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A39083	Bucaniers of America the second volume : containing the dangerous voyage and bold attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, and others, performed upon the coasts of the South Sea, for the space of two years, &c. : from the original journal of the said voyage / written by ... Basil Ringrose, Gent., who was all along present at those transactions.	Ringrose, Basil, d. 1686.; Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier). Americaenische zee-roovers. English.	1685 (1685)	Wing E3897; ESTC R20999	159,835	237

By a W. S. W. way we made forty two leagues By observation we found Lat. 30 D. 45 S. D. M. four leagues and two thirds On the 14th in the morning we had a handsom shower of rain which continued for some while Then about eight of the clock there sprang up a S. S. W. breeze My reckoning was by an E. S. E. way fourteen leagues And by observation we found this day 30 D. 30 S. One of their company dyeth In the afternoon of this day dyed one of our men whose name was William Cammock His disease was occasioned by a furfeit gained by too much drinking on shoar at la Serena the which produced in him a Calenture or Malignant Feaver and an Hicup Thus in the evening we buryed him in the Sea according to the usual custom of Mariners giving him three French Vollies for his Funeral The following day we had an indifferent fresh wind on both tacks Our way was W. S. W. and by it we reckoned thirty four leagues So likewise by an observation we had Lat. 30 D. 42 S. All the afternoon blew a S. by W. wind very fresh with a short topping S. W. Sea But on the next ensuing day we had no small breez but rather hard gusts of wind These grew so high that they forced us to take in our top-sails We made a S. W. half S. way and forty five leagues On the 17th we had likewise high winds and withal a S. W. sea Our way W. by S. By observation taken this day we found Lat. 30 D. 51 S. In the afternoon we had a S. S. E. wind our course being S. W. December the 18th This day we had the same high winds as before at S. S. E. We reckoned by a W. S. W. way forty five leagues At noon the wind was something fallen and then we had some rain The 19th we had both cloudy and windy weather My reckoning was a S. W. by S. way and here upon fifty eight miles Yesterday we were assured by our Pilot that we were now in the Meridian of the Island of Juan Fernandez whither our course was directed for that present What occasioned him to be so positive in his assertion was the seeing of those great birds Great birds seen again of which we made mention in the foregoing Chapter On the 20th we had cloudy weather in the morning on both tacks We made a S. W. and half S. way and by it fifty two leagues By observation we found this day Lat. 32 D. 20 S. Difference of Meridian was now one hundred and twenty three leagues The next day likewise we had cloudy weather yet by observation we found a W. way On the 22d by observation we found and E. way proved Thursday December the 23d All the night past we had a fresh wind But in the morning from top-mast head They descry land we descryed a hammock of land In the evening we saw it again We found afterwards that what we had seen was the Westermost Island of Juan Fernandez which is nothing else but a meer rock there being no riding nor scarce landing near unto it Fryday December the 24th This morning we could descry the Island it self They see the l●st of Juan Fernandez of Juan Fernandez S. by E. it being at sixteen leagues distance when we saw it yesterday At seven this morning the Island stood E. the wind being at N. W. by N. At eight the same morning the Island at the distance of five leagues little more or less appeared thus Isla de JUAN FERNANDEZ Here my observation was that I could see neither fowl nor fish nigh unto this Island A particular observation both which things are usually to be seen about other Islands Having told my observation unto our Pilot he gave me for answer that he had made many Voyages by this Island and yet never saw any either fowl or fish more than I. Our reckoning this day was an E. S. E. way and hereby thirty six leagues Our latitude by observation was found to be 33 D. 30 S. Saturday December the 25th Yesterday in the afternoon at three of the clock we saw the other Island making two or three hammocks of land This morning we were about eight leagues distant from it the Island bearing E. S. E. from us At eight the same morning we were right at breast with it Here therefore are two Islands together the biggest whereof is three leagues and an half in length Bigness of these Isles nearest N. W. and S.E. the other and lesser is almost one league and no more in circumference At ten of the clock we sent off from the ship one of our Canoa's to seek for the best landing and anchoring for our Vessel As we approached both Islands seemed unto us nothing but one entire heap of rocks That which lyeth more unto the N. is the highest though we could not now see the tops thereof for the clouds which covered it In most places it is so steep that it becometh almost perpendicular This day being Christmas-day we gave in the morning early three Vollies