[132] It was not until Rogers returned to England that he learnt that Simon Hatley, after losing company of the Duke and Dutchess, sailed to the coast of Peru, and after great privations, surrendered to the Spaniards. He afterwards returned to England, and served as Shelvocke’s second Captain in his “Voyage round the World,” 1719-22. An incident in this voyage—the shooting of a black Albatross by Hatley—has been immortalized in Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner.”
[133] Edward Davis, chosen to command the Buccaneers in the South Sea in 1684.
[134] The operation of heaving a ship down on one side by strong purchase on the masts, so that the bottom may be cleaned.
[135] Cut-water or Knee of the Head; the foremost part of a ship’s prow.
[136] He died October 28, 1708.
[137] Captain Swann, one of the most redoubtable pirates of the Pacific, with whom Dampier served, 1685-86. In the latter year Dampier took advantage of a mutiny to abandon Swann and thirty-six of his crew at Mindanao, in the Philippines.
[138] He had been appointed Lord High Admiral of England on Anne’s accession.
[139] In merchant ships the lazaretto was the fore part of the lower deck, parted off for the storage of provisions and stores.
[140] See note page 25.
[141] A strong thick block of wood, with two large holes through it (one square, the other round) to confine two masts together. (Smyth, “Sailor’s Word Book”).