continued calm till about four in the afternoon at which time we had a W. S. W. wind which continued to blow all that night 〈◊〉 del Gall◠Thursday July the 29th 1680. This day the wind continued pretty fresh all day long About four in the afternoon we came within sight of the Island del Gallo which I guessed to be nigh twenty eight Leagues distant from that of Gorgona the place of our departure S. W. It is about nine Leagues distant to East from the Main So that the Island with the Main Land S.W. from it appeareth thus GALLO Lat. 2.12 N. All this day the weather continued clear and the wind W. S. W. The next day being July the 30th the wind blew very fresh and brisk insomuch that we were in some fear for the heads of our low Masts as being very sensible that they were but weak About three or four in the afternoon we saw another Island six or seven Leagues distant from Gallo called Gorgonilla At E. by S. from us it made the appearance which I have here adjoyned All the main-Main-Land hereabouts lyeth very low and flat and is in very many places overflown and drowned every high-water GORGONILLA On Saturday July the thirty first in the morning the Island del Gallo at E.N.E. being distant about eight Leagues gave us this appearance GALLO Another Prospect thereof The point of Mangroves is a low and level point running out S. S. W. This day and the night before it we lost by our computation three Leagues of our way They loose wa◠Which I believe hapned by reason we stood out too far from the Land as having stood off all night long August the first which was Sunday we had a very fresh wind at W. S. W. This was joyned also with several small showers of rain which fell that day In the mean while we got pretty well to windward with it by making small trips to and fro which we performed most commonly by standing in three glasses and as many out The next day August the second in the morning Land of San Tiago we came up unto the high-land of San Tiago where beginneth the high-land of this Coast. We kept at the distance of ten Leagues from it and making continual short trips as was mentioned before The next day likewise we continued to do the same But the weather was cloudy and for the most part full of rain Wednesday August the fourth Land of San Matteo we continued still turning in the winds eye as we had done for two days before This day in the afternoon we discovered three Hills at E. N. E. of our ship These Hills make the Land of San Matteo which giveth this following appearance San MATTEO Cape St. Francis All the Coast along hereabouts is high land That evening also we saw the Cape of San Francisco At first this Cape appeared like unto two several Islands But two hours after at the distance of twelve Leagues at S. by W. it looked thus Cape of San FRANCISCO Thursday August the fifth we being then about the Cape it looked very like unto Beachy-head in England It is full of white Cliffs on all sides The land turneth off here to the Eastward of the South and maketh a large and deep Bay the circumference whereof is full of pleasant Hills In the bite of the Bay are two high and rocky Islands the which represent exactly two ships with their Sails full We were now come out of the rainy Countreys into a pleasant and fair Region where we had for the most part a clear sky and dry weather Only now and then we could here find a small mist which soon would vanish away In the mean while every night a great dew used to fall which supplied the defect of rain The two next days following we continued plying to windward with fair weather nothing else remarkable hapning in them which might deserve any notice to be taken thereof On Sunday August the eighth we came close under a wild and mountainous Country This day likewise we saw Cape Passao Cabo Passao at the distance of ten Leagues more or less to windward of us Ever since we came on this side Mangrove point we observed a windward Current did run all along as we sailed Under shoar the Land is full of white Cliffs and Groves lower towards the pitch of the Cape The next day we had both a fair day and a fresh wind to help us on our Voyage We observed that Cape Passao maketh three points between which are two Bays The Leeward-most of the two is of the length of three Leagues and the other of four Adjoyning to the Bays is seen a pleasant valley Our prisoners informed us that Northward of these Capes live certain Indians who sell Maiz and other Provisions to any ships that happen to come in there The Cape it self is a continued Cliff covered with several sorts of shrubs and low bushes Under these Cliffs lyeth a sandy Bay of the depth of forty feet The Spaniards say that the wind is always here between the S.S.W. and W.S.W. The Cape representeth with much likelyness the brow of an Alligator or Cayman At South Cape Passao appeareth thus Cape PASSAO Lat. 1.30 S. Tuesday August the Tenth This morning the sky was so thick and hasey that we could not see the high-land though it were just before us and not altogether two Leagues distant from us But as soon as it cleared up we stood in towards the Land until we came within a mile of the shoar Here having sounded we found seven fathom and a half water under which was a light and clayey ground The Coast all along is very mountainous and likewise full of high and towring Cliffs When we sounded the Tyde was almost at low-water Here it ebbeth and floweth nigh four fathom perpendicular From this Cape the land runneth along S. E. for the space of three or four Leagues with huge high-land Cliffs like unto those of Callis over against England Being past this Cape high-land South from us is Cape St. Lawrence August the 11th we found our selves N. N. W. from Monte de Christo Monte de Christo. being a very high and round hill From thence to windward is seen a very pleasant Country with spots here and there of woody land which causeth the Country all over to look like so many enclosures of ripe Corn fields To Leeward of the said Hill the Land is all high and hilly with white Cliffs at the sea-side The Coast runneth S. W. till it reacheth unto a point of Land within which is the Port of Manta as it is called This Port of Manta Port of Manta is nothing else than a settlement of Spaniards and Indians together where ships that want Provisions do call in and are furnished with several necessaries About six or seven Leagues to windward of this Port is Cape St. Lawrence butting out into the Sea being
in striking them he performing it as well as the Tortoise strikers themselves For these creatures here are so little fearful that they offer not to sink from the fishermen but lye still until such time as they are struck But we experimented that the Tortoises on this side were not so large nor so sweet unto the tast as those on the North side of the Island Of Goats we have taken killed and salted above a hundred in a day and that without any labour In the mean while we stayed here we made a square main top-sail yard We cut also six foot of our bolt-sprit and three foot more of our head Most of the time that we remained here we had hasey weather Only now and then the Sun would happen to break out and then to shine so hot that it burnt the skin of the necks of several of our men As for me my lips were burnt in such manner that they were not well in a whole week after CHAP. XII Captain Sharp and his company depart from the Isle of Plate in prosecution of their Voyage towards Arica They take two Spanish Vessels by the way and learn intelligence from the enemy Eight of their company destroyed at the Isle of Gallo Tediousness of this Voyage and great hardship they endured Description of the Coast all along and their sailings HAving taken in at the Isle of Plate They depart from the Isle of Plate what Provisions and other Necessaries we could get we set sail from thence on Tuesday the 17th of August 1680. in prosecution of our Voyage and designs above-mentioned to take and plunder the vastly rich Town of Arica This day we sailed so well and the same we did several others afterwards that we were forced to lye by several times besides reising our top-sails to keep our other ship company least we should loose her again The next morning about break of day They outsail the other Vessel we found our selves to be at the distance of seven or eight Leagues to the Westward of the Island from whence we departed standing W. by S. with a S. by W. wind About noon that day we had laid the land After dinner the wind came at S.S.W. at which time we were forced to stay more than once for the other vessel belonging to our company On the following day we continued in like manner a west course all the day long Sometimes this day the wind would change but then in a quarter of an hour it would return to S.S. W. again as before Hereabouts where we now were we observed great riplings of the Sea August the twentieth yesterday in the afternoon about six of the clock we stood in S. E. But all night and all this day we had very small winds We found still that we gained very much of the small ship which did not a little both perplex and hinder us in our course The next day likewise we stood in S. E. by S. though with very little wind which sometimes varyed as was mentioned above That day I finished two Quadrants each of which were two foot and a half radius Here we had in like manner as hath been mentioned on other days of our sailings very many Dolphins and other sorts of fish swimming about our ship On the morning following we saw again the Island of Plate at NE. of our ship giving us this appearance at that distance of Prospect Isle of PLATE The same day at the distance of six Leagues more or 〈◊〉 from the said Island we saw another Island called 〈◊〉 Thâ—s 〈◊〉 lyeth close in by the main-Main-land In the 〈◊〉 we observed it to bare E. N. E. from us Our 〈…〉 by S. and had the wind at SW by S. This 〈…〉 we found that our lesser ship was full a great hindrance to our sailing as being forced to lye by and stay for her two or three hours every day We experimented likewise that the farther from shoar we were the less wind we had all along and that under the shoar we were always sure of a 〈◊〉 gale though not so favourable unto us as we could wish it to be Hitherto we had used to stand 〈◊〉 forty Leagues and yet notwithstanding in the sâ—aâ—e of six days we had not got above ten Leagues on our voyage from the place of our departure August the twenty third this day the wind was S. W. by S. and S. S. W. In the morning we stood off The Island Solango at N.E. by N. appeareth thus Isle of SOLANGO At S. by W. and about six Leagues distance from us Point St. Helen we descryed a long and even hill I took it to be an Island and conjectured it might be at least eight Leagues distant from the Continent But afterwards we found it was a point of Land joyning unto the Main and is called Point St. Helena being continued by a piece of Land which lyeth low and in several places is almost drowned from the sight so that it cannot be seen at two Leagues distance In this low-land the Spaniards have convenience for making Pitch Tar Salt and some other things for which purpose they have several houses here and a Fryar who serveth them as their Chaplain From the Island of Solango unto this place are reckoned eleven leagues more or less The Land is hereabouts indifferent high and is likewise full of Bays We had this day very little wind to help us in our Voyage excepting what blasts came now and then in snatches These sometimes would prove pretty fair unto us and allow us for some little while a South course But our chiefest course was S.E. by S. The point of St. Helen at South half East and about six Leagues distance giveth exactly this appearance as followeth Punta de Santa HELENA Here we found no great current of the Sea to move any way At the Isle of Plata afore described the Sea ebbeth and sloweth nigh thirteen foot perpendicular About four Leagues to Leeward of this Point is a deep Bay having a Key at the mouth of it which taketh up the better part of its wideness In the deepest part of the Bay on shoar we saw a great smoak which was at a Village belonging to the Bay unto which place the people were removed from the Point above-mentioned This afternoon we had a small Westerly wind our course being S. S. W. Hereabouts it is all along a very bold shoar At three of the clock after noon we tackt about to clear our selves of the Point â—ark â—â—gs Being now a little way without the Point we espied a sail which we conceived to be a Bark Hereupon we hoisted out our Canoa and sent in pursuit of her which made directly for the shoar But the sail proved to be nothing else then a pair of Bark-Logs which arriving on shoar the men spread their sail on the sand of the Bay to dry At the same time there came down upon the shoar
Whale which we took for an infallible token that we were not far distant from Land which now we hoped to see in a few days We made an E.S.E. way and by it we reckoned nineteen Leagues All the evening was very calm Thursday October the 14th we had both a calm and close day until the afternoon Then the weather became very hot and clear This day we saw several land-Fowls being but small Birds Concerning which our Pilot said that they use to appear about one or two days sail from the Land Our reckoning was eleven Leagues by an E.S.E. way In the evening of this day we thought that we had seen Land but it proved to be nothing else than a foggy bank October the 15th both the night past and this day was very clear We made an observation this day which gave us Lat. 18 d. 00 South The 16th last night and this day were contrary to the former both cloudy Our way was N.E. by E. whereof we reckoned thirteen Leagues Sunday October the 17th the wind blew very fresh our course being E. N. E. About five that morning we saw Land but the weather was so hasey that at first we could scarce perceive whether it was Land or not It was distant from us about eight Leagues and appeared as a high and round hill being in form like unto a Sugar-loaf We saw Land afterwards all along to the S. E. by E. from it In the evening we being then within five Leagues of the shoar the Land appeared very high and steep October the 18th all the night last past we stood off to sea with a fresh wind This morning we could just see Land at N. N. E. We reckoned a S. E. by E. way and by observation we found Lat. 17 d. 17 South Tuesday October the 19th we had very cloudy weather finding what our Pilot had told us to be very true High-lands 〈◊〉 Arica concerning the haseyness of this shoar We saw all along as we went very high Land covered with Clouds insomuch that we could not see its top On Wednesday the next day we had likewise cloudy weather and for the most part calm The same weather being very cloudy as before continued in like manner on Thursday Friday October 22. this morning we saw the Land plain before us Our Pilot being asked what Land that was Punta de Hilo answered it was the Point of Hilo At N.N.E. and about six or seven Leagues distance it appeared thus unto us Punta de HILO. Lat. 18. d. 4. S. There is every morning and evening a brightness over the Point which lasteth for two or three hours being caused by the reflection of the Sun on the barren land as it is supposed This day we had but little wind and the huge