptipn of 
 it (who have been very particular) it appears 
 immediate deftru&ion for any one to at 
 tempt the going in. He owns rje 10ft his 
 anchor at his ,firft coming too 5 and gives 
 a mod terrible account of the chanel,him- 
 felf: and yet has the folly and prefurpption 
 to incourage his own countrymen to fettle 
 here. What can this be, but a defign a- 
 gainft the lives of his Majcfty's good fub- 
 jeds ? In my humble opinion 'tis malice 
 prepcnfe, and defervcs exemplary punifh- 
 nient. F 3 And 
 
7O A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 And as for the additional ftock of pro- 
 vifion he boafts of, p. 100, he has much 
 magnified it in his book : and whatever it 
 might be, it was not worth our going there 
 to alarm the coaft, and thereby fruftrate the 
 very defign of our coming out. A ftranger 
 would rather believe he had been bribed 
 before he left London, ,by this counter me 
 thod to defeat the whole enterprize. 
 
 Captain Cliff erton by this time might rea- 
 fonably be fuppofed gone from Fernandes : 
 ' fo away we fail from Chiloe to our own fa- 
 tisfadion, as well as the great joy of the 
 King of Spain's fubjefts, whom we had 
 plagued all round that bay, tho* to little 
 purpofe. 
 
 But inftead of Fernandes, he is quickly 
 furniflied with another excufe from hold 
 ing his courfe thither 5 which he fays, p. 
 xi 5, was the perfuafions of his people to 
 the contrary : <4 for they had notions, which 
 " the Frenchman had infpired them with, of 
 " vaft advantages by going firft to the port 
 *' of Conception? This too is all a fidion, 
 forged at home to palliate his own male 
 practice; for we were all againft medling 
 with the continent, and wanted to feek 
 
 out 
 
r A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 7 1 
 
 out our confort and try our fortune at fea; 
 which 'tis well known has always been, and 
 muft be the practice of privatiers, who 
 mean to fuccede in their undertaking. 
 
 But if any doubt had arifen, why did 
 he not, in this emergence, call a council 
 of his officers according to his own inflec 
 tions, which obliged him particularly to 
 follow that method obferved by captain Ro- 
 gers y printed at large in his voyage, and 
 where there are examples enough of this 
 kind ? But Shefoocke's reafon for not doing 
 it now, andjfor never once doing it at all, is 
 a manifeft proof that the faults he imputes 
 to his officers, are forgeries of his own, 
 made to excufe his vices at the expenfe of 
 their credit. 
 
 However, Shelvocke goes into Concept ion y 
 where he took two (hips ; the one waiting 
 for her loading, and worth little ; the other 
 was worth to us about 1 500 / : one moiety of 
 which was laid afide for the owners 5 but 
 when he loft his fhip, they divided that and 
 all among them, as he fays, p. 227 ; tho' 
 he has thought fit not to mention any thing 
 of his own fix fharcs. Here he flays 
 about a fortnight, under pretenfe of receiv- 
 
 F-4- ing 
 
7i * Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 ing ranfom for the two fliips 5 tho' he knew 
 very well that the governers in thofe parts 
 never will, or dare differ that pradice, fince 
 thereby privatiers might make a tolerable 
 hand on't, tho' even the whole coaft were 
 alarm'd: for it's not only lofs of fhip and 
 cargo to the ranfomer, but likcwife confif- 
 cation of all his goods and chattels : and what 
 is yet to them more dreadful, the anathema 
 or curfes of the church. 
 
 Neverthelefs the governer of Conception 
 defires he may treat with one of our cap 
 tain's officers : fo I was order'd on that im 
 portant negotiation > but all my intreaties 
 could not prevail with Shelvocke to let my 
 fervant go in his hat : he muft wear one of 
 the forementioiVd tall grenadier caps two 
 foot high. The fellow being of a fquat fize 
 looked more like a burlesk figure in a droll, 
 than a fervant to an ambaffador. So I pro- 
 ceded, and was attended to the governer by 
 all the mob in the town, and had much 
 ado to look grave at fo much farce. Shel- 
 wocke fays, p. 142, " the man's cap gate 
 tc great offenfe, as if intended to ridicule 
 " the mitre : " which I can't deny j for the 
 churchmen had good reafon to take umbrage 
 Ut the extreme height of it. P. 123. 
 
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 P. 123, He has a falfity too flagrant to 
 be believed at all. " I could perceive, fays 
 " he, with my perfpedive an enemies boat 
 " pafs within piftol fhot of my pinnace, 
 " but captain Hat ley , who commanded, 
 " never offered once to follow her, or 
 " bring her to : Hat ley truly faid he did 
 " not mind her, tho' his boat's crew all a- 
 " greed that fhe was full of men :" This he 
 exults upon mighty captain-like ; but I af 
 firm that Hatley did chacc her immediately, 
 and we were all well enough diverted with 
 it j he following her quite crofs the bdy 
 till he came within reach of the enemies 
 guns on the platform 5 from whence they 
 fired twice at him, and fo well aimed, that 
 in all probability the third would have furvk 
 him, or rnade him the head '(hotter, the 
 fhot being eighteen pounders. This I am 
 fure was in the fight of ten thoufand peb- 
 pie round the bay-; for all that part -'of 
 Chili was alarrn'd, and whofoever was fit 
 to bear arms appeared here to fee the 
 of our exploits. 
 
 Shelvocke having taken here, juft 
 coming into the port, a fmall 'prize bound 
 'from Lima, found by letters ; (he brought 
 
 from 
 
74 A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 from the merchants there, that the coaft was 
 alarm'd to norward by one of Clippertoris 
 prizes retaken by the Spaniards : but this he 
 keeps a fecret from us, andrefolves now to 
 get rid of his men as faft as he can; there 
 fore fends away lieutenant Randal, and an 
 officer of marines, with about twenty five 
 men, in a fmall bark which we took in the 
 bay, to attack a little veffel that was hawl'd 
 tip almoft dry, in a creek about fix or feven 
 miles from us : Shefoocke muft needs have 
 known that there could be nothing in her, 
 fince it was no fecret to the Spaniards that 
 we were an English privatier. The vanity 
 of this attempt wants no explanation of 
 -mine, fince he hath fufficiently defcribed 
 .the folly and misfortune of it himfelf, p. 
 125, which is worth reading : there he loft 
 five of his men, rifquing their lives to take 
 an empty veffel : and the only incourage- 
 ment he had of fuccefs from this under 
 taking, was from the boatfwain of a fmall 
 Spanijh prize which he took a day or two 
 before, who was already grown fo very fin- 
 cere a friend, and fo heartily in our intereft 
 as to give us prodigious informations : and 
 upon the credit of this man, Shchocke 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 75 
 
 pretends he fent the poor fellows to make 
 this new experiment 5 which I may venture 
 to fay has proved our captain to be no po 
 litician. 
 
 After this he tells you, p. 127. the men 
 murmur'd and grew very uneafy, damning 
 the South- Seas as well they might, be 
 ing thus order'd upon fools errands, with 
 out any hopes of making a good voyage for 
 themfelves; deftined as it were for mere 
 tools to carry on his own felfifh ignorant 
 proje&s. And yet Shelvocke, with a bold 
 face and harden'd heart, fays, even this too 
 was their own fault. In fhort his confci- 
 ence is an original 5 his book is an original, 
 and he is an original ; but I hope in God 
 neither of 'em will ever be copied. 
 
 Captain Clipferton perfued his voyage di- 
 reftly from the Cape Verd iflands, and I do 
 think it fomewhat extraordinary, and well 
 deferving the reader's remark, that the Sue- 
 cefs arrived at the entrance into the {freights 
 of Magellan on the 3oth of May- 1719, be 
 ing 5 2 and 30 fouth latitude. But Shetoocke 
 could not find his way to St. Catharine's, in 
 latitude 27 : 30 fouth r till the 2oth of June 
 following, by his own account, p. 17. 
 
 4 I fliali 
 
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 I ffiall tranfcribe captain Clipptrtoris pro- 
 cedings as minuted down in Mr. Taylor's 
 journal. 
 
 Succefs, May 29. " This day at noon I 
 C make my courfe from the weftermoft 
 ** point of the ifland Fogo, one of the 
 " Cape Verd iflands, latitude 14:40 N. 
 " to Cafe Virgin Mary, the north point of 
 *' the entrance into the ftreights of Magel- 
 " lan y in latitude 52:15 S. to be S. 29 : oo 
 " W. the diftance 1580 leagues, mer. dift. 
 * c 36:04 W. longitude 44:18 W. 
 
 May the ?oth. " Frefh gales and fqually 
 " for thefirft part thefe twenty four hours, 
 " but fairer towards the latter end. This 
 '** afternoon we anchored in the ftreights of 
 Magellan, in ten fathom water. The 
 " fouth point of the entrance call'd Queen 
 " Cathartne'sForelandibzzima then S. S. W. 
 <c five leagues, and Cape Virgin Mary N. by 
 " E. one league. It makes like a large deep 
 bay. We weigh from hence the next 
 " day, preceding farther till we come to 
 " Queen Elizabeth's iflands , where we fend 
 " our pinnace afhore on the main, having 
 " found a frcfh water river, but frozen up. 
 * ( We (aw fevcral flocks of geefe and ducks, 
 
 " but 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD^ 77 
 but were very fhy. Our furgeon's mate 
 u remains on fhore. One Robert 'Daw- 
 forty a faylor, departed this life. , Our fur- , 
 " geon's mate was brought on board in the 
 " morning almoft dead with the cold. At 
 " ten in the morning we weighed and made 
 
 " fail. 
 
 i> 
 
 June the ?th. " Frefh gales and fair wea- 
 " ther the firft part, but the later much 
 " fnow. At two this afternoon anchor'd in 
 " forty fathom water, the northmoft point 
 of Elizabeth's IQand bore S. W. one 
 (f league, St. Bartholomew's ifland E. by S. 
 " two leagues : the yawl was fent afliore 
 to gather greens. This place affords great 
 " quantity of a fort of wild fellary, which 
 " very much refrefhed our men, and is good 
 " falading enough. 
 
 June the isth. " Thefc twenty four 
 <<: hours fqually with fnow. We find here 
 " a good watering-place. Here is a fine 
 rc wood, moft hazel, with fome tall beach 
 " trees, feveral of which are fit for mafts. 
 
 14. " Sent our launch afhore with 
 cc our empty casks : captain Clipperton and 
 cc the carpenter went this morning afhore 
 ^ to look for a good flick fora mizen-mafl:, 
 
 "and 
 
78 A Vo Y AG found the Wo RLD . 
 
 " and find a good one ready feird. At noon 
 " the captain returned with fome wildfoul. 
 " Our men gather mufcles and limpets in 
 *' great plenty. Here we begin forely to 
 " feel the want of our wine and brandy: 
 *< and our men by frequent eating flicll- 
 " fifti to help out with their allowance, arc 
 * much troubled with the fcurvy. 
 
 20. " Cloudy weather with much fleet 
 " and rain. Our launch brought on board 
 " her loading of wood, which we flowed 
 < e away among the cask: at five this morn- 
 " ing clear'd the haufe and brought the 
 46 fmall- bower on board : hoifted the launch 
 "in , at eleven our pinnace brought on 
 " board a mizen and mizen-top-fail-yard, 
 " with a new ftuddinfail-boom, and got 
 " ready to fail. 
 
 21. " Weighed this forenoon at eleven. 
 " The tide being fpent, flood into a fmall 
 bay, but could find no ground with fe- 
 " venty fathom line 3 fo were obliged to 
 " run to leeward again. Winds from S.W. 
 " to N. W. 
 
 22. " Ffefh gales and fqually: at one 
 " this afternoon anchored in a fine bay in 
 ;" fifteen fathom, fhingly ground : the north- 
 
 " moft 
 
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 " moft point of Tort Famine N. by W. five 
 " leagues, and the fouthmoft point of the 
 fmall bay, which we chriften'd no Bottom 
 " Bay* S. by E. four mile. At feven we 
 " weighed again plying to the fouthward 5 
 " we had this day a good amplitude, and 
 " find the variation to be 14 : 15' norther- 
 " ly. All the trees along ftiore are very tall; 
 " their tops covered with fhow; the land 
 " prodigious high, fo that we have ftrong 
 " flaws of wind almoft continually : frefti 
 " water to be found in every bay. 
 
 29. " A canoe with four Indians came 
 " on board us, being two men a womaa 
 " and a boy : they are of a middle ftature, dark 
 " complexion, a broad round vifage, low fore- 
 " heads, black hair, very lank and ftiort, 
 with no cloathing but a skin to cover the 
 middle : they had a fmall ftreak round the 
 " skin of their wrifts, of a fine azure blue : 
 " they would not fuffer the woman to 
 " come on board : captain Clipperton order- 
 <c ed them fome bread and cheefe, which 
 " they eat greedily, but would not touch 
 " a drop of brandy. They brought us 
 " fome wild geefe and ducks, which they 
 << exchanged for knives : they had a fire in 
 
 " the 
 
 <c 
 
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 " the midftiip of their canoe, which is 
 " made of the bark of trees fe wed together. 
 They had bows and arrows, and fome 
 " fifhing tackle. After two hours ftay they 
 went afhore, making figns they would 
 come again. To cjay we buried Thomas 
 " Camfield a marine! 
 
 30. Cloudy weather : our pinnace went 
 " afhore this afternoon at one, and return- 
 " ed at fix, and with them the Indian canoe 
 " loaden with large mufcles, which they 
 " truck'd with our people for bread, and 
 what elfe they could get. 
 
 July i. " Moderate weather: our pin- 
 " nace was fent afhore to fetch one of 
 " our men that tarried there yefterday, but 
 < could not find him. Our furgeon's mate 
 " had one of his toes cut off, mortified with 
 " cold that night he ftay'd afliore. At 
 feven forenoon loofed both topfailsj at 
 nine weighed, and our pinnace brought the 
 c< man aboard : an Indian canoe came on 
 board 5 and one of them fteping in, and 
 being under frefh way, the reft of his 
 " companions held faft the towline, till 
 < c they were aimoft hawl'd under water : 
 <* fo they were forced to let go the rope, 
 
 4 and 
 
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 and the Indian remain'd oh board. Cape 
 
 " Frowardborc at noon E. i 
 " Gallant N. E. by E. four mile. 
 
 2. " Moderate weather at half an hour 
 " pad four this afternoon anchored in twen- 
 " ty fathom, fmall fand and (hells. The 
 < body of Prince Rupert's ifland bore fouth 
 " three mile: the low point of the bay 
 " we [were in N. W. one mile. Another 
 " Indian canoe came on board : the wo- 
 < c man they had wore a necklace of fmall 
 " beautiful fhels, nicely ftrung, which went 
 " five or fix turns round her neck ; it look'd, 
 " at a fmall diftance, like a pearl one. At 
 cc feven this morning weigh'd and try'd the 
 " ftrength of the current, which ran abbut 
 " two knots. 
 
 3. " For thefe twenty four hours ftrong 
 * e gales of wind and cloudy weather : this 
 " afternoon at one anchor'd in thirty one 
 " fathom ; fmall ftones and (hells. Point 
 <c Middleton \V. by S. two leagues, ancl 
 c( - the point of St. Jerom's found N. W. 
 te by W. four mile : the tide run two kn6ts 
 " and a half. At five in the afternoon, bc- 
 " ing high water, founded in twenty feven 
 ^ fathom, at ten, forty five fathom, at twelve, 
 
 G' ^ forty 
 
g 2, A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 " forty five fathom , the ihip having 
 " tail'd out. At four in the morning we 
 " found Ihe drove : brought the cable 
 " to the capfton and hove 5 but the tide 
 " running ftrong to leeward, and a frefh 
 " gale, (he drove very fail : fo that half pad 
 " five we were forced to cut away the 
 " anchor with half the cable : and before 
 " we could get our fails fet we were juft 
 " aboard ^Prince Rtipert's ifland, having fifty 
 " fathom clofe to the fide of it : but our 
 fails filling, we had the good fortune to 
 "run off; and were forced quite back 
 to *Pomt Gallant bay, where we an- 
 " chor'd in fourteen fathom. 
 
 5 . Thcfc twenty four hours flrong 
 <- <^ufts of wind, with much fnow and rain; 
 " At night dy'd Mr. John Crawford: feveral 
 < more fall ill: captain Shelvocke has many 
 " curfes : at fix forenoon our pinnace was 
 < c lent afnore to get greens and other re- 
 <c frefhmcms for the fick men. Winds at 
 W. and N. W. 
 
 7. " Thefe twenty four hours ftrong (quails 
 
 " of winds: lowered our fore and main 
 
 C yards, at three this afternoon moor'd the 
 
 ic Ihip. Mr. William Tridham our mailer 
 
 z " gunner 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 83 
 
 " gunner departed this life : buried one 
 << Thomas Oldfield. 
 
 8. " Thcfc twenty four hours pretty mo- 
 <e derate weather: at four this afternoon 
 " got np our lower yards : at eleven this 
 " morning we buried our gunner afhore, 
 " under a triple difcharge of our fmall 
 " arms : and had an end of a ftrong plank 
 " drove down at the head of his grave, in- 
 " fcribed with his name, the fhip's name, 
 " with the month and year. 
 
 10. " Squally weather with fnow. At 
 " two this morning lower'd our yards again : 
 " at five Francis ^Doyky one of our marines, 
 " died. The pinnace kept conftantly im- 
 cc ploy'd in fetching mufcles and other 
 " (heilfiih : and the wild fellery, already 
 " mentioned, being the only eatable we can 
 
 yet difcover. 
 
 11. " Moderate gales and hazy weather, 
 with fnow. At three this afternoon 
 cleared the haufe : at feven this morning 
 got up the yards again 5 this day put our 
 fhips company to fhorter allowance of 
 fix to two, i, e. one piece of beef or 
 pork for fix men. 
 
 G 2 17. " At 
 
 cc 
 
 C 
 
tt 
 
 H A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 17. " At eight in the forenoon weighed 
 cc again, and at noon anchored in TorkRoad? 
 c< 'which is the fame place we were drove 
 " out from when we loft our anchor $ it 
 <e is gravelly ground: Toirtt MiddletonW. 
 "'S. W. three leagues, Cafe Quad W. by 
 " S. five leagues. 
 
 1 8. " Hazey weather with rain and fnOw. 
 cc At half an hour pad nine this evening the 
 " (hip drove, it being loofe Tandy ground? 
 " hove up the anchor and flood into the 
 
 bay. At eleven anchored in eight fa- 
 thorn : our buoy being flaved, weighed 
 the beft bower to bend another, and fo 
 let it drop again. Mcvor'd : winds at 
 W. N. W. 
 
 20. " This morning captain Mitchelzi\& 
 lieutenant *Davifon went in the pinnace 
 to Terra del Fuego or the'fouthfhore, in 
 order" tVmake a difcovery of the paffage 
 " that the French Tartan is faid to have 
 " went thro' into the South-Sea, May 1713, 
 " and to fee if therer was any anchoring 
 " beyond ' Cape Quad * being furnifh'd with 
 * c all neceffaries for that parpofe. 
 
 29. <c The pinnace teturn'd, having found 
 cc the paffage thro^ which the Tartan pafs'd, 
 
 " but 
 
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 c but fo narrow, that it was judged hazar- 
 " dous to go far that way : but their pro- 
 " vifions fell fhort, and that place affording 
 " no manner of fupply, they were forced 
 " to return before they could fatisfy them- 
 * felves throughly : yet they found feveral 
 " good bays to the N. W. of Cafe Quad 
 " to anchor in. The Indians gave them 
 " a feal, which they broyled and roafted? 
 V and faid it eat as well as any venifon. 
 
 dnguft i. " Captain Mitchel, with three 
 " more of our officers took the pinnace at 
 " fix this forenoon, and refolve this time 
 " to inform thcmfelves of the truth con* 
 " cerning the paflage already mentioned in- 
 " to the South-Sea, and fee if 'twere pradi- 
 " cable for us to go through. Our other 
 " boats go a wooding and watering. This 
 " morning died Thomas Tarry corporal of 
 
 (c marines. 
 
 * 5. " Captain Mitchel returns : but found 
 " no fuch paflage to go thro' into the 
 " South-Sea, as Monfieur Premier would 
 " make us believe. It's true they found a 
 " narrow ftreight which led them into a 
 " fpacious bay full of ice : but no paflage 
 * c through. 
 
 G 3 I (hall. 
 
S 6 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo 
 
 I fliall tranfcribe no more from Taylor i 
 journal of what happened to them in thefe 
 ftreights : what I have taken is for the infor 
 mation of my feafaring reader, and to (hew 
 him the many fatigues that Clipperton's men 
 were harraffed with in mooring and un 
 mooring , their ftruggling with contrary 
 winds and currents; the lofs of their an 
 chor, and their narrowly efcaping a (hip- 
 wreck againft Ruperfs ifland: all which 
 will eafily convince him that to go through 
 le Malr ftreights and round Cape Plorne, is 
 the fafeft and (horteft navigation : Befides, 
 the French, who have carried on a conftant 
 trade to thofe feas for almoft thirty years, 
 have always chofen it: add to this that 
 captain Clipptrtoris endeavours to find out 
 the paflage through Terra dtl Fuego y talked 
 of by Frezier, demonftrate that he would 
 gladly have been out of the ftreights as 
 ibon as he could : but Mitchel, who was a 
 good feaman and curious enough, having 
 made two eflays, which took him up a fort 
 night, returned without finding any new 
 paflage : fo that it's very doubtful whether 
 any Tartan, or other imbarkation ever paft 
 that way 5 tho' Frezier has fondly imagined 
 
 it 
 
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 it a new difcovery, and has marked it in 
 his chart, which alfo is faulty in other refpcfts, 
 
 Auguft 1 8. Captain Cliff erton got out 
 of the ftreights of Magellan, preceding di- 
 redly towards Fernandes y lat. 33 : 30 S. 
 being the third and laft place of rendez 
 vous, where he arrives on the 7th of Sep 
 tember 1719. According to his inftruftions 
 he flays here a month for Shelvocke, and 
 if he had ftay'd four, he muft then have gone 
 \vithout him. ' Captain Clipperton not be 
 ing able to conjefture what was become of 
 the Speedwell gives her up for loft : how 
 ever, before he weighed he fent captain 
 Mttchel afliore to fet up a crofs, burying 
 at the foot thereof a bottle, wherein was 
 a letter for captain Shttoocke, directing 
 another place of rendezvous and fome pro 
 per fignals to know each other at fea : but 
 fearing that two of his men who had there 
 deferted and abfconded in the woods, might 
 nrifchievoufly take down the faid crofs, he 
 had his own name and Magee's the furgeon, 
 carv'd in the bark of one of the largeft 
 trees firft prefenting it felf at landing. 
 
 Taylor's Journal Sept. 8. 1719* " This 
 
 J' being the laft place of rendezvous to meet 
 
 6 " with 
 
S 8 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD.~ 
 
 " with or hear of the Speedwel : we find 
 < e no fignal nor footfteps of her 5. which 
 " gives us all no fmall uneafmefs. 
 
 9. " At eight this morning fent 
 
 " fixtcen men afhore : three of them die 
 " foon after they land, curfing Shelvocke 
 " with their dying breath, for running away 
 " with our wine and brandy. The truth 
 " of it is, our cafe is deplorable enough > 
 " for we have not a drop of either to chcar 
 " the languiftiing fpirits of our fick men : 
 " and we that at prefent, through the pro- 
 " vidence of the Almighty, injoy our health, 
 " cannot help .being dcjefted to think how 
 " foon it may come to our turns to be 
 " taken with ficknefs. 
 
 14. " Uncertain weather with rain. This 
 " day our boats bring eighteen goats aboard : 
 " fent afhore for fome fait our men hav- 
 " ing found here a good quantity ready 
 " made, which was left by fome of the 
 " French fhips who often touch here. 
 
 28. " We continue to get our wood 
 u and water aboard, and our fhip in a pof- 
 a turefor failing. 
 
 Off. 6. " Moderate gales of wind and 
 " fine weather. Captain Mitchel with fome 
 
 " more 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. g 9 
 
 " more of our officers go in the pinnace 
 " to the eaft part of the ifland to look four 
 " of our men, who have abfented a fort-. 
 " night : two of which men they found ia 
 " the cuftody of our goat hunters, having met 
 " with them when in periiut of their game, 
 " faying they had greater difficulty in fc- 
 c curing thefe fellows, than in killing dou- 
 " ble the number of goats : for at firft they 
 " were forced to fire feveral times at them 
 " before they would furrender. They told 
 " our men that for the firft five days they 
 <c were hard put to't, being forced to fub- 
 " fift wholly on the cabbage-trees, of which 
 " here is great plenty 5 but that having by 
 " good fortune one night found fome fire 
 " that was left by our hujiters, it fqrved 
 <c them in good (lead, for they could then 
 " drcfs their fi(h and fill their bellies. Our 
 u pinnace is fent afhore to launch the long- 
 " boat. Salted more fifh, and brought off 
 " four cask more of feal. 
 
 7. " Got all our people off the ifland in- 
 " to the launch, withmoft of the things we 
 " had on Hiore , leaving the two men that 
 " run away to take poffeffion of Alexan- 
 ic der Selkirk's habitation, who was taken 
 
 " off 
 
90 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 c< off this defolate place by captain Rogers in 
 " 17095 after having liv'd here above four 
 " years alone. Captain Mitchel goes a- 
 t fhore to fet up a crofs with a bottle bu- 
 " ried at the foot of it , wherein is a letter 
 c for captain Shehocke. At five this morii- 
 te ing unmoord , and at eight weighed/' 
 
 The names carved as aforefaid on the 
 bark of the tree flood thus, as I fa\v them. 
 
 Captain John - 
 : Mag 
 1719. 
 
 Magee. 
 
 The rcafon why Clippertoris furname is 
 omitted, was becaufe he was well known 
 in the South-Seas : and if any Spaniards 
 or French who occafionally touch there had 
 feen it, the difcovery of the name might 
 probably have alarmd the coaft of Chili and 
 Teru. 
 
 This done , captain Clipperton holds his 
 courfe to the norward , foon arriving in 
 the parallel of Lima : which being the chief 
 icene of a&ion , he ftands off and on at a 
 convenient diftance, to prevent being dc- 
 icryed from the fhore 5 where he had cruifed 
 
 but 
 
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 but a fmali time, before he made himklf 
 mafter of feveral prizes : but nccefllty ob 
 liging him to fend at lead two officers, be- 
 fides a fufficient number of his men on board 
 each prize, it weakened him very much, fo 
 that he foon grafped more than he could 
 hold. Add to this the low condition of his 
 men, both by ficknefs and a reduction of 
 their allowance that they were not ovcrable 
 to work the fliip 5 befides the lofs of thirty 
 men, who dyed between the equator and this 
 place. The misfortune of all this will beft 
 be feen in what follows : for in November 
 the Succefs giving chafe toa frefh fail a head , 
 the laft taken prize was run away with by 
 the Spaniards , who by ftratagem got the 
 better of the few Englifo that were put 
 aboard her in a hurry : while the enemy, 
 with manifeft rifque of their own lives, raa 
 their fliip afhore among the rocks, and a- 
 larmd ail the coaft. 
 
 Here follow Taylor's own words. 
 
 Succefs, November the 2oth. " Frefti gales 
 " and fair weather. Yefterday at three in the 
 " afternoon we were furprized to fee that 
 " when we made the fignal to tack and 
 ^ ftand off from the land, our laft taken 
 
 ^ prize 
 
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 " prize inftcad of obferving the fame, made 
 " fail for the (hore as faft as fhe could, 
 " ihe being then the fternmoft and neareft 
 <e the fhorc, while we ftand off, having an- 
 " other fail in view. 
 
 21. tc Little winds and fair weather. At 
 " three this afternoon finding the pink that 
 " ycfterday flood in for the fhore was run 
 " away with by the Spaniards, we begin to 
 " think it now full time to fend all the 
 " Spanijh prifoners afhore, as well to fave 
 " our provifion, as to let the Spaniards a- 
 " fhore have early notice of our good treat- 
 " ment towards thole we had taken 5 that 
 " our men may be ufed after the fame 
 " manner." 
 
 From this period, therefore, I date the 
 breaking of our fcheme, and the ruin of our 
 voyage ; of both which captain Shefoocke 
 was intirely the author. This I need not 
 labour to prove, becaufe it's manifeft if 
 Shelvacke had joyned Clipperton y and been 
 here at his duty, the lofs of this prize had 
 not happened ; or which is infinitely worfe, 
 the alarming of the Spaniards : upon whofe 
 fecurity the greatcft hope of our enterprize 
 was founded, 
 
 From 
 
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 From this misfortune of Clifperton on 
 the coaft of *Peru , and the wilful mifma- 
 nagement of Shelvocke in roufing all the 
 coaft of Chiliy a flop was put to the fuccefs 
 of both our {hips, and the confequence was 
 an imbargo laid by the Vke-roy of jPm/, 
 which was enough to check all our grow 
 ing wifhes and expectations. Here then we 
 rnuft a while leave captain Clippertoriy who 
 could do nothing effectually without the 
 affiftance of our fhip, which he now thought 
 had quite deferted him, or was caft away : 
 and if the Speedwel had joyned him, his 
 prizes could not have grown fo numerous : 
 for 'twas defigned , that one of the fliips 
 fhould carry the captures to the defert iilands 
 to leeward, where the prifoners might have 
 fubfifted on their own provifions ; we fink 
 ing the firft taken (hips, to leave them no 
 opportunity of alarming the coaft, 'till the 
 work were done, and our fortunes made. 
 According to Cliff ertoris own fcheme, who 
 projected and commanded this voyage, our 
 greateft dependance was in this parallel : 
 Lima being the grand mart of all trade and 
 bufinefs carryed on from North to South on 
 this vaftly extended rich continent, 
 
 2, Here 
 
94- ^ Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 Here I think it worth obferving that cap 
 tain Clipperton can no way deferve cenfure 
 in his condud, having hitherto, tho' under 
 a hard lot, aded juftly and prudently : but 
 what can be the merits of captain Sbelvockey 
 who after providentially efcaping the violent 
 tempeft at firft fetting out, makes his own 
 ill ufe of it, and would never again endea 
 vour to meet his confort ; but fhun'd it 
 with all the craft imaginable ? What recom- 
 penfe can Shefoocke make for the indecent 
 cenfures and cruel reflexions thrown upon 
 the memory of the dead > Certainly Clip- 
 ferton deferved better from a man to whofe 
 wilful mifmanagement all his misfortunes 
 are juftly imputed : and 'tis no wonder, if 
 he took to drinking, after having mifcarryed 
 In three voyages to the South-Seas : the two 
 firft by circumvention of the Spaniards, and 
 this laft by the treachery of one who (hould 
 Jiave been his confort and friend : 'tis what 
 we fee daily in people undone by the bafe- 
 nefs of men and the frowns of fortune. 
 As to the humanity of our two comman 
 ders, there is certainly this difference be 
 tween them ^ Shehocke took care on all 
 occafions, to rifque the lives of his men 
 
 that 
 
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 that few might remain witneffes of his falfr 
 hood, and the dividends of thofe who did 
 furvive might rife in greater proportion : 
 for out of his io<5 men carry ed from 'Ply 
 mouth, he brought only 2 5 to Chinas where 
 as Clipperton brought moft of his thither $ 
 and behaved with generofity and good tem 
 per, witnefs his concern for his men, who 
 were run away with in the prize lately men 
 tioned, and his good treatment of the enemy; 
 fince he did not care how foon the Spaniards 
 went afliore to give what account they 
 thought fit of him. 
 
 The contrivance by which the Spaniards 
 got their fhip again, was thus, The Spanish 
 captain feeing by the number of prizes then 
 in the cuftody of captain Clipperton that he 
 could not fpare many of his hands to put 
 aboard the pink, which already had above 
 a dozen paflengers, befides the {hip's com 
 pany : the mafter of the Rofary privately 
 bid the paflengers hide themfelves in the 
 hold with the countermafter or boatfwain 
 who was a Frenchman, ordering them upon 
 a fignal agreed on, to feize as many of the 
 Englishmen, asfhould happen to go into the 
 hold 5 and this plot they believed would 
 
 fuccede 
 
96 A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 fuccede as the lieutenant drew nearer and 
 nearer to board them 5 for Serjeant (on had 
 but feven or eight men with him. The 
 lieutenant upon his boarding the prize, or- 
 defed all that appeared to him, fuch as In 
 dians , Nigros and feamen to go into the 
 great cabin, except the captain and pilot, 
 and then placed a centinel at the door. 
 When he thought he had effeftually fecnr'd 
 his prifoners, he gave orders to hoift the 
 topfails and ftand for the commodore : then 
 apprehending no danger, the men hcedlefly 
 went down to fee what there was aboard. 
 The paffengers who were fecrctly in the hold 
 furpri-zcd the men, knocking fome of them 
 down with billets of wood : the prifoners 
 in the cabin immediately mfhed on the cen 
 tinel and difarmed him. The matter or pi. 
 lot, according to the fign , coming at the 
 fame time behind Serjeantfon knocked him 
 down likewife, and ordered them all to be 
 bound 5 tho' none were killed as Serjeant- 
 fen informed me, whom I afterwards found 
 a prifoner at Lima:. 
 
 The Spaniard thus regained the pofTeffion 
 of his (hip 5 but did not long injoy her ; for 
 eagerly running her afliore, he loft her on 
 
 the 
 
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 the rocks, and narrowly efcaped with his 
 life : then fetting the Englishmen free from 
 their bonds, they all got afhore as well as 
 they could , the Spaniards taking them pri- 
 foners the neareft way to Litna. 
 
 The viceroy of <Peru underftanding what 
 the Spanijh captain had done, order'd a new 
 fhip to be built for him at Guiaquil, and a 
 general tax among the traders to pay the 
 value of her, as a reward for the fervicehe 
 had done the public. One of Clipperton's 
 men upon examination declared all he knew 
 of our defigns in this voyage : and upoh. 
 thefe occafions, there is feldom one want 
 ing who will tell any thing to merit what 
 favour he can. Among other difcoveries, 
 the viceroy is informed of the crofs and 
 bottle at FernandeSy with the written fig- 
 nals for captain Shelvocke, and that two of 
 Clippertoris men had deferted there : upon 
 which he immediately fends out a (mail 
 veffel to fetch the two men, and the bottle 
 containing the fignals. 
 
 We return now to Shelvocke whom we 
 
 left in the bay of Conception treating with 
 
 the governer about the ranfom of the two 
 
 fhips : but our captain finding he was only 
 
 H trifled 1 
 
98 A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 trifled with, thought fit to burn the two 
 ihips there in the harbour : upon which I 
 fliall only obferve, that it was a very extra 
 vagant humour : for one of the fhips, the 
 St. Fermm, he owns p. 153, was the beft 
 fitted out of any of the Teruvian traders, 
 and p. 104, he fays the lofs of his anchor 
 at Chiloe was one of the greateft damages 
 he could have fuftained : therefore 'tis much 
 that a man of his pretended knowledge 
 could not fave an anchor and cable to fup- 
 ply the former lofs of his own : the neg- 
 led of which appeared fufficiently afterwards. 
 After he had fet fire to the fhips, he took 
 along with him the fruit bark, upon which 
 he orders a deck to be made, calling her 
 the Mercury : ( an odd name for a veffel that 
 could neither fail nor row ) and away we 
 procede towards John Fernandez. 
 
 In our way thither, the prize and plunder 
 money of the St. Fermm was diftributed : 
 and here he fays p. 157, that captain Be- 
 tagh indeavours to raife a mutiny but fails 
 in the attempt. Particularly, that I oppofed 
 the owners having part of any thing but 
 \vhat was upon freight or mentioned in 
 the bills of lading > and thus he runs off 
 
 two 
 
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 two pages of mere fcandal, as if I only was 
 uneafy, whereas all bur officers had con 
 vincing proofs of his bad principles as well 
 as I. I might have faid in common talk a- 
 mong our felves, that I always thought wear 
 ing apparel found in chefts between decks, 
 fhould be deemed fair plunder : and may be 
 it is fo. Is it juft therefore, that what a 
 man delivers as private opinion only, (hall 
 afterwards be reap'd up and call'd mutiny 5 
 efpecialiy by one who has made every thing 
 plunder, and ruin'd and deftroy'd near a huiv* 
 dred men in the voyage > But this man is 
 perpetually blaming every body but himfelf 
 to fcreen his own villanies. 
 
 Jan. 1 7f. We arrive at Fernandez, where 
 Mr. Bfook being the firft officer that landed, 
 immediately faw Captain John and fP 
 Magee cut in the tree- bark as aforefaid : upon 
 the news of which every body feemed to re- 
 Joyce, but our worthy captain, who would 
 have it an invention of Brock's, for which 
 he ufed him fcurvily before all the donu 
 pany, telling him 'twas a lie. It's very ftrange 
 a man can't believe his own eyes, or would 
 feign a thing of this nature, which any one 
 going alhore might be convinced of in a 
 H z moment; 
 
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 moment : but Shefoocke hated the mention 
 of it, and feared the truth of it, left his 
 whole company would be impatient, and 
 perfuade him without delay to go to lee 
 ward and joyn his confort. Brook had hi 
 therto been a great favourite with Shelvocke, 
 but for this unwelcome difcovery he is now 
 put upon the black lift, as by the fequel 
 will appear. 
 
 I (hall quote our author's own words, 
 p. 1 60. " Some of my men accidentally 
 " faw the word Magee , which was the 
 a name of Clippertoris furgeon, and captain 
 " John cut out under it upon a tree , but 
 " no directions left, as was agreed on by 
 < c him in his inftrudions to me. His a&ions 
 " being thus grofly repugnant to his in- 
 " ftruftions, it was evident that he never 
 " meant I fhould keep him company, or 
 " ever joyn with him again ." 
 
 Now this is fo notorious a falfehood, that 
 every ftep of captain Clipperton fhews the 
 contrary , and proves you the greateft inv 
 poftor that can be : your very wording of 
 it, (hews to what mean ftiifts you are re 
 duced. Why muft it be, accidentally faw the 
 word 'Magee? Was it a meteor that vaniihed 
 
 after 
 
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 after the firft appearance \ or if the men did 
 fee it by chance, are you fo fimple to per- 
 fuade us it was cut in the tree by chance ? 
 And then to fay Magee was firft, and the 
 captains name under it, is not the contrary 
 more probable? Befides, we all faw the 
 captain's name firft : and this is only a ftu- 
 pid indeavour to degrade him. As for the 
 directions agreed upon, they were buryed 
 in the ground, and difcovered to the viceroy 
 who fent for them as I faid before ; and tho' 
 Shefoocke was ignorant of this at Fernandes i 
 yet, at the writing of his book, he well 
 knew it : and therefore the coarfe language 
 he gives CUpferton as above, makes himfelf 
 appear a worfe wretch than I expeded. 
 
 After this, inftead of going direftly to 
 leeward to meet with the Succefs, he muft 
 needs have another touch with the Chore $ 
 and accordingly fleers away to Arica, fend 
 ing the Mercury along fhore before him, 
 which took a bark laden with cormorants 
 dung (ufed there as manure) the ownejr 
 of which came on board us in the night, 
 and informed us that one of Clippertoris 
 prizes had alarmed the whole coaft, and that 
 $wo Sfanijh men of war were fitted out 
 H $ * from 
 
ioz A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 from Lima in queft of us : and this is what 
 we believed Shefaocke knew before, by let 
 ters taken in the St. Ftrmin. Here he puts 
 four quarter deck guns into the Mercury, and 
 bawling her pretty near the (bore, gets in 
 to her, with my felf, Mr. Stewart, three 
 more officers, and a few men : then bring 
 ing the Speedwel zn& Mercury' s broadfide to 
 bear on the town, he begins Qtiixet like to 
 canonade it 5 which really had no other ef~ 
 fed than to fcare away the women and 
 children : for the men contrary to our ex- 
 pedation affcmbled on the naked beach, 
 and fuddenly ereded a good breaftwork of 
 Hones and what rubbifh they could find, 
 gallantly {landing our fire : but the fwell 
 giving us fome motion, we could not bring 
 our guns to bear fo as to diflodge any of 
 them. Shetoocke being tired with deftroy- 
 ing his munition, fends an Indian prifoner 
 under a flag of truce to demand of the town 
 What they would pleafe to give to be rid of 
 us 4 and tho' he fays nothing of this, p. 1 67, 
 the Indian leap'd out of the boat, fwiming 
 through the terrible breakers, which made 
 landing there impoffible , delivers his mef- 
 fage, and returns faithfully the fame way 
 
 to 
 
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 to the boat with anfwer , That they car'd 
 not a fig for any fuch borracho , that is 
 drunkard, the moft contemptuous name they 
 make ufe of. Upon which our captain 
 called for his pinnace, and taking Stewart 
 with him , goes aboard in a pet ; but left 
 the reft of us to unmoor the Mercury, and 
 carry her out into the road. At his getting 
 into the boat , not as he fays at his depar 
 ture, the inhabitants gave us a regular hedge 
 fire, and three huzzas, or horfe laughs. To 
 confirm what I faid about the ftrift prohibi 
 tion of ranfoming 5 the owner of the dung 
 bark was forced to do it by ftratagem, com 
 ing in the night with his money, being 
 1 300 dollars, and pray'd us to carry her three 
 or four mile out, and then turn her adrift, 
 that the bargain might be a fecret, or look 
 as if flic was not worth our keeping. 
 