of shot Christmas-day for solemnization of that great Festival I reckoned an E. by S. way By a clear observation from the middle of the Island I found here Lat. 33 D. 45 S. and M. D. to be ninty nine leagues In the evening of this day we came to an anchor at the South end of the Island in a stately Bay that we found there but which lyeth open from the South to the South-East winds We anchored in the depth of eleven fathom water and at the distance of onely one furlong from the shoar Here we saw multitudes of Seals covering the Bay every where insomuch that we were forced to kill them Many Seals to set our feet on shoar Sunday December the 26th This day we sent a Canoa to see if we could find any riding secure from the Southerly winds these being the most constant winds that blow on these Coasts The Canoa being gone our Commander sent likewise what men we could spare on shoar to drive Goats They kill Goats whereof there is great plenty in this Island They caught and killed that day to the number of threescore or thereabouts The Canoa returning unto the ship made report that there was good riding in another Bay situate on the North side of the Island in fourteen fathom water and not above one quarter of a mile from the shoar Moreover that there was much wood to be had whereas in the place where we had first anchored not one stick of wood nor tuft of grass was to be found The next day being the 27th between two and four of the clock in the morning A great storm we had a tempest of violent winds and fierce showers of rain The same day we got in two hundred jars of water bringing them the full distance of a league from the place of our riding They

Wine and other best things as Plate and Jewels having descryed us at sea before our landing They were descryed before landing so that our booty here besides Provisions was inconsiderable However we caught some few Fowls and eat five or six Sheep and likewise a great Hog which tasted very like unto our English Pork The hills are all barren so that the Countrey that beareth Fruit is only an excellent Valley being four times as broad as that of Hilo above-mentioned These people of Guasco serve the Town of Coquimbo with many sorts of Provisions We gave the Indian whom we had taken his liberty and I took the Port of Guasco thus A Description of Guasco Tuesday March the 15th 1680. They depart from Guasco This morning we departed from the Port of Guasco aforementioned with very little wind having done nothing considerable there excepting only the taking in the few Provisions above-related We were bent therefore to seek greater matters having experimented but ill success in most of our attempts hitherto On March the 20th Moro de Horse being high doubled Land and at E. by N. appeared thus unto us in Lat. 24 d. South Moro de Horse Lat. 24 d. S. At North and at the distance of ten Leagues more or less we saw the great and high hill of Morro Moreno being so called from its colour It is a dark hill but much higher and bigger than the other afore-mentioned and appeareth like unto an Island thus Morro Moreno Lat. 23 d. 30 S. We had now very dark weather all along the Coast. On March the 21 we were West from the Bay of Mexillones Bay of Mexillones The point of this Bay one League upwards representeth exactly a Sugar-loaf They seek for the River Loa March the 22. This day our Boat and Canoas went from the ship being well man'd to find the River Loa They went also about two Leagues to Leeward of it But cannot f●●d it unto a fishing village but could find no place fit for landing whereupon they returned without acting any thing The next day another Canoa of our company went out upon the same exploit but found the same success Yet notwithstanding here Sir Francis Drake watered and built a Church as we were told by our Pilot. This Church is now standing on the Sea-side by the River whose mouth is now dry There are several Huts to windward of it and from the said Church or Chappel goeth a great path up the hills which leadeth to Pica On Thursday March the 24th we found Latitude by observation 20 d. 10 South This day also we saw Land at eighteen leagues distance more or less Sunday March the 27th we saw Mora de Sama and La cumba at some distance The same day we had an observation and found by it Lat. 18 d. 17 South That evening we departed from the ship with our Boats and Canoas towards the Coast of Hilo upon which we now were We landed and took the village of Hilo undiscryed They s●rprize Hilo they scarce suspecting we could have any design upon that place the second time We caught the Fryar who was Chaplain unto the Town and most of the Inhabitants asleep making them prisoners at war Here we heard a flying report as if five thousand English had lately taken Panama the second time and kept it But this rumour as it should seem proved to be a falsity At this time the River came out and was overflown it being near the time of the freshes Here the prisoners told us 〈…〉 of their Surgeons at Arica that in Arica ten of our men were still alive whereof three were Surgeons all the rest being dead of their wounds The Spaniards sent word unto Hilo that we had killed them seventy men and wounded three times as