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A58039	A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwrack, famine, or other accidents. much enlarg'd, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.	Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Ryther, John, 1634?-1681, attributed name.	1698 (1698)	Wing R2445; ESTC R222746	69,767	178

night we laid us down to rest after having prayed and set our watch but immediately this our second Ship ran with full Sails upon a Rock and gave so great a Crack as was able to awake the most dead asleep among us and the Marriners cryed out Mercy Mercy it pleased God that the Ship struck it self so fast in the cleft of a Rock with her Bow over the main Rock that the former part of her stood firm but breaking in the storm one of the Sea-men leaped from the bow of the Ship upon the Rock with a Rope in his hand which was fastened to one of our Masts and held it with so stiff a hand that another slipt down by it and so all our Company that escaped being Twenty Eight in number came safe to the Rock I was the last that came down the Ship that way for in that very moment she gave way which the Master perceiving who was still aboard made lamentable moan to us to help him which we endeavoured to the utmost but the Ship broke and sunk immediately there was this good man and four of the Marriners drowned I saw the Master with a light in his hand fall into the Sea the saddest sight that I ever yet beheld in this world and that which pierced my very Soul to see him that saved our Lives lose his own Now were we in the dark upon the Rock but knew not where our feet being cut upon the sharp stones at length we happened of a hole in the Rock which was a warm shelter against the wind and when morning came where we could see no Land only had a Glimps of the Coast of Norway at a great distance We grew hungry but had nothing to fish but our Arms with which we drew up some small Muscles and they we eat heartily but we burnt with thirst and I would have given all I had for a draught of fresh water which would have been more welcome than the Gold of Ophir though nothing is so mean in our esteem but we were forced to drink Salt-water which increased our thirst we now saw a Ship coming towards us with full Sails and we waved our hats to them but they went off and never came near us we betook our selves to our old Remedy Prayers the Danes first singing one of ●●ther's Psalms fell to their Prayers and I prayed as long as I was able to speak and then lay'd my self down on the Rock thinking I should rise no more in this World But I overheard one of the Sea-men say Let us make a Raft and venture to Sea I had rather be drowned than lye here and be starved They all concluded of it though dangerous and the Sea having fallen from the Rock had left our Sails Masts and Anchors with part of the Ship thereon wherewith they soon made a slight Boat and it being a great calm the rest past through the beaches with four men in it and had it touched only on them they would have rent it in pieces however through Gods goodness they arrived safe in Norway and returned with several Boats so that we came all of us once more to Land and were entertained at an honest Lutheran Parsons house where after we had continued for some days with little money and much thanks we parted and came to Frederick 〈◊〉 where the People run after us in the Street and with compassionate Eyes gave us what we wanted without asking from thence we went to Osterson●● and there went aboard an English Ship we had not been above two or three 〈◊〉 at Sea but there was a sad destraction the Marriners again crying for Mercy Mercy for we had almost fallen foul on a Rock under water which we did not spy till we were upon it but by the mercy of God we sailed close by ●t and yet escaped it the least touch of ●t had been our ruine about noon we ●ame clear of all the Rocks on the Coast of Norway and were sailing for England with a fair Gale of Wind but in this prosperity another sad accident befel us ●his third Ship sprang a leak and began ●o swim within as well as without and we had no way to relieve our selves but ●y pumping for the Leak could not be ●ound which we did day and night or four or five days together when it ●leased God we came safe though in a ●reat deal of danger because of our otten Ship into Yarmouth Road for the ●ind being very high had like to have ●riven us upon a Scotch Vessel who cryed ●ut as well as we but we happily mist ●●m and so safely arrived in Yarmouth ●own through the wonderful mercy of God Deus Nobiscum The great Dangers and Merciful Deliverances of William Okely and his Company from Slavery in a Canvas Boat c. In the Year 1639. We took Ship at ●avesend in the Mary of London Mr. Boarder Master bound for the Isle of Providence in the West-Indies five weeks we lay in the Downs waiting for a wind and then we set Sail and came to an Anchor near the Isle of Wight but by this time all the Beer in our Ship stunk and we were forced to throw it overboard and so take in Vinegar to mix with Water for our Voyage the next Lords day we set Sail again and coming between the Island and the main Land we stuck fas● in the Sands but the Tide coming in● heaved us off the sixth day after ou● setting Sail from the Isle of Wight we discovered three Turks men of War wh● chased us and at break of day boarde● and took us having kept