 Shelvocke's averfion to journal-keeping was 
 fo great, that I cannot help inferring the 
 following memorandum to confirm it. One 
 Mr. Hamilton our enfign, a gentleman of 
 a good family in Scotland, had a mind, tho' 
 he was no feaman, to keep a journal for 
 his amufement 5 and upon taking this bark 
 Jic enters it thus in his book, 
 H 4 
 
104 A Vo YAGE round the Wo RLD. 
 
 Feb. 5th. 1720, " This geud day we a 
 " taen a fma vafhellodded wi turd." This 
 humour caufingfome laughter in the ftcerage, 
 Sbelvofke lent his Ton George to inquire the 
 meaning of that uproar. Upon George's re 
 port, the captain came down and asked Ha 
 milton what bufinefs he had to keep a jour 
 nal ? adding that he was a iawcy fellow, 
 and there fhould be no pen and ink work 
 aboard his fhip : fo that he was oblig'd ever 
 after, like Shelvocke, to keep his account by 
 dint of memory. 
 
 From Arica we fail down along fhore, 
 and now Shefaocke enters vigoroufly upon 
 his own projed ; which was effectually to 
 rid himfelf of his officers, having been of 
 ten heard to fay, he hated fo many captains. 
 He knew by Rogers his journal, that all 
 the merchantmen in thofe feas are man'd 
 with Indians or Nigros $ with which he 
 could eafily fupply any lofs of his own men ; 
 and which, far from demanding any fhare 
 of prize money , would fell for money in 
 another part of the world. Whereupon 
 he fends away fifteen of us in the Mercury, 
 feven of which were officers, juft in the 
 pouch of thg enemy, in the very track of 
 
 their 
 
'A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 105 
 
 their ftiips ; and with a moral certainty of 
 being taken, if not deftroyed, for cruifing 
 on their own coaft, and in one of their 
 own bottoms. It is very remarkable that 
 one of this ill fated company fhould be the 
 boatfwain, who is always look'd on as the 
 moft neceflary officer to be left in a fliip $ 
 the good order of the men depending as 
 much upon him, as the captain himfelf : 
 gtnd a boatfwain was never fent a cruifing 
 in this world before. His name was Nicho 
 las Laming, a good man , and a good offi 
 cer. After we were taken prifoners, he 
 died on the road with the great fatigue of 
 his journey* 
 
 To put this man's wickednefs yet in a 
 clearer light 7 give me leave thus fairly to 
 defcribe the Mercury. She was really no 
 thing but a lighter $ was built and always 
 imploy'd as fuch ; tho* not quite fo heavy 
 or ftrong as thofe in the Thames : for as 
 the Spaniards have no wharves, cranes, or 
 carts to load their veffels with in that coun 
 try ; fo (he differ'd from our lighters, only by 
 being a fmall matter (lighter and fliallower, 
 the better to run into flioal water $ where the 
 and Indians do the office of cranes 
 
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 and horfes, by wading deep in the water to 
 load her. He built a deck upon her as high 
 as the gunnel, fix'd a maft in her, and then 
 put a gang of his (hips oars into her : one 
 of which I meafur'd, finding it thirty three 
 foot in length, and fo heavy that no lefs 
 than three men could row with one of them : 
 beckets having been fix'd to the looms for 
 the eafier managing of them. 
 
 Now I appeal to any impartial judge of 
 a (hip or bark, how it was poflible for the 
 men, if ftanding, to row with fuch an oar 
 in fuch a veflel : for they muft at each ftroke 
 indanger their knuckles againft the deck be 
 fore the blade could be raifed out of the 
 water : and if fitting, 'tis ftill worfe, becaufe 
 there's no foot- hold; moreover the man at 
 the handle could not extend his arms to 
 fetch a ftroke. Then if we confider her 
 as to her failing, (he would go well enough 
 right afore it, provided it blew ftrong e- 
 pough : but upon a wind, the meaneft ca 
 pacity may imagine what (he could do, as 
 having no gripp of the water. 
 
 In this notable imbarkation were we fent 
 to feek our fortunes $ and I believe ours 
 to be the firft company that ever was order'd 
 
 to 
 
'A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 07 
 
 to cruife in a lighter. This being the laft 
 time he was likely to have the pleafureof 
 ufing me ill, he refolved to do it in a man 
 ner peculiar to himfelf : all the reft having 
 the favour of knowing their orders an hour 
 or two before. Immediately upon my re 
 ceiving the mefifage, that I muft go in the 
 Mercury , I went down to lafh my ham- 
 mack in the Speedwel : then taking my 
 money bag out of my cheft, I feal'd and 
 delivered it to Mr. Hendrie then our purfer, 
 telling him I expeded no account of it, till 
 it pleafed God we met in England. Shel- 
 <vocke who had fet a fpy to watch my words 
 and looks, now calls up all hands, and ask'd 
 them if they thought they were going for 
 a facrifice, ufing me in a manner too fcan- 
 dalous to be recorded. After this, our com 
 mander captain Hatley and the reft of us 
 got into the veflel and put off, fleering a- 
 Ipng fhore to the northward. We cruifed 
 four or five days and landed twice at the 
 ifle of Lobes, where Shefaocke promised to 
 leave inftruftions, but we found none : and 
 if he intended \ye fliould joyn him again, 
 he would have told us his defign of going 
 in to plunder the little town of Vayta , 
 
 . v _.,._ * . __^ . .V _(. i . ... _ f _ ,. _ ... . 'f 
 
 where 
 
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 where we could eafily have joyn'd him, ha 
 ving the rich prize (as he calls her) twelve 
 days in our hands before we were all taken. 
 During our cruife, we took one fmall bark 
 tho he fays two, p. 177, and that of no va 
 lue : after which we took an old Englijh 
 pink bound irom 'Panama to Lima, which 
 Skel'cocke fays at random was worth 1 50000 
 dollars, tho' he never faw the veflel, or knew 
 what was in her : and I am fure we found 
 no money at all aboard her; for (he was 
 bound in her ballaft with a fmall parcel of 
 pedlary ware from ^Panama to Lima : but 
 were it from Lima to ^Panama there proba 
 bly had been money in her. We all got a- 
 board the prize, except a hand or two left 
 to take care of the Mercury, and kept cruif- 
 ing between Lobos and cape Blanco , and 
 while we hop'd to be taken up by our faith, 
 ful commander $kehocke, we fell into the 
 hands of one of the Spanijh cruifers of 30 
 guns, called the Brilliant : which after we 
 frruck, continu'd their fire into' the Mercury 
 'dll they deftroyed her, tho' the men very 
 providentially efcaped and were made pri- 
 ioners with us. As foon as the Spaniards 
 boarded the faid pink to ftrip and rifle us, 
 
 about 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 09 
 
 about ninety fix moidorcs taken from the 
 ^Portuguefe off cape Frio were found upon 
 Hatley^ for which he indeed was us'd but fcur- 
 vily And this is the fair light I promifed, 
 p, 30. when I was treating of this ftory before. 
 
 After leaving us, the next thing remark 
 able is his long ftory of efcaping the Pere 
 grine a Spanifl) man of war at fayta: which, 
 account as it is a wild ftory full of abomi 
 nable romance and vain glory, I fhall an- 
 fwer it particularly : for Hatley and all of 
 us were fufficiently informed of the whole 
 affair, as foon as we were fet afhore at 
 Tayta, which was in a day or two after 
 this thing happened, 
 
 Shelvocke to magnify his own exploits, 
 does well to magnify the force of his e- 
 nemy. He fays, the 'Peregrine had upwards 
 of 450 men, and mounted 56 guns : I will 
 allow him that fhe carry'd 40 , but never 
 more ; for I was aboard her afterwards at 
 Lima > and I believe when he met with her, 
 fhe had 350 men aboard , but fuch a mixt 
 crew of ignorant creatures, that I am cer 
 tain twenty expert feamen would do more 
 execution than all they together. As for 
 the commander of her, whom Shefoocke 
 
 calls 
 
1 1 o A Vb YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 calls an admiral, he was a Creolian, a mere 
 frefli waterman, who never faw any aftion 
 before : and as for the people aboard him, 
 they were compofed of Nigros, Meftizos 
 and Indians > befides which there were not 
 above a dozen white faces in all : for this 
 fhip was purpoiely defign'd to carry the late 
 viceroy prince Santo Bueno , his family and 
 retinue to Acapulco $ but in the mean time 
 order'd a fhort cruife on the coaft. She 
 fail'd fo heavy that the Spaniards never ex- 
 peded (lie would be of any ufe againft the 
 English privatiers : and for that reafon, put 
 all their good able men aboard the other 
 three cruifers, the Zelerin> Brilliant and 
 San Francifco, which were light (hips and 
 good failers. The ^Peregrine was fo unable 
 and unwilling too, that if (he had not found 
 the Speedwel in harbour, fhe would never 
 have follow'd her to fca 5 for we were told 
 at Tayta, that the firft fire from the Speed- 
 we/ terrify 'd the enemy fo very much, that 
 they could not tell whether they were really 
 dead or alive. They all immediately ran 
 from their quarters, and the very fteerfman 
 who had the helm, quitted it : fo that the 
 ihip which was then clofe hawl'd ftanding 
 
 in, 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLIX; 1 1 i 
 
 in, came with her head fails in the wind, 
 and muzzled her felf 5 that is, (he lay bob 
 bing up and down, with her fails flapping 
 againft the maft : and how could it be o- 
 therwife, where there was only a few good 
 officers among a mere mob of black pco* 
 pie fcar'd out of their wits. The comman 
 der and his officers did what they could to 
 bring them to their duty : they beat them, 
 fwore at them , and prick'd them in the 
 buttocks, but all would not do 5 for the 
 poor devils were refolved to be frighted : 
 moft of them run quite down in the hold, 
 while others were upon their knees pray 
 ing the faints for deliverance. The Speed- 
 wel did not fire above eight or nine guns ; 
 and as they were found fufficient, Shefoocke 
 had no reafon to wafte his powder : but 
 'tis plain the ^Peregrine might eafily have 
 run him aboard, if there had been but a 
 few good feamen to ftand by the bowlines 
 and braces. However, this panic of theirs 
 gave Shelvocke a fair opportunity to get his 
 men aboard, cut his cable, and go away 
 right afore the wind. This is the plain 
 truth of the matter, which every body was. 
 agreed in : for I heard of it at feveral places 5 
 3 tho' 
 
i t z A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 the/ Shelvocke has cook'd up a formal ftory' 
 of a defperate ingagement to deceive thofe 
 who knew him not, into a wondrous opi 
 nion of his conduct. He talks of his fhip 
 being greatly fhatter'd in the fight, and fe- 
 veral of the enemy kill'd j but 'tis all blufter : 
 there was not a drop of blood fpilt : for if 
 the 'Peregrine did fire a few guns, their 
 confufion prevented them doing any mif- 
 chief. And Shefoocke's killing fome of the 
 enemy is Very unlikely, when fo many of 
 them run down and hid themfelves. 
 
 Tis impoffible for words to exprefs the 
 bafenefsof captain Shel-vocke in puting to 
 gether fo much reproachful language utter 
 ly void of truth and reafon, as there is from 
 p. 176 to 1 80. All the malice of his book 
 is here fum'd up in a body. He fays I mu 
 tinied about going into the Mercury, and 
 insinuates that I threatened his life. This is 
 a very poor charge of his, after contriving 
 fo plaufible a fcheme to deftroy us. But I 
 remember I anfwer'd thefe words p. 53', 
 when we had juft doubled cape Horne. 
 As for his accufation of mutiny, 'tis as 
 weak as the other : for tho' 'tis evident we 
 were deliver'd up as a prey, yet Shehocke 
 3 had 4 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 1 j 
 
 had gone fuch lengths with us, that he 
 would call even a wry face mutiny: and 
 my whole account of his tranfadions is full 
 of anfwer to this fort of calumny. Then 
 he fays I prevail'd on Hatley to run away 
 with the prize, plying him with liquor for 
 that purpofe : and runs on a long formal 
 ftory of the wickednefs of this thing, when 
 I have made it plain fhe had no money, or 
 any thing valuable aboard. Does, not Shel* 
 <vock.es great ignorance in thefe fads demon- 
 ftrate that thefe falfe accounts in his book 
 were all invented here at home ? 
 
 After this he accufes me with difcover- 
 ing to the enemy the fecrets of our expe 
 dition, for which I was us'd refpedfully, 
 and made an officer. It muft be great weak- 
 nefs in Shefoocke to fancy he had any fe 
 crets to difcover, after he had alarm'd all 
 the coaft himfelf: befides the Spaniards 
 knew well enough what we came there 
 for 5 therefore 'tis childifli to talk of fe 
 crets : indeed Shelvocke kept his own pri* 
 vate defigns a fecret from us, which I dare 
 fay was no intention of the voyage ; and I 
 > could not have known the places of ren* 
 dezvous, without the help of Mr. Taylor's 
 journal The reafon of my being us'd re- 
 J fpedfully 
 
1 1 4 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 fpe&fully is this. T>on Tedro Midranda, 
 
 the admiral who took us, had a perfonai 
 efteem for Sir Charles Wager ^ and I have 
 reafon to believe was formerly his prifoner. 
 The Spanijh admiral had been treated with 
 great candour andgcnerofity by Sir Charles: 
 and upon examination, finding that I gave 
 a good account of Sir Charles, he was 
 pleas'd to (hew us great favours for his fake. 
 It was owing to this, that I and all but 
 captain Hatley met with kind treatment : 
 for my own part, I had the honour to eat 
 at his table all the time we were aboard j 
 where he felcJom fail'd to toad Sir Charles 
 Wager? at every meal. Then it's plain the 
 aforefaid guilt of Hatley 's made that dif 
 ference between him and the reft. 
 
 He fays I was made an officer, and that 
 I defired of my new captain, if we had the 
 gook luck to take Shehocke? I might have 
 the honour of boarding him firft. 
 
 After fuch vile procedings, by my troth 
 I believe no body would think it an honour 
 to board captain Shelvocke : but I deny that 
 I ever faid fo, and whatever any of us faid, 
 he can only ghefs at it. Tis certain we 
 we had reafon to think and fpeak ill enough 
 
 of 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 1 1 5 
 
 of him > fince it was evident he got rid of 
 us to ferve a turn. However, as we were 
 now treated much civiler than it was in 
 Shelvc/ckes nature to allow of j I frankly 
 own there was not a man among us, but 
 would gladly have feen him fall into the 
 fame admiral's hands: for in a very few 
 days after this, Shelvocke rids himfelf of 
 eleven more of his men, whom he lent 
 under James Hopkins-, one of his mates, 
 aboard an empty bark not worth a groat, 
 which he calls the St. TJavid, p. r 80, leav 
 ing them to fhift for themfelvcs, with no 
 more than a week's provifion : after which 
 they were compelled to furrender among 
 the Indians: and one of thm,,jf0hn Gun- 
 dy y born at Plymouth dock, had his throat 
 cut for not dripping immediately^ the reft 
 I faw prifoners with us at Lima. Shelvocke 
 is modeftly filent upon this article, faying 
 only, p. 187, that he was oblig'd to leave 
 the St. 'David to cruife off *Payta : but 
 not a word of the mate and his ten men. 
 
 As to my being an officer in the king of 
 Spain's fervice, 'tis mere fcandal and non- 
 ienfe ; for if I had afted in that fbtion in 
 a time of war between the two crowns, 
 
 I 2 'tis 
 
ii6 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 *tis very improbable I would venture home 
 fo foon, being the firft of the prifoners who 
 appear'd in England. Indeed we all, except 
 Hat ley y had our paffage to Cales in a Spanish 
 advice- boat, call'd the Ffying-fijb. Mr. 
 Treffick our furgeon's mate, afted as fur- 
 geon in her, receiving wages, and fo did 
 all our men, being releas'd from prifon to 
 help navigate the veffel home. For my part, 
 as I was well treated, I would not eat the 
 bread of idlenefs, but kept my watch as 
 other officers did 5 and pray where' s the harm 
 of all this; tho' Shehocke and his blunderbufs 
 of a fon, have had the ftupidity to call it 
 treafon? And it muft appear a very malici 
 ous charge, as well as an ignorant one, that 
 after a man has been driven amongft the 
 enemy, he muft be call'd a traytor for be 
 ing us'd kindly and accepting his paffage 
 back again $ that becaufe I was not mur 
 dered there, I ought to be executed at home. 
 This is Shelvocke's great chriftianity and 
 good confcience. 
 
 Laftly, he accufes me of being of a na 
 tion and religion which the Spaniards 
 are fond of. 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 1 1 7 
 
 In the firft place, captain Shel-vacke is 
 very ill bred, to make any national reflexions 
 at all ; and then very ignorant not to know 
 they are never allow'd as argument. If 
 he means I am an Iriftman^ I am well enough 
 pleafed to own it : not forgeting that his 
 Majefty has many loyal fubjeds of that king 
 dom, in the ftate, church, nav^^nd army. 
 If by the other reflexion he means my reli 
 gion to be of the Romijh church ; I fhall 
 make this anfwer to it. That it certainly 
 is the religion my parents defign'd I fliould 
 be of: but when I came to riper years and 
 better underftanding, I made ufe of that 
 liberty which God has given all mankind, 
 to make fuch confeffion of faith as is moft 
 agreeable to holy fcripture and right 
 reafon. 
 
 Thus determined, I took the oaths above" 
 twenty years ago 5 by which I quitted the 
 Romijh faith, andabjur'd all papal authority 
 in thefc kingdoms : I did all that is required in 
 thofc cafes, and therefore 'tis needlefs to 
 fay more. Confequent to this I had the 
 imployment of a purler in the navy, which 
 I held fome years 5 having before that ferved 
 in feveral other inferiour capacities. I have 
 
 I 3 con- 
 
us A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 continued ever fince a lawful member of 
 the church of England > What pretenfe then 
 can Shelvocke have to perfecute me in this 
 unjuft public manner, and charge me with 
 the popifh religion , especially after he has 
 cruelly forc'd me among the moft rigid pro- 
 feffors of it > 
 
 But if he means by this accufation to 
 niake me appear as a difaffe&ed perfon, I 
 hope he will be miftaken : for I never drank 
 the Tretendefs health, tho' Shelvocke made 
 a conftant pradice of it, and every tenth 
 of June propofed it in an open manner > 
 containing fome to do it, and ufmg others 
 ill who had (pint enough to refufe it. In 
 what light then (hall I place this Shelvocke, 
 to make his infamy truly appear ? A man 
 who hath folemnly taken the oaths of alle 
 giance, abjuration and fupremacy, with king 
 George's commiflion in his pocket, com 
 mander of above a hundred men, to whom 
 he fhould appear an example of goodnefs 
 and loyalty, and in a public time of war to 
 drink the 'Pretender's health, and com 
 mand his men to do the fame, is an inftance 
 of fuch perjur'd villainy, as can never be ex- 
 ceded! Confidering I am a fcafaring man, 
 4 'tis 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 119 
 
 'tis for my credit that Shelvocke will allow 
 me to be of any religion : and I am really 
 forry I cannot return him the complement j 
 but he has made fuch an abandoned wretch 
 of himfelf, that I am perfuaded mankind 
 will fay 'tis better to have fome religion 
 than none at all. For after a man has broke 
 thro' oaths, which I call facred ingagements, 
 and violated all moral virtues, by which 
 he was bound to promote the intereft of us 
 and our owners j what idea can we have 
 of him? when thus he ftands guilty of 
 treachery, cruelty, perjury, ill-nature and 
 ill- manners 5 you cannot call him a chriftian^ 
 and he is far fliort of a Mahometan both 
 in faith and practice. 
 
 Here I take leave of my noble captain 
 Shelvocke, being quite feparated from him, 
 as he intended; and now forced tofubmit 
 to the Spaniard, which however prov'd the 
 fairer enemy of the two. Henceforth 
 therefore, I muft trace him by the help of 
 Taylors journal, and the concurring evi 
 dence of thofe whofe hard lot it was to re 
 main under his command : while I go back 
 to captain Ctipperton, whom I (hall, in as 
 brief a manner as poffible, bring to the 
 
 I 4 end 
 
1 2 o A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 end of his voyage, which alfo ended his 
 life. He ftaid his month for Shelvocke at 
 Fernandas, as I obferved before: the ac 
 count of his progrefs and adions after that, 
 I will impartially tranfcribe from Taylor's 
 journal, as I find it. 
 
 SECT. 
 
A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 121 
 
 C 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 SuccefsOff. 20, 1719- 
 
 tc 
 
 it 
 
 HIS day a paper was fixt upon, 
 " the main-maft, declaring what 
 " fhould and fhould not be 
 deemed plunder. 
 
 " The man who firft fpys a fail, proving 
 a prize, to have five dollars for every 
 hundred ton the prize meafures. 
 " Every man aboard a prize found drunk ' 
 or in any indecent aft with a white or 
 black woman, to be punifhed according 
 to the nature of his offenfe. 
 " ^Every man, of whatfoever degree, con 
 cealing any money, or other thing above 
 the value of half a dollar, fhall forfeit 
 his fliare of fuch prize, and twenty dol 
 lars out of his fhare in the next that 
 (hall be taken. The variation by an 
 amplitude taken this day in latitude 15 
 39 S. is 9": 20 N. E. 
 
 We 
 
122 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 25. " We this day arrive in the latitude 
 " of Lima, our cruifing ftation 5 where we 
 brought to, and lay under our topfails 
 " till four in the morning : then made fail, 
 C and at feven chafed a fmall veffel, which 
 " we came up with at eleven, being a fnow 
 " of about forty ton, laden with fand and 
 " rubbifti for manure. She was navigated 
 " by feven Indians and two Nigros: her 
 " mafter was left fick afhore. They would 
 " not give us any intelligence. We found 
 " nothing aboard her worth the trouble of 
 " carrying away, except two jarrs of eggs, 
 ** two of moloffes, and a couple of dollars. 
 
 28. " At one afternoon make a faiJ. 
 t At two are a long- fide of her, being a 
 " fhip of about 150 ton, call'd the St. 
 " Vincent, with wood from Guiaquil. There 
 " are two fryars, fixteen Indians and four 
 " Nigros aboard. 
 
 30. "At four afternoon made a good 
 " fail, which we came not up with till ele- 
 " ven at night : fhe is a pretty large (hip, of 
 " at Icaft 400 ton, from ^Panama for Li- 
 " ma, having a good many paffengers a. 
 <c board. She is called the Trinity, and 
 " was taken by captain Rogers when he 
 plunder'd Guiaquil, 1709. Nov. 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 123 
 
 Nov. 2. " This afternoon at one faw a 
 " fail : at three came up with her, being a 
 " veffel of about feventy ton, bound from 
 " Lima to 'Panama > fhe has on board the 
 " eountefs of Laguna, and feverai other 
 " paffengers, a good deal of ready money, 
 " and at leaft 400 jars of wine and bran- 
 " dy, being two articles we much wanted. 
 " Our captain asks the lady whether fhe 
 * c will come aboard the Succefs, or remain 
 " in the prize. She chufes the later. He 
 " fends a marine officer with a guard to 
 " take care fhc be not molefted by any 
 " of our men, and that none enter her ca- 
 " bin but her own domeftics, or fuch as (he 
 " allows of. Mr. Godfrey, our agent, went 
 " aboard the prizes, carrying to each a cou- 
 " pie of jars of wine and brandy, which 
 " was a very acceptable prefent. 
 
 18. " At feven this morning we faw 
 " a fail : at eleven fhe became our prize, 
 " proving to be a London built pink of 
 " about 200 ton from Panama for Lima, 
 " with wood, of little value : but they 
 " tell us of two rich (hips from Lima com- 
 " ing this way 5 and that there are two 
 " Spanifh men of war of fifty and thirty 
 " guns, fitted out inqucft of us. This 
 
124 ^VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 This being the prize that was run away 
 with by ftratagem Nov. 20, I need not 
 repeat it. Turn back to p. 9 1 and 9 5 . 
 
 24. " This afternoon we took a prize 
 " caird the Cayetan, of about 200 tons, 
 " laden with wood from 'Panama for Li" 
 " ma: flic has aboard forty Nigros and 
 " thirty Spaniards y moft of them paffengers. 
 
 27. c( Anchor at the ifle of T/atewith our 
 ce three prizes. Our captain being now un- 
 t der fome apprehenfions of the enemy's 
 " men of war, which we know are clean, 
 " and fitted out on purpofe to deftroy or 
 " bring us in 5 begins to think that his 
 " cruifing without a fecond, will turn but to 
 " littk account : refolves therefore to make 
 " the moft of what he has got 5 which con- 
 " fiftcth chiefly of European goods found in 
 C the prizes already taken. And being 
 " well affured the Spaniards dare not pur- 
 " chafe them by rcafon of a ftrift pro- 
 " hibition from the king of Spain, he 
 " puts a handfome cargo of ten thou- 
 " fand pound or upwards, aboard the 
 " lady's bark now call'd the Chichtyi and 
 << appoints captain Mitchel commander of 
 " her, and to difpofe of them to the beft 
 
 " advan- 
 
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 cc advantage on the coaft of Brafil. He 
 " mounts her with eight guns, puts aboard 
 " thirteen Englishmen and ten Nigros, with 
 cc what provifion and other neccffaries he 
 " can fpare him. Captain Mttchel at part- 
 " ing gave us three cheers, which was an- 
 " fwer'd by the Succefs. Here our captain 
 " difcharges the other two prizes after rum- 
 " maging them of all we wanted, and gave 
 them to the Spaniards \ rcferving the 
 < c Nigros, and the captain of one of them 
 " for our pilot. We ply to windward a- 
 C gain to come into our ftation. 
 
 'Decemb. 1 2th. 1 7 1 9. " We faw a fail about 
 " five in the evening, and at feven took 
 " her. She is called the Rofe, bound from 
 " Cberipe for 'Panama, laden with provi- 
 " fions. Our launch and pinnace were all 
 te day imploy'd in bringing on board the 
 " flower, and other provifions in order to 
 " difcharge her. Having got as much flower 
 " out of her as we could well flow away, 
 fc we cut her mainmaft by the board, left 
 " fhe ihould overfet, and fo let her ga 
 " Thefe prifoncrs inform us, that our men 
 ( who were taken by the Spaniards were 
 ^ fent to Lima by land. Here we conti- 
 ^ " nuc 
 
" 
 
 1 2 6 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD . 
 
 " nue to cruife, (landing off all day, and 
 ** towards the fhore at night : but nothing 
 " happens till 
 
 27th. " Anchor in Guanchaco Bay in 
 nine fathom clay ground, and find two 
 fhips at anchor. We fire a fhot at each : 
 but they make no return : fend our boats 
 aboard : but found them abandoned, and 
 could difcover that all the loading had juft 
 been taken our, and nothing left aboard, 
 except fome bread, and a few jars of wa 
 ter. We hung out a flag of truce, and 
 fired two guns at half an hour's interval, 
 " hoping they would come aboard to ran- 
 " fom their fhips. They anfwer'd us from 
 " fhore; but feeing no boat coming to us, 
 we fired again, and remain here till next 
 day, when feeing it was in vain to wait 
 any longer, and that they would neither 
 " ranfom nor beg their fhips, we pull'd 
 " down the flag, and fet the fhips a fire. 
 " At eight forenoon, the church of Guan- 
 " chaco bore E. 3 leagues, from whence I 
 " take my departure, latitude 8: 10 S. de- 
 " figning for the Gallipagos. The currents 
 *' here fet much to the northward. 
 
 January 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD; 127 
 
 January 9th. 1720. " Arrive at duke 
 " of fork's ifland being one of the Gallipa- 
 " gos. Here we fcrub and clean our (hip, 
 " and refrelh our (elves with tortoife : af- 
 " ter vifiting fome more of thefe iflands, 
 " we fleer away to the northward. 
 
 21. Made aTail: fent our pinnace a head 
 " to keep fight of the chafe, by making 
 " falfe fires : at eleven at night came up 
 " with her, and on our firing a gun flic 
 " brought to, being a fhip from 'Panama, 
 " having on board the marquifs de Villa 
 " Roche prefident at Tanama, and his fa- 
 " mily bound for Lima, called the Trince 
 <c Eugene. This is the fame (hip in which 
 " captain Clipperton was circumvented and 
 " taken in his late voyage in thefe feas, 
 " when he received but indifferent treat- 
 <c ment from the faid marquifs ztfanawa, 
 " before whom he was carry'd. 
 
 22. " Mr. 'Davijon our firft licutc- 
 " nant was fent to command the prize 5 
 " and I was order'd his affiftant. At eight 
 " in the morning the pinnace came aboard 
 " to fearch for treafure : at eleven returned, 
 " carrying the marquifs, and what elfe they 
 " found moft valuable. Nothing remark- 
 ^ able happens till, 
 
128 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 February i6\h. " We are plying to wind- 
 " ward in our cruifing ftation with the laft 
 V mentioned prize. A Spaniard who was 
 " accidentally wounded at the taking of 
 " her, dying laft night of his wound, his 
 " countrymen defired he might be bury'd 
 c after their cuftom and formalities ; which 
 <c was granted them. When they ended 
 " their prayers, the corpfe which lay ready 
 " on a gratin with a good bag of ballaft 
 <c ty'd at the feet, was thrown over board : 
 " but to the admiration of every one, the 
 " body floated, and continued fp till we 
 c< failed quite from the fight of it. The 
 " marquifs de Villa Roche being prefent 
 " faid, it was very portentous, and that 
 <c fome furprizing accident muft be the con- 
 
 fequence. 
 
 " Upon throwing the corpfe into the 
 
 water, the Sfanifb cuftom is to cry aloud 
 " Bon Viaje three times, that is, a good 
 " voyage. This day took an obfervation 
 <c in latitude n : 50 N : the current here 
 " fets very ftrong to windward. 
 
 March 8. " We made the ifland of 
 <c Tort Velas latitude 10: 30 N: the next 
 < e day anchored in thirty fathom. We find 
 
 <c 
 
 C 
 
 [ here 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 29 
 
 " here a good watering place. The padre 
 " and boatfwain of the ^Prince Eugene cqme 
 " aboard to be examined , as likewife the 
 " marquifs to dine : the father and boat 
 fwain being defirous to go afhore , they 
 have leave, on condition they will indca- 
 vour to perfuade the people to drive fome 
 " cattle to the fhore, and fpare what pro- 
 " vifion they can in exchange for what we 
 " have aboard. 
 
 March isth. " Our launch being near 
 " the (hore, where runs a great fea, fhe was 
 " hove along, foon fill'd and funk. By 
 " this accident we loft two men, John Trum- 
 " bal ferjeant of marines, and Roger Ten- 
 " g e fy gunner's mate. And here the won- 
 " derful perfedion of the Nigros is moft 
 <c remarkable : all the reft of the men got 
 " afhore , when one of our Nigros ftrip- 
 " ping himfelf, takes a rope's end, dived, 
 " and flung the boat : after which we hawld 
 <c her up and towd her aboard , very Jittk 
 " damaged. 
 
 March 1 6th. " The padre and counter- 
 <e mafter return with fome natives, bring- 
 " ing four head of black Cattle, fome fowl, 
 " and fruit, as a prefent for the marquifs > 
 
 K " but 
 
IBO A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RI,D. 
 
 " but told our captain, that their alcalde 
 
 " or governer could not allow us to trade 
 
 " with him. They give us an account of 
 
 " captain Mitckel, who put in here to wa- 
 
 " ter, and fay that his men (hot fome of 
 
 " their young bulls : but that 200 of the 
 
 " inhabitants appearing under arms, he 
 
 " thought it beft to go away. We doubt 
 
 " not of his being here, becaufe we have 
 
 " feen fome fhirts and wearables of Mit- 
 
 4C chefs men. The next day the marquifs 
 
 " writes letters afhore privately, to ftir up 
 
 < the people to furprize our men at the wa- 
 
 " tering, and fecure the boats. Thefe with 
 
 " other mifchievous letters wrote to Lima 
 
 " were ftopp'd by Mr. Godfrey our owners 
 
 " agent, who finding them in an Indian's 
 
 " hand afhore , fent them to captain Clip- 
 
 " perton, who now debars the marquifs the 
 
 " ufe of pen and paper, and ufes him but 
 
 " roughly. The Indians who were yefterday 
 
 " aboard, and to whom our captain made 
 
 " a few prefents for themfelves, the church 
 
 cc and the goyerner, return this morning 
 
 " with fome good frefh beef. After this, 
 
 " captain Cliff erton treats with themarquifs 
 
 < about ranfoming the prize 5 but not agree- 
 
A Vo y AG E round the Wo RLD. 131 
 
 " ing, he orders the timber with which flic 
 " was laden to be thrown overboard, faving 
 <4 as much for firing as we could flow : af- 
 *< ter which we rummage the cabin, taking 
 " away all the clothes and equipage. 
 
 March 2oth. " The marquifs and his 
 " lady dine aboard the Succefs : after which 
 " they go afliore for recreation, leaving their 
 " only child aboard as a pledge, They fend 
 " off a good bull, and fome fowl : there 
 " being no oxen on this continent. On the 
 " 26th, the governer fends us two bulls 
 " more, and on the. sift, the marquifs 
 " fends a prefcnt of fruit to his child, to 
 " bring which there are feven Indians a 
 " horfeback : they left two letters hanging 
 " on a flick in the fand a Nothing hap- 
 <c pens to the 4th of April, but more pre 
 " fents from the marquifs, attended as be-; 
 " fore. 
 
 April 4-th. <c This evening the mar- 
 " quifs and his lady , with the governer and 
 " others came aboard. Nothing is faid of 
 " the marquifs his plot 5 but all chearful 
 "company. The bargain of ranfoming 
 "goes on fo fax, that all the Sp-anifb prifo- 
 " ners ard orderd afhore, except thofe who 
 
 K z had 
 
1 3 1 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 " had rather ftay in the prize : but no talk 
 " of money in the cafe : On the 8th and 
 " 9th, the marchionefs and the child are 
 " carried afhore, and we falute 'em with 
 *' three guns > the marquifs remaining with 
 " us till the performance of articles, which 
 " were, figned. The governer has a quan- 
 " tity of indigo delivered him, and he fends 
 " us a handfom prefent of beef, which we 
 " are all very glad of. We weighd $ lea- 
 " ving the prize to the Spanish captain, and 
 " are now plying to windward with mo- 
 " derate gales till 
 
 April zoth. (C We anchor in the gulph 
 " of Amapala in 1 7 fathom : fend the pin- 
 c nace to find a watering : the Spaniards 
 " oppofe their landing, but fufFer them to 
 <* put on fhore a Spaniard and Indian be- 
 " longing to the marquifs , who are going 
 ic to Rio Lexos to fetch the ranfom mo- 
 " iley : but it is my opinion we arc all bit. 
 " Not being able to get water at Amapala> 
 " the pinnace is fent to the ifle of Tigris $ 
 " where they find very good water, and the 
 " Indian who guided them is rewarded with 
 " fome clothes. Our men meet with a- 
 " bundanceof game on the ifland, killing a 
 
 ^ c good 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 3 3 
 
 " good number of deer. Here is alfo a 
 " great plenty of boobys, which are bet- 
 ter eating than thofe catch'd at fea. Here 
 " we flay till the ipth of May, much longer 
 " than we intended, in expedation of the 
 " ranfom money 5 but having little reafon 
 " to believe the Spaniards will be pundual 
 " and faithful, we unbent our Iheet anchor 
 " and ftow'd it, taking ourdeparture from 
 " hence, latitude 12 : 36. N. 
 
 May 20th. " This day, the books, in- 
 " ftruments and clothes of lieutenant Ser- 
 " jeantfon were fold at the maft : being run 
 " afhore in the Rofary pink with his men 
 " as aforefaid. Here I find a ftrong current 
 " to the N. About this time the cloathing, 
 " linen and other neceflfaries taken in our 
 " prizes were diftributed, being deem'd fair 
 " plunder. 
 
 June 4th. " We arrive next at Gorgona, 
 " latitude 2 : 3 5 N. The current fcts to 
 " the caftward. Here is wood and water, 
 " and ;great plenty of fifh ; but they wont 
 " take the hook , and we have no feine. 
 " From hence we ply to vvindward , and 
 " nothing happens till 
 
 July 25th. " We fpy a fail, and came 
 K 3 up 
 
1 34 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLO. 
 
 tc up with her : (he ftruck to us, being the 
 " St. Vincent which we took once before, 
 tc now commanded by Don Clement de 
 " Andrado^ laden with timber and cocoa 
 " nuts from Guiaquil for Lima. We keep 
 " to windward with our prize, and 
 
 Augiift 1 1 th. Anchor at Lobos la man: 
 *' the diftance from this ifland, and Lobos 
 tc la tterra is 10 leagues. Our chief 1m- 
 * f ployment here is : to catch feal for the 
 " company. Our men have tents on fhore, 
 --' working in their feveral ftations. Here 
 " we fcrtib a-nd clean our fhip, taking out of 
 *' the priie what is moft valuable. Our 
 f c men, tho* fatigued with work-live well 
 f and look well, and -are now ready for an~ 
 " other cruife, Nothing happens till 
 . Septi 6th, tc A plot is difcovcred among 
 ( the men ? wherein the confprrators had 
 " formal a defign to feize the captain and 
 < officers, and run ^way with the fhip: all 
 v who were fecured, to be put afhore at 
 " the fmall defolatc ifle of Lobos? but the 
 * ( oppofers to be (hot. After difcovcry, 
 " the two principa-1 alors, Jafefh Majnard 
 <c boatfwain's mate, and James Roch the 
 ?5 fhip's corporal were fcycrcly punifh'd, be- 
 
 " fides 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 135 
 
 C fides being put in irons : the reft were 
 " pardoned, 
 
 " The caufe of this uneaftnefs amo 
 " the men, was their defpair of making a 
 good voyage, having no hope of the Speed- 
 wel's joyning them, which had brought 
 them into great ftraits and difficulties, fo 
 " that they did not much care whathappen'd. 
 Sept. 1 5th. " Our defign of coming 
 C down again to the northward, was to 
 " look into CheripCy if we could fee any 
 " fhips there; but chance to fall to the lee-' 
 " ward of it, by reafon the currents fet us 
 " much to the northward, tho' we have al- 
 <c ready made allowance for the fame : we 
 " foon beat up again , finding the coaft 
 " alarm'd, and 'feeing no (hip. 
 
 Scpt.ijth. " This day fent our pinnace 
 " well arm'd to chafe a fmall veffel which 
 " (he came up with, being a fifliing boat that 
 " has ufed to make up her fifh on the ifle 
 <c of Lobos, where we found a good pir- 
 <c eel ready fplit and falted ; befides a hand- 
 " fome quantity of frefh fifh in the boat- 
 " We anchor again at Lobos, in 3 8 fathom, 
 " and find the S. Vincent ', which we left hcre> 
 *' was drove afhore and funk. We cicar 
 K 4 " the 
 
n f -^ Vo YAGE round the Wo RLP. 
 
 * the fiftiing boat, and fend her away with 
 " 38 Spanijh prifoners : after which we 
 " weigh again and ply to windward, being 
 " in latitude 7 : QO S. Here the currents 
 <c fet pretty much to the fouthward : no 
 " prize, nor any thing occurs, only the bu- 
 " rying four or five of our hands: we hold 
 " pur courfe for the bay of Conception 
 " where we arrive 
 
 " November ift. <c Going into the bay we 
 " fpy three fail of ftiips at anchor : the fort 
 <c fired a fignal gun : we hoifted Spanijb co- 
 ec lours, and kept plying up till ten at night : 
 " being moon light, we difcovej: a fourth 
 C fliip ftanding in after us : we bore down 
 <<r upon her : (he haled us in Sfanifb : we 
 < anfwer*d her with our guns 5 but the wind 
 " failing, andfhe being clean, gained a head 
 " of us. In the morning the pinnace and 
 " launch were fent after her ; but foon 
 " left chafing, {he being got almoft out 
 " of fight. However, \ve really loft the 
 <c fubftance for the (hadow , our captain 
 f now fleering for Coquimbo. 
 
 5. " We came up with another fail, 
 '* which upon our firing a gun ftruck her 
 ** colours; fhe is call'd the Solidad : (he 
 
 hath 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo R:LD. 137 
 
 f hath a cargo of tobacco, fugar, and cloth 
 " enough to purchafe her loading of wheat 
 " at Coquimbo , whither (he is bound from 
 " Lima. They inform us that our laft 
 " chafe had much fuch another cargo ; and 
 " that the two Sfanifh men of war fitted 
 " out in queft of us and our confort, were 
 t returned to Callao to be viftual'd afrefh : 
 t and had orders from the viceroy to cruife 
 " on the coaft of Chili, not only upon us, 
 " but all the French interloping traders. 
 
