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A36106	A new voyage round the world describing particularly the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico, the isle of Guam one of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and other Philippine and East-India islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c., New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles, the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena : their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals, and inhabitants : their customs, religion, government, trade, &c. / by William Dampier ; illustrated with particular maps and draughts.	Dampier, William, 1652-1715.	1697 (1697)	Wing D161; Wing D165; ESTC R9942	710,236	1,112

America on the other If I be questioned for taking this Liberty I should think it enough to say that I wanted a general Name for this whole Ocean and I could not find one more proper And yet even as to the Reason of the thing if the Discovery of a Sea to the South of the Isthmus of Darien or the Mexican Coast were ground sufficient for the extending the Name of South Sea to all that largest Ocean of the World tho it lies West rather of the whole Continent of America much more may I be allowed a less considerable enlargement of the name of Atlantick Sea which others have long since extended to so great a part of this Ocean from its Original narrow Confines the Neighbourhood of Mount Atlas and the Coasts of Mauritania I know that so much of this Ocean as lies South of the R. Niger went usually by the name of the Aethiopick Sea yet I can't learn a sufficient Reason for it for tho 't is true that the Antients call'd all the South parts of Africk to each Sea Aethiopia yet even upon this bottom the name of Aethiopick Sea should have been left common to the Oceans on each side the Cape of Good Hope But if the Name must be appropriated why to this on the West of Africa why not rather to that on its E. Coast which lies nearer the Inward or more proper Aethiopia now the Abissine Empire and consequently might better be call'd the Aethiopick Sea Accordingly I have ventured to call it so Vol. I. page 289 making it there the same as the Indian which I also make to be all the Ocean from the East Coast of Africa to the remotest of the E. India Islands New Holland and New Guinea tho this Name also of Indian Sea has been understood usually of narrower bounds But be that as it will I was for using comprehensive Names and therefore these three Names of Atlantick Indian and South Seas or Oceans serve me for the whole Ambit of the Torrid Zone and what else I have occasion to speak of To these three Parts is added a General Index of both Volumes The first Volume should not have been publish'd without one but that 't was reserved to be annex'd to this that the Reader might not have the trouble of turning over two Alphabets Thus what I designed as an Appendix to the former Volume is grown to be its self a Volume answerable to the other And I am sensible there is one part of the intended Appendix yet behind viz. The Description of the South Sea Coasts of America from the Spanish Pilot-Books c. I confess I had thoughts of crowding it into this Volume but besides the dryness and fatigue of such a Work and the small leisure I had for it I was quite discouraged from attempting it when upon nearer View of the Matter I found in those Descriptions and Charts a repugnance with each other in many particulars and some things which from my own experience I knew to be erroneous Indeed as they are they may be very useful to Sailors in those Parts being generally right enough in the Main but I was loth to undertake a work much of which must have consisted in correcting Mistakes and yet have left unavoidably many more to be rectified Others may have Time and Helps for this affair and future Discoveries may give greater Light to direct them To me it shall suffice that bating this one particular I have here endeavoured to perform what I had made the Publick expect from me The CONTENTS PART I. The Supplement of the Voyage round the World CHap. 1. The Authors Voyage from Achin to Malacca and Tonquin 2. The Natural State of Tonquin 3. Of the Natives their Customs Religion Trade c. 4. Of the Government Kings Soldiery and Mandarins 5. Voyage to Tenan The A.'s journey by land to Cachao and Occurrences 6. His return from Tonquin wit●… some particulars of Cambodia and Bancouli and Arrival at Malacca and Achin 7. Achin describ'd its Natural and Political Sate Customs Trade Civil War c. 8. His Voyage to Malacca again Malacca described 9. His Return to Achin Voyage to Fort St George and thence to Bencouli Bencouli described PAAT