want of water we were now under Great want of water occasioned much disturbance among our men As for my part I must acknowledge I could not sleep all night long through the greatness of my drougth We could willingly have landed here to seek for water but the fear of being discovered and making our selves known hindred us from so doing Thus we unanimously resolved to endure our thirst for a little longer space of time Hereabouts is a small Current that runneth under the shoar This morning we had but little wind at South our course being E S. E. The Point at the distance of five leagues N. E. looketh on the following side thus Punta de HILO. Our wind continued to blow not above six hours each day We reckoned the difference of our Meridian to be this day one hundred and eighty leagues Very great was our affliction now for want of water Halâ— a pâ—nt a day we having but half a pint a day to our allowance October the 23 d. This day we were forced to spare one measure of water thereby to make it hold out the longer so scarce it became with us At three this afternoon the Point looked thus Punta de HILO. Mora de SAMA Here the Point looketh like unto an Island And Mora de Sama to the Southward thereof giveth this appearance Mora de SAMA About nine of the clock at night we had a land wind and with it we stood S. E. by S. But all the night after we had but little wind October the 24th All the night past we had very cloudy and dark weather with mizling rain The morning being come it cleared up but all the land appeared covered with clouds Yet notwithstanding in the afternoon it gave us again this appearance Mora de SAMA Lat. 18 d. 29 S. Under the Hill of Mora de Sama are eighteen or nineteen white cliffs which appear in the form above described This day we resolved that One hundred and twelve men should go ashoar And about eight this evening we sent our Lanch and four Canoas with fourscore men to take three or four Fisher-men at a certain River close by Mora de Sama called el Rio de Juan Diaz with intent to gain what intelligence we could how affairs stood at present on the Coast and Country thereabouts Munday October the 25th Last night being about the distance of one league and an half from shoar we sounded and found forty five fathom water with an hard ground at the bottom This morning our people and Canoas that were sent to take the Fishermen returned not being able to find either their houses or the River They reported withal they had had a very fresh wind all the night long under shoar whereas we had not one breath of wind all night on board Tuesday October the 26th Last night being the night before this day about six of the clock we departed from the ship to go to take Arica resolving to land about the distance of a league to windward of the Town We were about six leagues distant from the Town when we left our ship whereby we were forced to row all night that we might reach before day the place of our landing Towards morning the Canoaâ—s lâ—â—t the Lanch which they had had all night in a Tow and wherein I was and made all the speed they possibly could for the shoar with design to land before the Lanch could arrive But being come nigh the place where we designed to land they found to our great sorrow and vexation that we were descryed and that all along the shoar and through the Country they had certain news of our arrival Yet notwithstanding our discovery we would have landed if we could by any means have found a place to do it in But the sea ran so high and with such a force against the rocks that our boats must needs have been staved each in one thousand pieces and we in great danger of wetting our arms if we should adventure to go on shoar The Bay all round was possessed by several parties of horse and likewise the tops of the hills which seemed to be gathered
us by reason we lay by several times but undoubtedly they were cowardly given and peradventure as unwilling to engage us as we were to engage them The following day being January the thirteenth in the morning we could descry one of the fore-mentioned men of war under the Leeward side of the Island and we believed that the rest were at Anchor thereabouts At W. by S. and at the distance of seven Leagues the Island appeareth thus Isle of Juan Fernandez Lat. 33 d. 40 South At noon that day we stood in towards the Island They gave them the 〈◊〉 making as if that we intended to be in with them But in the afternoon our Commander propounded the question unto us whether we were willing now that the Fleet was to windward to bare away from them Unto this we all agreed with one consent And hereupon night being come with a fresh wind at S.S.E. we stood away N.E. by N. and thus gave them handsomly the slip after having out braved them that day and the day before Isla de Juan Fernandez CHAP. XVI The Bucaniers depart from the Isle of Juan Fernandez unto that of Yqueque Here they take several Prisoners and learn intelligence of the posture of affairs at Arica Cruelty committed upon one of the said prisoners who had rightly informed them They attempt Arica the second time and take the Town but are beaten out of it again before they could plunder with great loss of men many of them being killed wounded and made Prisoners Captain Watling their chief Commander is killed in this Attacque and Captain Sharp presently chosen again who leadeth them off and through Mountains of difficulties maketh a bold Retreat unto the ship HAving bid our enemies adieu after the manner as was said in the precedent Chapter They leave the Isle of J. Fernandez the next morning being January the 14th we bore N. E. We reckoned this day a N.N.E. one quarter South way and by it thirty Leagues We were four Leagues Eastward from the Isle of Juan Fernandez when I took our departure Saturday January the 15th we had hasey weather This day we made by a N. E. by N. way eleven Leagues The same hasey weather continued in like manner the 16th But about ten that morning the wind dyed away Our reckoning was a N.E. by N. way and thirty six Leagues On the 17th we had a soft gale and a clear observation We found by it Lat. 28 d. 47 S. Easting seventy Leagues The next day we had likewise a clear day and we reckoned by a N· E. by N. way thirty one leagues By observation Lat. 27 d. 29 South Wednesday January the 19th we had a clear day as before They resolâ—e for Arica and reckoned a N. E. by N. way and thirty five Leagues and two thirds By observation we took Lat. 25 d. 00. South This day we put up our top-gallant masts and sails the which we had taken down at the Island of Juan Fernandez when we thought to have gone directly from thence for the Straights of Magallanes But now our resolutions were changed and our course was bent for Arica that rich place the second time to try what good we could do upon it by another attempt in order to the making all our fortunes there In the evening of this day we saw Land at a great distance January the 20th about midnight past we had a small Land-wind that sprang up and reached us At break of day we could descry Land again at the distance of nine or ten Leagues more or less This day was very hot and calme Easting ninety two Leagues On the 21. we had very little wind and all along as we went we could descry high land and that barren We sailed N. by E. and N.N.E. along the Coast of the Continent The next day being Saturday the 22 of January we had very hot weather 〈◊〉 look out for Yqueque This day we sailed N. and N. by E. and looked out continually for the Island of Yqueque which our Pilot told us was hereabouts We kept at a just distance from Land for fear of being descryed by the enemy On the following day Sunday the 23. we sailed in like manner N.N.E. along the Coast which seemeth to be very full of Bays hereabouts By observation this day we took Lat. 21 d. 49. South Munday January the 24th this day we had an indifferent gale of wind and we stood N. and by E. the wind being S.S.E. We found Latitude by observation 21 d. 02 South Our whole Easting I reckoned to be ninety two leagues and an half In the afternoon of this day Captain Watling our Commander and twenty five men more departed from the ship in two Canoas with design to seek for and take the Island of Yqueque and there to gain intelligence of the posture of affairs at Arica We were at the distance of twelve leagues from shoar when they went away from the ship The next day by a clear observation They find it not we found Lat. 20 d. 40 South At four in the afternoon this day returned one of our Canoas bringing word that they could not find the Island though they had searched for it very diligently At night came the other being brought back by a wrong sign given us by the first Canoa This second Canoa had landed upon the Continent and there found a track the which they followed for some little space Here they met a dead Whale with whose bones the Spaniards had built a Hut and set up a Cross. There lay also many pieces of broken Jars They observed likewise that hereabouts upon the Coast were many Bays good landing and anchoring for ships That evening about seven of the clock a fresh gang departed from the ship to seek for the same Island mean while we lay becalmed all night driving about a league to leeward Wednesday January the 26th Rich Mines on the Continent we had extream hot weather This day the Spanish Pilot told us that on the Continent over against us and at the distance of a very little way within the Land are many rich Mines of Silver but that the Spaniards dared not to open them for fear of an Invasion from some Forreign enemy or other We sailed North at the distance of about two leagues from shoar At noon we had an observation and found Lat. 20 d. 21 S. At four of the clock we saw a smoak made by our men The Island iâ— â—ound close by a white clift which proved to be the Island Hereupon we immediately sent away another Canoa with more men to supply them in their attempts But in the mean while the first Canoa which had departed the evening before this day came aboard bringing with them four prisoners two old white men and two Indians An account of the Island The other Canoa which set out last brought back Molossus Fish and two Jars of wine To windward of
These were Spaniards who had been turned here ashoar by our English party who left them upon this Coast left by carrying them nearer unto Panama any of them should make their escape and discover our march towards that City They had me presently after I was taken into a small Hut which they had built covered with boughs and made there great shouts for joy because they had taken us designing in their minds to use us very severely for coming into those parts and especially for taking and plundering their Town of Santa Maria. But mean while the Captain of those Spaniards was examining me in came the poor Spaniard that was come along with us and reported how kind I had been to him and the rest of his Companions by saving their Lives from the cruelty of the Indians They â—re ciâ—ilâ—y treated and â—et at liberty The Captain having heard him arose from his seat immediately and embraced me saying that we Englishmen were very friendly Enemies and good people but that the Indians were very Rogues and a treacherous Nation Withal he desired me to sit down by him and to eat part of such Victuals as our Companions had left them when they were turned ashoar Then he told me that for the kindness I had shewed unto his Countrymen he gave us all our Lives and Liberties which otherwise he would certainly have taken from us And though he could scarcely be perswaded in his mind to spare the Indians lives yet for my sake he did pardon them all and I should have them with me in case I could find them Thus he bid me likewise take my Canoa and go in Gods name saying withal he wished us as fortunate as we were generous Hereupon I took my leave of him after some little stay though he invited me to tarry all night with him I searched out and at last found my Indians who for fear had hid themselves in the bushes adjoyning to the neighbouring woods where they lay concealed Having found them the Captain led me very civilly down unto the Canoa and bidding my Companions and the Indians get in after me as they at first halled us ashoar so now again they pushed us off to Sea by a suddain and strange vicissitude of fortune All that night it rained very hard as was mentioned above neither durst we put any more ashoar at any place it being all along such as by Mariners is commonly called an Iron Coast. The next morning being come we sailed and padled They overtake the rest of the Fleet. or rowed till about ten of the clock At which time we espied a Canoa making towards us with all speed imaginable Being come up with us and in view it proved to be of our own English Company who mistaking our Canoa for a Spanish Periagua was coming in all hast to attack us We were infinitely gladded to meet them and they presently conducted us to the rest of our Company who were at that instant coming from a deep Bay which lay behind a high point of Rocks where they had lain at Anchor all that night and morning We were all mutually rejoyced to see one another again they having given both me and my Companions for lost CHAP. VI. The Bucaniers prosecute their Voyage till they come within sight of Panama They take several Barks and Prisoners by the way Are descryed by the Spaniards before their arrival They order the Indians to kill the Prisoners FRom the place where we rejoyned our English Forces They arrive at Farol de Plantanos we all made our way towards a high hammock of Land as it appeared at a distance but was nothing else then an Island seven Leagues distant from the Bay aforementioned On the highest part of this Island the Spaniards keep a watch or Look-out for so it is termed by the Sea-men for fear of Pyrates or other Enemies That evening we arrived at the Island and being landed went up a very steep place till we came to a little Hut where the watchman lodged We took by surprizal the old man who watched in the place but hapned to see us not till we were got into his Plantane walk before the Lodge He told us in his examination that we were not as yet descryed by the Spaniards of Panama or any others that he knew which relation of the old fellow much encouraged us to go forwards with our design of surprizing that rich City This place if I took its name rightly is called Farol de Plantanos or in English Plantane-watch The Bucaniers take a Bark of Panama Here not long before it was dark that evening a certain Bark came to an anchor at the outward side of the Island which instantly was descryed by us Hereupon we speedily Manned out two Canoas who went under the shoar and surprized the said Boat Having examined the persons that were on board we found she had been absent the space of eight days from Panama and had landed Soldiers at a point of Land not far distant from this Island with intention to fight and curb certain Indians and Negroes who had done much hurt in the Country thereabouts The Bark being taken most of our men endeavoured to get into her but more especially those who had the lesser Canoas Thus there embarked thereon to the number of one hundred thirty and seven of our company together with that Sea-Artist and valiant Commander Captain Bartholomew Sharp With him went also on board Captain Cook whom we mentioned at the beginning of this History The remaining part of that night we lay at the Key of the said Island expecting to prosecute our Voyage the next day They take another Bark Morning being come I changed my Canoa and embarked my self on another which though it was something lesser than the former yet was furnished with better company Departing from the Island we rowed all day long over shoal water at the distance of about a League from land having sometimes not above four foot water and white ground In the afternoon we descryed a Bark at sea and instantly gave her chace But the Canoa wherein was Captain Harris hapned to come up the first with her who after a sharp dispute took her Being taken we put on board the said Bark thirty men But the wind would not suffer the other Bark in chacing to come up with us This pursuit of the Vessel did so far hinder us in our Voyage and divide us asunder that night coming on presently after we lost one another and could no longer keep in a body together Hereupon we laid our Canoa ashoar to take up our rest for that night at the distance of two miles more or less from high water mark and about four Leagues to Leeward of the Island of Chepillo unto which place our course was then directed The next morning They arrive at the Isle of Chepillo as soon as the water began to float us we rowed away for the fore-mentioned Island
