Travels into L e v a n t. 
Part I 
CHAP. LXXXVI. 
Our departure from Bouquer, and our getting on 
Board the Ship 
Monday the third of Fehrnary, the Wind flackening a little, (though k 
blew ftill a ftrong gale from Weft) we went into our boat and pM 
out from Bouquer about eight a Clock in the Morning: In a good hours tiojc 
we came to the Ship, and immediately after Don PhUippo came. This ftiip 
carryed thirty Guns, of which the greatefl ?;ghteen pound Bail, the fmaller 
twelve Pounders, except two little Brafs pieces in the Guddie, which carried 
but five pounders a piece. 
There were two of thefe Guns in the fleerage, which were charged with 
Bunches of Grapes, that is to fay, clufters of little leaden Bullets, fplit ia 
the middle, that yet ftick all together, but when they are (hot, fcatter into fo 
many pieces: In this place there were two port-holes to run out the Guns,, 
if the Ihip were attacked, and came to a clofe Fight : fo that there beirag 
two alfo in the Fore-caftle, and two more in the Cuddie, charged in the 
fame manner, they would fo fcower the Deck fore and aft, that I believe 
if two hundred men fhould have come on Board, they would all have had '' 
Seopa Copena. their (hare. Thefe Guns in the Streights are called Scopa Coperta^th^t is to fay, ,' 
a covered Broom, and when they fire them, they ring a little Bell, that thofe 
of the Ihips xompany who are at the other end of the fliip, may fall flat on * 
their Bellies,and receive no hurt. ■ 
Our (hip had fixty four men a board, (he was very great, had fair large 
Cabins, and two Decks. In the lower Deck they had a very convenient Pump; 
it is an Iron-Chain in form of a Chaplet, that reaches down to the Sink, 
having little pieces of Leather about half as long as ones hand, and fome- 
what hollow, and fattened to it at every half foots diftance ; this is turned | 
by two Handles, one on each fide, and it is incredible how much water 
it will raife ; infomuch, that if a (hip were full, (he might be emptied by 
fuch a Pump in two hours time. So foon as we were come on Board, we 
hired every one of us a Cabin to lye in ; for my part I hired one for fix 
Crowns upon the Deck in the Ships Waft. Thefe Cabins are like prefles 
made along the flaip fide: I put my quilt into mine, and crept into it by a 
little hole, but being within, I neither felt cold nor the toffing of the 
Veflel, for I was in the middle of the Ships length. There were fo many fuch 
Cabins in this Ship, that not only the Officers, but all the Sea-men likewife, 
had every one his Cabin ; fome alfo lay in Hammocks, made faft to the 
Deck above, which is very commodious, for let the Ship tofs never fo much, ! 
it is not to be felt in thefe Hammocks which hang always perpendicular. v ' 
The Englifli are very good Sea-men, and obferve excellent order on board 
their Ships, not difmayed at all at bad Weather, and fo exad in keeping 
account of the (hips way every day, that during all our Voyage, I never 
knew them fix miles out in their reckoning. They meafure the Ships way 
with a Log or little flat and very thin piece of Wood tied to a line, and 
when they throw it into the Sea, they turn a half minute Sand-Glafs, (there 
being an hundred and twenty of them in an hour) and then drop the Log 
from the Stern, letting the line run off, till the Glafs be out ; then they 
pull in the line and reckon how much of it hath been in the water, every 
feven fathom of the line making a mile in an hour ^ this they did every time 
the Wind encreafed or abated, never grudging their labour, and the fouc 
Mates were always prefent when they heaved the Log, who after it was done, 
went to their feveral Cabins, and fet down how much the fliip had run, for 
every one of them keeps ajournai. This is very ufeful to know how far 
the ihip is from Land, and to prevent running a-(hoar in the Night-time -, in 
(hort. 
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