Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 1. The Manuscript and Printed Records of the Voyage Included in this Volume a: British Library, Add 88980A, B, C and D Narbrough’s ‘Booke’ and accompanying Charts b: Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. A. 318 c: Relationship of BL, Add 88980A to MS Rawl. A. 318 d: British Library, Add MS 5414,29, ‘The Sloane Map’ e: British Library, Maps K. Top 124.84.‘The Royal Map’ f: British Library, Sloane MS 819,Lieutenant Peckett’s Journal g: Royal Society CI.P/7i/32, Richard Williams’s Brief Account h: Beinecke Library, Osborn b394,William Chamber’s Journal 2. Captain John Wood’s Account a: British Library, Sloane MS 3833, Journal b: British Library, Sloane MS 46A, Sailing Directions for the Strait of Magellan c: British Library, Sloane MS 46B Wood’s Straights of Magellan 3. Contemporary Records and Published Accounts Made after Narbrough’s Return a: Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera, Piratas y contrabandistas b: Smith and Walford, An Account of Several Late Voyages &c., 1694 c: The Published Chart of the Strait of Magellan, 1673 d: William Hacke's publication of John Wood’s ‘Voyage thro’ the Streights of Magellan’ 4. The Context of Narbrough’s Voyage 5. The ‘Proposition’ of Narbrough’s Voyage 6. The Commissioning of John Narbrough 7. Narbrough’s Ships a: The Sweepstakes b: The Batchelour 8. Captain John Narbrough and his Officers a: John Narbrough b: Lieutenant Thomas Armiger c: Lieutenant Nathaniell Peckett d: Abraham Hyatt e: Mr John Wood f: Mr John Fortescue g: Captain Humphrey Fleming h: Supernumeraries:Don Carlos Henriquez and Solomon Franco 9. The Events of the Voyage 10. Interactions with Indigenous Peoples 11. The Fate of the Detainees 12. Further Information about Don Carlos found in Recently located Materials 13. The Spanish Reaction to Narbrough’s Voyage 14. Navigation a: Narbrough's Navigation b: Charts c: Chambers’ Navigation 15. Narbrough’s Surveying 16. The Outcome of the Voyage 17. Use of the Published Version of Narbrough’s Voyage by Other Navigators 18. Historical Opinion on Narbrough's conduct of the Voyage 19. Editorial Conventions Adopted in the Transcription of the Manuscripts PART I. The Prelude to Narbrough’s Voyage PART II. Narbrough's Journals a: A Jornall Be Gan with his Majesties Shipp the Sweepstakes the 15: Day of may 1669. The Shipp at deptford which Beinge then ordered to fitt. And Keept By Captaine John Narbrough: then Commander of her one [on] her Vojage through the Straits of Magallan: into the South Sea to Baldavia and from thence Back againe unto England to Deptford b: This is a part of Sr John Narbrough’s voyages, somewhat different from the print PART III The records of Nathaniel Peckett, Richard Williams and William Chambers a: The Voyage of the King’s Shipp Called the Sweepstakes to Baldavia. Annoque Domini1669. By Nathanyell Peckett, Lieutenant b: Richard Williams’s short accompt c: The Journal of William Chambers PART IV A Declaration made by one Charles Henrique Clerck off the Proposalls made by the Royall Compania for trade, to his Majestie Anno 1663. APPENDICES 1. The Legends on the Charts Drawn by John Narbrough 2. Place-Names given by Narbrough still in use today 3. Personnel: Recruitment and Pay 4. Subsequent Publications containing Narbrough’s ‘The Voyage to the South-Sea’, 1694. BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

About the Author

Captain Richard Campbell (OBE) joined the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1946. Having completed training and served for two years in submarines he specialised in hydrographic surveying joining HMS Dalrymple in 1956. He was present at the landings in Port Said that year and assisted in the subsequent salvage operations. He has carried out hydrographic surveys in a large number of areas around the world. He served for two seasons in the Antarctic and Falkland Islands, during which time he in Valdivia and went to the Strait of Magellan numerous times as well as making a passage through it. He has had two periods as Officer in Charge of the Royal Naval Hydrographic School and commanded four surveying ships, the last of which, HMS Hydra, 1980–2, was employed as a hospital ship during the Falkland Islands war in 1982. He served as Assistant Hydrographer 1977-79, and retired in 1983 to spend twelve years in charge of the Admiralty Sailing Directions in the UK Hydrographic Office.

His previous publications for the Hakluyt Society are The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands, 1819–1820, The Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter, 3rd ser., 4, 2000, ‘The Journal of HMS Beagle in the Strait of Magellan by Pringle Stokes, Commander RN 1827’, in Four Travel Journals, 3rd ser., 18, 2007 and ‘The voyage of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Southern and Antarctic Regions, Captain James Clark Ross, R.N. 1839–1843, The journal of Sergeant William K Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror’, in the on-line Journal of the Hakluyt Society, 2009.

Peter T. Bradley has published the first studies about Don Carlos Enriques and is an expert on the Spanish naval defence of Peru in the seventeenth century.

Joyce Lorimer has published two volumes with the Hakluyt Society, on English and Irish interest in the Amazon and Guiana in the Tudor and Early Stuart period.