A Cruising Voyage Around the World
Part 39
Bread, inventory of, 195, 211
Bread Fruit, 268
Bridge, John, 5, 9, 17, 118, 159, 291
Bristol, vii, ix, xxvi
_Bristol_, galley, 2, 3
Buccaneers, 150, 196
Buenos-Ayres, 55, 57
Bull, Thomas, 244
Bulls, Papal, 167
Burnes, Bartholomew, 6
Cabbage Trees, 99
Cabot, Sebastian, 54, 83
Cadiz, xxxviii
Calchaquin Indians, 73
California, 204, 228 _et seq._
Callao, 106
Camalaha, 74
Canary Islands, 11 _et seq._
Canes, as Spanish insignia, 132
Cantons, in S. America, 62
Cap, on the mast, 213 _n_.
Cape Horn, 80
Cape of Good Hope, 300, 306 _et seq._
Cape Verd Islands, 18 _et seq._
Caraman Java, 285
Cardonnel, Adam, xxviii, xxxii
Cardoso, Don Juan, 156, 164
Careening, 158 _n_.
Caribbe cannibals, 74
_Carleton_, 305
Cash, Giles, 6, 10, 11
Cassado bread, 38
Cavendish, Thomas, 82, 205, 209
Celebes Islands, 273, 274, 284
Ceram Island, 276
Cessares, of Tierra del Fuego, 85
Cheribon Island, 285
Child-birth, on board ship, 204
Chili, 248 _et seq._
Chiloe, Islands, 259
Chinese, at Batavia, 297
Chopa, Mexico, 245
Cincon, a bird, 234
_Cinque-ports_ (Dampier’s ship), 91, 106
Clark, Captain, 305
Cliff, Captain, 305
Clothing, scarcity of, 78
Cloves, 53
Clovet, Charles, 6
Cocoa, 145, 150
Cohorn mortar, 130 _n_.
Colebrooke, John, xliii
Committees, minutes of, 8, 16, 22, 34, 101, 103, 112, 113, 158, 162, 170, 174, 177, 186, 197, 200, 206, 212, 215, 221, 224, 227, 274, 286, 292, 300
Connely, John, 6, 34, 35, 104, 129, 131, 141, 159, 171, 178, 197, 280, 282, 288
Cooke, Captain Edward, x, xxv, 6, 9, 16, 17, 25, 28, 34, 35, 89, 103, 104, 107, 117, 118, 138, 157, 159, 168, 174, 180, 186, 190, 194, 216, 218, 219, 223, 263, 288, 303
Cordilleras of Chili, 252
Cordova, La Plata, 65
Corientes, Cape, 195
Cork, Ireland, 3 _et seq._
Courtney, Capt. Stephen, x, 2, 6, 7, 9, 12 et seq., 16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28, 31, 33, 34, 35, 89, 103, 104, 113, 118, 121, 127, 129, 132, 139, 140, 141, 151, 155, 157, 159, 180, 186, 187, 190, 194, 197, 209, 216, 219, 221, 223, 262, 263, 286, 288, 301
Couvade, a curious custom, 42 _n_.
