Of a Religious-Man of the Order of the Discalceate Carmelites a Slave and his Patron Alli Pegelin p. 159 Rel. 18. The use of Poison is very common in Africk p. 162 Rel. 19. The Turks keep their words p. 165 Rel. 20. None so cautious but Wine and Women may betray p. 168 Rel. 21. A way to cure the Pox at Algiers without the help of either Doctor or Surgeon p. 172 Rel. 22. Of a French-man who would have turn'd Turk but continu'd a Christian in spight of his teeth p. 173 Rel. 23. Of the simplicity of a young Jewess p. 174. Rel. 24. Of the prudent retirement of a Pyrate p. 176 Rel. 25. How God provides for such as intend well p. 178 Rel. 26. A pleasant piece of simplicity of a Dunkirker a Slave p. 180 Rel. 27. The odd traverses of Fortune that happen to Slaves p. 182 Rel. 28. A Slave makes use of any thing for hiâ— livelihood p. 186 Rel. 29. Of the fidelity of a husband and the unfaithfulness of his wife p. 188 Rel. 30. A Scuffle between the Spanish and the Portuguez slaves p. 192 Rel. 31. A Slave ought to be distrustful of the great kindness of his Patron p. 193 Rel. 32. Of a Religious Man a Slave at Algiers who out of weakness renounc'd the Christian Religion and afterwards repenting suffer'd Martyrdom p. 196 Rel. 33. Of the design we had to render our selves Master of the Ship which brought us to Tituan p. 200 Rel. 34. Curiosity is satisfied by Time and Patience p. 203 Rel. 35. The Innocent accus'd p. 207 Rel. 36. Fidelity Constancy Recompence and Gratitude p. 209 Rel. 37. A wrack in the Haven p. 212 Rel. 38. The Adventures of Philip de Cherf of Ulamertingue Knight of the Order of Saint James p. 213 Rel. 39. What happen'd between my Companion in slavery M. Caloen and his old Patroness p. 227 Rel. 40. Revenge Malice and Industry p. 234 Rel. 41. The Renegadâ—-Engineer p. 238 Rel. 42. The Disappointment p. 242 Rel. 43. Of the Impious dutifulness of an Iseland-Slave p. 247 Rel. 44. The Unfortunate Adventurers p. 250 Rel. 45. Superstitious Piety p. 254 Rel. 46. Avarice mask'd p. 257 Rel. 47. The imaginary Slavery p. 259 Rel. 48. The Execrable Revenge p. 263 Rel. 49. That the Turks prefer Mony before Love p. 266 Rel. 50. The counterfeit Hypocrisie p. 268 THere is newly printed the History of the Câ—aribby Islands viz. Barbado's St. Christopher Aâ—tego Martinico Dominico Baâ—â—onthos Mevis St. Martin c. being twenty eight in number in two Books containing the Naturâ—l and Moral History of those Country's adorned with many sculptures of all divers rarieties in those Islands Englished by John Davies In folio Also Another Collection of Philosophical Conferences of the French Vâ—rtuosi upon questions of all sorts for the improving of Natural Knowledge made in the Assembly of the Beaux Esprits at Paris by the most Ingenious Persons of that Nation Englished by G. Havers and J. Davies In folio Medicina Instaurata or a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the Art of Physick with the insufficiency of the Vulgar way of preparing Medicines and the excellency of such as are made by Chymical Operation with a light to the true preparation of Animal and Vegetable Arcana's with a discovery of the true subject of the Philosophical Mineral Mercury and some light to the preparation and â—se of the said Mercury in the dissolution of Minerals and Metals for Physical use by Edward Bolnest Med. Lond. with an Epistolary discourse on the whole by the Author of Medela Medicinae In Octavo All three to be sold by John Starkey at the Miter in Fleet-street neer Temple-Bar A RELATION Of the CAPTIVITY And LIBERTY Of the Sieur EMANVEL D' ARANDA HAving continu'd a whole year in Spain in order to the design I had to see that Kingdom and learn the Language I made account to return into Flanders but whereas at my coming from England I had Landed at St. Lucars and had in that Voyage very narrowly escap'd being taken by the Turks as will be seen in the ensuing Relations I conceiv'd it my safest course to return by St. Sebastian's to avoid going so far by Sea and especially the danger of the Turks who are perpetually Roving up and down the Coasts of Andalusia and Portugal as also to see Castilla la Vicia and Biscay I left Madrid the first of August M.DC.XL having for my Companion a Country-man named Renier Saldeâ—s I came to St. Sebastian's the 13th following where I met with Monsieur John Baptist Caloâ—n and the Knight Philip de Cherf and we resolv'd to Embark in one of the two English Ships which lay in the Port ready to set Sail with the first fair wind The same night it came to the Point we wish'd it in so that the next day I went aboard with the three friends above-named but within two hours after we were got to Sea the weather grew calm and the same night the wind prov'd contrary so that we were forc'd to Laveer hoping it would in time prove more favourable to us Having spent four days in that manner we found our selves at the Altitude of Rochel in France where we met with a Frigat of that City a Pyrat which presently came up to us and finding ours to be an English Ship the Captain sent out the Boat with four Souldiers aboard us to see our Master's Pass-port who immediately shew'd it them giving the Souldiers a piece of money which done the Souldiers return'd to give their Captain an account Whereupon the Captain coming up on the stern of his Frigat