[92] For a similar ceremony on entering the Mediterranean, see Teonge Diary, 1927, p. 264.
[93] From now onward Woodes Rogers employs the contraction L. for “league.”
[94] Long bars or bolts of iron, with shackles sliding on them, and a lock at the end, used to confine the feet of prisoners.
[95] Jears; the tackles by which the lower yards of a ship are hoisted or lowered.
[96] i.e. Trestle-trees; two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the lower mast head, to support the frame of the top, and the weight of the top-mast.
[97] Roove or Rove; a weight of about 30 lb. used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
[98] A favourite song during the Commonwealth, which describes in a humorous way the tastes of the Puritans. The words and the tune are to be found in D’Urfey’s “Pills to Purge Melancholy” (1719) ii, 286-7.
[99] Jan Nieuhof, a Dutch traveller of the middle of the seventeenth century. His “Voyages and Travels into Brasil” were reprinted in Churchill’s “Collection of Voyages”, Vol. II.
[100] Count John Maurice of Nassau Siegen was sent by the Dutch as governor of their Brazilian colonies in 1636. His attempts to found an empire in S. America were thwarted by the cupidity of the merchants, and he resigned his post in 1644.
[101] An interesting example of the widespread custom of the couvade.