Chap. L Captain C 
« L e g S are wound about with Guts of Beads, (from the 
« Ankle to the Knees) well greafed. The People called 
« t he Hodmandods ( Hottentots ) are born white ; but make 
« themfelves black with Soot, and befmear their Bodies all 
«< over ; fo that, by frequent Repetition, their Skins be- 
st come* aimed as black as Negroes, Their Children are 
« of a good, comely Shape, when they are young. Their 
« Nofes, in Form, refemble a Negro’s. When they marry, 
44 the Woman cutteth off one Joint of her Finger ; and, 
44 if her Hufband die, and die marry again, fhe cutteth off 
44 another Joint; and fo many Men as fhe marrieth, fo 
44 many Joints die lofeth. They are People that will eat 
44 any thing that is foul. If the Hollanders kill a Bead, 
« they will get the Guts, and fqueeze the Excrements out ; 
44 and then, without walhing or draping, lay them upon 
44 the Coals,' and, before they are well hot through, they 
44 will take them, and eat them. If a Slave of the Com- 
te pany’s have a mind to have carnal Knowledge of one of 
44 their Women, let him but give her Hufband a Bit of 
44 Tobacco-roll of about three Inches long, he will fetch 
44 her forthwith to the Slave, and caufe her to lie with him. 
44 They are Men not given to the lead Jealoufy ; yet they 
44 will beat their Wives, if they lie with the Hodmandods 
44 themfelves ; but they value it not for them to do it with 
44 Men of another Nation. They are Worlhippers of Dame 
44 Luna ; and, when they expeCt to fee the Moon, there 
44 will be Thcufinds of them by the Sea-fide dancing and 
44 dnging : But, if it be dark Weather, fo that the Moon 
44 appears not, they will lay, that their God is angry with 
44 with them; whereas, on the contrary, when the laid 
44 Luminary Shines, they will fay he is not angry. There 
44 happened at this Time that we were among them, that 
44 one of the Hodmandods (. Hottentots ) had drank him- 
44 felf dead in the Fort, whither the other Hodmandods ( Hot - 
44 tentots ) came with Oil and Milk, and put them in his 
44 Mouth ; but, finding they could get no Life into him, 
44 they began to make Preparation for his Burial, which was 
44 in the following Manner: They came with Knives, and 
44 fhaved his Body, Arms, and Legs through the thick 
44 Skin ; then they digged a great Hole, and fet him in it 
44 upon his Breech, clapping Stones round about him, to 
44 keep him upright ; after came a Company of their Wo- 
44 men about him, making a mod horrid Noife ; then they 
44 covered the Mouth of the Hole, and left him in a fit- 
44 ting Pofture.” We need not wonder, that our Au- 
thor, having received fuch Ideas of thefe People, was 
willing enough to continue his Voyage, which we fhall 
like wife pur fue. 
15. On June 15. 1686. they failed from the Cape of 
Good Hope , with a fmall Gale at South-wed, fix Ships 
weighing their Anchors at once, viz. the Salida , the Critf- 
man , and Emeland , for Holland , and the other three for 
Batavia ; they fired at parting, in drinking of Healths, 
and other Ceremonies of that fort according to the Dutch 
Cudom, upwards of 300 Guns ; an idle and expenfive 
Practice for fo wife and frugal a Nation. July 29. they 
were in 19 0 54' South Latitude, at the Didance of 914 
Miles from the Cape ; the fame Day they feaded the Cap- 
tains of the other two Ships on board the Salida. The next 
Day they had a very fair Wind ; and, on June 4. they 
were in the Latitude of 14 0 1 5', when they threw a Man 
overboard, a Native of Denmark, who died in the Night, 
and was cold and ffiff before any body perceived it. On 
the 20th of the fame Month, they were in 15 0 North La- 
titude ; and the fame Day they held a Council of War 
upon their Captain : He was accufed of having hired five 
Men to murder a Man of Quality, and his Lady, with 
fome other rich Paffengers that were on board, and then 
to run away with the Ship, The Perfbn who accufed him 
was the Ptirfer, who produced the Man who told him ; 
and who then denied the Thing as pofitively, as he had 
before affirmed it ; fo that the Captain was unanimoully 
acquitted. On the 2 2d, according to the Author’s Com- 
putation, he had failed quite round the terreftrial Globe, 
cutting the- fame Line which he did, when he departed 
from Virginia in the Year 1683. On Augujt 2. in the 
Morning, died Captain Tominall , of an Inflammation in 
the Bowels, having been ill but three Days. His Pilot 
was chofen, by the Officers, to fucceed him, whom the 
Crew abfoluteiy redded to. obey ; but, by the Perluafion 
of the other two Captains, they were brought to better 
Temper, and accepted him for their Commander. Ori 
Augitft 4. they judged themfelves to be within thirty 
Leaguesof the AmbroltioS ( Abrolhos) a very dangerous Slide,' 
or Bank of Sand, laid down in the Maps in 13 0 North 
Latitude ; but our Author very much doubts, whether 
there be any fuch Slide, fince he never knew any Man 
that had feen it ; and a Pilot, who had made fixteen 
Voyages to Brafil , allured him, there was no fuch Sand. 
