With this Booty, and regretting heartily they had not practisd the same Moderation before, they resolvd now to be satisfyd, and make the best of their Way to the Island of Juan Fernando ; where keeping at a great Distance from the Shore, they safely arrivd, in about two Months Voyage, having met with some contrary Winds by the Way.
However, here they found the other Sloop which they had sent in with their first Booty, to wait for them: And here understanding that we were gone for St. Julien , they resolvd, (since the Time was so long gone that they could not expect to find us again) that they would have tother Touch with the Spaniards , cost what it would. And accordingly, having first buryd the most Part of their Money in the Ground, on Shore in the Island, and having revictuald their Ship in the best Manner they could in that barren Island, away they went to Sea.
They beat about on the South of the Line all up the Coast of Chili , and Part of Peru , till they came to the Height of Lima itself.
They met with several Ships, and took several, but they were loaden chiefly with Lumber or Provisions, except that in one Vessel they took between 40 and 50000 Pieces of Eight, and in another 75000. They soon informd themselves that the Spanish Men of War were gone out of those Seas up to Panama , to boast of their good Fortune, and carry Home their Prize; and this made them the bolder. But tho they spent near five Months in this second Cruise, they met with nothing considerable; the Spaniards
being every where alarmd, and having Notice of them, so that nothing stirrd Abroad.
Tird then with their long Cruise, and out of Hope of more Booty, they began to look Homeward, and to say to one another that they had enough; so, in a Word, they came back to Juan Fernando , and there furnishing themselves as well as they could with Provisions, and not forgeting to take their Treasure on Board with them, they set forward again to the South; and after a very bad Voyage in rounding the Terra del Fuego , being driven to the Latitude of 65 Degrees, where they felt Extremity of Cold, they at length obtaind a more favourable Wind, viz. at S. and S. S. E; with which, steering to the North, they came into a milder Sea and a milder Coast, and at length arrivd at Port St. Julien , where, to their great Joy, they found the Post or Cross erected by us; and understanding that we were gone to Madagascar , and that we would be sure to remain there to hear from them, and withal that we had been gone there near two Year, they resolvd to follow us.
Here they staid, it seems, almost half a Year, partly fitting and altering their Ship, partly wearing out the Winter Season, and waiting for milder Weather; and having victualld their Ship in but a very ordinary Manner for so long a Run, viz. only with Seals Flesh and Penguins, and some Deer they killd in the Country, they at last launchd out, and crossing the great Atlantick Ocean , they made the Cape of Good Hope in about 76 Days, having been put to very great Distresses in that Time for Want of Food, all their Seals Flesh and Penguins growing nauseous and stinking in little less than half the Time of their Voyage; so that they had nothing to subsist on for seven and twenty Days, but a little Quantity of dryd Venison which they killd on Shore, about the Quantity of 3 Barrels of English Beef, and some Bread; and when they came to the Cape of Good Hope , they gat some small Supply, but it being soon perceivd on Shore what they were, they were glad to be gone as soon as they had filld their Casks with Water, and gat but a very little Provisions; so they made to the Coast of Natal on the South East Point of Africa , and there they gat more fresh Provisions, such as Veal, Milk, Goats-Flesh, some tolerable Butter, and very good Beef: And this held them out till they found us in the North Part of Madagascar , as above.
We staid about a Fortnight in our Port, and in a sailing Posture, just as if we had been Wind-bound, meerly to congratulate and make merry with our new-come Friends, when I resolvd to leave them there, and set Sail; which I did with a Westerly Wind, keeping away North till I came into the Latitude of seven Degrees North; so coasting along the Arabian Coast E. N. E. towards the Gulph of Persia, in the Cruise I met with two Persian Barks loaden with Rice; one of which I mannd and sent away to Madagascar , and the other I took for our own Ships Use. This Bark came safe to my new Colony, and was a very agreeable Prize to them; I think verily almost as agreeable as if it had been loaded with Pieces of Eight, for they had been without Bread a great while; and this was a double Benefit to them, for they fitted up this Bark, which carryd about 55 Tun, and went away to the Gulph of Persia in her to buy Rice, and brought two or three Freights of that which was very good.
In this Time I pursud my Voyage, coasted the whole Malabar Shore, and met with no Purchase but a great Portugal East-India Ship, which I chacd into Goa , where she got out of my Reach: I took several small Vessels and Barks, but little of Value in them, till I enterd the great Bay of Bengale , when I began to look about me with more Expectation of Success, tho without Prospect of what happend.