Chap. -I. Captain Cowley. 7 9 
tempted was a Dutch Eafl Indiaman, of fifty Guns, and 
four hundred Men. They failed from thence for the Coaft 
of Africa dire&ly, and, near Cape Sierra Leona, they met 
with a Ship of forty Guns, new built, well furnifhed with 
Brandy, Water, and all kinds of Provifion, which they 
boarded, and carried away, fleering then dire&ly for the 
Ifland of Juan Fernandez in the South Seas. There is not 
a Syllable of all this in Captain Damper , though he affedls 
to be much more particular than Captain Cowley. 
4. They continued their Courfe till they arrived on the 
Coaft of Brafil, from whence they fleered South-weft, till 
they were in 40° South Latitude, where they obferved the 
Sea to be as red as Blood : This was occafioned by vaft 
Shoals of Shrimps, which are there of a red Colour in the 
Water. They likewife obferved vaft Quantities of Seals, 
and fo many Whales, that Captain Cowley remarks there 
were a hundred for one found in the fame Degree of 
Northern Latitude, holding their Courfe ftill South-weft, 
till they came into the Longitude of 47 0 , where they met 
with an Ifland not known before, on which Captain Cowley 
bellowed the Name of Pepys' s Ifland, in Honour of that 
great Patron of Seamen Samuel Pepys , Efquire, Secretary 
to his Royal Highnefs James Duke of York , when Lord 
High-admiral of England . This Ifland had a very good 
Harbour, where 1000 Ships might fafely ride at Anchor ; 
was a very commodious Place both for Wood and Water •, 
abounded with Fowls; and, as the Shore was either Rocks 
or Sands, promifed fair with refpeft to Fifh. In the Month 
of January 1684, they bore away for the Streights of 
Magellan ; and, on the 28 th of that Month, they fell in 
with the Sebaldine Hands, in the Latitude of 51 0 25'; 
then fleering South-weft and by Weft, they came into 
the Latitude of 53% where they made the Land of Yer- 
ra del Fuego ; but, finding greater Ripplmgs near the 
Streights of le Maire , they did not care to venture thro’ 
it, but refolved to go quite round, as Captain Bartholomew 
Sharpe did in 1681, who firft difcovered, that the Country 
called by the Dutch , States Land , is in reality an Ifland ; 
in Right of which Difcovery he changed its Name, and 
he called it Albemarle IJland , in Honour of Chriflopher 
Duke of Albemarle , Son to the famous General Monk . 
On February 14. they had a prodigious Storm, which lafted 
between a Fornight and three W eeks, and drove them out 
of 47 0 into the Latitude of 63° 30', which was the far- 
thest South that ever any Ship went : This Storm was 
attended with fo much Rain, that they faved twenty-three 
Barrels of Water, though they dreffed their Victuals with 
it during that Space. The Weather too was fo excefiively 
cold, that they could bear drinking three Quarts of burnt 
Brandy a Man in twenty-four Hours, without being at all 
the worfe for it. Thence fleering North-eaft, they came 
into warm Weather again ; and, in the Latitude of 40°, 
they met with an Englijh Ship called the Nicolas , of Lon- 
don, of 26 Guns, commanded by Captain John Eaton , 
with whom they kept Company, and failed together for 
the Ifland of Juan Fernandez. They arrived there March 
23. and anchored in a Bay at the South End of the Ifland, 
in twenty- five Fathom Water. Captain Bartholomew 
Sharpe had been there in 1680, and, finding the Place un- 
inhabited, called it Efueen Catharine's IJland : At his going 
away, he left behind him, by Accident, a Moskito Indian , 
who remained there from that time to this ; he had with 
him his Gun, a Knife, a fmall Barrel of Powder, and 
a few Shot. In this defolate Condition he found it equally 
hard to conceal himfelf from the Spaniards , (who, having 
notice that he was left there, came more than once to take 
him) and to provide for his Subfiftence ; and yet he ac- 
complifhed both. He chofe for his Habitation a pleafant 
Valley, about half a Mile from the Sea Coaft, where he 
had ereCted a very convenient Hut, well lined with Seal- 
fkins ; and had a Bed of the fame, railed about two Feet 
above the Ground. Flis Knife, by the Help of a Flint, 
he converted into a Saw, and with that he cut the Barrel 
of his Gun to Pieces ; which he fafliioned into Harpoons, 
Lances, Fifh-hooks, and a long Knife, by heating the 
Pieces firft in the Fire, and afterwards hardening them. 
