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Chapter II: Section I: The undertaking, outset and instructions. 4-11

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_Separation of the Ships._ 13

_Captain_ Clipperton _at the_ Canaries. ib.

_---- ---- at St._ Vincent._ 22

_Captain_ Shelvocke_’s contempt of his owners
and officers._ 16-20

_---- ---- his son_ George _an interloper._ 20

_---- ---- arrival at the_ Canaries. 21

_---- ---- conceals the places of rendevous._ 22

_---- ---- consumes the liquors designd for
both ships._ 23

_Hipsy, a liquor, its virtues._ ib.

_The_ Emperor’_s colors a protection for pyracy._ 25

_Bad masters how used by pyrates._ 26

_A busker, what._ 27

Shelvocke_’s great generosity._ 31

_---- his artful management and innovations
at St._ Katherine_’s, where he
makes himself owners agent._ 35-43

_Occurrences there._ 42-51

_---- his trifling accusation of_ Betagh. 52-54

_---- his mean shifts to excuse himself._ 55-57

_---- his passage round cape_ Horne _and
dangers at_ Narbrough_’s island and_ Chiloe. 57-61

_---- his whimsical discipline._ 62

_---- his manifest design to destroy some
of his people._ 65

_---- his zele for the public._ 68-69

_---- his arrival in the bay of_ Conception. 70

_Grenadiers cap, a joke upon the mitre._ 72

_Privatier’s ambassador described._ ib.

Hatley _in danger from the enemy._ 73

_Five men killd thro_ Shelvocke_’s folly._ 74

Clipperton _in the streights of_ Magellan,
_and observations there._ 76-85

_---- his confutation of a pretended_ French
_discovery._ 86

_---- at_ Fernandes _island: his low condition
and stay there._ 87-90

_---- takes several prizes, one of which
the_ Spaniards _regain by stratagem._ 91-95

Shelvocke_’s not keeping company the ruin of
the voyage._ 92-97

_Viceroy of_ Peru _is informd of the expedition._ 97

Shelvocke _burns two good ships._ 98

_---- his injustice to_ Betagh _and_ Brooks. 98-100

_---- his wild attack upon_ Arica. 102

_---- gets rid of fifteen of his people._ 104-108

_---- fights the_ Peregrine. 110

Indian _swiming remarkable._ 102

_Comical article in a_ Scotch _journal._ 104

Shelvocke_’s malice to_ Betagh_--which is
well answered._ 112-119

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