罗杰斯并不是唯一一个在一七一二年夏天休息的人。在大西洋对岸的牙买加,蒂奇与范恩目睹了许多更糟糕的情景:一七一二年八月二十八日,牙买加遇到史上最强大飓风的袭击。
关于范恩这个人,我们知道他三件事:西班牙王位继承战争期间,他定居在罗亚尔港;[72]他是专业水手;而且他结识了即将恶名昭彰的亨利·詹宁斯船长。在八月时一个致命的晚上,风向突然由北转南,那天范恩很可能登上了詹宁斯船长四门炮的单桅帆船“钻石”号(Diamond)。那艘船下锚在罗亚尔港数百艘船之中。
由于港口实施禁运,罗亚尔港那天傍晚特别拥挤;人们预测法国人即将来袭。由于这个缘故,蒂奇大概也在那里,在罗亚尔港岸上休息。当时的罗亚尔港里,还有伦敦奴隶船船长劳伦斯·普林斯(Lawrence Prince),以及马萨诸塞商船主人威廉·怀尔(William Wyer),两人终有一天将与海盗起冲突。詹宁斯是已经建立名声且“拥有一定地位与财产”[73]的牙买加商船船长,指挥着一艘现在货舱空空如也的船。在长达好几个星期的禁运期里,不论船上原本载了什么货物,现在已经全都卸下来了。[74]
暴风雨大约在晚上八点时到来,那是“一场有闪电、有风、有雨、没有雷声的强烈飓风”,吹倒树木,夷平房屋仓库,弄翻糖场,摧毁整片甘蔗田。房子、医院和金斯敦主教堂半崩塌时,几个待在岸上的人丢了性命,但最大的惨剧发生在外头的港口。至少有五十四艘船沉没、翻覆或被吹上岸,包括单桅战舰“牙买加”号(HMS Jamaica)和奴隶船“约瑟夫战舰”号(Joseph Galley)。后者的全部船员和被锁在船上的一百零七名奴隶,全数丧命。怀尔船长的奴隶船“安战舰”号(Ann Galley)被暴风雨弄沉时,他人在陆地上,船上一百名奴隶及二十八名船员溺死了一半。普林斯失去了由他指挥的双桅帆船“冒险”号(Adventure),詹宁斯也一样,不过他们两个并没有损失任何人员。隔天早上出太阳时,海滩与盐沼上布满断桅船只,以及数十具尸体。除了奴隶外,约有四百名船员丧命。[75]
接下来几个星期,詹宁斯、范恩、蒂奇及其他船员清点损失时,一艘船带着戏剧性的欧洲消息抵达:安妮女王已经宣布和法国、西班牙停战。[76]战争结束了,那意味着由私掠者源源不绝带进牙买加的财富与劫掠品也将终结。牙买加商船队大多四分五裂地搁浅在岸边,数百名船员失去工作,他们必须想办法在金斯敦的废墟中养活自己。讽刺的是,日后的另一场飓风,将带给他们只有战时私掠船才敢梦想得到的巨大财富。
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[2] R.D.Merriman,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy</i>,London:Navy Records Society,1961,p. 365.
[3] A. B. C.Whipple,<i>Fighting Sail</i>,Alexandria,VA:Time-Life Books,1978,pp. 146-165.
[4] N. A. M. Rodger,<i>The Command of the Ocean:A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815</i>,London:W.W. Norton,2004,pp. 166-174.
[5] R.D.Merriman,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy</i>,London:Navy Records Society,1961,p. 338;“Letter from the Masters of six merchant vessels to the Victualling Board of the Royal Navy,” Dover,30 December 1704,reproduced in R.D.Merriman,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy</i>,London:Navy Records Society,1961,pp. 341-342;Julian Hoppit,<i>A Land of Liberty:England 1689-1727</i>,Oxford:Oxford University Press,2002,p. 112;G. N. Clark,“War Trade and Trade War,” <i>Economic History Review</i>,Vol. 1 No. 2 (January 1928),p. 263.
[6] John Taylor (1688) as quoted in Allan D.Meyers,“Ethnic Distinctions and Wealth among Colonial Jamaican Merchants,1685-1716,<i>Social Science History</i>,Vol. 22 (1),Spring,1998,p. 54.
[7] David Cordingly,<i>Under the Black Flag</i>,New York:Harcourt,1997,pp. 141-142.
[8] <i>A New History of Jamaica</i>,London:J.Hodges,1740,pp. 270-272.
[9] Edward Ward,<i>A Collection of the Writings of Mr. Edward Ward</i>,Vol. II,fifth ed.,London:A. Bettesworth,1717,pp. 164-165.
