68 The V O Y 
where there 'Were Several Dutch Ships, in order to 
put on board them the Merchandize taken in the Prizes, 
that it might be immediately tranfported to Holland. On 
the i zth, they came to an Anchor in that Road, where 
they found the Overyjfel, a Dutch Man of War, and Three 
other Veffels of the fame Nation, and Two other Ships, 
One Englijh, and One French . The Captain came on 
board the Admiral the next Day, and informed him., that 
his Ship’s Company had mutinied, and had deprived him 
of his Command. The Admiral immediately ordered the 
Authors of this Difturbance to be put in Irons on board 
his Ship, directing, at the lame time, the Overyfel to 
take the belt Part of the Sugar on board, and to prepare 
for her Return to Holland . It was refolved alfo to fend 
back with her the Yacht called the Greyhound, on account 
©f her heavy failing, and to keep the little Spanijh Ship in 
her head, on board which were put the Captain of the 
Y’acht, and his Crew. They likewife refolved to keep an- 
other of the Spanijh Vefifels, becaufe Ihe was new, well built, 
and a good Sailor, and becaufe they were but indifferently 
provided with Yachts. On the 18 th, the Prifoners from 
on board the Overyjfel were examined ; and, the Captain 
having defired Seven Officers of the Fleet to affift him, 
they were brought to their Trials on the 21ft, when Four, 
who were fully proved to have formed a Defign of running 
away with the Ship, were hanged at the Yard’s-arm * and 
Three more, who were deep in the Mutiny, but not the 
Authors of it, were firft Keelhawled, and then put on 
board the Fleet to ferve without Wages. To fpeak the 
Truth, however, one great Caufe of this Mifchief was, 
the Captain’s not knowing well how to maintain his Au- 
thority. On the 24th, the Fleet failed out of Safia Bay, 
confifting now of Sixteen Sail ; and, in the Evening, the 
Overyjfel , the Greyhound , and the Two Barks, quitted the 
reft, in order to return to Holland. 
8. On July 5. the Fleet anchored in the Road of St. 
Vincent , which is extremely fafe and commodious ; and, as 
It was well known, that the rainy Seafon would not com- 
mence there in a Month, and that it already began to rain 
at Sierra Leona , it was refolved to difarm the Ships here, 
and to do every thing that was intended to be done there, 
except taking in W ater, which could not be done, becaufe 
the Hoops of their Water-calks were bad, and there was 
no Wood in that Neighbourhood to repair them. The 
Rear-admiral was thereupon ordered to go to the Bland of 
St. Antonio with Three Shallops, and to carry with him 
fome of the Portuguefe Prifoners, to try, if poffible, to 
obtain Leave to gather Lemons and Oranges by fair means, 
fince otherwife they muft be taken by foul. It was alfo 
refolved, that all the lick Men ffiould go on ffiore, and the 
Two Companies ffiould be left there as a Guard, and be 
regularly relieved once a Week •, they likewife dug a Well 
on Shore, which foon furniffied them with good Water. 
On the 7 th, the Rear-admiral returned from St. Antonio , 
and reported, that he had been very well received by the 
Negroes, who ffiewed him vaft Quantities of Oranges and 
Lemons, together with Fig-trees, the Fruit of which were 
not ripe. 1 hey likewife put into his Hands Four Letters, 
the laft of which was dated from on board the Leyden, all 
certifying, that the Dutch Ships, which at any time put 
in there, had been received well. On the 9th, there was 
a Sermon preached in the Bland of St. Vincent. They 
took there every Night a great Number of Tortoifes, and 
as much Fiffi as they could tell what to do with ; but they 
found it difficult to get any Goats at firft * but by degrees 
they grew Ibetter acquainted with the manner of hunting 
them, and every Ship got at leaft Fifteen or Sixteen in 
a Day for the Ufe of the Company. On the 2 2d, the 
Vice-admiral embarked on board the new Yacht, which 
was now called the Greyhound , taking with him Two armed 
Shallops, and all the Prifoners, except the Spanijh Count 
Oforio ”, thefe they landed on the Ifland, giving them their 
Liberty, and allowing each Man Twelve Reals, that is, 
about an Englijh Crown, for his Subfiftence. There they 
fupplied themfelves with about 22,000 Oranges, and left 
a Letter with the Negroes, in the nature of a Certificate 
of their good Behaviour. On July 25. they failed from 
thefe Blands, in order to profecutf their Voyage. 
