Livro The World Displayed; In Which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several Vain Editors and Translators Are Expunged, Every Relation Is Made Concise ... and Kingdoms Are Clearly and Volume 7

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In this defponding condition, with great fcarcity of water, and the crew fo difeafed that there was' not above ten foremaft men in a watch capable of doing duty, and even fome of thefe lame, they faw the long-wifhed for ifland of Juan Fernandes, on the gth of June, lofmg, by this laft mif- take between 70 and 80 men, who would doubtlefs have been faved had they made the ifland when the Commodore difcovered it on the z8th of'May; but notwithftanding this, it will hereafter appear, that this miftake was providentially the means of the prefervation of all who furyived this feeming .misfortune.

CHAP. III. A Defcription of the I/land cf]ua.n Fernandas, luitb the Meafures purfued by Mr. Anfon in that Iftand. The arrival of the Gloucefter and Anna Pink; and a Narrative of the diftrcffes the former had endured, and what happened to the latter 'while at anchor near the I/land of Jnchin.

THough the Centurion again difcovered the ifland.of Juan Fernandes on the ninth of June at day-break, yet her people were all that day and the next night in getting in with the land, and in the middle watch the debility of the people was fo great, that theLieutenant could only mufter.

two quarter maf- ters and fix'foremaft men, fo .that had it not been for the affiftance of the officers, fervants, and boys, it might have been impoffible to have reached tKe ifland after they had got fight of it: to this wretched condition was the Centurion, a fixty gun fhip reduced, which three months before had pafted the ftreights le Mair, with between four and 500 men, almoft all of whom were in health and full vigour .

On the tenth in the afternoon they got under the lee of the ifland: they ranged alon...