But, Setting Out On The 12th
March, 1607, From Tilbury Hope, While Captain Keeling Did Not Reach The
Downs Till The 1st April, Middleton Either Missed The Other Ships At The
Appointed Rendezvous, Or Purposely Went On Alone.
The latter is more
probable, as Purchas observes that the Consent kept no concent with her
consorts.
By the title in Purchas, we learn that the Consent was a
vessel of 115 tons burden. This short narrative appears to have been
written by some person on board, but his name is not mentioned. It has
evidently suffered the pruning knife of Purchas, as it commences
abruptly at Saldanha bay, and breaks off in a similar manner at Bantam.
Yet, in the present version, it has been a little farther curtailed, by
omitting several uninteresting circumstances of weather and other
log-book notices. - E.
[Footnote 263: Purch. Pilgr. I. 226. Astl. I. 332.]
* * * * *
We anchored in Saldanha roads on the 16th July, 1607, with all our men
in good health; only that Peter Lambert fell from the top-mast head the
day before, of which he died. The 21st, the captain and master went to
Penguin island, three leagues from the road. This island does not exceed
three miles long by two in breadth; yet, in my opinion, no island in the
world is more frequented by seals and fowls than this, which abounds
with penguins, wild-geese, ducks, pelicans, and various other fowls. You
may drive 500 penguins together in a flock, and the seals are in
thousands together on the shore.
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