' ... his shipping
Poor ignorant baubles—on our terrible seas
Like egg-shells mov'd upon their surges, crack'd
As easily 'gainst our rocks.'
Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III, i.
The word 'bawble' is also used by Anson in speaking of the Tryal sloop, which the Spaniards at Juan Fernandez could not credit with having rounded Cape Horn.
'Devil' seemingly refers to the 'poor devils' forming the crew: it does not appear to refer to the seam in the ship's bottom to which that name is sometimes given.
[341] Referring to his voyage in 1602. See [Introduction].
[342] Granted October 27, 1607.
[343] Apparently John Pory, who, from his letter to Dudley Carleton of January 3, 1610 (S.P. Dom., James I, lii, 1), appears to have been connected with the Lord Treasurer. This would be the traveller and geographer of that name, then M.P. for Bridgwater, but settled in London.