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Quantities of Wheat, Barley, and Peafe, befides Fruits of 
divers Sorts, as Apples, Pears, Quinces, large Pomgra- 
nates, and fuch Plenty of Grapes, as furnifhes them with 
Wine, fufficient not only for their own Ufe, but alfo for 
Sale to fuch Ships as come to this Cape : The Wine is 
fweet, pleafant, and ftrong. Near the Harbour are but 
few Farms but, twenty Leagues in the Country, are many 
Settlements of the Butch and French Refugees. They 
have alfo Plenty of Sheep, Goats, Hogs, Horfes, and 
Cows ; but Oxen thrive not fo well here, by reafon of the 
fhort Pafturage. They have fome wild Bealls, but I only 
faw the wild Afs, a beautiful Creature, with black and 
white Stripes : Neither do they want Ducks, Dunghil- 
fowl, and Oftriches and the Sea affords them abundance 
of Fifh. Oppofite to the Harbour, near the Shore, the 
Butch have a ftrong Fort, (the Reftdence of the Governor) 
and to the Weft of it a Butch Town ; on the Back-fide 
whereof is the Houfe belonging to the Eaft India Com- 
pany, with a fpacious Garden, ftored with all manner of 
Fruits, Herbs, Roots, Walks, and Arbours. The Na- 
tives of this Country are called the Hottentots , a middle- 
fized People, with fmall Limbs, and atftive Bodies, flat 
oval Faces, large Eye-brows, and black Eyes. They be- 
fmear their Bodies with Greafe : Upon their Heads they 
wear nothing but fome Shells ; and, on their Bodies, a 
Mande of Sheep-lkin, with the woolly Side outwards, and 
another Piece, like an Apron, hanging before from the 
Navel. Inftead of this, the Women have a Sheep-lkin 
round the Middle. Their Houfes are very mean, and fo 
is their Furniture, confiding only of two or three earthen 
Pots to drefs their Victuals in, which is Herbs, Flelh, or 
Shell-fifh ; thefe they catch among the Rocks. They 
have neither Temples, Idols, nor any other peculiar Place 
of Worfhip. They celebrate, indeed, feveral nodturnal 
Dances, with Singing, at the new and full Moon ; but 
thefe are performed near their Huts, and feem to be rather 
AGES of Book I. 
Paftimes, or Merry-meetings, than any thing relating to 
religious Worfhip. For the reft, they are a lazy Genera- 
tion *, for they never manure their Grounds, but are con- 
tented with feeding their Cattle, which they exchange for 
Tobacco. After a Stay of fix WEeks here, we failed. 
May 3. towards St. Helena, an Ifle feated in 16 0 South 
Latitude, where we arrived June 20. It is about nine 
Leagues long ; and, though 400 Leagues from the Con- 
tinent, enjoys a ferene Air, (except in the rainy Sealbn) and 
a temperate and healthy Climate ; which, together with 
the refrelhing Herbs this Ifland produces, is the Reafon that 
cur Eafi India Ships touch here to recover their Seamen 
from the Scurvy, which they do in a little time. This 
Ifle, after its firli Difcovery by the Portuguefe , was pof- 
feflfed by the Butch ; but thefe relinquilhing it for the Cape 
of Good Hope , the Englijh fettled here till 1672, when they 
were beaten out by the Butch, who were forced, foon after, 
to furrender it again to the Englijh, under Captain Monday. 
We have now a Fort there, with a Garifon, and a good 
Number of great Guns, to defend the common Landing- 
place, being a fmall Bay, not above 500 Paces wide: Within 
this Bay Hands a fmall Englijh Town ; the Inhabitants have- 
ing their Plantations deeper into the Country, which furnifh 
them with Potatoes, Plantains, Bananas, Hogs, Bul- 
locks, Cocks, and Hens, Ducks, Geefe, and Turkeys, in 
vaft Plenty. July 2. 1691. we left this Ifle, fleering our 
Courfe for England. We took the Mid- way, betwixt Africa 
and the American Continent, ftill to the North of the Line ; 
and came to an Anchor in the Bowns , September 1 6. following. 
