fii 8 c The EXPEDITION of Commodore Beaulieu Book L 
fened from that Time, and the dreadful Confequences attending them. 46. The Manner in which the then 
King of Achen mounted the Throne % and his Character. 47. The Author fails for Europe, and meets 
with a pleafant Paf'age as far as the IJland of St. Helena. 48. A Defcription of the If and of Afcenflon 
and a farther Account of the Voyage to their Arrival at St. Vincent. 49. An exaSl Defcription of that 
If and, its Climates, Soil, Product, and. other Particulars. 50. Continuation of the Voyage to the Au- 
thor's fafe Arrival at Havre de Grace, Dec. the if 1622. 51. Some farther Memoirs of Commodore 
Beaulieu, to the Time of his Deceafe 
1. following Voyage was not only undertaken, 
S but written alfo by one of the beft Officers that 
A ever was in the French Service, of whole Cha- 
racter and Adventures we fhall fay fomewhat at prefent,. 
and fupply the reft at the Conclufion of the Section. Au- 
gufiin de Beaulieu was defcended of a good Family at Rouen , 
which has been always considered as one of the principal 
Forts in France. He addicted himfelf from his Youth to 
the Sea, and Studied with great Application all the Sci- 
ences necefiary to make him an able Man in his Profeffion, 
and more efpecially Geography, Aftronomy, and Naviga- 
tion. His firft Expedition was to the River Gambia, on 
the Coafl of Africa , under the Command of the Cheva- 
lier de Brifqueuille of Normandy in 1612. The Deflgn 
upon which they went was to ereCt a Fort, and eftablife a 
Colony ; but failing unluckily a little too late in the Year, 
they loft the beft Part of their Men before they were able 
to accomplifn any thing, and were therefore obliged to re- 
turn- Heme, re infeBa, after a vaft Expence, to very little 
Purpofe. 
In this Expedition our Author commanded a Sloop, and 
tho 3 he got nothing by the Voyage in Point of Profit, yet 
he improved himfelf exceedingly, and eftabliffied a juft 
Reputation for Courage, Diligence and Application. A- 
bout the Year 1616, the French formed the firft Notion 
of trading to the Eaft-lndies , and fome Merchants at Pa- 
ris and Rouen agreed to furnifii a Joint-Stock for that Pur- 
pose. They fitted out two good Ships, the Command of 
the biggeft of which the Title of General was given to 
Captain de Nets , who at that Time ferved the King in the 
Marine. The leffer Ship was bellowed upon our Author,, 
who had no other Recommendation than his Merit. The 
Voyage was in all refpeCls fortunate, and well conducted, 
though in the End it did not turn to any great Account ; 
for the Butch Prefident in the Indies having published an 
Order, requiring all the Subjefts of the States-General 
that were on Board thofe Ships, to quit them immediately; 
which Order they obeyed : The two Captains found it there- 
by out of their Power to bring Home both the VeSTels, 
and therefore, that which had been commanded by Cap- 
tain Beaidieu was fold to a little Prince of the Illand of 
fava, and ail their Effedrs brought home on Board the 
largeft; notwithstanding which Misfortune, and the great 
Expence with which this Undertaking was attended, they 
managed lo prudently, as to make a laving Voyage. 
It was his Care and Diligence in this Expedition, that 
recommended him to that Command of which he has writ- 
ten the following Account. Ele was extremely careful in 
the Choice of his Men, that he might not run the rifque 
©f failin g in this, as he had done in his former Voyage ; 
and that Pofterity might be the better for the Pains he 
was obliged to take, he provided, before he left France , 
all the neeeffary Instruments of Navigation in the higheft 
Degree of Perfedlion, and conftantiy obferved the Varia- 
tion of the Needle every Morning and Evening, on four 
•or five different CompafTes, that he might be the lefs lia- 
ble to Miftakes. At his return Home, he not only tran- 
scribed his Sea- Journal, which is Still preferved, but com- 
pofeci likewife the following Hiftory of the Voyage torn 
bis Papers, with a Defign to have committed them to the 
Prefs, but by fome unforefeen Accidents, and by his pre- 
mature Death, of which more fhall be faid hereafter, this 
was prevented, and thefe Papers remained for twenty Years 
afterwards in private Hands, till fuch Time as the famous 
M. Melchizeaeck de Thevenot formed his noble Defign of 
publishing a curious Collection of the beft Voyages, when, 
thefe Memoirs were put into his Hands by M. Dolu , to 
whom they had been confided by the Relations, of the 
Author. 