Crosse, J., 13, 15
_Crown_ galley, 8, 11
D’Acugna, a Jesuit, 52
D’Almagro, Diego, 249
Dampier, William, viii, x, 5, 9, 17, 27, 28, 34, 35, 79, 91, 95, 97, 103, 104, 106, 113, 120, 121, 123, 128, 141, 159, 179, 183, 186, 190, 194, 197, 201, 274, 280, 281, 288
Darien, 80
Davies, William, 46
Davis, Captain Edward, 155, 194
Davis, John, 83
Defoe, Daniel, xvi
_Delicia_, man-of-war, xxviii, xxxviii
De Solis, Juan Dias, 54
_Diamond_, sloop, 2, 3
Dispute between Captain Rogers and Captain Dover, 224
_Donnegall_, 305
Dover, Captain Thomas, x, 5, 7, 16, 21, 29, 33, 34, 90, 91, 97, 103, 104, 112, 113, 118, 122, 123, 127, 129, 140, 141, 151, 156, 159, 162, 186, 197, 216, 217, 223, 224, 263, 280, 288, 301, 303
Downs, The, 313
Drake, Sir Francis, 82, 190
_Duke_, privateer, x, 2 _et seq._
Dutch: Africa, 306 _et seq._ East Indies, 290 _et seq._ S. America, 39
_Dutchess_, privateer, x, 2 _et seq._
Dutch Fleet convoy, 301
Edwards, Captain, 7
Edwards, Richard, 5
Effigy, a miraculous, 169
El Pongo, straits on Amazon, 53
English prisoners of Spain, 165, 243
Equator, crossing the, 17, 309
Erith, 314
_Essex_, man-of-war, 313
Falkland Islands, 76
Falkner, Thomas, a prisoner, 244
Festivities, on board and ashore, 11, 31, 32, 262, 265
Figuero, Ant. Gomes, 266
Finch, John, 6
Fish, on mast, 219 _n._
Flamingoes, 257
Flip, 5 _n._
_Frederick_, 294
Fry, Robert, 5, 9, 17, 28, 34, 35, 104, 111, 112, 116, 117, 118, 138, 159, 162, 171, 186, 191, 195, 197, 199, 213, 218, 223, 227, 288, 303
Gabriel, John, a Dutchman, 135
Gallapagos Islands, 190
Gallo Island, 156
Gaming, rules against, 205, 207
Gardner, Mr., 133
George, Prince of Denmark, 182, 207, 285
Giants, in Patagonia, 81
Gillolo Island, 274, 275, 276
Glendall, Thomas, 5, 9, 17, 104, 113, 123, 128, 159, 178, 186, 196, 197, 205, 288
Goats, on Juan Fernandez, 93, 94, 96, 98
_Golden Sun_, prize, 156
Gold mines, 29, 252
Goodall, James, 6, 139, 286, 288
Gorgona Island, 156 _et seq._, 178 _et seq._
Gouin, de Beauchesne, viii, 86
Granadillo flower, 71
Grande, Brazil, 26, 27 _et seq._
Guaicurean Indians, 72
Guaira, Paraguay, 71
Guam, 211, 212, 228, 263 _et seq._, 267
Guembe fruit, 71
Guiaquil, 112 _et seq._, 119 _et seq._, 143 _et seq._
Guio, Chili, 260
Guzman, Ferdinando de, 51
Harris, Dr. John, 54 n.
_Hastings_, man-of-war, 3, 6
Hattley, Simon, 6, 104, 137, 151, 152, 153, 192, 243
_Havre de Grace_ (_Marquis_), 116 _et seq._, 273
_Hey Boys up we Go_, song, 31 _n._
Hilo, 88
Hollidge, James, 312, 313
Homagues, of the Amazon, 45
Hopkins, Samuel, 5, 112, 151, 158
Hopkins, William, 6
Horn Island, 289, 291
Hosier, Vice-admiral, xxxviii
Hotentots, 308
Hudson, Captain Robert, 305
_Increase_, privateer, 108
Indians: Amazon, 45 _et seq._ Brazil, 41 California, 208, 229 Frontones, 70 La Plata, 60 Mexico, 236 Tecames, 184, 188
Indigo, 267
Inquisition, the, 147
_Jamaica_, privateer, 164
Japan, 238
Japara Island, 284
Jears, 25 _n._
Jesuit Missionaries in S. America, 58 _et seq._
Johnson, John, 6
Jones, John, 6
Juan Fernandez, xvi, 90 _et seq._
Justice, Spanish methods of, 146
Kendall, Michael, a free negro, 165, 181, 198
Kingroad, Bristol, 2
_King William_, 305
Kinsale, 3
Knethel, Howel, 5
Knowlesman, Robert, 6, 118, 158, 174
Ladies searched at Guiaquil, 131
Ladrones Islands, 81, 212
Lancy, John, 6
La Plata, river, 54 _et seq._
Lazaretto, 210 _n._
Le Maire, straits, 85, 88
Liboya serpent, 38
Lieutenancy at Guiaquil, 148
Lima, 147, 169, 243, 247
Litton, Captain, 305
Llamas, 258
Lobos de la Mar, island, 101, 107, 108
London, Chili, 70
Louis le Grand Island, 87
_Loyal Bliss_, 305
