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5 March 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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63 +
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<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
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HCA 13/72 +
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Recto +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 05/03/2013 +
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places which hee mentioned, sayd then make … places 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 />
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