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A True and Exa& Hiflory 



(ilme 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 5 fo that now our ftjiple food of the Ship , was 

 onely Beefe, a fewPealCjand for dtink, water, that had been fifteen 

 inonths out of England : finding how ill we were accommodated, 

 we defired the Mafter to put in at Fiall^ one of the Iflands of 

 A'Lores^ a little to refreOi our (elves, which Ifland was not much 

 out of our way 5 but the Mafter loth to be at the charge of re-viftu- 

 alling,andlo{sof time,refus'd to hearken to us 5 and being a requeft 

 muchtohisdifadvantage, flighted us, and went on, till he was paft 

 recovery of thofe Iflands, and then a violent ftorm took us, and in 

 that ftorm a (ad accident , whidh happened by meancs of a Pot- 

 tugal, who being a Seaman, and trufted at the Helme , who 

 though he have a compals before him , yet is mainly guided by 

 the Quarter Mafter that Conns the Ship above, upon the Quarter 

 Deck, whofeDiredions the Portugal miftook, being not well verft 

 in the Englifh tongue, and fo fteer d the Ship, fo neer the wind, 

 that ftie came upon her ftayes, which caufed fuch a fluttering of the 

 Sayles , againft the Mafts , ( the Wind being extream violent ) as 

 they tore all in pieces 5 Nor was there any other Sayles in the Ship, 

 all being (pent in the long voyage to Guinny 5 nor any thread in 

 the (hip 5 to mend them , (b that now the Mafter ( though too 

 late ) began to repent him of not taking our Coun(el to go to 



But how to redeem us out of this certain, ruine, neither the 

 Mafter, nor his Mates could tell 5 for though the Winds blew 

 never ib (aire, we lay ftill at Hull 5 and to makeufe of the Tyde, 

 in the Maine, was altogether \^ine and hopeleflfe. Our 

 Viduals too, being at a very low ebb, could not laft us many 

 dayes. So that all that were in the (hip, both Sea-men and Pat 

 (engers, 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, relblv'd, the Paflen- 

 gers fhould be dreft and eaten , before any of them (hould goe to 

 the Pot 5 And fo the next thing to be thought on w^s , which 

 of the PalTengers (hould dye firfl: 5 for they were all defign'dto be 

 eaten So they refolved upon the fattelt and healthfuUeft firft, 

 aslikelieft to bethe bcft meat, and fothe next, and next, as they 

 eate Cherries, the beft firft ; In this Eleftion I thought my felf 

 fecure, for my body being nothing but a bagg^fuU of Hydro - 

 pick humours, they knew not which way to drefs me, but I 

 fliould di(rolve and come to nothing in the Cooking , At laft the 

 Cooper took me into his confideration, and (aid, that if they would 

 hearken to him, there might be yet fome u(c made of me 3 and 

 that was in his opinion the beft 5 that (eefng my body was not of 

 a confiftcnce to (atisfie their hunger , it might (erve to quench their 

 thirft. So I faying a ftiort prayer againft dr6ught and thirft, 

 rcmain'd in expedation of my doome with the reft , 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 fb 



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