A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,
ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:
FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY
ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.
ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.
VOL. XI.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH: AND T. CADELL, LONDON. MDCCCXXIV.
CONTENTS OF VOL. XI
PART II. BOOK IV. CONTINUED.
CHAP. XII.--(_Continued_.) Voyage round the World, by Captain George Shelvocke, in 1719-1722,
SECT. V. Voyage from California to Canton in China,
VI. Residence in China, and Voyage thence to England,
VII. Supplement to the foregoing Voyage,
VIII. Appendix to Shelvocke's Voyage round the World. Containing Observations on the Country and Inhabitants of Peru, by Captain Betagh,
Introduction, Sec. 1. Particulars of the Capture of the Mercury by the Spaniards, Sec. 2. Observations made by Betagh in the North of Peru, Sec. 3. Voyage from Payta to Lima, and Account of the English Prisoners at that Place, Sec. 4. Description of Lima, and some Account of the Government of Peru, Sec. 5. Some Account of the Mines of Peru and Chili, Sec. 6. Observations on the Trade of Chili, Sec. 7. Some Account of the French Interlopers in Chili, Sec. 8. Return of Betagh to England,
CHAP. XIII. Voyage round the World, by Commodore Roggewein, in 1721-1723
Introduction
SECT. I. Narrative of the Voyage from Holland to the Coast of Brazil,
II. Arrival in Brazil, with some Account of that Country,
III. Incidents during the Voyage from Brazil to Juan Fernandez, with a Description of that Island,
IV. Continuation of the Voyage from Juan Fernandez till the Shipwreck of the African Galley,
V. Continuation of the Voyage after the Loss of the African, to the Arrival of Roggewein at New Britain,
VI. Description of New Britain, and farther Continuation of the Voyage till the Arrival of Roggewein at Java,
VII. Occurrences from their Arrival at the Island of Java, to the Confiscation of the Ships at Batavia,
VIII. Description of Batavia and the Island of Java, with some Account of the Government of the Dutch East-India Company's Affairs,
IX. Description of Ceylon,
X. Some Account of the Governments of Amboina, Banda, Macasser, the Moluccas, Mallacca, and the Cape of Good Hope,
XI. Account of the Directories of Coromandel, Surat, Bengal, and Persia,
XII. Account of the Commanderies of Malabar, Gallo, Java, and Bantam,
XIII. Some Account of the Residences of Cheribon, Siam, and Mockha,
XIV. Of the Trade of the Dutch in Borneo and China,
XV. Of the Dutch Trade with Japan,
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
- 2: From Quibo to the Coast of Mexico
- 3: Till the final Departure of the Centurion
- 4: They also rolled our casks down to the beach
- 5: The harbour of Porto Leguro is about two leagues to the N
- 6: When the Californians want to drink
- 7: On which twelve Indians swam off and surrounded him
- 8: Of longitude between Cape St Lucas and Guam
- 9: I weighed and worked up to Wampoo
- 10: In which he was chased by a Hoppo or custom house boat
- 11: So that he received 6500 tahel
- 12: By deserting us in the Straits of Sunda
- 13: Or Spanish dollars And Shelvocke little thought
- 14: Which Shelvocke graciously shared among private friends
- 15: Which Shelvocke calls the rich prize
- 16: But for the obstinacy of John Sprake
- 17: On the banks of the river Callan or Piura
- 18: After remaining about six weeks at Piura
- 19: Our voyage to Lima occupied about five weeks
- 20: But they were soon all released except Sprake
- 21: There were two great ones at Lima
- 22: Where calashes meet in great numbers in the dusk
- 23: A mixture still worse than gallantry
- 24: Some account of the mines of peru and chili
- 25: Leaves the silver in a spongy mass
- 26: The amalgama is completed in eight or ten days
- 27: Called la pinna by the Spaniards
- 28: Of which sort the one in the Lipes mines mostly consists
- 29: Those at Potosi now yield but little
- 30: The Indians stand in the basons or ponds
- 31: Observations on the trade of chili
- 32: The Puelches bring them through the plain of Tapa papa
- 33: The most considerable port in Chili is Valparaiso
- 34: And are situated between St Jago and Valparaiso
- 35: About four leagues from Valparaiso
- 36: And retire to the city of St Jago
- 37: She had just careened at Placentia
- 38: As Martinet brought his prizes into Calao
- 39: They therefore saved every shilling of that indulto
- 40: Being well acquainted with the creolians
- 41: As well as the French can their ships from St Malo
- 42: And Mr Roggewein died before any thing could be done
- 43: And in which Mr Roggewein embarked as Commodore