_Loyal Cook_, 305
Macaqua birds, 71
Machiparo, Amazons, 47
Madagascar, xxxviii, 307
Madura Island, 284
Magaillans, Ferdinando, 81
Magellan, straits of, 80 _et seq._
Maguey, a S. American tree, 233, 259
Malaga Island, 157
Malagita pepper, 93
Manila galleon, xix, 200, 203, 213, 216, 217, 228, 242, 262, 267
Magarita Island, 50, 51
Maria wood, 161
_Marquis_, see _Havre de Grace_
Masts, timber for, 160, 161
Maurice, Prince, in Brazil, 41
May, Charles, 6
Maypo River, Chili, 255
Melo, Leus de, 50
Mendoca, Chili, 254
Mendoza, Don Pedro, 54
Mexican customs, curious, 235
Mexico, 232 _et seq._
Mexico City, 239
Military men, Spanish, 147
Minehead, 2
Mocha Island, 260
Money paid to officers, 288
Monk’s Rock, St. Vincent, 18, 19
Morel, Señor, 110, 111, 119, 139, 141, 142, 154, 157, 163, 164, 166, 168, 174, 177
Mortal Island, 273
Mosquitoes, 122
Mullattoes, 149
Mustees, 149
Mutinies and threats, 9, 10, 28, 155, 172, 281
Narborough, Sir John, 84
Nassau, Bahamas, xxviii, xxx
_Nathanael_, 294
Navarro, Juan, 155, 164, 166, 167, 171, 177
Neagers, Captain, 294
Negroes, in crew, 181, 198, 204
New Guinea, 275
Newhoff (Nieuhof), Jan, 38 _et seq._
Newkirk, Henry, 6
New Providence, Bahamas, xlii
New Year’s Day at sea, 78
_Nostra Seniora de la Incarnacion Disenganio_, 214
_Oley_, 294, 305
Oliphant, Henry, 6
Opey, Captain John, 294
Orellana, Francisco de, 46, 47 _et seq._
Oronoco, river, 73
Orotava, 12 _et seq._
Orsua, Pedro de, 50
Ounce, a Mexican beast, 245
Pachma silver mines, 238
Page, William, 6, 25, 26, 174
Palacios, Juan de, 51
Palma Maria tree, 178
Panama, 182, 247
Paraguay, 68
Paraguay (Maté) herb, 69
Paraguay, river, 55, 68
Paranapan River, 71
Parker, John, 5
Parrot, Captain, 305
Parsons, Benjamin, 5
Partridge-shot, 117 _n._
Patagonia, 81, 85, 90
Patterero, a gun, 105
Paul, Captain John, xii _n_, 7
Payta, 110 _et seq._
Pecaries, of Chili, 252
Penguin Island, 304
Peru, 106, 246 _et seq._
Peterborough, Lord, 156
_Peterborough_, frigate, 2
Phenney, George, xxxvii, xl, xlii
Phrip, Captain, 294
Pichberty, Sir John, 214, 216, 223
Pike, Captain, 294, 299
Piemento tree, 84, 93, 94
Pillar, John, 6
Pirates, xxvii _et seq._, 307
Pizarro, Francisco, 81
Plunder, from prizes, xxv, 21, 103, 114, 135, 168, 170, 172, 176, 205, 206, 293
Poangue River, Chili, 255
_Pompey_, galley, 2
Poole, Dorset, vii
Pope, Charles, 5, 9, 17, 28, 34, 35, 104, 168, 171, 174, 186, 194, 286, 288, 312
Porcupine, S. American, 29
Porpoises, black, 75
Port Famine, Tierra del Fuego, 86
Port Galand, 87
Potosi, 67, 246
_Prince Eugene_, privateer, 2, 3
Pritchard, Mrs., xxxii
Prizes on the high seas, 9, 11, 21, 76, 101, 103, 106, 108, 116, 138, 155, 156, 182, 214, 217
Procession at Angre de Reys, 31
Provisions, shortage of, 261, 274 _et seq._, 292
Prow, a boat of Guam, 268
Puna Island, 119 _et seq._, 140, 145
Punishments on board, 25, 28, 205, 210
Punt’ Arena, 119, 138, 140
Quito, 52
Raccoons, 201
Reformado, 5 _n._
Relics, prayer-books, etc., capture of, 169
Rica, 88
Ringrose, Basil, 95
Rio Janeiro, 28, 36
Rio Negro, 44
Roads cut by Incas, 233
Roberts, Captain Edward, 165
“Robinson Crusoe,” xvi
_Rochester_, 294
Rogers, John, 6, 34, 35, 104, 116, 158
Rogers, Noblett, xi, 4, 5
Rogers, Captain Woodes, vii _et seq._, xxvii _et seq._, xlv, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 25, 31, 33, 36, 77, 90, 113, 116 _et seq._, 153, 157, 159, 172, 175, 180, 181, 194, 197, 204, 205, 211, 214, 215, 217 _et seq._, 223, 224 _et seq._, 262, 263, 275, 286, 291, 293, 301, 307, 311
Roove, 29 _n._
Rounsivell, George, xxxi
Runs, table of, 270.
