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tempted to land on a fill all lfland, about three Leagues to 
the South of the Road, but found it impracticable. In 
the mean time, the Rear-admiral had coafted the Bay, and 
found a very good Watering-place. On the 28th.* they 
landed fifty Soldiers to protebt the Seamen, while . they 
were filling Water ; and the next Day it was found necei- 
fary to ftrengthen that Detachment, which had been in- 
fulted by the Natives. In the Beginning of the Month of 
February , they brought confiderable Quantities of Rice on 
board, and fold feventy or eighty Pounds Weight for an 
old Hatchet. On the 5th, the Admiral directed a general 
Review, when, including Spanifh and Negro Prifoners, 
of which there were thirty-two, they found 1260 on board, 
by which it appeared they had loft 409 fince they left Hol- 
land. The lfland of Guan, which is one of thofe ftiled by 
the Spaniards Has de las Velas, or Ladr ones, lies in 13 0 
40' North Latitude: The Soil is tolerably fertile*, they fow 
Rice in feveral Places, and have prodigious Quantities of 
Cocoas. The Inhabitants fold the Dutch 200 Fowls, but 
they would not let them have any Cattle, though they 
offered them any Satisfaction. The People are of a larger 
Size than other Indians , but very ftrong, and well propor- 
tioned *, they are, generally Speaking, painted red : The 
Men go ftark naked i but the Women have the Leaf of a 
Tree to cover their Privities. The Arms they ufe are 
Afiagaies, or wooden Javelins and Slings, which they ufe 
with great Dexterity. Their Canoes are very convenient, 
and go at a great Rate before the Wind : Neither are they 
afraid to put to Sea in ftormy Weather ; but, in cafe they 
are overfet, turn up their Veffels again, and empty the 
Water in an Inftant. The Dutch experienced their Dex- 
terity in another Profeffion, viz. that of Cheating •, for 
when they came to examine thofe Balls of Rice, which 
they thought they had bought fo cheap, they found the In- 
fide of them Stones and Dirt : Befides, they ftole every 
thing they could lay their Hands on. Such as land in 
this lfland, ought to be extremely cautious how they ram- 
ble ; for the Dutch , while they remained here, loft feveral 
of their People, through their own Folly in this refpeCt. 
On February 14. they faw an lfland, in io° 30', which 
they took to be that of Savedra, which if it was, then it 
is wrong laid down in the Charts. On the 1 5th, about 
Nine in the Morning, they faw another lfland not laid down 
in the Charts, the People of which endeavoured to come 
out to them in Canoes with Fruits and Refrelhments : 
They were much of the fame Size with the Inhabitants of 
the Ladrones *, but, the Ship failing at a great Rate, they 
were not able to get on board. This lfland appeared to be 
very populous, and extremely well cultivated, lying in the 
Latitude of 9 0 4 5'. The 23d, it was refolved in Council, 
that they fhould continue their Courfe South South-weft 
to the Height of 3% in order to arrive at Giloh, and 
from thence to continue their Voyage to Ferrate. The 
fame Day, at Noon, they had an Obfervation, by which 
they perceived, that the Currents carried them violently to 
the North •, for the Northern Trade Wind began then to 
blow, the Effects of which they felt very fenfibly. 
37. On March 2. they had Sight of the high Mountain 
of Gammanacor , which is on the Coaft of Moco, at the 
Weft End of Haremanera , or the great lfland of Gilolo, 
on the Weft Side of which lie the Elands of the Moluccas. 
On the 4th, in the Evening, they had a frefti North Wind, 
which carried them to Malacca , the principal Place in the 
lfland of Female ; from whence the Admiral fent his Sloop 
' to Falucco, where the Sieur Jaques le Feme, Governor 
of the Moluccas , then was, in order to give him Advice 
of their Arrival The 5th of the fame Month, or the 
6th, according to the Computation of the Inhabitants of 
thofe Countries, the Governor came on board to vifit the 
Admiral •, and they afterwards went afliore together. On 
the 13th, they had Advice, that one of the Company’s 
Ships, called the Fidelity , had been loft on the Coaft of 
Sangi. The fame Day, part of the People on board the 
Fleet had Orders to go afliore, and afiift in demolilhing 
the Fort of Calemate , which was no longer thought necef- 
fary, and confequently the Expence of it muft prove bur- 
denfome to the Company. Upon the fame Motives, the 
Vice-admiral was fent with a Detachment to ruin the Fort 
at Motir , which is efteemed the third lfland in the Mo- 
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luccas. On the 2 5th* the Governor failed with a whole 
Fleet for Machian , from whence, on the 26th, the Concord 
was fent to Sangi , in order to take up all that could be faved 
out of the Fidelity. April 4. the Fleet proceeded to Am- 
boina , where the Governor Herman van Speult was making 
Preparations to go to the lfland of Ceram for the Company’s 
Service. On the 25th, the Admiral fent the Shallop of 
the Eagle to Batavia , to acquaint the Governor General 
of the Dutch Eafi Indies with his Arrival, and the Effebis 
of his Expedition againft the Spaniards in the South Seas. 
