A MAP of the WORLD, with the Ships "Duke" & "Dutchess" Tract round it.
From 1708 to 1711.
FOOTNOTES:
[21] The speed of Rogers' little squadron across the Pacific, under sail, was barely half that of the British Fleet which in July, 1888, was able to make the passage under steam from Portsmouth to Bantry Bay, Ireland, at a mean speed of eight knots!
"The horrid apparition still draws nigh,
And white with foam the whirling billows fly.
The guns were primed; the vessel northward veers,
Till her black battery on the column bears:
The nitre fired: and, while the dreadful sound
Convulsive shook the slumbering air around,
The watery volume, trembling to the sky,
Burst down a dreadful deluge from on high!"
Falconer.
[23] Captain Woodes Rogers not only lived to write his travels, but afterwards had charge of a naval squadron, sent to extirpate the pirates who infested the West Indies. He died in 1732, just a year after the death of Defoe.
[24] Rogers speaks of shipping while at Batavia "half a leaguer of Spelman's neep, or the best sort of arrack." Is the modern term "nip of spirit" derived from this word neep?