cry'd out to our Master that he should look to himself for there were five Turkish Pirates under sail at the mouth of the Channel But our Master being a person of no great experience presum'd that the English Men of War which sometimes came out of that Channel would secure that Coast against the Turks and slighted the danger not considering how unable he was to oppose his enemies and so went on his Voyage confident that it was impossible the Turkish Pyrates should come out so far where the Privatiers of Dunkirk and the Dutch were perpetually crusing Thus â—he wind continuing still contrary we had been aboard seven days since our departure from St. Sebastian's and were still on the Coast of Brittany in France The same day about two in the afternoon we discover'd at a great distance two Ships which we took to be Merchant-men and soon after we could perceive but one to wit the lesser of them making all the sail she could towards us and as she came neerer and neerer we found her to be a Caravel Whereupon the Master order'd the sails to be furl'd up giving this reason that it was not the custom of the English to run away at Sea so that the Ship which follow'd us bearing all the sail she could was got within Canon-shot without putting up any colours whence it might be
Bride than to engage with an Enemy told Pegelin he would go with him and participate of his fortune in hopes of some good booty He goes away from Algiers along with Pegelin and having been four days abroad they met with an English Ship of forty Guns Pegelin as General propos'd it to the Captains of the other Gallies that they should engage that Ship but the Captains thought it not convenient partly out of a fear of loosing the Slaves that row'd and partly out of a consideration of the uncertainty of Victory In the mean time the English Ship while they were in consultation got away so that night coming on the Turks lost sight of her Having miss'd that booty the five Gallies with the two Brigantines which accompany'd them began to câ—use up and down and coming neer Majorca they met a small Frigot wherein were a Councellor and his family outward-bound from Barcelona Pegelin perceiving the booty was of little importance began to jeer the other Captains saying to them You should have engag'd the English Ship The Captains vex'd to find themselves laugh'd at resolv'd to set upon the first Ship they met with whatever she were This resolution pleas'd Pegelin and two days after they discover'd a Dutch Bottom of twenty eight Guns and forty men The weather was very calm so that the Dutch-man could make no advantage of her sails Pegelin order'd the Gallies to draw â—p within Canon-shot of the Ship and perceiving she had Dutch colours he sent one of the Brigantines with a Renegado a Zelander towards it with a white Flagg who coming neer the Dutch Captain he ask'd him what he would have The Captain General Alli Pegelin reply'd the Renegado sent me to tell you that if you will yeeld without fighting he will set you and all your people on Christian ground which he hath sworn by the Grand Seignor's head that he will do Therefore I advise you to accept of the proffer I make you from him while it is time otherwise I fear me you will repent it too late The Dutch-man weary to hear such proposals very confidently reply'd I know Alli Pegelin very well for he had been a Slave the Ship belongs to those who were at the charge of setting it out and the goods to the Merchants and therefore I cannot give what is not my own But if he be desirous to have the Ship as he seems to be let him come aboard and he shall see whether we can satisfie him The Renegado immediately return'd with this answer Whereupon Pegelin being extreamly impatient and incens'd to hear the bravadoes of the Dutch-man order'd his Gallies to draw up in the form of a Half-moon and in that order to make towards the Poop of the Ship and to discharge all together as it were by a câ—oss-battery Their Guns carried Bullets of fourty eight pound weight but ordinarily they shoot onely stones His command was executed but being ready to give fire the Dutch Captain a man of extraordinary experience in Sea-affairs by the advantage of a little wind which God sent him without loosing time turn'd his Ship on the other side By that motion he put the enemies into a confusion and broke their design for the five Gallies making all the sail they could and strength of Oars upon the Ship instead of continuing in the form of a Half moon at the Poop of the Ship as they had resolv'd they 〈◊〉 foul one upon the other yet so as that Pegelin's Galley came up close to her and seventy Turks and Renegadoes got into it with their Cutlasses in their hands beginning to cut the Ropes and cast in Granadoes to fire the Ship But the Dutch Captain who had all his men within discharg'd some pieces loaden with Musket Bullet from the Poop and the Prow which made a great slaughter among the Turks In the mean time the Galley which was come up close to the Ship durst not stay there any longer in regard the Ship being heavy loaden the Guns lay so low that they were even with the edge of the Galley Which Pegelin observing for fear began to seize him immediately commanded the Gallies to retreat The Turks who at the beginning of the engagement were got into the Ship were