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A58105	A journal of a voyage made into the South Sea, by the bucaniers or freebooters of America, from the year 1684 to 1689 written by the Sieur Raveneau de Lussan ; to which is added, The voyage of the Sieur de Montauban, captain of the free-booters on the coast of Guiney, in the year 1695.; Journal du voyage fait à la Mer du Sud avec les flibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684 & années suivantes. English	Raveneau de Lussan, Sieur.; Montauban, Sieur de, ca. 1650-1700. Relation du voyage du Sieur de Montaubon, capitaine des flibustiers, en Guinée en l'année 1695. English.	1698 (1698)	Wing R322; ESTC R14129	172,255	210

Solemnity where I saw nothing else but a great Concourse of People standing round the dead Corpse I was in the mean time very well fed by Prince Thomas his Orders who was gone to see his Father They did not let me want Bananiers Elephants Flesh and River Fish tho' all of it came without either Bread or Wine as you may well suppose My Men were treated in the same manner in their respective Quarters all the time we ●●aid there At the Eight Days end Prince Thomas came in order to carry us before the King He is a large Negro well enough made and about Fifty Years old who to do ●●e the greater Honour according to the Relation given of me to him by his Son came out of his House to re●●eive me and advanced some steps to meet me He was ●pported by four or five Women which gave him a kind of an Air of Grandeur in a very cumbersom and ●antastick manner He was guarded by several Negroes who were armed with Lances and Fusils which they discharged from time to time with no great Order There were several Trumpets and Drums marched before him at the Head of which Company there were also several Standards carryed alike in colour to those used in Holland He had no other Cloaths than a piece of Cotton Stuff streaked with white and blue wherewith part of his Body was covered the same being several times folded round about him He gave me many Demonstrations of his Friendship he also stretched out his Hand to me saying it was the first time he had ever done so to any Man before me Being come to his House he sate at his Door and made me take Place on the one side of him as his Son did on the other He asked me several Questions concerning the Greatness and Power of the King my Master and when I had told him that he alone waged War against the English and Dutch whom himself knew as having seen them often at the Cape of Lopez that he also warred against the Germans and Spaniards who were more Potent Nations than the English and Dutch He told me he was pleased with my Account and that he would drink the King of France's Health Presently they brought him some Palm-Wine which is not unpleasant to drink and his Wives served him in a great Crystal Glass As soon as he began to take the Glass the Negro Men and Women lifted up the Right Arm and held the same in that posture very silently till he had done drinking But when it was over they made a great noise with their Trumpets and Drums and discharged all their Musquets or I should have rather said Fusils Prince Thomas then asked me what the King of France's Name was and having told him Lewis le Grand he said he had a mind I should hold 〈◊〉 Child of his of about Seven or Eight Months old 〈◊〉 Baptism and that I should give him the Name of Lewis le Grand which made me smile a little at the Humour He told me also that the first Voyage I should make into his Country he would give the Child to carry to France for a Present for the King to whose Service 〈◊〉 devoted him being very desirous he should be broug●● up according to the Custom of the Country and Cou●● of so great a Prince I also promised on my part th● the first time I came to the Coast of Guiney I shou●● not fail to come and put him in mind of his Promise that so upon my Return into France I might be capable of making the greatest Present that could be unto the King in presenting him with the Son of Prince Thomas And assure him said the same Prince that I am his Friend and that if he has occasion for my Services I 'll go my self into France with all the Lances and Fusils belonging to the King my Father which was as much as to say with all the Force of the Kingdom The King presently pursued the Discourse and assured me he would go thither in Person if there was need for it and with that all the Negro Men and Women raised such a Shout as much surprized me and this was scarce over when the Fusileers made a general Discharge of their Arms the Trumpets and Drums went to it again and those who carried the Lances set themselves a running from one side to another with such horrible Outcries as frighted me I was really ignorant of the meaning of all this and could not be satisfied till I saw the King drink the French King's Health a second time with the same Ceremonies as at first Prince Thomas drank it also and all of us were commanded to do the same This being over the King ordered Two Wax Cakes to be brought whereof he made me a Present desiring me to accept of them as a Token of his Friendship and then he went into his House The Audience being thus over Prince Thomas carried me along with him into all the Parts of the Village