Dampier, Who Was His Old Acquaintance, And Knew
Him To Be An Able Commander, Readily Agreed To Go With Him, And Induced
Most Of His Companions To Do The Same, Which Was Of Much Consequence To
Cooke, As It Furnished Him With A Full Third Of His Crew.
SECTION I.
Narrative of the Voyage by Captain Cowley, till he quitted the Revenge
on the Western Coast of America.[147]
They sailed from Achamack in Virginia on the 23d August, 1683, taking
their departure from Cape Charles in the Revenge of eight guns and
fifty-two men, John Cooke commander, and bound for the South Sea; but
Captain Cowley, who had charge of the navigation of the Revenge as
master, not being then let into the secret object of the enterprise,
steered a course for Petit Goave in St Domingo, in which he was indulged
for the first day, but was then told that they were bound in the first
place for the coast of Guinea. He then steered E.S.E. for the Cape de
Verd islands, and arrived at Isola de Sal, or the Salt island, in the
month of September. They here found neither fruits nor water, but great
plenty of fish, and some goats, but the last were very small. At this
time the island, which is in the latitude of 16 deg. 50' N. and longitude
23 deg. W. from Greenwich, was very oddly inhabited, and as strangely
governed. Its whole inhabitants consisted of four men and a boy, and all
the men were dignified with titles.
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