A Voyage to JAMAICA 
lay in feven Fathom water, and ftruck our Topmatts, being a hard Gale and 
much Rain. 
hor moor’d till Wednefday the 5. of October, nothing 
We lay here at Anc | 
memorable pafling, the Wind being for the moft part South-W eflerly, and 
blowing hard, with dirty rainy Weather and great Seas rowling in upon us 
from the Ocean, which made me (who was obliged to vilit Sick People on 
Shore) feveral times wilh it were cuftomary for Men of War to go nearer the 
Land ; where we had been well defended by Hills from the injurics of the 
Wind; but by lengthening the Cables and our good Tackle the Anchors held 
firm, and we received no injury. It deferves here'to be noted that from our 
coming on Board to this time, twenty two days, we have had, except one 
day, almoft always South-Weft Winds, which for the moft part reign here 
this time of the year, making 1t very hard for outward-bound Ships to get 
out of the Channel ; but there will be occafion to fpeak more of this here- 
after. 
We Weighed Anchor from Plimouth on Wednefday the 5.0f Céfober, the Ci- 
tadel faluting his Grace with twenty one Guns, and the Ifland of St. Nicolas 
with nineteen, the Wind being at Eaft Soutl -Eaft, a frefh Gale, we fteered 
to get clear of the Land, and the next day we got thirty or forty Leagues to 
Sea, failing more Wefterly than our Courfe required, the Seamen defiring to 
clear themfelves of that as much as conveniently they can, that when a con- 
trary Wind comes to crofs them they may have room to Tack, and not be 
afraid of aLee-Shore, which is fo formidable ro them, that they rather chufe 
in {uch acafe to take a Harbour than to lie at Sea, where if the Head Sea be 
not very confiderable, by tacking they always get {omething forward be the 
Wind never. fo contrary: :iI obferved at about fifty Leagues or more, of the 
Lands end, at Sea, many of a kind of Larus, or Gull, very like to that defcrib'd 
by Mr.Willughly in his Hiftory of Birds by the name of Hirundo Marina, or Sea- 
Hirundo 
Marina 
major de- 
{cribed, 
* Coron,).14. 
Ge fz 
Ramnuf. p. 
261. 
t Tom. 2. p. 
[ 
5 Ornitb; 
0m. 3. Ps 
$49. 
Swallow, only larger, for which Reafon Tfhall call is Advrundo Marina major. 
This Bird was bigger thana Pigeon, it wasof a dark grey colour on the Back, 
and white below, it was fharp-winged, and did not fly high, but very clofe 
to the Surface of the Water, which it dextroufly fhun’d touching, after the man- 
ner of Swallows, and clofer to it than the before-mentioned common Hiirunde 
Marina; being very intent on its Prey, and getting what Fifh it could {py 
there ; fo as one would admire how they can avoid being wetted by the Seas. 
When they had wearied themfelves on the Wing, they would ufually in 
Companies together, fer themfelves on the Surface of the Water, efpecially 
towards the. Evening, which made me inclinable to think that they feldom 
went to Land ; if fo, it is not eafie to imagine, if it be neceflary for them, 
how they provide themfelves with Frefh-Water, for as to Meat, the breaking 
Waves difcover to them {ufficient quantities of {maller Fifh, which they greedily 
devour. The further off Shore we went, we had the fewer of thele Birds, 
altho we never were entirely for {everal days without fecing fome of them; 
but moft when we were about the Madera iflands, there being fome uninha- 
bited [lands and Rocks between that place and the Caary Ifles, known by 
the name of Salvages, where they multiply and increafe yearly in prodigious 
numbers, not being interrupted by mankind. I am very apt to believe thefe 
Birds to be what Oviedo* calls Patines. What Denis + calls Croifeurs, who 
were at top of the Water to take fmall Fifh, having met them moft of the 
way to Canada: and what Ligon meant when p. 5. he {peaks of a Bird not 
much bigger than a Caffri/ turning about every Wave. Iam in doubt whe- 
ther this be the Gargaio of Colon. f.29? or Avis a Lufttanis Garayos diita Aldrov.* 
or Willockes of Purchas p. 5562 and whether thefe be the fame with the Mews 
mentioned by Martens of Spitzberg, that ftay fo long as the Sun, then fly 
away in Flocks, and reft on the Water by the way. When we could find. 
no 
