The Preface. the fpelling of the Names of Places, Plants, Fruits, Animals, &c. which in many of the remoter parts are given at the pleasure of Travellers,and vary ac cording to their different Humours: Neither have I confined my felf to fuch Names as are given by Learned Authors,or jo much as enquired after many of them. I write for my Countrymen, and have therefore for the most part ufed fuch Names as are familiar to our English Seamen,and thofe of our Colonies abroad,yet without neglecting others that occurr'd. As it may fuffice me to have given fuch Names and Defcriptions as I could, I fhail leave to thofe of more leifure and opportunity, the trouble of comparing them with thofe which other Authors have affigned. The Reader will find as he goes along, fome References to an Appendix, which I once defigned to this Book; as to a Chapter about the Winds in dif ferent parts of the World, to a defcription of the Bay of Campeachy in the Weft Indies, where I lived long in a former Voyage; and to a particular Chorogra phical defcription of all the SouthSea Coast of America, partly from a Spanish MSS,and partly from my own and other Travellers Obfervations,befide thofe contained in this Book. But fuch an Appendix would have fwelled it too unreasonably: and therefore I chofe rather to publish it hereafter by its felf, as opportunity fhall ferve. And the fame must be faid alfo to a particular Voyage from Achin in the Isle of Sumatra, to Tonquin, Malacca, &c. which should have been inferted as part of this General one; but it would have been too long; and therefore emitting it for the prefent, I have carried on this, next way from Sumatra to England; and so made the Tour of the World, correfpondent to the Title. For the better apprehending the Courfe of the Voyage, and the Situation of the Places mentioned in it, I have caufed feveral Maps to be engraven, A 4 and The Preface. and fome particular Draughts of my own Compofure. Among them, there is in the Map of the American IftŁmus, a new Scheme of the adjoining Bay of Panama and its Iflands, which to fome may seem fuperfluous after that which MrRingrofe bath published in the Hiftory of the Buccaneers; and which he offers as a very exact Draught. I must needs difagree with him in that, and doubt not but this which I here publish will be found more agreeable to that Bay, by any who fill have opportunity to examine it; for it is a contraction of a larger Map, which I took from jeveral Stations in the Bay it felf. The Reader may judge how well I was able to do it, by my feveral Traverses about it mentioned in this Book; thofe particularly, which are defcribed in the 7th Chapter, which I bave caused to be marked out with a pricked Line: as the Courfe of my Voyage is generally in all the Maps, for the Readers more eafy tracing it. I have nothing more to add, but that there are here and th.re fome raiftakes made, as to expreffion and the like, which will need a favourable Correction as they occur upon reading. For instance, the Log of Wood lying out at fome distance from the fides of the Boats defcribed at Guam, and parallel to their Keel, which for diftinctions fake, I have called the little Boat, might more clearly and properly have been called the fide Leg, or by fome Such name; for though fashioned at the bottom and ends Boatwife, yet is not bollow at top, but folid throughout. In other places alfo I may not have express'd my felf fo fully as Tought; but any confiderable Omiffion that I fhail recollect, or be informed of, I shall endeavour to make it up in those Accounts I bave yet to publish; and for any faults, I leave the Reader to the j int ufe of be Judgment and Candour. THE THE CONTENTS THE HE Introduction, containing the Authors departure II. His return by Land over the Ifthmus, III. His Traverses among the Weft India Islands and Coafts, and Arrival in Virginia. IV. His departure for the South Seas again; bis touching at the lands of Cape Verd, and the African Coaft, and Arrival at the Ifle of John Fernando in the V. His Courfe thence Northward, to the Ifles Lobos, and Gallapagos, to Caldera Bay, Reo Leja, and Ama- VI. He goes back towards Peru,to the Ille Plata, Point Santa Hellena, Manta, Paita, Lobos, Puna, VII. His Progrefs Northward again to the R Saint Ja- go, Tomacco, the Isle of Galleo, I. Gorgonia, the Pearl Ifles, &c. in the Bay of Panama. VIII. He proceeds along the Mexican Coast to the Keys of Quibo, Rea Lejo, and the Harbour of Guatulco. IX. He Coafts along to Acapula, Petaplan, Efta- Pop The Contents. Pon tique, ether Ifles of Chametly; Maffaclan, Rofario, R. Saint Jago, Santa Pecaque; Iles of Santa Maria, Valderas, and Cape Corrientes, X. He stands over the Southern Ocean for the Eaft Indies, and arrives at Guam, one of the Ladrone XI. He arrival at Mindanao, one of the Philippine XII: The Political State of Mindanao. XIII.Occurrences during the Authors ftay at Mindanao. XIV. He departs towards Manila, in the Ifle of Luco- nia; touching at Bat Ifland,and the Isle of Mindora, and leaving Luconia, he goes to Pulo Condore, on the Coaft of Cambodia, to Pulo Uby, in the Bay of Siam, and to Pulo Condore again. XV. He goes to the I. of St John on the Coast of China, to the Iles of Pifcadores near Formofa; and the Bafhee,or 5 Ilands,between Formofa and Luconia, called Orange, Monmouth, Grafton, Bashee,and XVI. He Coafts along the Eaft fide of Luconia, Min- XVII. He goes thence, touches at the I. Trifte, and another; and freering along the Weft Coast of Sumatra, arrives at the I. of Nicobar, where he stays afhoar XVIII. He fands over from thence in an open Boat to Paffange Jonca; and thence to Achin ; and after feveral Traverses come to Bencouli, all on the I. of XIX. He Ships himself for England, and arrives at the Mr The Authors Departure from England, and arrival in Jamaica. His first go- ing over the Ifthmus of America in- to the South Seas: His coafting along Peru and Chili, and back again, to his parting with Captain Sharp near the Ifle of Plata, in order to return over First set out of England on this Voyage, at the |
