A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed BeforeDefoe, Daniel
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A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before
Defoe, Daniel
Adventure stories; Voyages around the world -- Fiction
We had nothing now to do, but to make the best of our way for England;
and setting sail from the mouth of the river Camerones, so the Spaniards
call it, the 18th of January, in which we had a more difficult and
unpleasant voyage than in any other part of our way, chiefly because,
being a rich ship, and not knowing how affairs stood in Europe, I kept
to the northward as far as the banks of Newfoundland, steering thence to
the coast of Galicia, where we touched as above; after which, we went
through the Channel, and arrived safe in Dunkirk road the 12th of April;
and from thence gave private notice of our good fortune to our merchants
and owners; two of whom came over to us, and received at our hands such
a treasure as gave them reason to be very well satisfied with their
engagement. But, to my great grief, my particular friend, the merchant
who put us upon this adventure, and who was the principal means of our
making the discoveries that have been here mentioned and described, was
dead before our return; which, if it had not happened, this new scheme
of a trade round the world had, perhaps, not been made public till it
had been put in practice by a set of merchants designed to be concerned
in it from the New Austrian Netherlands.
THE END OF THE NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.
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