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THE

ADVENTURES

OF

PHILIP QUARLE.


ON the 4th of July 1643, Philip Quarle, a native of Bristol, being then about eighteen years of age, entered as a sailor on board of the ship Endeavour, bound for the South Sea, which set sail with a fair wind on the 7th of the same month They sailed on for the space of a month; though the wind, in changing full in their teeth, and very high withal, obliged them to cast anchor, in order to lie by till the wind did serve; but seeing themselves made upon by a pirate, they were obliged to weigh their anchor, and