6o6 Charles II. Naval Expeditions , &c. of the Englifii, Book 1$

1676. this,Sir Narborough, to make them

And a Ma- more tractable, cannonaded the Town;limber ^ And then, landing some Men aboutburnt. twenty Leagues from thence, he burnta Magazine of Timber prepared forBuilding of Ships.

Th E^Pirats remaining yet obstinate,Sir John failed for Maltha. Fromwhence returning suddenly, the Begin-ning of the next Year, he struck such aTerror into them, that they soon con-sented to a Peace, to his Satisfaction ;But, after the Articles were signed,some of these Corsairs , returning frpmCruising, and being dissatisfied withwhat the Regency had done, raised aTumult, expell’d their Dey, and brokethe Peace. Sir John no sooner receivedInformation of it, than he returned witheight Frigats, and by Dint of Cannon,not only forced them, on the fifth ofA Treaty March , to renew tbeTreaty, but to de-renewed. liver up the chief of the Mutineers tohis Discretion r And he had the sameSuccess against the Algerines three Yearsafterwards.

Woob’j Voyage, for the Discovery ofa North-East Passage to Chinaand Japan.

Harris’.? Col.P.I. p. dio.& seq.

The Projec-tor of thisVoyage.

Ships andProprietors-

The Projector of this Voyage wasCaptain John IVood, whose Reasons forthe Probability of such aPassage,and theInducements which led him to attemptthe Discovery of it, we have at largein Harris ; And, indeed, they carryalmost a Conviction with them; Tho’he found they had deceived him.

These Reasons and Inducements,together with the Advantages whichwould accrue to our Trade, if such aDiscovery were made, being laid be-fore His Majesty, Orders were givenfor manning and victualing the Speed-well, one of the King’s Ships, for thisVoyage; To which was added, at theExpence of the Duke of Tork, theLord Barklet , Sir Joseph Williamson,Sir John Banks, Mr. SamuelPepys, Cap-tain Herbert, Mr. Dupey, and Mr.Hopegood , a Pink, of one Hundred andtwenty Tuns, called the Prosperous .They had Provisions for sixteen Months;The Speedwell being manned with sixty-eight Men and Boys, and the Prospe-rous with eighteen; The former com-manded by Captain Wood, and the lat-ter by Captain William Flawes: Hav-

ing such Merchandizes on Board as were 167^'likely to turn to the best Account, onthe Coast of Tartary arid Japan.

They set Sail from the River of . ^Thames, the eight and twentieth ^

May. The nine and twentieth of June,being in the Latitude of seventy-fourDegrees, and forty Minutes, about ele-ven at Night, the Prosperous perceiv-ing the Sea break, fired a Gun, andbearing down upon the Speedwell, criedout, Ice on the Weather Bow: Uponwhich she clap’d the Helm hard a-Wea-ther, and veered out the Main-Sheet, towear the Ship ; But before she couldwear, and bring to upon the other Tack,she struck on a Ledge of Rocks, whichlay under Water. The Prosperous,wearing rounder, got clear, and suppos-ing the Speedwell to have done the like, , ^ o p 0kept on her Course. The Speedwell fired sfncMseveral Guns, to give Notice of their Ship-Distress, and used all possible Means toget oss, by throwing their Provisions o-ver Board. It was then Ebb, and theShip sued above three Foot. But theFlood brought a great Sea with it; Sothat the Ship making Water more thanthey could pump, they cut their Mastsby the Board, and sent a Yacht assioarto see for a Landing-Place; And hav-ing found one, they got ready theirBread, and Carpenter’s Tools, in Orderto rebuild their Long-boat, in CafeCaptain Flawes should not come nearthem. At Noon, the next Day, theygot all their Men assioar, excepting two,who were drowned in the Pinnace, theSea breaking into her, just as she put offfrom the Ship’s Side, with all the Bread,

Powder andProvisions, which were lost;

So that they had now nothing left butthe Long-boat, which could not carryabove thirty Men out of seventy. Bythis Time, the Ship being filled up tothe Upper Deck, they could save onlytwo Bags of Bread, with a few Piecesof Pork, and a little Cheese.

This, with what other Necessariesthey had saved, they carried upon aHill, where the first Thing they metwith was a prodigious large WhiteBear, at which they shot, but ssie gotaway. They made a Kind of Tent,with some Canvas they had saved, whichthey fastened to their Oars and someSpars, and made a Kind of Fence orTrench round it; But being very wet,and without Firing, they suffered verymuch by the Extremity of the Cold.

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