The Irish Helped Us To Take In Our
Sails, And To Moor The Ship So As To Float Her Off Next Tide; For Which
Slender Aid It Cost The Captain Ten Pounds, Before He Could Get The Ship
Into A State Of Safety.
Thus, without men, sails, victuals, or other
means, God alone guided us into Ireland.
Here the captain left the
master and three or four more of the company to keep the ship; and
within five days after our arrival, he and some others got a passage in
a fishing-boat to Padstow in Cornwall. For the merciful preservation of
this our small remnant, and our restoration to our country, be all
honour and glory to God, now and for ever. - Amen.
CHAPTER IV.
VOYAGE OF OLIVER VAN NOORT ROUND THE WORLD IN 1598 - 1601.[67]
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INTRODUCTION.
The inhabitants of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, after their
separation from the Spanish monarchy, found themselves extremely at a
loss for means to supply the expences of the long and vigorous war in
which they were engaged for the defence of their liberties. This gave
them the more uneasiness, as their great enemy, Philip II. carried on
the war against them, more by the length of his purse than the force of
his arms, and because the riches, of the Spanish monarchy were derived
from sources of commerce and colonization that were prohibited to them,
even if they had submitted themselves to the yoke of Spain. The sense,
therefore, of these difficulties, joined to the vast advantages they
were likely to reap by overcoming them, induced the government and
people of Holland to prosecute the advancement of trade in general with
the greatest vigour, and particularly to establish a commercial
intercourse with the East and West Indies, the great sources of wealth
to their tyrannical oppressor and enemy, from whom they had revolted.
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