many of their Forces But here the Inhabitants said that of forty five men sent to the relief of Arica from hence there came home but only two alive We filled what water we pleased here but a small boat that we brought from Guasco broke loose from us and was s●aved to pieces on the Rocks Here we took eighteen Jars of wine and good store of new Figs. On Tuesday following we went up to the Sugar-work mentioned in our former expedition against Hilo and found all Fruits just ripe and sit for eating There we laded seven Mules downwards with Molossus and Sugar The Inhabitants told us moreover that those men who came to fight us when we were here the first time were most of them Boys and had only fifty Fire-arms amongst them They being commanded by an English Gentleman who is Married at Arequipa Likewise that the owner of the Sugar-work afore-mentioned was now engaged in a Suit at Law against the Town of Hilo pretending it was not the English who robbed him and spoilt his Ingenio when we were there before but the Townsmen themselves This day in the evening we sailed from Hilo with dark weather and little wind which continued for several days afterwards CHAP. XVIII They depart from the Port of Hilo unto the Gulf of Nicoya where they take down their decks and mend the sailing of their ship Forty seven of their Companions leave them and go home over land A description of the Gulf of Nicoya They take two Barks and some Prisoners there Several other remarques belonging to this Voyage They leave Hilo FRom the time that we set sail from the Port of Hilo until Sunday April the tenth 1681. nothing hapned unto us that might be accounted remarkable neither did I take any notes all this while by reason of my indisposition afore-mentioned This day we could hear distinctly the breaking of the Seas on the shoar but could see no land the weather being extream dark and hasey Notwithstanding about noon it cleared up and we found our selves to be in the Bay called de Malabrigo The land in this Bay runneth due East and West By an observation made we found this day 6 d. 35 South We saw from hence the Leeward Island of Lobos or Seals being nothing else than a rocky and scraggy place On the S.W. side thereof is a red hill which is a place about the said Island where the Indian Fishermen much frequent It is situate in Lat. 6 d. 15 S. This day likewise in the evening we saw the Point called Aguja On Saturday April the 16th we came within a league distance of the west-West-end of the Island of Plate 〈…〉 Pla●e above described 〈…〉 among themselves The next day unto this being Sunday April the 17th 1681. our Mutineers broke out again into an open dissention they having been much dissatisfyed all along the course of this Voyage but more especially since our unfortunate fight at Arica and never entirely reconciled unto us since they chose Captain Watling and deposed Sharp at the Isle of Juan Fernandez as was related above Nothing now could appease them nor serve their turn but a separation from

or Current drove us to the Westward of Cabo Blanco Off of this Cape and at the distance of two miles within the Sea is situate a naked and nothing but barren Key At E. by N. and at four leagues distance Cape Blanco gave us this appearance Cabo BLANCO Lat. 9 D. 30 N. The Coast here along runneth N. W half W. and groweth lower and lower towards Cape Guyones This Cape now mentioned at seven leagues distance and at N. W. by N. appeared thus unto us Cabo de Guyones Lat. 10 D. 00 N. At first sight the Cape appeared very like unto two Islands The latter part of this day was cloudy which hindred much our prospect June the 2d This morning we saw land which appeapeared like several Keys to us at N. W. by N. and at seven leagues distance It was the land of Puerto de Velas and appeared thus Puerto de VELAS They resolve to careen and then cruize This evening our Captain called us together and asked our opinions concerning the course we ought to steer Having discussed the points by him proposed amongst us we all resolved to bear up for Golfo Dulce and there to careen our Vessels This being done we concluded to go from thence unto the Cape and cruize thereabouts under the Equinoctial We observed this day that our Bark taken at the Gulf of Nicoya sailed much better than our ship Friday June the 3d. The night before this day was very fair and we had a fresh wind our course being S. E. This morning we saw no land In the evening the wind came about at S. S. W. and S. W. by S. June the 4th This day we stood E. and E. by N. the wind being W. and W. by N. In the evening we stood N. E. and descryed land at the distance of twenty four leagues more or less from Cabo Blanco Sunday June the 5th Last night we lay by for all or the greatest part thereof This morning we saw the Island of Cano above described which bore E. S. E. from us We saw likewise multitudes of fish but they would not bite Also Water-snakes of divers colours June the 6th All the night past we had rain and with it but little wind Yea scarce enough to carry us clear off from the Island afore-mentioned Towards morning we had a fresh wind at N. N. W. So then we stood out S. until morning and this being come we stood N. E. by