Capt. Dampier's Vindication of his Voyage
To the
South-Seas
in the Ship St.
George.
With some small Obse
ations for the
on Mr
F
el
's Chime
ical
Of the Voyage Roun
the World;
and Det
ed in Little. until he shall be Examin'd more at Large.
IN the first place, he calls himself my Mate; He went out my Steward, and afterwards I did ma
e a Mi
hipman of him: Indeed he had the Advan
age of perusing Draughts and Books, of which he afterwards
a slender Account, for some he pre
ended were lost, and others the Draug
are torn
of th
; Especially the Draughts of Winds, which I grea
ly suspect him of Doing, because he is not the first Man that has Endeavour'd to build upon another Man's Foundation.
2. In pag. 3. lin. 4. he says, that Cap
.
Pullen
was going in Comp
ny with us; but while we lay at Anchor in the
Downs,
there arose a Differe
ce between to
wo Captains, on which
Pullen
went away.
I wonder at his Impudence for I was at
London,
when Cap
.
Pullen
ent away; and
was the Owner's, His, and Mine could not agree▪ to whom I Appeal.
3. In p. 2. 1. 27. Our P
posals, says he, were to go into the
River of Plate,
and to
Air
s,
to take 2 or 3
Spanish
Galleons, wh
ch Cap
gives an
A
co
nt of
(I say Capt.
Dampier,
as he does,
Gentleman that
not to return Home
there
I des
re to kn
w of th
Gentleman, when it was tha
gave this Accou
, a
d to
: I must confess there was some Discourse about it; but I never desig
o go to
Buonas Aires,
for
em, being such a Dangerous River
Ʋ p: And I think Capt.
Pullen
something
from thence may conclude that be plea
▪ For
▪
He giv
Reasons of his
we did not go to
Buonas Aires.
produce Reasons!
Where Mr.
Funn
says C
pt.
Dampier
and Lie
t.
Huzford
▪
T
ere
Mr.
Morg
n,
Purser and Agent that disagreed with
Huzford▪
went ashore▪ and Fought; upon
Corri
idor,
Co
fu'
Mr.
H
xford,
nd a
, he himself sent f
r
Ch
t and Cloaths, which
I
ay b
fore
I
ent for him Aboard, and
actually came,
I had no
of
but Mr.
Morgan
swore if Mr
Huxford,
sau'd
not go the Voyage.
And where ill Blood
upon which I ordered h
m to go on Boa
d Capt.
,
whose Boat was on
along our
ide, an
after a Gen
leman
-manner)
, but it happen'd
carrying
to th
, He and
xford
disagreeing
th
y were goi
g fro
, he
him on Boa
d a
Portugueze
Mar
han
-Man.
4 In relation to
J
mes Ba
by,
second Lie
t He say
s, that
and eight of the Men went on shore and left us, taking their Chests and Cloaths with them,
To the
: I take God to witness I never
but I r
fus'd them;
nothing like the for
mer Design; This Mr.
Morgan
can
.
In p.
3 Mr▪
Fa
nel
,
to settle my Mistakes says he saw
.
But every body know
it is a Greater
.
The' th
re may be more
that we pass over to abrevi
te this Matter, as yet, my Crew not being wholly
ere, I m
ion o
, the two Action
of the Voyage,
.
The first of which is the
Engag'd, that was cr
sing to the Island of
an Fernando's,
to
hom we gave Chace from
3
in the Afternoon, and
, making of her
I found she was an
E
opean
Ship and not a
Spaniard
not willing to pursue
farther, but the
Right or Wrong
follow'd her, and next
, we came up
her; and when I saw no
hing would
Attempt, I
encourag'd them
. By this time my Consort
given her a
Broad side;
up
and gave her a
Broad-side
likewise.
were then
, they Fir'd upon our
his
his Help Notwithstanding
, and Exchang'd 3 or
4 Broadsides
suffer'd,
9
kill'd and
wound
d, which
much, they a
tually run down off the
Deck,
and made nothing of it afterwards; So that when
I
could have boarded her and carried her the Mate,
Cleppington
by Name,
The Men ar
all gone; and
Bel
ha
h
the Master, whose Offic
it was
upon
Deck,
also; th
this
.
In p. 25, 26. Mr.
Funnell
says the Crew were Desirous to
this Ship
they made nothing of i
while in
Power; What was to be done afterwards? And as to my telling
(as he says)
I could
et at a
y time 500000
l.