whither he went to visit his Friends and we went the succeeding Days to see several other Villages that are scattered up and down the Country at about Five Leagues distance from each other These People the greatest part of whom had never been at the Sea-side and consequently had not seen any White People ran from all Quarters to see us and brought us more Fruit with Bufflers and Elephants Flesh than we could eat As for the Elephants of this Country they are not altogether like unto those in the East-Indies whereof they are a different Species as are also those of Cafala near Zanguebar on the Eastern Coasts of Aethiopia The Negro's eat of their Flesh with a good Appetite and like the same better than any other hereof they provide their best Feasts and those who were minded to honour us most brought it unto us instead of that of Bufflers which I prefer much before it As they were not able to comprehend the Difference there was between the Colour of their Faces and ours they would frequently put their Hands upon our Faces to see if the white Colour would go off and it was the Fortune of many of us to meet with Hands scrubbed with Knifes so as that many times we were hurt with them which yet we durst not complain of Prince Thomas when he saw that commanded all his Attendance that they should suffer none to come to rub and scrape us with their Fingers in that manner and spoke aloud to all the People that came to see us that all Strangers were White as we were and that if the Negro's went into another Country they would seem to be as odd coloured there as we were in Guiney He laughed also from time to time to see the People run in that Fashion after us as if we had been some unknown Animal And I am not certain whether he were sorry to see us thus incommoded with the Importunities of those Negro's or that he took some

A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE INTO THE South Sea BY THE BUCANIERS or FREEBOOTERS OF AMERICA From the Year 1684 to 1689. Written by the Sieur Raveneau de Lussan To which is Added The VOYAGE of the Sieur DE MONTAUBAN Captain of the FREEBOOTERS on the Coast of Guiney in the Year 1695. LONDON Printed for The Newborough at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-yard Iohn Nicholson at the King's Arms in Little Britain and Benj. Tooke at the Temple-Gate near Temple-Bar 1698. A Certificate given by the Governour of S. Domingo to the Author of this Journal concerning his Service The Sieur de Cussy His Majesty's Governour of the Tortoise Island and the Coast of St. Domingo WE do certifie That the Sieur Raveneau de Lussan hath served in a Company of Fourscore and Four Men with the Sieur Laurence de Graff in the Quality of an Ensign against the Spaniards His Majesty's Enemies and that having gone into the South Sea he fell into the Company of other Freebooters from whence not being able to return but by the force of their Arms He has given upon those Occasions signal Proofs both of his Zeal and Courage In Testimony whereof We have given him this Certificate to which We have affixed Our Seal and ordered Our Secretary to Countersign the same Given at the Fort of Port-Paix Le Cussy the 17th of May 1688. By the Governour 's Command Boyer A Copy of a Letter written by Monsieur de Cussy His Maj●sty's Governour of the Tortoise Island and Coast of St. Domingo to Monsieur de Lubert Treasurer-General of the Marine upon the Subject-matter of this Author's Iournal SIR I Have taken Notice from those Letters you have done me the Honour to write unto me the preceding Year that you Interest your self in the Affairs of the Sieur Raveneau de Lussan Wherefore Sir I have thought it my Duty to Inform you of his Return from the South Sea with Two Hundred and Sixty of his Comrades who got clear out of that Country by the performing of Wonderful Actions the Particulars whereof I shall not enter upon since he will have the Honour to give you an Exact and Faithful Account of them himself being the only Person of all the Company that has kept a Journal I was in hopes to have got him embarked in the King's Ship called the Marine which was to be gone in two days and Monsieur de Beaugeau the Commander promised me to give him his Table upon your Account But the said Sieur de Lussan thinking the Frigate to be gone stay'd with meat Port-Paix to wait an Opportunity of meeting with another Ship that should be bound directly for Diep I heartily wish Sir I could meet with any Opportunity of serving you in these Parts I should do it with exceeding Pleasure as being with all Deference and Respect imaginable SIR At the Cape May 7 1688. Your most Humble and Obedient Servant De Cussy A Copy of another Letter written by the said Monsieur de Cussy to the Father of the Author of this Iournal SIR I Cannot let your Son be gone without testifying to you how much concerned I am in the Satisfaction and Joy you will have to see him return from so long and toylsom a Voyage as I am confident of your being sorry at present that I had not sent him home to you at the time you desired which yet I should not have failed to do had he not been absent and at whose return I delivered him one of your Letters which I always preserved safe with those of Monsieur de Lubert He has no occasion to make use of me tho' I