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HCA 13/72 f.63r Annotate
First transcribed 5 March 2013  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 63  +
Materials <u>Potatoes</u> John Davies, <u>Potatoes</u> John Davies, The history of the Caribby-Islands viz. Barbados, St Christophers, St Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis [sic], Antego, &c. in all XXVIII. : In two books. The first containing the natural; the second, the moral history of those islands. : Illustrated with several pieces of sculpture, representing the most considerable rarities therein described. : With a Caribbian-vocabulary (London, 1666), p,56UNIQ32a735779107f344-ref-000001C4-QINU [[File:History_Of_Caribby-Islands_Davies_J_1656_p57.PNG]]Of_Caribby-Islands_Davies_J_1656_p57.PNG]]  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 05/03/2013  +
Transcription places which hee mentioned, sayd then makeplaces which hee mentioned, sayd then make a wesse and shoote<br /> off a gunne and soe leave the shipp meaning the ''Recovery'', and goe aboard of Captaine<br /> Crofords (meaning the foresayd Crofords shipp) whereupon the<br /> Shipps Company not being willing to forsake the shipp but desyrous<br /> to preserve her and her ladeing did beare up the helme of the shipp and<br /> make for Barbados which<br /> the sayd Bartlett seeing, sayd doe what you will, I will take noe<br /> such charge of the shipp, and soe went into his Cabbin and continued<br /> there two or three dayes, and after tow or three dayes Came out of<br /> his Cabbin againe and tooke upon him the charge of navigating<br /> her as Master, and the winde not serving to get to the Barbados the<br /> sayd Bartlet caused the Company to beare up for Antegoe and<br /> they obeyed his Commands and brought her safe into five Island<br /> harbour in ntego about the nynth of december arlate, it being one<br /> of the neerest places to them, where with much labour at the pumpes and<br /> great paines taken by the shipps Company shee safely arrived with her<br /> ladeing, but saith before shee gott to Antego provisions were very scarce<br /> on board, especially bread, and saith that after her coming to Antego<br /> the sayd Bartlett and Company gott a supply of bread from<br /> a Bristoll shipp which came thither while the sayd Bartlett laye there with<br /> his shipp the ''Recoverie'', and gott alsoe some beefe of a New<br /> England shipp which came thither alsoe, before which supply this deponent<br /> knoweth that victualls were soe scarce aboard the sayd shipp that the Company<br /> lived upon Potatoe rootes and Cassava bread and Gallevants, and upon<br /> Crabbs which they gathered in the woods in the night tyme, for which reasons<br /> hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that the provisions of<br /> victualls which the sayd shipp ''Recovery'' had on board her when shee made for<br /> Antego would not have served her till shee came to England for that when<br /> shee made for Antego she shee was not above two hundred leagues or<br /> Thereabouts from the Barbados, and had about eleaven hundred leagues<br /> to have gone before shee could have arrived in England, And further<br /> saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose. saving hee saith that<br /> of this deponents knowledge the sayd shipps Company after her arrivall<br /> at Antego did there by order of the sayd Bartlet unlade the sayd shipp/ To the 7th article And the schedule therein mentioned hee saith that of his<br /> this deponents sight and knowledge there was a view taken of the sayd<br /> shipp ''Recovery'' and of her leakes and insufficiencies by order of the<br /> Governor of Antego who him selfe came aboard with the viewers, but<br /> what returne was made thereof hee knoweth not, And further saving<br /> his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose for that hee was not made<br /> privie to the rest of the transactions arlate./ To the 8th article hee saith That the arlate Tawley and Company the<br /> parties in this suite did of this deponents knowledge sight and observation<br /> during all the tyme of the voyage from Barbados where this deponent<br /> camebados where this deponent<br /> came  +
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