 6. <e The greateft part thefe 24 hours 
 " frefh gales of wind and hazy weather, 
 " with a great fouthern fwell. At one this 
 " afternoon, coming open with the harbour 
 " of Coquimbo, we faw three fail of men 
 " of war at anchor, with their topfails loofe 
 'f in their tops 5 who, immediately on feeing 
 " us, dipt or cut their cables and flood af- 
 t tcr us , we hawling clofe upon a wind, 
 " our prize doing the fame : but fhe be- 
 " ing the windward-moft, and at much the 
 " greateft diftance from the enemy, they 
 " judged it necelBary to fend the beft failer 
 " among them after her : at three the head- 
 <( moft (hip came up with our prize, and 
 f J fired at her : upon which (he (truck : but 
 3 " after 
 
138 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 after flic had fo done, the man of war 
 " fired feveraj guns more into her, the rea- 
 " fon of which we could not ghefs : the 
 " other two (hips crowded all the fail they 
 " could after us till four, when the biggeft 
 tc carry ed away her mizentop-maft : he then 
 *' fired a gun, tacked, and flood in for the 
 cc fhore again, which we were not very 
 tc forry for : one of them carrying 50, one 
 & 40, and the other 26 guns, all clean 
 " fhips,- French built and failed well. It 
 " pleafed God the wind favoured us whilft 
 fc they continued the chafe; fo that we wea- 
 cc ther'd I/la de pajeros, i. e. the ifland of 
 " birds which lay juft in our way : for if 
 " we had been forced to tack , we muft 
 '"' have been taken. 
 
 il We have on board us the captain of 
 " the prize, and eight feamen, befides twelve 
 " Nigros. There were taken with her, 
 " twelve of our men, befides Mr. Milne 
 " our third lieutenant who commanded her- 
 " However, we had the good luck to eafe 
 " her of 97 pound weight of wrought fiL 
 " ver, when flic firft became our prize. 
 
 Mr. James Milne, whom I have frncc 
 had convention with in London , told 
 
 me 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 139 
 
 me that the reafon of the enemies conti 
 nuing their fire after he had ftruck to them, 
 was owing to the rage of the captain to find 
 him a Spanijh prize inftead of an Englifh 
 privatier; and vexed at this miftake , he 
 could not immediately quit his paffion, but 
 ftruck Milne upon the head with his drawn 
 fword. However, the captain foon after 
 fent for him up , and finding him almoft 
 ftript by the foldiers, generoufly asked his 
 pardon, and order'd him a complete fute 
 of apparel from top to toe. The captain's 
 name was Tton Bias de -Leffbj'znd had been 
 a guard marine in the French iervice where 
 he loft one of his legs. I mention this to 
 the honour of the faid gentleman, who kept 
 Mr. Milne aboard him all the time the men 
 of war w.ere in qucft of us and the French 
 interlopers, ufing him very kindly : and tho* 
 he was carried prifoner to Lima, the laid 
 captain foon got him his liberty, procured 
 him his paffage gratis to ^Panama, and gave 
 him a jar of brandy, and a jar of wine foe 
 his fea ftore , befide 200 dollars for his ex- 
 penfes to England. But I am tbrry to h< c 
 he never acknowledged it by letter f i 
 
140 A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 ^Panama or elfewhere ; the faid 'Don Bias 
 having fpoke of it to a particular gentle 
 man, then fador for the Brittfh South- Sea 
 company at Tanama. 
 
 November yth. " This day our agent 
 C Mr. Godfrey, and Mr. Cook fecond lieute- 
 cc nant,had words about a pair of gold buc- 
 cc kles, which the later had got privately in 
 " his keeping. The lieutenant gave Mr. 
 " Godfrey very fcurrilous language : but our 
 ct agent infifted, that it was his immediate 
 <c province to infpect all fuch matters. Whe- 
 <c thcrCook keeps the buckles I know not : 
 " but he went in a very unmannerly way 
 " to captain Clipperton and told him he 
 " would no longer take the charge of the 
 C watch : whereupon Mr. Chambers the 
 " mafter rook that charge in his room. The 
 " next day the clothes and other things be- 
 44 longing to our people, taken by the pian 
 < of war , were fold publicly at the maft. 
 " Being thus worfted at Coquimbo > and 
 4 forced to fly their men of war , remem- 
 " bring our miftakcs at Conception) and that 
 - we muft now abandon thefe coafts with 
 * c fhqrt provifions, and no hopes of cap- 
 
 " tai'a 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 141 
 
 " tain Shel-vocke, we begin to be much de- 
 " jeded. However we keep jogging on the 
 " northward, and 
 
 14. " Make the ifle of St. Gal/an, whofe 
 " latitude 1 find 13 : 42 S. On the i5th. 
 " flood into the road of Tifco -, but finding 
 " nothing, we flood out again, holding to 
 ' the northward. 
 
 1 6. " See a fail and give chafe. She 
 < c hoifted Spanijh colours and fired a gun ; 
 " and finding that (he could wrong us, flic 
 " hawld up her courfes, and took in all 
 <c her fmall fails : we let fly our topgallant 
 " (heets, firing three guns to windward, 
 " that being the fignal between our ftip and 
 " the Speedwel, in cafe we fhould meet. 
 ci The chafe holding her wind, we could 
 " not come near her. The next day at 
 " two in the afternoon (he tacked, and 
 " flood for us, as if refolved to ingage us : 
 <* we edgd on towards her, 'till we got 
 " within a mile or thereabouts, when (he 
 " fired feveral guns at us, which we re- 
 " turn'd with a broadfide : upon which ihe 
 " held her wind again, and flood to the 
 " weftward; and being juft cleaned, and 
 " a prime failor, went at leaft two foot for our 
 
 " one: 
 
142 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD, 
 
 ce one; fo that we foon found we had no 
 " fhare in her/' 
 
 Mr. Taylor is very right 5 for I my felf 
 was in this (ham fight. I call it fo, be- 
 caufe I believe neither of the commanders 
 had any great ftomach for a battle. In the 
 firft place, it was contrary to the orders of 
 captain Fitzgerald who commanded this 
 (hip called the Flying Fijb : for being ready 
 to fail for Calesi he was only now order'd 
 out by the viceroy in queft of Shehocke > 
 of whom news was brought to Lima, that 
 he had a day or two before taken the Jcfu 
 Maria out of Tifco, leaving the Spaniards 
 the bark he built at Fernandes. fifco be- 
 ing but a little to windward ofCal/ao, they 
 were in hopes of catching Shetoocke as he 
 went to leeward : and the Flying Fijh ha 
 ving a very confiderable treafure aboard, the 
 captain was ftridly order'd to forbear attack 
 ing, or fpeaking with any imbarkation, ex 
 cept Shehocke. On the other hand, Clip- 
 perton may well befuppofed willing enough 
 to decline ingaging with a (hip juft come 
 out of harbour with 200 frefli men aboard; 
 at a time when his people were in a very 
 low condition and diipiritcd, as appears by 
 
 the 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD~ 145 
 
 the journal : neither had he half the num 
 ber of men. So that I am of opinion if 
 the dollars had been left alhore, the Flying 
 Fifh would have been able to carry Clipper- 
 ton into Callao. For Fitzgerald, who was 
 a St. Malo man, had aboard him a hun 
 dred townfmen, flout fellows $ and the reft 
 were the beft hands he could pick out of 
 all the fhips at Callao for this occafion. 
 
 November i8th. " Malt eft one of the 
 " Guara iflands bore N. E. one league 5 from 
 " whence I take my departure in latitude 
 " ii : 10 S. Being fine weather we heel'd 
 " and fcrubb'd both fides of our (hip. We 
 <c flood in for Guanchaco : but finding no- 
 " thing there, bore away for Cheripe : where 
 " feeing nothing, we flood away forSP/z/ta, 
 " defigni.ngto try our fortune at every port 
 " to the northward 5 particularly to get a 
 " fupply of flower , which being now all 
 " expended, we have three pound of Indian 
 " corn ferved to a mefs of fix men each. 
 
 27. " Saw point Helen: (horten'd fail 
 " and flood from the land. Hoifted out the 
 " pinnace and yawl to fet the prifoners 
 cc afhore belonging to the laft prize retaken. 
 " by the enemy, After which we fleer to 
 3 u the 
 
144 A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 " the weftward for the Gallipagos iflands, 
 " in order to refrefh our men, who arc 
 " very bad with the fcurvy. 
 
 36. " Had an obfervation, and find my 
 " felf in latitude oo : 09 N. Here is a ftrong 
 " current to the northward, and I believe 
 " a little wefterly. I am 22 miles more 
 " northerly than the log gives, variation 
 " and leeway having been allow'd. All 
 " our bread , flower , and Indian corn is 
 " now expended, and we have but one 
 ** little meal in 24 hours $ which is a fmall 
 " piece of Englijh beef (being yet very 
 " good) and calivances. Six men in a mcfs. 
 
 'December 4th. " Mr. Thomas Faifman 
 " our purfer departed this life 5 and we com- 
 " mitted him to the deep. Meafur'd our 
 " logline and find it three fathom too fhort, 
 " which amounts to 52 mile one hour with 
 " another fince we left cape Helen. Ha- 
 IC ving an obfervation, I reftify my account 
 " and find the latitude oo : 36 N. We 
 
 keep plying to windward againft a ftrong 
 < c S. W. current in fight of the Gallipagos. 
 
 6th. ^ Sent the pinnace to difcover an 
 
 " anchoring place at one of the iflands : re* 
 
 ( turns without finding any 5 but faw a- 
 
 " bundancc 
 
 
 
A Vo Y Ac E round the Wo R LD. 145 
 
 * c bundance of tortoife afliore. Send the 
 " pinnace and yawl to get fome. They re- 
 " turn with fifh enough to ferve the com- 
 " pany a day : But there running a prodi- 
 " gious furf, they could not land, or look 
 " for turtle. We kept ply ing off and on, and 
 " founded in foul ground from 80 to 56 
 " fath : the latitude of the ifland I make 9 
 " minutes N. 'tis a mere rock : fo we left 
 " it, and fteer'd away for another S. W. be- 
 " ing the fame which the Spaniards make 
 " to lye under the equator. We run along 
 " fhore but can find no anchoring : fo that 
 " being unwilling to lofe more time , we 
 " make our beft way to the ifle of Cocos> 
 " where we hope certainly to get fifh, fowl> 
 " and cocoj^nuts $ our people being very 
 " fick and weak* 
 
 7th and 8th. " We had feveral iflands 
 <c N. E. but on the pth got clear of theni 
 C all. This day I took charge of the cap- 
 " tain's watch, and Mr. Chambers the lar- 
 " board, Mr. 'Davifon being fick, and 
 " Ikutenant Cook (till refufing his duty. Lit- 
 " tie happens in this paflage , but burying 
 ** two or three of our hands* Our people 
 " fall apace ^ therefore are in pain left we 
 " mifs the ifland* L 17* Go- 
 
146 -^Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 17. " Going very (lowly ahead , find 
 <c there is a fouthern current. Lye fo till 
 " day light , believing we are near the 
 " ifland. At nine forenoon with joy we 
 " beheld the ifland Cocos about nine leagues 
 " N. W. 
 
 1 8. " Anchor in 1 3 fathom white fand. 
 " Here all our people and the marquifs de 
 " Villa Roche got aihore> where we build 
 <c a houfe for the fick men. Here is abun- 
 " dance of good filh round the ifland which 
 " we take pains to catch, the furf being 
 " ibmetimes very great. Our people find 
 " here plenty of coco-nuts, crabs, boobies 
 " and their eggs, this being their hatching 
 " time. Our captain broaches the laft hogs- 
 " head of brandy , allowing every man a 
 " dram a day : and on new-years-day gave 
 " the people a gallon of ftrong beer for 
 " fix. This food, eafe, and refreftiment 
 " pretty well recovered all our company. 
 We wood and water, tho' with much dif~ 
 " ficulty 5 for here is a great fwell coming 
 " in from the northward conftantly at full 
 " moon and change : therefore are forced 
 " to wait 'till the fpring tides are abated be- 
 " fore we can get any thing off. 
 
 January 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 1 47 
 
 January 17. 1721, cc The marquifs 
 " came aboard as do moft of our people, 
 " being ready to fail. Eight nigros and three 
 " of our men defert here, and abfcond in 
 " the woods. The names of our men are 
 " HigginSy Caulker and Shingle. The an- 
 " chorage here being rocky, we have fadly 
 " gaul'd both our cables. After eontinu- 
 " ing here a month, we weigh and fet fail, 
 " from whence I take Imy departure,^w#^ry 
 " 20th. latitude 05 : 38 N. running now 
 " to the northward on the coaft of Mexico. 
 
 23. " We fpy a fail to which give 
 " chafe, and fend the pinnace to keep 
 " fight of her : but at night ihe gives us 
 * the flip. 
 
 25. " This morning I fee the coaft of 
 " Mexico. About feven we made a fail : 
 ^ at 1 1 (he ftruck to our pinnace : which 
 " returns and brings account that fhe is 
 " the Jefu Maria a Spanijb (hip , but now 
 " in the poiieffion of captain Shefoocke , 
 <c who commands her. That he has about 
 " 40 of his men aboard, the reft being all 
 <fi dead or difperfed. That he loft the Speed- 
 " wet at Fernandes-y where they ftay'd five 
 " months, and built a barque out of the 
 L 2 " Speedwrfs 
 
14* A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 Speedi&els wreck , with which they put 
 to Tea, and coafted along Chili and *Peru 
 meeting feveral (hips, but could do no- 
 " thing with them; 'till they came to Tifco 
 " near Lima, where they took this prize* 
 " being the (hip we went in there to look 
 " for. They differ much in their account : 
 but have no regular command among 
 them, being all alike as the JVeft-India 
 privatiers. They have chofe a quarter- 
 mafter, carrying every thing by a majo- 
 rity of votes : fo that we find, they have 
 " quite broke their articles with the owners, 
 " and have fhared all among themfelves. 
 
 27. " Perceived captain Shehocke to 
 " hoift St. George's colours at main-top- 
 tc mafthead, firing three guns at intervals, 
 " being (ignals to fpeak with us. We lye 
 " to for his boat, which came aboard with 
 " a letter for captain Clipper! on-, who im- 
 " mediately fent back the boat for their 
 " purfer to be examined concerning their 
 " adions on the coaft of Braftl, and in the 
 " reft of their abfence from us. Sent away 
 <c the boat: but the purfer Mr. Hendrie 
 |C (lays 5 who gives but a dark ftory of their 
 " procedings > and that he was not allow'd 
 
 " to 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 1 49 
 
 " to take any account of the treafure for 
 " the owners. At eight captain Shehocke 
 '* came aboard being fent for by our cap- 
 " tain and agent to give an account of his 
 " tranfaftions. The boat brought Mr. *Dod 
 " their lieutenant of marines to continue 
 " with us ; he having. been ufed very ill 
 " for (landing up for the owners intereft. 
 
 28. " Came aboard from captain Shel- 
 " vocke, fix chefts of pitch and dammer, and 
 C two barrels of tar, with fix flabs of cop- 
 " per. Captain Cliff erf on fpares him twenty- 
 " four quarterdeck guns, fome great and 
 c< fmall (hot, a compafs, and a few other 
 " neceffaries. His people have laid out a 
 " great deal of money with us for clothes, 
 " (hoes, hats, &c. Captain Shefaocke goes 
 <c aboard and parts company. Here remain 
 " with us two of the Speedwell officers, 
 " Mr. Hendrie the purfer and Mr. ^od 
 " lieutenant of marines, defigning with us 
 " for China. We keep to the northward 
 " on the coaft of Mexico , meeting with 
 " ftrong weft and north- weft currents 'till 
 " latitude 15 : oo where they let S. E. In 
 " this paffage we have met captain Shel- 
 " <uocke three times without fpeaking, whom 
 L " we 
 
150 A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 " we knew by his making the fignals. Our 
 " men have caught fome tortoife, which 
 " has been very acceptable , but nothing 
 " material happens in all thefe traverfes till 
 
 March 7th. " Our officers confult, and 
 refol veto joy n captain Shefoocke the next 
 " time we meet, in order to attempt the 
 " Acapulco fhip homeward bound. 
 
 1 3th. " Made a fail, which by the fig- 
 <e nals proving to be captain Shelvocke , we 
 c * brought to. He comes aboard with his 
 " lieutenants. Our captain and they agree 
 " in general, that if we meet the Manilla 
 " fliip, Shefooekes company to joyn us, 
 and run her aboard t oiice. Accordingly 
 *' we cruife for her: and on the i5th 
 " captain CJipperton holds another conful- 
 < tation; wherein propofals being agreed 
 " on, are fign'd and ferit to captain Shel- 
 C <vocke j That if he and his crew would 
 <c refund all the money flared among them- 
 " felves contrary to their articles vjith 'the 
 *' owners , and agree to put it in a joyni 
 ftcck, then f all faults (hould be forgot \ 
 f c both companies would unite, and procede 
 f* to cruife for the Acapulco Jhip. 
 
 17. " Not 
 
VOYAGE round the WORLD. 151 
 
 17. " Not hearing from captain Shel* 
 " <uocke, and the time for the Manilla fliip 
 " fetting out being fcveral days paft : Re- 
 " folved in a council to make our beft dif- 
 " patch for Eafl India. We have an infirm 
 ** (hip's company, and but five months pro- 
 " vifion, which muft ferve us to China un- 
 " lefs we get a fupply at Guam. 
 
 " At fix in the evening, the weftmoft 
 " land in fight, which I take to be fort 
 " Marquifs bore N. N. W. eight leagues; 
 " from whence I take my departure, it ly- 
 " ing in 16 : 50 north latitude. 
 
 May xoth. " This day at noon we make 
 (C Serf ana one of the LWr0# iflands, Guam 
 " being a few leagues farther ahead. The 
 " latitude of Serf ana I find to be 1 3 : 42 
 " N. and the difference of longitude from 
 " fort Marquifs 121 : 08 W. Nothing 
 " worth notice has happened in this tedious 
 " paffage, only burying fix of our hands. 
 " All our people are very weak, and take 
 " the fcurvy apace : fo that land is now a 
 " very welcome fight. 
 
 13. " Anchor at the ifland of Guam. 
 
 " Send the pinnace alhore with a flag of 
 
 " truce. They tell our lieutenant, they 
 
 L 4 " cannot 
 
152 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 cannot trade with us without leave from 
 ^ the Governer. 
 
 1 6. " A prow came from the gover- 
 < c ner with Mr. Godfrey our agent, ac- 
 < c quainting us, that we may be fupply'd 
 * c with provisions. Accordingly our launch 
 brought aboard fome cattle, bread, fugar, 
 brandy and fruit. The next day his ho- 
 <c nour fent us a handfome prefent of palm 
 " wine, fugar and chocolate ; for which we 
 *' drink his health with a complement of 
 feven guns. 
 
 May 1 8th. " The marquifs de Villa 
 " Roche our prifoner, went afhore in com- 
 * c pany with our agent, the firft lieutenant 
 <* and doftor, having agreed with the go- 
 *' verner about his ranfom. We give him 
 " five guns at landing. Our launch is im- 
 " ploy'd thefe fix days in bringing wood, 
 <c and water, and provifton aboard : during 
 ^ which time the governej: dejfired he might 
 have fome arms and ammunition in ex- 
 t change. Accordingly captain Clipperton 
 " fends him twelve fiizees, three jars of 
 *' powder, fixty round fhot, four pair of 
 ^ piftols \ befide gutlafes, long fwojcds and 
 
A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 153^ 
 
 25. " Receive a letter, wherein the go- 
 verner demands the marquifs's jewels, 
 " fome confecrated plate, and two Nigros 
 *' being chriftians and fubjeds to the king 
 *' of Spain : as aifo a certificate under the 
 " captain and officers hands that peace was 
 < proclaimed ; detaining Mr. Godfrey and 
 " Mr. fritty 'till all this is performd. Here* 
 upon our captain fends a letter with a 
 certificate that the Solidad, the laft prize 
 " we took on the coaft of Chili, told us 
 <c there was a peace between England and 
 " Spain ; but withal allured the governor 
 <e that if he did not in 24 hours fend the 
 " ranfom with the two gentlemen, he would 
 " demolifh the houfes upon the fhore, bura 
 <e the (hip in the harbour , and do all the 
 < c mifchief he could at the Thilippine iflands, 
 " In the mean time we receive a letter that 
 < c the governer will pay for the confe- 
 " crated plate, and defires more powder 
 <c and (hot. To which our captain fends 
 < c anfwer that he will not fpare any more 
 " ammunition or the Nigros. 
 
 28. " Our yawl went afhore for more 
 * provifion : but the officer of the village 
 us we (hould have no more, unlefs 
 
 we 
 
15* A Vo Y AG E round tke Wo RL t>. 
 
 -* we fent more powder and (hot : upon 
 ." which we immediately weighd , flaying 
 '< for no anfwer by Mr. Godfrey or Mr. 
 " 'Pritty. Sent the pinnace ahead to found* 
 *' and made the beft of our way to the fhip 
 " in the harbour. The people afhore had 
 f* raifed a battery during this fham treaty, 
 " from whence they began to fire at our 
 " pinnace > which being returned gave ac- 
 i* count that what channel they found, was 
 " within piftol fhot of the fhore. At fix 
 " aftempon, in making up to the fhip, we 
 " run aground, they Having carry ? d her in- 
 " to fhoal water : fo that now we fuftain 
 <* two fires together, one from the battery 
 " over our heads, and another from the 
 <l fhip. At nine we got foul of theffrocks 
 " where we cut away two of our anchors 
 " indeavouring to get the Ihip off; du- 
 -** ring which time the enemy fired fo warmly 
 " with (tones and fhot from a new bat- 
 *' tery ere&ed on a hill, that we fuffer'd 
 <c extremely in our hull and rigging. We 
 " have thr^e men wounded, befide the mif- 
 ^ fortune of lofing Mr. 'Davifon our firft 
 " lieutenant who was an honeft fellow and 
 v a good officer. Thus the Succefs is forced 
 
 " to 
 
round the Wo RLD. 1 5 5 
 
 " to lye in a miferable condition expofed 
 <c to the continual fire of the enemy, who 
 " in the night have ftill this advantage of 
 " us 5 that the furface of the water being 
 " frriooth as a mill pond eafiiy (hows them 
 V our pofition, whereas we have no other 
 " dire&ion for our aim than the flafties of 
 " their guns. 
 
 29. *< In this emergence our captain be- 
 " ing overcome with liquor, and quite un- 
 " able to command the fhip ; we officers 
 " came to a refolution of running out clear 
 " of the enemy as foon 4s we could get 
 *' the fhip afloat , and figned a paper to 
 <c indemnify Mr. Cook if he would take upon 
 " him the command. At four afternoon 
 " we let her floating and cut away the fmall 
 " bower anchor > but in ten minutes we run 
 " aground again : at feven carry out the 
 <? kedge anchdr ; but in heaving, the haw- 
 " fer broke. We immediately carryout an- 
 '< other hawfer with a lower deck gun to 
 V it, having now loft all our anchors and 
 ?< ftill aground. At two forenoon, the 
 " enemy hale us feveral times to furrender 
 " or except no quarter. At five, carry out 
 the maintopmaft-fliroud hawfer on the 
 
 " ftarboar4 
 
I 5 6 A VO YAG E r0#72^ /^ Wo RLD. 
 
 " flarboard bow with another gun 5 ftill ply. 
 " ing the enemy with our great guns be- 
 " low, and fmall arms on the poop. We 
 do them little mifchief ; tho' they never 
 " mifs us, efpccially our boats as foon as 
 " they fee them ftir. At eleven forenoon, 
 " carry out the reft of the fmall bower, 
 " with two lower deck guns right ahead 
 <c into five fathom : we clear away the 
 " hold ready to ftart our water to make the 
 " fhip lighter : got our upper and lower 
 <c deck guns forward to bring her by the 
 " head, the fhip hanging abaft on a rock : 
 " we keep two guns out of the ftern ports, 
 " continually firing at the enemies new bat- 
 tery 5 but can't bring them to bear. Thefe 
 <c twenty four hours we have happily only 
 " one wounded : but the fhip is wretchedly 
 " paid off between wind and water. 
 
 30. " At fix afternoon the fhip floating, 
 " we cut away the yawl being funk with 
 << the fhot : the other boats are much da- 
 " maged : hove to our fmall bower ; then 
 " cut away it, and the other two hawfers, 
 " and fent the pinnace ahead to tow the 
 " (hip off. Juft as we got afloat, the enemy 
 ** fired IQ fmartiy from the new battery that 
 
 " their 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 5 7 
 
 " their fhot raked us through between win4 
 " and water, killing one of our people, 
 <c and wounding two others. Thus have we 
 " loft both our bower anchors and cables, 
 " the ftream and kedge anchors, four haw- 
 " fers, four of our lower deck guns, nine- 
 " teen barrels of powder, two men kill'd 
 " and fix wounded : having flood thefe 
 " fifty hours, a fair mark for the enemy 
 " to fire at : and if we had not got clear, 
 " I do believe they would have funk us 
 C before morning. We are all very forry 
 " for Mr. Godfrey and Mr. *Pntty , not 
 " knowing how the governer may ufe them 
 " afhore. At ten afternoon we brought to, 
 " and begin to fplice our rigging , not a 
 " rope of which has efcaped a fhot : As 
 <c for the mafts and yards, they have all 
 " been feverely pepper'd y and the carpen- 
 " ters have been all night flopping the holes 
 " in the (hips bottom. At feven forenoon 
 " flow our guns in the hold , bar in the 
 ports, hoift in the launch and pinnace, 
 and at noon fleer away weft with an 
 eafy fail, hoping to fave our paffage be 
 fore the Monfoons come on. Wind at 
 S. S. E. 
 
 31. " Our 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORDD? 
 
 ji. " Our carpenters are imployed in 
 <c filhing the mafts and yards, and the reft 
 " of our people in fixing the rigging. At 
 " fix afternoon, the body oftheifland Guam 
 cc bore E. feven leagues, from whence I take 
 Cc my departure, north latitude 1 3 : 20. al- 
 " lowing half a point N. E. variation, de- 
 " figning now for China. Nothing remark- 
 " able till 
 
 June 2$. " Find our Chip to be in a 
 " very weak condition, fcarce a whole tim- 
 Cf ber in her upper works: difcover one of 
 " our fafhion pieces to be (hot through, 
 c * which being the chief fupport of the afte 
 " part of the (hip, we are obliged to frap 
 " her , to keep her together : it blowing 
 cc pretty frelh, we dare not carry fail ; ha- 
 " ving been forced for a week paft to feud 
 <c under bare poles through variable winds 
 " and bad weather. We impatiently look 
 u out for land, being afraid the currents. 
 " have forcibly fet us much to the eaftward. 
 
 24. " At day break, find our felyes a- 
 " mong feveral iflands , one of which is 
 - c Barbuon at the north point of the ifland 
 u Luconia. I faw alfo feven rocks, mark'd 
 " in fomc draughts 5 and likewife other 
 
 " iflands, 
 
A Vo Y AC E round the Wo RLB. 159 
 
 " iflands, mafk'd in fome manufcf ipts with 
 " a figure of 5 , and by captain 'Dampier 
 " called the Bafhee iflands. 'Dampier's ac- 
 " count and mine agree : but by Dr. Hal- 
 " leys chart to Luconia , my reckoning is 
 " out by above three degrees 5 except he 
 " means the fouth cape of Luconia which 
 " may reconcile the difference. From June 
 " 1 4th to i pth. I found the current fet to 
 " the fouthward 5 but whether W. or E. 
 cc I know not : and from thence chiefly 
 " northward. 
 
 30. " Make theifle and fhoals ofPrafa 
 " latitude 20 : 46 N. The longitude from 
 " Barbuon to it is 4 : 46 W. 
 
 July i ft. " Saw a fail to the eaftward 
 " which we take to be a China junk. At 
 (C fix forenoon fee other iflands, and feve- 
 " ral boats a fifhing. At nine forenoon bent 
 "the (heet cable: founded in 30 fathom 
 " clay ground. At noon had the iflands 
 fromN. N.vE. to W. by S : thefe lands 
 " were never mark'd in any chart. Longitude 
 " from Trata z weft. 
 
 2. " Anchor in 13 fathom : fend away 
 
 cc the pinnace for intelligence how Macao 
 
 u bore. Returned with a boat and three 
 
 3 Chinefe, 
 
160 AVo YAG E found the Wo RLD. 
 
 cc Cbinefe> of whom we could onlyundef- 
 " ftand> that Canton was to S, W. of us j 
 sc fo we parted, and had the land from N* 
 " E. to W. of us: foundings from 22 to 
 "13 fathom. 
 
 3. " We gain nothing to windward: 
 " but are further to leeward of Macao 
 " than we expefted. We can get no pilot, 
 " and fo bear away for Amoy : at fix af- 
 " ternoon made the white rock lying near 
 <c the main land : at fevcn forenoon faw 
 cc feveral boats a fiihing : had 2 1 fathom 
 " clay ground. 
 
 4. " At fi* afternoon faw the land N* 
 cc E, and feveral iflands laid down in the 
 <c charts. Have had foundings from 30 to 15 
 " fathom, latitude per obfervation 23 .-40. 
 
 5. " Not knowing the way into Amoy^ 
 cc and not being the length as yet, hold 
 " upon a wind defigning to ply off and on 
 " 'till daylight. At fix afternoon faw the 
 * c range of iflands that run to Amoy: the 
 " eaftermoft bore S. S. W 5 the fouthmoft 
 " N. N. W. At four forenoon made fail 5 
 tc have had feveral boats aboard to fell us 
 " fifh, but can't underftand them, Sound- 
 " ings from 22 to 14 fathom good ground, 
 
 4 " Ac 
 
A Vo VAG E round the Wo ktD. 1 61 
 
 " At ten forenoon faw the 
 
 <( from S. S. E. to E. S. E. 8 leagues. 
 
 6. <c At five afternoon came to with 
 cc our (licet anchor in the gulf of Amoy. 
 " Longitude from B&rbuon \V. 4 148. Bicf- 
 " fed be God in our paffage hither, from the 
 " 24 of June we have had pleafant gales and 
 <c ferene weather, the winds between weft 
 u and S. W. At ten the Hoppo'* men comb 
 " aboard to know what we do here. Told 
 " them we was a king's fiiip. They wrote 
 " down particularly our force and number 
 u of men, defiring us to be faithful in our 
 cc accoun. The very next morning our 
 " men, in a mutinous manner, demand o'f 
 " captain Clippenon their prize money, ai- 
 " ledging that the Success could never put 
 " to fea again. The firft man that attacked 
 " the captain was John Tienmfon. I intcf- 
 " pofed thinking it my duty 5 whereupon 
 u Edward Boreman bid me dcfift,. or CK- 
 " ped a brace of balls thro 8 my head : Mr. 
 tc Cook with a fneer laid, let the poor man 
 w reft and take breath a little, meaning the 
 " captain : upon this our captain went a- 
 ^ fliore to the Hofpo or comrniffioner of 
 " the cuftoms. During thefe four days We 
 M " receive 
 
1 62 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo R LD. 
 
 " receive aboard a great quantity of rice, 
 " fomc cattle, fowl, wood and water. On 
 " the 1 2th, the officers go afhore and are 
 " handfomly received by the Hoppo, with 
 <c whom we make an agreement to anchor 
 i in the harbour and lye the monfoons 
 " out. Two Hopfo men or cuftomhoufe- 
 <c officers are fent aboard to hinder private 
 " dealing with the natives. Several Man- 
 " darlns or noblemen vifit the fhip with the 
 " Hoppo. Some of the men go afhore with- 
 ^ out leave, for which our captain going to 
 " correct them, the whole crew unite and 
 " rcfift. \Ve get more provifion aboard 5 
 " after which the Hoppo's agent receives 
 " the port charges, being 1700 dollars, about 
 " 400 pound fterling. Our captain receives 
 " a prefent of wine and fruit from one of 
 ^ the Mandarins. Nothing material till 
 
 Auguft 25th. " We officers fign a paper 
 " for the captain to allow all the fhips-com- 
 " pany money to buy neceffaries. Captain 
 "-. Mitckel being gone, and 'Davifon we 
 " fucceded him being kill'd , Cook vio- 
 " lently infills upon having thirty fhares as 
 <c fecond captain : which by his own ma- 
 " nagement wich the men, we were forced 
 
 " to 
 
A Vo Y AG E round tfa Wo RLD. 1 6 3 
 
 Cf to yield him : but when the queftion was 
 " put to make provifion for the gentlemen 
 " who were kill'd or taken, from us, and 
 <c the two officers from the Speedwel, Hen* 
 " drie and *Dod who are pailengers with 
 u us, Cook was the firft man to oppofe and 
 " rejed it: fo that we fettle the (hares as 
 " well as we can. Our captain and moft 
 cc of the officers arc willing to allow fome- 
 " thing to the two paffengers aforefaidj 
 " captain Shelvocke having tiled them ill for 
 <c favouring the owners intereft, particularly 
 " Mr. Hendrie the agent whom he would 
 cc not fuffcr to ad, but made him fwab the 
 <c deck: however the company murmur at 
 " making them an allowance, and I doubt 
 <c they will receive nothing. After this we 
 <c fall into great ditorders and confufion, 
 cc and the men are ftrangely (et againft the 
 < captain, refufing to work without their 
 <c whole prize money, and complain to 
 <c the chief Mandarin call'd Hyhung: upon 
 C \vhich captain Clipperton is fcnt for, who 
 " reprefented, that according to our arti- 
 <c cles , the capture ought to be fhared at 
 c London. However Cook goes fecretiy to 
 the Mandarin and underhand favours the 
 M 2 cc men, 
 
1 64 A . Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 ".men-, infmuating .that they would be 
 " cheated 5" and threaten'd, if Cliff etton did 
 C not eafily comply, to tell the Mandarin 
 " of his fine doings, at Guam y and the great 
 " lofs of captain Mitchelfent in the Chichley 
 " prize with a good cargo never fince heard 
 <c of : So that in fiiort there came a guard 
 " of foldiers aboard of us, and an order to 
 " captain Cliff erton to divide all the fhares 
 " and pay them. 
 
 Sept.. 1 6th. (C Which was done this day 
 cc without referving any. thing for Shei- 
 t* vocke's two officers , our dead men , or 
 tfc thole who were taken prifoners." 
 
 dollars. 
 The (liara^of money and plate. 180 
 
 The .fere of, gold. , ~ 100 
 
 The fhare of jewels. 39 
 
 The total of aforcmaftman'sdivi-') 
 
 dcnd. ^ 
 
 Which at 4 s. : S d. a dollar, makes Englifi 
 money, 97 / ; 15 j, 4 d. 
 
 Accord- 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 165 
 
 According to this diftribution, 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 The captain's (hare was 1466 10 oo 
 
 The .fecond captain 733 05 oo 
 
 The captain of marines^ 
 
 lieutenants of the fhip >- 488 16 OS 
 
 and furgeon, &c.' > 
 
 Taylor not having here , or at leaving 
 China, mentioned any thing of what became 
 of Clipperton, or the gentlemens money, I 
 think proper to infert that account as I had 
 it from one of our owners and feveral of 
 the Sttccefs's people. The owners moiety 
 confifting of dollars , wrought filver, gold 
 and jewels amounted to upwards of 6000 /. 
 fterling, and was put aboard a Tortuguefe 
 Eaft- India man, called the Queen of Angels, 
 *Don Francifco la Vero commander, which 
 was unfortunately burnt at Rio Janeiro on 
 the coaftof Brafll> June 6th 1722 5 of which 
 effeds no more came to hand than isoo/. 
 As for captain Clipperton, he having fold 
 the Succefs in China, took his paflage in her 
 to Batavia > and from thence in a Ttutch 
 M 3 India, 
 
1 66 A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 India man he came to Holland. He ftay'd 
 there a few weeks upon his own affairs, 
 and went dire&ly to his family at Galway 
 in Ireland, where he died two days after his 
 arrival, in theyear 22 : being an EngliJIoman 
 born at great Tarmouth in the county of 
 Norfolk. But more of this in another place. 
 I precede to the journal. 
 
 Sept. 25th. " Weighed out of Amoy 
 " harbour. Our arms, ammunition, and fails. 
 " came aboard : it being a practice with 
 " the Chinefejoi their fecurity,to take thefe 
 iC afhore from all ftrangers. 
 
 30. " Weighed and run out of the gulf, 
 <c from whence I take my departure, latitude 
 " 24 N : defigning now for Macao an ifland 
 " belonging to his Tortuguefe majefty. 
 
 Qffiober 4th. " Anchor in the road of 
 " Macao : falute the fort : captain goes a- 
 u fliore and returns with the commander 
 " of a Tortuguefe man of war. Kcre we 
 " are informed of peace in Europe. Cook 
 " and Fetich go to Canton to confult with 
 " Mr. Winder fupercargo of an India man 
 " and fon to one of our owners, what our 
 " captain is to do with the Succefs. Upon 
 " their return the fhip is condemned, be- 
 z * ing 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 67 
 
 <c ing uncapable to precede for England - y 
 " and is fold for about 4000 dollars, much 
 " too cheap. 
 
 " Here I fettle my account of time, and 
 " find I have loft a day coming weftward 
 " round the world 5 therefore I allow but 
 " fix days for this week and go OQ. 
 
 30. " Twenty of us agreed here, at fix 
 " dollars each, to go to Canton in a boat 
 " with chefts and bedding, and get a paf- 
 " fage from thence to England: but it was 
 " my good hap to mils going in her, lofing 
 " only my money 5 for flic was taken by 
 <: the py rates : and fome of our people now 
 <c at Canton have loft their things : So that 
 " feven of us agree for a Mandarins boat 
 " at twenty dollars each, finding it unfafc 
 " to go otherwife : we anchored at a town 
 " half way to Canton, being obliged to get 
 " into a private boat, while the Mandarin 
 <c convoyed us in fight of Canton, In our 
 " paflage we faw apyrate take a boat ; and 
 " I find it is a common pradice. I think 
 " it very fcandalous: but probably the Chi- 
 " nefe government wink at it. 
 
 November 4th. " We arrive at the Ertg- 
 
 <c lijh factory' at Canton : are very k'indly 
 
 M 4 " received. 
 
i <58 A Vo YAG E round the Wb RLIX 
 
 <c received. They meet, and agree to carry 
 " us to Great Britain at five pound a man, 
 " being a very great favour : Accordingly 
 " we all pay our money. I and two or 
 cc three more went aboard the Maurice, 
 " captain Te acock at Wampo , being the 
 " place where the European fhips lye a- 
 " bout three leagues down Canton river. 
 " The reft of our company divide in fe* 
 " veral fhips, 
 
 p. < c We made fail in company of the 
 " Macclesfield an English Eafl India man, 
 " and an Oftender call'd the Houfe of ^- 
 
 <c y?w. 
 
 13. " The grand Ladrcn ifland bore 
 " N. E. four leagues, from whence I take 
 ft my departure. Latitude 22. N/' 
 
 The run from China to Great Britain be 
 ing generally well known, it is foreign to 
 my purpofe to extraA any more of this jour 
 nal. I here give Mr. Taylor my hearty thanks 
 for the ufe of it : and am pleas'd I can do 
 it in this public manner. Without it, I 
 could not have been able in fome particu 
 lars to confute the falfe and treacherous re 
 lation given by captain Shehocke 5 who 
 never^kept any journal himfelf, or fuffcr'd 
 
 any 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 169 
 
 any one to ufe pen and ink, but his own 
 creatures. If Mr. Taylor had defignd to pub- 
 lifh his account , he doubtlefs might have 
 enterd remarks and occurrences of another 
 nature than thofe which concern navigation 
 and geography. And altho' the expedition 
 of thefe two fhips faild in all its bed par 
 ticulars, yet a good journal of their pro- 
 cedings round the whole ocean might have 
 been entertaining : for men love to read 
 of enterprizes, tho' they prove unfortunate. 
 
 Laftly, I rnuft obferve to Mr. Taylor's 
 credit, that he has kept his account truly 
 and carefully like an honeft man and a good 
 artift; having judiciouflymarkd the currents 
 and redifyd the latitudes of many places. 
 He arrivd at Batavia in ^December 3 at the 
 cape of good Hope in February j at St. He 
 lena and Afcenjion in March $ and in May 
 1722. at London: having thus made a com 
 plete tour of the globe. 
 
 SECT. 
 
170 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 ERE I refume the hiftory of my 
 captain , whom I left cruifing off 
 ^ while Hat ley, I, and the reft 
 
 of us were taken by admiral Midranda, 
 otherwife call'd general of the South- Sea. 
 
 Shekocke having hitherto failed of mak 
 ing his fortune, begins now to think it too 
 late, at leaf! for this feafon. The fcheme 
 of our voyage is at an end 5 the enemy is 
 aiarm'd ^ their {hips all laid up, except the 
 two Spafiife men of war which are in quell 
 of the English privatiers : and Shehocke 
 probably would now be glad of his commo 
 dore Clipperton's company. But finding as 
 he fays p. 199, his circumstances to be in 
 an extreme melancholy poflure 3 - he fails 
 back to windward, and refolves upon a 
 new experiment, which was to get rid of 
 the owners fhip, and cruife upon a new 
 bottom : thereby thinking to intitle himfelf 
 to all he fhould get, exclufive of us prilb- 
 
 ners 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 71 
 
 ners and the gentlemen at home. And this 
 is captain Shelvockes law and confcience, 
 and the real fnift he now makes to difpute 
 it with the gentlemen who fitted him out. 
 
