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THE ISLE OF PINES, The combined Parts as issued in 1668

The Isle of Pines

OR,

[53] A late Discovery of a fourth ISLAND near Terra Australis, Incognita

BY

Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten.

Wherein is contained.

A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths
time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked
near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except
one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship
making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by
chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount
(as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation
(written and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and
delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) Is here annexed with the
Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the situation and felicity
thereof, with other matter observable.

Licensed July 27. 1668.

London, Printed for Allen Banks and Charles Harper next door to the
three Squerrills in Fleet-Street, over against St Dunstans Church, 1668.

Two Letters concerning the Island of Pines to a Credible person in
Covent Garden.

IT is written by the last Post from Rochel, to a Merchant in this City,
that there was a French ship arrived, the Mailer and Company of which
reports, that about 2 or 300 Leagues Northwest from Cape Finis Terre,
they fell in with an Island, where they went on shore, and found about
2000 English people without cloathes, only some small coverings about
their middle, and that they related to them, that at their first coming
to this Island (which was in Queen Elizabeths time) they were but five
in number men and women, being cast on shore by distress or otherwise,
and had there remained ever since, without having any correspondence
with any other people, or any ship coming to them. This story seems very
fabulous, yet the Letter is come to a known Merchant, and from a good
hand in France, so that I thought fit to mention it, it may be that
there may be some mistake in the number of the Leagues, as also of the
exact point of the Compass, from Cape Finis Terre; I shall enquire more
particularly about it. Some English here suppose it may be the Island
of Brasile which have been so oft sought for, Southwest from Ireland, if
true, we shall hear further about it; your friend and Brother, Abraham
Keek.

Amsterdam, July the 6th 1668.