108 PKEPAKATIONS. [1693. 



one hundred and fifty pound Weight, and we made a Sail as 

 well as we could. 



Every Man was Industrious as it lay in his Power to be, 

 to carry on this Work, and the two years being almost 

 expir'd, we were so forward in it, that the Bark was Lanch'd, 

 no one of us sparing his Labour^ on this Occasion, 



As for Provisions we dry'd^ Lamentins Flesh, we fill'd the 

 Barrels we had for that use with Fresh Water ; the little 

 Biskit that was left us we put aboard, and supply'd our selves 

 with Land and Water Melons. The latter woii'd keep a 

 long time ; What I have said is true, we began the building 

 our Boat knowing we had no Compass,^ and so we finish'd 

 it ; but every Body seeking for something Useful towards 

 supplying its Place, one of us found a little Solar Quadrant 

 of Loadstone"^ which cost him three Pence at Amsterdo.m ; 



1 lu orig. : " a force de bras et d'epaules." 



2 In orig. : "nous fimes boucancr." From this word comes our word 

 "buccaneer". 



3 Maximilian Misson, supposed by some to have written Leguat's pre- 

 face, and to have translated his Voyage, in his New Voyage to Italy, 

 1637, observes, vol. i, p. 640, that " the city of Amalphis boasts of 

 having given birth to Flavio Gioia, as being the Inventor of the Com- 

 pass (in the year 1300), upon which M"" Magnati cites the following 

 Verse of Panormita : ' Prima dedit Nautis usum Magnetis Amalphis'." 

 But Father Fournier, the author of a learned work on navigation en- 

 titled Ilydrographia, shews (p. 399), by the verses which he takes out of 

 the Poet Guyot ("Auteur du Roman qu'il intitula la Bible de Guyot"), 

 who lived one hundred years before Gioia was born (at the end of the 

 twelfth century), that the use of the Buussok, then called Marinette, 

 was known in France at that time : — 



" Icelle Estoille ne se muet 

 Un Art font qui mentir ne puet 

 Par vertu de la Marinette, 

 Uue pierre laide & noirette 

 Oil le fer volontiers se ioint," &c. 



4 In orig. : " un petit quadran solaire aimant^," a sun-dial with a com- 

 pass to allow of adjustment. The one mentioned by Leguat appears to 

 have been a toy pocket-dial. Such instruments were much in use in 

 the latter part of tlie 17th and beginning of the 18th century, before 