II. The Campeachy Voyages Chap. 1. The A.'s 1st Voyage to Campeachy and Return Jucatan ' Alcranes and I. of Pines describ'd 2. His 2d Voyage The E. Coast of Campeachy describ'd its Vegetables Weather Animals c. 3. Logwood-Cutting Beef-Hunting and Occurrences 4. The W. Coast of Campeachy describ'd its Mountain-Cow Indians c. 5. The Coast further W. and products of Campeachy and New Spain described The A.'s return to England PART III. A Discourse of Winds Storms Seasons Tides and Currents in the Torrid Zone Chap. 1. Of the True or General Trade Wind at Sea Crossing the Line c. 2. Of the Coasting and constant Trade Winds 3. Of the shifting Trade-Winds and Monsoons 4. Of the Ordinary Sea and Land Breezes 5. Of peculiar Breezes and Winds of particular effects Summasenta Winds Cartagena Breezes Popogaios Tereno's and Harmatans 6. Of storms Norths Souths Hurricane's Tuffoons stormy Monsoons and Elephanta's 7. Of the Seasons of the Year Weather Rains and Tornadoes 8. Of Tides and Currents Natal described its Product Negroes c. A Map of the Streights of MALACCA A Map of the Streights of MALACCA Mr Dampier's Voyages VOL. II. PART I. His Voyage from Achin in Sumatra to Tonquin and other places in the East-Indies CHAP. I. The Connexion of this discourse with the Voyage round the World The Authors departure from Achin in the Isle of Sumatra with Captain Weldon Their Course along the Streights of Malacca Pulo Nuttee and other Islands The R. and Kingdom of Jihore Pulo Oro and Pulo Timaon Green Turtle there Pulo Condore Sholes of Pracel River of Cambodia Coast of Champa Pulo Canton Cochinchinese Pulo Champello R. and City of Quinam Oyl of Porpusses and Turtle Shipwrackt men detained usually at Cochinchina and Pegu. Aguala wood from the Bay of Siam Bay of Tonquin I. of Aynam and other Islands Rokbo one mouth of the chief R. of Tonquin Fishers I. River of Domea the other Mouth It s Bar and Entrance Mountain Elephant Pearl-Islands Pilots of Batsha They go up the River of Domea Domea and its Gardens and Dutch there They leave their Ships at Anchor above it where the Natives build a Town They go up to the chief City in the Country Boats The River and the Country about it Leprous Beggars Hean a Town of note Chinese there The Governor Shipping and Tide They arrive at Cachao the Metropolis of Tonquin THe Reader will find upon perusing my Voyage round the World that I then omitted to speak particularly of the excursions I made to Tonquin Malacca Fort St. George and Bencouli from Achin in the Isle of Sumatra together with the description I intended to give of those parts I do but just mention them there but shall now proceed to a

not hurt them for we had our Bags rotten lying in the bottom of our Ship and yet the Nuts never the worse They raise the young Trees of Nuts set with the great end downward in fine black Mould and in the same places where they are to bear which they do in 4 or 5 years time without the trouble of transplanting There are ordinarily of these Trees from 500 to 2000 and upwards in a Plantation or Cacoa-walk as they call them and they shelter the young Trees from the weather with Plaintains set about them for 2 or 4 years destroying all the Plantains by such time the Cacoa-Trees are of a pretty good body and able to endure the heat which I take to be the most pernicious to them of any thing for tho these Valleys lye open to the North winds unless a little shelter'd here and there by some groves of Plaintain Trees which are purposely set near the Shores of the several Bays yet by all that I could either observe or learn the Cacao's in this Country are never blighted as I have often known them to be in other places Cacoa-Nuts are used as Money in the Bay of Campechy The chief Town of this Country is called Caraccos a good way within Land 't is a large wealthy place where live most of the Owners of these Cacao-walks that are in the Valleys by the shore the Plantations being managed by Overseers and Negro's It is in a large Savanah Country that abounds with Cattle and a Spaniard of my acquaintance a very sensible man who hath been there tells me that 't is very populous and he judges it to be 3 times as big as Coruma in Gallicia The way to it is very steep and craggy over that ridge of of Hills which I said closes up the Valleys and partition Hills of the Cacao Coast. In this Coast it self the chief place is La Guiare a good Town close by the Sea and though it hath but a bad Harbour yet it is much frequented by the Spanish shipping for the Dutch and English anchor in the sandy Bays that lye here and there in the mouths of several Valleys and where there is very good riding The Town is open but hath a strong Fort yet both were taken