Chap. I. William 
of red Wood, and failed exceeding fwiftly. When they 
came near the Butch Ship, they leaped fome of them into 
the Water, and fwam to it, having their Hands full of 
Cocoas and Ubes-roots, which they barter’d for Nails 
and Beads, giving Four or Five Cocoas for a Nail, or a 
fmall String of Beads, fo that the Butch traded that Day 
for 180 Cocoas ; and this Trade bringing fo many of them 
aboard, that they knew not how to ftir in their Ship, 
they fent their Shallop to the other Ifland, to fee for a 
more convenient Place to lie in ; but the Shallop, being 
juft got otit, was prefently befet by a vaft Number of 
Canoes, filled with a mad Sort of People, armed with 
great Clubs, that forthwith boarded her, and attacked the 
Men ; they, firing their Mufquets upon them, were laughed 
at by the Savages, in that, with fo muchNoife, they had 
done fo little Harm ; but, at the next Difcharge, when 
one of them was fhot through the Breaft, they had done 
making Sport with the Mufquets, and learned to keep their 
Diftance a little better for the Time to come. They were 
lufty well-proportioned Men, and excellent Swimmers-, but 
naked, thievifti, and very fantaftical in drefting of their 
Hair ; fome wore it lhort, others long, fome curled, and 
others platted and folded up in feveral Fafhions. The 
1 2th, they came in their Canoes again, laden with Cocoas, 
Bananas, Ubes-roots, Hogs, and frefh Water ; there 
was a great Contention among them who fhould get firft 
to the Ship, and thofe that were behind being fhut out by 
them before, fince they could not leap over their, Heads, 
they jumped into the Water, and fwam under the Canoes, 
holding Bunches of Cocoas in their Mouths, and climbed 
up the Side of the Ship like fo many Rats, and that in 
fuch Swarms, that they were forced to keep them off with 
Staves : The Butch bartered with them that Day for 1200 
Cocoas, which made Twelve to every Man’s Share, they 
being Eighty-five in Number. The Negroes wondered 
very much at the Strength of the Butch Ship, and fome 
of them crept down under it, and knocked at the Bottom 
of it with Stones, to try how ftrong it was. The King 
of thofe Savages fent a black Hog to the Ship for a 
Prefent, charging the Meffenger to take no Reward ; and 
quickly after he came himfelf, in a large Ship of their 
Fafhion, attended with Thirty-five Canoes : When he was 
a little Way from the Ship, he began to call and cry out 
aloud, and all his Company did the like, this being their 
way of bidding Strangers welcome. The Butch received 
them with Drums and Trumpets, which mightily pleafed 
and furprifed them ; and they, to teftify their Senfe of 
Honour that was done them, ufed all their Ceremonies of 
bowing their Heads, and clapping their Hands together 
over them, which they are accuftomed to upon fuch Oc- 
cafions. The King, out of his Ship, fent them a Matien 
for a Prefent ; which Kindnefs they requited with the Gift 
of an old Hatchet, rufty Nails, Glafs Beads, and a Piece 
of Linen Cloth, Things which his Majefty was highly pleafed 
with, and made many a fine Bow for. He was not to be 
known from his Subje&s by any Enfign of Dignity, but 
the Reverence they fhewed him -, for, as they were all 
naked, fo he had no other Apparel but that which Nature 
gave him : He would not be perfuaded to come on board, 
though the Prince his Son did, and was well entertained 
there. The 13th at Noon, the Ship was furrounded with 
a whole Armada of Ships and Canoes, the King beino- 
there himfelf in Perfon ; and in the Twenty-three Ships^ 
and Forty-five Canoes, that compofed the Fleet, no lefs 
then Seven or Eight hundred Men. They pretended at 
firft to come only upon Defign of Trade, and told them 
by Signs, that they were their very good Friends, and 
would fain have them fail to the other Eland, where they 
fhould find much better Accommodation in all refpedts : 
But, notwithftanding all their fair Pretences, they fufpe&ed 
fome Mifchief was hatching by thefe Barbarians : Neither 
were their Sufpicions unjuft ; for they quickly began to call 
themfelves all round the Ship, and incloied it on every 
Side ; and then, with a great Outcry upon the Alarm of 
a Gun, they gave the Affault : The King’s Ship was the 
foremoft in the A&ion, and ruflied in with fuch a Force at 
the Butch Ship, that the Heads of the Two Canoes be- 
fore it were dallied to Pieces with the Violence of the 
Shock ; the reft came on as well as they could, and 
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fhowered in great Stories upon them : But the Butch threw 
in fuch Quantities of Ball amongft them out of their 
Mufquets •, and Three great Guns loaded with Mufquet-fhot 
and Nails, that all thofe in the Canoes j that lay within 
Reach, were glad to leave them, and feek their Refuge in 
the Water. Being thus put to Rout, they difperfed them- 
felves, and fhifted for their Lives as well as they could. 
