[1] _Lebreles de pressa._
[2] The name _Saint Domingo_ was afterwards applied to the whole Island by
the French, who, whilst they contested the possession with the Spaniards,
were desirous to supersede the use of the name _Espanola_ or _Hispaniola_.
[3] _Historia General de las Indias_, por _Gonc. Hernandez de Oviedo_,
lib. 19. cap. 13. Also _Hakluyt_, vol. iii. p. 499, edit. 1600.
[4] _Camden's Elizabeth_, A. D. 1680.
[5] _Hist. des Antilles, par P. du Tertre._ Paris, 1667. Tome I. p. 415.
[6] _La Rochefort, sur le Repas des Carribes._
[7] _History of Brasil, by Robert Southey_, p. 17.
[8] In some of the English accounts the name is written _Bucanier_; but
uniformity in spelling was not much attended to at that time. Dampier
wrote _Buccaneer_, which agrees with the present manner of pronouncing the
word, and is to be esteemed the best authority.
[9] The French account says, that after taking possession of _Tortuga_,
the Adventurers divided into three classes: that those who occupied
themselves in the chase, took the name of Boucaniers; those who went on
cruises, the name of Flibustiers; and a third class, who cultivated the
soil, called themselves _Habitans_ (Inhabitants.) See _Histoire des
Avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes. Par. Alex. Ol. Oexmelin_.
Paris 1688, vol. i. p. 22.
[10] The Governor or Admiral, who granted the commission, claimed one tenth
of all prizes made under its authority.
[11] It is proper to mention, that an erroneously printed date, in the
English edition of the _Buccaneers of America_, occasioned a mistake to be
made in the account given of Narbrough's Voyage, respecting the time the
Buccaneers kept possession of _Panama_. See Vol. III. of _Voyages and
Discoveries in the South Sea_, p. 374.
[12] _Theatro Naval Hydrographico._ Cap. xi. See also of Peche, in Vol.
III. of _South Sea Voyages and Discoveries_, p. 392.
[13] _Not. de las Exp. Magal._ p. 268, of _Ult. Viage al Estrecho_.
[14] _Buccaneers of America_, Part III. Ch. xi.
[15] 'They never forfeit their word. The King has his commission from the
Governor of _Jamaica_, and at every new Governor's arrival, they come over
to know his pleasure. The King of the Mosquitos was received by his Grace
the Duke of Portland (Governor of _Jamaica_, A. D. 1722-3) with that
courtesy which was natural to him, and with more ceremony than seemed to
be due to a Monarch who held his sovereignty by commission.'--'The
Mosquito Indians had a victory over the Spanish Indians about 30 years
ago, and cut off a number; but gave a Negro who was with them, his life
purely on account of his speaking English.' _History of Jamaica._ London
1774. Book i. Ch, 12. And _British Empire in America_, Vol. II. pp. 367 &
371.
[16] _Case of His Majesty's Subjects upon the Mosquito Shore, most humbly
submitted_, &c. London, 1789.
[17] _Narrative by Basil Ringrose_, p. 5.
[18] _De Rochfort_ describes this animal under the name _Javaris_. _Hist.
Nat. des Isles Antilles_, p. 138, edit. 1665. It is also described by
_Pennant_, in his _Synopsis of Quadrupeds_, Art. _Mexican Wild Hog_.
[19] _Ringrose._ _Buccaneers of America_, Part IV. p. 10. The early
morning drum has, in our time, been called the _Reveiller_. Either that or
_a travailler_ seems applicable; for according to _Boyer_, _travailler_
signifies to trouble, or disturb, as well as to work; and it is probable,
from the age of the authority above cited, that the original term was _a
travailler_.
[20] _Narrative by Basil Ringrose_, p. 3.
[21] _Ringrose_, p. 11.
[22] _Ringrose_, Chap. ix.
[23] No. 48 in the same collection is a manuscript copy of Ringrose's
Journal, but varied in the same manner from the Original as the printed
Narrative.
[24] _Ringrose_, p. 44.
[25] _Ringrose_ and _Sharp_.
[26] _Sharp's Journal_, p. 72.
[27] _Buccaneers of America_, Part III, p. 80.
[28] Nos. 239. and 44. in the _Sloane Collection of Manuscripts_ in the
_British Museum_, are probably the charts and translation spoken of above.
No. 239. is a book of Spanish charts of the sea-coast of _New Spain_,
_Peru_, and _Chili_, each chart containing a small portion of coast, on
which is drawn a rude likeness of the appearance of the land, making it at
the same time both landscape and chart. They are generally without
compass, latitude, or divisions of any kind by lines, and with no
appearance of correctness, but apparently with knowledge of the
coast.--No. 44. is a copy of the same, or of similar Spanish charts of the
same coast, and is dedicated to King Charles II. by Bartholomew Sharp.
[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 deg. 50' 41'' N, and
longitude 100 deg. 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 deg. 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 etoit a la verite un peu violent, mais c'etoit l'unique
pour mettre les Espagnols a la raison.'_
[88] _Theatro Naval._ fol. 61, 1.
[89] _Relation du Voyage de M. de Gennes_, p. 106. Paris, 1698.
[90] Pere 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.
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been moved, separated or merged. Some repetitive sidenotes have been
deleted. The following changes were made in the transcription of this
work:
to settle what constitues[constitutes] occupancy.
recommended to King Ferdinand to recal[recall] Ovando.
Pere[Pere] Labat describes
first cruisers againt[against] the Spaniards were English
['Camoes de Gama': Macron on e in Camoes is now omitted.]
Vattel has decribed[described] this case.
during a time of peace betwen[between]
apppearance[appearance] of the land
and was no[not] otherwise clad than
the rest of his sqadron[squadron]
The fruit is like the sea chesnut[chestnut]
The same kind of maoeuvring[manoeuvring]
of the _S[ta] Maria de l'Aguada_
and it was in[an] honour due from him
who granted the commisson[commission]
at _Saint Christopher_. [']He made an Automaton
by means of a dissolvent,[']--_P. Labat_,
[oe ligatures: ligature now omitted.]
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