An account of several late voyages and discoveries

16 Sir John Na.rbrotigh's Poyag~ true diffcrence of the Meridian, according to tht Miles of Longitude, in the fcveral Latitudes. could wiih all Seamen would give ovcr f~ilingh the falfe plain Chart, and fail by Mercator·s Ch which is according to the truth of Navigation But it is :in hard matter to corrvince any of theo Navigators, from their Method ot failing by t Plain Chart; íhew moíl: of them the Globe,yet tm will talk in their wonted Road. .At eig!it of the Clock in thc Forenoon, m Ilo:it put from me, and rowed to the Shore wi in Point-Gallery, to the place where DonCarlosw. Ianded : I faid off and on with the Ship bet the Port ; the Boat rowed all along the Shore the place where DonCarlos was landed, and al the Shorc in the Harbour. At the Points on ti South-íide of the Harbour íl:ands n fmall Fort feven Guns, call'd St.James's Fort: ~,ty Boat ca fuddenly on it , and before they ·ceived it be a Fort, they were within fbot ot 1t. TheS niards íl:ood on the ihore ; and wafted with white Flag~ and call'd to them; My Lieute ro(\·cd to them, and asked of them what Co try they were? they anfwered, of Spain : T asked my Lieuten:mt of what Country he wa He anfwered, of E11gla11d; they asked him come afhore, which hedid, in hopes to havefc Don C,u:lof ~here ; for that Path that Don Car went in ·when he W~$ landed, led qireétly ro t Fort by the· Sea-fide; and ir·was nota Mile fr . the F Ort to the place where he was landed, fo he muíl: go to ~his Fort, and be upon it beforc ~·;~s ~ ware of it, unlefs he knew it beforc. .. . ' . . ... pl 1