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An. 1681
THE TRAVELS OF Mr. William Dampier.
CHAP. I.
An Account of the Author’s Return out of the South Seas, to his Landing near Cape St. Lawrence, in the Isthmus of Darien: With an Occasional Description of the Moskito Indians.
April the 17th, 1681, about Ten a Clock in the morning, being 12 leagues N.W. from the Island Plata, we left Captain Sharp, and those who were willing to go with him in the Ship, and imbarqued into our Lanch and Ca- noas, designing for the River of Sancta Maria, in the Gulf of St. Michael, which is about 200 leagues from the Isle of Plata. We were in number 44 white Men who bore Arms, a Spanish Indian, who bore Arms also; and two Moskito Indians, who al- ways
launch: biggest rowboat on a large sailing ship, heavy duty workhorse; this meaning was first introduced into English by Dampier