some years since by Captain Wright and his Privateers 'T is seared about 4 or 5 leagues to the Westward of Cape Blanco which Cape is the Eastermost boundary of this Coast of Caraccos Further Eastward about 20 leagues is a great lake or branch of the Sea called La Laguna de Vallensuella about which are many rich Towns but the mouth of the Lake is shallow that no Ships can enter Near this mouth is a place called Comana where the Privateers were once repulsed without daring to attempt it any more being the only place in the North Seas they attempted in vain for many years and the Spaniards since throw it in their teeth frequently as a word of reproach or defiance to them Not far from the place is Verina a small Village and Spanish Plantation famous for its Tobacco reputed the best in the world But to return to Caraccos all this Coast is subject to dry winds generally North-east which caused us to have scabby Lips and we always found it thus and that in different seasons of the year for I have been on this Coast several times In other respects it is very healthy and a sweet clear Air. The Spaniards have Look-outs or Scouts on the Hills and Breast-works in the Valleys and most of their Negro's are furnished with Arms also for defence of the Bays The Dutch have a very profitable Trade here almost to themselves I have known 3 or 4 great Ships at a time on the Coast each it may be of 30 or 40 Guns They carry hither all sorts of European Commodities especially Linnen making vast returns chiefly in Silver and Cacao And I have often wondred and regretted it that none of my own Countrymen find the way thither directly from England for our Jamaica-men Trade thither indeed and find the sweet of it though they carry English Commodities at second or third hand While we lay on this Coast we went ashore in some of the Bays and took 7 or 8 Tun of Cacoa and after that 3 Barks one laden with Hides the second with European Commodities the third with Earthen ware and Brandy With these 3 Barks we went again to the Islands of Roca's where we shar'd our Commodities and separated having Vessels enough to transport us all whither we thought most convenient Twenty of us for we were about 60 took one of the Vessels and our share of the goods and went directly for Virginia In our way thither we took several of the Sucking-fishes for when we see them about the Ship we cast out a Line and Hook and they will take it with any manner of Bait whether Fish or Flesh. The Sucking-fish is about the bigness of a large Whiting and much of the same shape towards the Tail but the Head is flatter From the Head to the middle of its Back there groweth a sort of flesh of a hard gristly substance like that part of the Limpit a Shell-fish tapering up Pyramidically which sticks to the Rocks or like the head or mouth of a Shell-Snail but harder This excrescence is of a flat oval form about 7 or 8 inches long and 5 or 6 broad and rising about half an inch high It is full of small ridges with which it will fasten it self to any thing that it meets with in the Sea just as a Snail doth to a Wall When any of them happen to come about a Ship they seldom leave her for they will feed on such filth as is daily thrown overboard or on meer excrements When it is fair weather and but little wind they will play about the Ship but in blustring weather or when the Ship sails quick they commonly fasten themselves to the Ships bottom from whence neither the Ships motion though never so swift nor the most tempestuous Sea can remove them They will likewise fasten themselves to any other bigger Fish for they never swim fast themselves if they meet with any thing to carry them I have found them sticking to a Shark after it was hal'd in on the deck though a Shark is so strong and boisterous a Fish and throws about him so vehemently for half an hour together it may be when caught that did not the Sucking-fish stick at no ordinary rate it must needs be cast off by so much violence It is usual also to see them sticking to Turtle to any old Trees Planks or the like that lye driving at Sea Any knobs or inqualities at a Ships bottom are a great hinderance to the swiftness of its sailing and 10 or 12 of these sticking to it must needs retard it as much in a manner as if its bottom were foul So that I am inclined to think that this Fish is the Remora of which

