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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10493	The famous and wonderfull recoverie of a ship of Bristoll, called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of Argier With the vnmatchable attempts and good successe of Iohn Rawlins, pilot in her, and other slaues; who in the end with the slaughter of about 40. of the Turkes and Moores, brought the ship into Plimouth the 13. of February last; with the captaine a renegado, and 5. Turkes more, besides the redemption of 24. men, and one boy, from Turkish slauerie.	Rawlins, John.	1622 (1622)	STC 20769; ESTC S102577	19,518	40

condemned for desperate and distracted persons in pulling the Sunn● as it were out of the firmament we can but sacrifice our liues and you may be sure of secrecie and taciturnitie Now blessed be my Genius said Rawlins that euer this motiue was so opportunely preferd and therefore we will be quiet a while till the iron be hotter that we may not strike in vaine The 15. of Ianuarie the morning water brought vs neere Cape de Gatt hard by the shore we hauing in our companie a small Turkish ship of warre that followed vs out of Argier the next day and now ioyning with vs gaue vs notice of seuen small vessels six of them being Sattees and one Pollack who very quickly appeared in sight and so we made toward them but hauing more aduantage of the Pollack then the rest and loth to lose all we both fercht her vp and brought her past hope of recouerie which when she perceiued rather then she would voluntarily come into the slauerie of these Mahumetans shee ranne her selfe a shore and so all the men forsooke her we still followed as neere as we durst and for feare of splitting let fall our anchors making out both our boats wherein were many Musketeers and some English and Dutch Renegadoes who came aboord home at their Conge and found three peeces of Ordnance and foure Murtherers but they straight way threw them all ouer-boord to lighten the ship and so they got her off being laden with Hides and Logwood for dying and presently sent her to Argier taking nine Turkes and one English slaue out of one ship and six out of the lesse which we thought sufficient to man her But see the chance or if you will how fortune smiled on vs In the rifling of this Catelaynia our Turkes fell at variance one with another and in such a manner that we diuided our selues the lesser ship returned to Argier and our Exchange tooke the opportunitie of the winde and plied out of the Straights which reioyced Iohn Rawlins very much as resoluing on some Stratagem when opportunitie should serue In the meane while the Turks began to murmure and would not willingly goe into the Marr Granda as the phrase is amongst them notwithstanding the Mores being very superstitious were contented to be directed by their Hoshea who with vs signifieth a witch and is of great account and reputation amongst them as not going in any great vessell to Sea without one and obseruing whatsoeuer he concludeth out of his diuination the ceremonies he vseth are many and when they come into the Ocean euery second or third night he maketh his coniuration he beginneth and endeth with prayer vsing many Characters and calling vpon God by diuers names yet at this time all that he did consisted in these particulars Vpon the sight of two great ships and as we were afraid the chasing being supposed to be Spanish men of warre a great silence is commanded in the ship and when all is done the companie giueth as great a skrich the Captaine still comming to Iohn Rawlins and sometimes making him take in all his sailes and sometimes causing him to hoise them all out as the Witch findeth by his booke and presages then haue they two arrowes and a curtleaxe lying vpon a pillow naked the arrowes are one for the Turkes and the other for the Christians then the Witch readeth and the Captaine or some other taketh the arrowes in their hand by the heads and if the arrow for the Christians commeth ouer the head of the arrow for the Turkes then doe they aduance their sailes and will not endure the fight whatsoeuer they see but if the arrow of the Turkes is found in the opening of the hand vpon the arrow of the Christians then will they stay and encounter with any ship whatsoeuer the Curtleaxe is taken vp by some childe that is innocent or rather ignorant of the ceremonie and so laid downe againe then doe they obserue whether the same side is vppermost which lay before and so proceed accordingly They also obserue Lunaticks and changelings and the Coniurer writeth downe their sayings in a booke groueling on the ground as if he whisperd to the Deuill to tell him the truth and so expoundeth the letter as it were by inspiration Many other foolish rites they haue whereon they doe dote as foolishly and whereof I could intreat more at large but this shall suffice at this time Whilst he was thus busied and made demonstration that all was finished the people in the ship gaue a great shout and cried out a saile a saile which at last was discouered to be another man of warre of Turkes for he made toward vs and sent his boat aboord vs to whom our Captaine complained that being becalmed by the Southerne Cape and hauing made no voyage the Turkes denied to goe any further Northward but the Captaine resolued not to returne to Argier except he could obtaine some prize worthy his endurances but rather to goe to Salle and sell his Christians to victuall his ship which the other Captaine apprehended for his honour and so perswaded the Turkes to be obedient vnto him whereupon followed a pacification amongst vs and so that Turke tooke his course for the Streights and we put vp Northward expecting the good houre of some beneficiall bootie All this while our slauerie continued and the Turkes with insulting tyrannie set vs still on worke in all base and seruile actions adding stripes and inhumane reuilings euen in our greatest labour whereupon Iohn Rawlins resolued to obtaine his libertie and surprise the ship prouiding ropes with broad specks of iron and all the iron crowes with which he knew a way vpon consent of the rest to ramme vp or tie fast their scuttels gratings and Cabbins yea to shut vp the Captaine himselfe with all his consorts and so to handle the matter that vpon the watch-word giuen the English being masters of the Gunner roome Ordnance and powder they would either blow them into the aire or kill them as they aduentured to come downe one by one if they should by any chance open their Cabbins But because hee would proceede the better in his enterprise as he had somewhat abruptly discouered himselfe to the nine English slaues so he kept the same distance with the 4. Hollanders that were free men til finding them comming somewhat toward them he acquainted them with the whole conspiracy they affecting the plot offered the aduenture of their liues in the businesse Then very warily hee vndermined the English Renegado which was the Gunner and three more his associats who at first seemed to retract Last of all were brought in the Dutch Renegadoes who were also in the Gunner roome for alwaies there lay 12. there fiue Christians and 7. English and Dutch Turkes so that when another motion had setled their resolutions and Iohn Rawlins his constancy had put new life as it were in the matter the 4. Hollanders very honestly according