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But relin-quished.

A Ship ta-ken.

The Islandof Fuegotaken.

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the Fleet-

Author does not mention ; But, in theRoad, they took a Ship laden withWine and Cloth, which was of Serviceto them.

The Islandof Jamaicasubmits-

A fmallFri-gat taken-

St. Marthataken.

And left ,after a smallBooty taken.

the Remainder of hisTroops to embark, the tVolf, with the small Bark, whichand by this Stratagem secured a safe they took at St. J ago, privately left the WolfRetreat out of the Place, without the Fleet and returned to England. Arriv- -ivhtk theLoss of a Man, after having kept it ing in the Road of Jamaica, the nine Bark letrvettwo Days and two Nights. What Booty and twentieth of January, they landed,they made there, or whether any, my and marched six Miles into the Country,

to the chief Town, the Inhabitants mak-ing a Shew of opposing them, on Horse-back* but not coming to Action.

Being Masters of the Town, andFrom thence, they failed to thelfland the whole Ifland, the People submitted,of Fuego, which they took Possession of, and brought them a great Provision oftho’it afforded them nothing but water- dried Beef and Cajsavi- Meal. Whening, and staid there till the twentieth of they were almost ready to depart, Cap-September . The seventeenth of Oflober , tain Parker of Plymouth came into thethey arrived at the Ifland of Dominica, Road, in his Ship’s Boat, on the secondin the Wefl-Indies, with almost all their of March, with whom Sir Anthony alfo-Men in a sick and weakly Condition; dated himself, to go to the Bay of Hsn-And, for the Recovery of their Health, duras, where they were in Hopes ofthey staid there still the five and twenti- meeting with a considerable Booty. :ethos November. The Proceedings of these two Com- Sir AnBx<r

From Dominica, they failed to Mar- manders together, the Reader will fee ^Capt! Par-garita, thinking to meet with the Pearl- in the following Chapter : But being ker.Dredgers; But they mifs’d them. In separated again, Sir Anthony formed atheir Way from thence to Cape de la Vela , Design of failing, with the Bevice andtheir Fly-boat was cast away St Buenos the G alii on, for Newfoundland, and ha v-Airos, and some of the Men lost. Co'ast- ing furnished himself there with freshing along the Shoar, from Cape de la Men, and Provisions, to depart for-theVela, towards St. Martha, they took a Streights of Magellan, and so to the Eajl-Ifnall Frigat laden with Guiny- Corn, Indies. '

besides the Value of five Hundred On the thirteenth of May, being ath- The whsPounds in Mony, some Linnen Cloth wart Havana, the whole Fleet (for F ! eet A j e ^f.and China- Silk, all which Sit Anthony what Reason my Author makes no Men- * e mbestowed upon his Men, as a Recom- tion) forsook the Admiral, and left himpence for the Hardships they had under- in a miserable Condition alone;-None

having his Leave to depart but- theGeorge, whom he had dispatched to En-gland with Letters. The Cafe of theAdmiral was very desperate; Not a Ranees-Man on Board had ever been in thoseEnemy encountered them several Times, Parts, he was in great Want of Provi-but always retreated, and, atone Pass, sions, in a dangerous Place, and a surl-iest them two Pieces of Brass Cannon; ous Current. He was, however, so■After which they took the Town, with- fortunate to reach Newfoundland,out any farther Resistance. They kept the fifteenth of June, when he had not ;

it ’till New Year’s Day, and then left an Hour’s Provisions left. He stayedit unhurt, and, for any Thing I can there still the four and twentieth, in Ex-find, without any Booty, more than the pectation of the Gallion, in Order toCannon of the Place, and some Provi- pursue their Design for the Eafl-Indies ;

But she not coming, and that Project be-ing thereby overthrown, Sir Anthonyreturned to England, after a dangerous And in$$'and troublesome, as well as unsuccessful land *

gone.

Arriving at St. Martha, on thetwelfth of December, they landed twoLeagues West from the Town, in asandy Bay; On their March thither, the

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sions.

From St. Martha, they directed theirCourse for Jamaica, and misting theRoad, were obliged to sail round the

Me, a Thing not before practised. Here Voyage.

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