COMMODORE ANSON. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE HISTOEY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING INTEEESTS (continued}. 



A Grand Epoch of Discovery Anson's Voyage Difficulties of manning the Fleet Five Hundred Invalided Pensioners drafted 

 The Spanish Squadron under Pizarro Its Disastrous Voyage One Vessel run ashore Rats at Four Dollars each A 

 Man-of-war held by eleven Indians Anson at the Horn Fearful Outbreak of Scurvy Ashore at Robinson 

 Crusoe's Island Death of two-thirds of the Crews Beauty of Juan Fernandez Loss of the Wager Drunken and 

 Insubordinate Crew Attempt to blow up the Captain A Midshipman shot Desertion of the Ship's Company- 

 Prizes taken by Anson His Humanity to Prisoners The Gloucester abandoned at Sea Delightful Stay at Tinian The 

 Centurion blown out to Sea Despair of those on Shore Its Safe Return Capture of the Manilla Galleon A Hot Fight 

 Prize worth a Million and a half Dollars Return to England. 



THE second of the greatest epochs of discovery one, indeed, hardly inferior to that of 

 Columbus and Da Gama, when Dampier, Byron, Wallis, and Carteret, Cook/ and Clerke 

 may be said to have substantially completed the map of the world in its most essential 

 and leading features would follow in proper sequence here, but for a pre-arranged plan, 

 ivhich will place "The Decisive Voyages of the World" by themselves. One voyage of 

 this period, that of Commodore Anson, deserves mention, inasmuch as it was instigated 

 for the purpose of making reprisals on the Spaniards for their behaviour in searching 

 English ships found near any of their settlements in the West Indies or Spanish Main, 

 and not for attempts at discovery. It also gives some little insight ibto the condition 