that are curious in such things From Otoque we sailed to the Island of Cayboa And thence to Cayboa which is a place very famous for the fishery of Pearl thereabouts and is at the distance of eight Leagues from another place called Puebla Nueba on the Main In our way to this Island we lost two of our Barks the one whereof had fifteen men in her and the other seven Being arrived we cast anchor at the said Island The Bay of Panama and Gulf of Ballona CHAP. IX Captain Sawkins chief Commander of the Bucaniers is killed before Puebla Nueba They are repulsed from the said place Captain Sharp chosen to be their Leader Many more of their company leave them and return home over land MEan while we lay at Anchor before Cayboa They land on the Continent our two chiefest Commanders Captain Sawkins and Captain Sharp taking with them to the number of threescore men more or less went in the Ship of Captain Cook unto the mouth of the River where Puebla Nueba is situated The day of this action as I find it quoted in my Journal was May 22. 1680. When they came unto the Rivers mouth they put themselves into Canoas and were piloted up the River towards the Town by a Negroe who was one of our Prisoners I was chosen to be concerned in this action but hapned not to land being commanded to remain in Captain Cooks ship while they went up to assault the Town But here at Puebla Nueba the Inhabitants were too well provided for the reception of our party For at the distance of a mile below the Town they had cut down great Trees and laid them cross the River with design to hinder the ascent of any Boats In like manner on shoar before the Town it self they had raised three strong breast-works and made other things for their defence Here therefore Captain Sawkins running up to the breast-works at the head of a few men was killed a man who was as valiant and couragious as any could be Captain Sawkins killed and likewise next unto Captain Sharp the best beloved of all our company or the most part thereof Neither was this love undeserved by him for we ought justly to attribute unto him the greatest honour we gained in our Engagement before Panama with the Spanish Armadilla or Little Fleet. Especially considering that as hath been said above Captain Sharp was by accident absent at the time of that great and bloody fight We that remained behind on board the Ship of Captain Cook Some aâ—count of the River of Puebla Nueba carryed her within the mouth of the River of Puebla Nueba and entred close by the East shoar which here is crowned with a round hill Here within two stones cast of shoar we had four fathom water Within the Point openeth a very fine and large River which falleth from a sandy Bay at a small distance from thence But as we were getting in being strangers unto the place we unwittingly ran our ship on ground nigh unto a Rock which lyeth on the westward shoar for the true Channel of the said River is nearer to the East than West shoar With Captain Sawkins in the unfortunate assault of this place there dyed two men more and three were wounded in the Retreat which they performed unto the Canoas in pretty good order In their way down the River Captain Sharp took a Ship 〈◊〉 taken and 〈◊〉 whose lading consisted of Indigo Otto Manteca or Butter and Pitch and likewise burnt two vessels more as being of no value With this he returned on board our ships being much troubled in his mind and grieved for the loss of so bold and brave a partner in his Adventures as Sawkins had constantly shewed himself to be His death was much lamented and occasioned another party of our men to mutiny and leave us returning over land as Captain Coxon and his company had done before Three days after the death of Captain Sawkins Captain Sharp Sharp chosen who was now Commander in chief gave the ship which he had taken in the River of Puebla Nueba and which was of the burthen of one hundred Tuns more or less unto Captain Cook to Command and Sail in Ordering withal that the old vessel which he had should go with those men that designed to leave us their Mutiny and our Distraction being now grown very high Hereupon Captain Sharp coming on board La Trinidad the greatest of our ships asked our men in full Councel who of them were willing to go or stay and prosecute the design Captain Sawkins had undertaken which was to remain in the South Sea and there to make a compleat Voyage after which he intended to go home round about America through the Straights of Magallanes He added withal that he did not as yet fear or doubt in the least but to make each man who should stay with him worth one thousand pound by the fruits he hoped to reap of that Voyage All those who had remained after the departure of Captain Coxon for love of Captain Sawkins and only to be in his company and under his Conduct thinking thereby to make their fortunes would stay no longer but pressed to depart Among this number I acknowledge my self to have been one Many leave them as being totally desirous in my mind to quit those hazardous adventures and return homewards in company of those who were now going to leave us Yet being much afraid and averse to trust my self among wild Indians any farther I chose rather to stay though unwilling and venture on that long and dangerous Voyage Besides which danger of the Indians I considered that the Rains were now already up and it would be hard passing so many Gullies which of necessity would then be full of water and consequently create more than one single peril unto the undertakers of that Journey Yet notwithstanding sixty three men of our company were resolved to encounter all these hardships and to depart from us Hereunto they took their leave of us and returned homewards taking with them the Indian Kings Son and the rest of the Indians for their guides over-land They had as was said above the ship wherein Captain Cook sailed to carry them and out of our Provision as much as would serve for treble their number Thus on the last day of May they departed A small account of the Isle of Cayboa leaving us employed about taking in water and cutting down wood at the Island of Cayboa afore-mentioned where this mutiny hapned Here we caught very good Tortoise and Red Deer We killed also Alligators of a very large size some of them being above twenty foot in length But we could not find but that they were very fearful of a Man and would fly from us very hastily when we hunted them This Island lyeth S. S. E. from the mouth of the River above-mentioned On the South-East side of the Island is a shoal or
spit of sand which stretcheth it self the space of a quarter of a League into the Sea Here therefore just within this shoal we anchored in the depth of fourteen fathom water The Island on this side thereof maketh two great Bays in the first of which we watered at a certain pond not distant above the cast of a stone up from the Bay In this pond as I was washing my self and standing under a Manzanilla-tree a small shower of rain hapned to fall on the tree and from thence dropped on my skin These drops caused me to break out all over my body into red spots of which I was not well for the space of a week after Here I eat very large Oysters the biggest that ever â—eat in my life insomuch that I was forced to cut them into four pieces each quarter of them being a good mouthful Three days after the departure of the Mutineers Captain Sharp ordered us to burn the ship that hitherto had sailed in only out of design to make use of the Iron-work belonging to said Vessel Withal we put all the Flour that was her lading into the last Prize taken in the River of Puebla Nova 〈…〉 against Captain Cook and Captain Cook as was said before was ordered to command her But the men belonging to his company would not sail any longer under his command Hereupon he quitted his vessel and came on board our Admiral the great Ship above-mentioned called La Trinidad determining to rule over such unruly company no longer In his place was put one whose name was John Cox an Inhabitant of New-England who forced Kindred as was thought upon Captain Sharp out of old acquaintance in this conjuncture of time only to advance himself Thus he was made as it were Vice-Admiral unto Captain Sharp The next day three of our Prisoners viz. an Indian who was Captain of a ship and two Mulatos ran away from us and made their escape After this it was thought convenient to send Captain Peralta prisoner in the Admiral Captain Peralta removed on board the Ship of Mr. Cox This was done to the intent he might not hinder the endeavours of Captain Juan who was Commander of the Money-ship we took as was mentioned at the Island of Tavoga For this man had now promised to do great things for us by Piloting and conducting us unto several places of great Riches But more especially to Guayaquil where he said we might lay down our Silver and lade our vessels with Gold This design was undertaken by Captain Sawkins and had not the head-strongness of his men brought him to the Island of Cayboa where he lost his life he had certainly effected it before now That night we had such thunder and lightning Great thunder as I never had heard before in all my life Our Prisoners told us that in these parts it very often causeth great damages both by Sea and Land And my opinion gave me to believe that our Main-mast received some damage in this occasion The rainy season being now entred the wind for the most part was at N. W. though not without some calms CHAP. X. They depart from the Island of Cayboa unto the Isle of Gorgona where they Careen their Vessels Description of this Isle They resolve to go and plunder Arica leaving their design of Guayaquil HAving got in all things necessary for Navigation They set sail from Cayboa we were now in a readiness to depart on Sunday June the 6th 1680. That day we had some rain fell which now was very frequent in all places About five of the clock in the evening we set sail from the Island of Cayboa with a small breez the wind being at S. S. W. Our course was E. S. by E and S. E. having all night a very small or little wind The same calmness of weather continued all the next day insomuch that we lay and drove only as the current horsed us to N. W. Little better then a calm we had also the third day of our Navigation Mean while a current drove us to the Westward About Sun-rising we descryed Quicara which at that time bore N.W. by W. from us at the distance of five Leagues more or less With the rising of the Sun an easie gale of wind sprung up so that at noon we had altered our bearing which was then N. by E. being six Leagues distant and appearing thus as is underneath demonstrated QVICARA Lat. 7 Deg. 40. N. These are two several Islands whereof the least is to the Southward of the other Quicara 〈◊〉 The Land is a low table Land these Islands being more than three Leagues in length About six of the clock that evening we were nigh ten Leagues distant W.S.W. from them Much like unto the former weather we had the fourth day of our Sailing with little wind in the forenoon and rather less than more in the afternoon I judged about the middle of the day we were at the distance of twenty Leagues S. S. W. from the said Islands Thursday June the Tenth we had very small and variable winds This day I reckoned that we had made hitherto a S. by E. way and a S. by W. from our departure being driven by a current according to the observation I made into the Latitude of six degrees and thirty minutes This day we saw much Tortoise floating upon the Sea Much Tortoise and other fish Hereupon we hoisted out our Boat and came to one of them who offered not to stir until she was struck and even then not to sink to the bottom but rather to swim away The sea hereabouts is very full of several sorts of Fish as Dolphins Bonitos Albicores Mullets and Old Wives c. which came swimming about our ship in whole shoals The next day which was Friday we had likewise very little wind which was no more than we had all Thursday night with some showers of rain That day we had an observation which was six deg N. latitude In the evening a fresh wind came up at S. W. our course being S. S. E. On Saturday we had in like manner about seven in the morning a fresh breeze at South So we stood W. S. W. with cloudy weather and several showers of rain This day our Spanish prisoners informed us we must not expect any setled wind Inconstancy of winâ—â— until we came within the Latitude of three degrees For all along the Western shoar of these seas there is little wind which is the cause that those ships that go from Acapulco unto the Islands called de las Philippinas do coast along the shoar of California How the Spaniards go to Philippinas until they get into the heighth of forty five degrees yea sometimes of fifty degrees latitude As the wind varyed so we tacked several times thereby to make the best of our way that was possible to the Southward As our Prisoners had informed us Great calme
