The Harleian Miscellany (Volume 11); A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROVIDENCE DISPLAYED; OK, A VERY SURPRISING ACCOUNT OF ONE MR. ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MASTER OF A MERCHANT-MAN CALLED, THE CINQUE-PORTS; Who dreaming that the ship would soon after be lost, he desired to be left on a desolate island in the South-Seas, where he lived four years and four months, without seeing the face of man, the ship being afterwards cast away as he dreamed. As also, How he came afterwards to be miraculously preserved and redeemed from that fatal place, by two Bristol privateers, called, The Duke and Duchess; that took the rich Aquapulco Ship, worth one-hundred ton of gold, and brought it to England. To which is added, An account of his birth and education. His description of the island where he was cast; how he subsisted; the several strange things he saw, and how. he used to spend his time. With some pious 'ejaculations that be used, composed during his melancholy residence there. Written by his own hand, and attested by most of the eminent merchants upon the Royal-Exchange. Quarto, containing twelve pages. IN the voyage of the Duke and Duchess privateers belonging to Bris- toi, who took the rich Aquapulco ship, they came to an island called Juan Fernandez; where sending their pinnace on shore, she returned, after some time, bringing with her a man cloathed in goat skins, who seemed as wild as the goats themselves. Being brought on board the Duke, he said, he had been on the island four years and four months, having been left there by Captain Stradling, in a ship called the Cinque-Ports, about the year 1705, of which ship he was master; and Captain Dampier, who was then with him, and Dow on board the Duke, told Captain Rogers, he was the best man then on board the Cinque-Ports, who immediately agreed with him tobe a mate on board ...