without any Tree only some Dildo-bushes growing on them and I do believe there is no Water on any one of them for there was no appearance of any Water The two Northernmost we could not come near but the Southermost we came close by but could not strike ground till within two Cables length of the shore and there found it to be foul rocky ground From the time that we were in 10 degrees South till we came to these Islands we had the Wind between E. N. E. and the N. N. E. fair weather and a brisk gale The day that we made these Islands we saw great sholes of small Lobsters which coloured the Sea Red in spots for a mile in compass and we drew some of them out of the Sea in our Water-Buckets They were no bigger than the top of a Mans little finger yet all their Claws both great and small like a Lobster I never saw any of this sort of Fish naturally red but here for ours on the English Coast which are black naturally are not red till they are boil'd neither did I ever any where else meet with any Fish of the Lobster shape so small as these unless it may be Shrimps or Prawns Captain Swan and Captain Eaton met also with shoals of this Fish in much the same Latitude and Longitude Leaving therefore the Sible de Ward Islands as having neither good Anchorage nor Water we sailed on directing our course for the Streights of Magellan But the Winds hanging in the westerbord and blowing hard oft put us by our Topsails so that we could not fetch it The 6th day of February we fell in with the Streights Le Mair which is very high Land on both sides and the Streights very narrow We had the Wind at N. N. W. a fresh gale and seeing the opening of the Streights we ran in with it till within four mile of the mouth and then it fell calm and we found a strong tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward and like to founder our Ship but whether flood or ebb I know not only it made such a short cockling Sea as if we had been in a race or place where two tides meet For it ran every way sometimes breaking in over our Waste sometimes over our Poop sometimes over our Bow and the Ship tossed like an Egg-shell so that I never felt such uncertain jerks in a Ship At 8 a clock in the evening we had a small Breez at W. N. W. and steered away to the Eastward intending to go round the States Island the East end of which we reached the next day by noon having a fresh breez all night The 7th day at noon being off the East End of States Island I had a good observation of the Sun and found my self in lat 54 deg 52 min. South At the East end of States Island are three small Islands or rather Rocks pretty high and white with the Dung of Fowls Wherefore having observed the Sun we haled up South designing to pass round to the Southward of Cape Horne which is the Southermost Land of Terra del Fuego The Winds hung in the western quarter betwixt the N. W. and the West so that we could not get much to the Westward and we never saw Terra del Fuego after that evening that we made the Streight Le Mair I have heard that there have been Smokes and Fires on Terra del Fuego not on the tops of Hills but in Plains and Valleys seen by those who have sailed through the Streights of Magellan supposed to be made by the Natives We did not see the Sun at rising or setting in order to take an amplitude after we left the Sibble de Wards till we got into the South Seas therefore I know not whether the variation increased any more or no. Indeed I had an observation of the Sun at noon in lat 59 deg 30 min. and we were then standing to the Southward with the Wind at W. by N. and that night the Wind came about more to the Southward of the West and we tackt I was then in lat 60 by reckning which was the farthest South latitude that ever I was in The 14th day of February being in lat 57. and to the West of Cape Horne we had a violent Storm which held us till the third day of March blowing commonly at S. W. and S. W. by W. and W. S. W. thick weather all the time with small drizling Rain but not hard We made a shift however to save 23 Barrels of Rain-water besides what we drest our Victuals withal March the third the Wind shifted at once and came about at South blowing a fierce gale of Wind soon after it came about to the Eastward and we stood into the South Seas The 9th day having an observation of the Sun not having seen it of late we found ourselves in lat 47 d. 10 m. and the variation to be but 15 d. 30 m. East The Wind stood at S. E. we had fair weather and a moderate gale and the 17th day we were in lat 36 by observation and then found the variation to be but 8 degrees East The 19th day when we looked out in the morning we saw a Ship to the Southward of us coming with all the Sail she could make after us we lay muzled to let her come up with us for we supposed her to be a Spanish Ship come from Baldivia bound to Lima we being now to the Northward of Baldivia and this being the time of the year when Ships that trade thence to Baldivia return home They had the same opinion of us and therefore made sure to take us but coming