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A26296	The voyages and adventures of Capt. Barth. Sharp and others in the South Sea being a journal of the same : also Capt. Van Horn with his buccanieres surprizing of la Veracruz : to which is added the true relation of Sir Henry Morgan his expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies and his taking Panama : together with the president of Panama's [i.e. Juan Perez de Guzman] account of the same expedition, translated out of Spanish : and Col. Beeston's adjustment of the peace between the Spaniards and English in the West Indies / published by P.A., Esq.	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.; Perez de Guzman, Juan.; Beeston, William, Sir, b. 1636.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4315; ESTC R9181	65,058	198

THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF Capt. BARTH SHARP And others in the South Sea BEING A JOURNAL of the same ALSO Capt. Van Horn with his Buccanieres surprizing of la VERA CRUZ To which is added The true Relation of Sir Henry M●rgan his Expedition against the Spaniards in the West-Indies and his taking Panama Together with The President of Panama's Account of the same Expedition Translated out of Spanish And Col. Beeston's adjustment of the Peace between the Spaniards and English in the West Indies Published by P. A. Esq LONDON Printed by B. W. for R. H. and S. T. and are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner MDCLXXXIV THE PREFACE THE Reader may well wonder at the disposing thus the several Relations in this small Volume I shall therefore for his satisfaction give this following account That the Exploits of Captain Sharp and others in the South Sea in service of the Emperour of Darien being the first that came to my Hands at the time the late History of Buccanieres was published and I finding it to be a plain Journal not unpleasant and much of the same kind writ by a Seaman though not learned and accurate in his stile yet one that certainly was very skilful and industrious in the Art of Sailing who seems to have given a true and just Relation of what befel them in that Expedition most of which I have heard confirmed by others who were actually present in all those Adventures For that reason I thought it might not be unacceptable to the world To which I have only this to add That this Emperor of Darien had been formerly surprized by the Spaniards and by them carried to Panama where he learnt indifferently the Spanish Language and was called by them Sennordon Andreas But he after his escape for their kind treatment of him has never ceased making War upon them always falling on whereever he sees any good opportunity and when like to be overpowered he retreats amongst his Hills Woods and Rivers with which last his Countrey is very well stored and so baffles the industrious revenge of his Enemies The exact limits of that which is properly called the Province or District of Darien which our Author has omitted to give us are thus described It is bounded on the South by the Kingdom of New Granada by the Gulf of Uraba or Darien on the East by the South Sea on the West and on the North by the Province of Panama to which Government this is now annexed I mean so much as the Spaniards have of it It took its name from the River so called running into the South Sea and has a small Town though once a great City called Santa Maria del Darien but more commonly Santa Maria only and sometimes la Antigua signifying the Ancient City The next thing which is a short Account of Van Horns taking la Vera Cruz being more Modern and of the same nature I added together with the destroying the French Pyrates by Captain Carlisle that it may be seen what care is taken to suppress such as molest so considerable a support of our Nation as is our Trade and Commerce with Foreign Countries of which that with Spain is not the least for by it more of our Manufactures are taken off than by any other whatsoever Besides this of Captain Carlisle's if I had the leasure I could have given an account of several others both Men of War and Merchant-Ships fitted and manned out as such by the Goverours of Jamaica Barbados and the Leeward Islands on purpose for scouring the Seas of the Buccanieres or Pyrates who being a mixture of divers Nations but the greatest part of them French and Dutch make Prize of all they meet The third Relation is of Sir Henry Morgan which according to method ought to have been placed first but I had no intentions of printing that till I had read over and considered the said History of Buccanieres and then thought my self obliged no longer to conceal such an Authentick account of that Expedition To which I have adjoyned the President of Panama's Letter which was intercepted going for Spain and confirms if need were the Credit of the precedent Relation As to the