E. The land runneth from Punta Mala to Golfo Dulce and Punta Borrica E. S. E. half S. At nine leagues distance we laid the Island of Cano. And Punta Borrica at the same distance or thereabouts looketh thus Punta Borrica Lat. 8 D. 00 N. The west-West-end of Golfo Dulce is very high land and a high rock lye close off it Besides which two other rocks lyeth farther out the outermost of which is a mile distant from the shoar The East-side is also high but breaketh into small points and bays growing lower and lower to Punta Borrica We came within the mouth of the Gulf about the space of a mile They anchor Then we anchored in eight fathom and a half water The mouth of the Gulf is almost three leagues over The next day being June the 7th we weighed anchor again at young flood and got about two leagues higher At evening we came again to an anchor in the depth of seven fathom and a half water It rained this day until eight of the clock Much rain more like the pouring down of water from the clouds than the usual falling of drops Wednesday June the 8th at day break we weighed anchor again with a fresh Sea-breeze The higher up we went the deeper we found the Gulf and at last no ground even with thirty fathom of line This day we sent our Canoa away to seek water and a good place to lay our ship in Having landed they found one Indian and two boys all which they made prisoners and brought aboard They take three prisoners Here we used them very kindly giving them victuals and cloaths for they had no other than the bark of a tree to cover their nakedness withal Being examined they informed us that a Spanish Priest had been amongst them and had made Peace with their Nation ordering them strictly not to come near any ship nor vessel that had red Colours forasmuch as that they were English-men and would certainly kill them Being asked where now the Priest was they answered he was gone to a great Spanish Town which was distant from thence four sleeps up in the Country After this the Indian left the two boys which were his children with us and went to fetch more Indians unto us from a Plantane-walk or grove situate by a river a league off or thereabouts We came to an anchor in a Bay close by one of the Indian Keys where two fresh Rivers were within a stones throw of each other in twenty seven fathom and a half water and at a cables length from the mark of low water The Indians whom our prisoner went to seek came to us several times selling unto us Honey Plantanes and other necessaries that we usually bought of them or truckt for with other things We also made use of their bark-logs in tallowing our ship in which concern they did us good service Their Darts are headed with iron as sharp as any razor Here one of the prisoners which we took at the Gulf of Nicoya informed us by what means A peace forced upon the Indians of Darien or rather stratagem of War the Spaniards had forced a peace upon the Indians of the Province of Darien since our departure from thence The manner was as followeth A certain Frenchman who ran from us at the Island of Taboga unto the Spaniards was sent by them in a ship to the Rivers mouth which disembogueth from that Province into the South-Sea Being arrived there he went ashoar by himself in a Canoa and told the Indians that the English who had passed that way were come back from their adventures in the South-Sea Withal he asked them if they would not be so kind and friendly unto the English men as to come aboard and conduct them on shoar The poor deceived Indians were very joyful to understand this good news and thus forty of the chiefest men amongst them went on board the Spanish vessel and were immediately carryed prisoners at War to Panama Here they were forced to conclude a peace though upon terms very disadvantageous unto them before they could obtain their liberty These poor and miserable Indians of Golfo dulce would come every day into our company They 〈◊〉 their vessel and eat and drink very familiarly with us all the time we were there We laid our ship on ground but the water did not ebb low enough to see her keel Mean while we were careening our vessel we built a house upon the shoar both to lodge and eat in and

They alter their course the wind was at S.E. and S.S.E. We now lay E.N.E. I reckoned a N.E. by E. way and twenty three leagues About four in the afternoon two of our fore-shrouds bolts broke but withal were presently mended This afternoon also we saw a very large Whale In the evening we handed in our fore-top sail A Whale seen and lay under our pair of Courses and Sprit-sail the evening being very clear November the 17th in the night past there was a very hard frost Great Islands of Ice At four this morning we saw two or three Islands of Ice the distance of two or three leagues to the Southward of us Soon after this we saw several others the biggest of them being at least two leagues round By an observation made this day we found Lat. 58 d. 23 South We had now a vehement current to the Southward At noon I saw many others of these Islands of Ice afore-mentioned of which some were so long that we could scarce see the end of them and were extant about ten or twelve fathom above water The weather in the