 Accordingly he fails to Fernandes y where 
 he arriv'd the beginning of May, being 
 winter in that hemifphere. He was too 
 good a feaman to believe he could ride it 
 out the remaining part of the winter, in a 
 wild road, deftitute of any kind of fhelter, 
 and expofed to ftfong gufts of northerly 
 winds which frequently blow there in that 
 fcafon : he well knew there was no med 
 dling with the coaft for the enemies men 
 of war : therefore he makes half the tour 
 of the ifland, feemingly to pufh her into 
 fome creek j jjfter which, he comes to in 
 the ufual place, with only one anchor to 
 trufl to 5 for he had taken care to have no 
 more. Here the ftiip rode feveral days fafe 
 enough : and during his ftay, feventeen of 
 his men are fent afhore, while others were 
 imploy'd in getting off water to favour a 
 falfe deftgn of going to fea again : and un 
 der this pretence of watering, both now and 
 after, many things of value were fecretly 
 carry 'd afhore, which the people in gene 
 ral 
 
1 7*< A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD.' 
 
 ral wonder'd to fee there, and could not 
 imagine who brought them. However, the 
 more effeftually to put hisprojeft in execu 
 tion, he weighs from this place, and comes 
 to anchor clofe in ftiore : upon which his 
 people unanimoufly fear fome very odd mif- 
 chievous defign, and fuddenly recoiled how 
 they had often heard him fay, That it was 
 not difficult living at Fernandez, if a man 
 fhould accidentally be thrown there, fince 
 Mr. Selkirk had continu'd upon it four years 
 by himfeif. 
 
 Poffcft with thefe things, the people were 
 amaz'd , that their captain would leave a 
 clear berth and good anchoring to venture 
 farther in, where it was foul and rocky ; and 
 where if the cable parted there could be 
 but little hopes to fave the (hip : whereas 
 in their firft fituation they had clear an 
 choring, room and drift enough to get their 
 tacks aboard, to claw it off either to the 
 eaft or weftward. As foon as the anchor 
 was down, Mr. Brook the firft lieutenant 
 advifed flinging two of their heavieft guns, 
 which, in cafe of lofing the anchor, might 
 bring her up a little 'till they could [fet 
 the fails * But Sbelvocke rejected all thefe 
 
 things 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 7 3 
 
 things with a ftedfaft tranquillity, and now 
 fays he had no opportunity of getting ta 
 fea in four days, tho' he was ready : which 
 I am fure is an abfurdity wants clearing 
 up, p. 205. Moreover, how can Shelvocke 
 impofe this fham readinefs on mankind, 
 when his feventeen hands are all at this time 
 on the ifland, and who he owns came down 
 fo feafonably to his affiftance, as foon as the 
 ihip touched the (hore \ Here, he fays, a 
 hard gale of wind came from the fca, which 
 brought in fuch a tumbling fwell, that in 
 a few hours the cable parted, the Ihip (truck, 
 and all the mafts went overboard. 
 
 This is the plaufible reafon he gives for 
 lofing his fhip, being a wind rais'd only in 
 his brain, and of his own invention : for 
 'tis a moft notorious falfhood, to fay, there 
 was any gale when the cable parted : all 
 his people have in one word affur'd me and 
 many others to the contrary. And Shel- 
 <vocke very well knew , that if he fhould 
 be catched by a gale in that perilous road., 
 ftead, and fo poorly. found with ground 
 tackle, they muft all inevitably have pe-. 
 rifh'd, by reafon of the prodigious breach 
 the fea makes in any thing of weather a_ 
 
 gainft 
 
i 74 <d Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 gainft the funken rocks and ftones all along 
 the fhore. He therefore took care to fc- 
 cure all their lives by deftroying his fhip in 
 fine ferene weather, which the ingenious 
 captain perform'd by bringing a fpring on 
 his cable, with which he hove his fhip's broad- 
 fide againft the fwell, and kept her in that 
 pofition 'till the cable was tore afunder. 
 Mr. T^ody who pretends not to be a feaman, 
 fays, that about three hours before the fhip 
 went afliore, fome hands were at work on 
 the quarter deck hawling in a hawfer which 
 was made faft to the cable ; and that he 
 inquired of Gilbert Henderfon the gunner, 
 what that was for ? H-enderfon anfwcr'd 
 him, that if he would be rightly inform'd > 
 he muft go and ask the captain. To con 
 firm this, feveral of his people have made 
 affidavit, that it blew no wind at all, that 
 every foul of them got commodioufly a- 
 ftiore, and that it's their belief he loft the 
 fhip on purpofe : and its remarkable, he 
 made not one tryal to prevent it. 
 
 Soon as the cable parted, Mr. Laport his 
 third lieutenant feeing immediate mine > 
 cry'd out, Set the forefail 5 hoping thereby 
 to do fome good : and while Edmund Thi- 
 
 tif* 
 
'A Vo YAG E rotiM the Wo RLD. 175 
 
 lips and others were actually upon the yard, 
 Shelvocke haftily ordcr'd them down, and 
 taking the helm in his hand, faid, Ne're 
 mind it boys ^ ftand^all faff, i'll lay her on a 
 feather bed : which, as it proved a plaguy 
 hard one, (hews his great indifference as 
 to the event of the fhip. 
 
 Page 26. He brags of his being thirty years 
 an officer in the navy : what then muft we 
 fay to a man of fuch experience, who will 
 lavifhly deftroy two or three (hips, and fave 
 not an anchor and cable for a time of need ? 
 There's nothing can excufe it, but owning 
 what I have been proving. Either way it's 
 very bad : his judgment and his honcfty 
 being both in great danger. 
 
 Another circumftance comes in here 
 When we met La Jonquiere at St. Cathe 
 rine's, Shel-vocke procur'd of him a pair of 
 fmith's bellows and forge, p. 29, which at 
 that time we could fee no manner of oc- 
 cafion for : but without them, 'tis now evi 
 dent, he could never have made bolts, fpikes, 
 nails and other iron work for a barque able 
 to carry fifty or fixty men to fea , and in 
 fhorc, without the bellows, he could never 
 have begun fuch a piece of work at alh I 
 
 am 
 
. 
 
 i 7 6 ^ Vo ? AG E fwsW /^ Wo 
 
 am fure none of us miftrufted then , that 
 the Speedwel was to be loft 5 tho' our cap 
 tain had a greater forefight, and provided 
 accordingly. Sometimes indeed, large bur- 
 denfome (hips that ftrain and labour much 
 in a grown fea, and often fnap their bolts 
 and chainplates, may want fuch a thing 5 but 
 a lively handy veffel like ours of 170 ton, 
 had no more occafion for a pair of fmith's 
 bellows than a great cathedral organ, 
 
 I offer not thefe things as clear demon- 
 ftrations, but circurnftances only $ foritisin> 
 poffiblein this cafe to go farther : and there's 
 no room for any other fort of proof in a 
 fad where a man has no confpirators, but 
 keeps all thedefign in his own bread. 
 
 In fhort the {hip ftruck fcveral times and 
 bulg'd. The captain and his men all got 
 afiiore : he fays one was loft \ but it is utterly 
 falfe : and how wretched fo ever he has paint 
 ed their lives and converfation, the reader 
 will but little regard what he writes: for it 
 is certain he faved all that was moft valua 
 ble ; particularly fugar and powder, both 
 which are damaged as foon any thing. He 
 fav'd but little provifion ; bccaufe that is 
 always ftow'd in the hold: but he remern- 
 2 bcr'd 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo R LD. 1 77 
 
 bcrd to get out his com mi (lion , with all 
 the plate and money. What eife could he 
 expeft? He ufed to fay it was eafy living at 
 Fernandes, but now 'tis to ferve another 
 turn, he fays quite other things. 
 
 Here they put themfelves under the Ja 
 maica difcipline; and divided among them 
 every {hilling of the money laid by before 
 for the Owncrr, and all our {hares left in 
 the (hips by us who were taken prifoners: 
 and the only reafon Shefoocke gives for this, 
 is the old ftory, his men would have it fo : 
 but I that have moft reafon of any man liv 
 ing to know him bcft, (hall prove that Shel- 
 <uocke\Q& not a tittle of his command after 
 the fhipwreck : for after they had put them* 
 fclvcs on the model aforefaid, whereby he 
 fays the captains are allow'd but four lhares 5 
 he could manage it fo, as to have fix. And 
 whatever hardfhips he may (ham the reader 
 with, p. 223, thofefix proportions are much 
 better now, than fixty before. For pray 
 confider, the gentlemen Owners are intire- 
 ly excluded; who were to have one half 
 of all the capture 5 and then he has got rid 
 of more than half his (hip's company, among 
 whom Hatley, as fecond captain, was inti 
 tuled to thirty {hares ; my felf to twenty, 
 
 N ' the 
 
178 A Vo y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 the two mates, the furgeon's mate, the en- 
 fign, a ferjeant and corporal of marines, be- 
 fides the foremaftmen. All thefe fhares, I 
 fay, being deducted, befidcs reducing three 
 more of his chief officers, La Tort, Hendrle 
 and 'Dod, two of which afterwards quitted 
 the {hip, does not all this make it evident, 
 that fix fhares, where there are but 52 divi 
 dends of the whole capture are better than 
 60 where there are 650 dividends of half 
 the capture? This (hews how greatly Shel- 
 vocke would impo& upon mankind, and is 
 a confirmation that it was his aim and his 
 intereft to deftroy the {hip , and bring about 
 this new regulation. 
 
 As to the whole trifling account of his 
 tranfadions at Fernandes taking up above 
 fifty pages of his book, as it is little to me 5 
 I {hall take but little notice of it : leaving 
 the reader to amufe himfelf with it at leifure. 
 He has taken pains all along to make us be 
 lieve, that the fhipwreck was not his own 
 aft and deed, by reprefcnting the hardfhips 
 he was cxpofed to aihore, from the diffen- 
 tion of his people, the barrenefs of the 
 place, and the improbability of his getting 
 well to fea again : But this is all artifice, to 
 make the reader imagine, that no man 
 
 would 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo R LTD. 179 
 
 would run himfelf voluntarily intofo many 
 difficulties. It is certain they liv'd poor 
 enough upon the i(land$ but having good 
 carpenters, caulkers, fmiths, and all proper 
 workmen, he continually imploy'd them 
 upon the main point : which was to get a 
 new bark built out of the old fhip 5 in 
 order to make a private fortune in a more 
 expeditious manner, than he could before : 
 as I fhall demonftrate by and by, when I 
 fliew my reader the written account of 
 their acquifition , and how they fhard it on 
 the coaft of Mexico $ tho' Shefoocke has 
 concealed it. One thing I muft not forget, 
 p. 225 , he fays that Mr. Brook having g'ot 
 the love of the people j was named to be 
 their future commander : but as it did not 
 take place, Ifhallfhew how Shefoocke took 
 care it never (hould, by making away with 
 him and five more at Sanfonate. 
 
 However, I muft not quit him without 
 a ftory I lately had from Mr. Hendrie, which 
 flicws how he was diverted of his authority, 
 as he calls it p. 219. Captain Shefoocke 
 maintaind as abfolute fway at Fern&ndes > 
 ss before, till the tenth of June came 
 about. The men knowing what affedion 
 N 2 the 
 
1 8o A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 the captain had for that anniverfary, fome 
 of them begd to have the fmall arms to 
 celebrate the day in the moft dutiful man 
 ner they could : upon which Shehocke rea 
 dily confented , and thofe who did not care 
 to aflift at it, diverted themfelves about the 
 ifland, not knowing but a civil war might 
 be the confequence. So, a bonfire was 
 made ftecple high, the loyal fubjects wear 
 ing artificial rofes of linen rags and paper, 
 while fevcral cordial vollies and huzzas were 
 let off; Shehocke himfelf being captain of 
 the mob, and his fon George the skinker to 
 fill out the liquor. But, what fowcr'd the 
 feftival was, they had nothing to drink the 
 Chevalier's health in, but vinegre, water 
 and fugar, being the bed punch they could 
 get. At the clofe of this rcjoycrhg, the cap- 
 tain demanded their muskets ; but the men 
 were wife enough to keep them, the fchemc 
 having been chiefly laid for that purpofe. 
 
 In fnort, on the fifth of Qftober 1720, 
 the bark is completed, launched, and calld 
 the Recovery. And thus by giving her a 
 new name, captain Shehocke has the new 
 fafhiond affurance to tell mankind that 
 the Owners title is quite funk, as if there 
 
 never 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the WORLD. 1 8 1 
 never had been any fuch thing : tho' he (till 
 preceded with the king's commiillon, being 
 the property of the Owners; and is the 
 fame which he afterwards producd at Chi- 
 na y as a protection for his own perfon, and 
 a fecurity for all that he had rapacioufly 
 got together. 
 
 And whereas, p. 216, he affectedly fays, 
 that the men in a body thank'd him for 
 giving them a profped of deliverance 5 I 
 think it very improbable that the men would 
 be fo courtly, when above twenty of them 
 chofe to remain upon the ifland. And 
 whereas again, ^ p. 242, he infinuates that 
 they who ftay'd behind were afraid to ven 
 ture in the new bark ; I think it much more 
 natural to fuppofe, they had rather flay up 
 on that ifland and truft to the mercies of 
 providence, than be made the certain tools 
 of Shelvocke's tyranny and fclf intereft. 
 
 My captain's firft enterprize was with the 
 Margarita, p. 262, he calls her a forty gun 
 fhip 5 which at that rate could not burthen 
 lefs than 400 ton. In this I can confront 
 him of my own authority : for I was aboard 
 this fliip afterwards at Callao, and foe ne 
 ver carried above 200 ton and eighteen 
 N 3 
 
1 8 2 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD> 
 guns : but Sbelvocke wifely magnifys her 
 force, becaufe her geting clear might bring 
 no other (lur upon his captainfhip : where 
 as flic certainly efcaped thro* his own fear : 
 for after his gunner was kill'd he took the 
 helm in his hand from Chriftopher Haw 
 kins, and puting it hard down, fheer'd off 
 from her. P.. 279, he fays, he heard the 
 captain and three of the Margarita's men 
 were killd in the action ; which is fo far 
 from truth, that they had none kili'd, and 
 only a Nigro wounded in the cheek. They 
 had not above a dozen cartridges of powder 
 aboard, and two or three fmall arms belong 
 ing to the paffcngers, with only floncs or 
 ballad for ihot. The commander of her 
 was a Frenchman, who told it me all at 
 Callao: befide which, captain Qpie in the 
 Carteret brought from Buenos Aires one 
 of the Margaritas paffcngers, who told 
 the ftory to fifty gentlemen about town. 
 
 'David Griffith, who went with Shelvockc 
 to China, confirms all the above particu 
 lars. He has been with me ftnce his arri 
 val in London, and fays that captain Morel^ 
 who was afterwards taken aboard the Con 
 ception, declared there \vas 3 man in the 
 
A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 8 3 
 
 Margarita, who flood ready by the colours 
 immediately to ftrike, if captain Shelvocke 
 could have taken courage to board her. 
 'David further allures me, that Shelvocke s 
 whole account of that ftory is to excufe his 
 own faint heart : for whereas he talks of 
 his animating the men, and their backward- 
 nefs to fight, it is a mean pitiful forgery 5 
 for the men were unanimous for boarding 
 the enemy 5 and Shelvocke fhamefully re- 
 fufed it 5 took the helm and fheerd off. 
 
 His next feat is plundering the village 
 of Iquique ; where he got a good quanti 
 ty of provifion, wine and brandy : imme 
 diately after which- he meets with and at 
 tacks the FrancifcoTalacio a large merchant 
 fhip : and Shelvocke by this time being 
 fomewhat potvaliant, I believe he did his 
 indeavour to carry her 5 but fhe provd too 
 big for his bark. However his main pur- 
 pofe being to change his new baptized vef- 
 jfel, as foon as he could, he quickly met 
 with an opportunity that fucceded. Stand 
 ing into the road of^Pifco, they difcover a 
 good fhip : whereupon Shelvocke iummons 
 his people, who came to a reiblution to 
 board her at once $ which they luckily per- 
 
 N 4 formd 
 
1 8 4 A Vc YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 forrnd without refinance. This prize was 
 calld Jefu Maria of 200 ton , laden with 
 pitch, tar and copper : fo that our freeboo 
 ters decently quit their flight new tene 
 ment for a good, clean, weatherproof habi 
 tation. It fcems the Spaniard offerd 15000 
 dollars for her again : but Sbelvockes peo 
 ple were certainly in the right to keep 
 the prize ; for confidering their circum- 
 ftance, no money at that time could be an 
 equivalent. 
 
 A way he fails to *Payta in the Jefu Ma 
 ria, where the mod important thing I find, 
 is the reflexion he makes upon thecondud of 
 captain Clipperton, who he fays refufed 
 a booty of 400,000 dollars, king's money, 
 which lay there in the governor's hands. 
 
 Here Shelvocke gives another great ex 
 ample of his ignorance; for to my experi 
 ence, who was firft let there alhore, after 
 being a prifoner 5 I know very well that 
 the place is poor and without a governer, 
 having no trade whereby any duties, worth 
 mentioning, can arife to his Catholic Ma- 
 jcfty: There is indeed a head man (as 
 there is in all places) called Teniente, who 
 makes a hard fhift to live by exacting port 
 
 charges 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 185 
 
 charges and other frnall fees from the vef- 
 fels that touch there only for refreihments, 
 and to put their pedlars afhore. Clipper- 
 ton knew this very well, and was too pru 
 dent to make a frefh broil upon the coaft 
 for nothing at all, and that's the realbn he 
 never touchd there $ tho' Shelvocke has 
 magnified himfelf fo much upon it, and 
 has abfurdly connected two fads together, 
 which happend at a year's diftance : For 
 the firft time the Sticcefs was in the paral 
 lel of Tayta, was Nov. 17195 and the 
 fecond time Nov. 1710, as appears plainly 
 by Taylor's journal : and yet this ignorant 
 book- writer p. 188 and 288, has mention'd 
 Clippertons puting prifoners afhore there in 
 Nov. 1719, being the firft: time: whereas 
 the prifoners he defignd to put alhore was 
 in Nov. 1720, a twelve month afterwards; 
 which however he did not ; but landed 
 them at Cafe Helen-, as fpecifyd in the 
 journal the zd. feftion of this voyage. He is 
 very right to affert that which no one can 
 doubt of, when he fays CUpperton might 
 have taken 'Payta as eafily as he did 5 and 
 fo might any veffel, fending afhore fix arm 
 ed men, for there's no fuch thing as fire 
 arms, 
 
i S 6 A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 arms, being a naked village of defencelefs 
 Indians. But it is endlefs for me to fet 
 the public right in every fad of Shefoocke's 
 hiftory; for as the whole is divided into 
 voluntary falfhood and plain ignorance, his 
 book may more juftly be calld a romantic 
 libel than a journal. 
 
 His next arrival is at the ifland ofQuibo, p. 
 303 5 where he talks of a terrible fort of 
 hogs with their navels upon their backs; for 
 iny part I don't eafily believe fuch out of 
 the way things ; but refer our captain Qui 
 to to difputc it with the phyficians and ana- 
 tomifls. 
 
 In their pafiage hither he fays his men 
 frequently got drunk and quareld , and 
 that he went in danger of his life, and 
 ufed to have his clothes tore from his back, 
 if he endeavourd to part them. This too 
 may be a very important difcovery to the 
 reft of his readers, but I my felf know him 
 fo well that it is no news to me : for Shel- 
 <vocke ufed to make freer with the wine and 
 brandy than any one 5 and I believe his 
 men thought it no harm to follow his ex 
 ample and drink their skins full, efpecially 
 fince their new cftabliflimcnt was more like 
 
 a com- 
 
A Vo y AG E round the Wo RLD. 1 87 
 
 a commonwealth than an abfolute mo. 
 narchy. 
 
 During thcfe ufeful difcoveries of one 
 
 author, I think 'tis pity any thing (hould 
 
 interrupt him 5 but as the devil would have 
 
 it, Jan. 1721, he meets captain Clipperton 
 
 in the Succefs, which interview he fays was 
 
 very aftonifhing : And truly I believe it was : 
 
 Clipperton might well be furprized at the 
 
 hiftory of Shelvocke's management; and 
 
 Shefoocke had as great reafon to wonder 
 
 the other did not confine him for it: And 
 
 I can tell- him the gentlemen here at home ' 
 
 wondcrd at it, and took it ill that he did 
 
 not. But what aftonilhcs me moft, is that 
 
 Shel-vocke has the hardinefs to give us the 
 
 hiftory of captain Mitchel, for the truth of 
 
 which he appeals to a dead man, Mr. 'Davi- 
 
 fon, who told him To ; which 'Davifon was 
 
 killd at Guam before Shefywke came to 
 
 China. The tragical circumftances, as he 
 
 calls them', p. 309, pf a jealoufy between. 
 
 Clipperton and Mitchell of the later's being 
 
 orderd with a rich cargo to a place no 
 
 where to be found , and yet orderd thither 
 
 on purpofe to be deftroyd, are reflexions fp 
 
 nialicious> and yet fo irrational, that SheL 
 
 <vocke 
 
1 8 8 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 <vocke muft be fuddled when he writ them. 
 
 The journal tells us how he was fitted out, 
 and whither bound 5 that his cargo was ten 
 thoufand pound value : is it poflible then, 
 fuppofing a real mifunderftanding, that Clip- 
 ferton would pay fo dear to get rid of the 
 gentleman ? Tis certain he never imbarked 
 his men in lighters or in empty prizes with 
 any defign to make away with them, as 
 Shelvocke ferved us : captain Mitchel was 
 put aboard a clean (hip, well mand, and 
 provided with ftores and neceffaries, and a 
 valuable parcel of goods to difpofe of at 
 Brafil for the Owners advantage in order 
 to f cure them fomething : and it is true 
 that neither he nor the twenty three men 
 with him were ever yet heard of: But how 
 is Clipperton chargeable with that ? or what 
 excufe can Shelvocke make for thefe impi 
 ous reflexions, but a fort of pleafure he 
 has in being revenged on the memory of 
 the dead. Thus far Mitchel may be accounted 
 for : The journal March i6th. 1720. tells 
 us that being obliged to wood and water, he 
 touched to the norward , at port Velas 5 
 where it's very probable he and his men be 
 came a prey to the enemy : for the faid 
 
 article 
 
, A Vo YAG E round^ the Wo RLD, 189 
 
 article mentions that feveral of Ckpperton's 
 men law feme Hurts and other things worri 
 by the natives, which by the mark con 
 vinced them Mitchel had been there. Shel- 
 vocke goesoninthischildifh manner, p. 308. 
 talking of fubmerfions of iflands, and that 
 it was conjeftured Mitchel and his men, the 
 (hip, the Hland and all were funk under 
 water : This likewife he fays was Mr. 2)^~ 
 vifbns opinion 5 who I know had more fenfe 
 than to fay or think any fuch filly thing. 
 He fays farther that Clipperton never cleand 
 his fhip, whereas the journal takes notice 
 of his having done it two or three times ^ 
 bcfides fcverai others omitted by me, as 
 not for my defign to tranfcribe every fuch 
 trifling remark. As for Clipperton^ beha 
 viour at Conception, Coquimbo, and after 
 wards at Guam it was ill judged no doubt : 
 and tho' it was fo, I have impartially en- 
 terd it in my fecond fedion, it being 
 much more for my purpofe to tell the 
 truth, than to ftifle it : But let it be as it 
 will ; he certainly had the Owners intercft 
 in view, and thought honefty the bed policy; 
 though captain Shehocke has taken leave 
 to think otherwife. On the next leaf he 
 2 fays, 
 
190 A VOYAGE round the WORLD* t 
 
 that upon meeting the Succejs he cxpeded 
 to be treated by them as one belonging to 
 the fame intereft ; but found himfelf mif- 
 taken. Truly there's nothing ftrange in 
 that 5 for his was a private intereft , and 
 theirs a public one, Befides, the journal 
 fays, that he would not come into terms : 
 which isanfwer enough to all his complaints 
 of uhkindnefs, treachery, and fo forth. 
 
 After meeting with the Succefs feveral 
 times in the South > Seas , I come now to 
 the laft time of their meeting, which was 
 in March 1721. oKofAcapulco? whereas the 
 journal mentions, it was thought rnoft ad- 
 vifeable to joyn both companies, and at 
 tempt the great Manilla (hip. As to the 
 remarks that Shelvocke has made upon this 
 tranfa&ion, and the pains he has taken to 
 reprefent Clifperton a monftrous creature, 
 'tis not to be minded. The journal fays, 
 the propofai to Shehocke was this, That if 
 he and his crew would refund all the money 
 ihared among themfelves contrary to the 
 Owners articles, and put it in a joint ftock j 
 then all faults fhould be forgot, both com 
 panies would unite and precede to cruife 
 for the Acapiilco fhip : The very next arti 
 cle 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 191 
 
 cle in the journal is, that not hearing from 
 captain Shelvocke , and the time for the A- 
 capulco fhip letting out for Manilla being 
 feveral days paft j Refolved in council to 
 make our beft dilpatch for Eaft India. Here 
 is the plain true account of the affair, and 
 how the treaty broke off: but Shefoocke 
 has labourd hard to pervert the truth of 
 this fad, as he has done all the reft, think 
 ing to gain pity from mankind, by telling 
 what he fufferd through the deceit of Clip- 
 pert on, never expecting that thefe things 
 would be refuted and clear'd up. Befides, 
 there may be other reafons affignd for 
 Clippertoris fudden feparation , tho* not 
 enterd in the journal : for he knew , be 
 fore he left England-, that the Spanijh fleet 
 was all taken and deftroyd by admiral J9^;2 ; 
 and therefore a peace wasprobablyconcluded, 
 being two years paft : and therefore Shel- 
 vecke, who had not made his fortune while 
 the war lafted , and had really ruind the 
 projeft, ought of the two to be the futFerer. 
 Tis very likely, Clipperton for thefe reafons 
 did not care to imbarrafs his (hip juft upon 
 the point of his leaving the South- Sea , but 
 on fecond thoughts, concluded it was bet 
 ter 
 
192 A VOYAGE round the WORLD.' 
 
 ter to keep what he had got. Thefe, I fay, 
 are very fair conjedures : but the reafon 
 mentiond in the journal above is fufficient 
 of it fcif ; for Shelvocke thought the con 
 ditions propofed by Ctipperton were too 
 ftrift : He did not care to refund what he 
 had unlawfully fliarcd, which doubtlefs he 
 ought to have done ; and for the negleft of 
 which, 'tis evident the whole affair ended. 
 
 P. 521, Shefoocke talks of articles which 
 he demanded of Clipperton and Godfrey : 
 That in cafe they took this rich prize, he 
 and his people fhould be intitled to their 
 proper lharcs, according to their firft agree 
 ment with the Owners : This in my hum 
 ble opinion is a great weaknefs in Shel- 
 *vocke to publifli, tho' he palTes for a cun 
 ning fellow : for why (hould he infifl: upon 
 a repetition or confirmation of the firft ar 
 ticles with the gentlemen Owners, if he 
 was not confcious of his having, fome how 
 or other, forfeited his right by a notorious 
 mifmanagement and breach of truft? 
 
 P. 327. He concludes this long invective 
 with a (mart reflexion upon Clippcrton, that . 
 it was his fear to ingage the Manilla fliip, 
 which made him recede from the propofal. 
 
 For 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 193 
 
 For my part, I really thiak he had reafon 
 to fear it, having twice narrowly efcaped 
 the men of war already : and fince SheL 
 vocke refufed to put his plunder money in 
 the common ftock, why fhould Cliff erton 
 risk all he had, to mend another man's 
 fortune \ Shelvocke molt certainly would 
 have been glad of fo great an addition to 
 his capture, as the Acafulco fliip muft have 
 afforded 5 and I doubt not he would have 
 run away with a very handfome fhare of it, 
 as he has done with all he took both be 
 fore and after : and now he is bitterly vext 
 with Cliff ert on , becaufe the bite did not 
 take. 
 
 Shelvocke's next exploit is at Sanfonate^ 
 where finding a ihip at anchor call'd the 
 Holy Family he attacks her, and after fome 
 refiftance takes her : She proved no great 
 prize : but being a better failer, he thought 
 fit to fhift the cargo of the Jefu Maria, 
 and change fhips with the Spaniard. 
 
 Shelvocke fays p. 331, that this fliip was 
 
 fitted out and commiffion'd on purpofe to 
 
 take him ; and would have us believe he 
 
 has performed wonders in the ingagement. 
 
 I own I am at a lofs to account for this 
 
 O man's 
 
1 94 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 man's extravagant affurance, when he and I, 
 and every body knows the viceroy never 
 grants commiflions to merchantmen. There 
 were three men of war out already 5 and 
 had this been a commiffion fhip, there would 
 have been officers and failors aboard making 
 a regular force of 150 men at leaft; who 
 would never have fubmitted, efpecially in 
 the condition they found Shelvocke. He 
 owns himfelf it was a merchantman , and 
 yet ftupidly fays they were commiffion'd to 
 take him. 
 
 Juft as he was going to fea, he re 
 ceives a. letter from the governer with no 
 tice that there was a truce between England 
 and Spain \ wherein he demanded reftitu- 
 tion of the fhip and cargo ; on refufal of 
 which he fhould be declared a pyrate. Tho' 
 Shehocke did not depend upon this for 
 truth j yet being greatly reduced and want 
 ing all neceffaries of life, he was willing in 
 fome meafure to treat about it. He fends 
 afhore lieutenant Brook his next officer with 
 five men under a flag of truce 5 who were 
 immediately made prifoners. 
 
 Thus he gets rid of fix more of his peo 
 ple, under the fhow of a treaty with the 
 
 governer, 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 195 
 
 governor, for they were never lince heard 
 of. L don't cxpeft the world will judge of 
 this affair as I do, becaufe thofe who are 
 ignorant of the circumftances of thefe things, 
 and unacquainted with Shefoocke's perfonal 
 behaviour, cannot make a proper cenfure. 
 When a man dies in a courfe of phyfic, 
 who knows whether 'tis chance, or defign 
 in the dodor ? the patient is gone by legal 
 prefcription. So here a gentleman is fairly 
 orderd afhore into an enemy's hand: and 
 
 !if he never returns, who can fay it is a de 
 fign or accident? Thus much is certain, 
 they went without a hoftage, tho' Shel- 
 vocke always had ftrong notions of the Spa 
 niards refentment, and their manner of re 
 venge 5 efpecially in Mexico, where the 
 Indians are the cruelefl people alive. And 
 while he was fpcaking of Mitchell ftory, 
 we find him quick enough to leave it paft 
 doubt, that he and his men perifhd in fome 
 obfcure manner : and yet he muft now fend 
 a young gentleman afhore into the clutches 
 of this enemy, at a time when he knew 
 the whole coaft was exafperated, and him- 
 felf deftitute of all common neceffaries, with 
 a very indifferent force, and coafequently 
 O z not 
 
196 A Vo YAGE round the Wo RLD.' 
 
 not able to refent any affront , much lefs 
 to avenge himfelf on the governer, in cafe 
 he detaind Brook and his men. Shehocke 
 immediately before and after this afted in 
 a hoftile manner on that coaft $ and even 
 in their view he took this (hip called the 
 Holy Family, where the countermafter loft 
 his life : fo that if poor Brook and his men 
 were facrific'd by way of atonement, 'tis no 
 fevere fuppofition. For my own part , I 
 know he hated Brook, for adhering to the 
 conftitution of his country 5 and becaufe 
 he could not digeft the Jacobite healths, that 
 Shehocke usd to drink : I have obferved be 
 fore, how he abufed him for difcovering 
 C/ipperton's name on the tree, when we firft 
 touchd at fernandes ; and Shefaocke him 
 felf explains the jealoufy he had of him, 
 when they were there the fecond time : all 
 which being confiderd, I leave thofe to 
 make inferences, who have been long in 
 the world, and ftudyd mankind. 
 
 There's another gentleman this author 
 has made free with, Randal by name, Brooks 
 brother in law, who having gone round the 
 world with Shefoocke was arrefted by the 
 Owners at his landing, as were feveral o- 
 
 thers, 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 1 97 
 
 thers, and fecurcd in the King's bench pri- 
 Ton, where he died. This lieutenant Ran- 
 dal has not efcaped the malice of his pen; 
 but in many places of the book, is very ill 
 treated. And I cannot help obferving that 
 a great part of captain Shefaockes voyage 
 is libelling the dead : fuch as Cliff ert on y 
 'Davifon, Randal, and others. This way of 
 accufing is infamous, and abhorrd by all 
 civilized nations 5 which I hope is fome ex- 
 cufe, for my appearing in their defenfe: 
 and tho' I can but poorly perform the of 
 fice, yet what I do offer, is founded upon 
 certain knowledge and truth. 
 
 Before I leave this prize calld the Holy 
 Family, I muft inform the reader, that Shel- 
 *uocke> far from having any merit in taking 
 her, ought to have loft the command of his 
 own {hip for deferting his poft upon the 
 quarter deck. After two or three of his 
 men were wounded , Shelvocke expecting 
 warm work, fculkd with his fon behind the 
 boat which lay upon the main deck ; and 
 left *David Griffith alone to ply the gun 
 upon quarter deck : for which defcrtion, 
 Griffith ought in juftice to have fucceded 
 as captain of the (hip. Moreover, when- 
 O 3 
 
IP 8 A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 ever Shefaocke ventured from the faid barri 
 cade and judged a (hot was coming, he would 
 skilfully plant himfelf behind the main maft, 
 leaving 'David by himfelf to fight the *Phi- 
 liftines. But to return. 
 
 Shehecke iinable to get provifion at San- 
 fonate, retires with frefli apprehenfions 
 that he muft be forced to furrender whe 
 ther peace or wat $ and chofe therefore to 
 go to 'Panama , where he hoped for tolera 
 ble ufage, there being an Englifl) factory : 
 And what excufe can he invent for not 
 going there before the lofs of thefe fix men ? 
 Confcious of his guilt, he frames a long 
 proteft againft the governer's procedings, 
 which doubtlefs is a thing all invented fince, 
 and no original, Accordingly he fleers a- 
 way for the gulf ofAmapala, where among 
 the iflands he hoped for a recruit of water 5 
 but found none : and being now indeedr4n 
 a deplorable condition, forced to drink the 
 fea water or their own urine $ they agree, 
 weak as they are, to bear away again for 
 Quito to get water. In their way to this 
 place, they providentially met with a fmall 
 fupply at the ifle of Cane, with the appa 
 rent hazard of Randal's life. For Shelvocke* 
 
 4 tho' 
 
A Vo FAG E round the Wo RLD. 199 
 
 tho' he was fo liberal with the lives of o- 
 ther men , took care of his fon, tall boy 
 George, and his minion Stewart, keeping 
 them fafe aboard $ and never orderd either 
 of them afhore when there was any appear 
 ance of danger ; nor is there one inftance 
 of it in all his book. At laft with mife- 
 rable difficulties they reach QuibOy where 
 they wood and water at leifure ; thinking 
 however ftill to furrender at 'Panama , if 
 fortune did not throw fome agreeable prize 
 in their way, which happend very foon : 
 For a few days after they left Quibo , a 
 fmall bark laden with beef and pork fell 
 accidentally into their hands, taking them 
 for Spaniards : Tho' fhe proved a lucky 
 prize to Shehoche, at a time when his peo 
 ple were near ftarving, and had not provifion 
 enough to hold them to China, yet he tells us 
 p. 266, that they were all fo tired of the 
 fea, and paft hopes of making a confidera- 
 ble dividend of money, that they chofe ra 
 ther to go afhore at any rate and furrender. 
 
 While things were in this doubtful (late, 
 
 and nothing material happend for three 
 
 days 5 but it was really expeded a period 
 
 mult be put to Shelvocke's privatiering, a 
 
 O 4 fail 
 
2oo A VOYAGE round the WORLD] 
 
 fail prefentcd her felf ftanding along fliorc 
 to 'Panama , which he immediately gave 
 chafe to, leaving the bark which he had in 
 tow , with four of his men and five Ni- 
 gros to take care of her. He made all the 
 fail he could 'till night, when fearing the 
 chafe would give him the flip, he advifed,as 
 he fays, bringing to, that the bark might 
 come up again $ but having otherwife re- 
 folved, they continued their fail all night. 
 Early the next morning, being the 2Oth of 
 May y he came up with the chafe, and after 
 a fmall difpute carryd her. I muft not omit 
 that when they returnd to the bark , they 
 found her quite deferred, and the decks co- 
 verd with blood : fo that he has now four 
 more of his men deftroyd, and leaves it paft 
 queftion that they were murderd. After 
 which he would patch the ftory up with an 
 idle fuppofition , that the Spanifh crew he 
 left in the bark all jumpd into the fea and 
 drownd themfelves : Is it not as eafy to 
 imagine they faw a boat coming by before 
 they afted the murder ? or if not, 'tis com 
 mon for the natives of that part of the 
 world to fwim feveral leagues. All people 
 naturally fecure their method of efcape be- 
 
 4 fore 
 
"A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 201 
 
 fore they commit a violence of this na 
 ture : and I am fure 'tis a more rational con- 
 je&ure, than to think they would deftroy 
 the Engltjb firft, and murder themfelves af 
 terwards. Shelvocke crys out it was a cruel 
 return for his civilities, having lent them 
 thefe four men to affift them, p. 374. Sure 
 this cannot be captain Shefoocke himfelf, 
 but his fon Georgy who talks of fending 
 men aboard a prize out of civility. This 
 is fuch a fort of complaifance, as when an 
 officer takes the defendents goods in exe 
 cution, and out of pure good nature fends 
 a man into the houfe to keep poffeffion. 
 Such fluff as this is worth reading for the 
 great rarity of it 5 but who would ever 
 expeft to meet with it in a book calld A 
 voyage round the world. He goes on and 
 fays, " It feemd ftrange to me, that our 
 " men fhould fuffer themfelves or run the 
 " leaft hazard of expofing themfelves to be 
 " thus burcherd." Indeed, captain, I be 
 lieve they could not help it 5 otherwife it 
 would have been fomewhat ftrange : and 
 I am apt to fancy no man alive can help 
 it when he is ovcrpowerd. But what fort 
 of language is this, to run the leaft ha- 
 
 " zard 
 
202 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 " zard of expofing themfelves to be thus 
 <c butcherd >" Did you ever hear of peo 
 ples voluntary expofing themfelves to have 
 their throats cut ? Did not he hazard and 
 cxpofe the men who left them there with 
 out an officer > Shefoockf* reafon why this 
 feemd ftrange is as good as the reft ; for 
 fays he, they were four in number ! a 
 mighty number indeed againft a fhip's crew. 
 He owns they were five Spaniards, and there 
 might be ten for any thing we know : it 
 was certainly, for his purpofe to lefien the 
 number : and why might not the five Ni- 
 gros joyn in the maffacre upon certain views 
 and promifes \ I have as much reafon to fup- 
 pofe the one as the other. But the whole ftory 
 is fuch a piece of dull thinking and poor lan 
 guage, that 'tis time I have done with it. 
 
 THIS being the great crifis of captain 
 Shelvocke's voyage, I fliall be more particu 
 lar in relating the affair of this laft prize, 
 which will open the moft notorious fcene 
 of villany and deceit that has appeard yet. 
 p. 371. The {hip was called the Conception, 
 *Don Stephen de Recova commander bound 
 from Callao to 'Panama having on board 
 feveral perfons of diftin&ion, particularly 
 
 the 
 
r A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 205 
 
 the Conde de la Rofa a Spanijh nobleman 
 who had been fometime govcrner of Tifco 
 and was now going home to Spain: " laden 
 <c with flower, fugar, marmalade, peaches, 
 "grapes, limes, etcetera? Now,Z? it known 
 to A L L M E N, Thaty that et cxtera was A 
 hundred and eight thoufandjix hundred and 
 thirty fix pieces of eight : and Shefoocke 
 little thought when he took this prize or 
 compiled his book, that I of all men fhould 
 have this exact ftate of the affair. He of 
 ten faid, he would never give the gentlemen 
 Owners a fair account 5 and I have often 
 promifed in this treatife to prove that he 
 did fay fo $ and now we have both made 
 our words good. I have not only an au 
 thentic account 5 but I'll declare alfo how I 
 got it. When I was taken. and carried pri- 
 foner to Lima, I had leifure enough to re- 
 fled on my misfortunes : how likely I was 
 to be ruind, and the Owners to be cheated. 
 So that to prepare them in defenfe of their 
 rights , I wrote over to one of them the 
 fubftance of what had occurrd to me : how 
 Shelvocke had mifmanaged 5 how arbitrarily 
 he had a&ed in defiance of their articles, 
 and wh^t his private intentions were in the 
 
 future 
 
204 A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 future part of the voyage. As foon as I 
 came to London, which was in October 1721, 
 I confirmd the purport of my letter with fe- 
 veral new circumftances. For all which per 
 formance of my duty, I do fuppofe my name 
 has met with fo much accufation and re 
 proach in captain Shelvockes book. But be- 
 fide my advices, the gentlemen had many 
 proofs from other prifoners and other peo 
 ple. Eleven months after, being Auguft y cap 
 tain Shehocke himfelf arrived, and waits im 
 mediately on the faid gentleman to com- 
 pound in the lump for all his tranfaftions > 
 not owning any thing of this prize, which 
 he had unlawfully fhared, and every thing 
 elfe among three and thirty of them. In- 
 ftead of compromising the matter, the gen 
 tleman read him my letter, fecured him, 
 and the fame day had him confined in Wood- 
 Jlreet counter. A few days after his pupil 
 Stewart arrives at 'Dover, and was feized 
 by the honeft warden of the caftle according 
 to directions $ who faithfully fecuredhis book 
 of accounts and brought it with the prifo- 
 ner ^o the Owners, from whom I had the 
 book and copyd the dividend, which is as 
 follows. 
 
 Names, 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 205 
 
 Names. 
 