last Paper in which is mentioned the settling the Peace in those parts with a Description of the City of Carthagena since it related somewhat to the foregoing Pieces I thought it not improper with it to conclude these Miscellanies But I confess I had yet another design in printing that one Expedition of Sir Henry Morgan which was That I might in some measure rescue the Honour of that incomparable Souldier and Seaman from the Hands of such as would load him with the blackest infamy I could not therefore forbear making some few reflections on the aforementioned History of Buccanieres but more especially that part which concerns Sir Henry Morgan and the English For it is against them the Authors Malice seems most to be aimed endeavouring on all occasions to represent them the most Lewd Perfidious and Barbarous People in the World And whereas the Translator who I confess seems to have performed his part well enough in having rendered it from the Spanish Translation does in his Encomiums of the Author comparing him to the admirable Historian Comines very much extoll his Candour and fidelity in recording the Actions and Valour of the English then at large he commends his Stile and Method and highly applauds the Truth and Sincerity of his History I will not trouble my self to shew the inequality of the Parallel with the incomparable Comines And as for his faithful recording their Actions and Valour I must allow him to have writ some of their heroick Exploits well enough which of themselves were so Eminent that had he gone about to have lessened it would have taken away all credit from his History But he has most maliciously stigmatized them all the while as valiant Thieves and Murderers So that there is no Man that reads them who does not conceive a horrour against the barbarous Actors of those Cruelties Neither will I find fault with the Authors Stile and Method But it is chiefly the boasted Truth and sincerity of the History which I am most concerned to expose being therein able to detect innumerable Falsities and for Vouchers of what I affirm can produce a whole Cloud of Witnesses many of which Romances are so palpable that the Author could not possibly write them by mistake but has inserted them on purpose certainly as embellishments to set off his Story To begin then with Sir Henry Morgan's Parentage He makes him the Son of a Yeoman and that be sold himself for Barbados when it is sufficiently known he was descended of an honourable Family in Monmouthshire and went at first out of England with the Army commanded by General Venables for Hispaniola and Jamaica Then his cruel usage of the Spaniards at Puerto Velo Maracàibo Gibraltàr and Panamà Murdering many in cold blood Racking and

to Board him before the other two could come up with us and then we should be ready for them But so soon as he saw us put a stays he bore up the Helm and went to his consorts This was the twelfth of January 1680. Iuan Fernandez at Queen Katherines Isle as we called it is very high Land well wooded and has plenty of fresh Water Goats and Fish with a wholesome Air and Lyes in 33 deg 40 min. South lat and about 100 leag from the Main Land 13. Thursd. We keep plying to windward to see the motion of these three Ships we saw one plying for the Island the other two we judged were got to an Anchor under the Island Our Men being mutinous and full fed Resolved to surprise the City of Aryca so in the night we bore up the Helm and left the Spaniards to cast a figure to know where to meet us next 14. Frid. We have run 15 leag East lat 32 deg 33 min. the wind at S. and S. S. E. 5 leag distance from the Isle when we bore up which makes East 20 leag 15. Saturd Between Iuan Fernandez and Aryca We have run 21 leag East lat 30 deg 36 min. wind South East 41 leag 16. Sund. We have run 20 leag East lat 29 deg 23 min. East 61 leag 17. Mund. We have run 18 leag East lat 29 deg 49 min. wind S. S. E. we differ by dead reckoning and corre●t it by Observation 7 leag which being deducted out of our Easting there remains East 7● leag 18. Tuesd. We have run 22 leag East lat 26 deg 13 min. wind at South and S. S. E. clowdy weather East 94 leag 19. Wedn. We have run East 20 leag lat 25 deg 7 min. wind South East 114 leag 20. Thursd. We have run 22 leag North lat 24 deg the wind at South this morning we saw the Land which was very high and mountainous and bore E. N. E. 14 leag distance East 114 leag 21. Frid. We have run 26 leag North lat ●2 deg 43 min. wind South 22. Saturd We have run 12 leag West lat 21 deg 26 min. wind South and S. S. E. 12 leag West from 114 East make our departure East but 102 leag 23. Sund. We have run 11 leag East lat 20 deg 42 min. the wind in the day at South by night East a strong Current that sets to the Northward East 113 leag 24. Mund. VVe sent our Canoes to an Island that lyes a little from the shoar to