have made him an offer of my utmost Service I may say without Vanity that he has made the greatest and finest Voyage in our Age and that he has seen Countries which a great many People in the World content themselves to view in Maps without desiring any other sight of them tho' they had all the Riches thereof bestowed upon them for their pains Besides the Pleasure you will have to see your Son again you will have also that of hearing him Discourse pertinently enough of his Voyages and Adventures there being no other besides himself of all the Company that can give an exact Account thereof as having all along applyed himself to keep a very Punctual Journal of all Transactions which I am confident will be pleasing to my Lord Marquess de Signelay I have my self the Honour to write to him concerning it that so I might engage your Son to go and Present it to him which perhaps otherwise he would not have adventured to do out of the little Esteem himself has of his own Work This is what offers it self at present for me to write to you assuring you I should take a deal of Pleasure to find my self in any Condition to serve him and that I am SIR Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant De Cussy At the Fort of Port-Paix● May the 18th 1688. CHAP I. A Iournal made by the Free-Booters into the South-Sea in 1684. and in the following Years IT is no very uncommon thing for a Child that is a Native of Paris to go and seek his Fortune abroad and to entertain a fixed Design of becoming a Man engaged in hazardous Adventures This City within which most of the Wonders of the World are contained and which is perhaps the greatest that can be met with ought in my Opinion to have the Preference of any other upon the Face of the Earth But who is he that can penetrate into the Secrets of Nature and give a Reason for some sort of Inclinations she works in the Minds of Mortals As for my self I must confess I am not able to give an Account of the Depth of my Desires and all that I can say is That I have always had a most passionate Disposition for Travel Scarce was I Seven Years old when through some innate Notions whereof I had not the Mastery I began to steal out of my Father's House It 's true my first Rambles were not far because my Age and Strength would not allow them to be so but they were so much the more frequent and I have often given my Parents the trouble to look after me in the Suburbs and that Place we call la Vilette However as I grew up my Excursions were the larger and by degrees I accustomed my self to lose a slght of Paris This rambling sort of Humour was accompanied with another which I dare not dignifie with the Name of a Martial one but was such as wrought in me an ardent Desire to see some Siege or Battel I could not hear the Noise of the Drum in the Streets without those Transports of Mind the remembrance whereof does still operate a kind of a vigorous Heat and Joy in me It so fell out at length that I met with an Officer with whom I had but a slender Acquaintance but my Warlike Genius quickly inclined me

to make him my Friend I looked upon him as a Person who could be very serviceable to me in my Designs and it was with this Prospect I applied my self to manage him The Siege of Conde being happily commenced at this time and he being obliged to serve there with his Company I made him the offer of a Sword that had hither to done neither good not harm to any Man but whi●● I was passionately desirous to make use of Here 〈◊〉 was that he gave me the first Instances of his Friendship for he took me freely along with him and kept me all the Campaign at the breaking up whereof 〈◊〉 returned with him no ways discouraged or weary 〈◊〉 War as the greatest part of them are who have had but just a Taste of it And this I tell you was my first Adventure The second was not quite so good for the Success that attended it tho it was alike agreeable to my Palate and according to my Heart's Desire I hapned to become a Cadet in the Marine Regiment but I fell in to the Hands of a Captain who was wonderous skilful to drain the Children of the Family of their Money so that this Campaign wherein I hoped to have done the King some Service was worn away in Expence● My Father gave more than he should or I delerved to get my Discharge and to set me once at full Liberty to take to what I liked best It was not perha● his Inclination I should do so but it was mine and was not long to seek God who it seems was not willing to make me 〈◊〉 of Conceit with the Trade was so much the better Guide unto me at this time as I was ill-guided before●● For Monsieur the Count d' Avegean whose per●onal Merit has sufficiently distinguished him in the Body 〈◊〉 the French Guards took me along with him to the Siege of St. Guislain where I failed not to meet with new Pleasures in the use of Arms tho it were never so hot There were a great many Mens Lives lost at this Siege which yet did not cool the Desires I had to hazard m● own And tho my Parents who could not well broo● this my gadding Humour were in hopes the Fatigu●● of War would cure me of it they were mistaken in th● matter for I was no sooner got upon the Stones 〈◊〉 Paris but I grew weary of being there I had nothing but Voyages in my Head and those that were longest and