After my Arrival in the Thames , being in want of Money, 
I fold, at firft. Part of the Property I had in the before- 
mentioned Prince Ieoly , and, by Degrees, all the reft. I 
underftood afterwards, that he was carried about for a Sight, 
and fhewn for Money j and that, at laft, he died of the 
Small-pox at Oxford. 
SECTION XIV. 
Captain William Dampier’j Voyage to New Holland 3 and New Gurney, from his own 
Account . 
I. The original Defign of this Voyage , and its Connexion with the former . 2. Captain Dampier fails in 
the Roebuck from the Downs, January 14. 165)9. 3. Defcription of Santa Cruz, and the If and of Te- 
nerifF, one of the Canaries. 4. The If and of Mayo defer i bed. y. Account of that of St. lago. , 6. The 
Author s Arrival in the Bay of All Saints in Brafil. 7. The Town and Country about it deferibed. 
8. Continuation 0} the Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. 9. Arrival in Sharks Bay on the Coafl of 
New Holland. 10. Account of feveral fubfequent Difcoveries , and of the many Errors in the Dutch 
Charts. 1 1. Difficulties occurring in their Commerce with the Indian Natives. 12. The Country and Coajl 
of New Holland deferibed. 13. The Author's Expectations, and the Grounds of thofe Expectations. 
14. Reafons for quitting the Coafl of New Holland. 15. The Author fails for the If and of Timor. 
.16. Arrival on the Coajl, and Accidents there. 17. Account of the If and Anamabao, or Anabao, ad- 
joining to Timor. 18. TranfaCtions during the Author s Stay there. 19. A copious Defcription of the 
If and of Timor. 20. Condition of the Dutch and Portuguefe Settlements there. 21. Defcription of 
other I/lands , and their Inhabitants. 22. Cockle If and, and its Productions. 23. Other Ifands in 
thofe Seas , and Things remarkable in them. 24. The Main-land of New Guiney, and its Inhabitants , 
deferibed. 2y. Departure from thence , and Difcovery of many Ifands. 2 6. Particulars relating to 
the Inhabitants , and their Commerce. 27. Difcovery of Cape St. George, and Cape Orford. 28. The 
Author refolves to land j and, if poffible, enter into Commerce with the Natives on the Continent of New 
Guiney. 29. Finding that very difficult , has re courfe to various Arts. 30. At lafi obliged to take Re- 
freflments by Force. 31. He leaves that Coafl, and proceeds to make frefh Difcoveries. 32. The I/lands 
of Nova Britannia, &c. deferibed. 33. Other TranfaCtions in this Voyage. 34. Ifandsof Mifacomby, 
Pentare, &c. gy. Continuation of the Voyage from Batavia. 36. The Ship fprings an incurable Leak. 
37. The Author runs the Roebuck afhore on the If and of Afcenfion. 38. Returns fafe to England on 
board the Canterbury Eafl-India-man. 39. Remarks upon this Expedition* 
i 9 fTlHE Reputation of his Voyage round the plied himfelf for Favour and Protection, as well as for his 
H World, recommended our Author to the Favour Countenance in the Defign he had formed for profecuting 
J1L of the moll ingenious Perfons, and to the thofe Difcoveries, which his laft Voyage had given him 
greateft Encouragers of public - fpirited Undertakings Hopes might be done with Effect. It is well enough 
that the Age produced •, and, amongft thefe, to the Right known, that Propofitions of this Kind are very rarely 
Honourable Thomas Herbert , Earl of Pembroke , who moll agreeable to great Minifters ; which is fometimes owing 
worthily difeharged the Office of Lord High Admiral in perhaps to their being very indifferent Judges of fuch Mat- 
the Reign of King William IIP to whom our Author ap- • ters. It was the good Fortune of Captain Bumpier , to 
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