take some prisoners that might inform us how the City of Aryca was fortified so we lay on and off the shoar for this day 25. Tuesd. VVe plyed to windward for our Canoes at night they came on Board but had mist of the Island so we put in a fresh gang of Men and away they went on the same errand this night 26. Wedn. Our Canoes came on b●ard at night bringing with them two old Indian Men who informed Captain Iohn Watling who now was commander in Chief and took their examinations in Private that there was seven Companys of Kings Soldiers in the Town and that the Place was well fortisied with Breast-Works besides a strong Fort of thirteen Copper Guns but for fear of discouraging us in the attempt he discovered nothing of this to us but swore he would have the Town or that should have him which proved a prophecy with this resolution he commands the Helm to be bore up 27. Thursd. Little or no wind lat 20 deg 20 min. 28. Frid. We went with our Boat and Canoes wherein we had 92 Men that we could Land leaving a small Guard on our Boats We rowed along shoar till 29. Saturd morning and lay still all this day for fear of being descried and on Saturd night we rowed most part of the night Ianuary the 30. Sund. Being the Anniversary day in commemoration of the Martyrdom of King Charles the First for which I believe the English both have and will suffer severely and Seas of our Blood be shed for Sacrifices to expiat● the Murther of the best of Princes we landed our Men and advanced towards the Town of Aryca but as we marched we divided our Men ●nto two Parties of which 40 were designed for the Fort and the rest for the City When we drew near the Town we saw a great number of Men drawn up without their works in a plain Sandy Ground who fired at our Party that marched towards the Town and our Men returning their compliment kept on their way our other Party that were for the Fort seeing us ingaged hasted down the Hill with a Shour and cried They run they run and then firing on their Flank made them run in good Earnest and with what haste they could get into their Breast-works When we were united into one body the Enemy played their Cannon briskly upon us So we resolved to attaque their Breast-works which were out of the Bearing of their Fort but we had a smart A●sault of it for we being all open to their fire and naked Men and they secured in their works they by this advantage killed us a great many Men. At last some of ours got to the End of their biggest Breastwork which galled us most and then we plyed them well with small Shot which was a Cartridge fit for the Bores of our Fuzees with a full Shot in it and 7 or 9 Swan Shot loose upon that This kept them in play till our Men in the Front began to Storm the wall upon which they cryed for quarter which our unwary Commander too readily granted it afterwards proving the ruin of our design In this jun●ture we received many a Volly from three other Breastworks that this great one lay within command of and we being for dispatch faced about with a party of ours and took them all by assault without giving any quarter to those that were in them they being Creolians a people half Spaniards and half Indians of a Copper colour'd Complexion and Men that never give it themselves From hence we advanced to the Town and took it that now we had nothing to do but to give a general assault to the Fort but Captain Watling delaying his time in the Breastwork where he staid to give quarter Those we drove out of the Town got into the Fort whom had it not been for the Guns to put into our Ship we would not have troubled our selves with for we knew that having once possession of the Town there was more Coined money then we could tell how to bring away in case we had not been disturbed which Plunder would have made us what we could desire but we wanted their Cannon to secure it on board when we should get it there At length the Captain marched into the Town with his Prisoners and called us all together where being come we found we had more Prisoners then Men of our own So that after we had sent our Wounded

in the main they seemed suspicious as doubting whether or no we intended to keep it strictly And to strengthen it soon after Dinner there came an Express to the Governour from the wind-ward giving him an account that there were two Privateers come to an 〈◊〉 near 〈◊〉 de Canu which is about five leagues from the City At which they seemed infinitely dissatisfied and confidently affirmed they must needs be English and told us with all that there was but small likelihood the Peace should be long continued when our Privateers came before the Town whilst we were there treating with them and owning the Peace To appease which the Colonel assured them Sir Thoms Linch had called in all the Commissions and that he was confident we had not on Privateer abroad So that if there were any