so we found it by experience For on the next day which was Sunday June the 13th we had very little wind and most commonly none for the space of twenty four hours 〈…〉 we tryed the current of the sea and found it very strong to the Eastward The same day we had much rain and in the afternoon a small breeze at West and West South West but mostly at West Yet notwithstanding all this calmness of weather the next day in the morning very early by a suddain gale of wind which arose we made shift to split our main top-â—ail We had all the night before and that day continual and incessant showers of rain and made a S. W. and by south way seeing all along as we went a multitude of Dolphins Bonitos and several other sorts of fish floating upon those Seas whereof in the afternoon we caught many the weather being now changed from stormy to calm again insomuch that we could fish as we sailed along or rather as we lay tumbling in the calm Tuesday June the 15th the morning continued calm as the day â—efore and this day also we saw multitudes of fish of several sorts whereof we caught some for our Table as we were wont to do By an observation which was made this day we found our selves to be now in the latitude of four degrees and twenty one minutes At this time the course of our Navigation and our whole design was to go and careen our Vessels at the Islands commonly called by the Spaniards de los Galapagos that is to say of the Tortoises being so denominated from the infinite number of those Animals swarming and breeding thereabouts These Islands are situated under the Aequinoctial Line at the distance of a hundred Leagues more or less from the main Continent of America in the South Sea In the afternoon of this day we had a small breeze to push us forwards June the 16th being Wednesday we made our way this day Gâ—eat rains all 〈…〉 and for the four and twenty hours last past E.S. E. with much rain which ceased not to fall as in all this Voyage since our departure from Cayboa This day likewise we caught several Dolphins and other sorts of fish But in the evening we had again a fresh breeze at S. by W. our course being as was just now said E. S. E. The next day which was June the 17th about five in the morning we descryed Land which appeared all along to be very low and likewise full of Creeks and Bays We instantly asked our Pilot what Land that was before us But he replyed he knew it not Hereupon being doubtful of our condition we called Mr. Cox on board us who brought Captain Peralta with him This Gentleman being asked presently told us the Land we saw was the Land of Barbacoa being almost a wild Country all over Withal he informed us that to Leeward of us at the distance of ten Leagues or thereabouts did lye an Island called by the name of Gorgona the which Island he said The Island of Gorgona and iâ—s qualities the Spaniards did shun and very seldom come nigh unto by reason of the incessant and continual rains there falling scarce one day in the year being dry at that place Captain Sharp having heard this information of Captain Peralta judged the said Island might be the fittest place for our company to careen at considering that if the Spaniards did not frequent it They resolve to careen there we might in all probability lye there undiscryed and our Enemies the Spaniards in the mean time might think that we were gone out of those Seas At this time it was that I seriously repented my staying in the South Seas and that I did not return homewards in company of them that went before us For I knew and could easily perceive that by these delays the Spaniards would gain time and be able to send advice of our coming to every Port all along the Coast so that we should be prevented in all or most of our attempts and designs wheresoever we came But those of our company who had got money by the former Prizes of this Voyage overswayed the others who had lost all their booty at gaming Thus we bore away for the Island aforesaid of Gorgona and at the distance of six Leagues and an half at S.W. I observed it to make the appearance following GORGONA Lat. 1.00 N. On the main Land over against this Island of Gorgona we were told by our prisoners A plaâ—e where Golâ— is gathered that up a great Laguna or Lake is seated an Indian Town where they have great quantity of sand grains of Gold Moreover that five days journey up a River belonging to the said Laguna do dwell four Spanish Superintendents who have each of them the charge of overseeing fifty or sixty Indians who are employed in gathering that Gold which slippeth from the chief Collectors or finders thereof These are at least threescore and ten or fourscore Spaniards with a great number of slaves belonging unto them who dwell higher up then these four Superintendents at the distance of twenty five or thirty days Journey on the said River That once every year at a certain season there cometh a vessel from Lima the Capital City of Peru to fetch the Gold that here is gathered and withal to bring unto these people such Necessaries as they want By Land it is nothing less than six weeks travel from thence to Lima. The main Land to windward of this Island is very low and full of Rivers All along the Coast it raineth most desperately The Island is distant from the Continent â—â—ly the space of four Leagues Mean while we lay at it I took the whole circumference thereof which is according to what is here underneath described Isla de la Gorgôna or Capt Sharpes Isle Captain Sharp gave unto this Island the name of Sharps Isle by reason we careened at this place We anchored on the South side of the Island at the mouth of a very â—ine River which there disgorgeth it self into the Sea There belong unto this Island about thirty Rivers and Rivolets all which fall from the Rocks on the several sides of the Island The whole circumference thereof is about three Lâ—agues and an half round being all high and mountainous land excepting only on that side where we cast Anchor Here therefore we moor'd our ship in the depth of eighteen or twenty fathom water and began to unrig the vessel But we were four or five days space before we could get our Sails dry so as to be able to take them from the yards there falling a shower of rain almost every hour of the day and night The main Land to the East of the Island and so stretching Northward is extream high and towering and withal perpetually clouded excepting only at the rising of the Sun at which time the tops of those hills are clear From
the South side of this Island where we Ankored as was said above we could see the low-low-land of the main at least a point thereof which lyeth nearest unto the Island The appearance it maketh is as it were of Trees growing out of the water Friday July the second as we were heaving down our ship our Main-mast hapned to crack Hereupon our Carpenters were constrained to cut out large fishes and fish it as the usual terms of that art do name the thing On the next day after the mischance of our Main-mast we killed a Snake which had fourteen inches in circumference A 〈◊〉 Snake and was eleven foot in length About the distance of a League from this Island runneth a ledge of Rocks over which the water continually breaketh the ledge being about two miles more or less in length Had we anchoâ—'d but half a mile more Northerly we had rid in much smoother water for here where we were the wind came â—n upon us in violent gusts Mean while we were there from June the thirtieâ—h to July the third we had dry weather which was esteemed as a rarity by the Spaniards our prisoners And every day we saw Whales and Grampusses Whales and Grampussâ—â— at Gorgona who would often come and drive under our ship We fired at them several times but our Bullets rebounded from their bodies Our choice and best provisions here were Indian Conies Monkeys Snakes Oysters Cunks Periwinkles and a few small Turtle with some other sorts of good fish Here in like manner we caught a Sloath A Sloath taken a beast well deserving that name given it by the Spaniards by whom it is called Pereza from the Latin word Pigritia At this Island dyed Josephe Gabriel a Spaniard Deatâ— of a Spanish prisoner born in Chile who was to have been our Pilot unto Panama He was the same man who had stolen and married the Indian Kings Daughter as was mentioned above He had all along been very true and faithful unto us in discovering several Plots and Conspiracies of our prisoners either to get away or destroy us His death was occasioned by a Calenture or Malignant Feaver which killed him after three days sickness having lain two days senceless During the time of our stay at this Island we lengthned our top-sail-yards and got up top gallant masts we made two stay-sails and refitted our ship very well But we wanted Provisions extreamly as having nothing considerable of any sort but flower and water Being almost ready to depart Captain Sharp our Commander gave us to understand They change resolution he had changed his resolution concerning the design of going to Guayaquil for he thought it would be in vain to go thither considering that in all this time we must of necessity be descried before now Yet notwithstanding he himself before had perswaded us to stay Being very doubtful among our selves what course we should take a certain old man who had long time sailed among the Spaniards told us he could carry us to a place called Arica Unto which Town he said all the Plate was brought down from Potosi Chuquisaca and several other places within the Land They dâ—sign for Arica where it was dâ—gged out of the Mountains and Mines And that he doubted not but that we might get there of purchase at least two thousand pound every man For all the Plate of the South Sea lay there as it were in store being deposited at the said place until such time as the ships did fetch it away Being moved with these reasons and having deliberated thereupon we resolved in the end to go unto the said place At this Island of Gorgona afore-mentioned we likewise took down our Round-house coach and all the high carved work belonging to the stern of the ship For when we took her from the Spaniards before Panama she was high as any Third-Rate ship in England CHAP. XI The Bucaniers depart from the Isle of Gorgona with design to plunder Arica They loose one another by the way They touch at the Isle of Plate or Drakes Isle where they meet again Description of this Isle Some Memoirs of Sir Francis Drake An account of this Voyage and the Coasts all along They sail as far in a fort-night as the Spaniards usually do in three months 〈…〉 Gorgona ON Sunday July the 25th in the afternoon all things being now in a readiness for our departure we set sail and stood away from the Island of Gorgona or Sharps Iâ—â—e with a small breez which served us at N. W. But as the Sâ—n went down that day so our breez dyed away by degrees Yet already we could begin to experiment that our ship sailed much better since the taking down her round house and the other alterations which we made in 〈◊〉 The next day about two of the clock in the morning we had a land breez to help us which lasted for the space of six hours more or less So that at noon we found our selves to be five Leagues and a half distant to the South West from Gorgona This day the Spaniards our prisoners told us in common discourse A deep Coast. that in most part of this low-land Coast they find threescore fathom water In the afternoon we had from land a very strong breez mean while we continued making short trips off and in That night we had much rain for the greatest part of the night which occasioned the next morning being the third day of our Navigation to be very cloudy until ten of the clock About that hour it cleared up and then we saw the Island of Gorgona at E. N. E. being distant about twelve Leagues more or less from us We had the wind all this day at S.W. where it continued seldom varying above two points of the Compass to the Westwards Night being come about ten of the clock Captain Sharp ordered me to speak unto Captain Cox and bid him go about and stand off from the shoar for he feared least Cox should come too nigh unto it But he replyed he knew well that he might stand in until two of the clock They loose one another The next day very early in the morning we saw him not the morning being cloudy and stark calm Yet notwithstanding at eight of the clock it cleared up and neither then could we see him From hence we concluded and so it proved that we had lost him in the obscurity of the night through his obstinacy in standing in too long and not coming about when we spoke unto him Thus our Admirals ship was left alone and we had not the company of Captain Cox any longer in this Voyage till we arrived at the Isle of Plate where we had the good fortune to find him again as shall be mentioned hereafter The weather being clear this morning we could see Gorgona at the distance of at least fifteen or sixteen Leagues to the E. N. E. All this day it
in form like unto the top of a Church Monte de Christo giveth this appearance at Sea Monte de CHRISTO Lat. 50. S. The Cape riseth higher and higher from the Port of Manta Water-Snakes and 〈…〉 As we sailed along we saw multitudes of Grampusses every day as also Water-Snakes of divers colours Both the Spaniards and Indians too are very fearful of these Snakes as believing there is no cure for their bitings At the distance of eight Leagues or thereabouts to Leeward of Cape St. Laurence it appeareth thus Cape St. LAVRENCE Lat. 55. S. This day before night we came within sight of Manta Here we saw the Houses of the Town belonging to the Port which were not above twenty or thirty Indian houses lying under the windward and the Mount We were not willing to be descryed by the Inhabitants of the said place and hereupon we stood off to sea again On Thursday August the 12th in the morning we saw the Island of Plate at S. W. at the distance of five Leagues more or less It appeared unto us to be an even land Isle of Palte Having made this Island we resolved to go thither and resit our rigging and get some Goats which there run wild up and down the Country For as was said before at this time we had no other provision than flour and water The Island it self is indifferent high land and off at sea looketh thus as is here described Isle of PLATE Lat. 2.42 S. But the high-land of Cape Passao of which we have spoken before Cape Passao at the distance of fifteen Leagues to North giveth in several hamocks this appearance High-land of Cape PASSAO C. St. Lawrence The Land of Cape Lorenzo is all white Cliffs the head of the Cape running N. and S. This day several great Whales came up to us and dived under our ship One of these Whales followed our ship from two in the afternoon till dark night 〈…〉 Captain Cox 〈…〉 The next morning very early about six of the clock we came under the aforesaid Isle of Plate and here unexpectedly to our great joy we found at anchor the ship of Captain Cox with his whole company whom we had lost at sea for the space of a whole fortnight before We found they had reached this Island and had been there at an anchor four days before us being now just ready to depart from thâ—nce About seven we came to an anchor and then the other vessel sent us a live Tortoise and a Goat to feast upon that day telling us withal of great store of Tortoise to be found ashoar upon the Bays and of much fish to be caught hereabouts Description of the Isle of Plate The Island is very steep on all sides insomuch that there is no landing but only on the N. E. side thereof where is a Gully nigh unto which we anchored in twelve fathom water Here at the distance of a furlong or little more from the shoar as you go to land you will see on the left side hill a Cross still standing being there erected in former times No Trees are to be found on the whole Island but only low shrubs on which the Goats feed which Cattle is here very numerous The shoar is bold and hard neither is there any water to be found upon it excepting only on the S. W. side of the Island where likewise it cannot be come at as lying so much enclosed by the Rocks and too great a Sea hindring the approach unto it in boats This Island received it's name from Sir Francis Drake Sir Fr. Drake