- 44: This was achieved at a vast expence
- 45: The albicore is generally five or six feet long
- 46: They afterwards had sight of the Peak of Teneriffe
- 47: Several Portuguese reside here
- 48: They caught many dorados and dolphins
- 49: Roggewein wrote to the governor
- 50: If reckoned from the meridian of Teneriffe
- 51: The Portuguese are numerous in Brazil
- 52: Roggewein set sail towards the S
- 53: These hurricanes are extremely dangerous
- 54: They made for the Straits of Magellan
- 55: The salt precipitates from the freezing water
- 56: And cruize there a similar time But
- 57: But they next day got close beside the Tienhoven
- 58: And from the Gallapagos 600 leagues
- 59: And made offerings to their idols
- 60: And a great quantity of pisans
- 61: And at least 150 leagues farther than Schonten
- 62: Footnote 9 Carlshoff is laid down by Arrowsmith in lat
- 63: About twelve leagues west from Carlshoff
- 64: To which therefore they gave the name of Vesper
- 65: The Dutch who had landed shewed them small mirrors
- 66: The Dutch retired on board ship
- 67: Leaving the island of Recreation
- 68: One of which they named Tienhoven
- 69: And were so tormented with excruciating pain
- 70: As they were all armed with bows and arrows and slings
- 71: And so dexterous in the management of their weapons
- 72: Perhaps Jobie of our modern maps includes both
- 73: The continent itself being called the Land of Papua
- 74: Extremity of Papua or New Guinea
- 75: As they do also in the other Molucca islands
- 76: Footnote 6 The northern end of Bootan is in lat
- 77: They passed their time agreeably enough at Japara
- 78: They entered the road of Batavia
- 79: With this view they demolished Jacatra
- 80: In this citadel the governor general resides
- 81: And whenever any one comes to Batavia from China
- 82: Which they call Joostie de Batavia
- 83: Which grows in Macasser and the Bougis islands
- 84: Another fiscal for maritime affairs
- 85: Both at Batavia and all other places
- 86: One principal branch of business confided to the consistory
- 87: Except the kings of Bantam and Japara
- 88: All sail from this single port of Batavia
- 89: With orders to send him prisoner to Batavia
- 90: Versluys was by no means of a cruel disposition
- 91: There are three sorts of cinnamon
- 92: Some Account of the Governments of Amboina
- 93: Although even the cloves have been removed
- 94: Amboina also produces a red kind of wood
- 95: The island of Banda is very hilly
- 96: The island of Celebes is very fertile
- 97: The sixth government is Malacca
- 98: In alliance with the king of Johor
- 99: Account of the Directories of Coromandel
- 100: 1 who are the most powerful in Coromandel
- 101: Gambroon is a disagreeable place to live in
- 102: One at Cranganore in the north
- 103: The Dutch who reside at Cochin
- 104: On gaining possession of Cochin
- 105: Over whom the bramins or priests exercise great authority
- 106: The territory of Bantam is very fertile
- 107: The greatest sovereign in the island is the king of Acheen
- 108: Some Account of the Residences of Cheribon
- 109: About half a league from the fort of Cheribon
- 110: About 200 miles east from Mokha
- 111: Yet this trade of Mokha is continually falling off
- 112: Either from Holland or from Batavia
- 113: And ordered Carron up to Jeddo
- 114: The island of Desima is pallisaded all round
- 115: These laws pay the strictest regard to private property
- 116: Both outward and homeward bound
- 117: When the lion rushed upon the man
- 118: The words Maqua and Kriqua signify king or chief
- 119: The seventh nation is named the Caffres
- 120: Which exactly resembles the ass
- 121: Most of them are extremely venomous
- 122: They sailed from hence for the island of Ascension
- 123: Sargasso signifying water cresses
- 124: There is another town three leagues from Angra
- 125: The chief trade of Tercera consists in woad
- 126: From Tercera is the island of Flores
- 127: Centurion in that expedition fifteenth edition
- 128: This Association for the West Indies
- 129: And to preserve our reputation as a maritime power
- 130: Either at public or private expence
- 131: Who attacked her in the Centurion
- 132: That all the circumnavigators did not propose
- 133: Towards the conclusion of Betagh's circumnavigation
- 134: The more important purposes of navigation
- 135: Besides these draughts of such places as Mr Anson
- 136: Who often conversed with Pizarro
- 137: In every article of the ensuing narration
- 138: Accustomed to rectify this inattention
- 139: And the utility and excellence of the materials
- 140: After cruizing upon the enemy in those parts
- 141: The expedition to Manilla was laid aside
- 142: Mr Anson immediately repaired to Spithead
