400 A VOYAGE TO Booic IX. 



particulars relating to the fiege, in which I have reafon 

 to believe he did not fpare himfelf. 



On the 4th of Oflober, we embarked on board 

 our refpeótive fliips. The fquadron confifted of the 

 Princefs Mary, commanded by captain Edwards, who 

 as oldeft captain was commodore, the Sunderland, the 

 Superbe, and the Canterbury : the three firft of fixty 

 puns, and the laft of forty-fix or fifty. The Heron 

 and Charmanre had alfo been fitted up as armed ihips : 

 the only ones remaining in the harbour, being the 

 Vigilante, now repaired from the damages ihe had 

 received in the aélion, and the Cheñer. 



My papers, as I have before obferved. Sir Peter 

 Warren delivered to captain Brete, with ordfers on 

 his arrival in England to remit them to the admi- 

 ralty. On the 19th of O6lober, the fquadron put 

 to fca, fleering for Newfoundland. On the 226, in 

 the evening we had fight of Cape Raze. On the 

 23d the wind being at S.W. the fquadron tacked 

 h >r the bay of Bulls, where it intended to anchor; 

 but that being found impraflicable, on the 24th it 

 entered rhat of Ferryland, and remained there till all 

 the merchant fhips, which were taking in their lading 

 of cod in the other harbours of the ifiand, had 

 rendcfvouzed : the method of this fiihery and com- 

 merce, as likewife the ifland itfelf being little known 

 in Europe, I fliall give as good an account of it, as 

 my late fituation will admit of; the mcfc innocent 

 queilions or undefigning remarks, being fufpicious in a 

 prifoner. 



The capital of the ifland of Newfoundland, fo 

 famous for the cod-iilhery along its coafls and the 

 neighbouring ieas, is Placentia. Its firfl difcovery 

 and peopling was owing to the Spaniards before the 

 year 1550, as the very name of the capital, and fc- 

 veral other capes and parts of it, as Cape Buena 

 Vifta, Punra Rica, fufiiciently demonftrate. But 

 probably the fettlement they made here was of little 



force ; 