[10] George Woodbury,<i>The Great Days of Piracy in the West Indies</i>,New York:W.W. Norton,1951,pp. 32-46.
[11] Edward Ward,<i>A Collection of the Writings of Mr. Edward Ward</i>,Vol. II,fifth ed.,London:A. Bettesworth,1717,pp. 161-162.
[12] Richard S Dunn,<i>Sugar and Slaves:The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,1624-1713</i>,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press,1972,pp. 164-165.
[13] Richard S Dunn,<i>Sugar and Slaves:The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,1624-1713</i>,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press,1972,pp. 300-305.
[14] <i>A New History of Jamaica</i>,London:J.Hodges,1740,pp. 217-223;Richard S Dunn,<i>Sugar and Slaves:The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,1624-1713</i>,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press,1972,pp. 238-246.
[15] Mavis C. Campbell,<i>The Maroons of Jamaica 1655-1796</i>,Granby,MA:Bergin & Gravey Publishers,1988,pp. 49-53.
[16] Wikipedia,“Economic History of Spain,” viewed 5 April 2006.
[17] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 59-61.
[18] N.A.M. Rogers,<i>The Wooden World</i>,New York:W.W.Norton,1996,p. 46.
[19] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 66,70.
[20] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 74-75.
[21] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 73-74.
[22] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 75-76.
[23] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies
</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,p. 80 (also in <i>CSPCS 1710-11</i>,No. 824).
[24] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 87-88.
[25] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 93-95;see Josiah Burchett,<i>A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea</i>,London:1720,pp. 699,701.
[26] Richard S Dunn,<i>Sugar and Slaves:The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,1624-1713</i>,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press,1972,pp. 273-275.
[27] Ruth Bourne,<i>Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies</i>,New Haven:Yale University Press,1939,pp. 100-101;his first name from John Hardy,<i>A Chronological List of the Captains of His Majesty’s Royal Navy</i>,London:T. Cadell,1784,p. 29.
[28] Richard S Dunn,<i>Sugar and Slaves:The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies,1624-1713</i>,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press,1972,p. 185.
[29] G. N. Clark,“War Trade and Trade War,” <i>Economic History Review</i>,Vol. 1 No. 2 (January 1928),p. 265.
[30] John Oldmixon,<i>The British Empire in America</i>,London:J. Brotherten,1741,p. 340;Howard M. Chapin,<i>Privateer Ships and Sailors</i>,Toulon,France:Imprimerie G.Mouton,1926,pp. 240-241.
[31] John Oldmixon,<i>The British Empire in America</i>,London:J. Brotherten,1741,pp. 342-343.
[32] <i>The State of the Island of Jamaica</i>,London:H.Whitridge,1726,p. 4.
[33] <i>A New History of Jamaica</i>,London:J.Hodges,1740,p. 273.
[34] 这座岛现在分属海地(Haiti)与多米尼加共和国(the Dominican Repu-blic)。
[35] Frank Shipsides and Robert Wall,<i>Bristol:Maritime City</i>,Bristol,UK:Redcliffe Press,1981,p. 50.
[36] Powell,p. 102;Patrick McGrath (ed.),<i>Bristol,Africa,and the Eighteenth- Century Slave Trade to America</i>,Vol. I,Bristol,UK:Bristol Records Sociey,1986,p. 12;Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,pp. 41-42.
[37] Powell,p. 95;Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,p. 42.
[38] Summarized nicely in Gary C.Williams,“William Dampier:Pre-Linean Explorer,Naturalist,” <i>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences</i>,Vol. 55,Sup. II,No. 10,pp. 149-153.
[39] Timothy R. Walton,<i>The Spanish Treasure Fleets</i>,Sarasota,FL:Pineapple Press,1994,pp. 136-138.
[40] Kip Wagner,<i>Pieces of Eight:Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet</i>,New York:E. P.Dutton & Co.,1966,pp. 52-54;Timothy R. Walton,<i>The Spanish Treasure Fleets</i>,Sarasota,FL:Pineapple Press,1994,pp. 47-55;Charles E. Chapman,“Gali and Rodriguez Cermenho:Exploration of California,” <i>Southwestern Historical Quarterly</i>,Vol. 23,No. 3 (January 1920).
[41] Christopher Lloyd,<i>William Dampier</i>,Hamden,CT:Archon Books,1966,p. 117.
[42] Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,1712,Introduction.
[43] Christopher Lloyd,<i>William Dampier</i>,Hamden,CT:Archon Books,1966,p. 96.