most accompanied with Dangers appeared to m● to be the best For a Person never to get out of his Native Countrey and to be ignorant how the rest of the Earth stands appear'd to me a matter that should be appropriate to a Woman only Whereas it was my Judgment That a Man should never be confined to one Place and that nothing could suit him better than to make himself acquainted with all those of his own Spe●ies To travel by Land I thought both long and difficult and therefore I concluded I could sooner and more safely accomplish my Designs by betaking my self to the Sea and now you find me ready to go on board There was nothing omitted on the part of Parents that were full of tender Affections for an extravagant Child to divert me from my Resolution But as to Young-men such as I was it may be said as is usually done of Womenkind That what they will God wills and to say the Truth I was over-ruled by my Inclination herein wherefore when they perceived that absolutely to oppose my Humour would make me but the more opiniative they proposed I should take a Voyage for S. Domingo where I should find Friends and Protection in case of need and as this exactly suited both with my Desires and Designs and that provided I could get to Sea I did not care whither bound I very readily obeyed Diep was the Place where I embarked and from whence I parted on the 5th of March 1679. with greater Satisfaction of Mind than I am well able to express That Element which to the Generality of Men seems very frightful appeared to me the most amiable and delightful of any in the World The Winds if I May say so wrought in me some Delight for I found that almost every little Blast brought us happily onward on our Way And I was so overjoyed to find my self in so desirable an Island that I thought no more of the Hazards my Voyage made me liable to Let no Man therefore be amazed thereat if he finds none of them contained in my Journal And seeing there are other Persons who have been particular enought in their Relation given of this Passage I have this only to say that I safely arrived through the Mercy of God at S. Domingo and if any one has the Curiosity to follow me in my remaining Expedition he must begin from thence I continued there however for above three Years not only in order to see the Countrey but thro such Conjunctures as would not admit me to go out of it I found my self chained there to a Frenchman that was so far from deserving the Name of one that his harde●ed Malice much better became a Turk But what Misery soever I have undergone with him I freely for give him being resolved to forget his Name which shall not mention in this place because the Laws of Christianity requires it at my Hands tho as to matt●● of Charity he is not to expect much of that in me since he on his part has been every way defective in the Exercise thereof upon my Account But my Patience● at last being quite worn out as being weary of those Cruelties whereof I saw no end I made my Complaint● to Monsieur de Franquesnay the King's Lieutenant wh● acted as Governour since the others Decease and who●● Generosity proved to be a Sanctuary to me 〈◊〉 readily consenting to take me to his own House whe● I staid six whole Months I had borrowed Money in the mean time and thought it was the part of an honest Man to repay i● My Parents would have been perhaps very willing 〈◊〉 have paid my Debts but they could hear nothing fro● me nor I from them and the Letters they sent 〈◊〉 passed thro such officious Hands that they spared 〈◊〉 the Charge of Postage I was therefore necessitated 〈◊〉 seek out some other way to free my self and this found in meeting with that which satisfied the natu●● Inclination I had for travelling I bethought my self 〈◊〉 making one of the Free-Booters Gang to go a Voyag● with them and to borrow for the Payment of 〈◊〉 Debts as much Money as I could from the Sp●niards Now these sorts of Borrowings have this Advantage attending them That there is no Obligai●● of Repayment as in our Countrey they being estee●ed the Product of a Just War and seeing the place 〈◊〉 Action is beyond the Line there is no Talk there 〈◊〉 making any Restitution Besides which we may a● observe in

of the Veins open and let it out or that the great noise and violent motion that is wrought in those Organs makes the same happen But let it come which way it will since there is no room here for a Consultation of Physicians as long as we were dying of Hunger nor to enquire what became of the English when we had so much difficulty and hardly could save our selves we continued our Course up the Current with the help of our Oars because we knew the same came from the Port of Cabinda But as the Wind was against us we could never get thither and were forced to be satisfied to get to the Cape of Corsa if we could which stands a dozen Leagues from that of Cathersna where we could not Land because of a Bar that renders the Coast unaccessible That was our Design but Hunger hindred us to put the same in Execution and we were forced even to overcome the Obstacles which Nature laid in our way by running ashoar in spight of the Bar This we performed at last after much difficulty being in hopes to find there some Negroes that might furnish us with Victuals One of our Company