much astonish'd to see that the Gallies had forsaken them leaving them at the mercy of their enemies They began to be discourag'd those who could swim cast themselves into the Sea the wounded and those who could not swim remain'd on the Deck of the Ship as spectators of the engagement The Dutch Captain commanded a Broad-side to be given on that side where the Guns were loaden with Nails Musket-bullets and pieces of Iron which directed at the Gallies there were kill'd in less then a quarter of an hour above two hundred men Turks Renegadoes and Christian Slaves But what made the business the more deplorable the Gallies having receiv'd this treatment without seeing any enemies for the Dutch-man as I said fought within Decks and could not be seen drew off as fast as they could The Captain perceiving the Gallies were got out of the reach of his Guns commanded the Turks that were left behind in the Ship to be kill'd They finding it too hot staying on the Deck were got up into the Shrowds but the Dutch Captain and his people coming on the Deck shot at them as they hung in the Shrowds and about the Mast as if they had been so many Parâ—ats or Monkeys This was a recreation to the Dutch but a sad Tragedy for the five Gallies wherein there were two Captains kill'd and the Caja of Tripoli had lost an arm and was wounded in the belly These Gallies which went out so gallantly some few days before and seem'd to frighten all the Mediterranean were perceiv'd at a great distance as they were returning to the Port. There was a general curiosity to know what news they brought and the water-side was immediately as full as it could throng with people among whom I also chanc'd to be As the Gallies came neerer and neerer to the Port it was observ'd that there were two of them without Flaggs and it was conjectur'd they were two Spanish Gallies that had been taken but soon after they were of another opinion when they saw they were Turkish Gallies and that their being without Flaggs was because their Captains were kill'd All the rejoycing and great hopes were turn'd into mourning and sadness the Gallies came in slowly for want of Rowers All the wounded were immediately brought ashoar and among the rest the Caja of Tripoli who had for his Surgeon a Christian Slave born at Marseilles one very expert in his profession but the wound in his belly was incurable and past remedy He promis'd his Surgeon if he cur'd him his liberty and a hundred Patacoons but finding there was no likelihood of it he caus'd his Will to be made By the first article he order'd that all the Slaves who had agreed with him about
Christian Religion or to be burnt alive Dom Oenophilo deny'd the fact alledging that he had onely defended himself from the blows and he brought in a Turk for a witness who spoke on his behalf But the Bassa would not admit of his excuses accounting the Patron 's accusation a sufficient proof He pronounc'd the sentence without any further solemnity that Oenophilo should take his choice either to renounce or be burnt alive The unfortunate man finding himself so put to it answer'd as a good Christian and resolute Knight that he would not renounce Whereupon the sentence was pronounc'd that Dom Oenophilo should be burnt alive All things were prepar'd and the Sauses conducted the Criminal to his punishment but the Bassa commanded the execution to be suspended till further order The Bassa minding his own concerns above all things found a way to make his advantage of that offence and propos'd this reason to those of his Councel who had given their voices for the sentence If this Offender said he to them had kill'd another slave his Patron would have been oblig'd to make satisfaction for the dead slave or to resign the Delinquent to be dispos'd of to the advantage of the deceas'd Slave's Patron This Offender hath beaten a Turk which is a greater crime then to have kill'd a Christian and upon the prosecution of his own Patron we have condemn'd him to death by which condemnation his Patron hath lost the propriety he had in him and it is devolv'd to me as representing the person of the Grand Seignor Having therefore the power to pardon such as are condemn'd I give that slave his life and so it is consequent that he belongs to me This reason was approv'd by all the Agas who are of his Councel Dom Oenophilo is declar'd the Bassa's slave by the Councel of the Agas And the Patron having lost the propriety of his slave and receiv'd blowes got also the reputation of being Cuckolded by him Dom Oenophilo was sent among the slaves of the Bassa having at each legge a Garter of a hundred weight of Iron When I came to Algiers he liv'd in the Bassa's Stables where I was intimately acquainted with him and found him a person full of Moral Vertues And in that miserable slavery by his prudence and noble Demeanour he knew so well how to oblige all people that he was continually visited and his Country-men supply'd him with all things necessary When I left Algiers in the year 1642. I left him in the same condition loaden with Irons and know not what became of him since RELATION XXI A way to cure the Pox at Algiers without the help of either Doctor or Surgeon MY Patron Alli Pegelin had among his slaves one named John Motoza who was as deeply as man could be in that which some call the