. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . morning our spritsail-topmast broke. Ireckoned a W. N. W. way, and forty-eight leagues by thesame. We found, by observation, latitude 133 12 N. At noonwe steered away west, the wind being at N. E. fresh, with aclear evening. January 19th. We had a clear night the last, and fresh windat E. N. E., which sometimes came in pushes. Our reckoningwas a W. half southerly way, and by the same forty-s
. The history of the buccaneers of America; containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters; chiefly along the Spanish main, in the great South sea, succeeding the civil wars in England . morning our spritsail-topmast broke. Ireckoned a W. N. W. way, and forty-eight leagues by thesame. We found, by observation, latitude 133 12 N. At noonwe steered away west, the wind being at N. E. fresh, with aclear evening. January 19th. We had a clear night the last, and fresh windat E. N. E., which sometimes came in pushes. Our reckoningwas a W. half southerly way, and by the same forty-six found, by observation, latitude 13° V N. Yesterday, in theevening, we put up a new spritsail-topmast, with a fine, smoothgale at N. E. by E. January 20th. The night past was clear, and not very fresh,but at daybreak it freshened again. Last night we saw a greatshoal of fish, whereof we caught none, by reason the porpoisesfrightened them from us, as they oftentimes had done , in the evening, we saw a man-of-war fowl, and thatgave us good hopes we should ere long see land. Thesehopes, and the great desire we had to end our voyage, gave us THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. 309. 310 THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. occasion this day to put in, or stake down, each man of ourcompany, a piece of eight for a reward to him that should firstdiscover land. We reckoned a W. one sixth northerly way,and by it thirty-eight leagues. An observation gave us thisday latitude 13° IF N. The wind was at N. E. and E. N. day we passed over many ripplings, and saw abundanceof fish, but we could take none for the porpoises. On January 21st, we made a W. way, and reckoned forty-seven leagues. By observation, we found latitude 13° 7 wind was at E. N. E., and from thence came a long evening was very clear. January 22d, we had a fair and a clear day, the wind beingat E. We reckoned a W. by N. one third W. way, and forty-leagues. An observation showed us latitude 13°
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