Sentence:  ... the same Guide which told us of that Ship would have conducted us where we might had store of Beef and Maiz: but instead thereof we lost both our time and the opportunity of providing our selves, and so were forced to be <WSD>victualling</WSD> when we should have been cruizing off Cape "Corrientes" in expectation of the "Manila" Ship. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To lay in food supplies.