Neapolitane others the French disease insomuch that he was thought incapable of doing any service whatsoever as a slave The Spring was coming on and the Gallies were to go out John Motoza was commanded to go aboard where his employment was to row This command troubled him extreamly for he was of opinion that a good sweatingâ—tub would agree better with his body then the hard labor of a Galley a hardship not easily imaginable by those who have not had the tryal of it He goes to his Patron and says to him Your excellency hath given command that I should go aboard the Gallies which labor I am absolutely unable to perform as having not the use of either arms or leggs What ailes you says Pegelin to him He confidently reply'd I have got the Pox. Pegelin said to him smiling Go get you aboard the Galley it will contribute more to your health then if you did sweat in Spain or endure the other tortures necessary for the cure of your disease There was no appeal from what was positively said by Pegelin Motoza goes aboard is chain'd by the legge as the other slaves who were to row and with the help of a Bull 's pizzle made to work as the rest His constant Commons was old and dry Bisket his drink fair water At the end of forty days I was Eye-witness of it Motoza was absolutely cur'd The reason is that through extraordinary pains taking he had sweated extreamly and had withall fed on dry meat If any are troubled with the Pox and loath to venture on those chargeable yet dangerous cures now practis'd they may make use of the aforesaid remedy which will prove so effectual that after tryal made of it they may give it their Probatum est RELATION XXII Of a French-man who would have turn'd Turk but continu'd a Christian inspight of his teeth A French-slaâ—e belonging to Alli Pegelin had row'd several Voyages in the Gallies but not able to brook that kind of life he desir'd Pegelin's permission to renounce the Christian Religion and to embrace the Turkish which Pegelin would not suffer him to do because the Renegadoes are worth much less then the Christians for being once turn'd Turks they are not oblig'd to row as the Christians are This French-man was laugh'd at by his Companions and to avoid being abus'd as also to force his Patron to permit him to renounce he address'd himself to some Renegadoes and got a Turkish habit of them which having put on and shav'd himself after the Turkish mode he gave himself the name of Mustapha Being so accoutred he went to a Garden of his Patron 's without the City Those who kept the house knew him well enough and thought he had renounc'd his Religion with the consent of his Patron When the crafty Pegelin heard that the French-man was in his Garden he went thither where being come he call'd for John which was the name of the French-man John came and appear'd before Pegelin answering resolutely My name is Mustapha and not John Pegelin seeing him in that equipage call'd four slaves who having laid him all along on the ground cudgell'd him so long till at last he cry'd out My name is John and not Mustapha I am a Christian and not a Turk I will put on my Christian habit Thus it may be said that Pegelin cudgell'd a Christian into his Christianity which he would have renounc'd RELATION XXIII Of the simplicity of a young Jewess AFter I had got out of the Masmora at Tituan M. Caloën a Turk who had the oversight of us and I took a Chamber in that Quarter of the City where the Jews inhabit Our Chamber was unfurnish'd for according to our manner of life we had no need of furniture and when we had a desire to buy any thing the Jews accommodated us for a small piece of money It happen'd that a young Jewess having brought us something she took occasion to fall into discourse with me in the Portuguez language which I could make a shift to understand and I answer'd her in French which she understood well enough She was about sixteen or eighteen years of age as
some call'd Ho ho for Tituan and it was the same which had been sent to receive them Hans Maurus notwithstanding all his experience and skill in Sea-matters was seiz'd by a Panick fear and said to his Companions Ly down on the ground they are Fisher-men of Tituan we shall be secur'd and beaten In the mean time the boat had cross'd two or three times by the place appointed and reiterated the aforesaid cry striking on a Steel the signal agreed upon between them whereto those ashore were to answer with the like noise But those in the boat seeing no body appear and considering that it was within an hour of day as also that the watch on the Coast of Tituan had perceiv'd them and given the signal to the City by a fire resolv'd to be gone The going away of the boat satisfy'd the Knight and Hans Maurus that those of Ceuta had made the appointed signal whereupon they began to strike with the Steel and to call upon them but all to no purpose and too late so that perceiving their design was discover'd they made their retreat without any noise towards Tituan getting into the City at several Gates where they understood that that night there had been an alarm in the City and that a party of horse had been commanded out into the Country by reason of a fire which had been made by the watch on the Sea-side This body of Horse consists of Citizens who to enjoy some priviledges and the