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I shall not trouble the Reader with a particular Account of this Voyage, which was very prosperous for the most part. We arrived in the Downs on the 13th of April 1702. I had only one Misfortune, that the Rats on board carried away one of my Sheep; I found her Bones in a Hole, picked clean from the Flesh. The rest of my Cattle I got safe on Shore, and set them grazing in a Bowling-Green at Greenwich, where the Fineness of the Grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a Voyage, if the Captain had not allowed me some of his best Bisket, which, rubbed to Powder, and mingled with Water, was their constant Food. The short time I continued in Caribbean pokerstarscom England, I made considerable Profit by shewing my Cattle to many Persons of Quality, and others: and before I began my second Voyage, I sold them for six hundred Pounds. Since my last return, I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the Sheep; which I hope will prove much to the Advantage of the Woollen Manufacture, by the Fineness of the Fleeces.
I stayed but two Months with my Wife and Family; for my insatiable Desire of seeing foreign Countries would suffer me to continue no longer. I left fifteen hundred Pounds with my Wife, and fixed her in a good House at Redriff. My remaining Stock I carried with me, part in Money, and part in Goods, in hopes to improve my Fortunes. My eldest Uncle John had left me an Estate in Land, near Epping, of about Thirty Pounds a Year; and I had a long Lease of the Black-Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any Danger of leaving my Family upon the Parish. My Son Johnny, named so after his Uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly Child. My Daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has Children) was then at her Needle-work. I took leave of my Wife, and Boy and Girl, with Tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a Merchant-Ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, Captain John Nicholas of Liverpool Commander. But my Account of this Voyage must be referred to the Second Part of my Travels.
THE END OF THE FIRST PART.
PART II: A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG
[Plate 2: Brobdingnag]
CHAPTER I.
A great Storm described, the Long-Boat sent to fetch Water, the Author goes with it to discover the Country. He is left on Shore, is seized by one of the Natives, and carried to a Farmer's House. His Reception there, with several Accidents that happened there. A Description of the Inhabitants.
Having been condemned by Nature andFortune to an active and restless Life, in two Months after my Return I again left my native Country, and took Shipping in the Downs on the 20th Day of June 1702, in the Adventure, Capt. John Nicholas, a Cornish Man, Commander, bound for Surat. We had a very prosperous Gale till we arrived at the Cape of Good-hope, where we landed for fresh Water, but discovering a Leak we unshipped our Goods and winter'd there; for the Captain falling sick of an Ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March. We then set sail, Caribbean pokerstarscom and had a good Voyage till we passed the Streights of Madagascar; but having got Northward of that Island, and to about five Degrees South Latitude, the Winds, which in those Seas are observed to blow a constant equal Gale between the North and West from the beginning of December to the beginning of May, on the 19th of April began to blow with much greater Violence, and more Westerly than usual, continuing so for twenty Days together, during which time we were driven a little to the East of the Molucca Islands, and about three Degrees Northward of the Line, as our Captain found by an Observation he took the 2d of May, at which time the Wind ceased, and it was a perfect Calm, whereat I was not a little rejoyced. But he, being a Man well experienc'd in the Navigation of those Seas, bid us all prepare against a Storm, which accordingly happened the Day following: For a Southern Wind, called the Southern Monsoon, began to set in.
Finding it was likely to overblow, we took in our Sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the Fore-sail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all fast, and handed the Missen. The Ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the Sea, than trying or hulling. We reeft the Fore-sail and set him, we hawl'd aft the Fore-sheet; the Helm was hard a Weather. The Ship wore bravely. We belay'd the Fore-down-hall; but the Sail was split, and we hawl'd down the Yard, and got the Sail into the Ship, and unbound all the things clear of it. It was a very fierce Storm; the Sea broke strange and dangerous. We hawl'd off upon the Lanniard of the Whip-staff, and helped the man at Helm. We would not get down our Top-mast, but let all stand, because she scudded before the Sea very well, and we knew that the Top-mast being aloft, the Ship was the wholesomer, and made better way thro' the Sea, seeing we had Sea-Room. When the Storm was over, we set Fore-sail and Main-sail, and brought the Ship to. Then we set the Missen, Maintop-sail, and the Foretop-sail. Our Course was East North-east, the Wind was at South-west. We got the Star-board Tacks aboard; we cast off our Weather-braces and Lifts; we set in the Lee-braces, and hawl'd forward by the Weather-bowlings, and hawl'd them tight, and belayed them, and hawl'd over the Missen Tack to Windward, and kept her full and by as near as she could lye.
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