120 A True and Exatt Hiftory 
(fame Remedy muft ferve as for the other, Patience. The next 
thing wanting was Porke 5 and the laft, Beere, which put us clean 
out of Patience; fo that now our ftaple food of the Ship , was 
onely Beefe, a few Peafe,and for drink, water, that had been fifteen 
months out of Exglazd : finding how ill we were accommodated, 
we defired the Mafter to put in at Fiall, one of the Iflands of} 
Azores, a little to refreth our felves, which Ifland was not much | 
Out ofour way ; butthe Mafter loth tobe at the charge of re-victu- 
alling, and lof of time, refus'd to hearken tous 5 and being a requeft 
much to his difadvantage, flighted us, and went on, till he was les 
recovery of thofe Iflands, and then a violent {torm took us, and in 
that ftorm a fad accident , which happened by meanes of a Por-{ _ 
tugal, who being a Seaman, and trufted at the Helme , who} 
though he have a compafs before Rim, yet is mainly guided by 
the Quarter Mafter that Gonns the Ship above, upon the Quarter 
Deck; whofe Directionsthe Portugal miftook, being not well verft 
ILL 
e uponher ftayes, which caufed fuch a fluttering of the 
Sayles, aft th tts, ( the d-being extream violent ) as} 
they tore all in pieces ; Nor was there any other Sayles in the Ship, 
all being fpent in the long voyage to Guizxy 5 nor any thread in 
: the fhip, to mend them, fo that now the Mafter ( though too} 
a late) began to repent him of not taking our Counfel to go to 
) | Fill, | | SS ae 
- But how to redeem us out of this *teftain ruine, neither the 
/ aiter, nor his Mates could tell 5 for though the Winds blew 
) never fo faire, we lay ftill at Hull; and to makeufe ofthe Tyde, 
in the Maine, was altogether vaine and hopeleffe. Our 
Victuals too, being at a very low ebb, could not laft us many 
dayes. So that all that were in che fhip, both Sea-men and Paf- 
fengers, were gazing one upon another, what to doe when} 
our.fmall remainder of provifion came to an end. But the 
Sea-men, who were the greater number, refolv'd, the Paffen- 
gers fhould be dreft and caten, before any of them fhould goe to 
the Pot; And fo the next thing to be thought on was, which 
of the Paffengers fhould dye firft , for they wereall defigh’dto be 
teatén - So they refolved upon the fatteft and healthfulleft firft, 
= ie aslikelie{t to be the beft meat, and fothe next, and next, asthey| - 
3 eate Cherries, the beft firft: In this Election I thought my felf}. 
.  |fecure, for my body being nothing but a bagg-full of Hydro- 
pick humours, they knew not which way to drefs me, but I| — 
fhould diffolve ad come to nothing in the Cooking; Atlaftthe| ~ 
| Cooper took me into his confideration, and faid, that if they would 
hearken to him, there might be yet fome ufe made of me 3 and 
that was in his opinion the beft 5 that feetng my body was not of | 
a confiftence. to fatisfie their hunger , it might ferve to quench their | 
‘thifft, So I faying a fhort prayer againft drought and thirft, 
jremain‘d in expectation of my pee with thereft ; So merry thefe 
kind of men can make themfelves, in the midft of dangers, who are | 
fo accuftomed to them ; and Certainly thofe men, whofe lives are fo 
frequently | 
that fhe cam 
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in the Englith tongue, and fo fteer'd the Ship, fo neer the wind,}| ~~ 
