A. D. 1666. ^29 



ftones and lime : on Exuma there is excellent fait, and they have made 

 fome eflays at fugar-canes. The whole white people in them were late- 

 ly faid to be about 2000. But the condition of fuch places is ufually 

 fo flucftuating, more efpecially in time of war, that we can fay little 

 more of them at prefent. 



By a ftate of the Dutch Eafl-India company's affairs, publiflied this 

 year, it appears that their fettlement on the Cape of Good Hope was al- 

 ready in a pretty good condition ; their garrifon confiftcd of 500 men, 

 and their new fort was nearly completed : they indeed complained of 

 fome want of flaves for the cultivation of their lands, but their vines 

 and olive trees prolpered very well. 



1667. — What Alderman Cockayne had fruitlefsly attempted for feven 

 years together, (from 1608 to 161 5) was effeded in the year 1667 by 

 making ufe of proper workmen, and taking other prudent meafures. 

 For one Brewer from the Netherlands came over to England with his 

 fervants, and had due encouragement from the crown for inftrucling 

 our people in dying and drefling the fined white woollen cloths, which 

 were thereby brought to the greatell; perfection before their exporta- 

 tion. 



Since Captain Fox's and Captain James's attempts for a north-wefl 

 paflage through Hudfon's bay in the years 1631 and 1633, we hear of 

 no more fuch till the year 1667, that fundry perfons of worth and dif- 

 tindion who had been for fome years before confuhing about that voy- 

 age and difcovery, fitted out a fliip with merchandize from London, 

 imder the command of Captain Gillam, who pafled through Hudfon's 

 ftraits, and fo into Bafliin's bay, as far as 75 degrees northward : next 

 he failed as far fouthward as to 51 degrees, odd minutes, where, in the 

 river he named after Prince Rupert, one of the adventurers, he built 

 Charles's fort, the firfl we ever had in Hudfon's bay ; and he was the 

 firfl: that ever pradifed any thing like real commerce in that bay. Gil- 

 lam carried with him two Frenchmen, who had lived at C)uebec in Ca- 

 nada, and who, upon the information of an Indian there, that the 

 French, by travelling farther north, would come to a great bay or fea, 

 had gone home to France to folicit for fiiips to fail into Hudlbn's bay, 

 but their propofal being flighted by the French court, our ambafi^ador 

 there picked them up and fent them to England, where the noble ad- 

 venturers employed them as above 



* 



* Before this time a fmall fettlement had been tague the EnglilTi ambafTador. Grofeillier had alfo 



formed by fome Engliflimen, who had fortified a fo\ind fome of the men belonging to a fliip from 



poll on Port-Nelfon river. They were furprifed Bofton in New-England, who had been left at 



and made prifoaers by Grofeillier, the chief of the Port-Nclfon river by their Ihip driving out to fea. 



two Frenchmen mentioned by Mr. Anderfon. Thefe particulars, together with a circumllan- 



Some difputes, between Grofeillier and thofe he tial account of Gillam's voyage, may be found in 



was connefted with in Canada, obliged him to Forjler's Difcoiieries in the North, p. 376 of the 



Lck for redrefs at Paris, where the negleft of the Englidi tranflation. M. 

 government threw him into the arms of Mr. Mon- 



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