but this would not satisfie these Barbarians who were about to murder him for refusal had not his Master prevented it Afterward in discourse his Master told him that the People were naturally civil and simply honest but if provoked full of Revenge and that this cruelty toward him and his Friends was occasioned by the unhandsome carrying away some Native without their leave about a year before they resolving if any came ashore they should never go off alive He had not been above seven Weeks in the Countrey but his Master presented him to the King whose name was Esme King of the Buckamores who immediately gave him to his Daughter Onijah When the King went abroad he attended him as his Page throughout the whole Circuit of his Dominions which was not above twelve miles yet boasting exceedingly of his Power and Strength and glorying extreamly that he had a White to attend him whom he imployed to carry his Bow and Arrows At several places remote from the Sea-side some of the People would run away from him for fear others fell down and seem'd to worship him using those Actions they do to their Gods Their Progress was never so long but they could return home at Night yet never without a full Dose of the Creature During all the time J. W. was a Slave with him he never knew him go abroad and come home sober They drink of the best Palm-wine and of another Liquor called Peurore The Englishman knew how to humour this profound Prince and if any of the Natives abused him upon his complaint he had Redress as once by striving with a Negro his Arm was broke which by providence more than skill was set again After some months the King of Calanach called Mancha hearing of this beautiful White courted his Neighbour Prince to sell him and at length he was sold for a Cow and a Goat This King was very sober free from the Treacheries and Mischiefs the other was subject to and would oft inquire of him concerning his King and Countrey and whether his Kingdoms were bigger than his own whose whole Dominions were not above twenty five miles in length and fifteen in breadth The Englishman told as much as he thought convenient keeping within the bounds of modesty yet relating as much as possible to the hononr and dignity of his Soveraign first informing him of the greatness of one of his Kingdoms the several Shires and Counties it contained with the number of its Cities Towns and Castles and the strength of each the infinite Inhabitants and valour of his Subjects One of these sufficiently amazed this petty Governour that he need mention no more of His Majesties Glory and Dignity It put him into such a profound Consternation that he resolved to find out some way to tender his respects to this Mighty Prince and could study none more convenient than that if he could find a passage he would let him go to England to inform His Majesty of the great favour and respect he had for him This did not a little rejoice our Englishman He also told him that he would send him a Present which should be two Cabareets or Goats which they there value at a very high rate this King having himself not above seventeen or eighteen He tells the King that the King of England had many thousand Subjects under the degree of Gentlemen who had a thousand Sheep apiece the Flesh of which they valued at a much higher rate than Goats Though our Captive lived very happily with this King yet his desires and hopes were still to return to his Native Countrey at length he promised him that the first English Ship which came into the Road should have liberty to release or purchase him This very much rejoiced his Heart now he thought every day a year till he could hear of or see some English Ship arrived Oft did he walk down to the Sea-side earnestly expecting the winds of Providence would blow some in thither which being observed by one Jaga the chiefest Wizard in those parts and much admired by the People though they have a multitude of others this man came to him one day and inquired why he went so often to the Sea-shore he told him to see if he could discover any English Vessel come in there and knowing he was a Wizard though not acquainted with his great Fame nor willing to credit his Divinations yet to please him askt when he did believe there would one come in Jaga instantly told him That the fifteenth day after an English Ship would come into the Road. He then demanded whether that Ship should carry him away to this he answered doubtfully but told him he should be offered to the Master of the Ship and if they should not agree but that he should come ashore again and not be sold he would soon after dye of grief These fifteen days seemed very long many a look did he cast on the Sea with an aking Heart the fourteenth day he went to the highest hill thereabout but to no purpose he could discover nothing next Morning he went again two or three times but saw none about two or three hours after some of the Moors came running to the King telling him there was a Canoe coming so they call our Ships at which our Englishman heartily rejoiced hoping to be suddenly releast yet durst not shew it for fear of punishment or death for though he lived better now than with his first Master yet his Service was far worse than the Slaves in Turkey and their Diet worse than Dogs meat and therefore he had just cause of joy The Ship came immediately in and he runs prosently to Jaga to know if it were an English Ship who assured him it was and so it happened one Captain Royden being Commander who hastned to dispatch his business took in his Negroes and was