- 143: Besides victualling the squadron
- 144: And the expedition under Lord Cathcart
- 145: Whence proceeded the separation of our squadron
- 146: With the Turkey and Straits convoys
- 147: Giving the command of the Tryal to Lieutenant Cheap
- 148: And coming to anchor in the bay of Maldonado
- 149: The Hermiona was supposed to have foundered
- 150: They resolved to bear away for the Rio Plata
- 151: Mindinuetta was obliged to submit
- 152: Orellana placed his hands hollow to his mouth
- 153: There were indeed abundance of cutlasses in the chest
- 154: Pizarro continued his voyage for Europe
- 155: Or passes to the northward of N
- 156: The captains of the squadron represented to the commodore
- 157: The Tryal fired a gun to denote soundings
- 158: Which are called the castles of Santa Cruiz and St Joam
- 159: The brigadier Don Jose Sylva de Paz
- 160: The latitudes are between 28 deg
- 161: A brigadier of the armies of Portugal
- 162: Thereby saving the expence of digging
- 163: By an intelligent native of Rio Janeiro
- 164: But as gold was found in this country of the Paulists
- 165: On examining the masts of the Tryal
- 166: The Tryal was at last completed
- 167: Footnote 1 The centre of the island of Socoro
- 168: Lasted till we had passed the latitude of the Rio Plata
- 169: The northermost land in sight bearing N
- 170: The tract of country usually called Patagonia
- 171: Keeping both thongs on the stretch
- 172: To the southward of Buenos Ayres
- 173: They were to proceed off Baldivia
- 174: The high land over Port St Julian
- 175: Hills so called on Terra del Fuego S
- 176: Course from the Straits of Le Maire to Cape Noir
- 177: Both for the Gloucester and Tryal
- 178: Several guns were fired to leeward as signals of distress
- 179: In falling in with Terra del Fuego
- 180: And as it is more distant from the Rio Plata
- 181: Should constantly pass by the eastward of Staten Land
- 182: Than nearer the coasts of Terra del Fuego
- 183: Supposed to be the Pepy's Island discovered by Cowley
- 184: The neighbouring coast of Patagonia
- 185: The coast from Cape Blanco to Terra del Fuego
- 186: While Frezier makes the difference nearly 4 deg
- 187: The shattering of our sails and rigging
- 188: For it often produced putrid fevers
- 189: For we had often prodigious squalls of wind
- 190: By a speedy arrival at Juan Fernandez
- 191: Arrival of the Centurion at Juan Fernandez
- 192: And watered by numerous streams and cascades
- 193: To any British cruizers in these seas
- 194: East bay is by them called Puerta de Juan Fernandez
- 195: Except those we called myrtle trees
- 196: A great number of romantic vallies
- 197: And the other of Alexander Selkirk
- 198: One of the largest of these males
- 199: To which no other male dared approach
- 200: The arrival of the Tryal sloop at this island
- 201: This calamitous situation was the more terrifying
- 202: We saw also many heaps of casks
- 203: Undertook to carry the billets
- 204: From the want of cordage and canvass
- 205: That the Tryal sloop informed us
- 206: The horrors of shipwreck and immediate death
- 207: Called Inchin by the Indians
- 208: And so little known to the Spaniards themselves
- 209: And then over the ship's side into the yawl
- 210: Whence he proposed to proceed for Baldivia
- 211: Though it might carry them to Juan Fernandez
- 212: In which Cozens was engaged as the ringleader
- 213: Which was called Wager Island by the seamen
- 214: And made a bargain with the Chiloe Indian
- 215: Arrived at the island of Chiloe
- 216: Under the same of Juan Fernandez
- 217: Pursuant to his orders from the admiralty
- 218: We intended to leave the main mast of the Anna
- 219: And had mistaken us for her consort
- 220: Which is afterwards converted at Calao into larger rope
- 221: They quitted this station and returned to Callao
- 222: And there to cruise off the high land of Payta
- 223: And finding how little the Tryal neared them
- 224: Both to assist in unloading the Tryal
- 225: Be fitting out the ships of war at Callao
- 226: Footnote 1 This island of San Gallan is in lat
- 227: The commodore appointed the pilot
- 228: As at Petersburgh for instance
- 229: In comparing together St Catharines and St Petersburg
- 230: When we had advanced beyond the equinoctial to the north
- 231: That a vessel had come into Payta
- 232: Are conveyed to Payta on balsas or floats
- 233: Being then within five leagues of Payta
- 234: Mr Brett placed a guard at the fort
- 235: To abandon the place before completing its pillage
- 236: Mr Brett punctually complied with these orders
- 237: Our centinel had a cocked pistol in his hand
- 238: The commodore resolved to take her along with us
