40O A V O Y A G E t O Book IX, 



particulars relating to the fiege, in which I have rea- 

 fon to believe he did not fpare himfelft 



On the 4th of October, we embarked on board 

 bur refpedive Jdiips. The fquadron confided of the 

 Princefs Mary, commanded by captain Edwards, who 

 as oldeft captain was commodore, the Sunderland, the 

 Superbe, and the Canterbury : the three firfl of fixty 

 guns, and the laft of forty-fix or fiftyi The Heron 

 and Charmante had alfo been fitted up as armed fhips : 

 the only ones remaining in the harbour, being the 

 Vigilante, now Repaired from the damages fhe had 

 received in the aftion, and the Cheften 



My papers, as I have before obferved. Sir Peter 

 Warren delivered to captain Brett, with orders on 

 his arrival in England to remit them to the admi- 

 ralty. On the 19th of Odlober, the fquadron put 

 to fca, fleering for NeVs^foundland. On the 2 2d, iil 

 the evening we had fight of Cape Raze. On the 

 23d the wind being at S. W. the fquadron tacked 

 for the bay of Bulls, where it intended to anchor ; 

 but that being found impracticable, on the 24th it 

 entered that of Ferryland, and remained there till all 

 the merchant fhips, which were taking in their lad- 

 ing of cod in the other harbours of the ifland, had 

 rendezvoufed : the method of this filhery and com- 

 merce, as likewife the ifland itfelf being little knov/n 

 in Europe, I fhall give as good an account of it, as 

 my late fituation will admit of ; the moft innocent 

 queftions or undefigning remarks, being fufpicious in 

 a prifoner. 



The capital of the ifland of Newfoundland, fo 

 famous for the cod-fifhery along its coafls and the 

 Neighbouring feas, is Placentia. Its firfl difcovery 

 and peopling was owing to t he Spaniards before the 

 year 1550, as the very name of the capital, and fe- 

 veral other capes and parts of it, as Cape Buena 

 Vifla, Punta Rica, fufficiently demonilrate. But 

 probably the fettlement they made here was of little 



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