Sabandar at Batavia, 290, 293
St. Antonio, Cape Verd Islds., 19, 20
St. Elizabeth Island, 86
Santa-Fe, La Plata, 66
St. Jago Island, 23, 24
St. Jago de l’Istero, La Plata, 66
_Santa Josepha_ (_Increase_), a prize, 108
St. Lucas, Cape, 204 _et seq._
St. Magdalen’s Island, 87
St. Maria de l’Aquada Island, 193
St. Mary Island, Chili, 90
_St. Thomas de Villa Nova_, prize, 155
St. Vincent, Cape Verd Islds., 18
Sal, Island of, 18
Salvages Island, 11
Sampan, 291 _n._
Sansome, John, xxxiii
Sanson maps, 43
Saunders, Sir George, 4
_Scipio_, privateer, 2, 7
Scorch, Nathaniel, 6
Sea Lions on Juan Fernandez, 100
Seals on Juan Fernandez, etc., 100, 108, 109, 194
Sebald de Wert Island, 88
Segura, 213, 215, 222, 261
Selkirk, Alexander, xvi, 91 _et seq._, 108, 131, 152, 181, 228, 287, 288
Sepp, a Jesuit, 55, 58
Serpana Island, 263
Sham fight, 182
Shares, difficulties over, 173
Shepard, John, 6
_Sherstone_, galley, 2, 3, 6
Shetland, 310
_Shoreham_, man-of-war, 4
Sickness at sea, 79, 80, 89, 90, 99, 108, 150, 153, 195, 263
Signals between vessels, 101
Silver mines, 238, 246
Sinfuegos, Don Pedro, 142
Sloane, Sir Hans, xxvi, xli
Sloth, found at Gorgona, 179
Snakes, 38, 64, 68, 166, 200
South Sea, discovery of, 80 _et seq._, 237
Spain, war with, xxxviii
Sparrey, Francis, 73
Spilberg, Dutch navigator, 84
Stains, Captain, 294
Stays, 75 _n._
Steele, Sir Richard, xxviii, xxxi
Stradling, Captain, 91, 106, 242, 247
Stretton, William, 6, 16, 17, 34, 35, 104, 108, 133, 138, 162, 170, 171, 186, 192, 216, 227, 288, 303
_Stringer_, 294
Sucking Fish, 32
Swann, Captain, 196
Tapoyars of Brazil, 42
Teach, Captain (Blackbeard), xxix
Tecames, 183 _et seq._, 188 e_t seq._
Teneriff, 11, 16
Terceroons, 149
Ternate, 273
Texeira, Portuguese explorer, 52
Texel, 311
Theft on board, 210, 262
Thompson, Captain James, 244
Tierra del Fuego, 85, 86
Tres Marias Islands, 195, 201 _et seq._
Trestle-tree, 28 _n._
Tucuman, Brazil, 69
Turtle, 191, 193, 197, 202, 205
Underhill, George, 103, 154
Unrest Isle, Batavia, 289, 293
Uruguay River, 60
Valentine’s Day on board, 262
Valparaiso, 259
Vanbrugh, Carleton, 5, 7, 9, 12 _et seq._, 17, 21, 29, 33, 34, 35, 75, 102, 104, 112, 173, 203, 219, 261, 280, 282, 286, 288, 293, 305
Vandenhende, Peter, 6
Vane, Charles, a pirate, xxix
Vaughan, Alexander, 5
Veale, John, 79
Vigor, John, 5
Virgin Mary, image of, 169
Vultures, 109
Warden, Samuel, 103, 104
Wasse, James, Surgeon, 6, 204, 300
Watling, Captain John, 95
Whetstone, Sir William, viii
White, Mr., the linguist, 55, 127, 157, 184, 185, 190
White Indians on Amazon, 48
Whitney, Captain, xxxiii
William, a Moskito Indian, 95
Wilson, David, 103
Winter, Captain, 305
Withrington, Captain, 50, 54
Women prisoners, 178
Young, Thomas, 6
Zalayer Island, 283
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] This information is derived principally from “Notes and Queries,” vol. 149 (28 Nov. 1925), pp. 388-89. Robert Rogers was Mayor of Poole in 1550; John Rogers in 1572 and 1583.