and his famous Actions For here it is reported by tradition that he made the dividend or sharing of that vast quantity of Plate which he took in the Armada of this Sea distributing it unto each man of his company by whole bowles full The Spaniards affirm unto this day he took at that time twelve score Tuns of Plate and sixteen Bowles of Coyned Money a man his number being then forty five men in all Insomuch that they were forced to heave much of it over board because his ship could not carry it all Hence was this Island called by the Spaniards themselves the Isle of Plate from this great Dividend and by us Drakes Isle All along as we sailed Spanish Pilotâ— their ignorance we found the Spanish Pilots to be very ignorant of the Coasts But they plead thus much for their ignorance that the Merchants their employers either of Mexico Lima Panama or other parts will not entrust one penny worth of Goods on that mans Vessel that corketh her for fear lest she should miscarry Here our Prisoners told us likewise that in the time of Oliver Cromwel or the Common-wealth of England A ship with money sent to King Chaâ—â—â— the Second a certain ship was fitted out of Lima with seventy brass Guns having on board her no less thâ—n thirty Millions of Dollers or pieces of Eight All which vast sum of money was given by the Merchants of Lima and sent as a Present unto our gracious King or rather his Father who now reigneth to supply him in his Exile and distress But that this great and rich ship was lost by keeping the shoar along in the Bay of Manta above-mentioned or thereabouts What truth there may be in this History I cannot easily tell At least it seemeth to me as scarce deserving any credit At this Island we took out of Mr. Cox's ship the old Moor for of that Nation he was who pretended he would be our Pilot unto Arica This was done lest we should have the misfortune of loosing the company of Cox's vessel as we had done before our ship being the biggest in burthen and having the greatest number of men Captain Peralta admired oftentimes that we were gotten so far to windward in so little space of time whereas they had been he said many times three or four months in reaching to this distance from our departure But their long and tedious Voyages he added were occasioned by their keeping at too great a distance from the shoar Moreover he told us that had we gone unto the Islands of Galapagos as we were once determined to do we had met in that Voyage with many Calms and such Currents that many ships have by them been lost and never heard of to this day This Island of Plate is about two Leagues in length and very full of both deep and dangerous Bays as also such as we call Gully's in these parts The circumference and description of the said Island is exactly thus S â— Fran Drakes Isle or Isla de la Plata Great number of Tortoises and Gâ—ats We caught at this Island and salted good number of Goats and Tortoises One man standing here on a little Bay in one day turned seventeen Tortoises besides which number our Mosquito strikers brought us in several more Captain Sharp our Commander shewed himself very ingenious
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 lâ—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
take in water In the mean while others were employed to catch Goats as they had done the day before On the 28th of the said month in the morning I went with ten more of our company and two Canoas to fetch water from the land Being come thither and having filled our jars we could not get back unto the ship by reason of a Southerly wind that blew from off the Ocean The Author in great danger and hindred our return Thus we were forced to lie still in a water-hole and wait till the wind were over for a safer opportunity Mean while the violence of the wind encreasing our ship was forced to get under sail and make away not without danger of being forced ashoar Hereupon she sailed out of the harbour to seek another place of anchoring At noon I ventured out to try if I could follow the ship but was forced in again by the wind and a raging sea Thus we lay still for some while longer till the evening came on This being come we ventured out again both Canoa's together but the winds were then so high that we were forced to throw all our jarrs of water over-board to lighten our boats otherwise we had inevitably perished I ought to bless and praise God Almighty for this deliverance for in all humane reason the least wave of that tempest must have sunk us Notwithstanding we came that night to our place or harbour where we expected to have found our ship called False wild harbour but found her not Hereupon not knowing what to do we went ashoar and halled up our Canoa's dry Having done this we ascended higher within the Island along a Gulley for the space of half a mile there to clear our selves of the noise and company of the Seals which were very troublesome on the shoar Here we kindled a fire Multitudes of Zeales and dryed our clothes and rested our selves all night though with extream hungry bellies as having eaten very litte or nothing all the day before In the sides of the hill under which we lay we observed many holes like Coney-holes These holes are the nests and roosting-places of multitudes of birds that breed in this Island called by the Spaniards Pardelas One of these birds as we lay drying and warming our selves fell down into our fire Pardelas The next morning being come very early before Sun-rise we went farther to the Northward to seek for our ship which we feared we had lost But we were not gone far when we soon espied her at sea Hereupon we passed a point of land and entered a certain Bay which was about a mile deep and not above half a league over Into this Bay we put and instantly made a fire thereby to shew the ship whereabouts we were Here we found good watering and wooding close unto the shoar In this Bay also we saw another sort of amphibious Animal the which I imagined to be the same that by some Authors is called a Sea-Lyon These Animals are six times bigger than Seals 〈…〉 of â— Sea-Lyon Their heads are like unto that of a Lyon and they have four fins not unlike unto a Tortoise The hinder parts of these Creatures are much like fins but are drawn after them as being useless upon the shoar They roared as if they had been Lyons and were full of a certain short and thick hair which was of a Mouse colour but that of the young ones was something lighter The old ones of these Sea-Lyons are between twelve and fourteen foot long and about eleven or twelve foot in thickness or circumference A Seal is very easily killed as we often experimented but two of our men with great stones could not kill one of these Animals That day in the afternoon there came a Canoa from on board the ship with Provision for us The ship forced to sea twice or tâ—â—ice they fearing least we should be starved In like manner the Lanch came with men to cut wood They told us that the ship came to an Anchor in the other Bay but that within half an hour the Cable broke and they were forced to leave their Anchor behind them and get out to Sea again Night being come we made our beds of Fern whereof there is huge plenty upon this Island together with great multitudes of Trees like unto our English Box the which bore a sort of green Berries smelling like unto Pimiento or Pepper All this day the ship was forced to ply off at Sea not being able to get in December the thirtieth The morning of this day we employed in filling water and cutting down wood But in the afternoon eight of us eleven went aboard the ship all in one and the same Canoa sending her ashoar again with Provisions for the men that were there This day in like manner we could not get into the Harbour for no sooner the ship came within the parts of Land but the wind comeing out of the Bay blew us clear out again Thus we were forced to ply out all that night and great part of the following day On the next day having overcome all difficulties They get the ship in again and many dangers we came to an Anchor in the afternoon in fifteen fathom water at the distance of a Cable length from shoar Here it was observable that we were forced to keep men ashoar on purpose to beat off the Seals mean while our men filled water at the Sea side at high-water mark for as much as that the Seals covet hugely to lye in fresh water About this Island fish is so plentiful that in less then one hours time two men caught enough for all our whole company Saturday January the first 1680. Craw-fish This day we put up a new Main-top larger then the old one and we caught Craw-fish that were bigger than our English Lobsters The next day being January the second dyed a chief man of our company whose name was John Hilliard The death of the Master of the ship This man until our weighing Anchor from the Port of Coquimbo had been our Master all the space of this Voyage But from that time we chose John Cox for the Starboard and John Fall for the Larboard watch The disease whereof he dyed was the Dropsie That evening we buryed our dead Companion and gave him a Volley for his Funeral according to the usual custom On the third of January we had terrible gusts of wind from the shoar every hour A man liveth five years alone This day our Pilot told us that many years ago a certain ship was cast away upon this Island and onely one man saved who lived alone upon the Island five years before any ship came this way to carry him off The Island hath excellent Land in many Valleys belonging thereunto This day likewise we fetched our Anchor which we left in the other Bay when the ship broke her Cable Now dangers of the ship Tuesday
January the fourth 1680. This day we had such terrible flaws of wind that the Cable of our ship brake and we had undoubtedly been on shoar had not the other held us fast At last it came home and we drove outward By the way it caught hold of a Rock and held some time but at last we haled it up and the wind came with so much violence A great storm that the waves slew as high as our Main-top and made all the water of a foam January the fifth the same huge gusts of wind continued all the night last past They 〈◊〉 again which notwithstanding this day at noon it was brave and calme But in the morning the Anchor of our ship gave way again and we drove to the Eastward more than half a mile till at last we hapned to fasten again in the depth of sixty fathom water Here in this Bay where we rid at Anchor did run a violent current sometimes into and at other times out of the Bay so that all was uncertain with us But our greatest discomfort was that our men were all in a mutiny against each other and much divided among themselves The mâ—n begin to mutiny Some of them being for going home towards England or our Forreign Plantations that round about America through the Straights of Magallanes as Captain Sawkins had designed to do others of them being for staying longer and searching farther into those Seas till such time as they had got more Money This day at noon our Anchor drove again whereupon to secure our selves from that dangerous place They remove to another Bay we sailed from thence into the West Bay and anchored there in twenty five fathom water and moored our ship one quarter of a mile from shoar On Thursday January the sixth our dissentions being now grown unto a great heighth The Mutineers make a new Commander the Mutineers made a new Election of another person to be our chief Captain and Commander by vertue whereof they deposed Captain Sharp whom they protested they would obey no longer They chose therefore one of our company whose name was John Watling to command in chief he having been an old Privateer and gained the esteem of being a stout Seaman The election being made all the rest were forced to give their assent unto it and Captain Sharp gave over his command whereupon they immediately made Articles with Watling and signed them The following day being the seventh Cook put iâ— Irons we burnt and tallowed the star-board side of our ship In this Bay where we now anchored we found a Cross cut in the Bark of a Tree and several Letters besides Hereupon in another Tree up the Gulley I engraved the two first Letters of my name with a Cross over them This day likewise William Cook servant unto Captain Edmund Cook confessed that his Master had oft times Buggered him in England leaving his Wife and coming to bed to him the said William That the same crime he had also perpetrated in Jamaica and once in these Seas before Panama Moreover searching his Writings we found a paper with all our names written in it the which it was suspected he designed to have given unto the Spanish prisoners For these reasons this evening our Captain thought it convenient to put him in Irons which was accordingly done The next day unto the above-mentioned in this Paragraph we finished the other side of our ship Sunday January the ninth this day was the first Sunday that ever we kept by command and common consent Sundays ordered to be kept since the loss and death of our valiant Commander Captain Sawkins This generous spirited man threw the dice over board finding them in use on the said day January the Tenth Great plenty of fish this day the weather was very clear and setled again We caught every day in this Bay where we now were great plenty of fish and I saw the same day a shoal of fish a mile and more long On the next day being the eleventh we filled our water and carryed our wood on board the ship Moreover water and wood taken in our two Canoas went to the other side of the Island to catch Goats for on the barren side thereof are found and caught the best and by Land it is impossible to go from one side of the Island to the other They espy three men of war Wednesday January the twelfth this morning our Canoas returned from catching of Goats firing of Guns as they came towards us to give us warning Being come on board they told us they had espied three sail of ships which they conceived to be men of War coming about the Island Within half an hour after this notice given by our Boats the ships came in sight to Leeward of the Island Hereupon we immediately slipt our Cables and put to Sea taking all our men on board that were ashoar at that time Onely one William a Mosquito Indian was then left behind upon the Island because he could not be found at this our suddain departure Upon the Island of Juan Fernandez do grow certain Trees that are called by the name of Bilbytrees 〈◊〉 trees The tops of these trees are excellent Cabbage and of them is made the same use that we do of Cabbage in England Here fish aboundeth in such quantity that on the surface of the water I have taken fish with a bare and naked hook that is to say unbaited Much fish is taken here of the weight of twenty pound the smallest that is taken in the Bay being almost two pound weight Very good Timber for building of Houses and other uses is likewise found upon this Island It is distant from the Main Continent the space of ninety five Leagues or thereabouts being situate in 33 d. 40 South The plats of the Islands lye N.W. and S.E. Being got out of the Bay we stood off to Sea and kept to windward as close as we could The biggest of these Spanish men of War Strength of the men of war for such they proved to be was of the burthen of eight hundred Tuns and was called El Santo Christo being mounted with twelve Guns The second named San Francisco was of the port of six hundred Tuns and had ten guns The third was of the carriage of three hundred and fifty Tuns whose name I have forgot As soon as they saw us they instantly put out their bloody flags and we to shew them that we were not as yet daunted did the same with ours We kept close under the wind and were to confess the truth very unwilling to fight them by reason they kept all in a knot together and we could not single out any one of them or separate him from the rest Especially considering that our present Commander Watling had shewed himself at their appearance to be faint hearted As for the Spaniards themselves they might have easily come unto
