P. 123. He has a falsity too flagrant to be believed at all. “I could perceive, says he, with my perspective an enemies boat pass within pistol shot of my pinnace, but captain _Hatley_, who commanded, never offered once to follow her, or bring her to: _Hatley_ truly said he did not mind her, tho’ his boat’s crew all agreed that she was full of men:” This he exults upon mighty captain-like; but I affirm that _Hatley_ did chace her immediately, and we were all well enough diverted with it; he following her quite cross the bay till he came within reach of the enemies guns on the platform; from whence they fired twice at him, and so well aimed, that in all probability the third would have sunk him, or made him the head shorter, the shot being eighteen pounders. This I am sure was in the sight of ten thousand people round the bay; for all that part of _Chili_ was alarm’d, and whosoever was fit to bear arms appeared here to see the issue of our exploits. _Shelvocke_ having taken here, just after coming into the port, a small prize bound from _Lima_, found by letters she brought from the merchants there, that the coast was alarm’d to norward by one of _Clipperton_’s prizes retaken by the _Spaniards_: but this he keeps a secret from us, and resolves now to get rid of his men as fast as he can; therefore sends away lieutenant _Randal_, and an officer of marines, with about twenty five men, in a small bark which we took in the bay, to attack a little vessel that was hawl’d up almost dry, in a creek about six or seven miles from us: _Shelvocke_ must needs have known that there could be nothing in her, since it was no secret to the _Spaniards_ that we were an _English_ privatier. The vanity of this attempt wants no explanation of mine, since he hath sufficiently described the folly and misfortune of it himself, p. 125. which is worth reading: there he lost five of his men, risquing their lives to take an empty, vessel: and the only incouragement he had of success from this undertaking, was from the boatswain of a small _Spanish_ prize which he took a day or two before, who was already grown so very sincere a friend, and so heartily in our interest as to give us prodigious informations: and upon the credit of this man, _Shelvocke_ pretends he sent the poor fellows to make this new experiment; which I may venture to say has proved our captain to be no politician. After this he tells you, p. 127, the men murmur’d and grew very uneasy, damning the _South Seas_----as well they might, being thus order’d upon fools errands, without any hopes of making a good voyage for themselves; destined as it were for mere tools to carry on his own selfish ignorant projects. And yet _Shelvocke_, with a bold face and harden’d heart, says, even this too was their own fault. In short his conscience is an original; his book is an original, and he is an original; but I hope in God neither of ’em will ever be copied.