ready to Sail our Captive not hearing a word what should become of him the King never offering to sell him This made him resolve to endeavour an escape to which end he had prepared a piece of Timber and drawn it toward the water-side on which he intended to paddle to the Ship which-lay about a League from the Shore Just by the Sea-side as he was about to lanch his floating stick he espied a great Alligator which will devour a man at a mouthful this altered his mind resolving rather to live with Infidels than to be accessary to his own death But the next day it pleased God to move the Kings Heart to let him go sending him in a Canoe placed between a Negro's Legs with some others to guide this small Vessel for fear he should leap over-board and swim to the Ship At a distance he haled her in English to the great surprizal of those within her the Negro's gave him leave to stand up and show himself to the Captain to whom he gave an Account how four were left there and he only remained alive It was some time
out what did befal him or caused him to dye it were a great shame for us we have examined and tryed you but it shall not remain so we will look farther into the business and make the Southsayers acquainted with it Manimassah mad at these inhumane usages burst forth at last into these words This shame is not to be suffered from my own Subjects in my own Countrey I will go under the Conduct of the Spirits of my deceased Friends and seek a dwelling place In this manner leaving his Native Countrey he travelled Northward into Gala inhabited by a mean and simple People and won so upon them by his endearing behaviour that they unanimously besought him to be their Prince to which he consented upon condition That they should give him some of their Plants and Venison for an acknowledgement of their subjection This they yeilded to but such was their brutish Barbarism that though they owned him their Lord they used him as their Companion for being wholly unacquainted with Civility when any of them brought him Wine Rice or Flesh they came again to him to require their Callibashes or Basquets which unmannerly clownish behaviour Manimassah so resented that he withdrew from them to require assistance from Flansire King of Folgia whose Daughter he had Married to reduce the Gala's to his Authority The King hearing the request of his Son in Law lent him many Souldiers under the Conduct of Flonikerry his General who unexpectedly fell into Gala and subdued the People setling Manimassah in an absolute Dominion who hath ever since continned their Prince and taught them with sorrow more respective qualities after this Flonikerry returned to Folgia where he was received and welcomed with great applause and the King willing to gratifie him for his honest performances he according to Flonikerrys Petition gave him leave to go and Conquer and settle himself and his People in Cabo Monte an adjacent Countrey expressing his kindness in saying I shall do the desire of his Heart and sending a considerable force to help him that he might not be repulsed Marching toward this place the Inhabitants being numerous and couragious were not soon subdued but at length tired with the continual onsets of their Enemies who shot poysoned Arrows which made all wounds though never so slight prove Mortal a fatal Invention unknown to these People they went with their Hoods upon their Heads as usual to ask favour which Flonikerry naturally inclined to pity easily granted bidding them go lie down with their Faces upon the ground according to the manner of that Countrey in such cases then coming out of his Fort he trod upon them with his Feet He then made an agreement with them which was confirmed as followeth first some Hens were killed in the presence of them all of whose Blood the Conquered swallowed a little as a token of Friendship Afterward the Hens were boiled and the Flesh eaten among them only the Legs were kept for a perpetual Remembrance for if any Man after that time transgressed or broke his promise to him were the Legs shown who upon sight thereof soon recanted for fear of the punishment that would assuredly follow Flonikerry overjoyed at his success gave free scope to his thoughts to range farther but for assuring his new Dominion he first sought to win the minds of the vanquished to him and then to contract a firm League of Friendship and correspondence with the Lords of his own Countrey But wavering Fortune who minds nothing less than contribuance of her favour will blemish his new gotten glory with a dire and unexpected mishap for scarce were the minds of the Nobility united when there came out of Gala Miminique Son of the aforementioned Manimassah with a great Army of Gala's and others make War upon him of whose design his Father was not ignorant having already forgot the kindness received from Flonikerrys Arms in setling him in his new acquired Dominions Flonikerry upon the first Intelligence drew together his Forces to whom the Nobles joining theirs he formed a considerable Army wherewith marching toward the Enemy they soon met and came to a Battle wherein by the multitude of their Enemies they were at first put to a disorderly retreat which Flonikerry who was of an undaunted Spirit perceiving and not used to shrink in Fight digged with his hand a hole in the ground and put his Knees in it with a resolution either to die there or to remain Conquerour and indeed in one he had his desire for after a long and sharp contest at length being even covered with Arrows he was slain on the spot However his