History of the Buccaneers of America

29

Sharp's Manuscript Journal. Brit. Mus.

30

Morgan continued in office at Jamaica during the remainder of the reign of King Charles the IId.; but was suspected by the Spaniards of connivance with the Buccaneers, and in the next reign, the Court of Spain had influence to procure his being sent home prisoner from the West Indies. He was kept three years in prison; but without charge being brought forward against him.

31

British Empire in America, Vol. II. p. 319.

32

Dampier, Vol. I, p. 73.

33

In the Sloane Collection, Brit. Mus.

34

Cowley's MS. Journal. Sloane Collection, No. 54.

35

See also Pernety's Journal, p. 179, English translation.

36

Dampier's Manuscript Journal, No. 3236, Sloane Collection, British Museum.

37

The writer of Commodore Anson's Voyage informs us that Juan Fernandez resided some time on the Island, and afterwards abandoned it.

38

Dampier's Voyages, Vol. I, Chap. 5.

39

The latter part of the above extract is from Cowley's Manuscript. – Captain Colnet when at the Galapagos made a similar remark. He says, 'I was perplexed to form a conjecture how the small birds which appeared to remain in one spot, supported themselves without water; but some of our men informed me that as they were reposing beneath a prickly pear-tree, they observed an old bird in the act of supplying three young ones with drink, by squeezing the berry of a tree into their mouths. It was about the size of a pea, and contained a watery juice of an acid and not unpleasant taste. The bark of the tree yields moisture, and being eaten allays the thirst. The land tortoise gnaw and suck it. The leaf of this tree is like that of the bay-tree, the fruit grows like cherries; the juice of the bark dies the flesh of a deep purple.' Colnet's Voyage to the South Sea, p. 53.

40

Dampier, Vol. I, p. 112.

41

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 5. This description does not agree with the Spanish Charts; but no complete regular survey appears yet to have been made of the Coast of New Spain.

42

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 5.

43

Ibid.

44

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 6.

45

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 6. To search for this wreck with a view to recover the treasure in her, was one of the objects of an expedition from England to the South Sea, which was made a few years subsequent to this Buccaneer expedition.

46

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 6.

47

Manuscript Journal in the Sloane Collection.

48

See Cowley's Voyage, p. 34. Also, Vol. III. of South Sea Discoveries, p. 305.

49

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 6.

50

Dampier.

51

Wafer's Voyages, p. 196.

52

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 7.

53

Journal du Voyage au Mer du Sud, par Rav. de Lussan, p. 25.

54

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 8.

55

Dampier.

56

Voyage and Description, &c. by Lionel Wafer, p. 191, and seq. London, 1699.

57

Dampier. Manuscript Journal.

58

Wafer's Voyages, p. 208.

59

Colnet's Voyage to the Pacific, pp. 156-7.

60

Journal of a Cruize to the Pacific Ocean, by Captain David Porter, in the years 1812-13 & 1814.

61

Cruising Voyage round the World, by Captain Woodes Rogers, in the years 1708 to 1711, pp. 211 and 265, 2d edition. London, 1718.

62

Wafer's Voyages, p. 214 & seq.

63

Dampier, Vol. I. Chap. 13, p. 352.

64

Wafer's Voyages, p. 220.

65

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 8.

66

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 9.

67

Late Observations place Acapulco in latitude 16° 50′ 41″ N, and longitude 100° 0′ West of Greenwich.

68

Dampier.

69

See Chart in Spilbergen's Voyage.

70

Dampier's Manuscript Journal.

71

Dampier, Vol. I, p. 257.

72

In some old manuscript Spanish Charts, the Chametly Isles are laid down SE-1⁄2S about 12 leagues distant from Cape Corrientes.

73

According to Captain Vancouver, Point Ponteque and Cape Corrientes are nearly North and South of each other. Dampier was nearest in-shore.

74

The Manuscript says, the farthest of the Chametlan Isles from the main-land is not more than four miles distant.

75

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 9.

76

Manuscript Journal.

77

Dampier's Reckoning made the difference of longitude between Cape Corrientes and the Island Guahan, 125 degrees; which is 16 degrees more than it has been found by modern observations.

78

Dampier. Manuscript Journal, and Vol. I, Chap. 10. of his printed Voyages.

79

The Ladrone flying proa described in Commodore Anson's voyage, sailed with the belly or rounded side and its small canoe to windward; by which it appears that these proas were occasionally managed either way, probably according to the strength of the wind; the little parallel boat or canoe preserving the large one upright by its weight when to windward, and by its buoyancy when to leeward.

80

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 11.

81

Dampier, Vol. I, Chap. 14. The long Island is named Basseelan in the charts; but the shape there given it does not agree well with Dampier's description.

82

M. de Surville in 1769, and much more lately Captain A. Murray of the English E. I. Company's Service, found the South end of Monmouth Island to be in 20° 17′ N.

83

Manuscript Journal.

84

In the printed Voyage, the shoal is mistakenly said to lie SbW from the East end of Timor. The Manuscript Journal, and the track of the ship as marked in the charts to the 1st volume of Dampier's Voyages, agree in making the place of the shoal SbW from the West end of Timor; whence they had last taken their departure, and from which their reckoning was kept.

85

A Voyage by Edward Cooke, Vol. I, p. 371. London, 1712.

86

Raveneau de Lussan, p. 117.

87

'Ce moyen êtoit a la verité un peu violent, mais c'etoit l'unique pour mettre les Espagnols à la raison.'

88

Theatro Naval. fol. 61, 1.

89

Relation du Voyage de M. de Gennes, p. 106. Paris, 1698.

90

Père Labat relates a story of a ridiculous effort in mechanical ingenuity, in which M. de Gennes succeeded whilst he was Governor at Saint Christopher. 'He made an Automaton in the likeness of a soldier, which marched and performed sundry actions. It was jocosely said that M. de Gennes might have defended his government with troops of his own making. His automaton soldier eat victuals placed before it, which he digested, by means of a dissolvent,' —P. Labat, Vol. V. p. 349.

91

See p. 207, near the bottom.