All this coft him abundance of Labour, but, when once 
performed, he lived comfortably enough : When he faw 
the Ships at Sea, he gueflfed they were Englijh , and im- 
mediately dreffed two Goats, with a large Quantity of Cab- 
bage, to entertain them when they were afhore. It was a 
double Satisfaction to him, when, on their landing, he 
not only faw they were Englijh , but many of them his old 
Acquaintance, particularly Captain Edmund Cooke , and Mr. 
William Dampier , who were on board the Ship that left 
him there. This Ifland they found very pleafant, as well 
as plentiful, and very conveniently fituated for their Pur- 
pofe, lying no Leagues due Weft from Valparayfo, a 
Port on the Spanijh Main. 
5. Sailing from thence, they fleered North North-eaft, 
till they were off the Bay of Arica ; and there the Offi- 
cers of both Ships held a Council of War, in order to de- 
termine whether they fhould make an Attempt there, or 
go lower down the Coaft. After much Deliberation, they 
determined to fail on to Cape Blanco , in hopes of meeting 
with the Spanijh Plate Fleet from Panama : Which fell out 
to be the very worft Refolution they could have taken 
for, if they had gone into the Bay olArica, they muft have 
taken a Ship with three hundred Tons of Silver on board. 
As it was, they continued their Courfe till they were in the 
Latitude of io°, where they were obliged to take a Ship 
laden with Timber, tho’ they knew fhe was not worth 
taking, to prevent their being difcovered. They then 
failed on Northwards to the Ifland of Lob os, in the Lati- 
tude of 7 0 , where they put their fick Man afhore for Re- 
frefhment, and heeled their Ships, and fcraped them, that 
they might be the fitter for AClion, for which they were 
very eager, their Provifions growing very low, which was 
another Circumftance that made their Prisoners troublefome 
to them, having more of their own People to feed, than they 
knew how to provide for. After much Confultation, they 
refolved to attempt Yruxillo, in the Latitude of 8°, and 
about ten Miles from the Coaft, where there was a Proba- 
bility of their gaining a confiderable Booty. At the Time 
they undertook to do this, they had not, in both Ships, 
above 100 Men able to carry Arms ; but the next Day, as 
they were weighing their Anchors, they faw three Ships 
under Sail, which Captain Eaton chafed and took ; they 
were laden with Flour, Fruit, and Sweetmeats, which 
made them very agreeable Prizes, notwithftanding they 
had put on fhore 800,000 Pieces of Eight, on their hav- 
ing Intelligence, that there were Enemies in thofe Seas. 
6. The making thefe Prizes rendered another Council of 
War neceffary, in order to confider how to difpofe of them ; 
in which, after much Difpute, it was judged moft expedi- 
ent to feek out fome Place of Safety, where the beft Part 
of the Provifions they had lately taken might be fecurely 
laid up : And this Point again affording room for a fecond 
Debate, the Iffue of that was, that they fhould fail to the 
Gallapagos Elands, which, as we have obferved in a former 
Voyage, the Dutch were not able to find. On May 19. 
they failed from the Ifland of Lobos, and, after three 
Weeks Sail, fell in with the Hands they fought. The firft 
they met with lay in i° 30' South Latitude ; and this Cap- 
tain Cowley called King Charles' s IJland ; and he likewife 
named many more of them, particularly one after Sir An- 
tony Dean, who was a Commiflioner of the Navy; another 
under the Equinoctial, the Duke of Norfolk's Ifland ; and 
feveral beyond it. They came to an Anchor in a very 
good Bay, lying towards the North End of a fine Hand, 
which he called the Duke of York's IJland. Here they met 
with a great Quantity of Provifions, efpecially Sea and 
Land Tortoifes, fome of the latter weighing two hundred 
Weight ; which is much beyond the ordinary Size. There 
was likewife Abundance of Fowls, efpecially Turtle-doves, 
with Wood and Water in the Duke of York's Ifland, that 
were excellent ; but in none of the reft. Beyond the Line 
they difcovered Five Hands: That neareft the Line, to the 
Eaft, they called Eures IJland ; another fmall Hand, to the 
Weft of it, they called Bindlos’s Ifland ; a much larger 
Ifland, ftill to the Weft, they called the Earl of Abingt on' s 
IJland ; the other two, lying North-weft, they called Lord 
Wenman's and Lord Culpepper's IJlands. They landed in 
the Duke of York's Hand 1 500 Bags of Flour, a large 
Quantity of Sweetmeats, and other Provifions, that they 
might have recourfe to them, in cafe of Neceffity ; and, 
remained there about a Fortnight, during which Time 
they put their Commander Captain John Cooke , who was in 
a very 
