I shall only add on this Head, that I used my utmost Endeavours to promote your Interest, which was always prefer’d to my own.
I make no doubt, it will be to your lasting Honour, that such a Voyage was undertaken from Bristol at your Expence; since it has given the Publick a sufficient Evidence of what may be done in those Parts, and since the Wisdom of the Nation has now agreed to establish a Trade to the South-Seas, which, with the Blessing of God, may bring vast Riches to Great Britain.
I wish you intire Health and Happiness, and am,
Gentlemen,
Your most Humble Servant,
WOODES ROGERS.
A
Cruising VOYAGE
Round the
WORLD,
Begun August 1. 1708. and
Finished October 14. 1711.
By Captain Woodes Rogers,
Commander in Chief.