nearer we both found our mistakes This proved to be one Captain Eaton in a Ship sent purposely from London for the South Seas We hailed each other and the Captain came on board and told us of his actions on the Coast of Brazil and in the River of Plate He met Captain Swan one that came from England to trade here at the East Entrance into the Streights of Magellan and they accompanied each other through the Streights and were separated after they were through by the Storm before mentioned Both we and Captain Eaton being bound for John Fernando's Isle we kept company and we spared him Bread and Beef and he spared us Water which he took in as he passed through the Streights March the 22d 1684. we came in sight of the Island and the next day got in and anchored in a Bay at the South end of the Island in 25 fathom water not two Cables lengths from the shore We presently got out our Canoa and went ashore to see for a Moskito Indian whom we left here when we were chaced hence by three Spanish Ships in the year 1681. a little before we went to Arica Captain Watlin being then our Commander after Captain Sharp was turned out This Indian lived here alone above 3 years and altho he was several

which we did set here also our old one being very faulty They made a new Fore-Yard too and a Fore Top-Mast and our Pumps being faulty and not serviceable they did cut a Tree to make a Pump They first squared it then sawed it in the middle and then hollowed each side exactly The two hollow sides were made big enough to contain a Pump-box in the midst of them both when they were joyned together and it required their utmost skill to close them exactly to the making a tight Cylinder for the Pump-box being unaccustomed to such work We learnt this way of Pump-making from the Spaniards who make their Pumps that they use in their Ships in the South Seas after this manner and I am confident that there are no better Hand-pumps in the world than they have While we lay here the young Prince that I mentioned in Chapter the 13th came aboard He understanding that we were bound farther to the Southward desired us to transport him and his Men to his own Island He shewed it to us in our Draft and told us the Name of it which we put down in our Draft for it was not named there but I quite forgot to put it into my Journal This Man told us that not above 6 days before this he saw Captain Swan and several of his Men that we left there and named the Names of some of them who he said were all well and that now they were at the City of Mindanao but that they had been all of them out with Raja Laut fighting under him in his Wars against his Enemies the Alfoores and that most of them fought with undaunted Courage for which they were highly honored and esteemed as well by the Sultan as by the General Raja Laut That now Captain Swan intended to go with his Men to Fort St. George and that in order thereto he had proffered 40 ounces of Gold for a Ship but the Owner and he were not yet agreed and that he feared that the Sultan would not let go away till the Wars were ended All this the Prince told us in the Malayan tongue which many of us had learnt and when he went away he promised to return to us again in 3 days time and so long Captain Reed promised to stay for him for we had now almost finished our business and he seem'd very glad of the opportunity of going with us After this I endeavoured to perswade our Men to return with the Ship to the River of Mandanao and offer their service again to Captain Swan I took an opportunity when they were filling of Water there being then half the Ships Company ashore and I found these all very willing to do it I desired them to say nothing till I had tried the minds of the other half which I intended to do the next day it being their turn to fill Water then but one of these Men who seemed most forward to invite back Captain Swan told Captain Read and Captain Teat of the project and they presently disswaded the Men from any such designs Yet fearing the worst they made all possible haste to be gone I have since been informed that Captain Swan and his Men stayed there a great while afterward and that many of the Men got passage from thence in Dutch Sloops to Ternate particularly Mr. Rofy and Mr. Nelly There they remained a great while and at last got to Batavia where the Dutch took their Journals from them and so to Europe and that some of Captain Swan's Men died at Mindanao of which number Mr. Harthope and Mr. Smith Captain Swan's Merchants were two At last Captain Swan and his Surgeon going in a small Canoa aboard of a Dutch Ship then in the Road in order to get passage to Europe were overset by the Natives at the Mouth of the River who