title of imaginary soldiers oblige themselves upon any alarm to ride out into the Country and engage any enemy they meet with All this had pass'd yet so as that those of Tituan knew nothing of the occasion of it nor did they much enquire after it in regard the alarms are very frequent there by reason they are so near neighbours to the City of Ceuta Yet were the Undertakers still in some fear of being discover'd and could not forbear quarrelling at Hans Maurus who had occasion'd the miscarriadge of their design whereat he was so troubled and became so melancholy to think that by his mistake himself and his Companions had miss'd so fair an opportunity of recovering their liberty that he fell sick Yet did his Companions assist him all they could and concern'd themselves as much as might be in the recovery of his health but perceiving he grew every day worse and worse and that whatsoever was administred to him did little good they bethought themselves of endeavouring the welfare of his soul To that end the Knight who knew that Hans Maurus had led a morally good life and that he feared God made it his business to exhort him to renounce Lutheranism and to embrace the Roman-Catholick Religion discoursing with him concerning the difference of those perswasions as he had done several times before Hans Maurus being a person not much acquainted with Letters and the Knight no great Divine he took occasion to remonstrate to him that being born in Norway he had follow'd the Lutheran Religion without any enquiry into the Romane-Catholick that the former was a new and the other the ancient way surpassing the inventions of Luther by fifteen ages and that the latter had been follow'd by his Ancestors whom it would be impious for him to believe damn'd for that and that they were rather wiser then he that he had often said while he was in health that he would do better if he knew what were better that it now concern'd him to think seriously of his conscience and that to that end he would bring him a Priest who would tell him more and that more effectually This discourse made to him in the extremity of his sickness wrought this effect on Hans Maurus that he acknowledg'd to the Knight that it was true he had been exhorted to follow the steps of his Ancestors but that he thought there was so little difference between both Religions that he conceiv'd he might safely enough persevere in his own but since he was now in treated by his friends whom he knew to be real sincere to consider seriously of it he desir'd that a Priest might come to him to give him satisfaction in some doubts The Knight immediately sent for a Religious Dominican a Spaniard and a slave who satisfy'd the doubts of Hans Maurus and undeceiv'd him so that he became a Roman-Catholick made his Confession and communicated with great fervency to the great satisfaction of the Christian slaves who were present and the second day after his conversion he dy'd In this conversion may be seen the goodness of God who gave Maurus the grace to profess the Catholick Faith in recompence of his moral Vertues and good life by a strange accident whereby he was depriz'd of his experience and skill on Saint James's day which made him loose his corporal liberty to give him the incomparable liberty of enjoying the sight of God Eight days after Maurus's death the Knight paid his ransom and went to Ceuta and thence by the way of Gibraltar to Madrid where having receiv'd rewards from his Catholick Majesty he went thence to the Low-Countries having suffer'd greater miseries then any of us though we had been made slaves at the same time And he who shall attentively consider all our Knight did will find that humane Prudence is subject to strange oversights and miscarriages and that God onely is the disposer and director of all human actions RELATION XXXIX What happen'd between my Companion in slavery M. Caloen and his old Patroness THe condition of slaves implies in it self a necessity of their suffering of somewhat from the hands of their Patrons but on the contrary M. Caloën made his Patroness endure many inconveniences I have said elsewhere that an old Moorish Dame had bought him at fourteen hundred Patacoons to be exchang'd for her Grand-son Mustapha who was in the power of Caloën's friends The payment of that sum troubled the old woman as if it had been so many drops of blood got out of her dry'd carkass never considering that it was for the redemption of one so neerly related to her The coverous woman thought to ease her self of some part of the grief by finding out some invention to make M. Caloën to pay seven hundred Patacoons besides the exchange of her Grand-son and this busied her brains day and night One while she resolv'd to use violence but fearing her Mustapha might receive the same treatment she forbore it another she imagin'd that to represent to him how much he had cost her would be a more likely way to compass her design since that it was indeed done as much for M. Caloën's liberty as for her Mustapha's so that it was but just he should pay his proportion but the fear of being laugh'd at and making him more obstinate after she should acquaint him with her intention made her resolve rather to be silent While she was troubled with this diversity of resolutions an Edict was publish'd that all