[44] Christopher Lloyd,<i>William Dampier</i>,Hamden,CT:Archon Books,1966,pp. 97-121;Donald Jones,<i>Captain Woodes Rogers’ Voyage Round the World 1708-1711</i>,Bristol,UK:Bristol Branch of the Historical Association of the University,1992,pp. 5-6.
[45] Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,pp. 45-46;Donald Jones,<i>Captain Woodes Rogers’ Voyage Round the World 1708-1711</i>,Bristol,UK:Bristol Branch of the Historical Association of the University,1992,p. 5.
[46] Donald Jones,<i>Captain Woodes Rogers’ Voyage Round the World 1708-1711</i>,Bristol,UK:Bristol Branch of the Historical Association of the University,1992,pp. 4-5.
[47] Powell,p. 104n;Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,pp. 47-48.
[48] Leonard A. G. Strong,<i>Dr. Quicksilver,1660-1742:The Life and Times of Thomas Dover,M.D.</i>,London:Andrew Melrose,1955,pp. 157-159.
[49] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Round the World</i>,2nd Ed. Corrected,London:Bernard Lintot & Edward Symon,1726,p. 2.
[50] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Round the World</i>,2nd Ed. Corrected,London:Bernard Lintot & Edward Symon,1726,pp. 2-3.
[51] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 8-33.
[52] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 30-33;Edward Cooke,
<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,(1712,Vol. I),pp. 30-36;quote on dolphins:Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Round the World</i>,2nd Ed. Corrected,London:Bernard Lintot & Edward Symon,1726,p. 103.作者提到罗杰斯的德雷克海峡之旅。
[53] Stephen R. Bown,<i>Scurvy:How a Surgeon,a Mariner,and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail</i>,New York:St.Martin’s Press,2003,pp. 1-7,33-46.
[54] 一九六六年,智利政府把这个岛更命为鲁滨孙克鲁索岛(Robinson Crusoe Island)。
[55] Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,(1712,Vol. I),p. 35;Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 89-90.
[56] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 91-96;Alexander Winston,<i>No Man Knows My Grave:Privateers and Pirates 1665-1715</i>,Boston:Houghton-Mifflin,1969,pp. 183-184.
[57] Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Around the World</i>,Vol. II,London:Bernard Lintot & R. Gosling,1712,pp. xx-xxi.
[58] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 91,94,96.
[59] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 103-113;Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,pp. 80-84;Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,(1712,Vol. I),pp. 126,130-132.
[60] C104/160:Accounts of the Negroes now onboard the <i>Ascension</i>,Gorgona,20 July 1709 and 28 July 1709.
[61] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 117-118.
[62] Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,(1712,Vol. I),pp. 136-8;Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 116-7;C104/160:List of Negroes and cargo on <i>Havre de Grace</i> when captured,15 April 1709.
[63] Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,pp. 87-100.
[64] Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,1712,(Vol. I),pp. 164,317;Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 167-171.
[65] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 172-177.
[66] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 211-213;Donald Jones,<i>Captain Woodes Rogers’ Voyage Round the World 1708-1711</i>,Bristol,UK:Bristol Branch of the Historical Association of the University,1992,p. 14.
[67] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 213-215.
[68] Woodes Rogers,<i>A Cruising Voyage Around the World</i>,Originally published 1712,New York:Longmans,Green & Co.,1928,pp. 216-222;Edward Cooke,<i>A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World</i>,London:B. Lintott and R. Golsing,1712,(Vol. I),pp. 346-352.
[69] Donald Jones,<i>Captain Woodes Rogers’ Voyage Round the World 1708-1711</i>,Bristol,UK:Bristol Branch of the Historical Association of the University,1992,p. 21.
[70] Bryan Little,<i>Crusoe’s Captain</i>,London:Odham’s Press,1960,pp. 149,169.
[71] Donald Jones,<i>Captain Woodes Rogers’ Voyage Round the World 1708-1711</i>,Bristol,UK:Bristol Branch of the Historical Association of the University,1992,pp. 19-21.
[72] c. 1712:<i>TJR:The Tryals of Captain John Rackham and other Pirates</i>,Kingston,Jamaica:Robert Baldwin,1720.
[73] <i>GHP</i>:Charles Johnson,<i>A General History of the Pyrates</i>,ed. Manuel Schonhorn,Columbia,SC:University of South Carolina Press,1972,p. 41.
[74] “A letter containing an account of the most general grievances of Jamaica,” Jamaica,6October 1712,in <i>The Groans of Jamaica</i>,London:1714,p. 1.
[75] John Oldmixon,<i>The British Empire in America</i>,London:J. Brotherten,1741,p. 345;<i>Boston News-Letter</i>,12 January 1713,p. 1;Burchett (1720),p. 785.
[76] 九月下旬时,消息已经传至安地卡。见Burchett,第784页。