A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE _Nottingham-Galley_ of _London_, _John Dean_ Commander, FROM THE River _Thames_ to _New-England_, Near which Place she was cast away on _Boon-Island_, December 11, 1710. by the Captain's Obstinacy, who endeavour'd to betray her to the _French_, or run her ashore; with an Account of the Falsehoods in the Captain's _Narrative_. And a faithful Relation of the Extremities the Company was reduc'd to for Twenty-four Days on that desolate Rock, where they were forc'd to eat one of their Companions who died, but were at last wonderfully deliver'd. The whole attested upon Oath, by _Christopher Langman_, Mate; _Nicholas Mellen_, Boatswain; and _George White_, Sailor in the said Ship. _LONDON_: Printed for _S. Popping_ at the _Raven_ in _Pater-noster-Row_, 1711. (Price Six Pence.) THE PREFACE. _We having been Sufferers in this unfortunate Voyage, had reason to believe, from the Temper of our Captain, who treated us barbarously both by Sea and Land, that he would misrepresent the Matter, as we now find he has done in a late Pamphlet by him publish'd, intituled_, A Narrative of the Sufferings, Preservation, and Deliverance of Captain _John Dean_, and Company, in the _Nottingham_ Galley of _London_, &c. London, _Printed by_ R. Tooky, _and Sold by_ S. Popping _at the_ Raven _in_ Pater-noster-Row, _and at the_ Printing Press _under the_ Royal-Exchange. _Our Apprehensions of this made us refuse the Encouragement which was offered us in_ New England, _and resolve to come home that we might have an Opportunity to lay before the World, and before those Gentlemen and others who have lost their Estates and Relations in this unhappy Voyage, the true Causes of our own and their Misfortunes, and how they might, humanely speaking, have been easily avoided, had Captain_ Dean _been either an honest or an able Commander. This we think ourselves oblig'd to do in common Justice, and to prevent others from suffering by him in the like manner._ _We cannot but in the first place take notice of a notorious Falshood he asserts in his Preface_. That he might have had the Attestation of several of his Fellow Sufferers now in Town to the Truth of what he has wrote, _since he very well knows that Two of us did positively refuse it in publick Company, after reading a part of it, and told him to his Face_, that it was not true.