Chap. II. through the gf sat eft Part 
Called St. Borondon, very pleafant and fruitful, and inha- 
bited by Chriftians y but are not able to tell you how it 
came to be peopled, and what Language is in Ufe there. 
The Spaniards inhabiting the Canaries , have made feveral 
Attempts to find it out y- but whether the thick Fogs, 
which furround it, or the Current of the Sea, which keeps 
Ships from the Shore, is the Occafion that it has not been 
difcovered y certain it is, that no body hitherto has been 
able to give a fatisfaftory Account of it. 
28. But to return to our Voyage, the Wind turning to 
the South the 29th of November, we took our Cotirfe to 
the North, leaving the Ifle of Flores to the Eaft of us, and 
foon loft Sight of that as well as of the Ifle of Corvo. The 
30th of November we made thirty-one Leagues to the 
North with a South-South-weft Wind, and at Noon found 
ourfelves in 40° 32' Latitude. December the 3d we made ” 
thirty-four Leagues with the fame Wind and Courfe y and 
the 4th, a North- eaft Wind advanced us twenty-feven 
Leagues to Eaft-North-eaft. The 5th the Wind coming 
to the South-weft, we continued the fame Courfe, and got 
thirty-feven Leagues. It was this Day exactly eleven 
Months fince we had been toiled up and down the Sea, tho 1 
our Voyage had been tolerable enough ever fince our Depar- 
ture from Madagafcar. The 6th it blew a Storm out of the 
Eaft, but the Wind being for us, we advanced fifty Leagues. 
It is oblervable, that as foon as you are palled the Azores 
Iflands, you may allure yourfelf of a Wfeft Wind, let it be 
what Seafon of the Year it will, till you come to the Coaft 
of England^ it being very feldom known, that it turns either 
direftly to the South or North, tho’ perhaps it may change 
a few Points of the Compafs. 
The 7th the Wind turning to the Weft, we, failed thirty- 
nine Leagues to the Eaft-North-eaft. The 8th we made 
forty-feven Leagues, with a very brifk Gale, to the South- 
eaft, keeping the fame CoUrfe y and the 9th* with a South- 
South-weft Wind made thirty-one Leagues to the North- 
North-eaft. We found ourfelves in 490 13', the Wea- 
ther being very cold, and a fandy white Bottom at fixty- 
eight Fathom, and in the Evening founding again, found 
but fifty-three Fathom, the Sand not fo white as in the 
Morning. The Wind chopping about to the North-Eaft 
in the Night, was direflly in our Teeth till the 10th about 
Noon, when coming to the South- weft, we made twenty- 
two Leagues. The nth, we efpied, at Break of Day, two 
Englijh Ships, and in a few Hours after, that Point of Corn- 
wall called the Land' s- End y we endeavoured to double the 
Point, the Wind being contrary, and with much ado made 
fixteen Leagues. The 12th, the Wind being full againft 
us, we continued lowering, and at a Diftance we faw an- 
other Englijh Veflfel, but could not come near it. The 
jgth the Wind being at South-weft and South-South-weft, 
we fleered our Courfe to the Eaft-Soudi-caft, and to the 
Eaft, with a Point to the South. We made fixty-four 
Leagues to 49 0 Latitude the 14th, after having changed 
our Courfe to the Eaft-North-eaft, in order to make the 
Channel, which divides England from France. 
We faw two Dutch Veffels and a Dunkirker not far from 
us y but the Roaring of the Sea prevented our hearing one 
another. The fifteenth v/e fteered the fame Courfe, and 
met with three Dutch Ships- bound for Brajil , not far from 
the Ifle of Wight, which lies in 50° 2 6 1 Latitude, and 19 0 4. 1 
Longitude. The 16th, by Ten in theMorning, we paffed in 
Sight of Dover Caftle, and about Noon came to an Anchor 
in the Downs , and this compleated our Voyage in the 12th 
Month, after our Departure from Surat. We faw there 
near a hundred Ships- riding at Anchor, in Expectation of 
fair Weather, it being fo boifterous, that for two Days 
after we could not ftir out of our Ship. The Englijh Ad- 
miral, who was then with home Men of War in the 
Downs, invited the- 19th (when the Wind was fornewhat 
laid) the Prefident to Dinner, who taking me along with 
him, I had my Share in the Entertainment, which was fo 
magnificent both for Meat, and the great Quantity of Plate, 
that the King’s 1 able could fcarce have been better ferved 
in London . 
As we were extreamly well pleafed with our Entertain- 
ment, fo it was near Night before we got into our Boat. 