Lhat great Man was charmed with the Prefent, and no 
Wonder, fincehe ferioully profeffes it appeared to him as 
perfect a Performance as ever came to his Notice, not- 
withstanding the Multitude of Portugueze, Englifh and. 
Dutch Memoirs that he had occafion to fee, while employ- 
ed in making that curious and excellent Colle&ion. The 
principal Reafon of his valuing it fo much, was the hAfi 
Character the Author had born in Point of Integrity 'as 
well as Abilities ; fo that as he related every thing that 
was worth relating in the Courfe of his long Expedition^ 
all he relates may be very fafely depended upon, as be- 
ing exa&ly agreeable to Truth, and to the Lights which 
he received. One may fafely affirm, that the Work itfejf 
carries along with it enough to juftify all that has been 
faid in its Favour, fince there are fo many viftble Marks 
of the Writer’s Sincerity, in thofe PaxTages which regard 
his own Condudl, that the moil fcrupulous Critick muff 
be obliged to confefs, there is not the leaft Ground to fuf- 
ped he could entertain any Defign of impofing on his 
Reader. The Variety of Events, the curious Defcriptions, 
the juft and weighty Remarks with which it abounds, fuff 
ficiently enhance the Value of this Performance, which, 
therefore, we have given the Reader in his own Words,, 
and mull at the fame Time own, that it would be no ea- 
fy Talk to make Choice of better, fince his Stile is exad- 
ly fuited to his Subjed ; and he relates every thing with 
fo much Modefty and Freedom, that it is- hard to deter- 
mine whether his Memoirs are more inftrudive or enter- 
taining. 
2. I failed OBob. 2, 1619, from Honfleur Road with 
three Ships; the Montmorancy of 450 Tuns,, carrying 16$ 
Men, 22 Guns, and 20 Padereroes, the Hope , of 400 
Tuns, 117 Men, 26 Guns, and 20 Padereroes, and the 
Hermitage , an Advice-Boat, of 75 Tuns, 30 Men, 8 
Guns, and 8 Padereroes,. all victualled for two Years ancj 
an half. The feventeenth we came in Sight of Made- 
ra, and at Night its weftern Point lay about 7 Leagues 
off to- the S. E. and a quarter Eaft. The 1 8th we flood. 
South with the Wind at Eaft, expeding by that Courfe to 
defery the Hand of Palma. Madera lies very high, bu2 
the Weather was, as it is commonly, fo foggy, that we 
could fcarce defery it. The Commodore’s Ship being deep 
loaden, and embarraffed with an unweildy Rudder, that: 
two or three Men could fcarce manage,, we refolved to 
make the beft of our Way to Cape Verd, in order to have 
a new one made, or to put the old one to rights, which 
was encumbered with too much Wood. 
On the firft of November we made the Coaft of Africa ? 
between the River Senegal and Cape Verd , which lies ve- 
ry low, running N. E. and S. W. and is waffied by a 
fandy Sea. Next Day, about Eight in the Morning, we 
doubled Cape Verd y and coafted along the Shore, in order 
to get into Riifpfque Road; at which Place, in the After- 
noon, we faw three French Ships at Anchor, and a fmall 
Bark, which had Captain Drowef s Equipage on Board, 
and lay off of that Place waiting for him. In the Even- 
ing I call Anchor within a Cannon-Shot of the three Ships, 
for the Wind being contrary, I could not come up with 
them, and the rainy Seafon in that Country was fearcex 
over. 
The fifteenth, having refolved to fend the Advice-Boat to 
the Idol Hands, to buy up Provifions, I furniihed it with 
Kaffade and Knives, which were proper Commodities for 
that Place, and reinforced its Complement with Captain 
Boyer and fix Soldiers, ordering Captain Ridel, who com- 
manded the Pinnace, not to treat with the Natives with- 
out Hoftages, and withal, not to ftay there above three 
Days at moft, but to come with all poffible Expedition to 
rejoin us at Tagrin, When fhe parted from us, we, were in 
