Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF PYRARD'S VOYAGE
- ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
- TITLE PAGE OF THE THIRD FRENCH EDITION
- DEDICATORY EPISTLE
- HEADINGS OF CHAPTERS
- THE VOYAGE OF FRANçOIS PYRARD
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- Map
CHAPTER V
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF PYRARD'S VOYAGE
- ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
- TITLE PAGE OF THE THIRD FRENCH EDITION
- DEDICATORY EPISTLE
- HEADINGS OF CHAPTERS
- THE VOYAGE OF FRANçOIS PYRARD
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- Map
Summary
What I have said of the discomforts and troubles of our voyage up to this point is as nothing compared with what happened after. I shall now describe misery, the greatest that can be imagined, and I am assured there are none in reading it but will deplore an event so sad and lamentable, which ruined and completely overpowered us. This is how it happened.
The first day of July 1602, being 5° N. of the line, with fine weather, neither too calm nor too much wind, we perceived at break of day that the Croissant had lost her big boat, which she had towed from St. Laurence, where it had been made use of as a pinnace. It had been arranged at St. Malo, between our commander and the Merchant Company, that we should build a pinnace at the first land we touched on the other side of the Cape of Good Hope, and for this purpose we had brought all suitable timber, a mast and ropes, ready prepared, and requiring only to be put together. It is very necessary on long voyages to have a pinnace to reconnoitre with in unknown places, to land with on occasion, and to enter rivers where a big ship cannot or dare not venture. I mention particularly the loss of the boat used as a pinnace, and our want of the latter, for with it the Croissant might have saved our men.
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- The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil , pp. 48 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1887