A58039:31
A token for mariners
A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwreck, famine, or other accidents. much enlarged, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.A token for mariners containing many famous and wonderful instances of God's providence in sea dangers and deliverances, in mercifully preserving the lives of his poor creatures, when, in humane probability, at the point of perishing by shipwrack, famine, or other accidents. much enlarg'd, with the addition of many new relations, one whereof happening this present year, and never before printed. Mostly attested by the persons themselves. Also The seaman's preacher, being a sermon on the right improvement of such mercies. And prayers for seamen on all occasions.
London: printed by Hugh Newman, 1698
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. In the first settling of the Bohemia Islands off the Cape of Florida, about the year 1642. there were at that present great troubles in the Bermudas, one Captain Sale who had been Governor the year before, comes for London, and here informing some of his Acquaintance and Persons of Worth and Estate, how things then stood, they undertake fo• him, and got him a Ship, and all thing• necessary for the discovery of these Island• which he had informed them of, s• they proceeded to Bermudas, whe•• they took in several Passengers, Captai•• ⟨p. 23⟩Sale being Chief, and Captain Lane and his Family which came from London with him as his Assistant in the management of the Design, so they in pursuit of the Voyage, came to an Island called Cicatra, •he lay down in the Plates, where they could not at present find an Harbour. So they sent out their Shallop upon a discovery, which upon Return informed them of a better place to Ride in.—But sending out the Shallop again upon a discovery, before she Returned, there arose a dreadful Storm that carried her immediately upon the Rocks, and staved her, with very much difficulty most of the People were saved, and some Provisions. Then were they Reduced to very great straits formidable to flesh and blood, a Barren Island, no inhabitants, no likelihood of Relief, little Provisions left; in this great strait most of them resolved to travel up to the wester end of the Island and there to abide. (Captain Lane and his Family, and his Son who was his Lieutenant) they Resolved to seek for some kind of Provisions, and so stayed on the Island. But Captain Sale and one Mr. Bounly who had been Master of the Ship, and some other Sea-men, and one Mr. Shadwel; ⟨image 17⟩⟨image 17⟩⟨p. 22⟩[…] ⟨p. 23⟩[…] ⟨p. 24⟩