presently landed in order to go and seek out somewhat to satisfie our Hunger and by good Fortune found in a Pond sticking to the Branches of Trees some Oysters whereof he came presently to give us notice We went all up to the very Pond along a Channel of the Sea where we were no sooner come but we eat lustily of the Oysters with a very good Appetite We opened them with the few Knives we found in our Pockets lending the same from one to another very charitably and readily When we had spent two days in that Place I divided my Men into three small Companies and sent them up into the Country to seek for Victuals and Houses with Orders to return again in the Evening to the Shalloop I went out my self also as the rest did but we could find neither any House nor the least sign of any Men in those Parts All that we could see were great Herds of Bufflers as large as Oxen who fled so fast from us that we could not possibly come near them Wherefore having spent all the Day in this manner and got nothing we returned to our Shalloop to eat Oysters again and resolved next day to leave this Place and go to Cape Corsa to Leeward of which there is a large Port where Ships that sail that way put in to furnish themselves with Water and Wood. The Negroes that live in the Country having notice of the coming in of Ships by the firing of Cannon come thither also with Provisions and Barter the same for Brandy Knives and Hatchets They are forced to live remote from the Sea ●ecause all that Coast is very Marshy As soon as we were got to the said Cape we heard a great noise made 〈◊〉 the Negroes who came thither to sell Wood to the ●hips that lay at Anchor in the Port I looked amongst ●hem to see if I could find any one whom I knew for 〈◊〉 they had often brought me some Wood and other Refreshments in the course of my former Voyages I was in hopes to find some or other that would know me again But tho' I knew several of them it was impossible for me to perswade any of them that I was Captain Montauban so much was I disfigured with my late Misfortune and all of them took me for a Man that would impose the belief of it upon them I thought fit to tell them in their own Language whereof I understood a little that I was ready to die with Famine and prayed them to give me somewhat to eat but it signified nothing so I desired them to carry me to Prince Thomas who is Son to the King of that Country as hoping he might call to mind the favours I had formerly shewed him I carryed all my Company with me to that Prince we were first brought to the Dwellings of those Negroes where they began to be a little more tractable and gave us some Bananiers to eat which are a sort of Figs longer than a Man's Hand Next day we got to the Princes Habitation but I was in so pitiful a Condition that I could never by the signs I gave make him know me tho' I spoke to him in his own Language as also in the Portuguese Tongue which he understood very well It fortuned one day that going together to bath our selves he saw a Scar upon my Thigh that was the effect of a Wound I had received with a Musquet-ball he told me that he must immediately know whether I was Captain Montauban or no and that if I were not the Man he would cut off my Head He asked if ever● I had a Scar with a Musquet-shot in my Thigh which when I had shewed him he presently embraced me and said he was exceeding sorry to see me in that Condition and immediately caused Victuals to be distributed among my Men and divided them into several Habitations with strict Orders to the Negroes with whom they were quartered to take the greatest care they could of them As for me he kept me with himself and made me always eat at his own Table When I was a little brought into Order he said he would carry me to see the King his Father who lived five or six Leagues off that is about ten or a dozen from the Sea-side I let him know how great the Favour and Honour was he did me and prayed him at the same time that I might have the Liberty to let my Freebooters go along with me and grant us some Pieces of Stuffs to put our selves in as good Equipage as we could in order to appear before so great a Prince all which he allowed me and three days after we went all together in a great Canoe and passed up the River of Cape Lopez because the Country is so full of Marshes that you cannot go by Land Being arrived at the King's Habitation which is a Village consisting of Three Hundred Booths covered with Palm-leaves wherein the King keeps his Wives Family Relations and some other Negro Families whom he loves best I was lodged in Prince Thomas his House and all my Men were distributed into other Habitations We found all the People in great Lamentation because the Chief of their Religion whom they call Papa had died that day when they were to begin the Funeral Obsequies which were usually to last for seven days for Priests of that Quality This same Person was had in great Esteem and Veneration by all the People they looking upon him to be an Holy Man As the King is in Mourning and sees no body all the While that this Funeral Ceremony lasts Prince Thomas bid me have patience and not to go out of my Lodgings for to see the King because that was the Custom of his Nation However I could not forbear going to see the Funeral