150 TEEACHEKY OF VALLEAU. [1693. 



the Company have a Garden. As this was ?i Force-put} we 

 ixnmediately resolv'd to undergo what was impos'd on lis, 

 and transported our Goods in seven or eight Turns ; but 

 which were very fatiguing, and wherein we many times lost 

 our way by traversing untrack^d Forests. 



Before we continue the thread of this Kelation, it will not, 

 I imagine, be foreign to the purpose, to acquaint you that as 

 soon as we arrived at the Lodge, we found the Surgeon of our 

 Vessel, one Clas, there, with the Sicur Jacques Guiguer, one of 

 those Pilgrims formerly mention'd,^ whom Valleau, our Cap- 

 tain, had forc'd from us at Eodrigo. He had his Eeasons for 

 playing us that Trick, and I suppose he had others for leav- 

 ing Guiguer and Clas in Isle Maurice. For my part I shan^t 

 trouble my self to dive into these Matters ; I shall only tell 

 you in a word or two, what these two Men told us. They 

 acquainted us, that a little after they had weigh'd Anchor in 

 the Bay of Rodrigo, the Captain open'd our Letters, read 

 them without scruple to the whole Ship's Crew, and after- 

 wards threw them overboard : Whatever Complaints we 

 made concerning this ill Treatment, had no effect upon him, 

 and, to say Truth, we expected no better from him. They 

 inform'dus likewise, that two days after their Arrival at Isle 

 Maurice, Valleau continuing there at the same time, an Eng- 

 lish Captain^ chancM to come in with his Boat, having sav'd 

 himself from Ship-wreck with his whole Crew, when his Ship 

 bulg'd on the Sands near Bodrigo.'^ That the said Captain 



shown on the Admiralty chart, the distance being about 20 miles, but 

 a railway now connects the two places. Flacq was in Prior's times dis- 

 tinguished for pretty scenery, gardens, and pleasant habitations; the 

 district has now some 50,000 inhabitants. (Prior, /, c, p. 53, vide 

 infra.) 



1 In orig. : " un faire-le-faut." 2 C"f. supra, p. 55. 



3 In orig.: "un Capitaine Anylois, avec son equipage, y avoit abordo 

 dans une Chaloupe, so sauvant du naufrage de son Vaissoau qui etoit 

 echoiie sur un banc de sable (sans espoir d'etre relevo par le Hot) assez 

 pres de Rodrijjnc.^'' 



* Plank found, see p. I(i7, anfc. '' I5nlg'il'\ probably for "bilged". 



