2 Some View Voyages 



had refolv'd upon the utter deftru&ion of the Iro- 

 que(e> who are a very Warlike and Savage People. 

 Thefe Barbarians befriend the Englijlj, upon the ac- 

 count of the Succours they receive from "em j but 

 they are enemies to us, upon the apprehenfion of 

 being deftroy'd by us fome time or other. The 

 General 1 fpoke of but now, expeded that the King 

 would fend him feven or eight hundred Men ; but 

 when we fet out from Rochel the feafon was fo far 

 advanced, that our three Companies of Marines 

 were reckon'd a fufficient Venture. 



I met with nothing in our Paffage that was dif- 

 agreeable, abating for a Storm that alarm'd us for 

 fome days, upon the precipice of the bank of New- 

 found-Land, where the Waves fwell prodigioufly, 

 ven when the Winds are low. In that Storm our 

 Frigat received fome rude (hocks from the Sea ; but 

 in regard that fuch accidents are ufual in that Voy- 

 age, they made no impreffion upon the old fea- 

 fon'd Sailors. As for my part, I could not pre- 

 tend to that pitch of indifference ; for having ne- 

 ver made fuch a Voyage before, I was fo alarm'd 

 in feeing the Waves mount up to the Clouds, that 

 I made more vows to Neptune, than the brave Ido- 

 menam did in his return from the Wars of Troy. 

 After we made the bank, the Waves funk, and the 

 Wind dwindled, and the Sea became fo fmooth 

 and eafie, that we could not work our Ship. You 

 can fcarce imagine what quantities of Cod-fifh 

 were catch'd there by our Seamen, in the fpaceof a 

 quarter of an hour; for though we had thirty two 

 fathom Water, yet the Hook was no fooner at the 

 bottom, than the Fifh was catch'd j fo that they 

 had nothing to do but to throw in, and take up 

 without interruption: But after all, fuch is the mif- 

 fortune of this Fifhery, that it do's not fucceed but 

 upon certain banks, which are commonly paft o- 

 ver without flopping. However, as we were plen- 



