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A Wonderful And Tragical Relation Of , A Voyage From The Indies.*
A WONDERFUL AND TRAGICAL RELATION OF , A VOYAGE FROM THE INDIES . *
JV A LETTER TO MB . D . D . OF LONDON * , MERCHANT , QUARTO , CONTAINING EIGHT PACES : IBINTZP AT LONDON , FOR J . CONYSKS , AT THE DLACK RAVEN , IN BVCii-LANE , 1684 . SIR , A CCORDING to promise in my last , I have enquired into tbe £ particulars of that tragical a relation therein mentionedthe
*• so , which , Avithout any prologue , I shall lay down in its naked truth , as I had the same from the mouth of the survivors , who are now at my house , and which , if you please , take as follows : —A gentleman called the Heer van Essell , native of the Low Countries , having had the education of a merchant at home , was resolved to improve his patrimony in partsto which endbeing thereunto the more
ensome foreign : , couraged by the promise of a strict correspondence with several ot his countrymen , he undertook a voyage to the , Indies , whither he arrived about the year 1670 ; ancl , by the industrious management of his affairs , increased his estate so considerably , that few men m tnose parts lived in greater splendour .. Being thus settled about seven years , he became acquainted with the daughter of a Dutch merchant
of great fortune , a gentlewoman of many worthy accomplishments , and exceedingly beautiful . Our merchant , being much taken with her port and beauty , paid his addresses to her , and , resolving to change his condition , found her not altogether averse to his happiness ; which , by degrees , he raised to consent , and obtained her for his wife , with whom he lived very happily for several years , till he had increased to return tothe
his estate to such a portion , as made him think . country Avhere he first drew breath , aud had left his relations . Communicating this design to his lady , she readily assented to the voyage , and accordingly he made preparation to gather his estate into a bottom , and take leave of the Indies , which , in a short time , he effected ; and being supplied with a vessel that had discharged herself at the said port , he hired the same for Rotterdam , and therein in > barked himself , his wife , tAvo children , and one servant , with all his estate , which amounted to a very considerable cargo , and in August
last took shipping . The flattering sea , which too often beguiles us to our undoing promised him for the first CAVO months a very happy voyage , and filled his heart with hopes of touching his native shore , Avhich the long absence from his friends rendered very desirable to him ; and buoyed up with the expectation of a happiness cruel Fate had designed
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Wonderful And Tragical Relation Of , A Voyage From The Indies.*
A WONDERFUL AND TRAGICAL RELATION OF , A VOYAGE FROM THE INDIES . *
JV A LETTER TO MB . D . D . OF LONDON * , MERCHANT , QUARTO , CONTAINING EIGHT PACES : IBINTZP AT LONDON , FOR J . CONYSKS , AT THE DLACK RAVEN , IN BVCii-LANE , 1684 . SIR , A CCORDING to promise in my last , I have enquired into tbe £ particulars of that tragical a relation therein mentionedthe
*• so , which , Avithout any prologue , I shall lay down in its naked truth , as I had the same from the mouth of the survivors , who are now at my house , and which , if you please , take as follows : —A gentleman called the Heer van Essell , native of the Low Countries , having had the education of a merchant at home , was resolved to improve his patrimony in partsto which endbeing thereunto the more
ensome foreign : , couraged by the promise of a strict correspondence with several ot his countrymen , he undertook a voyage to the , Indies , whither he arrived about the year 1670 ; ancl , by the industrious management of his affairs , increased his estate so considerably , that few men m tnose parts lived in greater splendour .. Being thus settled about seven years , he became acquainted with the daughter of a Dutch merchant
of great fortune , a gentlewoman of many worthy accomplishments , and exceedingly beautiful . Our merchant , being much taken with her port and beauty , paid his addresses to her , and , resolving to change his condition , found her not altogether averse to his happiness ; which , by degrees , he raised to consent , and obtained her for his wife , with whom he lived very happily for several years , till he had increased to return tothe
his estate to such a portion , as made him think . country Avhere he first drew breath , aud had left his relations . Communicating this design to his lady , she readily assented to the voyage , and accordingly he made preparation to gather his estate into a bottom , and take leave of the Indies , which , in a short time , he effected ; and being supplied with a vessel that had discharged herself at the said port , he hired the same for Rotterdam , and therein in > barked himself , his wife , tAvo children , and one servant , with all his estate , which amounted to a very considerable cargo , and in August
last took shipping . The flattering sea , which too often beguiles us to our undoing promised him for the first CAVO months a very happy voyage , and filled his heart with hopes of touching his native shore , Avhich the long absence from his friends rendered very desirable to him ; and buoyed up with the expectation of a happiness cruel Fate had designed