such Vessells out they were French of Tortuga But for their better satisfaction if the Governour desire it he would send one of the Frigats to see what they were Which offer he gladly accepted And that he might see we intended nothing more than the Preservation of the Peace the Colonel sent Captain Wilgresse to Sea who returned again in twenty four hours having been beyond the place where they were reported to have been but saw none at which they were again satisfied The remainder of the time we staid here which was whilst the Governours Papers were dispatching we spent in viewing the Town and treating several Gentlemen of theirs a board who were curious to see the Frigats and their strength The City of Carthagena lies on a Bay by the Sea side built on a Sand but to Landward it is very boggy It is in length about three quarters of a mile and not full half a mile in bredath ` T is walled all round with a thick stone wall of about four and twenty foot high with Bastions built with Orillons in some parts in others they are plain But has neither Graffs nor Ramparts The Guns which are in number one hundred twenty six are most Brass and Copper and lie upon the Parapets and looking over the tops of the walls without either Battlements or common Basekets to blind them In the wall are three Gates one to the South called San Domingo one to the North East called Santa Catalina and one to the East which goes to the Harbour and into the Country This City nevertheless is not strong for there is neither Castle nor any considerable place of strength in it and moreover to the North North West which is the Bay those winds have made in the wall three great Breaches which may be entred with ease The People likewise are not many besides Church Men and for the most part are Creolians who are half Spaniard and half Indian There are also many Molatto's and Negroes amongst them Their Souldiers are Armed for Fire Arms only with match Locks in the use of which they are likewise very unexpert The City in general is well built with Stone and covered with Tile the streets are narrow and the Houses for the most part contiguous and most of them four or five stories high with Balconies of Wood and great Wooden Lattices as they have in Spain Here are many Beautiful Churches and other Publick Structures One of their greatest wants is fresh water having none but what falls from the Clouds for the reception whereof they have large Cisterns in most Houses and likewise under the Bastions in the walls where they keep and husband it till God send a fresh supply The Town appears very Beautiful at a distance for there are many Cocao Nut Trees which resemble Palms growing promiscuously in several parts thereof and overtopping the Houses which is a delightful Ornament to it On the East side of it about a mile distant upon an Eminence stands a Castle called Santa Madalena provided with many Guns of Brass Copper and Iron which they look upon as of great strength and able to do much in their defence and for preservation of their City Whilst we staid here some of our Company were desirous to treat with one Herman an Eminent Factor here for the Grillo's Genoese Merchants in Spain in hopes to have sold him some Negroes from Iamaca but he was so ill beloved by the People and they were so suspicious of us left we should sell the Negroes which waited on us that we could not have any discourse with him On Friday the twenty eighth We received our Letters and Dispatches and in the afternoon took our leaves of the Governour and City and went on board staying all Saturday to fit our Ships Sunday morning we Sailed saluting the City at our going off which they with the same number of Guns answered Tuesday August the first we met with the Santa Cruz. Captain Francisco Garibaldo Commander a Ship of thirty two Guns Sixteen Petreros and a hundred and six Men she belonged to the Grillo's and had on board a hundred and twenty thousand pieces of Eight with which she was going from Carthagena to Corizo to buy Negroes Out of her we took Five Prisoners which made our number thirty eight After which we passed on And without any thing worthy of remark in our Voyage standing over for Iamaica On Munday August the seventh in the morning we arrived and came to an Anchor in Port Royal Harbour FINIS An. Dom. 1680. April An. Dom 1680. May An. Dom. 1680. Iune An. Dom. 1680. Iuly An. Dom. 1680. August An. Dom. 1680. Septem An. Dom. 1680. Octob. An. Dom. 1680. Novem. An. Dom. 1680. Decem. An. Dom. 1680. Septem An. Dom. 1680. Decem. An. Dom. 1680. Ianuar. An. Dom. 1680. Februa 1680 1. March 1681. April May. 1681. May. Iune 1681. Iune 1681. Iuly August 1681. August Septem 1681. Septem October 1681. October Novem. 1681. Novem. Decem. 1681. Decem. 1681 2. Ianuary 1681 2. Ianuary 1683. 1670. 1670 Decem. 1670. Ianuary 1670. Febr. An. Dom. 1670. Ianuar. An. Dom. 1671. Iuly