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9 - The Ifiands of St. V ificent , and Si. Antonio , are 
fituated the fartheft to the Weft of all the Blands of the 
Cape de Verd •, they lie from 16 0 30' to 18 0 North Lati- 
tude j at the Diftance of about Two Leagues from each 
other. The Bay of St. Vincent , where they anchored, 
lies in 1 6° 56 ; they found 18, 20, and 25 Fathom 
Water, the Bottom being a firm Sand. The Bland of 
St. Vincent is rocky, barren, and uncultivated, having very 
little freffi Water. They found, however, a final! Spring* 
which might have ferved Two or Three Ships j but, by 
digging Wells, they obtained plenty of Water, which 
they thought tolerable, though it was fomewhat brackiffi, 
to which they attributed the bloody Flux, that began foon 
after to reign in their Fleet. The Goats there are very fat* 
and the beft-tafted in the World. The Tortoifes they took 
were from Two to Three Feet long, and they caught 
them as they came affiore to lay their Eggs, which they 
cover with Sand, and then leave them to be hatched by 
the Sun. The Seafon of their laying is from Augujl to 
February •, all the reft of the Year they remain in the Sea. 
The Sailors efteemed them a wholfome and pleafant Food, 
tailing rather like Fleffi than Fiffi. This Ifland is abso- 
lutely defert, but once a Year the Inhabitants of St. Lucia 
come thither, in order to catch Tortoifes for their Oil, 
as alfo to hunt Goats for the fake of their Skins, which 
they fend to Portugal , and the Fleffi they carry to St. Iago , 
where it is falted, dried, and exported to Brafil. There 
are no Fruit-trees in this Bland, except a few wild Figs, 
which grow in the very Heart of it •, and the only Product 
of the Ifland, befides, is Coloquintida, which is a very 
rough Purge. The Country is exceffively dry, excepting 
the rainy Seafon, which begins in Augujl , and ends in. 
February , though not very regularly. The Ifland of St. 
Antonio is inhabited by Negroes, to the Number of abou$ 
500, Men, Women, and Children ; they live there as well 
as in the other Iflands, chiefly upon their Goats. There 
is a little Cotton, and but a little. On the Sea-fide there 
is a vaft Plantation of Oranges and Lemons, where they 
can gather 50,000 in a Seafon. Hie Negroes very readily 
trucked them for Mercery Goods •, they faw neither Hog, 
Sheep, or Fowl, upon the Ifland. On the 4th of Augujl y 
they found themfelves in 1 1° 30' of Latitude, the Wind at 
South-weft. They endured, from the Time they failed 
from the Ifland of St. Vincent , continual Rain ; the Incon- 
veniencies arifing from which, joined to the Effedls of the 
bad Water they drank there, occafioned an epidemic 
Diforder, which carried off abundance of People. 
10. On the 1 ft, they faw the high Coaft of Sierra 
Leona j and, on the Eleventh, they anchored in the Road $ 
and the Vice-admiral went affiore in order to find a proper 
Watering-place, and where they might hale the Greyhound 
on ffiore, to flop her Leak. When he came back, ha 
brought with him fome Negroes, who defired to fee whag 
Ships they were that lay in their Road, leaving Part of his 
Crew as Hoftages. On the 13th, the Negroes infilling 
on a Prefent before they would fuffer any to go on fhore, 
the Admiral fent Two Bars of Iron, Two Pieces of Cloth, 
and a few Ribbands, to the King’s Brother, and to the Cap- 
tain of the Town, with which they were .very well content. 
The next Day they came on board, to make a Vifit to the 
Admiral, to whom they prefented an Elephant’s Tooth, 
and fome Fowls, for which they were amply recompenfed. 
The King’s Brother had on a Suit of ftriped Cloth, made 
after the Dutch Falhion, with blue Breeches, and fcarlet 
Slippers ; as for the Captain, he was dreffed after the or- 
dinary Falhion of the Country, and feemed to be a Man 
who had his Reputation much at Heart. The 1 5th, fome 
of the Crew of the Vice-admiral found fome Nuts affiore 
that very much refembled Nutmegs, only the Kernels 
were fomewhat bigger * they eat them, and, as they had. a 
fine Tafte, made pretty free with them ; but they had 
fcarce got on board, before one of them dropt down dead 
upon the Deck ; and, before he was throughly cold, 
purple Spots appeared all over him ; but, by the 
taking of proper Medicines, the reft efcaped. On the- 
2 5th of Augujl , the Maurice had like to have been loft 
through Careleflfnefs for, having careened her, they for- 
got to Ihut die Scupper-holes ; and, by this means, ffie 
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