History of the Buccaneers of America Part 21

[38] _Dampier's Voyages_, Vol. I, Chap. 5.

[39] The latter part of the above extract is from Cowley's Ma.n.u.script.--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 p.r.i.c.kly 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] _Ma.n.u.script 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. Ma.n.u.script 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 lat.i.tude 16 50' 41'' N, and longitude 100 0' West of _Greenwich_.

[68] _Dampier._

[69] See Chart in Spilbergen's Voyage.

[70] _Dampier's Ma.n.u.script Journal._

[71] _Dampier_, Vol. I, p. 257.

[72] In some old ma.n.u.script 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-sh.o.r.e.

[74] The Ma.n.u.script 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] _Ma.n.u.script 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._ _Ma.n.u.script 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 _Ba.s.seelan_ 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] _Ma.n.u.script Journal._

[84] In the printed Voyage, the shoal is mistakenly said to lie SbW from the East end of _Timor_. The Ma.n.u.script Journal, and the track of the s.h.i.+p 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.