men gathering new courage to revenge their Princes death rallied and gave a fresh charge with such fury that they turned the Fortune of the day and became sole Masters of the Field The death of Flonikerry whose body they privately buried was sometime kept secret till they sent for his Brother Zillimanque to take his charge who immediately accepting the same pursued the Victory and drew near the Enemies Camp which he soon surprized and gave as a spoil to his Souldiers After which he marched farther the People all along yielding subjection without blows whereby they soon became Masters of the whole Countrey and gain'd the reputation of a Mighty People After which he was poisoned as was thought leaving behind him several Sons who were young and not capable to manage their Fathers Conquests However Flansire his eldest was admitted Successor during whose Minority his Uncle Jemmah undertook the Government but Flansire growing to years took the Royal Authority into his own hands and to shew that he inherited as well his Fathers Valour as Countreys resolves to inlarge his bounds yet farther and to that end marcht with his Forces over the River Galinas or Hens taking all the adjacent places as far as Sierra Liona and placing Garrisons therein Having settled his new Conquests he return'd to his own Native Principality where he spent a good part of his Life in peace and quietness when on a sudden there came News from Sierra Liona that Kandaqualla his Governour was driven out thence and forced to fly with all his People to the Islands of Bananeo not being able to withstand Falma of Dogo who with a mighty Force inveded them Flansire startled at this intelligence and knowing nothing more necessary than expedition sent to the Lords his Substitutes to raise an Army and meet him at an appointed Randezvouz but they having made a private Confederacy with Gamina their Master Flansires Brother by his instigation they neglected and slighted his Commands Flansire ignorant of this Combination leaving the Government of his Kingdom Wives and Children to his treacherous Brother Gamina marched with his eldest Son Flambore the present King of Quoia not doubting in the least the Fidelity of his Provincials He went first by Land to the River of Hens and from thence in Canoes to the Isles of Bananes to take with him his
People who were driven from Sierra Liona and so bringing them back thither he began a sharp War with Falma This Falma had been formerly in great favour with the King of Dogo or Hondo but having debauched one of his Wives the King was thereat so much offended that not content the offence should as usual be bought off with Gifts or Slaves he caused his Ears to be cut off and banished him his presence but length of time so wore out the Kings Fury that Falma was again admitted to Court where he had not been long but he began to shew his Insolence and at length addrest the King in these Terms Sir King considering the wickedness committed against you my Lord and Master I am obliged to thank you for your gracious Sentence by which I am punished whereby every one that looks upon me derides and scorns me and the rather because the punishment is unusual and the like offence customarily bought off with Goods and Slaves Now as you were pleased to punish me so I desire the like offence in others may be punished in the same manner It may happen that some of the Kings Servants or Subjects may fall into the same Lapse but if this Sentence be either denied or not performed I shall complain against my Lord the King in the Ways and in the Woods to the Jananen and Belli that is to all the Spirits and Demons The King having heard this audacious Speech took counsel upon it and notwithstanding this seeming Threat determined that the punishment inflicted on him should not follow upon all But yet to pacifie him in some measure he made him General of an Army to recover Sierra Liona out of the hands of Kandaqualla who presided there for Flansire To repel this Invader Flansire as we said coming to Sierra Liona with an Army and making sharp War at length by the help of some Europeans he fell upon the Town of Falmaha and with Axes cutting down the Tree-wall at last they forced an entrance and set the Houses on fire whose fury soon increased to an impossibility of being quenched whereupon Falma unable to resist fled whom young Flambore pursued and though he mist him yet got great Reputation the People stiling him The Pursuen of Falma Flansire having thus reconquered these Countries and settled Kandaqualla in his Lieutenantship retreated with his Forces intending to return to his Wife and Children But on the way he had notice that his Brother Gamana had usurped his Kingdom killed all his Sons he could meet with taken his Wives for himself and had set up his Residence at a convenient place near the River of Hens to intercept and hinder his Brothers approach and as commonly one Trouble falls in the neck of another this Rebellion of his Brother was attended with the Invasion of Monou who dwelt near Cape Miserado and fell into his Countrey at Cape de Monto where they burnt the Town and led away all they met with for Slaves Flansire understanding these mischiefs marched toward the River Maqualbary with all speedy but complaining to the Kanou and Jananies that is to God and the Angels of his distress in these words To you only it is known that my Father left me rightful Heir to his Kingdom which falls to me by the Laws of the Land seeing I was the eldest You likewise know that my Brother hath rebelled against me and