[2] Dampier, “Voyages,” 1699, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 104; pt. 3, p. 20, pp. 108-12. This supposition is supported by the fact that Dampier sailed under Rogers in 1708. If the supposition is correct, Rogers may have been born prior to 1679.
[3] On 24 January, 1704/5, a marriage licence was issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury for:--“Woodes Rogers, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, bachelor, about 25, and Mrs. Sarah Whetstone, spinster, 18, with consent of her father the Hon. Rear-Admiral William Whetstone ... at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, London” (Harleian Soc, xxiv, 247).
[4] “Notes and Queries,” Ser. ix, vol. i, 69.
[5] 6 Anne, cap. 13, 26 March, 1708.
[6] Stark, “Abolition of Privateering,” p. 69.
[7] Nixon, “Thomas Dover,” 1909, p. 2.
[8] Born 1662. He appears to have been of a very quarrelsome nature, and was afterwards transferred to the _Dutchess_. He died in 1742.
[9] Cooke like Rogers possessed literary ability. In 1712 he published an account of the expedition, “A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World.” The book is inferior to the account given by Rogers.
[10] Born 1652, a famous navigator and hydrographer. Served in the R.N. 1673, and joined the Buccaneers six years later. Returned to England in 1691, and in 1699-1700 conducted a voyage of discovery to the South Seas. In 1703 appointed to command two privateers, and it was during this voyage that Selkirk was marooned on Juan Fernandez by Capt. Stradling. Dampier returned to England in 1707. A good pilot but a bad commander. He died in London, 1715.
[11] John Paul, 3rd Lieutenant of the _Chichester_, 1696. Captain, 1706, and promoted to the _Hastings_. Employed on the Irish station for many years, and among other duties convoyed the outward bound merchant ships to the westward. Died 1720.
[12] During the voyage Rogers paid particular attention to the religious requirements of the men. Even his prisoners were “allowed liberty of conscience,” and they had “the Great Cabbin for their Mass, whilst we used the Church of England service over them on the Quarter-deck,” and in consequence he humorously remarks that “the Papists were the Low Church men.”
[13] Over thirty years later Anson experienced the same difficulty, and he records that not finding the island “in the position in which the charts had taught us to expect it” they feared they had gone too far to the westward.
[14] Rogers’s account of Selkirk created an appetite that was speedily fed by other writers. In the same year Captain Edward Cooke (who sailed with Rogers) brought out his “Voyage to the South Sea,” in which he included an account of Selkirk. In 1712 there also appeared a tract entitled “Providence Displayed; or a surprising account of one Alexander Selkirk,” which is practically a verbatim transcript from Rogers. In “The Englishman” for the 3rd December, 1713, Sir Richard Steele, who was a friend of Rogers, and had met Selkirk, published an account of Selkirk which follows in the main the story given by Rogers. Before the publication of the first part of Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” in 1719, two editions of Rogers’s book had been published. It is possible that the introduction of the character of Friday into “Robinson Crusoe” was inspired by the incident of the Mosquito Indian mentioned on p. 95 of Rogers’s book. Selkirk returned to his native Largs in Fifeshire in the spring of 1712, and eventually went to sea again. In 1720 he was Master’s Mate of H.M.S. _Weymouth_. He died in the following year.
[15] A piece-of-eight was equivalent in value to 4_s._ 6_d._
[16] Anson emulated Rogers by capturing the galleon in 1743.
