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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40503	A relation of a voyage made in the years 1695, 1696, 1697, on the coasts of Africa, Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles, by a squadron of French men of war, under the command of M. de Gennes by the Sieur Froger ... ; illustrated with divers strange figures, drawn to the life.; Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696, & 1697, aux côtes d'Afrique, d'etroit de Magellan, Brezil, Cayenne, & Isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roi, commandée par m. de Gennes. English	Froger, François, b. 1676.	1698 (1698)	Wing F2233; ESTC R38897	67,625	174

A RELATION OF A VOYAGE Made in the Years 1695 1696 1697. on the Coasts of Africa Streights of Magellan Brasil Cayenna and the Antilles by a Squadron of French Men of War under the Command of M. de Gennes By the Sieur Froger Voluntier-Engineer on board the English Falcon. Illustrated with divers strange Figures drawn to the Life LONDON Printed for M. Gillyflower in Westminster-Hall W. Freeman M. Wotton in Fleet-street J. Walthoe in the Temple and R. Parker in Cornhill 1698. A IOURNAL of a late Voyage of M r. de Gennes To the Straits of MAGELLAN By le S r. Froger TO THE Right Honourable THE Lord Phelippeaux Count of Maurepas Secretary of State Superintendant-General of Maritime Affairs c. My Lord THE glorious Post You are in possession of and whereunto the judicious Choice of the Greatest and Wisest of Kings as well as a most ripen'd Capacity hath advanced You to doth so naturally appropriate this Relation unto Your Self that I cou'd not forbear how shapeless soever the same may be to present it to Your Honour I had no other Design in the first Undertaking than to compile it for my own particular Instruction But the Silence of all those who made the Voyage with me constrained me to expose it to publick View Your Lordship can find nothing here which the Extent of Your Knowledge hath not already anticipated for what can such a Minister be ignorant of who for the Revolution of so many Years and in such hazardous Times hath sustain'd the Weight of Publick Affairs in the most potent Monarchy of the World and whose Extraction is from a Family wherein Science and Illustrious Qualities are as Hereditary as Nobleness of Birth and Integrity of Life Wherefore My Lord I have been so far from thinking to offer any thing New to Your Honour upon this Occasion that I have had no no other Intention than barely to make known the ardent Desire I have to be in a Condition to merit Your Protection by a continual Application of my self to my Duty and an Inviolable Adherence to Your Lordship's Will who am with profoundest Respect My Lord Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant T. Froger THE PREFACE AS I have always had a passionate Desire to see Foreign Countries I was no sooner Master of my own Inclinations but I made it my Business in the prosecution of my Design to attain to whatever might contribute to the Imployment of an honest Man and to distinguish my self from those Travellers who run over the World for the sole delight they have of seeing different Objects without ever putting themselves in a Condition to be useful to their Country Wherefore being thus inclin'd and assisted by the Advice of my Friends I took to the Study of the Mathematicks and at length by reading the Relations of others made my self familiarly acquainted with the History of the different Nations of the World The Noise which Monsieur de Gennes his Expedition made in 1695 determin'd my Resolutions of taking that Opportunity to go abroad as believing I could not do better than to lay hold of the Conveniency of so brave a Voyage and therefore without any more ado I abandon'd the little Experience that an Age of Nineteen Years cou'd supply me with to the Course of my Fortune came quickly to make use of the Lessons I had learnt as well as the chief Officers of the Mariners under one of the greatest Masters of the Age and began now to come to the practick Part of what I knew before but in the Theory The general Idea I had formed with my self of the Voyage and the frequent Conversations I had with our Pilots gave me the Advantage of taking notice of all the Circumstances I thought necessary to Sailing And I am not to omit that the long abode I have made in divers Parts giving me a real Taste of the Pleasure there is in seeing Foreign Countries I have with all imaginable Exactness enquir'd into the Commerce of the Place the particular Interests of each Colony the Strength Situation and Advantages of the Ports the Manners Customs and Religion of the People and lastly the Nature of those Fruits Plants Birds Fishes and the Animals that seem'd to have any thing extraordinary in or peculiar to them and these I have set out in the best manner I cou'd by a great many Copper-Cuts all of them respectively fixed in their proper Places But I have more particularly apply'd my self to make Charts of the Entrances of Harbours and Rivers either of my self as I have had Leasure for it as may be seen in those I have given of Gambia Rio-Janeiro and All-Saints-Bay as by reforming the Charts or Memoirs that have been taken of the Streight of Magellan of the disemboguings of the Isles of Antilles and of the Government of Cayenne that hath not yet appear'd in the World under the Name of Aequinoctial France in that Extent and with those Limits I have set it forth by I hope this Relation will meet with so much the more favourable Reception seeing I have retrencht it of those tedious Particulars wherewith others of this kind are usually stuffed and have made use of all the Exactness and Simplicity that a Work requires that has no other than Truth for its End and wherein the Reader will have the pleasure either of seeing new Descriptions or his Judgment regulated in respect of those he has already seen elsewhere and lastly an orderly View given of all the unfortunate Disappointments of so noble an Undertaking that had been made during the War we were engag'd in and of which you have the Subject at large in p. 80 85 c. and so onwards A RELATION OF A VOYAGE Made in the Years 1695 1696 1697. to the Coasts of Africa the Streights of Magellan Brasil Cayana and the Antilles or Caribby Islands VVE set out from Rochel on the 3d. of June A. D. 1695. to navigate the Southern Sea with six Vessels viz. The English Falcon furnished with 46 Pieces of Cannon and 260 Men under the command of Monsieur de Gennes Captain The Sun of Africa carrying 32 Pieces and 220 Men comcommanded by M. du Pare Captain of the Light Frigat The Seditious a light Frigat of 26 Guns and 140 Men M. de la Roque Commander The Corvette-Felicity of 8 Pieces of Ordnance and 40 Men The Glutton-Pink of 10 Guns and 40 Men And the Fruitful-Pink of 4 Guns and 20 Men These two Pinks carry'd two Mortars and 600 Bombs with all sorts of Provisions and Ammunition necessary for a long Voyage We set sail about three a-clock in the Morning with a fair North-East Wind pass'd the Pertuis or Straight of Antioch and before Noon entirely lost the sight of Land On the 7th Instant at Eleven of the Clock we discover'd at the distance of three or four Leagues under the Wind two Vessels which the Felicity went to view They came from St. Domingo and were steering