 Qualify 
 
 Number 
 
 Dollars. 
 
 Englfh Money. 
 
 
 
 of Shares. 
 
 
 
 George Shelvocke 
 
 Commander 
 
 6 
 
 11325 
 
 2642, 10 oo 
 
 Samuel Randal 
 
 _<ieutenant 
 
 s 
 
 4718 ' 
 
 ) 
 
 John Rayner 
 Blowfield Coldfea 
 
 ^apt.Marinej 
 Mailer 
 
 2* 
 2* 
 
 4718 
 47 l8 
 
 (iioo 17 4 
 
 f each. 
 
 Nicholas Adams 
 
 Surgeon 
 
 li 
 
 47^ . 
 
 ) 
 
 Matthew Stewart 
 
 Firft Mate 
 
 2 
 
 3775 " 
 
 ^ 
 
 Monfeeur Laporte 
 
 2 Mate 
 
 2 
 
 3775 / 
 
 
 George Henjhal 
 
 Boatfwain 
 
 2 
 
 3775 } 
 
 ^ h 
 
 Robert Davenport 
 
 Carpenter 
 
 2 
 
 3775 \ 
 
 < 
 
 William Clark 
 
 Gunner 
 
 2 
 
 3775 - 
 
 3 
 
 James Daniel 
 
 Midfhipman 
 
 If 
 
 2830 " 
 
 
 David Griffith 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 2830 
 
 
 Chriftop. Hawkins 
 
 Ditto 
 
 ji 
 
 2830 
 
 
 Oliver Lefevre 
 
 Sail Maker 
 
 IT 
 
 2830 
 
 
 John Doydge 
 William Morgan 
 
 SurgeonsMt. 
 Ditto 
 
 | 
 
 ~Z 
 
 2830 
 2830 
 
 660 oo' oo 
 i each. 
 
 John Popplejlone 
 
 Armourer 
 
 Y 
 
 2830 
 
 
 James Moyet 
 
 Cooper 
 
 i 
 
 -2, 
 
 2830 
 
 
 John Pear/on 
 
 Carpent. Mt. 
 
 % 
 
 2830 
 
 
 Geo. Shelvocke')\m. 
 
 Nothing 
 
 ~ 
 
 2830 
 
 | 
 
 William Clement 
 
 Able Seaman 
 
 
 1887^ 
 
 | 
 
 John Norris 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 1887^ 
 
 
 James Moulville 
 George Gill 
 
 Ditto 
 Ditto 
 
 
 I O Oyj] 
 
 1887^ ^ 440 7 2 
 
 Peter Fero 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 1887^ 
 
 (each. 
 
 John Smith 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 i87^ 
 
 
 Edward Atcocks 
 
 Ditto 
 
 
 18874 
 
 
 John Theobald 
 
 Barber 
 
 
 1887^: 
 
 
 William Burrows 
 
 Ord. Seaman 
 
 4 
 
 14154 
 
 ) n fi ,n 
 
 Daniel mac Donald 
 
 Ditto 
 
 I 
 A. 
 
 
 t 33O o 10 
 
 Richard Croft 
 
 Ditto 
 
 JL 
 
 H J 54 
 
 y each. 
 
 John Robins 
 Benedict Harry 
 
 Grommet 
 Cook 
 
 " j^ 
 
 9434 ? 220 04 02 
 
 943^5 each. 
 
 33 
 
 
 52^ 198604* 
 
 23007 15 6 
 
 Here 
 
2o6 A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 Here fthe reader perceives the fum total 
 of this dividend to be fhort of what I faid 
 the capture amounted to : but in order to 
 fet that matter right, there is a fecret arti 
 cle of 627 quadruples of gold, which Shel- 
 wdtf gracioufly fhared among private friends ; 
 each of which quadruple or double doub 
 loon is worth fixteen dollars or pieces of 
 eight, 
 
 
 dollars 
 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 And makes in 
 the whole 
 
 10032 ^ 
 
 " which at 4 s. and ' ( 
 [ 8 d. each, makes ^ 
 
 > 2340 i 6 oo 
 
 which being 
 added to the 
 
 \ 98604^ 
 
 or 
 
 23007 15 06 
 
 makes ---- 108636^ . or _ 25348 n 06 
 
 All which money Shefoocke has the pro 
 digious modefty to conceal ; and only fays 
 the prize was laden with flower, fugar, fruit, 
 &c. Stewart's book mentions the 62^7 
 doubloons, but not a word how they were 
 divided. So that we muft imagine them 
 to be funk among both the Shelvockes and 
 Stewart : perhaps Adams came in for a lit 
 tle. For as Stewart was agent, cafliier and 
 paymafter, it was an eafy matter to hide a 
 bag of gold from the public, and difpofe 
 of it afterwards in a committee of two or 
 three. When 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD] 207 
 
 When Shefoocke orderd me upon that 
 expedition in the lighter, as I gave my 
 fortune over for loft, fo 1 judged my per- 
 fon to be in a very precarious condition : 
 and thinking my money fafer in the Speed- 
 wel, I deliverd it to Mr. Hendrie the for 
 mer agent, being about 350 dollars: for I 
 little dreamd of the fcheme that Shefoocke 
 had formd, to lofe the fhip and feize all 
 for himfelf 5 but that if my money came to 
 England r 'I fhould have it fome time or 
 other. However, all thefe effeds were fliared 
 ztFernandes, as afore mentioned. So among 
 other things I left a wig with John Theobald 
 the barber on the lift, who fold it af 
 terwards to Coldfea the mafter for ten dol 
 lars : but as foon as Theobald found me out 
 in London, he honeftly came and paid me 
 the money, and told me his (hare of this 
 prize was as it ftands in the account : but 
 he knew nothing of the fccond dividend. 
 
 By the above account it's plain Shefoocke's 
 dividend of the filver taken in the Concep 
 tion de Recova came to 2642!. los. of 
 which he afterwards made thirty per cent. 
 in China, reckoning at a medium, for fome- 
 times it is there at forty, but never under 
 
 twenty 
 
208 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 twenty five. The gold he doubtlefs brought 
 home, being there lefs than value. He 
 fold the (hip for about 650 pound 5 but fays, 
 p. 457. he paid twice that fum^for port 
 charges: and therefore I don't place it to 
 account , tho' I know very well he had wit 
 enough to make all his people contribute. 
 And, as there is no minding what he fays, it 
 was certainly for his purpofe when he writ 
 the book, to leffen that money he fold 
 his lhip for, and to fwell the fum he paid 
 for anchorage. For why fliould he pay 
 2166 pound port charges, and Cliff erton 
 but 396, asTaylor's journal mentions, when 
 we all know Shehockes was but a merchant 
 fhip, and C///>/T0#'s a warlike fhip, carrying 
 forty guns and above three times the num 
 ber of hands ! This great difparity, and the 
 reafon I juft nowmentiond, makes my cap 
 tain ftrongly fufpeded : but however, as I 
 am nat certain, I (hall reckon nothing for it. 
 Add to this the amount of the St. Fermin 
 and other prizes taken on the coaft of Chili, 
 which was at leaft 2000 pound, all fhared as 
 before, tho' not fet down. Then laftly, 
 the {hip's cargo is unaccounted for, which 
 he gently flips over, and forgets he ownd, 
 
 p. 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RL>. 209 
 
 p. 313, it was a valuable one. This is in- 
 tirely his own perquifit and pocket-money ; 
 for as no foul but himfelf can now tell what 
 that value was, or what he made of it : I 
 can only remain an unhappy, ignorant, in 
 jured fufferer ; and wonder that fo much 
 bafenefs and treachery can appear, and yet 
 live unpuniflu. 
 
 From all which particulars it is evident 
 captain Shelvocke has fecured to himfelf and 
 brought to England a great fum of money, 
 being neither his merit, nor his due : and 
 tho' he is probably poffeft of much more 
 than we can make out, yet even Stewart 
 himfelf affured me, that Sfafoocke could not 
 be lefs thaft feveri rhoufand pound gainer 
 by the voyage. 
 
 P. 371, he fays this was the fecond of 
 thoft warlike merchant fhips that was fitted 
 out in an extraordinary manrrer and com- 
 miffiond to take him. This is another in- 
 ftance of his vain-glory and abfurdity, and is 
 fufficiently anfwerd by referring to what I 
 faid about the other (hip calld The Holy 
 Family, which he alfo faid was commif- 
 ftdnd to take him. But how particularly 
 filly it appears in this cafe, let any one 
 P Judge 
 
z i o A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 judge that reads it. Can it be believed or 
 imagined that the Conde de la Rofa, whofe 
 property this money chiefly was, would ven 
 ture fo great a fum aboard a (hip that was 
 commiffiond to take a privatier? I never 
 heard, nor the oldeft man alive, that a fhip 
 fitted out for warlike enterprize, was ftored 
 with money inftead of ammunition. Sup- 
 pofe two or three honeft fellows were 
 equipt to. take a highwayman that had long 
 infefted the roads and plagued the country 5 
 can any one believe they would furnifti their 
 pockets with half crowns inftead of a pair 
 of piftols? Sure Shefoocke muft take his 
 reader for an Ignoramus 5 and having loft 
 all morals himfelf, thinks other people have 
 loft their fenfes. 
 
 After this, I think, I need not be very 
 ftudious to prove captain Shelvocke a fad fel 
 low. I have hitherto labourd diligently 
 but now I believe his and my readers will 
 come eafily on my fide. This fad is too 
 flagrant to be denyd : 'tis felf-evident and 
 known to every body. All the anteceding 
 circumftances of his voyage are mean dif- 
 honeft aftions, tending to this one perfidious 
 end : and whoever reads his preface after 
 
 feeing 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo R LD. 211 
 
 feeing this account, muft read it with indig 
 nation. What prctcnfe has he there to 
 talk of reputation, truth and integrity > P. 
 31, he councils all thofe who may hereaf 
 ter fubfcribe for another cruifmg expedition., 
 to regulate well their articles 5 and look out 
 for a commander of ftrict honour and ho 
 ne fly : which advice from captain Shefoocke 
 can be of no other ufe, than that it certain 
 ly excludes him for life. And how black 
 foever he appears, he may thank himfelf : 
 for tho' his tranfaftions were never fo foul 
 ,and tinjuft, I ftiould perhaps have lived and 
 died a private fufferer 5 and not given my 
 felf the exceffive trouble of being public 
 defcndent, had not Shefoocke turnd public 
 author, and added folly to his villainy, by 
 putting it in print. But it's high time to 
 difabufe mankind, when an author not 
 content with doing private injuries, tfliall 
 print and publirti whatever his wicked heart 
 can invent, and thus indeavour to make 
 his poifon univerfal. 
 
 P. 378, he fays, " he took out of the 
 
 " Conception twelve months provifion of 
 
 " bread, flower, fugar and fweatmeats j with 
 
 " a like proportion for the Succefs, which 
 
 P 2 "he 
 
212 A Vo YAG E round tke Wo RLD. 
 
 " he expefted to find at Tres Marias, being 
 " then a ftranger to Ctippert on's faithlefs 
 " deiertion. " Not to mention the falfhood 
 of his expeding to meet Clippenon, who 
 never promifcd to meet him, 'tis a piece of 
 barefaced hypocrify to fay he put up any pro- 
 vifion for the Succefs. Shehocke knew bet 
 ter what to do with his money and time, 
 than to venture the lofs of both to look for 
 a man whom he aKvays fhuad and hated for 
 having the chief Command : befides he fpeaks 
 immediately of going to AJia ; for being 
 well fupplyd with money and necefiaries, 
 their thoughts of furrendering were laid a 1 - 
 fide , and all their defpair Vanifhd. He 
 twice calls it a hazardous experiment going 
 over to Afia ; and gives us forrie trifling 
 reaibns, but the others he fays he will keep 
 a fecrct, being needlefs there to mention, 
 p. 380 : one of which I have lately unfold 
 ed for him; which was really a fear left 
 he and all his money fhould be fcized at 
 China. 
 
 Any one acquainted with the ftory may 
 difcover all his thin difguifes, and eafily per 
 ceive that every word he lays frdm p. 3 8 1 
 to 385 makes plainly againft him. He talks 
 
 of 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 2 1 3 
 
 of cakes of virgin filver found in the prize, 
 moulded into marmalade boxes to defraud 
 the king of Spain of his fifths ; while he, at 
 the fame time, appears much more guilty to 
 defraud the gentlemen Owners, and us pri- 
 foners, and impofing now this notorious 
 (ham upon his difinterefted readers. Does 
 fo much fruit, marmalade and paffengers 
 aboard, prove that the fhip was commif- 
 fiond to take him? or why does Shel- 
 <vocke talk fo much of fweatmeats , except 
 the money run in his head. Twenty five 
 thoufand pounds and upwards, befides rich 
 plunder, is a fine box of marmalade truly. 
 
 P. 382. He fairly fays every thing taken 
 out of the Conception was divided accord 
 ing to the new articles made at Fernandez > 
 which I believe to be mighty true, becaufe 
 it is the genuine account which I copyd 
 from his own fteward's book , tho' Shehocke 
 tfyen little thought that Betagh would have 
 it here to produce againft him. He com 
 plains he had no more than fix {hares. I 
 have proved already at the beginning of 
 this fedion, that fix, According to his laft 
 arbitrary fcheme, are mush better than fixty 
 by the firft articles with the Owners. But 
 
 P 3 how 
 
214 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 how in the name of fenfe could Shefaocke 
 expect fixty out of two and fifty > for it's 
 plain by the account there are no more- 
 Thou art a very nnconfcionable fellow in 
 deed to have more than your due, and yet 
 complain you have not more than all. This 
 is neither Scotch, Englifh, nor Irifh : Tis 
 the devil ! and if Shelvocke can make fixty 
 out of two and fifty, he muft be more 
 than a devil. 
 
 The next page or two he is very fearful 
 of falling into the hands of the Spaniards, 
 tho' he tailed of nothing but furrendering 
 juft before this prize happcnd. This may 
 look odd to a reader, who thinks he has 
 nothing to lofebefide flower and fruit 5 but 
 after this difcovcry of the money it feems 
 natural enough to be afraid to lofe it. And 
 ^ why does he by way of caution fpeak of 
 a rich prize that was formerly retaken from 
 captain Clipperton by venturing too near 
 the fhore, if the circumftances were not 
 fimilar and parallel to his own cafe ? 
 
 But I need not trouble my felf any longer 
 to cxpofe the wretched fhifts he makes to 
 cover his guilt. Tis like a fchdolboy who 
 has been tardy and robbd an orchard : he 
 
 firft 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 2 1 5 
 
 firft tells a lye to hide the roguery, and 
 then invents twenty more to patch that 
 up. 
 
 Shehocke having now done his bufinefs, 
 fleers away for California, in order to wood 
 and water and clean his fhip, that he might 
 haften to China and make a good market 
 of his filver : for the natives there are fo 
 fond of it, that by changing any fpecies of 
 filver into gold, a man may make 30 or 
 40 per cent. 
 
 Accordingly in Auguft 1721, he arrives 
 at California 5 and gives his readers a de- 
 fcription of the natives in the comical ftile, 
 thinking to make amends for the reft of 
 his ftupid incoherent romance. He would 
 fain give us great ideas of the good breeding 
 and gentility of thofe falvages, tho' they 
 have no intercourfe with any other part of 
 the world : but as I don't take Shefoocke to 
 be a judge of good manners, I look upon 
 what he fays as a fable. He has the vanity 
 to dwell upon that idle ftory of the king 
 of the Indians delivering him his fceptre, 
 which he fays was done in a very handibme 
 manner; but he immediately returnd it, 
 and doubtlefs with much grace and majefty: 
 P 4 and 
 
% 1 6 dVo Y AG E round the Wo RLB.' 
 
 qnd yet he fays he could not tell whether 
 he was a king or no, only he had a black 
 flick in his hand ; which as it was the bed 
 thing the poor creature had, he gives it to 
 Sh&Vtffe* expeding no doubt a fpoon or 
 knife for it, which they are always glad of. 
 And Shefoocke will have it that this fellow 
 was a king, and this black (lick was a fccptre ; 
 which as he deliverd, it is pity Shelvocke 
 did not keep it, and make himfelf king of 
 the country : for it's plain the Indian re- 
 fignd his fovereignty by parting with the 
 flick. 
 
 There's none can forbear laughing who 
 reads his daily manner of feafting thefe Ca 
 lif ornian gentry with vaft quantities of hafty- 
 pudding : or his grave way of telling how 
 refpe&fully and ceremonioufly they returnd 
 his civilities, keeping a conftant equipage 
 for the captain and his men, whenever they 
 came afhore. In fhort, after all the country 
 rung of Shelvocke's fame and came in daily 
 tp view him , he concludes this ridiculous 
 farce by telling ye the manner of his tak 
 ing leave. 
 
 Page 398. When he loofed his top fails, 
 paving a mind to appear awful, he faluted} 
 
 ' v the 
 
'A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 2 1 7 
 
 the king and court with five guns , which 
 mightily frighted them : but when they 
 underftood he was going away, the men 
 were fadly caft down, and the women all 
 fell a crying $ which was a fure proof of 
 their being in love, tho' Shefoocke i modeft 
 and dos't own it. 
 
 His faying he had a mind to appear very 
 awful at parting, agrees well with the ado 
 ration whi<ch he fays they paid him at firft re 
 ception, p. 389 : if wild ranting and frolick 
 ing can be calld adoration. 
 
 His pretended natural hiftory of Califor 
 nia is all dull and taftelefs, except juft that 
 which is taken from captain Rogers who was 
 there in 1710. Shelvocke p. 399. it begins 
 with the fame words as he does p. 3 17. Shel- 
 *vocke fays p. 390? " The rocks as you enter 
 *t the harbour arc like the needles of the ifle 
 " of Wight." Rogers the fame words, p. 317. 
 The defcription of the men, p. 404, is 
 verbally the feme as the other p. 3 14. Their 
 grinding a black feed which they eat for 
 bread, is ftolen from his journal. Shelvocke 
 fays their language is guttural and harfh, 
 p. 409. Rogers p. 3i4> word for word the 
 Their manner of living amicably an4 
 
 in 
 
2i8 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 in common, is a tranfcript from the fame 
 author. Their bows and arrows, and their 
 wonderful manner of diving is all the fame. 
 
 Shelvocke fays, p. 408, A late navigator 
 reprefents the Californians as idle, lazy and 
 jealous of their women $ and that he never 
 could have a fight of any but fuch as were 
 old. Which Shelvocke indeavours to be 
 merry upon, by faying, " he could not tell 
 " how that gentleman treated them, but 
 " that he himfclf fucceded fo well in his 
 " addrefTcs as to have them by hundreds 
 4t every day young and old." And after 
 the frumety kettle had been boyling for 
 them all day, it's no wonder if fome of 
 them gave him their company all night : 
 for he often fays they were very civil and 
 complaifant, and ufcd to be concernd at 
 the inens taking fnufffor fear it fhould kill 
 them. 
 
 The navigator here meant is the aforefaid 
 author; v/hofe accounts being univerfally 
 commended, there's no room to admit Shel- 
 V&cke's impertinence : but after a man has 
 iTOde himfclf fo. notorious a plagiary as I 
 have jtift now proved him, 'tis a very ftupid 
 der in him to find fault with that only 
 
 which 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 219? 
 
 which fignifies nothing. Rogers his words 
 are p. 316. " They appear to be very idle, 
 " and feem to look after no more than a 
 " prefent fubfiftence." This is cpnfirmd of 
 all Indians who having no traffic, or know 
 ledge but what is natural , muft needs be 
 indolent and idle : therefore I fee no occa- 
 fion there was to contradid this, when he 
 had ftole all the reft 5 except his ill breeding 
 isfo natural to him, that he can't forbear it. 
 
 As for his being freer with the women, I 
 don't difpute that 5 neither is it for any man's 
 honour to confute him : only I can't help 
 remarking Shefoocke's words at the clofe of 
 this page 408. " I may venture to fay, quoth 
 " he, that we ingaged them fo far by trifling 
 " prefents and entertainments, that no body 
 " upon thofe terms need want their affift- 
 " ance for the future/' The plain English 
 of which is, that any plan may lye with the 
 women for a rufty knife, or a porringer of 
 thick milk. 
 
 Captain Rogers has given us a handfome 
 concife defcription of the people and the 
 coaft : and if a mariner who comes after 
 can make no additional difcoveries, he is a 
 thief to print for his own another man's 
 
 obfer- 
 
A Vo YAG E round the WORLD.' 
 
 ohfervations, and a blockhead to trouble the 
 world with his own fchoolboy remarks; 
 fuc.h as his conceited notions of a king and 
 fceptre ; he and his dirty crew having ado- 
 xation paid them, and his foolifli tales of 
 ceremonious equipage and hafiy pudding. 
 
 Captain George Shelvocke having here fi- 
 niflid his wife observations, prepares to crofs 
 the vj/eftern ocean from Mexico to China 5 
 ^i\d with a hypocritical figh laments the ab- 
 fence of Cliff erf on , whom he partly came 
 hither to meet with : but fays he had the 
 Juward comfort of having added this in- 
 of his indeavqurs to the advantage of 
 expedition in general, p. 433- 
 
 Now I leave the reader to judge whether 
 tis likely he came here to feek Clipperton, 
 or was ferry for the difappointnient, after 
 having fo long fhund him, blinded the 
 would with a falfe relation p,f his acqui- 
 fiuon, ^bnceaid ail the money, and divided 
 it among three and thirty of them \ and, 
 yet this man has the calm affurance to 
 i&lk of his indeavours for the advantage 
 of the expedition ! 
 
 la two or three days fail he fays he dif- 
 covcr4 land, which he takes the liberty of 
 
 naming 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLix 1 2 i 
 
 framing Sbehockjs ifland. Vain creature! 
 doft thou expeft any one after reading this 
 narrative of your aftions lhall mention the 
 word Shefaocke without ridicule? much 
 lefs (hall an ifland where you never fet foot 
 afhore be calld after your unworthy name* 
 Had you been there facrificed for your ava* 
 rice and tyranny, as *Peter Baldivia was 
 at the place which bears his name, yoii 
 might ever remain, like him,unrivald in yout 
 title 5 and your fon George might have 
 wrote your epitaph. 
 
 In Shehocke's paflage oVer to Guam no 
 thing material happens but the ddath of fe* 
 ven or eight more of his men 5 forrie of 
 whofe (hares, I have reafon td belieVe, be^ 
 came his perquifit : for two of their Wi 
 dows have affured me, that after much pain 
 ful application they could get no relief. 
 On his arrival at Guam he niakes this cun 
 ning observation, that he found it one hun 
 dred leagues fliort of captain Rogets his ac* 
 count : but I don't wonder at that ; becaufe 
 this later kept a public regular journal, and 
 has printed each day's run 5 which book 
 Shefoocke would never let his people look 
 into, or keep a true reckoning rhemfelves, 
 
 Pags 
 
222 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD 1 
 
 Page 438. Here he fays he fhould have 
 been very glad of refrelhments ; but the ill 
 ftate of his people was an objedion againft 
 his flaying, left the governer fhould take 
 an advantage of their weaknefs and fur- 
 prize him. When they were upon the point 
 of perifhing, as he calls it, one would think 
 it was a very proper time to get refrefhments. 
 But this is another inftance of his falfehood 5 
 for the true reafon is conceald, namely, 
 his fear of lofing the hundred and twenty 
 thoufand dollars, &c. which he had aboard. 
 
 In November he gets to China, and meets 
 with fome of Cliff erf on s people at Macao ; 
 from whofe intelligence he gives us that 
 part only of Clippertoris condud which is 
 blameable. I own I can't find out the plea- 
 fure of triumphing over a dead man's cha- 
 rader , efpecially in thofe private defeds 
 which can do the defamer no fervice or 
 credit. 
 
 By my tranfcript of Taylors journal, Shel- 
 vocke may fee I have not omitted thofe fads 
 which related to Clipperton, and I am glad 
 to give him this proof of my impartiality : 
 but where he has perverted the ftory, I am 
 obliged to oppofc him : for Shefaocke fays 
 
 that? 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 225 
 
 that Clipperton was orderd into cuftody at 
 Macao , for filly reafons which he gives, 
 and not worth my reciting, becaufe there'* 
 nothing in them. If the reader pleafe to 
 return to the laft page or two of the jour 
 nal, he will find that Clipperton honeftly 
 withftood dividing his capture as long as 
 he could, till an order from the Mandarin, 
 and a guard came aboard the (hip to oblige 
 him : this Shefoocke has the malice to call 
 taking into cuftody 5 tho' he knew the 
 ftory as well as I can tell him. And whereas 
 he fays they fleeced Clipperton and let him 
 go 5 'tis quite wrong 5 for Clipperton paid 
 s but 1700 dollars for anchorage, as by the 
 .journal , which is not 400 pound : and 
 Shefaocke owns he paid above 2000 pound, 
 p. 457 : therefore 'tis manifeft the latter 
 was fleeced, not the former. 
 . Immediately after which he has thefe 
 words, " I thought it proper to make this 
 " digrefllon for the information of fuch of 
 " the Gentlemen owners who have thought 
 " Clipperton blamelefs, that they might pafs 
 <c a judgment on his conduft : fince it is 
 " certain that he will never, either pri- 
 < c vately or publicly, let them 'into the 
 \ " truth 
 
& 2 4 ^ Vo YAG E r0/m/ the Wo RLD J 
 
 <c truth of his ftory." What can be mor 
 offenfive than this, firft to invent a falfehood, 
 and then fay 'tis for the gentlemens infor 
 mation? which he concludes with a jefuiti- 
 cal turn, that Clipperton never would pub 
 licly or privately let them into the truth of 
 his ftory 5 the only reafon of which is a 
 mental referve that honeft Mr. Shelvocke 
 has, that truljr he knew captain Clipperton 
 was dead. 
 
 What remains of this author, relating the 
 fluffs' he made to get himfelf and his money 
 tranfported to England, whether true or 
 falfe/tis immaterial to my defign : and fo I 
 leave him aboard an Eaft India-man which 
 brought him home the firft of Augufl y 1722. 
 His 1 4th chapter, as it contains nothing of 
 our difpute, is no ways liable to my ex 
 ception. 1 believe his cautions and direc 
 tions to be very juft, and may be ufeful to 
 any who (hall go upon that crtrife : but 
 his own behaviour is a proof, that it's eafier 
 to give good advice than to follow it. 
 
 THUS have I taken fair pains gradually 
 
 to trace and anfwer captain Shelvocke : to 
 
 expofe his ignorance in fome things, and 
 
 3 > dete& 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 225 
 
 deted his many wilful forgeries in others. 
 I have difcoverd nothing of his wickednefs 
 out of its proper place with defign to pre- 
 pofTefs mankind 5 well knowing that where 
 truth is to be found, art, is needlefs. 
 
 Upon the whole the reader may per 
 ceive that he lays all the mifchiefs of his 
 voyage to the obftinacy of his men, always 
 taking care to fliift off the guilt from him- 
 felf : And to prepare his readers the better, 
 has the groundlefs affurance to fay in the 
 fourth page, that they had aftually formd a 
 defign of returning with the fhip to England, 
 
 2. At St. Catherines he fays they forced 
 him to figa the new articles, or elfe they 
 would have run away with the (hip. 
 
 3 . Going in to Chiloe he fays was the mens 
 fault 5 where we fo narrowly efcaped a 
 iliipwreck. 
 
 4. At going in to Conception a little to 
 leeward, he fays the fame. 
 
 5. AtFernandes, he fays they forced him 
 to divide the Owners money, and enter 
 upon the new Jamaica difcipline. 
 
 6. Upon meeting Clipperton, he fays, 'twas 
 his men demanded a confirmation of the 
 firft articles with the Owners, after they 
 
 ( had 
 
226 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 had twice made new ones for them felves. 
 
 7. When he left the four men aboard 
 the bark where they were murdcrd, he 
 fays his people would not let him bring to 
 till lhe came up.* 
 
 8. Twas his men alfo gave him an ifland, 
 and obftinately calld it after his name : the 
 vanity and inconfiftency of all which I have 
 fufficiently expofed. But I would fain know 
 what forced him to conceal that great fum of 
 money taken aboard the Conception ? Or 
 who obliged him to play the hypocrite and 
 keep it a fecret when he publifhd his book? 
 I could ask him many more queftions that 
 would ftagger him: particularly, who forced 
 him to dedicate his volume of fcandal and 
 forgery to the lords of the admiralty? who 
 flatterd him into a belief, that their lord- 
 ihips would patronize the author of fo much 
 treachery and cruelty ? and whom he has 
 had the unpardonable boldnefs to deceive 
 in the firft line of his dedication 3 by tell 
 ing them , that having before had the ho 
 nour to prefent them the original minutes> 
 of his tranfadions, he now has laid before 
 them a more perfeft account of his proced- 
 ings : when at the fame time he never kept 
 
 a 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 227 
 
 a journal, tho' he fays he loft one at Fer- 
 mandeSy p. 417, which place I (hall quote 
 for the particularity of it. " When I was 
 <c fhipwreckd on the ifland of John Fer- 
 f< nandes , I among many other things loft 
 " fome particular remarks and memoran- 
 * c dums of the fliip's way et cetera : there- 
 <c fore in general have not been particular? 
 I can't tell what he would have the world 
 underftand by this 5 but I and every com 
 mon failor knows, that if a man lofes the 
 particular memorandums of a fhip's way et 
 cetera, he has loft them in general et cat era. 
 
 If fuch language, fuch remarks and piti 
 ful forgeries can pafs for A voyage round 
 the world i a man may e'en ftay at home 
 and compofe one. Tis nothing but a bun 
 dle of falrtiood and fcandal : and John 
 Bunyaris Pilgrim's progrefs is a much bet 
 ter journal, and better writ. 
 
 For the entertainment of the curious I 
 fhall here fubjoyn a few of Shelvockesblun- 
 derrata*> tho' the captain is faid to have had 
 the afliftance of his fon, and his fon the affif- 
 tance of the learned. 
 
 Page 1 96. Mightily difabled. 
 
 207. Saved the (hip not coming to pieces. 
 Q2 257. To 
 
228 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 257. To hear the filence of the night de- 
 ftroyd. 
 
 278. With a refolute defpatr. 
 
 418. In general have not been particular. 
 
 307. Shall now continue my narration of 
 our future .procedings. 
 
 265. We had not an hours hopes of li 
 ving a minute longer, fyc> &c, &c. 
 
 Soon as captain Shefaocke returnd to Lon 
 don, he waited on the fame gentleman I 
 have often mentiond, who framed and di- 
 reded this expedition 5 where being felf- 
 convifted of his paft wicked adions, he 
 hoped by a genteel donation to pacify the 
 refentment he expe&ed to meet with : but 
 the faid gentleman to whom he thusapplyd, 
 was rather fhockt at the vifit ; and in. 
 Head of hearkening to any terms, charged 
 a conftable with him, and carryd him to the 
 Cockpit. The fecretary of ftate being abfent, 
 he was there advifed to take out an aftion 
 againft him at "Doctors commons, and ano 
 ther at Common law at the Owners fuit 5 
 with feveral procefles againft fome of his 
 people, who came home in the India fhips 
 with their ill gotten wealth. So that cap 
 tain Shefaocke was himfclf that day confined 
 
 in 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 229 
 in Wood-ftreet Counter^ and a few days af 
 ter about a dozen of his crew, being all that 
 yet appeard, were arrefted alfo and coiifmed. 
 After this the faid owner applyd to the 
 court of Admiralty for a warrant to keep 
 Shelvocke in cuftody of the madhal, in 
 order to be tryd for a pyracy on the Tor. 
 tuguefe ; for robberies on the king of 
 Spam's fubjefts fince the ceffation of arms ; 
 and laftly for defrauding his owners and 
 people, affidavits having been made of 
 thefe feveral fafts by two of his own 
 officers and others. But the court refufed 
 him a warrant, becaufe it was not fwora 
 that the witnefles faw the moydors taken 
 out of the Tortuguefe captain's fcritore; 
 tho' they fwore they were taken out of 
 his poffefllon and brought from the fhip. 
 This greatly difappointed the owners, and 
 involved them in the tedious law fuit 
 which followd : for they found it difficult 
 to lay the aftion at T)offors commons, be 
 ing under the difcouragement of the judge 
 of that court: and the preceding at Com 
 mon law was fo intricate and doubtful, 
 that they were forced to feek relief in 
 the cowrt of Chancery. Upon fetting 
 ( forth 
 
^VOYAGE round the WORLD. . 
 forththe cafe, the Lord chancellor grants 
 ed a writ of Ne exeat regnum againft the 
 
 faid Shefoocke, markt 8000 /, and fome of 
 
 I 
 
 his men in lefler firms : but Sbehocke get 
 ting bail to the aftion at common law, 
 contrived fo with the marfhal of the king's 
 bench prifon> that he escaped on a Sunday^ 
 and prevented the faid writ in chancery 
 being ferved upon him ; and has ever fince 
 abfconded. Mean time the bill in chancery 
 -Was carryd on, to which Shelvocke refuting 
 to put in anfwer 5 a writ of rebellion was 
 iffued out : but a brother in law of Shel- 
 uocke's applyd to two of the owners, being 
 complainants named in the bill, and fo pre 
 vailed with them, that they pretended 
 they were about a compofition with the 
 defendent : fo that a fudden flop was 
 made to the profecution 5 except other 
 of the owners would exhibit a frefh bill, 
 and fpend more money, having already 
 laid out above 400 pound : which however 
 was defignd more to punifh his unpatalleld 
 wickednefs, than for any real profpeft of 
 advantage. 
 
 Now let mankind judge what a check 
 this muft be to all future aid and affiftance 
 
 to 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 231 
 
 to the crown j when at any time a prince 
 upon a declaration of war, (hall require his 
 loving fubjeds to fit out private fhips to 
 cruife upon and annoy the enemy ! Is it not 
 a temptation to the crew of any other 
 fhip who carry only money aboard, to run 
 away with the vefiel, come home in the 
 face of their imployers, and go to law with 
 their own matters money? Is it not to give 
 fuch men hopes of proteion from the 
 laws of their o\vn country, which furely 
 are made to punifh, not defend the cruel 
 and the wicked \ Here's an example, where 
 a writ granted by the higheft officer in the 
 kingdom has not been able to fecure an 
 offender, who has found means by corrupt 
 practices to prevent the execution of it. 
 But yet more aftonifhing is this man's af- 
 ftirance to impofe a fcandalousnarrativeupon 
 the world for truth, to glofs over his cru 
 elties and robberies by the innocent name 
 of A voyage round the worlds and after all, 
 dedicate this libel to the lords of the ad 
 miralty 5 wherein he courts them for fa 
 vours, while there are repeated letters from 
 the king of Spain to demand fatisfadion for 
 depredations upon his fubjeds, committed 
 Q.4 by 
 
232 A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 by this very man 5 and he ftill braving it 
 with impunity. 
 
 Tis proper therefore to infert here, that 
 complaint was made to one of the princi 
 pal fecretaries of ftate by the marquifs de 
 yozz.o Bueno ambaflador from the king 
 of Spain, while his Britannic majefty was 
 at Hanover 5 " That on the nth of April 
 " 1721, in the road of Sanfonate on the 
 " coaft of Mexico, George Shelvocke com- 
 " mander of an Englifh privatier did then 
 " and there wake prize a flip calld the Holy 
 C( Family, 'value one hundred thoufand dol- 
 " tars, belonging to Don Lewis Carillo of 
 Lima in Peru ; altho'- the f aid Shelvocke 
 had notice given him of a cejjation of 
 arms agreed upon in the year 1720, be 
 tween the crowns of England and Spain, 
 " and publifhd in thofe feas before the f aid 
 cc capture. " I have feen a copy of this 
 memorial, being writ in French, and fent 
 to one of our Owners j and here is now, 
 or was a Spanijh agent in London to folicit 
 the bufinefs. It is hard to know how this 
 affair will be determined, now Great Bri 
 tain and Spain are at fuch variance 5 but if 
 the court ofr Madrid comes quickly into 
 
 terms., 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD^ 2 3 .$. 
 
 terms, which looks not improbable, the 
 government may ftill lay hold on Shel<vocke 
 for all his robberies in the South-Sea, as well 
 as his pyracy on the tjPortqgttefi > tho* courts 
 of juftice either want the inclination or 
 power to punifh him. 
 
 Here follows a diftinft lift of the num 
 ber of men, loft and deftroyd according to 
 the will and pleafure of captain Shefoocke 5 
 only 3 3 remaining out of 106 to divide the 
 whole profits of the cruife: and it is obfer- 
 vablethat of all his people only two died a 
 natural death and two by cafualty. 
 
 Turnd aihore at St. Jago and St. Ca.-\ 
 tbarine's before we got into the South- 
 Seas, nine, Andrew Redder chief mate, 
 Henry Chapman third mate, Charles 
 Turner gunner, Henry Hudfon boat- 
 fwain, William Tarfons and William 
 Coon boatfwain's mates, George Hint 
 and Charles Terry feamcn. 
 
 Commanded afliore near Conception^ 
 in Chili where they were murderd, | 
 three, Jahn Eady midfhipman, John \ 
 "Daley and George Aboigne marines. 
 3 Sent 
 
234 -^ Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 brought over iz 
 Sent a cruifing to be taken prifoners/T 
 fifteen , Simon Hatley fecond captain 
 of the Sfeedwel, William Betagh cap 
 tain of marines, Gilbert Hamilton en- 
 fign, John Sprake fecond mate, Nico 
 las Laming boatfwain, Chriflopher Vref- 
 jick furgeon's firft mate , Robert Cobs * 
 ferjeant of marines, Matthew Applet on, 
 Martin Hay den, Richard Bond, Ri 
 chard Gloyns, John Tanther feamen, 
 John Wilfon, John Nicolfon y and Tho. 
 Barnet, marines. j 
 
 Orderd on a cruife in a bark with 
 one week's provifion, and obliged then 
 to furrender on the coafl, eleven, James 
 Hopkins third mate, Robert Rawlins 
 xnidftiipman, William 'Dobfbn, Thomas \>n 
 Wilkinfon, Edward Oafling, John Bone 
 Charles Weatherly, William Kitchen, 
 Richard Crofs, John Guathar 
 Gundy feamen. 
 
 Left on Fernandes eleven, befides^ 
 thirteen Indians, John Wifdom, Jofeph 
 Monero y William Blew, John Riddle- 
 clay, Edmund Hyves, 'Daniel Harvey >>i 
 William Giddy, John Robjohn, Tho-\ 
 
 mas 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 235 
 
 brought over 49 
 
 mas Hawkesy James Row and Jacobl 
 Bow den fcamen. j 
 
 Left in a prize and murderd four! 
 John Giles ferjeant of marines, Johni 
 Emlin feaman, John Williams marine, i 
 George Chappel a lad. J j 
 
 Sent afhore into the hands of the"* 
 enemy without a hoftage, and never fmce 
 heard of, fix, Edward Brook firft lieute 
 nant, William Tamly midfhipman, Fre- 
 dric Macenzie, Robert Boivman^Richard 
 philips and John Toulton feamen. 
 
 Begd their paffage with Clipper ton,* 
 to be freed from Shefoocke's tyranny, 
 three, James Hendrie agent for the 
 Owners, Thomas 'Dod lieutenant of 
 marines, and William Morphew mid 
 fhipman. 
 
 Died four, Richard Arfcot in the"* ! 
 Speedwel, and Edmond'Philips \i\Sh el- 
 vocke's bark, William Campbell drownd 
 going round Cape Home, and Richard* 
 Hannah drownd going to the wreck 
 from Fernandes ifland. 
 
 Deferred at St. Catharine's three, 
 Abraham c Dutour> Anthony Wood, and 
 William Leveret. Ex- 
 
^ Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 brought over 69 
 
 Stayd on board the Ruby at St. Gz_ 
 therines two, William Mariner fail 
 maker, and Lawrence Lancette of the| 
 carpenter's crew. 
 
 Left aftiore at <Payta, Rich. Bavin. i 
 Deferted at Ckiloe, Robert Morris. i 
 
 In all - 73 
 
 Stayd with Sfaetvock&i&d, dividO 
 ed all (his fon being included.) 3 
 
 Total (hip's company 106 
 
 'Tis fit I fay fomething to the memory of 
 captain Clipperton, who being this time fo 
 extraordinary well fitted out, and having 
 been twice this cruife before, doubted not 
 of eaftly making a good voyage for the 
 Owners and All of us: but after he was 
 feparated from the Speedwel^ and under the 
 hardfhip of lofing his ftoek of liquors; he 
 was forced to fail comfortlefs under a doubt 
 ful expectation, till he came to the laft fcene 
 of aftion : where being ftill difappointcd of 
 
 his 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo kLfc. 2 3 7 
 
 his con fort, 'tis no wonder if he gave the 
 voyage over for loft. When afterwards he 
 did meet with captain Shelvocke on the 
 coaft of Mexico, all his propofals proved 
 ineffectual. Thus Cliff erton having in vain 
 made three foreign voyages, two of which 
 were round the globe, he took it to heart, 
 grew dejefted, and in his paflage to dfia 
 minded nothing at all. However, we fee 
 by the journal that he kept good order, 
 and afted by council during his whole 
 cruife upon the enemy. 
 
 When he came to China he fold the Sue- 
 cefs, laying by the Owners moiety as afore- 
 faid : then he arrived in Holland, aboard a 
 'Dutch E aft- India fhip, and died two or 
 three days after he came to his family 
 in Ireland 5 being heart-broke, as I am 
 well informd, at his long run of misfor 
 tune. 
 