[17] She was named _Nuestra Señora de la Incarnacion Disenganio_, and was of 400 tons burden. Her Commander was Don John Pichberty, by birth a Frenchman, and brother-in-law of the French Governor in Hispaniola.
[18] The Spanish prisoners were released, including the Commander, Pichberty, and after providing them with provisions, they were despatched to Acapulco, and “parted very friendly.”
[19] The actual value of the plunder is stated in a contemporary petition to have amounted to £800,000 (Mariner’s “Mirror,” 1924, p. 377). Two large silver candlesticks taken during the cruise are now in Bristol Cathedral.
[20] Cooke, “Voyage to the S. Sea,” i, 345, and Introduction to vol. i. The shares were apportioned as follows: Captain 24 shares, Second Captain 20, First Lieutenant 16, Master and Surgeon 10, Pilot 8, Boatswain, Gunner and Carpenter 6, Cooper 5, Midshipmen 4, Quartermasters 3, Sailors 2-1/2, Landsmen 1-1/2.
[21] It is interesting to note that the South Sea Company was incorporated in 1711, under the title of “The Governor & Company of the Merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas & other parts of America.”
[22] Rogers’s original log book was, in 1828, in the possession of Gabriel Goldney, Mayor of Bristol, whose ancestor helped to fit out the expedition.
[23] B.M. Sloane MSS. 4044, fol. 155. See also his “Voyage,” p. 307.
[24] “Polit. State of Gt. Britain,” xiv, 1717, p. 295.
[25] Public Record Office: C.O. 23, 12.
[26] C.O. 23, 2.
[27] C.O. 23, 2.
[28] Addison, “Works,” 1856, vi, 496. Anson in 1740 complained bitterly that his land forces consisted of pensioners from Chelsea.
[29] Ibid., 500.
[30] Aitken, “Life of Steele,” ii, 162.
[31] “Polit. State,” xv, 447.
[32] For a copy of this proclamation, see Dow; “Pirates of New England,” pp. 381-2.
[33] Johnson, C., “General History of the Pirates,” 1726, ii, p. 274.
[34] Johnson, “Pirates,” 1726, ii, 363.
[35] In February of the following year Vane was shipwrecked near the Bay of Honduras. He was captured soon after, taken to Jamaica, tried, convicted and executed.
[36] Polit. State, xvi, 551.
[37] Ibid., 551.
[38] Johnson, “Pirates,” 1726, ii, pp. 273-7.
[39] Johnson, 1726, ii, p. 336.
[40] Following on his reprieve Rounsivell worked for some time ashore, but afterwards served in a Privateer. Here he distinguished himself by refusing to escape in a small boat, when the ship was wrecked, and remained with his captain to the last (Johnson, ii, 308-9).
[41] Public Record Office, C.O. 23, 13.
[42] C.O., 23, 1.
[43] B.M. Add. MSS. 5145, C. ff. 123-6.
[44] Adam Cardonnel, one of the proprietors of the Bahama Islands.
[45] A reference evidently to the ducking-stool.
[46] John Sansome, a schoolfellow of Steele, and his assistant in the Fish Pool Scheme. Rogers had met him at the Tennis Coffee House in November, 1717.
[47] C.O. 23, 13.
[48] C.O. 23, 1.
[49] I.e. Charles Vane. See _ante_ p. xxix.
[50] Edward Thaitch or Teach, a famous pirate known as “Blackbeard.” Killed in action with Robert Maynard of H.M.S. _Pearl_ eighteen days after this letter. See also page xxix.
[51] C.O. 23, 1.
[52] Cal. Treasury Papers, Vol. 228, No. 24.
[53] C.O. 23, 13.
[54] C.O. 23, 1.
[55] This “Memorial” is printed in J. Ker’s “Memoirs,” pt. 3, 1726, pp. 22-34.
[56] _London Magazine_, 12 Aug., 1721.
[57] Cal. Treasury Papers, vol. 235, No. 49.
[58] “Notes and Queries,” Ser. 9, vol. 1, p. 68.
[59] “D.N. Biog.,” article “Hosier.”
