Captain George Shelvocke, A Voyage round the World By the Way of the Great South Sea. Perform’d in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London (1726

…. On Thursday, June 4, 1719, we made Cape Frio, bearing West, distant seven leagues at noon. Latitude per observation 23 deg. 41 min. South; and on Friday, 5th, in the afternoon, we saw a ship stemming with us, whom we spake with. I ordered the five-oar’d boat to be hoisted out, and sent Captain Hatley in her, to inquire what news on the coast, and gave him money to buy some tobacco, for the Success had got our stock aboard of that (as well as other things), which created a West Country famine amongst us. When Hatley returned, he told me she was a Portuguese from Rio Janeiro, and bound to Fernambuco; that he could get no tobacco, and had therefore laid out my money in china cups and plates, a little hand-nest of drawers, four or five pieces of China silk, sweetmeats, bananas, plantains, and pumpkins, etc. I gave him to understand that I was not at all pleased with him for squandering my money in so silly a manner. He answered, that he thought what he did was for the best, that he had laid out his own money as well as mine, and, in his opinion, to a good advantage, and that, to his knowledge, the things he bought would sell for double the money they cost, at the next port we were going to. However, I assured him I did not like his proceedings by any means.