On May 14. the Admiral, and the two Governors of 
Amboina , Speult , and Gorcum , detached two Ships, one 
to Louchou , the other to Cambelle , both in the lfland of 
Ceram , and followed them foon after with all their Forces, 
where they quickly made themfelves Mafters of Louchou j 
after which they directed the Plantations of the Rebels to 
be burnt, their Clove-trees to be cut down, and the Place 
to be deftroyed. On June 22. they returned to Amboina* 
On the 28th, the Admiral, and the Governor Speult , 
failed with the whole Fleet for Batavia. 
38. On Augufi 25. Governor Speult left the Fleet, with 
the Orange , and the Maurice , in order to go tQ Japara ; 
and the reft of the Fleet continued its Courfe to Batavia , 
where they arrived on the 29th *, and fome Days after Go- 
vernor Speult arrived with his Detachment. As there was 
not, at that time, any immediate Service for a Fleet of 
fuch Strength, the Governor General and Council of 
the Indies came to a Refolution of Separating the Fleet, 
and employing the Ships, of which it was compofed, in 
fuch a manner, as feemed to them moft for the Service of 
the States General, and the Company. In confequence of 
this Refolution, the Command of the Orange , the Holland, 
and the Maurice , was given to Governor Speult , who 
was directed to fail with them to Surat , where he was 
to remain as fhort a time as pofiible, and then to continue 
his Route to Holland : The Vice-admiral Verfchoor was de- 
tached with the Hope, the Griffin, and two of the Com- 
pany’s Yachts, upon an Expedition to Malacca. The Eagle 
and the David were deftined to remain on the Coaft of 
Corotnandel ; the Concord was refitted, in order to proceed 
to Holland ; and the Delft and Amfterdam were ordered to 
the lfland of Onruft, there to be careened, and then to 
proceed home after the Concord as foon as pofiible ; fo that 
here the Expedition of the Naffau Fleet was properly at 
at End. 
39. On OHober 29. Admiral Schapenham, finding him- 
felf extremely ill, refolved to return Home in the Concord, 
which failed from Batavia with another Ship belonging to 
the Company, called the Arms of Horn. On November 3. 
the Admiral died on board, worn out with Care and La- 
bour ; and, on the 5th of the fame Month, he was in- 
terred on the lfland of Pulobofloc, two Leagues from Ban- 
tam. On January 21. 1626. they anchored in the Road of 
the Cape of Good Hope and, on July 9. following, they 
came, without any remarkable Accident, into the Fexel, 
having Spent in their V oy age three Y ears, two Months, and 
eleven Days. The Length of this Voyage renders it im- 
proper to dwell long upon it here in our Reflections ; and 
yet it would be as improper to difmifs fo large and fo im- 
portant a Piece, without making fome Remarks, in order 
to juftify the inferting here fo copious a Relation. It clearly 
appearsfrom hence, that, though the Dutch might be as able, 
and as expeditious, in fitting out fuch Squadrons as we, 
yet they were not certainly fuperior to us in their Manage- 
ment of maritime Affairs. They owed the Alacrity and 
Expedition, with which fuch Affairs were then managed, 
to their having a Stadtholder * but then they owed Mis- 
takes in the Choice of Officers, and the Occafions of 
other Misfortunes, to the fame Caufe. When private 
Companies of Merchants fitted out a Single Ship, or per- 
haps two or three, for the undertaking fuch long Voyages, 
they were better managed, and turned to far better Ac-, 
count ; of which we have a pregnant Inftance in that of 
Le Make, which was executed by the Projectors, and that 
with a Felicity as furprifing, as the Misfortunes that at- 
tended this Voyage, concerted by much greater Men, and 
Supported by an incomparable greater Force : At the fame 
time we muft allow, that the Intention of the Voyage 
was laudable j but we muft likewife acknowledge, that to 
purfue 