us clo●● Prisoners at Sea at the end of five or six weeks they brought us to Algiers when I was sold for a slave the first Market da● to a Patron who told me I must allow him two Dollars a Month and live ashore where I would and get it when I could though I knew not where t● levy the least Mite of it Wandring u● and down I met with an English-man 〈◊〉 his little Shop who Traded with T●bacco and a few other things I beca●● his Partner with a little Money I h●● reserved and a small modicum my Patr●● had allowed me for my stock Here I got money and hired a Celler where I laid up some other of my Goods when weary of my slavery I formed a design for my Liberty and communicated it to John Anthony Carpenter William Adams Brick-layer John Jephs Seaman John a Carpenter and two others men of able Bodies and useful in the intended project which was to contrive the Model of a Boat which being formed in parcels and afterward put together might be the means of our escape They approved the Proposal and in my Cellar we began our work we provided first a piece of Timber of twelve foot long to make the Keel but because it was impossible to convey it of that length out of the City but it must be seen and suspected we therefore cut

us preserve our Vessel from being rent by the loud cracks of Thunder or from being burnt by Lightning or any other accident keep us and save us from tempestuous Weather from bitter Frosts Hail Ice Snow or Whirlwinds and from Captivity and Slavery TEACH me O God to remember thee my Creator in the days of my Youth to continually think upon thee and to praise thy Name for all thy Mercies Bless all our Friends I beseech thee that are on Land and let their Prayers for us be acceptable in thy sight and grant that our next meeting together may be for the better and not for the worse even to the praising and magnifying of thy Holy Name and Salvation of our own Souls in the great day of the Lord Jesus to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit be ascribed all Honour Power and Glory Adoration and Subjection now and for evermore Amen A Prayer before a Voyage O ETERNAL God even the God of our Salvation the hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them that remain in the wide Ocean under the shadow of whose Wings we are always secure and without whose protection we cannot expect safety I have been O Lord preserved by thee until this moment from many dangers for which I have not expressed my thankfulness in acknowledging those dayly blessings I have received from thee but O Lord forget and forgive those mani●old sins which I have committed against thee and blot them out of thy Book of remembrance PURGE me O Lord I beseech thee from all vile affections and grant I may bring forth the fruits of thy Spirit go along with me with thy blessed Spirit in this my Voyage preserve me from Pirates Robbers and Enemies defend me from Rocks Sands and Shelves and keep me from Thunder and Lightning Storms and tempestuous Weather or any other danger that may dismay me To thee O Lord I commend my Body and Spirit to dispose of me according to thy holy Will and Pleasure if thou art pleas'd to call for my life upon the surface of the Waters I know thy Almighty Word can command the Sea to give up her Dead at the last and great audit But if thou hast determin'd to bring me safe to my desired Haven give me thy Grace which is sufficient for me to walk according to thy holy Will in all things make me to lay hold of Eternal Life which as the Anchor of Hope is both sure and stedfast keep me from all temptations ghostly and bodily and from sudden Death and in thy good time bring me to the Land of the Living there to reign with thee for evermore Amen A Thanksgiving after a Voyage O IMMORTAL God I have seen thy Works O Lord and thy Wonders in the deep thou spakest the Word and the storm Wind arose which lifted up the Waves thereof but when we cried unto thee thou madest the storm to cease so that the Waves thereof were still then did we rejoyce because we were a●rest and thou broughtest us safe to that Haven● where we would be O that men would therefore praise thee O Lord for thy Goodness and declare the Wonders thou dost continually for them I BLESS thy Holy Name for conducting me through those many dangers which encompassed me and praise thy Mercy that the Deep hath not swallowed me up and that I am not gone down into the place of silence I also praise thy holy Name and admire thy loving Kindness towards me that thou hast not delivered up my Body and Goods as a prey into the hands of unreasonable Men but hast brought me to my desired Haven and at last returned me back in safety to my Habitation O LET me never forget to pay those Vows I made to thee when I was in trouble but give me an awful sense and apprehension of thy great Power and possess my Soul with a true Reverence of thy Divine Majesty that I may evermore serve thee in holiness and Righteousness all the days of my Life Endue me with thy Holy Spirit that I may become acceptable in thy sight and may be fitted at length for future Glories this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christs sake my only Saviour Amen A Prayer in a Storm O LORD our God thou hast commanded us in the day of Calamity to call upon thy Name and thou hast promised to hear us Lord I fly unto thee who art a sure refuge thy Flood-gates are opened and the Floods lift up their ●ofty Waves But thou O Lord most high art mightier than the noise of many Waters yea than the mighty Waves of the Sea Thou canst in a moment if it stand with thy Divine will and pleasure rebuke the Winds and the Sea and turn this Storm into a Calm I KNOW I justly deserve to be cast away and utterly to be rejected by thee but Lord save us or else we perish accept of my unfeigned sorrow for all my sins and transgressions and endue me with a stedfast resolution to forsake them be merciful unto us O God be merciful unto us and save us from perishing in these deep Waters O refresh us with thy Mercy and that soon lest we go down into the place of silence O comfort us in this great distress that though the Sea rage and swell our Hearts may be quiet and still in this time of our disconsolation AND as I earnestly desire to be protected from this great peril and danger which now terrifies us so I earnestly beseech thee that thou wilt for ever fill my heart with ●●ch an awful dread of thy Majesty that I may fear thy Name and praise thy power in the great Congregation awake my dull and drowsie Soul from the sloth of Sin and renew a right Spirit within me fill me with the gifts and Graces of thy Holy Spirit that I may live the life of the Righteous and never forget thy loving-kindness save us now from Death I beseech thee from the mercile●s Waves who are now ready to swallow us up and bring us home in safety for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen A Thanksgiving after a Storm I PRAISE and glorifie thy holy Name O Lord for all thy mercies and blessings vouchsafed unto me especially for this thy last great Deliverance wherein I was incompassed in that wide Ocean whom thou hast set bounds and limits to if thou O Lord hadst not been on my side the Sea had swallowed me up quick and I had gone down into the deep of silence but thou hast been my God and my Deliverer and hast put a new Song into my Mouth even a Song of Praise and Thanksgiving unto my God I ACKNOWLEDGE O Lord that thou art the God of all the Earth and of them that remain in the broad Sea Blessed for ever and magnified be thy Name that thou hast not cast me out of thy sight nor turned thy Mercy from me I have escaped thy raging Sea and the noise of the proud Waves have done me no harm if thy Almighty Providence had not protected me the streams had gone over my Soul But the stormy Wind and Tempest I have narrowly escaped the storm is ceased and I am safely delivered AND now what shall I render to thee O Lord for this and all other thy great benefits I will offer up unto thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and will pay those vows I so solemnly made unto thee when I was in trouble I will evermore remember that my help is in the Lord who made Heaven and Earth and that thou art that God that can and will deliver me let this thy mercy and loving kindness never depart my memory but let me praise thy goodness and sing of thy power unto my lives end Amen FINIS

prevents them a great flake of Ice interposes between them and their ship and carryes them adrift so that by all means that they and the ship could use they could not recover their Vessel again whereby they were exposed to an inevitable ruine neither having Food nor any other Accomodation to keep them warm they having continued thus three daysand three nights they began to be Hunger-starv'd and accounting themselves all dead men they began to consult one with another what course to take they at last though with great regret and grief resolve one of them must dye to become Food for the rest each person begg'd to have it his Lot to dye first to be freed from that torment that they languished under so that they were forced to determine it by Lot He upon whom the Lot fell desired to go to one end of the Boat there to recommend his soul to God by Prayer before he dyed the rest being in a deep Agony upon apprehension of shedding the blood of one of their Comerades But while they were sat together lamenting and imploring God's favour to prevent such a fact according to that they wished and desired The person separated by Lot for death dyed upon the place where he was praying which in their deplorable Condition occasioned great Joy to the rest that hereby they were not forced against their wills to take his life so looking upon this as a good Omen they proceeded to satisfie their Hungers upon the dead body the Boat was still A-drift not frozen up so that by that time their Food was spent they were brought ashore many Leagues to the Norward of New-England where the five landed alive where the poor Barbarians did commiserate them and help them as they could three of them dyed with the distress they had been in the other two made a shift to get to New-England and so at last by a good hand of God upon them came to their Habitations in the West of England having both lost their heels with the extremity of the cold in the Boat This Relation my Author had from one of these two Sea-men with whom he came afterwards a Passenger from Ireland to whom he shewed his heels so lost 4. A small Vessel about 45 Tun the Masters name Phillip Hangare coming upon the Coast of New-England they suddenly sprang a leak and so foundred There were in this poor miscarrying Vessel 18 Sea-men and Passengers 12 of the men got into the Long-boat and as that was suddenly brought to their minds in this surprise they