September 5. about ten at Night, they had a violent Storm, 
which had like to have driven them on board the Critfman ; 
but, by good Luck, when they leaf!: expected it, their 
Ship fell off, and the Wind happily filling their Sails, faved 
them from the Danger they were in. 
16. On the 19th, about Noon, Captain Cowley law Land + 
which he believed to be the Ifland Shetland ; of which he 
told the Dutch Captain, but he would not believe him. At 
fix in the Evening, the People oh board the Critfman made, 
a Signal of feeing Land, at which all the Ship’s Crew of 
the Salida made a Jeff of their Captain, for not believing 
thofe who had better Eyes than himfelf. On the 26th, 
they found themfelves in the Latitude of 53 0 35', and the 
fame Day came up with two Ships, one a Dane , the other 
Englifo , on board of whom Captain Cowley, and his Com- 
panions, would willingly have gone, but the Dutch Cap- 
tain would not permit them ; the Dutch Lord they had 
on board affirming, that he could not anfwer it to the 
States. September 28. they were before the Maes , with 
the Wind at Eaft North-eaft ; when it was Day, they faw 
the Brill Church , and Grave’s Sand , and then they came 
to an Anchor in ten Fathom Water, and rode there in Ex- 
pectation of a Pilot to carry them into the Maes, O11 the 
30th, he arrived at Helvoetfluys , having been feven Months 
in their Paffage from Batavia. From thence Captain Cow- 
ley travelled by Land to Rotterdam , where he found the 
Ann Yacht ready to fail for England , in which he came 
over as a Paffenger, arriving fafely at London October 12. 
1686. after a tedious and troublefome Voyage of three 
Years, and near two Months. 
17. The Spirit of Privateering upon the Spaniards , 
which had been raifed and promoted by the feveral Wars 
carried on againft that Nation by the Dutch , French , and 
Englijh , was now at its full Height ; for the Licence given 
under the ProteCtor Cromwell , and the unfettled Situation 
of Things with relpeCt to Spain , immediately after the Re- 
ftoration, gave great Encouragement to thefe fort of Ad- 
venturers, till at laft they grew fo powerful, that it was no 
eafy Matter to put an End to their Depredations ; perhaps 
it would have been impracticable, if they had not been de- 
stroyed by Difcord and Difputes among themfelves. Many 
Inconveniencies mult neceffarily arife from the long Conti- 
nuance of fo wicked a Practice ; but, at the fame time, it 
produced fome good Confequences alfo ; for thefe Bucca- 
neers were fuch bold $nd daring Navigators, that they not 
only attemtped, but performed. Things almoft incredible, 
and which, in Procefs of Time, are come to be thought 
as impracticable, as they were efteemed to be before thefe 
Menatchieved them : Forlnftance, the quick Marches they 
made by Land crols the Ifthmus of Darien , which they 
made a kind of open Road. Befides this, they found out 
other Paffages from the North to the South Seas, by means 
of the Rivers, which rife near the latter, and fall into the 
former. We owe likewife to them the Paffage round 
Cape Horn , without palling the Streights of le Maire , 
which was firft performed by Captain Sharpe , and after- 
wards by the Revenge , under the Direction of our Author. 
They alfo difeovered moft of the Elands, which the Spa- 
niards had but indifferent Accounts of, and lay down, it 
may be on purpofe, erroneoully in their Charts, fuch as 
the Gallapagos , the firft Defcription of which is that given 
by our Author, encouraged by whofe Example, the Priva- 
teers often vifited them afterwards. They landed likewife 
frequently in California , and, by their numerous Voyages 
from thence to the Eaft Indies , made fome confiderable 
Difcoveries on that Side too. Thefe were not only great 
Things in themfelves, and of prodigious Confequence to 
the trading World, but were aifp very happy in another 
refpeCt ; fince,. had it not been for thefe lawlefs Adven- 
ture^ 
