Lot Essay
Note: The contents give a graphic account of a voyage in a ropey ship called "The Carr". They were to have gone to via Madeira, but they lost the convoy in the Bay of Biscay and made straight for Barbados, where they arrived after seven weeks of rough passage, fortunately dodging the privateers. Then the Captain became completely lost off the north coast of the Spanish Main, and were lucky to fall in with an English Sloop of War which took the writer and his wife to Aruba. Curacao is described as an island belonging to England but mostly inhabited by Indians and some Dutch.