threw into their Boat also some small matters of Provisions but they were wholly without fire These 12 men at that time of the year about Michaelmas and as Paul said in his Voyage Sayling was become dangerous Sayled five hundred Leagues and were to a Miracle preserved all that time in this small Boat five weeks but it pleased the Lord who appears in our straits most to send them great relief by causing some flying Fish to fall into the Boat which they eat raw and were unto them more acceptable than the greatest rarities and dainties at another time God's Providence now proving the Caterer they catch'd a Shark and that Ravenous Fish that uses to prey upon men now becomes a prey to these poor distressed Creatures but they were glad of food in the want of fire and have an heat in their Stomacks to eat that raw and digest at this time what would have made them sick at other times but alas another want they had was drink as well as fire but they were forced to open the belly of this Shark and suck his blood for drink at last that God who hath a desire to the work of his own hands gives them hopes to release them out of this insupportable misery by letting them come to a discovery of Land in the West-Indies but alas they were so weak that when they came ashore one or two of them dyed but most of them lived to declare the works of the Lord. This the Author had from one of the 12 that were thus miraculously preserved but since cast away at Sea 5. Captain Jonas Clark of New-England going for Virginia the Vessel was Cast away in a strange amazing manner about two hours before day among the Indians where the Ship-wrackt men lay ashore in great fear but three days after they thought to get their ship off again to which end the Master with some others went into the boat they came threescore Fathom from the shore where there arose a great Sea and broke in upon them but the second Sea came and turned the boat up four men under water all were drowned but Captain Clark who was kept under water by one of the men until his breath was gone but then God appeared and set him at liberty from him in a most Miraculous way and inabled him to swim to the shore they that were alive now were in great straits and perplexities not knowing what to do but yet some of their eyes were up to God at last they Unanimously resolve to Travel and when they had Travelled one night and part of a day meeting with many Swamps and thick places so that all hope failed them of going along so they stood still as wayfaring men astonish'd not knowing what course to take and though before they were afraid of any Indians now they were glad to pray to the Lord for the sight of an Indian which in this extremity and perplexity within half an hour the Lord was pleased to grant The Indian was all alone which was observable also when they got to him they asked the way to the English and they did perswade him by entreaty to go along with them but within one hours time he carryed them to a Town of the Indians which did sadly fright and amaze them but they still looked up to the Lord to help and save them and at last they got to the English and so were preserved This Relation the Author had from Captain Clarks own hand a person of known Godliness and Integrity 6. The last Providence called to mind a strange and stupendious passage of a Godly Gentlewoman who in the first breaking forth of the Rebellion in Ireland was forced to fly for her life with some other persons in her Company especially three Children one of them upon her Breast But alas these poor trembling Travellers had not gone long before they were striped Naked by the Irish who to admiration spared their lives but passing on to the foot of a River others met them and would have cast them into the River but this Godly Woman not being dismay'd ask'd a little liberty to Pray and as she lay on frozen ground Naked she got a little resolution not to go on her own feet to so unjust a death upon which having call'd her upon her resolution they drag'd her by the heels along the ground with the rest of the Company she turns upon them and on her

that time in the same Peril or Latitude that Night the Cabbin-Boy Dreams a Dream that such a Ship thereabouts was Foundred and every Soul lost except such an Old Man naming his Name who was saved on a piece of a Ship and floating in the Sea which Dream the Boy in the Morning confidently tells to the Company and his Master at last the Boy began to shew more Confidence affirming it as if it must be true insomuch he receiv'd some Checks from his Master but however at last the Boy grew so restless that he running up from one Mast to another sometimes at Fore-top-mast-head and then on the Main-top-mast-head looking abroad that at last crying out aloud Alow there I see him I see him under our Lee-bon thus confidently affirming it some of the Men stept up and spy'd something at a distance no bigger than a Crow to appearance floating and advised the Master of it who presently commanded the Helm to be born up and stood away to it and when they came near found it to be the Old Man as the Boy said so they hoyst out their Boat and took him in who then was speechless and almost spent but by the care of the Master and the Chyrurgion with God's Blessing recover'd and gave a verbal account of his Misfortune and yet wonderful deliverance together with Satan's Temptation as before recited which