come at that instant that we did unto the sea-side our Boats had been gone they being already under sail and we had inevitably perished every man Thus we put off from the shoar and got on board about ten of the clock at night having been involved in a continual and bloody fight with the enemy all that day long CHAP. XVII A description of the Bay of Arica They sail from hence unto the Port of Guasco where they get Provisions A draught of the said Port. They land again at Hilo to revenge the former affronts and took what they could find HAving ended our attempt at Arica the next day They depart from Arica being January the last we plyed to and fro in sight of the Port to see if they would send out the three ships we had seen in the Harbour to fight us For upon them we hoped to revenge the defeat and disappointment we had received at the Town the day before But our expectations in this point also were frustrated for not one of those vessels offered to stir The houses of this Town of Arica are not above eleven foot high as being built of earth An account of Arica and not of brick or timber The Town it self is foursquare in figure and at one corner thereof standeth the Castle which may easily be commanded even with small Arms from the hill which lyeth close unto it This place is the Embarcadero or Port-Town of all the Mineral Towns that lye hereabouts and hence is fetched all the Plate that is carryed to Lima the head-City of Peru. I took the Bay of Arica as it appeared to me thus A description of Arica On Tuesday February the first we had a clear observation and by it we found Lat. 19 d. 06. South They make a sâ—all dividend This day we shared the old remains of our Plate taken in some of our former booties Our shares amounted only unto thirty seven pieces of Eight to each man N. B. Here I would have my Reader to take notice that from this day forwards I kept no constant Diary or Journal as I had done before at least for some considerable space of time as you shall see hereafter my disease and sickness at Sea being the occasion of intermitting what I had never failed to do in all the course of this Voyage till now Only some few Memorandums as my weakness gave leave I now and then committed to paper the which I shall give you as I find them towards a continuance of this History Thus Munday February the 14th this night between eleven add twelve of the clock dyed on board our ship William Cook Captain Cooks man dyeth who was the servant afore-mentioned unto Captain Edmund Cook of whom likewise mention hath been often made in this Journal He desisted not in the least even at his last hour to accuse his Master of Baggering him as before was related Moreover that his Master should say It was no sin to steal from us who thought it none to rob the Spaniards February the 16th 1680. this day we found our selves to be in Lat. 27 d. 30 South We had a constant breeze at S. E. and S. S. E. till we got about two hundred Leagues from land Then at the Eclipse of the Moon we had a a calm for two or three days Several calms and then a breeze at North for the space of two days after which we had a calm again for two or three days more March the first we found Latitude by observation 34 d. 01 South Dirty weather At this time beginneth the dirty weather in these Seas We lay under a pair of courses the wind being at S. E. and E. S. E. with a very great Sea at S. S.E March the third all hands were called up and a Councel held wherein considering it was now dirty weather They resolve to go home over land and late in the year we bore up the Helm and resolved to go unto the Main for water and thence to Leeward and so march over land towards home or at least to the North Sea But God directed us from following this resolution as you shall hear hereafter We being thus determined that day we stood N.E. with a strong wind at S.E. and E.S.E. On March the fifth dyed our Coquimbo Indian The seventh we had a west-wind our course being E. by N. The eighth of the said Month we were put to an allowance Are put to an allowance having only one Cake of bread a day March the tenth we had a strong South-wind They descry laâ—d On March the 12th we fell in with the main land something to Leeward of Coquimbo Within the Island of Paxaros are double lands in whose Valleys are fires for the melting of Copper Furnaces of Copper with which Metal these Hills abound Off to sea-board it is a rocky land and within it is sandy About the distance of eight Leagues to Leeward is a rocky point with several Keys or Rocks about it About one half mile to Leeward of this point turneth in the Port of Guasco Point of Guasco Right against the anchoring are three Rocks close under the shoar Being arrived here we landed on shoar threescore men of our company They land with design to get Provisions and any thing else that we could purchase The people of the Country ran all away as soon as they saw us There was building on shoar in this Port a fire-Barque of sixteen or eighteen Tuns burthen with a Cock-boat belonging unto it And get Provisions We took one Indian Prisoner and with him went up the space of six or seven miles into the Country unto an Indian Town of Threescore or Fourscore houses From thence we came back unto the Church which is distant four miles from the Sea-side and lodged there all night Here are multitudes of good Sheep and Goats in the Countrey adjoyning to this Port and it is watered with an excellent fresh-water River but the getting of water is very difficult the banks being very high or otherwise inaccessible However we made a shift to get in five hundred Jars of water Furthermore we brought away one hundred and twenty Sheep and fourscore Goats with which stock we victualled our vessel for a while As for Oxen they had driven them away farther up into the Countrey An account of Guasco The jurisdiction of Guasco it self is governed by a Teniente or Deputy-Governour and a Fryar and is in subjection unto the City of la Serena above-mentioned as being a dependance thereupon Here groweth both Corn Pease Beans and several other sorts of Grain and for Fruits this place is not inferiour unto Coquimbo Here we found likewise a Mill to grind Corn and about two hundred bushels thereof ready ground the which we conveyed on board our ship Every house of any account hath branches of water running through their yards or courts The Inhabitants had hidden their
the rest of the company and a departure from us Hereupon this day they departed from the ship to the number of forty seven men all in company together Forty seven return home with design to go over land by the same way they came into those Seas The rest who remained behind did fully resolve and faithfully promise to each other they would stick close together They took five slaves in their company to guide and do them other service in that Journey This day we had 1 d. 30 minutes Southern Latitude We sailed N. N. W. before the wind The next day after their departure being April the 18th we began to go to work about taking down one of our upper decks Teâ—y begin to take down the decks thereby to cause our ship still to mend her sailing We now made a N. W. by N. way and had Latitude by observation 25 North the wind being at S. W. On April the 19th we made a N. W. by N. way This day our observation was Lat. 2 d. 45 North. In the afternoon we had cloudy weather The following day likewise we made the same way and by it seventy miles according to my reckoning On the twenty first in the morning we had some small showers of rain and but little wind We saw some Turtle upon the surface of the water and great quantity of fish We caught twenty six small Dolphins By a N. W. by N. way we reckoned this day forty miles April the 22. this day we caught seven large Dolphins Dolphins caught and one Bonito We saw likewise whole multitudes of Turtle swimming upon the water and took five of them We had an observation that gave us Lat. 5 d. 28 North. Hereabouts runneth a great and strong current This day we lowered the quarter deck of our ship and made it even unto the upper deck They save water from the rain that fell The following day we had but small wind and yet great showers of rain Hereupon every man saved water for himself and a great quantity was saved for the whole company In the morning of this day we caught eight Bonitos and in the evening ten more On April the 24th we had both cloudy and rainy weather By an observation we had Lat. 7 d. 37 North. Meridian difference was ninety two Leagues This morning we caught forty Bonitos and in the evening thirty more In the afternoon we stood North the wind being at S. W. by S. Isla del Cano. Munday April the 25th all the night before this day we had huge gusts of wind and rain At break of day we were close in with Land which upon examination proved to be the Island of Cano. To westward thereof is very high land About noon this day it cleared up and we had Lat. 8 d. 34 N. In the evening we sent a Canoa to search the Island In it they found good water and even ground but withal an open road At night we stood off the first watch and the last we had a land wind They anchor â—ere The next day following at day light we stood in and about noon we came to an anchor at the East side of the Island afore-mentioned which is not in breadth above one league over In the afternoon we removed from our former anchoring place and anchored again within shot of the N. E. point of the Island In this place groweth great number of Cacao trees Cacao-trees all over the greatest part of the Isle On the North side thereof are many Rivulets of good water to be found in sandy bays What else they 〈◊〉 We saw moreover some good Hogs on shoar whereof we killed one and two pigs Here are great numbers of Turtle-doves and huge store of fish but withal very shye to be caught To Northward of the Island it looketh thus Isla del Cano. Lat. 8 d. 45 N. April the 27th we had some rain and wind the forepart of the day but the afternoon was fair They depart from the Isle of Cano. The next day in like manner we had great quantity of rain On Saturday the 30th about seven of the clock in the morning we weighed from the aforesaid Island with little wind and stood N. W. That day fell much rain with great thunder and lightning Munday May the 2d This day we observed and found Lat. 9 D. N. The Coast all along appeared to us very high and mountainous and scarce six hours did pass Much thunder and rain but we had thunder lightning and rain The like continued for the two days following wherein we had nothing but almost continual thunder and rain On May the 5th we had an indifferent fair day And that evening we were right off of the Gulf of Nicoya Gulf of Nicoya Friday May the 6th This morning we saw the Cape very plain before us N. by E. from it are certain keys at eight leagues distance close under the Main We steered N. N. W. towards the biggest of them at whose E. S. E. side are two or three small rocks The Main Eastward is fine Savana or plain and even land through which goeth a very great road which is to be seen from off at Sea At noon the Port of Caldero Puerto Caldero commonly called Puerto Caldero bore N. from us At which time the Ebb forced us to sound in the middle of the Gulf where we found fourteen fathom water After this we anchored nearer unto the Eastern keys in the depth of nineteen fathom where we had oosey ground Saturday May the 7th The night before this day was very fair all night long In the morning we went in a Canoa being several in company to seek for a place to lay our ship in Amongst the Islands along the shoar we found many brave holes but little or no water in them which caused us to dislike what we had found On one of the said Islands we hapned to find a hat and many empty jarrs of water which shewed us that some people had been lately there About eight in the evening our ship weighed anchor at young flood and about three after noon we anchored again in six fathom water Sunday May the 8th 1681. The night before this day we had much rain with thunder and lightning The morning being come our Commander Captain Sharp departed from the ship in two Canoas with twenty two men in his company out of design to surprize any vessels or people they could meet hereabouts In the mean while i' th' evening we drove up with the tide there being no wind in the ship They take some prisoners and two barks for the space of two or three leagues higher till that we found but three fathom high water Here we back't a stern At this time we saw one of our Canoas coming off from the Island that was at head of us which was named Chira calling for more men and arms and saying there was two sail of