hath set himself up to be Lord be you Judges between him and me in this intended Fight and if the Cause be unjust that he manages against me let the mischief fall upon his own head Thereupon he passed with all his Souldiers over the River where the Armies suddenly met and his Brother with great numbers of men being slain he obtained a compleat Victory but still kept the Field though no other opposition appeared against him While the King incamped in the Field to be more ready against any other appearing Rebels his Son Flambore went with a Squadron of Souldiers into the Woods to hunt Civit Cats and being by his sports got far into them they discovered some of the Rebels busie in burying the dead body of Gamana the Usurper who perceiving Flambore and his Followers immediately fled imagining he had come purposely with those Forces to search them out and left the Corps behind them with three Slaves in Chains whom they intended to have dispatcht at his Grave according to Custom Being by this means assured of Gamana's death when they least expected it they brought the three Slaves to Flansire who having from them understood all Circumstances and how all things stood in the Countrey he sent them to their Fellow-Rebels to admonish them to come and ask his pardon and to ascertain them he would utterly forget their misdeeds which goodness of the Kings though presented by the mouth of these Slaves wrought the desired Effect for the Rebels immediately submitted and received their Pardon This Rebellion thus supprest King Flansire with all his Power marched to Cape Miserado to reduce Monou which he did with great slaughter and spoil of the Countrey and then retired home with his Forces till Monou made a New Insurrection to revenge the Losses of Falma but in short time he was again in a manner totally subdued by Flansires People In the Principality of Anten near Tekorari the Hollanders some years since built a Fort which in 1664. was attaqued by Sir Robert Holms in behalf of the Royal African Company with two of the Kings Men of War six Frigats and some other Ships and by them with no great difficulty won but regained the next year by Admiral De Ruyter being at that time only mann'd by four or five in health and about as many more sick English-men leaving in it seven Iron Guns and six or eight Pounders Upon the retaking the Guns being drawn off to the Ship De Ruyter caused it as not being tenable without many People and great Charges to be blown up into the Air and totally dismantled with twelve hundred pound of Powder In the mean time the Negro's of the Mine plundered the Village of Tekorari and laid it waste with Fire and Sword out of malice to the Blacks of that place exercising great Cruelty upon the Prisoners cutting off their Heads wherewith they went dancing and leaping up and down and at last carried them home in token of Victory they were well Armed according to the Countrey fashion some having Caps like Helmets adorned with Feathers and Horns of Beasts and Swords hanging on their Bellies whereon instead of Handles they put the Bones of Lions Tygers and other Beasts their Faces are generally painted with Red and Yellow which make a very strange and terrible sight In the Kingdom of Fetu the Hollanders have a Fort called Cape Corso strengthened with a convenient number of great Guns and mann'd with a strong Garrison of Slaves but in 1664 this with the Forts of Tekorari aforementioned Adia and Anemabo were taken by
the vast Atlantick Ocean After this succeeded a Spot almost Oval just as we see America described in our Maps then another immense cleerness representing Mare del Zur or the South Sea and lastly a number of Spots like the Countreys and Islands in the East-Indies so that it seemed to me no other than an huge Mathematical Globe turned round leisurely before me wherein successively all the Countreys of our earthly World were within twenty four hours represented to my view and this was all the means I now had to number the days and reckon the time I could now wish that Philosophers and Mathematicians would confess their own blindness who have hitherto made the World believe that the Earth hath no motion and to confirm it are forc't to attribute to every one of the celestial Bodies two Motions directly contrary to each other one from the East to the West to be perform'd in twenty four hours with an impetuous rapid motion the other from West to East in several proportions O incredible supposition That those huge Bodies of the fixed Stars in the highest Orb whereof they confess divers are above an hundred times bigger than the whole Earth should like so many Nails in a Cart wheel be whirled about in so short a time whereas it is many thousand years no less say they than thirty thousand before that Orb finishes his course from West to East which they call his natural motion Now whereas they allow their natural course from West to East to every one of them therein they do well The Moon performs it in seven and twenty days the Sun Venus and Mercury in a year or thereabout Mars in three year Jupiter in twelve and Saturn in thirty But to attribute to these celestial Bodies contrary motions at once is a very absurd conceit and much more to imagine the same Orb wherein the fixed Stars are whose natural course takes up so many thousands of years should be turned about every twenty four hours I will not go so far as Copernicus who makes the Sun the center of the Earth and immoveable neither will I be positive in any thing only this I say allow the Earth its motion which these