 He was an Englishman, born at great Tar- 
 month in the county of Norfolk, and ufed 
 to the water from his infancy. He was 
 certainly a complete feaman, as the northern. 
 English generally are, and in all the fouth 
 navigation he was perfectly experienced. 
 His humanity and good nature are undeni 
 able, 
 
2 3 s A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 able, having never arbitrarily expofed or 
 commanded away the lives of any of his 
 people : and tho' he had private failings, 
 they were common to mankind, and 
 not fuch as Shehocke has unfairly repre- 
 Jented. 
 
 My readers in general, as well as the 
 gentlemen adventurers, may here fee that 
 the mifcarriage of all this expedition is 
 wholly imputable to the captain of the 
 Speedwel>. who cruelly treated his own 
 people, deferred the other (hip till the 
 Avar was over j aded feparately, and ma 
 naged every thing arbitrarily : tho' our 
 orders were ftridly to copy captain Ro 
 gers his method, and in all attempts and 
 difficulties to ad by a council of our own 
 officers. 
 
 So that if Shelvocke had early rcjoynd the 
 Succefs and concurrd with Clipperton, ac 
 cording to the faid precedent, We who are 
 extreme fufferers had not only profited there 
 by 7 but the advantages might have been 
 national. The charge of our expedition was 
 upwards of fourteen thoufand pound, and 
 I believe the 'Duke and 'Duchefs did not 
 ftand the Briftol gentlemen in fo much. 
 z And 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD! 239 
 
 And tho' Rogers had aboard him fome trou- 
 
 blefom fpirits, who oppofed his better 
 
 views, yet it's well known he brought home 
 
 a capture of a hundred ai%d feventy thou- 
 
 f and pound value. We were certainly as 
 
 well fitted out as they : and thus having 
 
 precedents and examples, what might we 
 
 not have done, if conduced, as they were, 
 
 with prudence, care and integrity ! 
 
 SECT. 
 
2 40 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLB. 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 Containing obfervations on the SpanifJi 
 America in general, and the re 
 marks / made while I was confin 
 ed in Peru. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 BOUT the middle of March 
 1720, when Shehocke Cent Hal- 
 ley and the reft of us to feek our 
 fortunes in the lighter, calld the 
 Mercury y he himfelf in the Speedwel went 
 to plunder the village of 'fayta, which was 
 juft under our lee, and where we might 
 eafily have joind him, had he imparted his de- 
 Jign to us : however we had not cruifed long 
 in fight of Cape Blanco, when we took a 
 Xmall bark with a good parcel of chocolate 
 and flower. There was an elderly gentle 
 woman aboard, and a thin old fryer, whom 
 2 we 
 
r A Vo Y AG E round the Wo it Ux 24 f 
 
 kept two or three days; and after taking 
 out what we wanted, we difcharged the 
 bark and them together. 
 
 Soon after this we took the pink which 
 Shelvocke calls the rich prize : She had no 
 jealoufy of our being an enemy, but kept 
 her way to the fouth ward, till feeing the 
 Mercury ftanding towards her (he began to 
 fiifpeft us. About noon fhe*puts the helm 
 hard a weather, and crowded all the fail 
 flie could afore the wind : and being in 
 her ballaft this was the beft of her failing, 
 which alfo proved the greateft advantage 
 they could give us ; for had fhe held her 
 Wind, we in our flat bottom could have 
 had no fhare in her. About ten at night^ 
 with rowing and hard failing, we got with 
 in (hot of the chafe and brought her to, 
 being pretty near the fhore : they were about 
 feventy perfons aboard, thirty of which 
 were Nigros. Hat/ey, I remember, upon 
 going aboard left me and 'Prejfick with 
 four more hands in the Mercury ; where we 
 continued two or three days, till a heavy 
 fhower of rain (hardly ever known upon 
 that coaft, and which Shelvocke takes notice 
 of p. 185) fpoild all our bread and other dry 
 R, provifion^ 
 
24 2 A Vo TAG E round the Wo RL&. 
 provifion 5 it was then time for us to get a : 
 board the prize, which we did 5 fending 
 three hands afterwards to take care of the 
 Mercury. 
 
 We flood off and on the faid cape feven 
 or eight days expeding to meet with the 
 Speedwell and there we fet afhorethe Spanish 
 captain, the padre, and fome gentlemen pa 
 fengers. At lift we fpyd a fail about five 
 leagues diftance, plying to windward: not 
 doubting it was the Speedwel or Success, we 
 flood towards her, while {he kept edging 
 towards us. About ten in the morning 
 we were got near enough to difcover it 
 was a warlike {hip, as (he proved ; tho' nei 
 ther of thofe we wiihd for. The mafter 
 of our prize had before informd us, that he 
 met the Brilliant man of war cruifing for 
 our privatiers ; which till now we intirely 
 difregarded. 
 
 Hereupon captain Hatley advifing with 
 me what to ^ we concluded that fome 
 advantage might be made of the informa 
 tion given us by the Spaniard: that as the 
 Brilliant had fpoke fo lately with the pink, 
 probably there would not be manyqueilions 
 asked now. Upon which Hatley and I 
 
 dreft 
 
Jtf Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 245 
 
 dreft our felves like Spaniards, and hoiftcd 
 Spanijh colours : we confined our prifoners 
 in the great cabin, fuffering none of them 
 but the Indians and Nigros to appeaf upon 
 deck, that the pink might look as file did 
 before 5 in which contrivance we had fuc- 
 ceded, but for the obftinacy ofjdhn Sprake? 
 whom we could riot keep off the deck. 
 
 As the Admiral came up he fired a gim 
 to leeward : hereupon we lowerd our top- 
 fails, making eafy fail till we got along 
 fide of him. Their firft qucftion was, 
 if we had heard any thing of the EngltjK 
 privatier* we anfwerd, No. The next was, 
 how it happend we were got no farther in 
 our way to Lima ? We anfwerd, by reafon 
 i)f the currents. They askd us two or three 
 more queftions, which we (till anfwerd iri 
 Spanish. They feemd thoroughly farisfyd 5 
 and were juft getting theif tacks abbara in 
 order to leave us, when the faid Sprake and 
 two more of ouf men appeard on the triain 
 deck : a Frenchman aboard the admiral look 
 ing out at the maft-head fpyd their long 
 trowfers, by which knowing them to be 
 Englijh he ctyd cut, pat T>ieu Monfieur, 
 Us font Anglois, they ^re Englishmen. Upod 
 
 R 3s 
 
2-44 'A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLB. 
 this they immediately fired a broad fide m^ 
 to us with round and partridge fhot , by 
 one of which Hatley was flightly wounded 
 in the head. 
 
 After we had furrenderd they took all 
 the Englifh aboard them, and put a couple 
 of their own officers into the prize. The 
 admiral then bore down to the Mercury a- 
 bout two leagues to leeward, and tho' they 
 fired at leaft twenty five guns into her, the 
 .three men efcaped unhurt ; and the veflel 
 tho' full of water had not weight enough to 
 carry her to the bottom* After taking in 
 the three men, our commander *Don Tedro 
 Midranda went in to Tayta carrying the 
 pink with him, where he fet us afhore. He 
 orderd me to Tiura about forty mile up the 
 country ; and did me the favour to let Vref- 
 Jick the furgeon and Cobs a marine ferjeant 
 go with me : but captain Hatley and the 
 reft he fent under a guard , with mules to 
 carry them to Lima, which is above four 
 hundred miles further on the coaft 5 the rea- 
 fon of which I have partly given at the clofe 
 of my fecond fection : for the cape Frio 
 ftory being blown, and the moydors found 
 upon Hatley, they had a mind the thing 
 
 fiiould 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 245 
 
 fliould be fifted and the guilty punifhd. The 
 admiral having taken in water and refrefli- 
 ments, quickly put to Tea again in queft of 
 the British privatiers, defigning to take us 
 up to Lima as he came back. 
 
 The weather in this latitude being too 
 hot, the euftom is to travel from fix in 
 the evening till eight in the morning. My 
 Indian guide fet me on the bed mule he 
 had, which not earing to follow company, 
 I led my fellow travellers the way till ten 
 a clock. While day-light lafted, lobferved 
 the country one open plain, with Indian 
 plantations regularly enough cantond out 
 on each fide of us. This level is from 39 
 to ico mile broad, and extends 300 mile a- 
 long fliore 5 for I am now going to the 
 fouthward, having the Cordileer mountains 
 on the left hand, and the great ocean on 
 the right. If this land was well waterd, as 
 the foil is pleafant and fertile, it might be 
 as fine a country as any : but travellers are 
 here obliged to carry water for their mules 
 as well as themfelves. At the approach of 
 night we were puzzled in the way : I of 
 ten found my felf ftopt by great hills of 
 fand, and my jimle as often indeavourd to 
 
 3 
 
34 A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 pull the reins out of my hand, which pro 
 ving troublefome, the Indian advifed me to 
 throw the reins on the mule's neck 5 and 
 as foqn as that was done the creature eafily 
 hit the way. Thefe fands are often fhifted 
 by from place to place, which I take to be 
 pccafiond by the ftrpng eddies of wind re 
 verberated from the mountains. At night 
 we reftcd a little at an old empty houfe in 
 a coppice about half way, which the guide 
 told us was built by the inhabitants of Tiura, 
 for the accommodation of the prince St. 
 Bueno viceroy of Terit, where they met 
 him in formality and regaled him. 
 
 At fcyen in the morning we arrived at 
 'phtra, being a regular handfom town fcitu- 
 atc on the banks of the river Collan. The 
 Indian conduced us to the houfe of a good 
 Sfanijb, gentleman and his wife, who having 
 received his charge 3 the guide returnd to 
 9$f&. In a quarter of an hour's time the 
 towns people flockd in to fee the rary fhovv j 
 and inftead of being ufed like prisoners at 
 difcretion, we were entertaind with refpeft 
 and civility, which we were not fure to meetj, 
 With. Our landlord, 1 ihould lay keeper's 
 na:v,e was 'Don Jeronimo Baldmiefo. He 
 
 had 
 
'A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 2 47 
 
 had five daughters, upon the fight of which 
 and their candid way of receiving us, ,we 
 hoped our time would flide eafily away, and 
 our captivity prove agreeable. I began now 
 to be fenfible of the admiral's favour in or 
 dering us to this place ; for he had fuch 
 intereft in all the kingdom of Tern, that for 
 his fake we found good genteel treatment. 
 Soon as we had refreflid ourfclves, ac 
 cording to the cuftom of the place, with 
 chocolate, biskets and water; we were di 
 verted with the found of a Welch harp in 
 fome inner apartment : the artift had good 
 command of it; for I heard parts of feve- 
 ral famous Italian, as well as English com- 
 pofitions; and upon inquiry, was informd 
 that all the Spaniards daughters had learnd 
 niufic, and fung orplayd upon fome inftru- 
 ment or other. Tho' at firft this feemd a little 
 unaccountable to us, yet I afterwards found 
 that mufic was common in Teru: for the 
 Italian party having a few years before prc- 
 vaild at the court of Madrid., the faid vice 
 roy prince St. Bueno who was an Itali 
 an, had brought a great many muficians of 
 that country along with him $ which has 
 R. 4 now 
 
2 4 8 -^ Vo Y AG E round the Wo RIJX 
 now ; fpread mufic every where, and is a 
 good in Tent as in old Spain. 
 
 This I thought proper to mention, be- 
 caufe by means of mufic and an inoffenfive 
 carriage, we lived in good harmony with 
 thofe who had a right to treat us as enemies. 
 
 It was a practice here every day for the 
 neighbours to come and view us 5 at which 
 I was well enough diverted : for Cobs be 
 ing my ferjeant, we haci exercifed the brown 
 n^usket together 5 fo that we turnd readily 
 about to (hew our felves: but Mr. TreJJick 
 hung down his head., and grew melan 
 choly. 
 
 fayta being the; place, as I faid afore, 
 where the pedlars or walking merchants* are 
 fet afhore, they make fPiura their firft ftage 
 to Ltima^ difpofing of their goods and lef- 
 fening their burthens as they go along: 
 jfome take the road through Caxamarcai 
 others through Truxillo along fhore. From 
 
 O> C3 
 
 Lima they take their paffage back to ^Panfr 
 wta by fca; and perhaps carry a little pur- 
 chafe of brandy with them. At 'Panama, 
 they again ftock themfelves with European 
 goods, returning by fea to fayta, where they 
 are fct down: there they hire mules and 
 
 load 
 
r A Vo y AG E round the Wo RLD. 249 
 
 load them ; the Indians going with them, 
 in order to bring them back: and fo thefe 
 traders keep in a continual round till they 
 have got enough to live on. Their travel 
 ing expcnfes are next to nothing $ for the/w- 
 dians are brought under fuch fubjedion, that 
 they find lodging for them, and provender for 
 their mules. This every white face may com 
 mand, being a homage the poor Indians are 
 long accuftomd to pay ; and fome think they 
 have an honour done them into the bargain, 
 except out of generofity they now and then 
 meet with a fmallrecompenfe. In the Bri- 
 tife and French nation a pedlar is defpifed, 
 and his imployment lookd upon as a mean 
 fhift to get a living : but it is otherwife 
 here, where the quick return of money is 
 a fufficient excufe for the manner of getting 
 it. And there are many gentlemen in Old 
 Spain, who, when their circumftances in 
 life are declining, fend their fons to the/* 
 dies to retrieve their fortune this very way. 
 
 Our lodging was in an outhoufe purpofe- 
 ly kept for thefe traveling merchants. Ac 
 cording to the Spanifh cuftom, we had our 
 dinner- fent to table under cover, where 
 Jeronimo and we eat together 5 while 
 
 the 
 
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 the good lady of the houfe and her daugh 
 ters fat together in another room : this is 
 the practice at all meals, and if any ftrong 
 liquors are drank, it is then. In all our con- 
 dud: I think the good Spaniard was never 
 difoblig-ed, except once when he faw me 
 drinking a drarn with the doftor at a little 
 victualing houfe. As nothing is more dif* 
 agreeable to the Spaniards than drunken- 
 iiefs, I had much ado to make amends for 
 this ftcp towards it, tho' they eafily admit 
 <of gallantry in the rnoft familiar degree: 
 fo that 'tis only changing one enormity for 
 another. Here are feveral churches cndowd $ 
 one convent of Francifcans, and a femi- 
 nary for youth instructed by two Jefuits. 
 
 After we had part about fix weeks at *Pi 
 ura, our Indian guide came again to wait 
 on us to Tayia, the man of war being re- 
 turnd. When we were upon the point of 
 taking leave, our furgeon was miffing, which 
 retarded us a day longer : they had con- 
 ceald him in the town, and defignd to 
 keep him there, being a very ufefiil man : 
 and if he could have had a fupply of medi 
 cines, he might foon have made a handfom 
 fortune. However the next day we mount- 
 
T A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 251 
 d our mules and parted with great reluc 
 tance, efpecially with ^Don Jeronimo and 
 his family. 
 
 We went aboard the Brilliant at *Payta, 
 which having done nothing at fea, made a 
 fort of cruifing voyage to Callao, the port 
 of Lima. The civility I received from the 
 admiral or general of the South-Seas, as he 
 is there calld, is what I have touchd upon 
 at the end of my firft feftion, both before 
 we were fet afhore at fayta, and in our 
 paffage from thence to Callao. I {hall only 
 add one particular to the honour of Monjt- 
 eur de Grange, a captain under the general.' 
 Soon as we were taken by the Brilliant* 
 as aforefaid, this gentleman feeing the fol- 
 diers had ftript us, being the conquerers 
 ufual perquifit in all thefe cafes ; he gene* 
 roufly gave me a handfom fute of clothes, 
 two pair of filk ftockins, a hat, wig, fliirts, 
 and every thing according. We arrived at 
 Lima in about five weeks, and were im 
 mediately committed to the fame prifotv 
 where the reft of our companions were fent, 
 except tjatley, who, having a particular mark 
 fet on him, was confined by himfelf. And 
 1 can't help remarking, tho' Mr. Hatley. 
 
252 A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD^ 
 
 was no friend to me, that it was a cruel 
 thing in Shelvocke to fend him of all men 
 upon that enterprize in the Mercury. For 
 when captain Rogers came into thefe feas 
 upon alikecruife 1709, &#/<?/ upon fomc 
 occafion was feparated from him, and made 
 aprifoner afterwards upon the continent: 
 and now being catchd the fecond time, 
 \vith the aggravation of the "Tortuguefe mo 
 ney found upon him, he had like to have 
 been torn to pieces. 
 
 The court of judges went foon upon 
 the examination of our ftory, and drew up 
 a charge againft us as pyrates : fmce by the 
 jnoidors found upon Hat ley, it appe-ard they 
 were taken from the fubje&s of a prince 
 in perfect amity with the crown of England: 
 it was happy for us that the viceroy 
 ^Diego Marfilioi, who was an archbi- 
 fhop and in the decline of life, was pleafed 
 coolly to difcriminate the affair, and find 
 ing really but one of us guilty, would not 
 fign any order for ftiedding innocent blood. 
 As for H&tley, fome were for fending him 
 to the mines for life 5 others for hanging him : 
 but the feverai accounts of capt. Sbcfooekt's 
 vile proccdings contributed to his delive- 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 253? 
 
 Iratlce, the truth of which here were enough 
 of our people at Lima to witnefs. For 
 befides lieutenant Serjeantfon and his men 
 who were brought hither, here came the 
 men whom Shelvocke fent with Hopkins to 
 fhift for themfelves in a poor empty bark y 
 who for want of fuftenance were forced ta 
 furrender to the Indians : fo that the court 
 finding Shefaocke more a principal in the 
 pyratical ftory than Hatley, and believing 
 we had been plagued enough before we 
 came hither, they thought fit to let us all go 
 by degrees. Hatley indeed was kept in irons 
 about a twelvemonth, and then got to 
 England. 
 
 I was releafed out of prifon in about ten 
 days, by the intereft of captain Fit&gerald 
 a native of St. Mdlo y who was in favour 
 with the viceroy, and paft his word for my 
 limitation at Lima. Upon inquiry for 
 Mr. Serjeantfon and his men, I understood 
 that moft of them had taken up the religion 
 of the country, had been chriftend, and 
 were difperfed among the convents in the 
 city. The firft that I faw had got his new 
 catechife in one hand, and a pair of large 
 beads dangling in the other. I foiled, and 
 
 askd 
 
254 A Vo V AG E r0#*fc/ f A* Wo RLD . 
 
 askd the fellow how he liked it : he faid 
 very well ; for having his religion tochufe, 
 he thought this better than none, fince it 
 brought him good meat and drink, and a 
 quiet life. Many of Shetvocke's men fol- 
 lowd this example 5 and I may venture to fay 
 this was as good a reafon as moft of, our 
 people could give for their conformity. Tho' 
 'tis reckond very meritorious to make a con 
 vert, and many arguments were ufed for 
 that end 5 yet was there no rigour fliewn 
 to bring any of us over. Thofe who thought 
 fit to be baptized, had generally fome of 
 the merchants of Lima for tbarpaittfnri 
 or god-fathers, who never faild giving their 
 children a fute of clothes, and fome money 
 to drink their healths. 
 
 About this time four or five of Clipper- 
 tons men , aad as many of Shelvocke's got 
 leave from their convents to meet toge 
 ther at a public houfe kept by one John 
 Belly an Englifhrnan, who had a Nigro 
 \vife that for fome ferviccs or other had got 
 her freedom. The defign of this meeting 
 was to confirm their new baptifm with a 
 bowl of punch : the confequence of which 
 was, they all got drunk and quareld ; and 
 3 forget- 
 
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 forgeting they v/ere true catholics, miftook 
 an image of fome good faint that flood in 
 a corner for one of their own company, 
 knockd him down, and demolifhd him, I 
 miffing the fellows for a few days, inquired 
 at Johns houfe what was become of them. 
 He told me the ftory, and faid they were 
 all put in the Inqutfition 5 for the thing hav 
 ing took air, he was obliged to complain 
 of it, or go there himfelf : but promifed 
 that underhand he would indeavour to get 
 them rcleafcdj which I found afterwards 
 was done in five days : fo that they had time 
 enough to fay their catechife, repent and be 
 fober. Bell faid, if the men had ftill re- 
 maind heretics, this drunken-bout had not 
 come within the verge of the ecclefiaftical 
 power; but being novices, and juft let into 
 the church, they were the eafier pardond ; 
 fince their outrage upon the faint was no 
 proof of their relapfe into error, or an af 
 front to the catholic faith, becaufe they 
 were all diforderd with liquor. 
 
 At length about a dozen men of both, 
 our fhips, being now pretty well inftrufted, 
 were difcharged from the cloyfters, and lent 
 to Callao to help careen and fie out the Fly 
 ing 
 
z$6 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLIX 
 
 ingFiJh, then defignd for Europe. Here 
 they enterd into aprojeft to run away with 
 the Margarita, a pretty failing fhip that 
 lay in the harbour, and go upon the account 
 for themfelves : but not knowing what tb 
 do for ammunition and a compafs, they 
 applyd to Mr. Serjeantfon, telling him they 
 had a defign to fteal away by land to Ta- 
 nama, where being an English fadory, they 
 might have a chance to get home 5 that they 
 had got half a dozen firelocks with \Vhich 
 they could kill wild hogs or get fome game 
 as they went along, if he would be fo kind 
 to help them to a little powder and fhor, 
 and a compafs to fteer their way through 
 the woods: the fellows, by begging and 
 making catholic figns to the good people at 
 Lima, that they were poor English newly 
 baptized,had got together fome dollars which 
 they defired Serjeant fon to lay out; who 
 not miftrufting the plot, took their money 
 and bought them what they wanted. Thus 
 furnifht one of them came to me at Lima, 
 and faid there was an opportunity offered 
 to make my fortune, by running away with 
 the Margarita at Callao, if I would imbrace 
 it : whereupon he told me the (lory, and 
 
 that 
 
'A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 257 
 
 that Sprake was to have the command, as 
 being the only artift among them. I anf- 
 werd that it was a bold defign ; but as cap 
 tain Fitzgerald had ingaged for my honour, 
 I was obliged not to meddle with it. In a 
 few days the plot was difcoverd, their lodg 
 ings were fearchd, their arms taken away 
 and they put in prifon. The government 
 was greatly provoked, and had near deter 
 mined their execution, when an order came 
 to releafe all but Sprake 5 who being the 
 projedor was kept in irons two or three 
 months and then fet free. I believe, in 
 this affair their late conformity did them 
 great fervice : but both thefe ftories are an 
 argument, that neither the church norjlate 
 are fo rigorous in *Peru, as the Romifi do 
 minions in Europe. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 ^Defcribing the City of Lima. 
 
 IMA is the metropolis of Teru and 
 
 the feat of an archbifliop. Tis a re- 
 
 gu ; built city, the ftreets all ftrait and ipa- 
 
 cious : fo that you go thro' it almoft any 
 
 S 
 
25 s A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 way without turning a corner. It i$ com- 
 pofed of little fquares like St. Jago the ca 
 pital of Chili, which is copyd from this. It 
 ftands in an open vale , having only a gen 
 tle ftream to water it , and which divides it 
 as \htThames dos London from Southward 
 allowing for the great difproportion. The 
 port of. Lima is at Callao feven mile below 
 it. The houfes are only one ftory high, 
 of twelve or fourteen foot, becaufe of the 
 frequent earthquakes in that country. There 
 -are about eight parifhes, three colleges for 
 ftudents, twenty eight monafteries of fryers, 
 and thirteen monafteries of nuns : fo that 
 the religious take up a fourth part of the 
 city. However by the eafy flow of money, 
 and the vaft fums bcqucathd, being the ef- 
 feds of celibacy, they are all well endowd 
 and fupported. Befides which, there are two 
 hofpitals for the fick, ppor and difabled ; 
 and where feveral of our men were kindly 
 lookt after. The length of the city from 
 north to fouth is two mile : the breadth one 
 and a half ; the wall with the river making 
 a circumference of fix mile. On the eafl 
 fide of the ftream lies the other part, of the 
 city 5 being joynd by a very handibm ftone 
 .bridge of five or. feven arches. I com- 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 259 
 
 I compute there are now fixty or feventy 
 thoufand perfons in Lima y all forts and co- 
 lours included : and I don't wonder at any 
 multiplication in a city which is the centre 
 of fo much affluence and pleafure. For be- 
 fides the natural increafe of the inhabitants, 
 all fhips which trade that way, whether pri 
 vate or public, generally leave fome defer- 
 ters who chufe to ftay behind for the in- 
 couragement all white faces meet with. 
 
 The Inhabitants are thus diftinguiflit. 
 
 Spaniards Natives of old Spain. 
 
 Creolians . . . Born in America of white parents. 
 
 Mulattasm .! i I flue of white and nigro. 
 
 Meftizos M Iffue of white and indi&n. 
 
 Quartron nigros Born of zuhite and mulatta. 
 
 Quartron Indians Born of white and mftizo. 
 Sambo de mulatto. Nigro and mulatta. 
 
 Sambo de indian Nigro and Indian* 
 
 Iffue offam&o mulatto,, and fambo indian arc 
 calld giveros. Thefe are lookt on as having 
 the worft inclinations and principles j and 
 if the caft is known, they are banifht the 
 kingdom. 
 
 Hence precede endlefs denominations ac 
 cording to the variety of mixture : and fome 
 people make a fcience of it, to know the 
 S 2 multi- 
 
26o A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 multiplicity of cafts and give them a name : 
 but the forementiond are the chief and moft 
 particular. It is counted creditable to mend 
 the breed by afcending or growing whiter ; 
 but a defcent or caft the other way is calld 
 faltatras ; from fait are retro, to go back 
 ward 5 and is lookd upon as bafe born and 
 fcandalous. 
 
 The difference of birth and parentage 
 xaufes an obfervation pleafant enough : for 
 they are as great ftrangers to each other as 
 chevaliers arc in France , or graduates and 
 icholars in our univerfities. So that a quar- 
 tron indtan will hardly keep company with 
 a mulatto, : and a mefli&o thinks himfelf a 
 king to zfambo. 
 
 Of all parts of the world, thepeoplc here 
 are moft expenfive in their habit. The men 
 dreis as they do in England, their coats be 
 ing cither of filk, or fine Englifl cloth, 
 and hair camblets imbroiderd or laced with 
 gold and filvcr, and their waiftcoats com 
 monly the beft brocades. The women never 
 wear hoops or ftays , only a flicht holland 
 jacket next their (hifts : they generally throw 
 over their fhoulders a Iquarc piece of fwan- 
 skin fiannel intircly covcrd with Flanders 
 
 lace, 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 261 
 
 lace, bcfides the filver or gold lace round 
 the peticoat : when they walk out , the 
 Creolian women are veild, but not thc-Mu- 
 latta^ and till the age of thirty or forty 
 they wear no headcloths : their hair be- 
 ing tyed behind with fine ribands. But the 
 pride of both fexes appears chiefly in Maclm 
 and Brujfels hcc, with which they trim their 
 linen in a moft extravagant manner, not 
 omitting their {heets and pillows. Befide the 
 outward covering of the mantle aforefaid, 
 their linen is doubly borderd with it top 
 and bottom, with ruffles of four or five 
 furbelows hanging down to the knee. Then 
 as to pearls and coftly ftones, whidi they 
 wear in rings and bracelets for the neck and 
 arms, they are very immoderate ; though the 
 value is hardly equal to the appearance. 
 
 Of all the convents in Lima, that of 
 St. "Domingo is the richeft , and Francifco 
 the largeft. The provincial or governer of 
 the 'Dominicans is chofen tripnnially out 
 of their own body, and his income above 
 icven thouiand pound a year. I was prc- 
 fcnt at one election, which I mention be- 
 caufe of the great fplendor and cofl which 
 attended it. A large triumphal arch was 
 S 3 built 
 
z6z A V o YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 built crofs the ftreet : the infide lined with 
 fcarlet cloth and velvet, and hung all over 
 with jewels and wrought plate. Thro 1 this 
 the principal people of Lima paft with the 
 new provincial at their head 5 where he 
 ftopd to hear a fhort oration pronounced 
 by a girl upon that occafion, and then went 
 to his convent to finifh the folemnity. 
 
 The procefllons in Lima are made with 
 more fhow and pageantry than thofe in 
 Europe , and are fometimes very extrava 
 gant. I was prcfent at that noted one when 
 the image of St. ^Dominic goes to church 
 to wait upon that of St. Francis, which is 
 attended with a deal of firework and equi 
 page : and I doubt not the managers of 
 our opera and comedy would improve much 
 by feeing the odd figures and machinery 
 of this grand vifit, which is made yearly to 
 keep up the fmgular cfteem the Spaniards 
 have for thofe two orders. Tho' thefe ex. 
 pcnfes arc profufe, yet at Lima they are 
 common, where the begging fryers often 
 die p oil eft of dollars, from the value of ten 
 to twenty thoufand pound. One inftancc 
 of the riches of this place , I was told by 
 feycral who rememberd it : that when the 
 
 duke 
 
A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 261 
 
 duke de la *Plata their viceroy made his 
 entry, the inhabitants paved the merchant 
 fhreet thro* which he paft with bars of filver, 
 each of which was 2500 dollars at leafr : 
 which piece of finery I can liken to nothing 
 but the account we have of Jerufalem in 
 the days of king Solomon. 
 
 The viceroy has a handfome palace in 
 the great quadrangle of the city 5 which I 
 take to be near as large as Lincolns- Inn- 
 Fields at London. His falary is ten thou- 
 fand pound a year, and his perquifits double 
 that fum : and tho' his government expires 
 at three, four, or five years end as the king 
 pleafcs , yet 'tis fuppofed he makes a good 
 fortune for life 5 for he has all: places in 
 his gift, both in the government and army 
 throughout Teru, except particular perfons 
 are fent or nominated by the king. 
 
 The judicial court confifts of twelve judges, 
 not to mention the inferior officers, council 
 and (olicitors. Here all caufes fhould come to 
 be decided $ but they are too often determined 
 aforehand in favour of the party who gives 
 mod mony. And tho' thefe vaft dominions a- 
 bound in riches, yet there is not abundance 
 of work for the lawyers j becaufe the fta- 
 S 4 tutes 
 
254 A VOYAG E round the Wo RLD." 
 
 tutes are few and plain : which is certainly 
 happier than a multitude of laws explaining 
 one another 'till they are fo intricate that 
 the iflue of a caufe depends more upon the 
 eraft of the folicitor and advocate, than the 
 truth of the cafe. Moreover, a multipli 
 cation of laws begets an infinity of attor 
 neys and council, who live high and great 
 upon the diftrefles of other people, and as 
 often argue a man out of his right as into 
 it. 
 
 Yet in Tern there arc corregidors or ma- 
 giftrates in diftriets from Lima who find 
 ways and means to opprcfs the poor In 
 dians , notwithitanding they are perjured 
 if they trade with them. Thefe natives 
 live chiefly by husbandry and working the 
 mines 5 and the Spanish court have found 
 it ncceiiaiy to forbid the corregidors trading 
 >vith them, in order to fecure them a quiet 
 pofleillon ,of the fruit of theii labour. To 
 evade this path, another peribn under-hand 
 procures a parcel of European goods and 
 eliipcries ,them among the Indians, who, 
 tho' they want none of them, muft buy 
 them at 3 or 400 per cent, more than prime 
 coft 5 a time being pofitivcly fixt for the 
 money. Theiq 
 
T A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 265 
 
 Thefc hardfhips arc pad retrieving , be- 
 caufe every magiftrate knows his reign to 
 be but fhort, and if he don't make a for 
 tune he is laught at : So that they wink at 
 one another j and the great diftance between 
 *Peru and Spain is a reafon the king's or 
 ders are feldom regarded, being two years 
 going backward and forward : whence a- 
 rife many clandeftine doings. For accord 
 ing to law, the kingfhould have a twentieth 
 part of all gold, and a fifth part of all fil- 
 ver j but there are vaft quantities that never 
 pay duty carryd privately over the conti 
 nent the north way, as well as the fouth 
 way by trading (hips. And tho' there are 
 prodigious fumsallowd for militia, garifons, 
 aud repairs of fortifications : yet it is not one 
 half applyd. From all which it is eafy to 
 imagine what immenfe revenues would come 
 to the treafury at Madrid , if his Catholic 
 majefty was but faithfully ferved. 
 
 The country in Tent is naturally fubjcct 
 to earthquakes : and I have heard that the 
 Englifh plantations in the north of Ame 
 rica have felt them. At Lima they had 
 two great ones about fifty years ago, which 
 ovcrturnd houfcs, churches and convents : 
 
 and 
 
266 AVo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 and in the reign of Charles the late king of 
 Spain, there was an earthquake near the 
 equinoctial line that lifted up whole fields, 
 and carryd them feveral miles off. Small 
 fliocks are often felt without doing any 
 harm ; and I have been two or three times 
 calld out of bed when fuch a thing has hap- 
 pend, tho' we have heard no more of it : 
 but upon thefe occafions the bells always 
 toll to prayers. 
 
 Notwithftanding this country, efpecially 
 nigh the coaft, has fufferd much by earth 
 quakes; yet their churches are lofty enough, ^ 
 and neatly built. That part of their archi 
 tecture which requires moft ftrength is ge 
 nerally finifht with burnt bricks 5 but their 
 houfes are all built with bambo canes and 
 bricks dryd only by the weather, which are 
 durable enough becaufe it never rains. The 
 covering is a matting with afhes upon it 
 to keep out the dews, which is all the wet 
 they have. 
 
 The fmall river of Lima is moftly fnow 
 \vatcr dcfccnding from the neighbouring 
 mountains, which are coverd all the year 
 with fnow ; but partly diffolved in the fum- 
 nier feafon, which is from September to 
 
 March. 
 
'A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 267 
 
 March. One would exped it much hotter 
 thereabouts than it is, there being no pro 
 portion between the heat of, this climate 
 in America and the fame degree of latitude 
 in Africa 5 for which there are two rea- 
 fons : one is the cool temper of the air pro- 
 ceding from the congealed fnow on the 
 mountains, which diffufes it felf every way: 
 the other is, the humidity of the vapours 
 which hang over the plains, and which are 
 fo frequent, that when 1 came firft to Lima, 
 I often expeded it would rain. Thefe va 
 pours are not fo coarfe, low and humble 
 as our fogs, nor feparated above like our 
 fummer clouds 5 but an exhalation between 
 both, being fpread all round, as when we 
 fay the day is ovcrcaft. So that fometimes 
 a fine dew is felt upon the outward garments 
 and difcernd by the eye upon the nap of 
 the cloth. This is a happy convenience at 
 Lima., the people being thus fcreend one 
 half of the day from the fun 5 and tho' the 
 afternoon be funfhine, 'tis very tolerable be 
 ing mixt with the fea breezes, and not near 
 fo hot as at Lisbon, and fome parts of Spain 
 in Europe which arc thirty degrees further 
 from the equator;. 
 
 The 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 The want of rain in this part of the con 
 tinent obliged the poor, I fliould fay happy 
 Indians, before the conqueft, to make dreins 
 and canals for bringing down water from 
 among the diftant mountains : which they 
 have done with fuch great labour and skill 
 that the vallies are kindly refrefht, producing 
 grafs, corn, and variety of fruits : to which 
 the aforefaid dews may alfo a little contri 
 bute. 
 
 Zarate the Spam]h hiftorian has given 
 us the natural catife of this perpetual drought. 
 He obferves that the fouth-wcft winds blow 
 upon the 'Peruvian coaft all the year round ; 
 and the ocean is therefore calld pacific, be- 
 caufe the winds never difturb the waters. 
 Theie eafy gales always bear away the va 
 pours from' the plains before they can rife 
 and form a body fuffi'cient to dcfcend in a 
 ihowcr : but when they are carryd farther 
 and higher, they grow more compact and 
 at length fall by their own weight into 
 rain. 
 
 This is fo fair and rational an account, 
 that 1 wonder Monfieur Fre&ier has affeded 
 to contradict it. 'Tis convincing to a ftranger; 
 and to moft gentlemen there who are cu 
 rious 
 
T A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 269 
 
 rious enough to think about It. Any one 
 who reads Frezier's voyage may fee he 
 has not only miftaken the Spaniard, but 
 given us long conjectures of his own, very 
 confufed and improbable. 
 
 They have plenty of cattle ? fowl and 
 fifh ; and all provifion common to us ex 
 cept butter 5 inftead of which they always 
 ufe lard. They have oyl, wine and brandy 
 enough, tho' not fo good as in Europe. 
 They drink much of the jefuits herb ca- 
 mini brought from ^Paraguay by land 5 for 
 all Eaft-India tea is forbid. They make a 
 decoftion of it, and fuck it through a pipe 
 or quill. It is generally here calld mattea> 
 being the name of the bowl out of which 
 they drink it. Chocolate is their ufual break- 
 faft and a grace-cup after dinner : Some 
 times they drink a glafs of brandy for di- 
 geftion, but fcarcc any wine at all. In the 
 kingdom of Chili they make a little butter, 
 fuch as it is 5 and their way of doing it is 
 remarkable. The cream is put into a iheep- 
 skin ftript off whole, and kept on purpofe : 
 after tying the ends faft, two women lay it 
 on a table , and fhake it and fowfe it be 
 tween them 'till it comes. 
 
 i Tho' 
 
270 A Vo YAG E romd the Wo RLD.' 
 
 Tho' the Spaniards are no friends to the 
 bottle, yet gallantry and intrigue are here 
 brought to perfection, for they devote fo 
 much of their time to the fervice of the 
 fair fex, that Venus feems here to keep her 
 court. It is unmannerly not to have a mif- 
 trefs, and fcandalous not to keep her well. 
 As for the women they have many accom- 
 plifliments both natural and acquired $ their 
 converfation is free and fprightly, their mo 
 tion graceful, their looks winning, and their 
 words ingaging : they, have all a delicate 
 fliape, not injured with ftiff bodyd ftays, 
 but left to the beauty of nature 5 fo that 
 there's no fuch thing as a crooked body a- 
 mong them. Their eyes and teeth are par 
 ticularly excellent, and their hair being ge 
 nerally of a dark poliflit hue is finely combd, 
 and platted ortyd behind with ribands, but 
 never difguifed with powder : for the bright- 
 nefs of their skin round the temples appears 
 very well (haded thro' the hair like light 
 thro* a landskip. 
 
 Tho' thefe amours are univerfal at Lima, 
 yet the men are careful enough to hide them j 
 for no indecent word or aftion is allowd 
 in public. They have two ufual times for 
 
 thefe 
 
jf Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD^ 27 1 
 
 thefe entertainments : one is at thcjie/la or- 
 afternoons nap, which is commonly with 
 the miftrefs 5 the other is in the evening 
 crofs the water in calafhes, or at the great 
 fquare in the town where the calafhes meet 
 in great numbers towards the dusk : thefe are 
 flung like our coaches, but fmaller 3 and many 
 of them fit only for two fitting oppofite. 
 They are always drawn by one mule with 
 the nigro driver upon his back : and it is 
 ufual among thefe calafhes to obferve fe- 
 veral of them with the windows clofe up, 
 {landing ftill for half an hour together. 
 
 In thefe paftimes they have feveral cuftoms 
 
 peculiar to themfelves. After evening prayers 
 
 the gentleman changes his drefs, from a cloak 
 
 into a montero or jocky coat, with a linen 
 
 laced cap and a hankerchief about his neck 
 
 inftead of a wig. If he wears his hair itmuft 
 
 be tuckt under a cap, and that flapt all down : 
 
 fo that it is a univerfal fafhion to be difguifed 
 
 fome way or other ; for thofe who have no 
 
 tniftrefs are afhamed to be thought ftridly 
 
 virtuous, and muft be in fome mask or o- 
 
 ther to countenance the way of the world. 
 
 But as all this is night work, they have an 
 
 eftablilht rule to prevent quarels, which is 
 
 i never 
 
272 A Vo TAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 never to fpeak or take notice of one ano 
 ther; whether they are going in queft of 
 amorous game, or vifiting their ladies : fo 
 that in (hort the forepart of the night is a 
 maiquerade all the year round. 
 
 Among that rank of people who don't 
 keep calafhes there are feveral points to be 
 obfcrved. Particularly when they take the 
 evening air, one couple never walks clofe up 
 on the heels of another ; but to prevent the 
 publifhing any fecret whifpers, each couple 
 walks at the diftance of twelve yards at 
 leaft : and if any lady drops a fan or any 
 thing by accident, a gentleman may civilly 
 take it up 5 but he muft not give it to the 
 lady, but the gentleman who is with her ; 
 for (he may be the fifter or wife of him that 
 takes it up : and as the women are all veiid, 
 thefe wife laws areinftituted to prevent any 
 impertinent difcoveries. A freedom of that 
 kind is lookt upon as the highcft affront 
 in all gallantry, and merits a drawn fword 
 thro' the liver. They are fo careful in thefe 
 rules, that if a man fees his intimate friend 
 any where with a girl, he muft in no wife 
 take notice of him, or fpeak of it afterwards : 
 
 Thefe 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 273 
 
 Thcfe things are all done with the greateft 
 gravity imaginable 5 and thus the pradice 
 of love becomes decent^ fafe and eafy : fo 
 that a man may poflefs his miftrefs without 
 any vifible inconvenience, and fpend all 
 the money he has in the world without 
 fear of brawls, duels, or a roundhoufe : not 
 like the rude hectoring blades and prentices 
 of a certain northern metropolis who are 
 continually affronting the female fex, with 
 fhocking words or fcandalous adions. 
 