ships that were seen higher up the Gulf. Hereupon eight of us went away with them ashoar whereof two joyned the party aforementioned and the six remaining were appointed to guard the prisoners they had taken Unto these we shewed our selves very kind as finding that they were very sensible of the cruelties oâ— the Spaniards towards them and their whole Nation Here we found to the number of eight or nine houses and a small Chappel standing These people have been in former times a considerable and great Nation but are now almost destroyed and extinguished by the Spaniards We ascended a creek of the Sea for the space of a league or thereabouts and took there by surprisal two Barks which were the two sail they had told us of before On of these Barks was the same we had taken before at Panama of which I made mention at the beginning of this History On Munday following this day we weighed anchor with our barks and drove down the creek with the tide at ebb towards our ship They learn intelligence and get some Spanish Carpenters The prisoners that we had taken here informed us that when we were to Westward in these Seas before there lay one hundred men at the Port of Santa Maria. That our men who left us at the Island of Cayboa as was mentioned above met the other Bark that we lost at Sea as we were sailing thither and thus all went over land together That in the North Seas near Puerto Velo they had taken a good ship and that for this cause ever since the Spaniards had kept at the mouth of the river of Santa Maria three Armadilla-barks to stop and hinder others from going that way On Munday night our Captain with twenty four men went from the ship into another creek and there took several prisoners among whom was a Shipwright and his men who were judged able to do us good service in the altering of our ship those Carpenters being there actually building two great ships for the Spaniards Having taken these men they made a float of timber to bring down the Tools and Instruments they were working withal Here it hapned that they put several tools and some quantity of iron-work into a Doree to be conveyed down the river with the float But this Doree sank by the way as being over-laden with iron and one of our company A Scotchman drownâ—d by name John Alexander a Scotchman was unfortunately drowned by this means On Thursday following May the 12th we sent a Canoa from the ship and found the Doree that was drowned That evening likewise drove down the body of our drowned man aforementioned Hereupon we took him up He is found and buryed and on Friday morning following threw him over-board giving him three French vollies for his customary Ceremony Both this day and the day before we fetched water from a Point near the houses on the Island of Chira aforementioned From the ship also we sent away a Spanish Merchant A Merchant sent to seek a ransom whom we had taken among the prisoners to fetch a certain number of Beeves that might serve for a ransom of the new bark taken here This day the weather was fair but on Sunday following it rained from morning until night On Munday May the 16th we began to work all hands together on our ship On Tuesday an Indian boy named Peter ran away from us A boy runneth away He belonged unto Captain Sawkins and waited upon him as his Servant On Wednesday died an Indian slave A slave dyeth whose name was Salvador On Thursday we heard thirty or forty guns fired on the Main which caused us to think that these would also turn to Hilo Beeves On Friday we caught cockles which were as large as both our fists At night there fell such dreadful rain with thunder Much thunder and rain lightning and wind that for the space of two hours the air was as light as day the thunder not ceasing all the while On Sunday we continued to work the night before which day we had more thunder lightning and rain Wednesday May the 25th This day we finished our great piece of work They finish their work viz. the taking down the deck of our ship Besides which the length of every mast was shortned and all was now serv'd and rigg'd Insomuch that it would seem incredible unto strangers could they but see how much work we performed in the space of a fortnight or less They set at 〈…〉 The same day likewise we set at liberty our Spanish Carpenters who had been very serviceable to us all this while the old Pilot the old Spaniard taken at the Isle of Yqueque and several others of our Spanish prisoners and slaves Unto these people but chiefly unto the Spanish Carpenters as a reward of their good service we gave the new Bark which we had taken at this place But the old Bark we thought fit to keep They 〈◊〉 men into the other Bark and sail her in our company as we did putting into her for this purpose six of our own men and two slaves The next day we fell down as low as Vanero a place so called hereabouts and would have sailed away again that very evening Vanero but that our tackle gave way in hoisting our anchor whereby we lay still In the Gulf of Nicoya we experimented most commonly a fresh breeze and at night a land wind Friday May the 27th This day likewise we drove down with the tide as low as Cavallo another place so named in the Gulf. Here we stayed and watered that day and here one Cannis Marcy our Interpreter Their Interpreâ— runneth away ran away from us On May the 28th in the morning we sailed from thence and came within twenty nine leagues of that rich and rocky shore Yet notwithstanding we had but seven fathom water Here I saw this day a white Porpus A white Porpus Behind this Island is a Town called New Cape Blanco At Puerto Caldero above-mentioned is but one Store-house to be seen We came to an anchor in the depth of seven fathom water at the distance of a league from shoar and caught five Turtle May the 29th This day we saw Cape Blanco Both this day and the day following we continued turning it out of the Gulf against a South wind Here I took the ensuing demonstration of the Gulf of Nicoya which for the use of the Reader I have hereunto annexed Gulf of Nicoya described CHAP. XIX They depart from the Gulf of Nicoya unto Golfo Dulce where they careen their Vessel An account of their sailings along the Coast. Also a description of Golfo Dulce The Spaniards force the Indians of Darien unto a Peace by a stratagem contrived in the name of the English WEdnesday June the first 1681. They leave the Gulf. This day we had very fair weather and yet withal but little wind Hereupon the Tide
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-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
every day we caught plenty of good fish On Sunday June the 12th the work of Careening our ship going on in due order we came to cleanse our hold A strange accident and here on a suddain both my self and several others were strucken totally blind with the filth and nastiness of the said place Yet soon after we recovered our sight again without any other help than the benefit of the fresh and open air which dissipated those malignant vapours that oppressed our eyes On June the 14th we had a great and fierce Tornado with which our Cable broke A great danger and had it not then hapned to be high water at that instant we had been lost inevitably However we had the good fortune to shoar her up again and by that means secure our selves from farther danger On June the 21. we weighed anchor again and went a league higher than the former place Here we watered and in the mean while left men below to cut wood Two Negroes make their escape Thursday June the 23. this day ran away from us two Negroes the name of one of them was Hernando who was taken with Don Thomas de Argandona upon the Coast of Guayaquil as was mentioned above The other was named Silvestre being taken at the Town of Hilo Following the example of these afore-mentioned on Munday June the 27th that is four days after two more of our prisoners endeavoured to make their escape both of them slaves One of these was named Francisco who was a Negro and had been taken in the Cacao-ship mentioned before The name of the other was also Francisco and he was an Indian born Others endeavour it but are taken who was taken before Panama Their attempts to escape succeeded not for we caught them both again before they got on shoar On Tuesday following I went to sail up and down the Gulf in the little Bark belonging to our ship and having viewed all places took this description of Golfo Dulce here inserted Our Captain gave this Gulf the name of King CHARLES his Harbour Adescription of Golfo Dulce CHAP. XX. They depart from Golfo Dulce to go and cruise under the Aequinoctial Here they take a rich Spanish vessel with 37000 Pieces of Eight besides Plate and other Goods They take also a Pacquet-boat bound from Panama to Lima. An account of their Sailings and the Coasts along OUr vessel being now careened and all things in a readiness for our departure They resolve to go and cruise on Tuesday June the 28th in the afternoon we weighed anchor to go to Sea again turning out towards the mouth of Golfo Dulce Our design was to cruise under the Aequinoctial as had been concluded upon before thereby to get what purchase we could by Sea seeing the greatest part of our attempts upon land had proved hitherto very unsuccessful unto us Wednesday June the 29th both the night last past and this day we had rainy weather About three in the afternoon a fresh gale sprang up at S. W. and S.S.W. our course being S. E. and S. E. by S. At five this evening the Gulf bore N. W. by W. being seven leagues distant and Punta Borrica three leagues and an half distant The bark out-saileth the ship Thursday June the 30th all night past we enjoyed a fresh gale at S.S.W. We sailed in the Barque where I was better than the man of war for so we called the Trinity vessel notwithstanding that she was newly cleansed and tallowed This day we had hasey weather and I reckoned my self from Punta Borrica S.S.E. eighteen leagues and an half Tornados July the first 1681 last night we had two or three Tornados I reckoned this day a S.S.E. way and by a clear observation found Lat. 6 d. 10. North. We saw great quantities of fish as we sailed this day July the second we made a S. East way and our reckoning was 64 by it By observation I found Lat. 5 d. 20. North. At noon the same day we had a fresh gale at S.W. with some rain July the third we had hasey weather We made a S.E. by S. way and 37. Munday July the fourth the night past was windy with rain which forced us to hand our top-sails Our reckoning this day was a S. E. way and an hundred miles July the fifth we had a clear night the last past and withal a fresh gale By this we made a S.E. way Our Latitude this day gave us 2 d. 20. North. This morning we saw Land Southward of us lying in low hammocks It was the Point so called of Manglares Wednesday July the 6th we turned up along shoar and by observation took this day Lat. 2 d. 02 N. Hereabouts every new Moon is experimented a windward current In the evening of this day we were close in with low land We had windy weather and a great Sea Thursday July the seventh this day by observation taken we found Lat. 01 d. 48. North. In the evening of the said day we lost sight of the said ship The next day being July the eighth we saw the ship again whose loss began to create some concern in our minds This day we made very high land all along as we went And the Port or rather Bay of San Mateo or St. Matthews appeared unto us like several Islands Saturday July the ninth this morning we stood fair in with the Port of Tucames Off of the highest part of the land seemeth to lye a Key At the North East point of the Port it appeareth exactly thus Puerto de Tucames This day at noon we had a clear observation which gave us Lat. 01 d 22 North. Sunday July the tenth last night past we stood off to Sea thereby to keep clear of the shoar This days observation shewed us Lat. 01 d. 31. North. About noon the same day we hapned to espy a Sail They espy a Sail. unto which immediately we gave chace We bore up one point of the Compass thereby to hinder her lasking away but notwithstanding in the evening lost sight of her again However our great ship got up with her and about eight of the clock at night made her a Prize She proved to be the same ship named San Pedro which we had taken the last year being then bound from Truxillo to Panama and laden with Wine Gunpowder and pieces of Eight whereof mention was made in its due place Thus this same bottom became doubly fortunate unto us being twice taken by us in the space of fourteen Months For she had on board her now twenty one thousand pieces of Eight in eight Chests and in bags sixteen thousand more besides Plate Munday and Tuesday the 11th and 12th of the said Month we made in for the shoar Our Prize was so deeply laden that she seemed clearly to be buryed in the water She had forty men on board her besides some Merchants â—nd Fryars On Tuesday an observation gave us Lat.
leagues distance Isle of Martnica Also the Island of Martinica bore N. W. by W. of us at twelve or thirteen leagues distance We had this day a very clear evening Sunday January the 29th We had a clear night and a fresh wind at E. by N. and E.N.E. Our reckoning was a N. N. W. half W. way and hereby forty six leagues By observation we took Lat. 15 D. 46 N. At noon this day we saw the Island named la Desseada la Desseada or the Desired Iland which then bore N. W. from us and seemed to be at eight leagues distance more or less At six of the clock in the evening we saw likewise Marigalanta Marigalanta another of the Cariby Islands at S. W. by W. from us and that of Guadalupe streaking it self in several hammocks of land Guadalupe both Westward and Northward as also la Desseada above-mentioned at S. E. which from thence showeth like table-land and at each end hath a low point running out At six this evening it was W. S. W. and at five or six leagues distance from us At the same time we saw the Island of Monserrate at a great distance from our ship Monserrate and making three round hammocks close together This evening likewise we caught an Albicore of twenty pound weight Munday January the 30th We had a fair night all the last past and a fresh wind Hereupon all night we halled up our main-sail in brails standing at the same time N. by W. with thâ— wind at E. N. E. At midnight we stood N. W. At three in the morning we lay by until five Then we stood away W. N. W. until six and at that hour we stood W. At eight of the clock we saw the Island of la Antigua 〈◊〉 Antigua called by us Antego to the Southward of us making three round hammocks of land and a long high hill to Northwâ—â—d Hereupon we stood W. S. W. for it At noon we foâ—nd Lat. 17 D. N. the Island being then just W. from us We came about to thâ— S. of the Island and sent a Canoa on shore for to get Tobacco and other necessaries that we wanted as also to ask leave of the Governour to come into the Port. The Gentry of the place and common people were very willing and desirous to receive us But on Wednesday February the first the Governour flatly denyed us entry at which all the Gentry were much greived and shewed themselves very kind unto us Hereupon we agreed among our selves They give away the ship to give away and leave the ship unto them of our company who had no money left them of all their purchase in this Voyage having lost it all at play And disperse and then to divide our selves into two Ships which were now bound for England Thus I my self and thirteen more of our company went on board Captain Robert Porteen his ship called the Lisbon Merchant and set sail from la Antigua on February the eleventh and landed at Dartmouth in England March the 26th Anno 1682. FINIS THE TABLE To the Second Volum OF THE BUCANIERS A. ALbicores a sort of fish so called by the Spaniards 47 203. An huge one taken 204. Another taken of one hundred and thirty five pound weight ibid. Alexander John one of the Bucaniers and a Scotchman drowned at the Gulf of Nicoya 145 Captain Alleston a Commmander among the Bucaniers his Forces p. 2. He is left to guard the ships 4 Captain Alonso a Spanish Officer killed by the Bucaniers 164 Ahorcados two rocks so called nigh the Island of Solango 167 Anchova's huge shoals of them 103 Captain Andraeas a chief Commander among the Indians he conducteth the Bucaniers to the Golden Island 3. He embarketh with them for Santa Maria 8. He returneth home with the King of Darien from Panama 35 Captain Antonio a man of great parts and a chief Commander among the Indians of Darien 5. He joyneth the Bucaniers and perswadeth them to undertake the Journey of Santa Maria ibid. He returneth home from before Panama 35 Antigua alias Antego one of the Caribe Islands 212. It s Governour denieth entry to the Bucaniers ibid. Argandona Don Tomas Commander of a Spanish Vessel taken before Guayaquil 81. He is set at liberty 109 Arequipa an English Gentleman inhabitant thereof and married there fought the Bucaniers at Hilo 143 Arica designed upon by the Bucaniers 53. Being arrived there they dare not to land 93. is designed upon the second time 126. its Governour is Proprietor of Yqueque 129. The Town assaulted and taken but the Fort standeth out 130 c. A description of its Coast and scituation 136. Some account of the place 135 Alligators their bigness and nature 43 Armadilla of Panama destroyed by the Bucaniers 27. Description of that bloudy fight ibid. c. Three Armadilla-barks sent to keep the mouth of the River of Santa Maria for fear of the Bucaniers 145 Captain Assientos his brother killed by the Bucaniers 164 B. Don Baltazar a Gentleman of Quality taken in a Vessel before Guayaquil 82. He is set at liberty 109 Barahona Don Jacinto Admiral of the Armadilla of Panama 28. He is killed in the engagement 30 Barbadas Island descryed by the Bucaniers being the first land they saw 209 Barbacoa a part of the Continent of America in the South Sea 49 Barcos de la Armadilla 27. Two of them taken by the Bucaniers ibid. c. Barco de aviso or a Packet-boat taken by the Bucaniers 161 Bark-logs 70. Their use 78 Beafero or rather Viviero a Negrâ—-boy whose leg was cut off at Sea dyeth 199 Boca del Toro the place of the general rendezvous of the Bucaniers 1 Bonitos a sort of fish so called 47. many caught 141 142 seen 203. Booby a bird so called seen at Sea being a token of land nigh at hand 208 Captain Bournano a French Commander his forces his attempts on a place called Chepo he tampereth with the Indians of Darien 2. He leaveth the Bucaniers and why 3 Bucaniers they land on Darien being in all three hundred and thirty one men their march towards Santa Maria 4. Their Arms and provisions ibid. Four of their number tire and return to the ships 5. Difficulties of this march ibid. c. They are jealous of the Indians yet without cause 9. They take the Town and Fort of Santa Maria 10. They find little purchase there the Gold being conveyed away ibid. They resolve to go for Panama 12. Are deserted by the Indians excepting the chief Commanders of them Are encouraged by a Spaniard who promiseth to guide them safely ibid. They take two Barks by the way 24. Item several prisoners whom they kill in cold blood as also a Peragua at Chepillo 25 26. They engage the Armadilla of Panama and destroy it by a fierce and bloody fight 27 c. They block up Panama by Sea and take several Vessels before the Town 31. They go