[60] Probably the same Captain Dennis who in 1718 conducted an expedition to Havana, the Proceedings of which are in the P.R.O. (C.O. 137, 13).
[61] B.M. Add. MSS. 33748, ff. 317-18.
[62] Runners, i.e. fast ships which risk every impediment as to privateers or blockade (Smyth, “Sailor’s Word Book,” p. 586). This is a very early use of the term.
[63] C.O. 23, 13.
[64] C.O. 23, 2.
[65] C.O. 23, 14.
[66] B.M. Add. MSS. 4459, ff. 101-2.
[67] B.M. Add. MSS. 4459, f. 102.
[68] B.M. Add. MSS. 36128, ff. 177-85.
[69] Cal. Treasury Books, 1729-30, pp. 57, 304.
[70] The picture is reproduced in this volume. In the will of Sarah Rogers, who died 1743, she bequeathed to “Mr. Sergeant Eyre, the picture of her father, brother, and herself, in one frame.” The painting afterwards came into the possession of Samuel Ireland, and was bought at his sale in 1801 by “Mr. Vernon.” Its present repository is unknown. It was engraved in 1799.
[71] Cal. of Treasury Books, 1729-30, p. 61.
[72] C.O. 23, 2.
[73] C.O. 23, 2.
[74] C.O. 24, 1.
[75] C.O. 23, 2.
[76] Just a year after his death, an Order in Council directed the Treasury to complete the bargain for the purchase of the Proprietors and Lessees’ rights (C.O. 23, 3).
[77] C.O. 23, 3.
[78] Ibid.
[79] Ibid.
[80] About this time Rogers transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of Trade “A general account and description of the Bahamas,” a most important document, occupying 14 folio pages, which is still preserved among the Colonial Records in the Public Record Office (C.O. 23, 3).
[81] CO. 23, 3.
[82] The population comprised 256 men, 190 women, 489 white children, 275 able negroes, and 178 negro children.
[83] The landfall of Columbus is known to have been one of the Bahama Islands. Opinion is divided between Watling Island and Cat Island. Rogers’s letter lends support to the latter.
[84] In the following year he was chosen as one of the Council of the Bahamas. He was afterwards one of the three chief merchants of the Royal African Company, and died in 1735 “at Whydah, on the coast of Africa.”
[85] The Sovereigns; two remarkable rocky islets eastward of Kinsale Harbour; Big Sovereign (92 ft. high) and Little Sovereign.
[86] It appears from the will of Francis Rogers, part owner of the _Duke_ and _Dutchess_, that Noblett Rogers was his brother. They were sons of Robert Rogers of Cork. The relationship to Woodes Rogers is uncertain. (“Notes & Queries,” Ser. X, vol. 9, p. 456.)
[87] Rear-Admiral Sir George Saunders, born about 1671. Entered R.N. 1689. Present at the Battle of La Hogue. With Rooke at Cadiz & Vigo. Appointed to the _Shoreham_ in 1705 and continued in her till 1710, cruising in the Irish Sea. Captain of the _Barfleur_ in defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro. Knighted 1720 and afterwards a Commissioner of the Navy. Died 5 Dec. 1734.
[88] A mixture of beer and spirit, sweetened with sugar and heated.
[89] An officer who has been deprived of a command but retains his rank and pay. The term was also occasionally employed to designate a volunteer.
[90] i.e. Yawl; a boat usually rowed with 4 or 6 oars.
[91] The Archduke Charles of Austria, whom the Allies in 1703 proposed to make King of Spain, as Charles III.
[92] For a similar ceremony on entering the Mediterranean, see Teonge _Diary_, 1927, p. 264.
[93] From now onward Woodes Rogers employs the contraction L. for “league.”
[94] Long bars or bolts of iron, with shackles sliding on them, and a lock at the end, used to confine the feet of prisoners.
[95] Jears; the tackles by which the lower yards of a ship are hoisted or lowered.
[96] i.e. Trestle-trees; two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast head, to support the frame of the top, and the weight of the top-mast.
[97] Roove or Rove; a weight of about 30 lb. used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
[98] A favourite song during the Commonwealth, which describes in a humorous way the tastes of the Puritans. The words and the tune are to be found in D’Urfey’s “Pills to Purge Melancholy” (1719) ii, 286-7.