20 A Voyage to 



taiits, becaufe we had made a Signal as Friends, whicf? 

 Captain Salvador had agreed on a Year before, with the 

 Sieurs Roche and Befard, Captains of the Joyeux and the 

 Lyjidore, who had anchor 1 d at Arazatiba, being a white 

 Pendant under an Englijh one, at the Main-maft ; but we 

 had err'd in firing but one Gun inftead of two. Befides, 

 they were otherwife frighted by the News of the Taking 

 of Rio de Janeiro, which Monfieur du Guay Trouin had 

 lately poffefs'd himfelf of, and ranfom'd, to revenge the 

 Infolence of the Portugueze towards the French Prifoners 

 of War, and their Commander Monfieur le Clerc. In Ihort, 

 as we were going to feek other Dwellings that had People 

 in them, we faw three Men coming towards us in a P/- 

 ragna, being fent by the Governor or Captain of the Ifland, 

 to defire us not to land at the Dwellings j that, having 

 been difcover'd to be French, the Women, in a Fright, 

 were already fled to the Mountains ; that, if we would da 

 them no Harm, they would let us partake of the Provifions 

 and Refrefhments they had, as they had done to other 

 French Ships which put in there before. We received thofe 

 MefTengers kindly, and fent them aboard our Ship in the 

 Boat belonging to the Mary, attended by ours, which we 

 quitted to go and view the Anchoring at Arazatiba, as has 

 been faid. 



See the Chart We firft pafs'd thro* a little Streight, about 200 Fathom 

 c f*he Ifland, wide, fbrm'd by the Ifland and the Continent, where there 

 4te 111 is but two Fathom and a half Water. Then we began to 

 difcover fine Dwellings on both Sides, to which we went 

 not, becaufe we had promis'd the MefTengers not to go. 

 We founded all the Way we went, but never found Wa- 

 ter enough for a Vetfel of fix Guns. We coafted along fe- 

 veral fine Creeks of the Ifland, till Night coming u-pon us, 

 we were oblig'd to put in to Land. Chance led us into a 

 little Creek, where we had the good Fortune to find Wa- 

 ter, and a little Fifli we took very feafonably, to which 

 a fliarp Appetite was the beft Sawce in the World. There 

 we fpent the Night upon our Guard againft the Tigers, 



