Chapter VII: Section VI

Now presently I began to prepare for my dispatch, and to hasten my departure; and finding that my ship which I expected from the Straites, came not, and that shee was to goe to London to discharge, and uncertaine how long shee might stay, I resolved to take another of mine owne in her place, though lesser, called the _Hawke_, onely for a victualler; purposing in the coast of Brasill, or in the Straites,[23] to take out her men and victualls, and to cast her off.