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slumber from his wounds and weariness. Here, 
under colour of a dream, he gives the reins to his 
poetical invention. Olympus becomes the theatre 
of contention ; Mars, the friend of the English, 
calls for vengeance on their wrongs ; while Vul- 
can, to whom it seems Guinea had been assigned 
in full heritage, expresses a determination to 
make its invaders feel farther effects of his ire. 
From words the two deities proceed to blows, till 
Jupiter himself is alarmed. On inquiring into the 
case, the sovereign deity decides, that the English 
shall suffer no more, but shall be conveyed home 
in safety with a prosperous gale ; but that, if ever 
they again be seen upon *^ Ginnie shore," he will 
give them without reserve into the hands of Vul- 
can. The poet then awaking, shears the exulting 
cries of the sailors, and finds the vessel under sail 
with a fair wind for England. 
There is another narrative of this voyage writ- 
ten in prose by a person of the name of Rutter, 
who mentions several adventures and encounters 
with the Portuguese, but takes no notice of this 
most serious conflict, which forms the subject of 
Mr Baker's effusions. This, with some, has given 
rise to a doubt whether the latter's narrative may 
not be referred to the class of metrical romances. 
Hakluyt, however, though in his second edition 
he gives a preference to the sober prose of Rutter, 
yet alludes to Baker without expressing any 