Ship in due time Arriv'd safe at her Port in New-found-Land where this Man was well Landed a-shore For Confirmation I had this and heard it related at my Father's House in Salom in New-England by Mr. John Blackledge a Merchant who is a Person of a sober life and in Fellowship there who then came from New-found-land and did affirm that he spake with the Man himself whom God wrought this wonderful deliverance for he being then at New-found-Land when the said Ship Arriv'd there and the Man went first ashore 25. Anno Christi 1630. May the first the Moscory Merchants of London sent a Ship called the Salutation of London for Greenland which arriv'd there in safety the Eleventh of June following together with two other Ships all which were commanded by Captaiu William Goodler The Ship wherein the Captain was stayed at Bell-sound This of the Salutation at the Foreland And the Captain meeting with store of Whales quickly made a Great Voyage and so sent for the Salutation to take in part of his Train-Oyl By the way as they went to him meeting with Cross-Winds the Master set-Eight of his Men on Shore to kill some Venison in a place where there used to be good store These Men taking with them a Brace of Dogs a Snaphance two Lances and a Tinder-box went on shore and that day they laid Fourteen Good Deer upon the Ground And then being weary and the Night coming on they betook themselves to Rest intending the next day to make an end of their Hunting and so to return to their Ship But the next day proved Foggy and there was much Ice between the Shore and the Ship and the Wind coming Southerly the Ship was ●ain to stand so far off into the Sea to be clear of the Ice that they lost the sight of her and the Weather growing thicker and thicker they thought fit to Hunt along the Shoar to Green-Harbour and there to stay aboard the Ship till their own Ship should come into the Port. In this passage they killed Eight Deer more and so having laden their Shallop with Venison they kept on their course to Green Harbour But when they came thither they found to their Great Astonishment that the Ship was departed Being thus frustrated of their Expectation and having but three days to the uttermost expiration of their limitted time for their departure out of that Country they thought it their best course to make all speed possible to Bell-Sound to their Captain and lest delay should prove dangerous they lightned their Shallop by heaving their Venison over-board into the Sea and so they hasted all they might and that night got half-way But the dark Fog increasing they were forced to cove in a point of Land till the next day at Noon At which time the Weather being clearer they hasted forward but having no Compass to direct their course by they wandred up and down so long till the Ships were departed This filled them with fear and astonishment knowing that neither Christian nor Heathen had ever Inhabited those desolate Climates Yea they had heard that the Merchants had endeavour'd with proffers of Great Rewards and of sufficient Furniture and Provision of all things necessary to hire some to undertake to Winter in those parts but could never meet with any that would adventure their lives in so hazardous an undertaking They had heard also that the Company of Moscovy Merchants had once procur'd the Reprieve of some Malefactors condemned to death here in England unto whom they promised Pardon together with Rewards and Provision of Cloaths Victuals and all other Necessaries if they would stay one Winter there But when they came thither and took a view of the desolateness of the place they conceiv'd such horrour and fear in their hearts that they chose rather to return for England and there to satisfie the Law with the loss of their lives than to stay in so desolate and darksom a Country They remembred also a more terrible Example of Nine Good and Able Men left there formerly by the same Master that had now left them who all died miserably upon the place and whose bodies were fearfully disfigured by the Savage Bears and Hungry Foxes which are the only Inhabitants of that comfortless Country All which made them like amazed Men to stand one looking upon another every one fore-seeing the future Calamities both of himself and of his Fellows and that which much encreased their horrour was their want of all necessary provision for the life of Man having neither Cloaths to keep them warm and for shift or food to prevent the Miseries of cruel Famine nor a house wherein to shroud themselves from the extremity of Cold. But after a space knowing that delay in extremities is the Mother of all danger they began to conceive hope out of the depth of despair and therefore they consulted together of the likeliest course for their preservation in that place and resolved upon the opportunity of the next fair weather to go to Green-Harbour to kill some Venison for part of their winter Provision which accordingly ther did but found not so many Deer as they expected yet the first day they killed Seven and Four Bears to boot which they also intended to eat The next day they killed Six Deer more and as they returned they killed Six more and then the weather proving foul and cold they laded their Shallop with the Dear and Bears and finding another Shallop left there as usually they do from year to year they laded it with Graves of Whales that had been boiled there that