waited their coming purposely to do it but unsuspected by them where they both were kill'd in the Water This was done by the General 's Order as some think to get his Gold which he did immediately seize on Others say it was because the General 's House was burnt a little before and Captain Swan was suspected to be the Author of it and others say that it was Captain Swan's Threats occasioned his own Ruine for he would often say passionately that he had been abused by the General and that he would have satisfaction for it saying also that now he was well acquainted with their Rivers and knew how to come in at any time that he also knew their manner of fighting and the Weakness of their Country and therefore he wou'd go away and get a Band of Men to assist him and returning thither again he would spoil and take all that they had and their Country too When the General has been informed of these discourses he would say What is Captain Swan made of Iron and able to resist a whole Kingdom Or does he think that we are afraid of him that he speaks thus Yet did he never touch him till now the Mindanayans kill'd him It is very probable there might be somewhat of truth in all of this for the Captain was passionate and the General greedy of Gold But whatever was the occasion so he was kill'd as several have assured me and his Gold seiz'd on and all his things and his Journal also from England as far as Cape Corrientes on the Coast of Mexico This Journal was afterwards sent away from thence by Mr. Moody who was there both a little before and a little after the Murder and he sent it to England by Mr. Goddard Chief Mate of the Defence But to our purpose seeing I could not perswade them to go to Captain Swan again I had a great desire to have had the Prince's company but Captain Read was afraid to let his fickle crew lye long That very day that the Prince had promised to return to us which was November 2. 1687. we sailed hence directing our course South West and having the Wind at N. W. This Wind continued till we came in sight of the Island Celebes then it veered about to the W. and to the Southward of the West We came up with the N. E. end of the Island Celebes the 9th day and there we found the current setting to the Westward so strongly that we could hardly get on the East side of that Island The Island Celebes is a very large Island extended in length from North to South about 7 degrees of lat and in breadth it is about 3 degrees It lies under the Equator the North end being in lat 1 d. 30 m. North and the South end in lat 5 d. 30 m. South and by common account the North point in the bulk of this Island lies nearest North and South but at the North East end there runs out a long narrow point stretching N. E. about 30 leagues and about 30 leagues to the Eastward of this long Slipe is the Island Gilolo on the West

So he gave over that design and some English Ships coming into Achin Road he was not afraid of the Siamers who lay there After this he again invited me to his House at Achin and treated me always with Wine and good Cheer and still importuned me to go with him to Persia but I being very weak and fearing the Westerly Winds would create a great deal of trouble did not give him a positive answer especially because I thought I might get a better Voyage in the English Ships newly arrived or some others now expected here It was this Captain Bowry who sent the Letter from Borneo directed to the Chief of the English Factory at Mindanao of which mention is made in Chapter the XIII A short time after this Captain Welden arrived here from Fort St. George in a Ship called the Curtana bound to Tonqueen This being a more agreeable Voyage than to Persia at this time of the year besides that the Ship was better accommodated especially with a Surgeon and I being still sick I therefore chose rather to serve Captain Welden than Captain Bowry But to go on with a particular account of that Expedition were to carry my Reader back again whom having brought thus far towards England in my Circum-Navigation of the Globe I shall not now weary him with new Rambles nor so much swell this Volume as I must to describe the Tour I made in those remote parts of the East Indies from and to Sumatra So that my Voyage to Tonqueen at this time as also another to Malacca afterwards with my Observations in them and the Descriptions of those and the Neighbouring Countries as well as the Description of the Island Sumatra it self and therein the Kingdom and City of Aehin Bencouli c. I shall refer to another place where I may give a particular relation of them In short it may suffice that I set out to Tonqueen with Captain Welden about July 1688 and returned to Achin in