Thefe treacherous People were the Inhabitants of the lower 
of thofe Two Elands, which therefore they called ‘Traitors 
Ijland. 
16. They failed from hence the lame Day* and held 
their Courfe Weft and Weft by South ; and the 14th, came 
to another Eland, about Thirty Leagues diftant from the 
former. They called this Hope Ijland , becaufe they hoped 
here to meet with fome Refrefhment. But, finding no 
Ground at the Eland, they fent out their Shallop to found 
along the Shore, which returned with the News of a 
ftony Bottom at Forty Fathom Water, about a Muiquet- 
lhot from the Shore, fometimes Twenty and Thirty Fa- 
thom, and at a little Diftance again no Bottom at all. The 
Indians came hither with Tenor Twelve Canoes to barter j 
they brought a fmall Parcel of Flying-filh, for which they 
had Beads in Exchange ; and whatfoever the one gave* or 
the other received, was conveyed on both Sides by a Rope 
let down by the Stern of the Ship. But thefe Indians went 
from this Trade prefently to another which was worle, viz. 
robbing the Shallop, which they found employed in found- 
ing at fome Diftance from the Ship : They offered to board 
her, and drag her away ; but they in the Shallop, with 
their Guns, Pikes, and Cutlaffes, gave them fuch an En- 
tertainment, that, having feen Two of their Company 
killed, they were glad to hurry away as faft as they could ; 
and, while thefe were beaten and maul’d upon the Water* 
their Friends flood and cried for them alhore. This Ifland 
was full of black Cliffs, that were green on the Top, wa£ 
well ftocked with Cocoa-trees, and feveral Sorts of Herbs. 
There were feveral Houfes along the Sea-fide, and a great 
Village - clofe by the Strand. There was no convenient 
Anchoring here, it being extremely rough hear the Ifland ; 
for which Reafon they left it, and failed away South-weft, 
intending to purfue the Difcovery of a Southern Con- 
tinent. 
17. The 1 8th, they were under 16 0 5', where they had 
very uncertain Weft Winds ; and now they began to con- 
fult about the further profecuting of their Voyage. Wil- 
liam Schovten the Mafter told them, that they were now 
at leaft 1 600 Leagues Eaftward from the Coaft of Peru ; 
and, as they had not yet difeovered any Part of the South 
Land, fo neither was there any Likelihood of doing it; 
that they had failed much farther Weftward than they 
firft intended ; and that, going on that Courfe which they 
had hitherto purfued, they fhould certainly fall Southward 
upon New Guiney , where, if they found no Paffage, they 
muft unavoidably be loft ; fince it would be impoffible to 
go back Eaftward again, by reafon of the Eafterly Winds, 
that blew continually. Upon thefe and other Accounts, 
hepropofed it, as the beft way, to alter their prefent Courfe, 
and fail Northward, fo as to fall Northward upon New 
Guiney. This Propofal, backed with fo many good Rea- 
fons, was embraced by ail the Company, fo that they im- 
mediately determined to hold a North North- weft Courfe* 
The 19th, their Courfe Northward, they had Two Iflands 
at Noon about Eight Leagues diftant from them, lying 
North-eaft by Eaft, and that feemed to be a Cannon-fhot 
diftant from each other. Upon this they fleered North- 
eaft, intending to fail about the Land, having fair Wea- 
ther, but a fmall Gale, to bring them along. The 20th, 
they continued ftill labouring to get to Land. The 2 jft, 
being about a League from the Land, they Were vifited 
by Two Canoes, to whom though they gave no manner 
of Provocation, yet they were rudely infulted by fome of 
them, who began to halloo, and threaten to dart their 
wooden Affagayes at them ; but, upon the Difcharge of 
the Guns from the Ship, thele bold Hedtors began £0 
fcamper, and that in no little Hafte and Confufion, leaving 
behind them Two of their Company dead, and a Shirt 
which they had ftolen out of the Ship, and had now no 
Stomach to carry away with them. The 2 2d, there came, 
more of them to the Ship, but upon very friendly and 
Q*. ; * peaceable 