eyes of mine can testify to be true and all those absurdities are removed every one having only his own single and proper motion But where am I I promised an history and am unawares turn'd disputer One Accident more befell worth mention that during my stay I saw a kind of a reddish Cloud coming toward me and continually approaching nearer which at last I perceived was nothing but a huge swarm of Locusts He that reads the discourses of learned men concerning them as John Leo of Africa and others who relate that they are seen in the Air several days before they fall on the Earth and add thereto this experience of mine will easily conclude that they can come from no other place than the Globe of the Moon But now give me leave to go on quietly in my Journey for eleven or twelve days during all which time I was carried directly toward the Globe or Body of the Moon with such a violent Whirling as is inexpressible for I cannot imagine a Bullet out of a Cannon could make way through the vaporous and muddy Air neer the Earth with half that celerity which is the more strange since my Gansa's moved their Wings but now and then and sometimes for a quarter of an hour not at all only holding them stretcht out as we see Kites and Eagles sometimes do for a short space during which pauses I suppose they took their Naps and times of Sleeping for other time I could perceive they never had any For my self I was so fastened to mine Engine that I durst slumber enough to serve my turn which I took with as great ease though it may seem incredible as if I had lain on the best Down-Bed in all Antwerp After eleven days passage in this violent flight I perceived we began to approach to another Earth if I may so call it being the Globe or very Body of that Star which we call the Moon The first difference I found between this and our Earth was that it appeared in its natural colours as soon as ever I was free from the attraction of the Earth Whereas with us a thing a League or two from us puts on that deadly colour of Blew I then perceived also that this World was the greatest part covered with a huge mighty Sea those parts only being dry Land which are unto us somewhat darker than the rest of her Body I mean what the Countrey people call The Man in the Moon and that part which shines so bright is another Ocean besprinkled with Islands which for their smalness we cannot discern so far off So that the Splendor which appears to us in the Night is nothing but the reflection of the Sun beams returned to us out of the Water as from a Lookinglass How much this disagrees with what our Philosophers teach in the Schools is very evident But alas how many of their Errors hath time and experience refuted in this our Age and among other vain conjectures who hath not hitherto believed the upper Region of the Air to be very hot as being next forsooth to the natural place of the Element of Fire Meer Vanities Fancies and Dreams For after I was once free from the attractive Beams of that Tyranous Load-stone the Earth I found the Air altogether serene without Winds Rain Mists or Clouds neither hot nor cold but constantly pleasant calm and comfortable till my arrival in that New World of the Moon As for that Region of fire our Philosophers talk of I heard no news of it mine eyes have sufficiently inform'd me there is no such thing The Earth had now by turning about shewed me all her parts twelve times when I finished my course For when by my reckoning it seem'd to be as indeed it was Tuesday September 11. at which time the Moon being two days old was in the twentieth degree of Libra my Gansa's seem'd by one consent to stay their course and rested for certain hours after which they took their flight and in less than an hour set me on the top of an high Hill in that Other World where many most strange and wonderful things were immediately presented to my sight for I observed first that though the Globe of the Earth appear'd much greater there than the Moon doth to us even three times bigger yet all things there were ten twenty yea thirty times larger than ours Their Trees were thrice as high and above five times broader and thicker So were there Herbs Birds and Beasts though I cannot well compare them to ours because I found not any kind of Beast or Bird there which any way resembled ours except Swallows Nightingals Cuckoes Woodcocks Batts and some kind of Wild Fowl And likewise such Birds as my Gansa's all which as I now perceived spend their
walking together gabble from the first to the last in company as if all spake and none answered Their Habits are their Sheep-Skins undrest thonged together which cover their bodies to the middle with a little flap of the same Skin tyed before them being naked downward when it is cold they put the Woolley and when hot the Fleshy side of those Skins next their Body Their Ornaments and Jewels are Bullocks or Sheepsguts full of Excrements about their Necks and therefore when we bought their Cattel they would take and we were content they should their Skins Guts and Garbage which plentifully furnish't them with that stinking attire When they are hungry they sit down upon some hillock first shaking some of that filthy pudding out of the Guts about their Neck then bowing down their Mouths to their hands almost as low as their knees like hungry Dogs they gnaw and eat the Raw Guts which you may conceive fills their Mouths full of sweet Green Sauce The Women are adorned habited and dieted in the same manner only they wear more about their lower parts than the men they carry their