 Altho' the commerce of love is here fo 
 regularly fettled , yet there are fome jea- 
 loufies now and then fubfifting, which fome 
 times have ended fatally. There was a ftory 
 of this fort pretty freih when I was at Lima. 
 A young lady had for fome time, as fhe 
 thought, been fovereign miftrefs of her lo 
 ver's heart ; but by cruel chance fhe found 
 him in company with another woman, and 
 perhaps a handfome one. As Shakefpeaf 
 fays, Trifles light as air are to the jealous 
 confirmations Jtrong :, fo fhe waited for no 
 further proof of his infidelity, nor any ex- 
 cufe for the wrong done her 5 but fuddenly 
 drew his dagger and difpatchd him. She 
 was foon confined and brought to tryal ; 
 T 
 
2 74 A Vo y AG E round the Wo RLIX 
 
 and when every one expeded (he would be 
 caft for her life, her judges gave it this 
 turn, that it was not malice fore-thought^ 
 but excefs of love that prompted her to the 
 rafli deed. Whereupon (lie was acquitted : 
 but the nice cafuifts thought fhe fhould in 
 honour have hangd her felf. This inftance 
 fhews how facred a thing love is there judged 
 to be, tho* in a ftate of concubinage only, 
 And the moral good or evil of fome adions 
 are hard to be determined, while different 
 governments have different cufloms. 
 
 How agreeable foever thefe pradices are 
 to the Creole Spaniards , yet they caufe a 
 great inconvenience to fociety : for the men 
 are fo ferioufly taken up with their delica 
 cies, that the women ingrofs nioft of thek 
 time, and fpoil all public converfation. FOE 
 this reafon there are no taverns or coffee- 
 houfes, fo that the men arc only to be met 
 with at their offices or at church. They 
 have a fort of playhoufe where the young 
 gentlemen and ftudents divert thenifelves af 
 ter their fafliion : for what performances 
 they have in the dramatical way are fo 
 mean,that they are hardly worth mentioning, 
 being fcripture ftories interwoven with ro- 
 liaance and obfcenity.. k 
 
A Vo y AG E round the Wo R Lt>. 275 
 
 It was at this theatre that two Englifo 
 failors of monfieur Martinet's fquadron 
 fought a prize a little before I came to Lima. 
 They firft obtaind leave of the viceroy to 
 cxerciie at the ufual weapons 5 and after 
 the fhew-day was fixt, mod of the preced 
 ing time was taken up with preparatory ce 
 remonies to bring a good houfc. They 
 each traverfed the town by beat of drum 
 in their holland fhirts and ribands, faluting 
 the fpe&ators at their windows with a 
 learned flourifh of the fword 5 fo that by 
 the extraordinary novelty and manner of 
 the thing, the whole city came to fee the 
 tryal of skill : fome gave gold, but few lefs 
 than a dollar. When the company male 
 and female was clofe packt up together, the 
 matters mounted the ft age : and after the 
 ufual compliment peculiar to the Englijb 
 nation of fhaking hands before they qua- 
 rel, they retired in great order and flood 
 upon their guard. Several bouts were playd 
 without much wrath or damage : but the 
 defign of this meeting being m6re to get 
 money than cuts or credit, one of the ma- 
 ftcrs had the feafonable fortune to received 
 fmall harm on the bread, wbkh having 
 T 2 blooded 
 
276 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 blooded his fhirt began to make the com 
 bat look terrible : whereupon the company 
 fearing from fnch a dreadful beginning that 
 the zele of the champions might wax too 
 intemperate 5 and till they were reconciled, 
 no man in the houfe was fafe, unanimoufly 
 cryd QMtbafta, bafta y which fignifys enough, 
 enough > and fo the houfe broke up. The 
 failors finding this a better prize than any 
 they ever made at fea, humbly befought his 
 excellency for another trial of skill : but 
 the viceroy and people were all againft it, 
 from a religious objection which could ne 
 ver be got over; and that was, left the 
 fellows fhould kill one another, die with 
 out abfolution and be damnd. 
 
 While I was at Lima, I grew acquainted 
 with one monjieitr T hay let, a gentleman 
 whofe effefts were feifed by Martinet's fqua- 
 dron, as an interloper from St. Malo : after 
 \vhich he remaind in *PerH, where he was 
 imployd by the government, he having been 
 formerly commander of feveral good (hips. 
 The firft fervice he had, was to fetch the 
 bottle with inftrudions for Shelvocke, bu 
 ry d by Clipperton at Fernandes , p. 97 of 
 this book. On his return with the faid in- 
 
 ftru&ions 
 
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 ftruftions and the two men who deferted 
 there, the viceroy willing to incourage him, 
 thought of another fhort expedition for him 
 in the fame vefielj .being an Englifh ketch 
 of about fixty ton, and had ferved captain 
 Martinet as a tender. The viceroy having 
 lately had certain notice by a Spanijh (hip, 
 that they accidentally made an ifland in 
 the South- Seas till then unknown to them, 
 tho* markt in feveral drafts by the name of 
 Solomon's ifland 5 it made his excellency cu 
 rious to perfue the difcovery. He there 
 upon orderd the ketch to be fitted out for 
 two months under Thay let's command 5 who 
 accordingly faild into ten degrees fouth, in 
 which latitude the ifland was faid to lye. 
 He cruifed thereabout till his provifion was 
 nigh expended 5 and returnd without fuo 
 cefs. However as the fame account came 
 by two different (hips who touchd there, 
 the Spaniards verily believe there is fuch a 
 place 5 for the men reported, that the na 
 tives, as to their perfons and behaviour, were 
 much like the Indians on the continent 5 
 that they had many gold and filver things 
 among them, but that their language was 
 new and unintelligible. The reafon why 
 T 3 
 
27 s ^VOYAGE r^^ f&* Wo RLD. 
 Mr. Thaylet could not meet with Solomon's 
 ifland, might be from the uncertainty of 
 the latitude , and his inability of making 
 further fcarch, being provided for only two 
 months : for I have been informd in Lon 
 don that the faid ifland or illands lye more 
 foutherly in the ^Pacific ocean than where 
 they are laid down in the T^ittch maps. 
 And the two Spaniards who had been there, 
 \vere only fmall trading veifels carry d thither 
 by irregular currents ; and could give no 
 certain account of the latitude, becaufe they 
 kept no reckoning, 
 
 To Turn up this chapter, I (hall only ob- 
 lerve that the Spanijh ^Peruvians are better 
 feated for the happinefs of this world, than 
 any people I know. If they are indolent, 
 their great affluence makes them fo. If 
 they are delicate, the kind ferenity of the 
 climate contributes greatly to it. Much 
 husbandry and labor is needlefs, where the 
 whole year is a fruitful fpring. Indeed the 
 Nigros and Indians do all the work $ for 
 a white face is exemption enough from all 
 labor and care. In our unequal gloomy 
 regions, many cuftoms would be condemnd, 
 which are there the pure effects -of nature ; 
 
 for 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 279 
 
 for the night and day make a happy me 
 dium between cold and heat. Therefore, 
 if the general bent of human nature be for 
 conftant happinefs and freedom from pain, 
 the man of pleafure muft go to *Peru, and 
 make Lima his temporal paradife. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Of the mines of Chili and Peru 5 and the 
 method of working out the gold and 
 filvcrfrom the mafs. 
 
 CHILI being the fouthermoft divifion 
 of the continent of America, is there 
 fore cooler than Vent , and perhaps would 
 fute an Englijh conftitution better. It is 
 divided from ^Peru at the tropic of Capri- 
 corn $ and is remarkable for that vaft chain 
 of mountains known by the name of Cor- 
 diker, which coaft along from Magellan 
 ftreights up to the iftmus of c Darien> being 
 about 4000 mile. It is governd by a lieu 
 tenant general, (tiled president of Chili > be- 
 caufe he is at the head of all civil affairs as 
 well as military : nevcrthelefs he receives 
 orders from the viceroy of *Peru. The ca- 
 
 T 4 pital 
 
ago A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 pital city is St. Jago $ it was founded in 
 1541, and is a copy of Lima. 
 
 I {hall here entertain the reader chiefly 
 \vith an extrad from Freziers voyage rela 
 ting to the mines, and the manner of fepa- 
 rating the mineral from the earth. He un 
 dertook the South- Sea voyage by permiffion 
 of king Lewis the XIV th , and was there a- 
 bout fix years before us, on purpofe to make 
 fuch difcoveries, plans and observations as 
 he thought fit. His account, as it is good 
 and intirely new , will without doubt be 
 agreeable to the curious reader : 
 
 In Chili, the mines which at prefent yiejd 
 moft gold, are about the towns of Concep 
 tion and Copiapo ; and the villages of Tiltil 
 and Lampanqtii near J^alparaifo ; tho' the 
 vhole mountains are more or lefs impreg- 
 jnated with it. The filver mines of "Peru 
 are at Lipes, Guaico, Iqitic and St. Antkonj : 
 gold ones being very icarce in that part of 
 the continent, foto/ih&s originally afforded 
 fuch furprifing quantities of filver, that it 
 has been proverbial for its treafure : the 
 town Hands at the bottom of the famous 
 mountain where the mines lye, and is very 
 populous. The country is obliged by the 
 
 king'* 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 king's order to fend a great number of In 
 dians yearly to work in thofe mines 5 for 
 all white faces are excufed from fervitude, 
 and the Nigrqs are not able to work ia 
 them becaufe the cold will kill them : but 
 they are imployd in all other bufmefson the 
 furface 5 fo that the native Indians are only 
 deftined to this labour. 
 
 The Corregidors or magiftrates who over 
 look thofe Indians appointed to work ia 
 the mines, fummon them to fet out all to 
 gether on a certain day. They general!/ 
 take their wives and children with them, 
 who, with tears in their eyes, leave theic 
 native homes, and travel unwillingly on to 
 the houfe of bondage. Many indeed for 
 get their habitation, and after the years 
 end fettle at T?otoji, which is the chief rea- 
 fon that town is fo populous, and almoft 
 equals the city of Lima as to its number 
 of inhabitants. 
 
 Tho* the mines here are far diminifbt in 
 their produce, yet the quantity of ore that 
 has been already wrought, and lain many 
 years upon the furface, is thought capable 
 to yield a fecond crop $ and when I was 
 at Lima, they were actually turning it up, 
 
 and 
 
2 s 2 -^ Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 and new milling it with great fuccefs : which 
 is a proof that thefe minerals generate in 
 the earth like all other inanimate things. 
 And it is likewift certain from all accounts 
 of the Spaniards., that gold and filver, as 
 well as other metals, are continually grow 
 ing and forming themfelves in the earth. 
 This opinion is verifyd by experience in 
 the mountain ofPotofi, where feveral mines 
 have fallen in and buryd the workmen with 
 their tools. After fome years they have 
 dug the fame place, and difcoverd many 
 bones and pieces of wood with veins of 
 iilver actually running through them. 
 
 Thefc mines belong to him who firft dif- 
 covers them. He immediately prefents a 
 .petition to the magiftrates to have fuch a 
 -piece of earth for his own 5 which is no 
 iboner done than granted. They meafure 
 .eighty Spanife yards in length and forty 
 over, which is about two hundred foot in 
 length and one hundred in breadth, and 
 yield it to the difcoverer 5 who chufes what 
 fpace he thinks fit, and does what he pleafes 
 \vkh it. Then they meafure juft the fame 
 quantity for the king, which is fold td the 
 
 beft 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 283 
 
 bed bidder; there being many who are wil 
 ling to purchafe a treafure which may prove; 
 incftimable. If any other perfon has a mind 
 to work part of the mine himfelf, he bar 
 gains with the proprietor for a particular 
 vein : Ail that fuch a one digs out is his 
 .own, paying the king's duty, which is for 
 gold a 20th part, and for filver a 5th : And 
 fome landlords are fo well fatisfyd with 
 letting out their ground and their mills, 
 that they live upon the profit. 
 
 The mill for grinding and feparating the 
 gold from the ore is made after the manner 
 of our cyder mills. There is firft a round 
 Hone ciftern about ten foot diameter, with 
 a deep orbicular chanel at the bottom. 
 This ftone ciftern is bored in the middle tp 
 let thro* the long axil-tree of a horizontal 
 wheel placed under it, and wider than the 
 ciftern: 'the wheel is fet round with half 
 pitchers, that it may j:urn as the water falls 
 upon them. This wheel turning the axil, 
 caufes a milftone to roll along edgeways by 
 another fpindle in the chanel of the ciftern 
 above, which grinds the hard ore put in it. 
 
 When the fluff is a little broken, they 
 jut quick-filver to it, which immediately 
 
 clings 
 
284 ^VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 
 clings to the gold, and leaves the drofs : 
 then they let fall a ftream of water, the 
 force of which diflblvesthe earth, and drives 
 It out at a notch made for that purpofe. The 
 gold with the mercury lyes at the bottom 
 by its own weight 5 which, after they have 
 done work, they gather up and put into a li 
 nen bag to fqueefe out the quick filver as well 
 as they can : then they lay it to the fire, that 
 the remainder may evaporate. This is what 
 they call pinna gold, being clung together 
 like a pine apple 5 and when this is once 
 melted, it needs no more refining : fo that 
 a gold miner has a great advantage of a fil 
 ver one ; for the mercury, adhering fo na 
 turally to the gold, leaves all the drofs im 
 mediately, and the workman knows every 
 day what he gets : whereas the filver miner 
 can't know till a month or two after. 
 
 The filver ore is ground as the gold a- 
 forementiond, or foretimes broke with iron 
 pounders of 200 weight to fall by a ma 
 chine. But milling being the ufual way, 
 they grind the ore with water, which makes 
 nrft a thin mud that runs out of the ciftern 
 into a receiver: whenas 'tis dry pounded, 
 it muft be fteept in water and moulded 
 
 with 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 285; 
 
 with the feet, which occafions much more 
 trouble. 
 
 The mud is difpofed in fquare parcels of 
 a hundred weight a piece, upon a fmooth 
 floor made on purpofe. On each of thefc 
 they throw a great quantity of fait, and 
 mix it all together for two or three days ; 
 then they fprinkle it equally with quick- 
 ftiver, on each mafs perhaps about fifteen 
 pound } for the richer it is, the more mer 
 cury it requires. An Indian moulds each 
 of thefe Squares feven or eight times a day,' 
 that the mercury may incorporate. Some 
 times the ore is greafy, and then they put 
 lime to it : wherein they are cautious 5 for 
 it is very remarkatxle, that fometimes it is 
 fo burnt with heat, that the mercury and 
 filver are both loft. Now and then they 
 intermix a little lead to help the operation 
 of the quickfilver, which is but flow in cold 
 weather. So that at Lifes and Totoji they 
 are a matter of fix weeks kneading the ore : 
 and at Tuna particularly , they lay a brick 
 pavement upon arches, under which they 
 make fires to help the works : but in other 
 countries they do it in eight or ten days. 
 
 When 
 
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 When the workman thinks the mercury 
 has attraded all the fiiver ? he takes out a 
 little bit, and waflies it in a bafin. If the 
 mercury looks dark, the ore is too much 
 heated $ to remedy which, they add more 
 fait, which makes the quickfilver evaporate. 
 If the mercury is white, they fqueeze a drop 
 of it under the thumb : the filver flicks to 
 the skin, and the mercury flips away. This 
 they find will do ; fo that when all the fil 
 ver is gatherd up by the mercury, they give 
 the ore three different wafhings : and when 
 all the drofs is gone, they put the filver in 
 a woollen bag, which they prefs between 
 boards, to get the quickfilver out. After 
 'tis hung up, draind ami preft as much as 
 they can, they put it into a wooden mould, 
 generally the form of a fugar loaf, with 
 thin copper plates at the bottom full of 
 holes. 
 
 After taking all the moulds, thefe pieces 
 are GZ\\&p#&as, which are fet upon a frame 
 over an earthen veffel full of water coverd 
 with a cap, which they furround with lighted 
 coals. When the mafs grows very hot, 
 the quickfilver that ftill remains will come 
 out in fmoke, which having no paffage, 
 
 cir- 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 287 
 circulates between the mafs and the cap, 
 till defcending to the water, it thickens 
 and finks to the bottom. Thus the mer 
 cury lofes but little, and will ferve feveral 
 limes, tho* there muft be a new fupply be- 
 caufe it grows' weak with ufing. 
 
 According to Acofta, they ufe to fpend 
 7000 hundred weight tt.*Potoftm a year: 
 by which one may judge what vaft loads 
 of filver they got. 
 
 When the mercury is quite evaporated, 
 the filver remains a fpongey hollow lump : 
 and this is calld virgin filver; being pure 
 and unadulterated. All this according to 
 law muft be carryd to the mint, and pay 
 the fifth part to his majefty. There the fil 
 ver is caft into ingots or bars of different 
 weight, about a foot long or more. Thefe 
 bars which have paid the duty can have 
 no fraud in them, but it may be otherwife 
 with the pinnas uncaft : for the maker of 
 ten intermixes iron or lead ; therefore they 
 fhould all be opend, and tryd by fire, which 
 would difcover another cheat of wetting 
 them, to make them heavy : for their weight 
 may be increafed near a third part by dip 
 ping them in water, when they are very 
 
* 8 8 A Vo YAG E r0//#df f * WORLD. 
 
 hot. There are alfo different degrees of 
 finenefs in the fame piece, which might 
 be found out : but the Spaniards not ha 
 ving convenient places to difcover thefe 
 frauds, and not caring for it, they e'en let 
 them go. 
 
 There are many forts of filvei 4 ore* ac 
 cording to the different confidence of the 
 earth. Some is blackifli mixt with iron, 
 calld nignllo : another greenifli of a cop 
 per mixture, calld cobrijjo : fome white with 
 leal filver veins, calld flat a blanca 5 and 
 fometimes the ore is black with lead parti 
 cles, this is calld flomo ronco, and is com 
 monly the beft : becaufe inftead of knead 
 ing it with quickfilver, it may be melted in 
 a fornace, and cafily parted from the lead. 
 The old Indians not having, or knowing 
 the ufe of mercury, got all their filver from 
 thefe fort of mines ; and having but little 
 wood, ufcd to heat their fornaces with the 
 leaves of plants, and the dung of their fheep : 
 they made their fornaces upon the moun 
 tains, that the wind might pafs thro' and 
 keep the fire ftrong. There is another brown 
 ore like this laft mentiond, where the filver 
 is not feen at all j but if wetted and rubd 
 2 againft 
 
"A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 28 9 
 
 againft iron, it turns ruddy, calid rofaler, 
 and yields the fined of all filver. There is 
 another fort calld z,aroche which fhines like 
 ifinglafs $ and the paco foft and clayifh, but 
 neither of them valuable. Laftly, there is 
 a very choice ore found in one of the mines 
 of Totofi containing many threads of pure 
 filver, wound up like lumps of burnt lace : 
 this is calld arana-, or fpider, being fome- 
 thing like a cobweb. 
 
 At Copiapo there are gold mines juft be 
 hind the town, and all about the 'country, 
 which have brought many purchafers and 
 workmen thither, to the great damage of 
 the Indians : for the Spanifh magiftrates take 
 away not only their lands, but their horfes, 
 which they fell to the new proprietors, under 
 pretence of ferving the king and improving 
 the fettiement. Here is a great deal of 
 Magnet and Lapis lazuli which the In 
 dians know not the value of : and forne 
 leagues in the country there is plenty of 
 faltpctre, which often lies an inch thick on 
 the ground. About 100 mile eaft upon the 
 Cordileer mountains, there is a vein of ful- 
 phur two foot wide, fo fine and pure that it 
 needs no cleaning. This part of the coun 
 try is fall of all forts of mines 5 but in other 
 
 U refpeds 
 
290 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD* 
 
 refpeds is fo barren, that the natives fetch 
 all their fubfiftence from Coquimbo and that 
 way, being a mere defert for 300 mile to 
 gether : and the earth abounds fo much 
 with fait and fulphur that the mules often 
 perifh for want of grafs and fweet water. 
 There is but one river in 200 mile, which 
 the Indians call Ancalulac, or hypocrite, be- 
 caufe it runs only from fun-rife to fun-fet 
 This is occafiond by the great quantity of 
 fnow melted from the Cordikers in the day 
 time, which freezes again at night 5 where 
 the cold is often fo great, that people's fea. 
 tures are quite diftorted. Hence Chili takes 
 its name, Chile fignifying cold in the Indian 
 language : and we are certainly informd by 
 the Spanish hiftorians, that fome of their 
 countrymen and others, who firft traded this 
 way, died ftiff with cold upon their mules : 
 for which reafon the road is now always 
 lower along the coaft. 
 
 The mine countries are all fo cold and 
 barren that the inhabitants get moft of their 
 provifion from the coaft : this is caufed by 
 the faltsand fulphurs exhaled from the earth, 
 which deftroy the feed of all vegetables. 
 The Spaniards who live thereabout find 
 them fo ftifling, that they drink often 
 
 of 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 291 
 
 of the matte a to moiften their mouths. The 
 mules that trip it nimbly over the mountains, 
 are forced to walk gently about the mines 
 and flop often to fetch breath. If thofe va 
 pours arefo ftrong without, what muftthey 
 be within the mine it felf, where if a frefli 
 man goes, heis fuddenly benumbd with pain ? 
 and this is the cafe of many a one ; but the 
 diftemper feldom lafts above a day ; and 
 they are not fo affeded the fecond time : 
 But vapours have often burft out fo furioufly, 
 that workmen have been killdon the fpot: 
 fo that one way or other, multitudes of In 
 dians die in their calling. To fortify them- 
 felves againft the aforefaid fleams, they are 
 continually chewing coca, a herb which is 
 their common prefervative. 
 
 An obfervation occurs here to my me 
 mory ; that upon the road to *Piura, the 
 night when we lay down to fleep, our mules 
 went eagerly to fearch for a certain root 
 not unlike a parfnip, tho' much bigger 5 
 which affords a great deal of juice, and in 
 fuch a fandy plain often ferves inftead of 
 water : but when the mules are very thirfty, 
 and they can't eafily rake up the root with 
 their feet, they will ftand over it and bray 
 till the Indians come to their affiftance. 
 
 U 2 Tho' 
 
A Vo YAG E .found the Wo RLD. 
 
 Tho' the gold mines are more peculiar 
 to Chili, yet there are one or two wafhing 
 places for gold in the fotuh of Teru near 
 Chili y which I fhall now Ipeak of, being the 
 next thing remarkable. About theyear 1709 
 there were two furpriftng large lumps of 
 virgin gold found in one of thofe places > 
 one of which weighd thirty two pound 
 complete, and was purchafed by the count 
 de Moncloa then viceroy of *Peru and pre- 
 fented to the king of Spain. The other 
 wasfhapedibmewhat like an oxe's heart. It 
 weighd twenty two pound and a half, and 
 was bought by the conegidor of Ulrica. 
 
 To find thefe lavaderos or wafhing places, 
 they dig in the corners of a little brook, 
 where by certain tokens they judge the 
 grains of gold to lye. To help carry away 
 the mud , they let a frelh ftream into it, 
 and keep turning it up, that the current 
 may fend it along. When they are come 
 to the golden fand, they turn off the ftream 
 another way, and dig with mattocks ^ and 
 this earth they carry upon mules to certain 
 bafins joynd together by fmall chanels. In 
 to thefc they let a fmart ftream of water 
 to loofen the earth, and carry all the grofs 
 
 part 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 293 
 
 part away, the Indians (landing in the ba- 
 fins and throwing out all the ftones. The 
 gold at bottom is ftill mixt with a black 
 land, and hardly to be feen till it is far 
 ther cleard and feparated, which is eafily 
 done. But thefe wafhing places differ, for 
 in fome there are gold grains as big as bird 
 fhot : and in one belonging to the priefls 
 near Valparatfo y fome were found from two 
 or three ounces to a pound and half weight. 
 This way of getting gold is much better 
 than from the mines : here is no need of 
 iron crows, mills, or quickfilver ; fo that 
 both the trouble and expenfe are much lefs. 
 The Creolians are not fo curious in wafhing 
 their gold as the people in Europe: but 
 great plenty makes them carelefs in that 
 and many other articles, 
 
 There are abundance of iron mines in 
 Tent and Chili -^ befides lead, tin and cop 
 per, which the Spaniards intirely negledt, 
 as not worth their while to work them. 
 Copper ferves for a little kitchin furniture > 
 but moft of their utenfils are of filver, even 
 thofe for.vurlgar ufes. 
 
 About the town of Coquimbo there is 
 
 plenty of gold found in the ftreams that 
 
 U 3 come 
 
294- A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 come down from the mountains after the 
 rain fhowcrs. Thefe (bowers are only at 
 certain times of the year : but if they came 
 oftner, they would undoubtedly always have 
 the fame effeft. And now I fpeak of Co- 
 quimbo, it would be a fault not to mention 
 the charms of its fcituation. It lies in the 
 30th degree fouth, a fhort mile from the 
 fca. It ftands on a green rifing ground 
 about ten yards high, which nature has re 
 gularly fornad like a terras north and fouth 
 in a direct line of more than half a mile, 
 turning at -each end to the eaftward. The 
 firft ftreet.makds a delightful walk, having 
 the profpetl of the country round it, and 
 the bay;before it. A 11 this is fweetly placed 
 in a valley ever green, and waterd with a 
 river, which having taken its rife from 
 among the mountains, flows through the 
 vales and meadows in a winding ftream to 
 the fea. 
 
 Baldivia, who built this town in the 
 year 1 544, to ferve as a refting place between 
 Chili and feru, pleaded with the beauty of 
 the fcituation, and the happinefs of the cli 
 mate, caild it la Serena ; Signifying tranquil 
 lity and mildnefs 5 which name it deferved 
 
 more 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 295 
 
 more than any place in the world. The 
 whole country puts one in mind of the 
 poets golden age : there the (harp north 
 winds never blow ; and the heats are fand 
 with refrefhing gales; fo that the revolving 
 year is only fpring and autumn joind to 
 gether. 
 
 Conception lies fix degrees higher in a part 
 of the country abounding, like Serena, with 
 all the comforts of life, as well as in- 
 cftimable mines of gold. At the king's fta- 
 tion a little to eaft ward they have a wafliing- 
 place, where they have got fefitas or gold 
 grains of four pound weight : and thefe fort 
 of wafhes are innumerable, but remain as it 
 were undifcovered thro 1 negligence and in- 
 curiofity. The Cordileer mountains abound 
 with hardly any thing elfe but minerals : 
 this is true of thofe which have been ppend, 
 and very likely all the reft are fo. About 3 oo 
 miles inwards from Conception, there's one 
 hill yields copper fo remarkable, that Me- 
 lendes who difcovered it, found lumps weigh 
 ing a hundred quintals a piece, each quin 
 tal being a hundred weight. Mr. Frezier 
 fays he faw one of forty quintals making 
 into fix field pieces, fix pounders each. Some 
 U 4 
 
296 AVo YAG E round the Wo 
 
 are part copper and part ftone, which the 
 inhabitants affirm do all in time breed and 
 grow intirely to copper. There is ano 
 ther hill adjoyning which is fcarce any 
 thing but loadftone : and many of them af 
 ford fulphur and fait : About the town it 
 felf there is pit-coal a few foot under ground. 
 In the year 1510, many mines were found 
 near the Cordileer mountains, affording at 
 once gold, filver, copper, iron, lead and tin : 
 which deftroys the notion, that different 
 metals are never formd together in one 
 mine. 
 
 Abo^t twenty mile to the eaftward of 
 Serena are the waffling places of Andacol, 
 whofe gold is twenty three carats fine : 
 and the inhabitants all affirm that after 
 feventy or eighty years they find them 
 recruited with gold as plentifully as at 
 firfL And the governer of Coquimbo as 
 well as others have afiured, that on the 
 mountains the gold mines are fb nume 
 rous that forty or fifty thoufand men 
 might eaftly be imployd : but for want of 
 hands, the king of Spain mult content him- 
 jfclf without the trcaiuie. 
 
 Spain 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 297 
 
 Spain in America bad two defgns ; 
 
 To plant the gofpel and to Jet fe the mines : 
 
 for where there is no real f apply of wealth 
 
 Metis fouls are never worth the charge of health. 
 
 And had the kings of that new world been poor, 
 
 No Spainard twice had landed on their Jhore 
 
 ""Twas gold the Pope's religion there that planted, 
 
 Which, if they had been poor t theyftill had wanted. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 Some account of the origin of Metals, 'with 
 various opinions concerning their forma 
 tion in the earth. 
 
 TH E old Creolian Spaniards, and fome 
 others imagine that this plenty of gold 
 in Chili wasoccafiond by Noah's flood, which 
 threw down the mountains, and broke up 
 the mines, and waflid away the gold into 
 the lower grounds where it now continues. 
 But, befides the great probability that that 
 deluge was only upon the land of *Paleftine, 
 jM?/?/shiftory on which this fancy is found 
 ed, rather contradicts it j and tells us that 
 the deluge made very little alteration in the 
 furface of the earth, Befides, by all the 
 late difcoveries ia America, we are con 
 vinced 
 
98 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 vinced that the mountains yield more gold 
 than the rivers. Common rains may fend 
 the gold to the lower parts : for in Chili 
 the fliowers that fall from May to Septem- 
 ter, are daily making new gutters upon 
 the hills, which bring down the golden 
 grains with them. 
 
 Without doubt earthquakes have made 
 great alterations in this part of the world ; 
 fome of which, according to feveral hifto- 
 rians,have changd the fcituation of moun 
 tains, and turnd rivers into lakes : and 
 fome authors have fuppofed that thefe fub- 
 verfions have preceded from an inward fer 
 mentation, which has burft open the hills, 
 and forced the minerals, before they were 
 duly formd, into the water chanels where 
 they are fo often found. Tho' this does 
 Bot at all anfwer how rnetals are formd, 
 yet great commotions have often happend 
 in the bowels of the earth, and put many 
 things out of their natural pofition 5 parti 
 cularly fhells, which in moft countries have 
 been found, fo mutinies in heaps, and far 
 enough frana the fea where they were firft 
 forrad, 
 
 The 
 
A Vo YAG E -round the Wo RLD. 299 
 
 The native Indians believe that gold and 
 filver breed in the earth without any ori 
 ginal vein 5 becaufe after certain years the 
 mines and wafhing-places have afforded a 
 perfect new fupply,- feveral inftances of 
 which I have before mentiond. And it is 
 undeniable, that in Chili thefe lavaderos 
 are common in the low grounds, where 
 infinite treafure lies conceald for want of 
 labourers : for the Spaniards apply chiefly 
 where the profit is moft obvious; and when 
 any new mine is fprung, they all flock 
 thither. 
 
 I have been inforind at Lima, that fe- 
 vcral Frenchmen, -whofe effects were confif- 
 cated by his Spanijh mayfly's order for 
 carrying on an interloping trade between 
 France and Chili ^ have thought it better to 
 ftay in the country at any rate than return 
 home : and fo made fhift to purchafe a 
 Nigro or two, whom they irnployd to fifli 
 for gold in fome of thefe waihing places, 
 which turnd to fo good a profit that they 
 were inablcd to fettle in Chili. I fpokc 
 with two of them at Conception. They 
 told me they had but little trouble in do 
 ing of it : that they us'd to watch for the 
 
 fnowersj 
 
300 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 fhowers, and then carry only a few lievesto 
 refine the earth. Thefe places were chiefly 
 at the fmallcatarads and water-falls, where 
 they told me they had often taken up con- 
 fiderable grains of gold with their hands : 
 but the corregidors always take care they 
 fhall not grow too rich. 
 
 As for metals being formd by the fun , 
 'tis a weak notion and Efficiently explod 
 ed. About forty years ago a violent^ light 
 ing fell on the IlUmanni mountain, which 
 is between Chili and Tern. Great pieces 
 and fplinters thereof were found fcatterd 
 about the country, and they were all plen 
 tifully veind with gold, tho' the mountain 
 is ever known to be coverd with fnow. 
 Therefore that heat which is not ftrong 
 enough to thaw the fnow, can never be 
 able to generate and form gold in the 
 mountain under it. 
 
 But as thofe opinions are moft rational, 
 \vhich are grounded on real difcoverks,one 
 may find out a better way to account for 
 this thing, than any before mentiond : and 
 from what has been faid, fairly conclude, 
 that all metals are made and formd by fub* 
 terraneous fires, which bum as it were in 
 
 a kiln, 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 301 
 
 a kiln, conveying their heat far and near 
 through all the paffages of the earth, as 
 well as the folid .mafs itfelf. 
 
 Thefe fires are known to be in all the 
 mine countries of America^ and may well 
 be fuppofed to dwell in other parts yet un 
 known. This inteftine heat gives motion 
 to the falts and fulphurs, being the chief 
 principles of metals. And tho' their ope 
 ration is incomprehenfibly different from 
 all that we know or praftife, yet may we 
 form a notion, that thefe fpirituous vapours 
 are forced by fire into the pores of ftone $ 
 where being condenfed they infmuate them- 
 felves like veins, extend and grow up 
 wards to the furface. 
 
 I Shall now colleft fome authorities to 
 confirm the opinion that there are a 
 race of men in the world calld giants. 
 
 'Don *Pedro Molina governer of Chiloe 
 and feveral other eye-witnefles have affirmd 
 that in the country behind the Cordileer 
 mountains, there is a nation of Indians 
 calld Caucahues, of an uncommon fize, 
 being near four varas or Sfanifh yards 
 high? which is ten foot Englijh. Thefe 
 2 are 
 
A VOYAGE rmmd the WOULD. 
 
 are the people antient travelers fpeak of 
 calld Tatagonians, who live on the eaftern 
 fide, about 50 degrees fouth latitude. I 
 know this has been taken as a fable, be- 
 caufe many fhips going down that way, 
 have not chanced to fee them; the men 
 who appear on the Tatagonian coaft and 
 in Magellan (traits being generally of the 
 common ftature : and this is what deceived 
 Froger in his account of *Degennes voyage $ 
 for fome fhips have fcen both forts at once. 
 
 In 1704, captain Harringtons men belong 
 ing to a fhip of St. Mafay faw feven of 
 thcfe giants in Gregory's bay. The crew 
 of the St. Teter, a fliip of Marfeiles faw 
 fix of the fame, among whom there was 
 one diftinguifht from the reft by a net- work 
 cap that he wore made of birds entrails 
 ftuck round with feathers. Their garments 
 were skins with the hair in wards; and they 
 all had bows with cafes of arrows: they 
 helpd the failors with their boat afhore, 
 and gave them fome of their darts : the 
 men offerd them bread, brandy and wine ; 
 but they refufed them all. The next day 
 200 of them appeard in a body. Thefe men 
 they believed were more fenfible of the cold, 
 
 tho* 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD~ 303 
 
 tho' larger than others : for the ordinary 
 lize people along that coaft had only a fin- 
 gle skin thrown over their fhoulders, where 
 as the others were cloathed. 
 
 The following are Mr. FrezierV words 
 
 tranjlated. 
 
 " What I here deliver on the teftimony 
 " of creditable perfons, is fo agreeable ta 
 " what I read in many good voyages 5 that 
 " 'tis my opinion there is much truth in it : 
 " and a man may believe there is a nation of 
 " people in the fouthermoft part ot America, 
 " much exceding the common proportion, 
 <c without being thought fanciful : the time, 
 " place and circumftances all agreeing, feem 
 < to carry a truth fufficient to overcome 
 " the general opinion to the contrary. 
 " Perhaps the ftrangenefs of the fight may 
 " have caufed their fize to be fomewhat 
 C magnifyd : but if we confider the height 
 " of thefe men not actually meafured, but 
 " only gheft at, we fhall find that travel- 
 " ers differ very little from each other. 
 " To ftrengthen what I have advanced, 
 " the reader will excufe me if I colleft 
 " what I find in various authors upon this 
 article. Leonardo 
 
304 A Vo YAG E round" the Wo RLD. 
 
 " Leonardo Argenfola in the firft chap* 
 * ter of his hiftory of the Molucca iflands, 
 " fays that the fame Magellan, in the ftraits 
 " that bears his name, took fome men who 
 <c were fifteen fpans, that is eleven foot 
 " high : but they foon pined away and died. 
 " In the third chapter he fays that Sarmi- 
 <c entos men fought with fome of thefe 
 " people, who were above three Spanifh* 
 " yards high, that is above eight foot. They 
 * c repulfed the Spaniards once : but being 
 <c attackt the fecond time, they took to 
 <c their heels and run at fo great a rate, that 
 C according to the Sparitfh faying, a bullet 
 " would not overtake them. 
 
 " There is fomething like this in Sibald 
 * c 'Dewerfs voyage 1559, who being at an- 
 tc chor in the Green-Bay in Magellan ftraits 
 u with five fhips, faw feven Indian imbar- 
 <e kations full of giants ; who they gheft 
 " were ten or eleven foot high. The 
 " 'Dutchmen fired at them and drove them 
 * afliore, but they were fo terrifyd at the 
 " fire arms, that they tore up the trees to 
 cc fhelter themfelves from the musket balls. 
 
 " Oliver North, who came there a few 
 " months after < De r &ert, tells us that he 
 
 " favy 
 
A Vo YAG fc round the Wo RED. 305 
 
 " faw giants ten or twelve foot high : tho' 
 * 4 he had feen other men of the common 
 " fize. 
 
 " Sfllbergen, as he eriterd Magellan ftraits 
 " in 1615, faw on Terra del fogo a man of 
 " furprizing height got upon a riling ground 
 <c to fee the fhips go by. 
 
 " Shouten in the fame year being iri 
 " Tort ^Dejire, his men went afhore and 
 " found heaps of ftones laid in fuch a form 
 " that they had a mind to fee what was an- 
 " der them : and they found bones of a 
 t human body between ten and eleven 
 " foot long, that is nine or ten Englifh 
 " meafure; to which meafure North's ae- 
 " count and 'Dewerfs muft be reduced; 
 
 Other authorities as well living as dead 
 " might be brought to juftify this relation : 
 " and tho' fome people have doubted it$ 
 " yet the feveral teftimonies aforementiondi 
 " joind with the account of giants whieh we 
 " have in holy fcripture^ fhould incline Us 
 " to receive it for truth; 
 
 Premier has a ridtiori that the Almtghtj 
 
 framed at fir ft thtee different colors of men 5 
 
 white, black and the dark copper* Which 
 
 X lift 
 
3 06 A Vo Y AG round the Wo RLD. 
 
 laft is the hue of all the Indians in America: 
 and tho' the holy fcripture is filent as to 
 the origin of thefe, yet he doubts not that 
 the Nigros or Blacks are children of Cujb 
 Noah's grandfon, which is an African word 
 and fignifies black. But however pioufly 
 affected he and others may be to that di 
 vine hiftory, it is impoffible this way to 
 account for the originals of people 5 or even 
 conjecture how this great extended continent 
 was firft planted : and without admitting *Pre- 
 adamites we fhall meet with endlefs abfur- 
 dities. Grotius, who was hardly inferior 
 to any man in wit and learning, rather than 
 difallow mankind's beginning with Adam, 
 would have it that America was peopled 
 from Norway. The Norwegians planted 
 Icelandi from thence came the Greenlanders, 
 who overfpread the north-weft iflands 5 and 
 fo at laft all America came to be peopled. 
 But when one comes to conflder, that the 
 Americans are no more like the Norwegi 
 ans than the Nigros are like the Indians - r 
 and that in all refpeds the natives of this 
 new world are quite different from the 
 other, that reafoning of Grotius is weak 
 and infufficient: and had he lived to fee 
 4 the 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo kib. 3 07 
 
 the 'Dani/h account of the Greenlanders with 
 Other north difcoveries, it would have con 
 founded him; Moreover 'tis certain that 
 the Chilians never lived in a focial man 
 ner like other nations, but in firigle 
 families only $ nor have they any ideas 
 of God Or religion in any kind, or the be 
 ing of a foul, all which they make a jeft 
 of. And tho' it is faid, that at the con- 
 queft of thefe countries the Spaniards found 
 golden and other images in 5Pm/, which 
 the Indians ufed to worfhip $ yet it's pro 
 bable they were made only to reprefent 
 fome of their kings* whofe memory they 
 held in great veneration. But as this fub- 
 jed requires a feparate treatife rather thart 
 a place in this book, I (hall precede in my 
 other defign. And I am perfuaded that there 
 muft be fome more divine influence thari 
 the example and arguments of the prieft- 
 hood, to produce among the Indians fd 
 good as an effeft a true belief of the Go/pel. 
 
 G tt A & 
 
3 o s A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 Obfervtst ions m the Chili trade. 
 