- 239: Who was near two months on board the Centurion
- 240: This was occasioned by the plunder taken at Payta
- 241: This treasure was going to Payta
- 242: When at the island of Juan Fernandez
- 243: Less out of our way than Quibo
- 244: On the 3d of December we had a view of the island of Quibo
- 245: But the tygers themselves we never saw
- 246: The oysters most productive of pearls
- 247: Were astonished at our feeding on turtle
- 248: And was called the Jesu Nazareno
- 249: Till they came a breast of Cape Corientes
- 250: Went directly over him But as we had the Carmelo in tow
- 251: Affirmed to be over the harbour of Acapulco
- 252: That they had discovered the harbour of Acapulco
- 253: Which Was built on the island of Luconia
- 254: This trade from Manilla to Acapulco and back again
- 255: Whilst the Manilla galleon is in the port
- 256: At Guam there is a small Spanish garrison
- 257: In the long interval since our taking of Paita
- 258: So that the Carmelo and the Carmin
- 259: Before Acapulco till the 23d of March
- 260: About seven miles to the westward of the rocks of Seguataneo
- 261: The harbour of Chequetan lies in the latitude of 17 deg
- 262: And the small casks being there filled
- 263: Some time after our arrival at Chequetan
- 264: Mr Brett ordered his people to fire
- 265: And we met with none in this harbour of Chequetan
- 266: Who carried him prisoner to Acapulco
- 267: Being now in the offing of Chequetan
- 268: We were advanced within three leagues of Acapulco
- 269: That these two launches arrived safe at Acapulco
- 270: We stood more to the southward
- 271: But the Gloucester made a signal of distress
- 272: And Captain Mitchel informed the commodore
- 273: And sent on board the Centurion However
- 274: And we thereby risqued the missing of the Ladrones
- 275: Being within four miles of the island of Anatacan
- 276: We immediately steered towards Tinian
- 277: And brought back the firelock and pistol
- 278: And caulked all the seams on both sides the cut water
- 279: As a signal to the commodore of our distress
- 280: Which drove the Centurion to sea
- 281: To return to the projected enlargement of the bark
- 282: And fitted it for the purpose with very little workmanship
- 283: Which fitted the quadrant very well
- 284: Perceived the Centurion at a distance
- 285: With three cables in our hawses
- 286: Arriving in the offing of Tinian
- 287: Returned again to an anchor at Tinian
- 288: Of the island of Tinian An island
- 289: Of which Tinian formerly well peopled is one
- 290: Under the names of Bottle Tobago and Little Bottle Tobago
- 291: While we were passing by these rocks of Vele Rete
- 292: Besides the latitude of Pedro Blanco
- 293: Were called the islands of Lema
- 294: Made him resolve to go first to Macao
- 295: Macao is virtually a Chinese town
- 296: This harbour of the Typa is formed by a number of islands
- 297: Or Chinese custom house officer at Macao
- 298: Seemingly resolved to proceed to Batavia to refit
- 299: Took back his letter from the hoppo
- 300: Here the mandarine explained his commission
- 301: To force her way as high as Whampoa
- 302: The mandarine still continued unruffled
- 303: And was charged with dispatches from the commodore
- 304: Disposition of the mandarine governor of Janson
- 305: For not only the fatigue of careening had been considerable
- 306: From Macao to Cape Espiritu Santo
- 307: And to bear from Botel Tobago Xima S
- 308: After getting a sight of the Bashee islands
- 309: And looking out for the galleons
- 310: The Centurion getting her sprit sail yard fore and aft
- 311: Was much larger than the Centurion
- 312: When they were brought on board the Centurion
- 313: And a centinel with lighted match constantly attended
- 314: Commanding the forts at Bocca Tigris
- 315: The Bocca Tigris is a narrow passage
- 316: The mandarines therefore asked the Spaniards
- 317: Sent about an hundred of them to Macao
- 318: But the mandarine coolly replied
- 319: It was discovered that the mandarine
- 320: But this the mandarine refused
- 321: To be captain of the Centurion under him
- 322: When the commodore arrived at Canton
- 323: To quiet the uneasiness of the supercargoes
- 324: Mr Anson went thither with his officers
- 325: Mr Anson granted them this request
- 326: Where the viceroy then resided
- 327: The Centurion and her prize unmoored
- 328: Than to the skill of the painter
- 329: Not on their integrity or beneficence
- 330: Anchored before the town of Macao
- 331: Prepared materials for publication
- 332: By Mr Robins in his own style and manner
- 333: Entertaining a high opinion of Mr Robins
- 334: Was invited over to assist in the defence of Bergen op Zoom