the April following I staid here till the latter end of September 1689. and making a short Voyage to Malacca came thither again about Christmas Soon after that I went to Fort St. George and staying there about 5 months I return'd once more to Sumatra not to Achin but Bencouli an English Factory on the West Coast of which I was Gunner about 5 months more So that having brought my Reader to Sumatra without carrying him back I shall bring him on next way from thence to England And of all that occurr'd between my first setting out from this Island in 1688 and my final departure from it at the beginning of the year 1691 I shall only take notice at present of two passages which I think I ought not to omit The first is that at my Return from Malacca a little before Christmas 1689 I found at Achin one Mr. Morgan who was one of our Ships Crew that left me ashore at Nicobar now Mate of a Danish Ship of Trangambar which is a Town on the Coast of Coromandel near Cape Comorin belonging to the Danes And receiving an account of our Crew from him and others I thought it might not be amiss to gratifie the Readers Curiosity therewith who would probably be desirous to know the success of those Ramblers in their new intended Expedition towards the Red Sea and withal I thought it might not be unlikely that these Papers may fall into the hands of some of our London Merchants who were concern'd in fitting out that Ship which I said formerly was called the Cygnet of London sent on a Trading Voyage into the South Seas under the Command of Captain Swan and that they might be willing to have a particular Information of the fate of their Ship And by the way even before this meeting with Mr. Morgan while I was at Tonqueen January 1689 I met with an English Ship in the River of Tonqueen called the Rainbow of London Captain Poole Commander by whose Mate Mr. Barlow who was returning in that Ship to England I sent a Pacquet which he undertook to deliver to the Merchants Owners of the Cygnet some of which he said he knew wherein I gave a particular account of all the Course and Transactions of their Ship from the time of my first meeting it in the South Seas and going aboard it there to its leaving me ashore at Nicobar But I never could hear that either that or other Letters which I sent at the same time were received To proceed therefore with Morgan's Relation He told me that when they in the Cygnet went away from Nicobar in pursuit of their intended Voyage to Persia they directed their course towards Ceylon But not being able to weather it the Westerly Monsoon bearing hard against them they were obliged to seek refreshment on the Coast of Coromandel Here this mad fickle crew were upon new projects again Their designs meeting with such delays and obstructions they many of them grew weary of it and about half of them went ashore Of this number Mr. Morgan who told me this and Mr. Herman Coppinger the Surgeon went to the Danes at Trangambar who kindly received them There they lived very well and Mr. Morgan was employed as a Mate in a Ship of theirs at this time to Achin and Captain Knox tells me that he since Commanded the Curtana the Ship that I went in to Tonqueen which Captain Welden having sold to the Mogul's Subjects they employed Mr. Morgan as Captain to trade in her for them and it is an usual thing for the trading Indians to hire Europeans to go Officers on board their Ships especially Captains and Gunners About two or three more of these that were set ashore went to Fort St. George but the main body of them were for going into the Mogul's Service Our Seamen are apt to have great notions of I know not what profit and advantages to be had in serving the Mogul nor do they want for fine storiesto encourage one another to it It was what these men had long been thinking and talking of as a fine thing but now they went upon it in good earnest The place where they went ashore was at a Town of the Moors which name our Seamen give to all the Subjects of the great Mogul but especially his Mahometan Subjects calling the Idolaters Gentous or Rashbouts At this Moors Town they got a Peun to be their Guide to the Mogul's nearest Camp for he hath always several Armies in his vast Empire These Peuns are some of the Gentous or Rashbouts who in all places along the Coast especially in Sea-port Towns make it their business to hire themselves to wait upon strangers be they Merchants Seamen or what they will To qualify them for such attendance they learn the European Languages English Dutch French Portuguese c. according as they have any of the Factories of these Nations in their Neighbourhood or are visited by their Ships No sooner doth any such Ship come to an Anchor and