 THE town of St. Malo has always 
 been noted for good privatiers. They 
 annoyd the Englijh and 'Dutch very much 
 in their trade during the whole reign of 
 king William, and part of queen Anne: 
 and tho* fome religious-headed people fancy 
 that money got by privatiering won't prof- 
 per, yet I may venture to fay the St. Malo 
 men are as rich and florifhing as any peo 
 ple in France. It has thrived fo well with 
 them, that all their South Sea trade is ow 
 ing to their privatiering 5 and in the late 
 war they were fo generous, that they made 
 feveral free gifts to Lewis XIV. And tho' 
 our Englijh Admiralty always kept a ftout 
 fquadron cruifing in the Atlantic ocean, 
 yet we never took one of their South-Sea 
 men* and my reafon for it is this, they 
 kept their fhips extremely clean, having 
 ports to careen at which we did not think 
 of. For in the year 1709, when I be- 
 iongd to his majeftyV fliip .the Loo, being 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 3 09 
 
 one of the convoys that year to New 
 foundland, we faw upon that coaft a 50 gun 
 fhip, which we chafed, and foon difcoverd 
 fhe was French built 5 but flic crowded fail 
 and left us in a very little time. She had 
 juft been cleand at Tlacentia: and we might 
 well wonder to find fuch a fhip in that part 
 of the world, buc were afterwards informd 
 by French prifoners that (he was a South- 
 Seaman bound to St. Malo, with two or 
 three million of dollars aboard 5 and was 
 then fo trim, that fhe trufted to her heels 
 and valued no body. By their going fo 
 far to weft ward and northward withal, they 
 had the advantage of wefterly winds, which 
 feldom faild of fending them into found 
 ings at one fpirt, if not quite home. But 
 fince *Placentia has been yielded to Great 
 Britain-, they now make ufe of St. Catha- 
 rine, the ifland Grande on the coaft of 
 Brajil, and Martinico in the Weft-Indies. 
 
 This trade fucceded fo well that they all 
 fell into it, fending every year a matter of 
 twenty fail of fhips : I my felf faw eleven 
 fail together on the coaft of Chili in the 
 year 2 1 : among which were feveral of 
 50 guns, and one that would mount 70 
 
 X 3 caUd 
 
3io A Vo YAG round the Wo RLD. 
 calld the Flower de Lis, formerly a maq. 
 pf war. All this being contrary to the 
 AJfiento treaty between Spain and Great 
 Britain, frequent memorials were prefent" 
 ed at Madrid: and the king of Spain will 
 ing to keep up his ingagcments with Eng- 
 landy refolved to gratify the Britijh court 
 by deftroying the French trade to the South- 
 Sea. His Catholic majefty knew there was 
 no way to do this, but by a fquadron of 
 men of war. He knew likewife that few 
 pf his own fubjeds were acquainted with 
 the navigation of Cape Home, or could 
 bear the extreme rigor of the climate: 
 therefore was obliged to make ufe of fo 
 reigners for this expedition 5 and three of 
 the four (hips that he fent were mand with 
 and commanded by Frenchmen, according 
 to the old faying, Set a thief to catch a 
 thief, 
 
 The firft was the Glocejler of 50 guns 
 and 400 men, formerly an Englijb man of 
 war: the fecond was the Ruby 50 guns 
 and 550 men another Engltjh fhip: the 
 third was a fregat of 40 guns and 200 
 men : the fourth was the Leon Franco, a 
 Sfanifh man pf v/ar of 60 guns and 450 
 
 men 
 
A Vo y AG E round the Wo RLD. 3 1 i 
 
 men all Spaniards. Monfieur Martinet a 
 French gentleman was commodore of this 
 fquadron, and commanded the 22#&&0&? : 
 Monjieur La Jonquiere had the Ruby 5 the 
 reft I forget. The French performd their 
 navigation well enough, and got round the 
 Cape tho' it was in the middle of winter : 
 but the laft of the four being Spaniards, 
 after feveral attempts, could not weather 
 Cape Home, but was forced by utter necef- 
 fity to bear away back to the river of 'Plate, 
 where at laft the Ihip was unfortunately 
 caft away. 
 
 It looks here as if an experiment was 
 made to fee if the Spaniards were hardy 
 enough to go through that terrible navi 
 gation : but as they have little or no trade 
 into any cold climates, and unufed to hard 
 work, 'tis no wonder they faild in that 
 point. The Bifcayners indeed are robuft 
 fellows enough, and if the Leon Franco 
 had been mand with them, fhe had cer 
 tainly doubled the cape with the other 
 three ftiips : but the Spaniards in general, 
 ever fince their pofTeflions in America, are 
 grown fo delicate and indolent, that it 
 would be hard to find an intire fliip's 
 X 4 company 
 
3 I 2, A Vo YA6 E r0//#^/ # Wo RLD. 
 
 company able to perform that navigation. 
 
 The great advantage of the trade of 
 Chili this way is fo manifeft, that his Ca 
 tholic majefty is obliged by treaties to fhut 
 out all nations from it as well as the Eng- 
 lijhj tho' he makes nothing of it himfelf : 
 and it's very rare that a Spanijh fliip has 
 gone by Cape Home. From hence arifes 
 the extraordinary price all European goods 
 fetch at Chili and feru : I have been told 
 at Lima that they often are fold at 400 
 fer cent, profit ; and I may fay the goods 
 that are carry d from France by Cape Horn* 
 are in themfelves 50 per cent, better than 
 thofe that go in the Plot a from Cales to 
 Cartagena, or La *vera Cruz : becaufe the 
 former are delivered frefli and undamaged 
 in fix months ; whereas the other are ge 
 nerally eighteen months before they can 
 come to Chili : fo that the French, during 
 the forefaid interloping trade, made their 
 markets, furnifhd themfelves with provifion, 
 and got home again in twelve or fourteen 
 pnonths time. 
 
 When Martinet arrived at Chili, in the 
 year 17, with the king of Spam's commif- 
 fiqn to take ox deftroy all his countrymen 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 3 1 3 
 
 that were trading there clandcftinly, he foon 
 found imployrnent for his three fhips, the 
 fourth being loft as aforefaid. And of 
 fourteen fail of St. Malo men there was 
 but one efcaped him ; flie being landlockt 
 in a little creek, where fhe lay hid till he was 
 got to leeward : after which flie weighd 
 and came away with half her cargo un 
 fold. 
 
 The* all this was to execute the orders 
 of his Catholic majefty, and doing a fen- 
 fible pleafure to the British South-Sea com 
 pany : yet the Creole Spaniards, efpecially 
 the trading part of them, found themfelves 
 aimoft ruind by it j becaufe it hinderd the 
 circulation of money, and fpoild bufmefs, 
 fo that they could not bear the fight of 
 the French men of war, tho'they liked the 
 French merchantmen well enough. On the 
 other hand, the French imagining they had 
 done the Spaniards effectual fervice, ex- 
 pefted, no doubt, civil treatment while they 
 ftayd among them. But as foon as Mar 
 tinet brought his prizes into Callao, and 
 the Frenchmen had received their proper 
 fhares, they forgetting the old antipathy of 
 f he Sfanijh to the French nation, gave them 
 felves 
 
314 A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 felves extravagant airs afliore by frisking 
 and drinking that ftill incenfed the Creo- 
 lians more againft them, who calld them 
 Gtwachos and Renegades for falling foul on 
 their own countrymen. From one thing 
 or other their mutual quarels grew fo high 
 that the Frenchmen were forced to go in 
 parties about Lima and Callao, the better 
 to oppofe public outrages and affronts. At 
 laft a young gentleman, who was enfign 
 aboard the Ruby and nephew to captain 
 Jonquiere, was fhot from a window in one 
 of thefe frays , and the malefaftor took fanc- 
 tuary in the great church at Callao. Mar 
 tinet, Jonquiere and the other captain join 
 in a petition to the viceroy, that the mur 
 derer may be deliverd to juftice : but the 
 viceroy being an archbifhop would by no 
 means violate mother church to humour 
 any body. Upon which they orderd all 
 their men aboard by public beat of drum, 
 and brought their three {hips with their 
 broadfides to bear on the town of Callao $ 
 threatning to demolifti the houfes and for 
 tification, unlefs the rogue was deliverd up 
 or executed. All this bluftering could not 
 prevail \yith the viceroy to give them any 
 
 fttis- 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RLD. 315 
 fatisfaftion, tho' they had (everal other men 
 killd befide the gentleman. At laft Jon- 
 quiere unwilling to ufe extremities, and no 
 longer able to bear the place where his ne 
 phew was murderd $ obtaind of his com 
 modore Martinet, that he might make the 
 t>eft of his way home. 
 
 About this time many fathers and other 
 rich paffengers were got together at the 
 town of Conception, intending when this 
 fquadron came by, to take their paffage to 
 Europe: for they knew that all {hips bound 
 by Cape Home muft touch at Conception, or 
 thereabouts, for provifion. Herein Jon- 
 quiere got the whip hand of his commodore 
 having now the advantage of fo many good 
 paffengers in his fhip 5 for as the king of 
 Spain has no officers at Conception to ro- 
 gifter the n^oney fhipt there, fo it's unknown 
 what great fums thefe paffengers and miflto- 
 naries put on board the Ruby. The rea, 
 fon why there are no fuch officers, is be- 
 caufe 'tis not worth while, all the money 
 going the north way to come home in the 
 Fiota. 
 
 By this opportunity the padres and others 
 gaind two great advantages j firft they were 
 
3 1 <S A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 fpared the trouble of a voyage to Tanama 
 or Acapulco, and thence traverfing the con 
 tinent to Tortobello or L(i vera cruz, where 
 they muft expeft to have had their coffers 
 vifited to fee if the Indulto to his Majefty 
 was fairly accounted for. And then they 
 faved every (hilling of the faid indulto or 
 duty, becaufe the Ruby touchd firft in France, 
 where no cognifance at all was to be taken 
 of the affair. So that as they faved one 
 moiety of the duty payable in America^ they 
 likewife got clear of the other payable in 
 Spain, becaufe the fhip arrived in France 
 where they put all their money afhore. 
 
 There was on board the Ruby befide thefe 
 paflengers money, a confiderabie fum ari- 
 fing to his Catholic majefty from the con- 
 fifcation of the thirteen interlopers taken 
 by this fquadron. All which together I was 
 well informd amounted to four million of 
 dollars aboard that fhip. What a fine booty- 
 then have we mifsd, thro' Shefaocke's ob- 
 ftinate conduft ? For when this fame fhip 
 Ruby found us in the harbour of St. Ca 
 therine , Jonquieres company, as I faid in 
 my firft fedion, were fo infirm, that he 
 had not more than fixty well men in 400 
 
 fouls : 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo uta 3 17 
 fouls : fo chat he really was afraid of us 3 
 and would not even fend his boat afhore to 
 the watering place, where we kept guard, 
 and our coopers and fail makers were at 
 work, till he had firft askd our captain leave. 
 Nor is this at all ftrange, for underftanding 
 we had a confort, he was really in pain all 
 the time he was there, left the Success 
 fhould come in : and if Shehocke had not 
 wilfully loft company with CUpperton? and 
 perverfly determined never to joyn him, 
 which he might have done at Canarie, there 
 is probability enough that we fhould have 
 met with Jonquiere at fca, if not at St. Ca 
 therine : then our bufinefs had been done 
 for this time without going any farther : 
 and we were certainly able as it was, to 
 carry the Ruby our felves, had we known 
 her condition. 
 
 After captain Martinet had cleard the 
 coafts of Peru and Chili of his countrymen ; 
 he fent exprefs with the news to Madrid his 
 brother in law monfieur de Grange? who came 
 by way of Tortobello, Jamaica and London. 
 Upon delivering his meffage the king askd 
 him, what he fhould do for him. *De Grange 
 humbly beggd, that his majefty would pleafe 
 
 to 
 
$ 1 & A Vo YAG E round the Wo Rtin 
 
 to give him the command of a fhip to g<3 
 round cape Home again. He accordingly 
 had the Zelerin of fifty guns. He came firft 
 to Cales where the fhip was getting ready, 
 .but was furprizd to find a very cold recep 
 tion from the French merchants and other 
 gentlemen of his acquaintance refiding there* 
 for as there were merchants of feveral na 
 tions interefted in the fhips taken and con- 
 fifcated as aforefaid, they unanimoufly lookd 
 upon him and all the French aboard that 
 fquadiron to be falfe brethren for ferving a 
 foreign power to the prejudice of their own 
 countrymen : and while he expeded a valu 
 able cargo confignd to himfelf, being what 
 he aimd at, he found himfelf quite difap- 
 pointed 5 for no man would fhip the va 
 lue of a dollar with him. 
 
 Captain Fitzgerald who was then at 
 Cales feeing this, made him a confiderable 
 propofal for the privilege of going his next 
 officer, and to take aboard what goods he 
 could procure in his own name. *De Grange 
 being a little imbarraft accepted the offer, 
 and obtaind from court a commiflion for 
 him as fecond captain. Accordingly they 
 mand the Zelerin chiefly with French, and 
 
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 feamen; and away they went, 
 getting very well round the f^. When 
 our two privatiers Succefs and Sfeedwel were 
 known to be in the South-Sea, this fame 
 fliip Zelerin was one of thofe commiffiond 
 by the viceroy of *Peru to eruife for us. 
 Fitzgerald fold his goods at Lima to great 
 advantage, where he continued, while *De 
 Grange ferved as captain under the admiral 
 *Don *Pedro Midranda who took me and 
 the reft of us prifoners. 
 
 The St. Malo merchants, tho* great fu 
 ferers by fo many confifcations, were not 
 much difcouraged , for in the year 26, we 
 found the Solomon of St. Malo carrying 
 40 guns and 150 men at Hilo on the coaft 
 of Chili with feveral fmall Spanish barks 
 at her ftern. She fold her cargo in fix 
 weeks time, got a frefh fupply of provifion 
 and left the coaft without interruption > 
 for by this time Martinet's fquadron was 
 all come away. The Solomons good fuc- 
 cefs gave them fuch incouragcment that they 
 immediately fitted out fourteen fail toge 
 ther, all which arrived in the South-Sea 
 beginning the year 1721 : three of whofc 
 commanders having the beft acquaintance 
 
 among 
 
526 A Vo YAG E round the WORLD. 
 
 among the Greelians<> quickly fold their eair- 
 gos and returnd home. 
 
 About this time the people of Lima judged 
 the English privatiers were gone off the 
 coaft, at leaft that no more hoftilities would 
 be committed, becaufe of the truce made 
 between the two crowns. Whereupon the 
 three Spanijh men of war fitted out chiefly 
 to cruife on us, were orderd againft thefe 
 frefh interlopers. I was on board the Ad 
 vice boat calld the Flying Fifh in company 
 with the faid three men of war, when they 
 came up with the eleven fail of St. Mak 
 men altogether on the coaft of Chili $ and 
 inftead of firing upon them, the Spaniards 
 joynd them like friends. The French ex- 
 pefting to be attackt, kept all together in 
 a line and dared the men of war to begin- 
 This to me feemd new, that three fuch (hips 
 purpofely fitted for this cruife, fhould on 
 their own coaft decline doing their duty : 
 for had they proved too weak they had ports 
 of their own under their lee. In fhort> 
 the men of war contented themfelves to 
 watch the others motion, keeping them al 
 ways in fight : and when any of the French 
 fhips fteerd to the fhore, the Spaniards fent 
 
 their 
 
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 frheir pinnace or long boat with the Spanijb 
 flag hoifted 5 the fight of which effectually 
 deterrd the Creoles from treating or trading 
 with the French. Thus they made fliift to 
 hinder all thefe fliips difpofing of their 
 goods : except they were met by chance at 
 fea and fold fome clandestinely. At length, 
 being tired out, the Frenchmen got leave 
 to take in provifion, and went home with 
 at leaft half their goods unfold. Notwith- 
 ftanding all this and the fevere edidts againft 
 it in France, I know they ftill continue 
 the trade, tho' privately : nor is it proba 
 ble they will ever leave off fo fweet a com 
 merce, except fome other power prevent it. 
 
 With thefe remarks I fhall bring this book 
 to a conclufion 5 having indeavourd through 
 the whole, to make all the fubjefts agree- 
 able : even the controverfial part of it, as 
 it was unavoidable , I hope is inoflfenfive. 
 After all my difficulties and fufferings, my 
 per fonal pain and anxiety of mind, I have 
 one pleafure remaining 5 which is gratefully 
 to thank thofe gentlemen who ufed me and 
 my fhip-mates with great kindnefs and ge- 
 nerofity while it was our fate to be con- 
 fined in fo remote a part of the world. 
 
A Vo Y AG E round the Wo RLD. 
 
 Tedro Midranda the admiral who 
 took us, ufed us with great humanity, and 
 permitted me to eat with him while aboard. 
 
 Monjieur de Grange his fecond captain 
 who gave me a whole fute of apparel as 
 foon as w^were taken, having been ftript 
 by the foldiers that firft boarded us. 
 
 "Don Jeronimo Baldeviefo and 'Don An 
 tonio Chierofe, who handfomly entertaind 
 three of us at *Piura at the admiral's re- 
 queft, before we were fent to Lima. 
 
 Captain Nicholas Fitzgerald who pafsd 
 his word for me at Lima-, entertaind me in 
 his houfe ; gave me money and all neceffa- 
 ries during the eleven months I was there, 
 and afterwards gave me and twenty more 
 our paflage to Cafes, and wages to thofe 
 who workd. 
 
 *Don Juan Baptifta Talacio a worthy 
 Spaniard of B if cay, knight of the order of 
 liV. James, who came weekly to the pri- 
 fon at Ltma y and gave money to all our 
 men as well as ClippertSiis, according to 
 their degree. 
 
 To captain John Evers of the Britan 
 nia, who gave me his table and my paffage 
 to London. 
 
 Add 
 
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 And to the following pcrfons of honour 
 and worth who prefented me ten guineas 
 each upon my appearance in London, as a 
 token of thejr concern for my hardfhips. 
 
 The right honorable Henry earl of Lincoln. 
 Edward Hughes ^ 
 William Sloper C E fquir es. 
 Alexander Strahanj 
 Samuel Winder 
 Beake Winder K , , 
 
 Henry Neal Merchants. 
 
 John Barnes 
 
 Thus have I led my reader through the 
 voyage. When I firft thought of this work, 
 I intended only to clear my felf from the 
 infamous reflexions of captain Shehocke ; 
 but being authorifed by men of worth and 
 diftin&ioa, I determined not only to ju- 
 ftify my felf and fellow-fufferers, but to 
 give this full account of the whole expedi 
 tion : for Shel'vockfs is no account of the 
 voyage at all, but a libel invented to give 
 a glofs to all his evil adions, and blind 
 thofe who knew nothing of the ftory. And 
 Y z tho' 
 
A Vo YAG E round the Wo RL&. 
 tho* the undertaking proved abortive , 'tis 
 fit mankind fhould know the true reafon of 
 it, and not be deceived with bafe accounts 
 to palliate bafe aftions. Neither do I think 
 it (hould beany difcouragement to a future 
 fubfcription of this kind 5 for the miftakes 
 in this voyage may be of great ufe to others, 
 tho' they have ruind fome of us, and been 
 injurious to all. 
 
 'An 
 
3*5 
 
 An ACCOUNT of the JESUITS 
 fettlement m the province of Pa 
 raguay in fouth America, (tran- 
 flated from the French.) 
 
 HO* many of the European powers 
 have planted colonies in America 
 fince the Sfanifh conqueft, yet there 
 never was in any country one fo remarkable, 
 as the fettlement of the }tfa\tsm'Paragtiay: 
 The beginning of it was only about fifty fa 
 milies of Indians, which thefe fathers col- 
 lefted together, and fcated in the middle of 
 the country : fince which it has multiplyd 
 fo fait, that there are now 300,000 fami 
 lies 5 which at the ufual computation is two 
 million of fouls. Thefe poflefs fome of the 
 fined land on all the continent, lying along 
 the river ^Paraguay, between twenty and 
 Y 3 thirty 
 
326 An ACCOUNT of the JESUITS 
 
 thirty degrees fouth latitude 5 600 mile 
 north of Buenos Ayres > as much to the 
 fouth of the *Portuguefe 'Pau/ifts, and 400 
 from the province of Tuaman : being fe- 
 parated from Chili by the Cordileer moun 
 tains. 
 
 The jefuits have not been able yet to carry 
 their million farther among the Indians for 
 want of more fathers : otherwife they could 
 take in 5 or 600 mile of as good pafturage 
 as the world affords. But the country they 
 now podefs is as fruitful as any, and as well 
 \vaterd; having their meadows full of fheep 
 and black cattle. They have alfo (lock 
 enough of timber, corn, indigo, flax, cot 
 ton, fugar, pulfe and fruit : and what ex 
 cels all this, they have mines of gold and 
 fiiver tho' the good fathers won't own it : 
 however, there have been fo many proofs 
 of it, that it is now indiiputable. 
 
 The natives are good humourd, tra&able 
 and laborious ; and by management of the 
 jefuits learn all ufeful trades. They are di 
 vided into forty two parifhes, which like 
 towns lye five, ten and twenty mile afunder. 
 Every parifn has a Tadre for their fovereign, 
 who is obeyd with exact fear and refpect. 
 
 He 
 
Settlement in PARAGUAY. 327 
 
 He puniflies every crime as he thinks fit : fo 
 that he is both their abfolute prieft and king. 
 
 The common discipline is a certain num 
 ber of ftripes with a whip, according to the 
 nature of the tranfgreflion. The magiftrates 
 whom they put in under them, are not 
 excufed from the fame punifhment : but 
 which is very particular, he that is foundly 
 flogd comes humbly and kifles the father's 
 fleeve, owns his fault and thanks him for 
 the chaftifement. And this is the way one 
 man governs feven or eight thoufand fami 
 lies : fo that there never was a more com 
 plete dominion, or a more paffive, obedient 
 people. 
 
 The fame method is not only obferved 
 in all the parifhes, but is alfo attended with 
 perfeft fatisfadlion of mind. The Indians 
 are content with food and rayment 5 and 
 happy in their condition, tho' the jefuits in- 
 tirely reap the fruit of all their labour. They 
 are taught to expeft the felicities of another 
 life, and ftedfaftly believe the reverend fa 
 thers have the diftribution of that happinefs. 
 There are warehoufes in each parifh, where 
 the people carry all their manufacture, goods 
 and provifion : for they muft not eat a chicken 
 
 y 4 of 
 
28 An ACCOUNT of the JESUITS 
 
 of their own, without it comes in their daily 
 allowance. 
 
 Next let it be confiderd what vaft profit 
 thefe fovereign ecclefiaftics make of the 
 work of fuch a multitude of hands. If i f 
 is only allowd that each family brings them 
 clear three pound a year : the total produce 
 of 300,000 families will be nine hundred 
 thoufand pound per annum. Then confidcr 
 the trade they have to all Chili, Tent and 
 Mexico for the herb Camini , or Taraguay 
 tea ; where a prodigious quantity is drank, 
 and at a moderate computation brings them 
 200,000 pound 3 year, (all Eaft- India 
 tea being there prohibited. ) Their other 
 commodities muft be likewife fold to good 
 advantage j and the gold duft which the In 
 dians gather up from the wa(hes, when 
 the river waters have left them, is an un 
 known revenue. Neverthelefs , thefe fa 
 thers will tell ye, their gofpel million coils 
 them a great deal of money and pains, and 
 that their income is inconfiderable : but the 
 jefuits gold and ftlver coind and uncoind ? 
 which comes every now and then into Eu 
 rope , the fhining magnificence of their 
 Churches, and their commerce, which is 
 
 known 
 
Settlement in PARAGUAY.' 329 
 
 known to all the Spaniards as well as others, 
 are demonftrations to the ccmtrary. 
 
 Tis not amifs here to describe the church 
 and habitation of one of thofe fathers, as 
 it was related by two Frenchmen belong 
 ing to a fhip of Nants commanded by 
 monjieur d'Efcafeau. 
 
 When -that fhip let fail from the port 
 
 of Maldonad defigning for France, the faid 
 
 two Frenchmen happend to be afhore 5 and 
 
 at fo great a diftance, that when they came 
 
 down the boat was gone off without them* 
 
 One of thefe was captain of the fmali arms, 
 
 and the other a ferjeant. Being at a lofs 
 
 what to do on a delert coaft, they refolved 
 
 to advance up the country, and live upon 
 
 what their muskets would bring them. la 
 
 three days they met Indians with beads round 
 
 their necks, who kindly received them 5 and, 
 
 underftanding they were French., made many 
 
 figns of refpeft : for they are taught to love 
 
 that nation and diftinguifii them from all 
 
 others. 
 
 They led them up to thcMrfl/oti, feveral 
 days journey from the place where they met 5 
 and in their way lived upon wild cows^ 
 jyhich the Indians c^tch when they plcafe, 
 
330 An ACCOUNT of the JESUITS 
 
 by throwing a noofe at ten or fifteen yards 
 diftance fo cleverly round their horns, that 
 they eafily come to : which done , they 
 hamftring them and cut their throats. 
 
 The Frenchmen being arrived at the Mif- 
 fan y were handfomly entertaind by the je- 
 fuit, lord of that parifh ; at whofe apart 
 ment they ftayd four months without going 
 once abroad. After this they returnd to 
 Buenos Ayres under a guard of Indians. 
 
 The account they gave is as follows. 
 That Father's parifh church is long and fpa- 
 cious, enterd by a portico of feveral hand- 
 fome fteps 5 and fupported by eight columns 
 of a good order and well wrought. Over 
 the door within is a gallery for the mufic 
 in divine fervice, which confifts of fixty per- 
 fons, voices and instruments. There are 
 feats in the church, where the men are 
 placed according to their feniority and of 
 fice : the women fitting in a neat gallery 
 by themfelves. The great altar is defended 
 by a balluftrade of India wood curioufly 
 turnd. The military officers are placed on 
 the right, and the Caciques or civil magi- 
 ftrates, on the left. 
 
 The 
 
Settlement in PARAGUAY. 331 
 
 The back of the altar is very richly co- 
 verd. In the middle are three large paint 
 ings, framed with folid gold and filver. A- 
 bove thefe are feveral gravings, and bafe 
 relieves in gold. The top is finifht with 
 wood-work richly wrought and gilt up to 
 the roof. On either fide the altar is a 
 wooden pedeftal, plated at top with gold, 
 upon which ftand two faints of folid filver. 
 The tabernacle is gilt with gold ; and the 
 fyx wherein the hoft is kept is of folid gold , 
 fet round with emeralds and other coftly 
 ftones. The ends and foot of the altar are 
 hung with brocades fringed with gold. In 
 fhort, the candlefticks and other veffels of 
 plate, with which the altar is dreft in fer- 
 vice time amidft a great number of wax- 
 lights, make a fplendor beyond expreflion. 
 
 There are two fmall altars, on the right 
 and left of the church, adornd in propor 
 tion to the other : and in the middle to 
 wards the balluftrade, is a large filver candle- 
 flick of thirty gilt branches, hanging from 
 the roof by a filver chain. By all which a 
 man may form fome idea of the riches of 
 that fettlement, if the other parifhesare like 
 this, which is very rational to believe. 
 
 The 
 
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 The presbytery ot father's dwelling confifts 
 offeveral rooms and a hall furnifht with 
 images and pidures, where the Indians wait 
 the good father's levee till he comes forth 
 to give audience. Thefe lodgings are fur- 
 rounded with green walks, gardens, and 
 out-houfes for fervants. The whole with 
 the church making a large noble fquare and 
 walld in. 
 
 The forty two jefuits are independent of 
 each others government 5 and are anfwerable 
 to no power on earth, but the principal of 
 the convent of Cordova in Tucuman ; who 
 makes a general vifitation once a yearthrough 
 the Mijfion, attended by a numerous guard 
 of horfe. When he arrives at the pariih, 
 the Indians are to fhew all refpeft and joy. 
 The magiftrates approach him with fear, 
 and a down caft head 3 while the common 
 people kneel, and crofs their hands as he 
 paffes along. While he ftays in the Mif- 
 (ion> every parifh makes up the laft year's 
 account of their whole expenfe and income. 
 
 All their merchandizes are carryd by wa 
 ter to Santa Fe, which being their great 
 magazine, they keep there a general faftor, 
 From thence they are carryd to Buenes 
 
Settlement in PARAGUAY.' us 
 Ayres by land ; where they appoint another 
 faftor. From thefe chief towns they difpofe 
 of their goods to the chapmen of Tent, Chili, 
 and the three provinces of Taraguay, Buenos 
 Ayres and Tucuman. And we may juftly 
 conclude, that this Mifflon of jefuits carries 
 on more trade than the three provinces 
 together. 
 
 The bufinefs of the civil officers is to 
 write down the number of families, vifit 
 their houfes, overlook their work, and de 
 liver the jefuits orders. And as kifling the 
 father's fleeve is counted an earned of their 
 future immortal happinefs, this welcome 
 kifs is promifed them as a reward in this 
 life for doing their duty and minding their 
 work. There are other task- matters for the 
 .country, to whom they ftridly declare the 
 produce of every thing, even to an egg ; and 
 are obliged, under certain penalties, to carry 
 all into the proper ftore-houfes. Servants 
 alfo are appointed to parcel out to each fa 
 mily twice a week their allowance of pro- 
 vifion : which is done with furprizing order 
 in the lather's prefence. And tho' thefe 
 priefts are fufficiently paid for their care and 
 Vigilance $ yet, to their praife it muft be 
 
 ownd, 
 
334 An ACCOUNT of the JESUITS 
 ownd, they are indefatigable in their la 
 bor, to prevent the people murmuring ot 
 mifimploying their time. Formerly two je- 
 fuits were in each parifh ; but fince their 
 great increafe there is only one, till they 
 get more from Europe. 
 
 The Indians are not fufferd to drink 
 wine, or any fpirituous liquor. Herein the 
 good priefts copy the law of Mahomet, who 
 Jikewife forbid his difciples the ufe of wine * 
 left being fpirited up, they fhould rebel, 
 fliake off their yoke, and overturn the em 
 pire he had founded. 
 
 The jefuits marry their men and women 
 young , to fulfil perhaps the firft command 
 ment given to Adam, Increafe and multiply r , 
 or for other wife ends. The firft precepts 
 the children learn, are to fear God and the 
 jefuit ; to be humble and patient, and not 
 in love with this world. 
 
 As the civil government is well orderd, 
 fo is the military. Every parifh according 
 to its power, is obliged to maintain fome 
 regiments of horfe and foot. Each regiment 
 hath fix companies of fifty men with proper 
 officers, and an adjutant who cxercifes them 
 every funday evening. Thofe officers arc 
 
 traind 
 
Settlement in PARAGUAY. 335 
 
 traind up from father to fon 5 fo that the 
 military difciplinc becomes natural, and 
 their forces march in great order. For this 
 reafon the pariflies have all an eafy com 
 munication, that their army may foon be 
 formd under their proper commanders, of 
 whom one of the jefuits is generaliflimo. 
 Their fmall arms are fwords, muskets and 
 flings 5 which laft being natural to them, 
 they can throw heavy ftones; and hit a 
 mark at a great diftance. 
 
 The whole Mijfion can draw together 
 60,000 men in a week's time. Their pre- 
 tenfe for keeping up fo great a number is, 
 becaufe the Tortuguefe Taulifts fometimes 
 make excurfions and take away their people : 
 but the Spaniards laugh at this, well know 
 ing that the jefuits keep thefe ftanding forces 
 to prevent any foreign power giving diftur- 
 bance to their colony. 
 
 Their omitting to teach the Indians the 
 Spanish tongue, and forbiding them to con- 
 verfe at all with that nation when they are 
 fometimes fent to work in the towns for 
 the king of Spain's fervice, is plain they mean 
 to keep their government to themfelves. 
 For when any ftranger, as thefe two French-. 
 3 men. 
 
~36 An ACCOUNT of the JESUITS 
 
 men, are driven there by accident, they arc 
 fhut up while they ftay. And when the Spa 
 niards themfelves parting up the river 'Pa 
 raguay have occafion to touch upon their 
 fettlement, they dare not go beyond their 
 church walls : and when they beg leave to 
 fee the town, the jefui't is fure to walk with 
 them, and all the Indians are taught to keep 
 in, and fhut their doors. They have other 
 precautions, one of which is, to fend out 
 good detachments of troops to clear their 
 frontiers from St. Gabriel's ides to the Mai- 
 donad hills, and hinder all communication 
 with their country , for the fake of their 
 gold and filver mines ; of which we (hall 
 give two inftances. The Falmouth of St. 
 Malo being loft in 1706 near the Flares 
 iflands, fome of thefe troops plunderd part 
 of her cargo 5 which they afterwards re- 
 ftored by the interpofition of the governer 
 of Buenos Ayres. Two years after this, 
 the Atlas was caft away at the Caftiks, 
 and the crew having faved fome of their 
 beft effefts, were marching over the country 
 to the Maldonades, thinking to get home 
 again by fea > but were met by the Indians ', 
 who took all from them. However, they 
 
 had 
 
A VOYAGE found the WORLD. 337 
 hadluckily buryd their ftlver upon the coaftj 
 to the value of feveral thoufand dollars^ 
 which they afterwards took along with 
 them. 
 
 At the foot of the Maldonad mountains 
 are good mines, which were difcoverd by 
 facheco, who lived at Buenos Ayre$ and 
 was formerly miner oiTotoJi'm Teru : they 
 are about feventy mile from the port, and 
 forty from Montevide. The governer of 
 Buenos Ayres being acquainted with it, ferit 
 workmen with 'Pacbeto, who dug up the 
 place and returnd with a good quantity of 
 gold ore. But Valdes Inelau the governec 
 being bribed by the father of the Miffion^ 
 gave out that he had made trial of the ore* 
 and it wpuld not anfwer the charge and 
 trouble, l|iowever *Pacheco kept what he 
 had got, ^nd faw it was only a trick of thcj 
 jefuits, tc* prevent any new fettlement near 
 their dominions. 
 
 Setae of the faid ore was lately tfyd Iti 
 France, but yielded little, being taken frotti 
 neat the furface. But *PachecOj who is knowri 
 to be as good a miner as any, fays* there 
 is no richer earth in America than that 
 plaee affords: and doubts not the rivers 
 
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3 3 S A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
 thereaway are fertile of gold duft, as thofe 
 near the ^Paulifts. The young Indians in 
 the parifli of St. 'Dominic y have feveral 
 times brought gold to Buenos Ayres, which 
 they got privately from the MiJJlon 5 from 
 whence we may infer there is a good deal 
 of it. 
 
 In the year 1706, the aforefaid 'D'Efca- 
 featiy being in MaJdwad port, met with 
 fome of thefe Indians^ who came in a fmall 
 detachment to drive fome cattle up to the 
 MiJJion. He talkd with them, and made 
 them a prefent. In return, they told him 
 if he would go up the country to a place 
 they pointed at, he might get filver enough. 
 The priefts have all along been jealous, left 
 the Spaniards fhould find any of thefe mines, 
 becaufe a fettlement of that kind might be 
 of dangerous confequence : and they have 
 taken care to clear the country on that 
 fide of all cattle andprovifion whatfoever. 
 
 From the foregoing particulars, 'tis evi 
 dent that the jeluits affed fovereignty and 
 arbitrary rule ; and the three chief objefts 
 of their defire are power, fplendor and 
 riches. Their method of educating and 
 governing their people, from whgfe induftry 
 
 arifes 
 
A VOYAGE round the WORLD. 319 
 
 arifes all they enjoy, allowing them the 
 bare neceflaries of life 5 their care to pre 
 vent any communication with the Spani 
 ards 5 their caution when any ftranger cornes 
 to their Mijfion by accident 5 their (landing 
 forces, and fcowring their borders to pre 
 vent any new fettlement near their limits > 
 are all manifeft arguments that they defign 
 to continue independent : and not only 
 conceal what revenues they have, but many 
 other advantages they are not yet quite pof- 
 feft of. 
 
 Some cafuifts will fay, that all thcfe na 
 tions round Paraguay belong to his Spanish 
 majefty as king of the Indies $ ^Paraguay it 
 felf being poffeft by the Spaniards in 1540, 
 and governd by the viceroy of Peru. Ac 
 cording to thefe gentlemen, the true divine 
 right is the right of conqueft : fo that all 
 thefe Indians are his natural born fubjefts, 
 and fhould obey him alone. They ought 
 freely to parcel out their land, and difpofe 
 of their own crop, and otherwife injoy the 
 fruit of their labor, whether in the mines 
 or manufactures : this would make it a re- 
 gular colony , and caufe a general circula 
 tion of trade and money. Doubtlefs the 
 
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 poor Indians would be glad of all this : 
 but the wife fathers argue a different way, 
 That fince they have got them under fub- 
 jedion, and brought them into great rule 
 and order, they have at prefent a fair title 
 to their allegiance : efpecially fmce all this 
 is done without cruelty or force of arms. 
 f Tis true, the Indians can call nothing their 
 property, but give up all as the inheritance 
 of two and forty ecclefiaftical kings ruling 
 two million of good natured loyal fob- 
 refts.. 
 
 We fiiall give one inftance of the great 
 authority of thefe fathers, and the duty of 
 their people/When the governer of Buenos 
 Ayres was orderd to befiege St. Gabriel be 
 longing to the Tortugtiefe, a body of 4000 
 jefuit Indians came to aflift him. After ly 
 ing a fhort time before the town, the faid 
 governer orderd the attack at four in the 
 morning. The Indians not receiving their 
 orders from their own commander, refufed 
 to obey 5 and threatend to revolt : where- 
 c tipon the right reverend general was ac 
 quainted with it, who not being yet come 
 from his tent, made hafte to the army, and put 
 himfelf at the head of his forces : when the 
 
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 Indians immediately formd themfelves, and 
 executed his commands. 
 
 The jefuits ought to pay the king a yearly 
 fubfidy of 16 much a head for every Indian 
 through their iertlcment, according to the 
 capitation tax. But this, if paid, is fuffi- 
 ciently returnd by the wages the Indians re 
 ceive, when they work for the king,, who 
 at the year's end is often made debtor to 
 the Mijfion. For, in the firft place, the je 
 fuits dont give in the number of half their 
 families to be taxt. Then the governer of 
 Buenos Ayres y who ought once in five years 
 to vifit all their Mijfion, and take an exaft 
 lift, is ftopt in his journey, and gratifyd for 
 his trouble : fo that he finds it better to 
 take their own lift. And laftly, when 500 
 Indians are imployd in the king's fervice, 
 the good fathers charge him i ooo. 
 
 Thus is his Catholic majcfty ferved, not 
 only in the fouth Indies, but in all other 
 parts of America $ where his revenues are 
 half funk in feignd imployments and ima 
 ginary applications. As for the fettlement 
 of the jefuits, I (hall only make this obfer- 
 vation upon it, That all people are more 
 naturally led than driven : and the fame po- 
 
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 licy that founded this government will pro 
 bably maintain it, if the fathers keep a fuc- 
 ceffion out of their own fociety. If ever 
 they make a prefent of this colony to a 
 foreign power, it muft be that of France : 
 for the Spaniards and Tortuguefe are hated 
 by all the Americans for their tyranny and 
 pride : and no other Romijh power except 
 France, would be able to defend and fup- 
 port its title. 
 
MEMORANDUM. 
 
 THE circumftance of captain Shetoocke'* 
 lofing fazSfeedwelztFernandes, and 
 his building a bark out of the wreck, has 
 been received by fome people as a moft in 
 genious wonderful performance : and has 
 been the chief motive of fuch as never 
 heard the like before, to buy the book for 
 the fake of that ftory. Therefore I thought 
 it proper here to mention, two particular fads 
 of the fame kind, tho' far fuperior to that of 
 Shelvocke. 
 
 The one is of John Ozenham ofPfymouth, 
 in queen Elizabeth's reign. When Sir Fran 
 cis 'Drake had made himfelf greatly famous 
 for his exploits againft the Spaniards in A- 
 merica, the affair at {hat time being new, 
 all people were fpeaking of ^Drake's glory 
 and acquifuions. Mr. Oxenham being a 
 fprightly man, and emulous of doing fome- 
 thing very extraordinary, fet on foot 3 fub- 
 fcription at Plymouth to fit out a fhip with 
 feventy men to land at the iftmus of TDarien ; 
 hide the fhip and leave her there till he re- 
 turnd j build another veflel and crofs the 
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MEMORANDUM. 
 
 land by a river thereabouts, and fo get at 
 once into the South Sea and furprize the 
 enemy : for he knew that to go by cape 
 Home was very hazardous,tedious and charge 
 able, efpecially in thofe days. This, tho' 
 it might feem a ftrange projed and like a 
 wild chimera, yet 'tis certain he performd 
 it : he left the (hip a ground at ^Darien ; 
 poverd her with trees 5 went inland to a 
 river which leads into the fouth ocean j built 
 a bark there 45 foot by the keel, and faild 
 into the South Sea, where he made fcveral 
 rich prizes. However he afterwards loft 
 them all with his life by the artifices of a 
 lady whom he took prifbner. If the reader 
 is curious, he may find it at length in Hao- 
 liiit. Sir Richard Hawkins alfo has it 
 in his South Sea journal. 
 
 The other is an example in the reign of 
 king Charles I. After feverai experiments 
 were made to find a northweft paffage to 
 the Eaft -indies, captain James a very skil 
 ful navigator was fent alfo upon the fame 
 prrand : and difcoverd more land which he 
 called new South Wales. He wanderd up 
 and down thofc feas in vain > and then win- 
 
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MEMORANDUM. 
 
 terd at a place called by him Charleton ifland, 
 in 52 degrees. His (hip having all this time 
 received great damage, he there built a pin 
 nace out of the faid fhip ; and he with his 
 people returnd in it to England. See the 
 journal printed by the king's command 1633. 
 If thefe fads are examined together, be, 
 fides many that I could mention done by the 
 buccaniers, pyrates and others, captain Shel- 
 vocke will appear to have done nothing 
 at all to boaft of: neither can his perfor 
 mance hardly bear a comparifon. 
 
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