sucking Infants under their Skins upon their backs and their Breasts hanging down like Bagpipes they put up with their hands to their Children that they may suck them over their Shoulders Both Sexes make coverings for their heads of Cow-dung and such like silth mingled with a little stinking Grease they besmear their Faces with which makes their Company insufferable if they get the Wind of you I observed saith my Author that some of the rest of their Diet was agreeable to the former for they would not refuse any thing as rotten and mouldy Biskets which we have given them fit for nothing but the dunghill yea they will devour what a hungry Dog in England would refuse I once observed a couple of them who had found on the Neighbour Shoar a large peice of a dead Fish the Sea had cast up which stunk intolerably they made a little fire with dry Cow-dung wherewith they warm'd and then eat it with as much appetite as an hungry man with us would feed upon a very choice and Savoury Dish which makes me apt to believe that these wretched creatures have but three senses wanting the benefit both of smelling and tasting These Brutes devote themselves to Idleness for they neither spin nor dig They are very streight and well limb'd though not very Tall their Faces very ill favoured most of their Noses flat have little or no beard the hair on their heads short black and curled their Skins very tawny swift they are of foot and will throw Darts and shoot Arrows which are their Weapons very dangerously I shall here insert a true Relation saith my Author about three years before I went to India which was in 1615 one of the East India Companies Ships returning thence and arriving at this Harbor after a little stay when she was ready to Sail and having then two of these Salvages aboard the Commander resolv'd to bring them both home with him imagining that having learnt English here they might discover something of their Countrey yet unknown to us These poor wretches thus surprized and carried away against their wills were much disturbed One of them meerly out of sullenness though he was very well used died soon after they put to Sea The other who called himself Cooree a forenamed was brought to London and there kept Six Months in Sir Thomas Smiths House then Governor of the East India Company where he had good Diet good Cloths good Lodging and all other fitting Accommodations One would have thought that this wretch might have conceived his present compared with his former Condition a Heaven upon Earth But all these things gave him no content though to his good Entertainment he had gallantry added having a Chain of Bright Brass with Breast Back and Headpeice of the same and a Buckler all of Brass his beloved Metal yet all this did not now please him for never did any man seem more weary of ill Usage than he was of Courtesies none being ever more desirous of returning to his Countrey than he For when he had learn'd a little of our Language he would dayly lye on the ground and cry out very often in broken English Cooree home go Souldania go home go And not long after when he had his desire and was return'd home he had no sooner set footing on his own shore but he presently threw away his Cloths his Linnen with all his other covering and instantly got his Sheep-Skins upon his back guts about his Neck and a persum'd Cap of Cow-dung on his Head and so returned like a Dog to his vomit a Swine to his wallowing in the Mire without a Metaphor After this Fellow was returned it made the Natives very shy of us when we arrived there for though they would come about us in great Companies when we first arrived yet three or four days before they thought we would depart thence there was not one of them to be seen fearing we would have dealt with them as formerly with Cooree But it had been well he had never seen England for as he discovered nothing to us so certainly when he came home he told his Countreymen having doubtless observ'd it here that Brass was but a base and cheap commodity in England and it may be we had so well stored them with that Metal before that we had never after such a free exchange of our Brass and Iron for their Cattel It was here that I asked Cooree who was their God He lifting up his hands answered in bad English England God Great God Souldania no God In 1614. Ten Englishmen being condemned to dye for their several Crimes at the Sessions in the Old Bayly London had their Execution respited by the intreaty of the East-India Merchants upon condition they should be all banished to this place that so if they could find any peaceble aboad here they might discover somewhat advantagious to Trade this was done accordingly but two of them when they came thither were taken thence and carried on the Voyage to the Indies One named Daffeld was that year redeemed from this sad banishment by Sir Thomas Row who was sent Ambassador to the Great Mogol and afterward brought back to England by that Noble Gentleman and being then intrusted by him this ingrateful Villain stole some of his Plate and ran away Another was likewise on the Voyage but what became of him I know not So that there remained only eight which were here left with Amunition and Victual and a small Boat to carry them to and from a very little uninhabited Island lying in the very Mouth of the Bay of Souldania as a place for their retreat and safety from the Natives on the Main It is called Penguin Island probably so named by some Welshman in whose Language Penguin signifies a white head there being many great large Fowls upon and about