mean while was very clear and the wind cold I found variation of the Needle eighteen degrees to the North East Variation of the Needle November the 18th all the night past was very fair I must call it night No night hereabouts for otherwise it was not dark at all The Sea was very smooth and the wind at N. and N.N.W. I reckoned a N.E. by N. way and by the same twenty two leagues At ten it grew stark calme which held all the afternoon of this day But at night we had a wind again at N. and N. by E. November the 19th this day was cloudy with snow and a frosty night preceeding it The wind now was so fresh at North that we were forced to take in our top-sails and lye all day under our Courses and Sprit-sail We made by an E.S.E. way eighteen leagues and two thirds November the twentieth we had a cloudy night the last past A great fog together with mis●ing rain and snow This morning fell so great a fog that we could not see from stem to stern of our ship From ten of the clock last night we had also a calm and very cold weather But what was worse than all this A short allowance we were now kept to a very short allowance of our sorry victuals our Provisions growing very scanty with us About ten this morning we had a very small breeze at North. Extremity of cold Several of our men were not able to endure the cold so fierce it was whereby they were forced to lye and keep themselves as close as they could We made an East way and by the same sixteen leagues This day at noon I reckoned my self to be East from the Gulf from whence we last departed two hundred and five leagues and two thirds of a league Munday November the 21 Land Fowles seen yet no Land last evening we caught a small and white land fowl and saw two or three more and also this morning This sight afforded us good hopes we were not far distant from some Coast or other yet none we could see in all this long and tedious voyage In the night past we had a calme and all this morning a great fog with much snow and rain We reckoned an E. by N. way and ten leagues At one in the afternoon we had a fresh gale that sprang up at East and at E. by N. November the 22 most part of this day was calme In the mean while we could observe our ship to drive East My reckoning was an E. N. E. way and thereby thirteen leagues and one third At one in the afternoon we had a small gale at W. S. W. our course being N. N. E. and N. E. by N. November the 23 this day we had a gale at N.W. and freshning still more and more so that we were forced to take in our top-sails and sprit-sail The wind was not a setled gale but often varied from point to point At noon it came at N. E. and our course was then N. N. W. By a North way we reckoned sixteen leagues November the 24th both the night past and this morning was foggy weather with some calmes between times But at eight in the morning the Sun brake out though notwithstanding the day was not clear By a N.N.E. way we reckoned fifteen leagues This morning the wind came about to East and by noon it was again at N.E. We had a clear evening and a fresh gale November the 25th all the night past we had a fresh wind at E. and E.N.E. Insomuch that at eight in the morning we took in our top-sails But at noon the wind was not so fresh as it had been before I reckoned a N.N.W. half West way and by the same twenty leagues November the 26th last night the wind was not altogether so fresh as before but this morning it was again very high The weather was both dark and cloudy and brought now and then rain and snow We made a N.N.E. way and hereby thirty leagues The wind all along E. by S. and E. S. E. In the evening we had fair weather again We experimented for the ten days last past a great Western Sea and saw in the same time several Seals Sunday November the 27th all the night past we enjoyed a fresh gale and clear weather I reckoned thirty six leagues by a N. E. by N. way By an observation made we now found Lat. 52 d. 48 South 30 d. variation of the Need●● And I judged my self to be East from the Gulf two hundred eighty five leagues In the evening of this day we had a very exact sight of the Sun and found above 30 d. variation of the Needle From whence ought to be concluded that it is very difficult to direct a course of Navigation in these parts Observation For in the space of only twenty five leagues sailing we have experimented eight or nine degrees difference of variation by a good Dutch Azimouth Compass November the 28th all last night we had a fresh wind at E.S.E. More land Fowles seen but no land Towards morning we had but little wind all the day being hasey weather This day we saw a whole flight of such Land-fowles of which sort we killed one before as was mentioned above This sight gave us occasion to believe that neither then nor at this present we were not far distant from land and yet we descryed none in the residue of this whole voyage We made by a N. N. E. way thirty three leagues Yesterday in the evening we set a new sprit-sail and about three this morning we also set our main-sail At one after-noon the wind came about N. E. and N. N. E. which in the evening blew very fresh with cloudy weather November the 29th The night proved very cloudy and the wind blew