The Isle Of Pines (1668): and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey FordNeville, Henry
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The Isle Of Pines (1668): and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford
Neville, Henry
Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800
A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths
time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked
near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except
one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship
making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by
chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount
(as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation
(written and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and
delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) Is here annexed with the
Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the situation and felicity
thereof, with other matter observable.
Licensed July 27. 1668.
London, Printed for Allen Banks and Charles Harper next door to the
three Squerrills in Fleet-Street, over against St Dunstans Church, 1668.
Two Letters concerning the Island of Pines to a Credible person in
Covent Garden.
IT is written by the last Post from Rochel, to a Merchant in this City,
that there was a French ship arrived, the Mailer and Company of which
reports, that about 2 or 300 Leagues Northwest from Cape Finis Terre,
they fell in with an Island, where they went on shore, and found about
2000 English people without cloathes, only some small coverings about
their middle, and that they related to them, that at their first coming
to this Island (which was in Queen Elizabeths time) they were but five
in number men and women, being cast on shore by distress or otherwise,
and had there remained ever since, without having any correspondence
with any other people, or any ship coming to them. This story seems very
fabulous, yet the Letter is come to a known Merchant, and from a good
hand in France, so that I thought fit to mention it, it may be that
there may be some mistake in the number of the Leagues, as also of the
exact point of the Compass, from Cape Finis Terre; I shall enquire more
particularly about it. Some English here suppose it may be the Island
of Brasile which have been so oft sought for, Southwest from Ireland, if
true, we shall hear further about it; your friend and Brother, Abraham
Keek.
Amsterdam, July the 6th 1668.
IT is said that the Ship that discovered the Island, of which I hinted
to you in my last, is departed from Rochel, on her way to Zealand,
several persons here have writ thither to enquire for the said Vessel,
to know the truth of this business. I was promised a Copy of the Letter
[54]Amsterdam, June the 29th 1668, that came from France, advising the
discovery of the Island above-said, but its not yet come to my hand;
when it cometh, or any further news about this Island, I shall acquaint
you with it,
Your Friend and Brother,
A. Keck.
{{1 }} [55]Discovered Near to the Coast of Terra Australis Incognita,
by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten, in a Letter to a friend in London,
declaring the truth of his Voyage to the East Indies.
SIR,
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