Our Ship lay not above a Mufkec Shot from the Admiral; 
but no Loner were we got into it, than a fudden Storm 
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forced us to Sea, the Waves continually coming over our 
Boat, fo that we were obliged to make the belt Shift we 
could to call out the Water, without Intermiffion, with our 
Hats. We now began to refledl, how, that after we had 
furmounted fo many Dangers during this tedious Voyage, 
we fhould at laft be fhipwreck’d in Sight of our dear Coun- 
try, and in that very Part whither v/e were come with fo 
much Danger to feek for Safety y but, to be fliort, we were 
for four Hours thus betwixt Hope and Defpa.tr, when at 
laft we got Sight of a fmall Veflel, but fo miferably torn 
by the Temped, that it had loft all its Anchors but one, 
which was not ftrong enough to keep from being forced 
out to Sea. Llowever, we betook ourfelves to our 
Oars, fitting up to our Waifts in Water, and with much 
ado reached the Veflel, in which in effect we were not 
much fafer than in our Boat, as being in danger to be 
ftaved againft a dangerous Sand-bank, which was not far 
off y but the Cold we had endured in the Ship had fo dis- 
abled us in all Refpedls, that we were not apprehenflve of 
our Condition, being in a manner half dead the next Day, 
when we were brought to our Veflel, where they had given 
us over for loft, and bewailed our Death. 
On the 24th another Tempeft arofe, which was fo vio- 
lent that twenty-four Ships were forced to cut their Mails, 
among the Number of which was alfo our Veflel, not fo 
much by the Tempeft, as for two Men of War being forced 
from their Anchors, which would elfe have run foul upon 
us. The 26th we got at laft to the fo long wiflied for Englijh 
Shore, and lay the fame Night at Canterbury, the Cathe- 
dral of which claims the Preference before any other in 
England, and is not inferior to fome of the beft Structures 
in the World. The 27th we came to Gravefend, and the 
28th to London, being met in our Way by certain Direc- 
tors of the Eajl-India Company, who ftaid for the Prefi- 
dent’s coming at Blackwall, with eight Coaches. 
29. On the 30th I viewed the Eajl-India Eloufe, and 
took that Opportunity to return Thanks to the Directors 
for the many Civilities I had received at the Prefident’s 
Hands ; and they having made a fplendid Entertainment 
for him that Day, I was alfo invited. The 31ft, and the 
1 ft of January we were fplendidly treated by fome En- 
glijh Merchants, and the 2d by Sir Edmund Wright , the 
then Lord-Mayor of London. As he was much delighted 
in the Relation of the many Adventures that had befallen 
us during our, Voyage, fo he would, needs invite the Prefi- 
dent and me again the next Day, our Difcourfe running 
upon the many Dangers we had efcaped. 
The Lord-Mayor, to fhew us that Sea-faring People 
were fubjeft to fuch, and often efcaped much greater Dan- 
ger, related to us a Story of a certain Dutch Seaman, who, 
being for fome Crimes condemned to Death, his Puniffi- 
ment was changed into that of Banifhment into the Ifle of 
St. Helens , near which they were, which was done accord- 
ingly. This poor Wretch, thinking this Solitude infup-i 
portable to him, refolved rather to hazard his Life at any 
Rate, than to endure it y and, having met with a Coffin, 
in which a Sea Officer had been interred the Day before, 
he, without more ado, took out the dead Corps y and hav- 
ing cut out the upper Board of the Coffin, made a kind of 
Rudder, put himfelf into it, and fo went out to Sea : As 
good Chance would have it, the Ship unto which he had 
belonged, was becalmed at a League and an half Diftancer 
from the Shore; and the Ship’s Crew obferving fo odd a 
kind of a Veflel floating on the Surface of the Water, 
thought it had been an Apparition, till, coming nearer 
and nearer the Ship, they flood amazed at this unaccount- 
able Boldnefs of the Man, who had ventured fo far in two 
or three Pieces of Boards, without being affured whether 
he fhould be received or not. It being put to the Que- 
ftion, it was at laft refolved he fhould be taken on Board, 
which was done accordingly y and he returned to Holland t 
where he lived afterwards in the Town of Horn. 
Lie gave us another Inftance of this kind, of an En- 
glijhman , who, being taken by a French Privateer in the 
Pacquet-Boat going from England to Dublin, was freed 
from the Privateer by a fudden Storm, which parted them* 
but foon after fplit the Pacquet-Boat againft a Rock on the 
Coaft of Scotland, oppoflte to that of Ireland. The En- 
gl ijhm an, with another of the Crew, happened to be eaft 
away- 
