Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... On the 13th, at seven in the morning, we discovered the main land of America, and were becalmed next day, which continued to the 15th, at noon, when we had a fresh gale, and steered N. N. E. till the 17th, when about moon-setting we descried two ships and four boats to windward of us, about a cannon's shot distance, that had the cape of us, which brought us upon deck to make all ready. One of those boats, on the 18th, by break of day, being a tartane, commanded by Captain John Rose, as not knowing us, presently came up and hailed us; and as our captain had a commission from the lord high admiral of France, the count of Tholouse, we made answer, from Paris, and put out our flag; but Rose, who would not know us so, believing we had no other intention, in feigning ourselves to be a king's ship, than to get clear of him, gave us two guns to make us strike; insomuch that taking him really for a Spaniard, we knocked out the heads of two barrels of powder, in order to burn ourselves, and blow up the ship, rather than fall into the hands of those people, who never gave us quarter, but were wont to make us suffer all imaginable torments, they beginning usually with the captain, whom they hang with his commission about his neck. But one of the two ships came up with us in a moment, and knowing what we were, gave us a signal, which was so much the more satisfaction to us, that instead of enemies, which we took them to be, they proved to be not only friends, but those very ships we were in quest of, which obliged us to put in at the cape, and spend that day to visit one another. One of these two ships belonged to Captain Michael Landresson, and was called the Mutinous, but formerly the Peace; and the other to Captain Lawrence de Graff, whose name...
