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*[ ravels in India*
Part II.
I had fent them In order to my paflage heme; in regard that the
fident had offer’d: me a convenience to go along with him. Th (
/v » j Dutch Ships were as seed as the Ewhih, ai
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The Council
fident had offers me a convenience aiuu 6 ‘
fwer’d me that the Dutch Ships were as good as the Evgltjh, and very coijr-
teouflv afluV’d me, they would give order for a Cabin to my feif in the Vice-
Admiral. But withall they told me, I mull deliver up my Debentures before 1
ftirr d • affiiring me, that they would give me a Bill to be re-imbursM my Mo-
nev bv^he Company in Holland. I thought it very hard,for I knew not how
to trull 'em; but feeing the Merchants, Commanders, and all other perfons
riant ud and their Papers taken from them by force, that had bought De-
to trull 'em; but ieemg tne iviercnancs, v^aumianuci b, <mu ah umer perions
claotup and their Papers taken from them by force, that had bought De
bentures 5, I thought it the bell way to deliver mine, and Hand tl> their cour-
telie I often prefs’d the General and the Council for my Bill, but after ma
ny delays the General afeertain’d me, that my Bill fhould be in HoiUvd asfoon as
ri^rlncr fhpVire.-Admiral and fome others to be mv wknellknf
CHAP. XXVI.
The Author embarks in a Dutch Yejfel, to return into Europe.
T H E next day I went aboard the Vice admiral, and the third day after we
fet fail, and as foon as we were out of the Streight, we difeover’d the
Illands of the Prince. From thence being in the Altitude of the Coco lilands, we
beat about two days to difeover them *, but all to no purpofe,thereupon we
made diredtly for the Cafe of good Hofc.
The forty-fifth day after our departure from Batavia, our Vice-Admiral
negle&ed to put out his Lights; believing all the Fleet had been before at the
Cafe fo that it happen’d that one of the Fleet being behind, and not carry
ing any Lights out neither, it being a dark night, fell foul upon us, which put
every man to his prayers, all people believing the Veflel had been loft \ and
indeed had fhe not been a found itanch Ship (for the Provinces were fo ac
counted) ftie fhould never have endur’d fo terrible a fhock. At length we clear’d
our felves, by cutting of the Yards of the Maeftrkht, that hung in our Cor-
•dage. . - — M ' * "
The fifty-fifth we came within view of the Cafe of good Hofe', but were
forc’d to keep the Sea, becaufe the waves roll’d fb that we were not able to come
toan Anchor j not that the Wind was extream high, but becaufe the South-
wind had blown fo long that it had forc’d the Water to that part. When the
Sea grew calm, we came to an Anchor.
But of all the people that ever I faw in all my travels I never faw any fo
hideous nor fo bruitfh as the Comonkcj^ of which Iliad fpoken in my Per fan
Travels v and thofe of the Cafe of good Hofe, whom they call Cafes, ot Ho-
femotes. When they fpeak, they make anoife with their tongues, like the
breaking of wind backward; and though they hardly fpeak articulately, yet they
eafily.underflandone another. They cover themfelves with the Skins of wild
Bealls, .which they kill in the Woods; in Winter wearing the hairy part inner-
moll, and in Summer outermoll. But there are none but the heft fort among
them who are thus clad, the reft wear nothing but a nafty rag about their privy
parts. The men and the women are lean and Ihort} and when they bring forth
a Male-child, the Mothers cut out his right Stone; and prefently give nun
Water to drink,and Tobacco to eat. They cut out the right Tefticle, became,
fay they, it makes them fwifter to run. There are foroe of them that will catch a
Roe-Buck runnig. They neither know what belongs to Gold nor Silver; an
for Religion, they have none among them. f
So foon as we call Anchor, four women came aboard us, and brought us 0
young Qftriches} which were boil’d for fame lick people that we hau -