I
say, so
I,
my
Boats
which were then
my P
ople have been Rul'd.
In p. 32. Mr.
Funnell
says we took a Ship of 200 Tuns, loaden
several good Commodities, as
Indigo, Cochineel,
&c.
Now for
Cochineel,
I never heard of any,
Indigo
there was;
the other, and the
Turtlesh
l,
he so frequently speaks of,
be go
the same w
y th
many Rich and Valuable Goods have, by the Management of those Pyrating Fellows, rather
Sailors, the
Indigo
I could not take on Board; nor could I trust any of them with the Sailing such a Ship, as could neither keep me Company, nor mak a right Steerage-way.
In p. 33. He says truth as to Mr.
Observator's
Ship and the
Monkey
that was left in her;
but as to Firing at any thing but the Ship,
and the whole Crew, who before we could make up to her, had made into their Boats, and nothing beside
the Cargo and the
Monkey
were indeed on Board,
which
along, had we not Observators enough at Home.
The next thing they Charge me with, especi
lly Mr▪
F
nn
ll
in p. 41. in the
of St
Michael,
were in the Barque last taken, and Indian C
noe
and that I order'd her to be Fir'd upon.
The
, for when I saw some of them that had F
r'd without my Orders, I wa
very Ʋ neasy and Troubled at it, knowing the Consequence of it.
T
e Second Thing that
's
Material is▪
that the Ship mentioned by Mr.
Funnel
in p. 45. 46. where he seems to
Dollars was Hid in the Run of the Ship,
and I slipt the
of taking it, and
her Adrift;
So this I answer,
That
I had evident Proof had Landed her Money at Truxille; and as to Provisions, we took as much as would provide us for One Year, and much longer, if well manag'd, that was, what our Ship could well
, and this was the
Steward
and the
Crew
's Calculation. Now as to a Report that they make about Town
Dollars that
Ransom; First I had no convenient Road to Ride in and the strong
Southerly Winds
were set in, and so if I had Loyter'd for her, must certainly been Imbay'd for 3 or 4 Months: Besides the
Winds,
thro' the Treachery of the
Spaniards,
I have had the Experience of it before in a like Case, Riding
for Ransom with Capt.
Swa
and Capt.
,
for instead of keeping their Faith, they
off with a
the Night and 14
Pe
agoes;
and
better Crew and
Men. We came narrowly of
Now, th
they are Judges in my Case and Conduct, a
who were perpetually drunk, and very tit, you'll say,
the Night, or being kept in any Decorum.
p. 46. 47. Whereas Mr.
Funnell
frequently w
uld Insinuate, that I could agree with no body; and so says that parted this way with Capt.
Stradling.
I say, I
Stradling;
nay not only that, but at
Juan de Fernandos,
whe
all hi
Men left him, I reconcil'd them and him again; therefor
.
.
The next Morning
who is a very Valia
t Man
,
with
Men and
ire-Arms with them.
What's observable is, it's not enough to Run away with
do what you please with
of Si
k,
or any other
and that I r
fer my self to all Sailors in the World, wh
er it was right or not. A
c
sidering the Inequality of our
of Ship.
fore
Action
▪ we were to the Wind
of he
st
nd
ng
, and we Bearing
her
ith
o
der'd my Officers to
to
to
of her; instead of this,
of my Heart, they Edg'd away, and were so far from
ving the Power to Command and Board her, as I intended,
we lost the Opportunity, and were forc'd to Leward the
time; aft
that I
ck'd, cam
abo
, and had her under my Lee-
the
I hop'd to
▪ with my Chace Guns, she hav
g no
-Chace to
; this I took to be the best way of Disabli
he,
this
made her yield.
o
this,
shew
orld now
my Office
were
Master
and the
Mate
the
o the Great
the p
i
ate Men
her▪ For
an
a Man
Man at H
lm
o
ce mo
e:
While thing,
at
, I ask'd
to Bo
d her.
Clap he
then, s
id I.
his time
the
being
and
to our
,
▪ Now
I have gotten along
, they were
her, that the
Mast
we
about
of the
▪
.
para.
.
FINIS.
POSTSCRIPT.
Having Read Capt. Le Wright's Proposals for another Expedition into
Seas, I do think it P
oper and Advantagious, and that he was
Right; and I am ready to Satisfy any
of
cable and Expedient i
is to put it in Execution f
rthwith.
London.
Printed by
J.
,
at the Bibl
in
-Lane.