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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.
Greenland, is a Country that lies very far North-ward in seventy-seven Degrees, and forty minutes, It's wonderful Mountainous, which Mountains are all the year long covered with Ice and Snow▪ The plains in part are bare in Summer▪ But there grows neither Tree nor He• in it, except Scurvy-grass and Sorrel• The Sea is as barren as the Land, affording ⟨p. 73⟩no Fish but Whales, Sea-horses, Seals, and some few small Fishes.
Greenland, is a Country that lies very far North-ward in seventy-seven Degrees, and forty minutes, It's wonderful Mountainous, which Mountains are all the year long covered with Ice and Snow▪ The plains in part are bare in Summer▪ But there grows neither Tree nor He• in it, except Scurvey-grass and Sorrel• The Sea is as barren as the Land, affording ⟨p. 73⟩no Fish but Whales, Sea-horses, Seals, and some few small Fishes.
26. In June 1668. the Peach-tree of London, a small Vessel of the Burden of about sixty Tuns, Edward Dixon Master, came into the Downs, bound for Guinea, intending there to take in Negroes, and to transport them to the Barbados, and from thence to come for London, where John Watts, the Son of John Watts, of Eltham, in the Country of Kent, Chirurgeon, shipped himself with the consent of Richard Watts, public Notary of Deal; little dreading that his Nephew, being not above eighteen years old, should meet with such a calamitous Accident. The ship had not been long in the Downs, but a fair gale presenting, they suddenly hoisted Sail, God's Providence seeming to fill their Sails with prosperous success; the first place they touched at, was the Gold Coast, where they staid not long, but sailed to old Calabar, in the Bight of Guinea. They entered a River, called the Cross River into Pirates Island. After they had taken in their Negroes, and ready to sail, […] Anchor being a peek, the Master […] up the Boatswain and three men more, whereof the relater was one, and