to the Isle of Tavoga where they take other prizes 36. Thence to Otoque and Cayboa 38 39. They are repulsed from Puebla Nueba 41. They take here one Vessel and destroy two more 42. Are deserted by many of their company 43. They careen at Gorgona and alter their Vessel 49 c. They lose a ship of their company and find her again 55 62. They design to plunder Arica 54. Eight of their company lost at the Isle of Gallo 75. They take a prize off of Guayaquil 72. Their cruelty towards a Spanish Fryer 75. They arrive at Arica but dare not land 92. Hence they bare away for Hilo take the place plunder and destroy a Sugar-work are cheated by the Spaniards and at last forced to retire with little or no pillage c. They arrive at Coquimbo take the City of la Serena plunder it and are forced again to retire without any considerable purchase 104 c. Multitudes of dangers they were in at the Isle of Juan Fernandez 116 c. They mutiny among themselves and choose a new Commander 120. They out-brave three Spanish men of war and give them the go-by 122. Their cruelty towards an old man at Yqueque 128. They attempt Arica the second time 126. Are beaten out of the Town yet make a bold retreat 132 c. They resolve to go home over-land 137. They land at Guasco 139. They surprize Hilo the second time 142. They mutiny again among themselves 140. They go to the Gulf of Nicoya where they take down the decks of their ship and hereby mend its sayling 140 c. Forty seven of their Companions leave them and go home over-land 141. They take some prisoners and two Barks at the Gulf of Nicoya 144. They careen at Golfo Dulce and resolve to go and cruize under the Aequinoctial 150 156. They take there several prizes 158 c. especially one very rich 162. They are in danger of being massacred by their own slaves 165. They attempt the surprizal of Paita but in vain 168 c. They stand away for the Streights of Magallanes 170. They arrive at a place incognito which they call the Duke of Yorks Islands and are in great danger of being lost at their arrival 178. They run many other dangers in the said place by stress of weather ibid. c. Some of them resolve to shoot Captain Sharp on Christmas-day 198. They arrive at Barbadas but dare not put in there for fear of the Richmond-Frigat 209. They bare away for Antego and arrive at the said Island 212. They give away their ship to the poorest of their company and disperse for several places 212. Some of them arrive in England ibid. Mr. Bull one of the Bucaniers killed 25 Mr. Bullock one of the Bucaniers and a Surgeon made prisoner at Arica and detained there by the Spaniards 163 C. Cabbage-trees 122 Cacao-nut whereof Chocolate is made the best sort 71. Cacao-trees in great plenty at the Isle of Cano 142 Caldero a Port of this name in the Gulf of Nicoya 143 Calms very great and where 68 Camarones a river of this name nigh Yqueque 130 Cammock William one of the Bucaniers dyeth 113 Cannis a Dutchman Interpreter to the Bucaniers 95. He runneth away to the Enemy 147 Canoas none about Guayaquil 70 Cano an Island of this name its latitude and appearance at Sea 143. Some account thereof 142 Cape of San Francisco 58 160 Cape Passao 51 161 164 Cape St. Lawrence 61 Cape Blanco 77 149. New Cape Blanco a place so called 147 Carabaxal Don Diego one of the Commanders of the Spanish Armadilla 28. He escapeth from the fight 29 Carpenters Spanish do the Bucaniers good service at the Gulf of Nicoya and are rewarded by them 146 Cavallo a place so called in the Gulf of Nicoya 145 Cayboa an Island famous for the fishery of Pearl 39. its scituation ibid. Some account thereof 43 Chandy or Chanduy a Point so called 71 167 Chappel James one of the Bucaniers with whom the Author fought a Duel at the Isle of Plate 165 Santa Clara a place so named where a rich Vessel was cast away 167 Chepillo an Island nigh Panama where the Bucaniers meet 25. They take there several prisoners and a Peragua 25 26 Chira an Island of this name in the Gulf of Nicoya 144 146 Chocolate much used by the Bucaniers 100 Christmas-day solemnized by the Bucaniers 116 202 Don Christoval a person of Quality taken before Guayaquil 82. He is set at liberty 109 Comet one seen and observed with what followed 101 Coasts very deep 55 Colan a Town of this name its description 170 171 Cold in extremity whereabouts the Bucaniers experimented it 193 Cockles as large as two fists 146. like unto those in England 192 Captain Cook a Commander among the Bucaniers his Forces 2. What party he led at their first landing 4. He is put into a Vessel taken at Puebla Nueba but soon quitteth that Command 44. is put into irons and wherefore 121 Cook William servant unto Captain Cook dieth 137. He accuseth his Master of several Crimes ibid. Copper-furnaces and Mines 138 Coquimbo-Bay 103. its description and topography 111 Coves or Cuevas what they are 2 Cox Captain John one of the Bucaniers is put into a Vessel taken at Puebla Nueba 44. His Vessel is sunk by order 76. He is sent to parly with the Enemy at Hilo 95 Cox's River 188 Captain Coxon setteth forth towards Darien 1. His forces 2. What party he led at the first landing 4. He is chosen to be chief Commander of the Bucaniers 12. He engageth a Spanish Bark but misseth of his design 25. is branded with cowardize 35. He mutineth and returneth home with many more over-land ibid. D. Darien a Province of America whose Indian King meeteth the Bucaniers his habit and attire as also the of Queen 6 7. The women free airy and brisk ibid. The Indians of this Country can tell no farther than twenty 8. They wage almost continual Wars against the Spaniards 2. Whereabouts is the place of their general rendezvous in the said Wars 9. The Kings Daughter redeemed by the English at Santa Maria 12. Cruelty of the Indians against the Spaniards ibid. They desert the Bucaniers ibid. Are forced to a Peace with the Spaniards by a Stratagem contrived in the Name of the English 153 Drake Sir Francis some memoires of him 63. He divided the Plate by whole bowls unto his Company and threw much over-board idid He built a Church at the River Loa in the South Sea 142 Desseada one of the caribe-Caribe-Islands 211 Dog one sold by the Bucaniers at the mast for forty pieces of eight 210 Dolphins caught 141. Seen at Sea with hopes of land 200 203 Duke of Yorks Islands so called by the Bucaniers an account of them as far as they were searched 178. c. Their draught 186 E. Earthquake which hapned at the City of la Serena while the Bucaniers were there 108 Eclipse of the
Sun observed 84. What followed ibid. Embargo laid on all Spanish Vessels in the South Sea for fear of the Bucaniers 76. it is taken off 129 Enchanted Island 205 English Gulf a place so named by the Bucaniers its draught 188 F. Farol or Farollon de Glantanos an Island so called nigh Panama 24. The Bucaniers arrive there and seize the watchman of the Isle ibid. Fowls very great seen at Sea and where 102. seen again 114. A strange Sea-fowl like an Eagle 180 Francisco a Negro attempteth to make his escape 154. He is detained prisoner for this attempt 159 Francisco an Indian attempteth the same ibid. Francisco a Biscayner and a Pilot of the South Sea 163 G. Galapagos an Island of the South Sea where the Bucaniers designed to careen 48. Great currents and calms thereabouts 64 Gallo an Island nigh Gorgona its latitude and appearance at Sea 56 Grampusses 53 61 199 Guayaquil designed upon by Sawkins also by Captain Sharp 45. They change this resolution 53. An account of the said place 71 Goat-key a place so called 74 Goats in huge quantity at the Isle of Juan Fernandez 116 Gold whereabouts gathered in great quantity 11 50 53 127 Golden Island whereabouts scituated the Bucaniers meet at the said place 4 Golfo Dulce a draught thereof 155. it is named King Charles his Harbour by Captain Sharp 154 Gorgona Island its latitude scituation appearance at Sea and description 50 51 c. it s continual rains 49 Gorgonilla another Island 56 Gulf of San Miguel 4 15 16. its smoothness of water 18 Gulf of Ballona 14. its description 20. How it lieth in relation to the Bay of Panama 40 Gulf of Nicoya its description 148. The Bucaniers arrive there and search it 143. They take there some prisoners and two barks 144 Gulf of the English or English Gulf its draught and description 188 Guadalupe one of the Caribe-Islands its appearance at Sea 211 Guasco its Point 138. An account of this place 139. Description of its Port 144 Guyones a Cape so named its latitude and appearance at Sea 150 H. Captain Harris a chief Commander among the Bucaniers 2. What party he led at their first landing upon Darien 4. He taketh a Spanish Bark 25. is killed in the engagement before Panama 32 Hilo its Port and Point 94 91 92. The Town taken 94. The Sugar-work burnt 97. The inhabitants force the Bucaniers to retreat ibid. What they got there 98. The place surprized and taken again 142 Hernando a Negro of this name runneth away from the Bucaniers 154 Houses of Darien how they are built even neater than those at Jamaica 6 I. Juan Fernandez an Island of this name its appearance at Sea description and some account thereof 115 c. A particular observation made there by the Author and others ibid Juan Diaz a River so called nigh Arica 136 Captain Juan a Spanish Commander promiseth to conduct the Bucaniers to Guayaquil 45. He is set at liberty 109 Joseph Gabriel a Spaniard dieth 53. He promiseth to deliver Panama into the hands of the Bucaniers ibid. Islands of Ice 192 Island enchanted 205 K. King of Darien goeth with the Bucaniers to take Panama 13. He promiseth 50000 men to assist the English ibid. He returneth home from Panama 35 King Golden-cap Son unto the King of Darien 13. He goeth with the Bucaniers on the expedition of Panama ibid. He remaineth behind after his Father was returned home 35 King Charle's his Harbour 154 King Charles the first of England assisted by the Merchants of Lima 63 L. Land of San Tiago 57 Land of San Matteo 57 Land-fowls 88. seen at Sea yet no land 193 194 Land seen but not found about the Latitude of 57 D. South 191 Leaves of a certain nature eaten by the Inhabitants of Yqueque 128 Lapina the Embarcadero of Guayaquil 71 Lima its Merchants send a ship laden with Plate unto the King of England 63. its Table used by the Author 101. Whereabouts the ship was lost 167 Limpets in strange quantities at the Duke of Yorks Islands 180 c. Limpet point 188 Loa a River so called 142. The Bucaniers could not find it ibid. A Church built there by Sir Francis Drake ibid. Lobos an Island so called or the Isle of Seals 140 169 Lopez Don Diego Commander of el Santo Rosario being a rich prize taken under the Aequinoctial 163. is killed in the fight ibid. Santa Lucia an Isle of this name being one of the Western Islands 210 Lyons adore the Cross at Tumbez 76 Lyon of the Sea or a Sea-Lyon its description and where seen by the Author 110 M. Captain Mackett a Commander among the Bucaniers his forces 2. He is left to guard the ships 4 Magallan-Clouds very famous among the Bucaniers 85 Man-of-war-fowl a Sea-fowl so called in the West-India's 207 Manta a Port and Town so called 60 61 165 Manzanilla-tree the effects of the drops falling from off the leaves 44. One of the Bucaniers poysoned therewith 206 Santa Maria a Town so called with a Garrison is designed upon by the Bucaniers its scituation 4. is taken and burnt 10 14 Santa Martha a Spanish Town taken by Captain Sawkins 38. The Bishop thereof made Bishop of Panama Marigalanta one of the caribe-Caribe-Islands 211 martinica-Martinica-Island another of the Western Isles ibid. San Matteo its Bay 158. Land of San Matteo 57 Mero a Point of land of this name 168 Mexillones a Bay so called 142 Mines of Silver very rich 127 San Miguel the Gulf. ibid. Miscelaw how it is prepared 7 8 Monte de Christo its latitude and appearance at Sea 61 Montgomery Robert one of the Bucaniers dieth 82 Monserrate one of the Caribe-Islands its appearance at Sea 211 Mora de Sama 91 92 Moro de Horse its appearance at Sea 141 Morro Moreno its appearance at Sea ibid. Mulato-boy one given by the Bucaniers unto Captain Sharp for to wait on him 210 Mules flesh eaten by the Bucaniers at Hilo 99 Mussels in great quantities found at the Duke of Torks Islands 180. Huge ones 183. Those Indians open them more readily with their fingers than we with knives ibid. Mussel Point 188 N. Negro's two of them make their escape 154. More attempt it but are taken ibid. Negro a Shoomaker to the Bucaniers set at liberty for his good service 210 Needle its variation observed by the Author at several places and times 189 192 194 198 200 203 206 Nicoya the Gulf. Night whereabouts the Bucaniers found none 192 Noddy a bird of this name seen at Sea with hopes of seeing land 209 O. Observation made by the Author concerning the Navigation about the latitude of 52 D. S. where the Needle varieth very much 194 Orson a name so given to an Indian boy taken in the English Gulf 185 Oisters very large and great at Cayboa 44 Otoque an Island of the Bay of Panama 38 40 P. Paita 77 78. The Bucaniers design upon the said place 168. Description of its Bay and scituation 191