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fo we went in there and prefently unrigged our {hip, and provided to hale our flnp-afhore to clean her bottom. Thefe iflands are about three or four leagues from theifland Mindanao ; they are about four or five leagues in circumference, and of a prettygood heighth. The mould is black and deep, and there are two finall brooks offrefh water.
1 hey are both plentifully ftored with great high trees, and therefore our carpenterswere fent afhore to cut down fome of them for our ufe; for here they made a newboltfprit, which we did fet here alfo, our old one being very faulty. They made a newfore-yard too and a foretop-maft : and our pumps being faulty and not ferviceable, theydid cut a tree to make a pump : they firft fquared it, then fawed it in the middle, andthen hollowed each fide exactly. The two hollow Tides were made big enough tocontain a pump-box in the midlt of them both when they were joined together ; and itrequired their utmoft {kill to clofe them exactly to the making a tight cylinder for theputnp-box, being unaccuflomed to fuch work. We learned this way of pump-making,from the Spaniards; who make their pumps that they ufe in their {hips in the SouthSeas after this manner ; and I am confident that there are no better hand pumps inthe world than they have.
While we lay here, the young Prince that I mentioned before came on board.He underftanding that we were bound farther to the fouthward, defired us to tranfporthim and his men to his own ifland. He {hewed it to us in our draft, and told us thename of it, which we put down in our draft, for it was not named there; but I quiteforgot to put it into my journal.
ihis man told us, that not above fix days before this, he faw Captain Swan and fe-veral of his men that we left there, and named the names of fome of them, who helaid were all well, and that now they were at the city of Mindanao ; but that they hadall of them been out with Raja Laut, fighting under him in his wars againft his ene-mies the Alfoores ; and that molt of them fought with undaunted courage ; for whichthey were highly honoured and efteemed, as well by the Sultan as by the general RajaLaut. That now Captain Swan intended to go with his men to Fort St. George, andthat m order thereto, he had proffered forty ounces of gold for a {hip ; but the ownerand he were not yet agreed ; and that he feared the Sultan would not let him goaway till the wars were ended.
Prince told us in the Malayan tongue, which many of us had learned;
< n w en he went away he promifed to return to us again in three days time, ando ong Captain Read promifed to flay for him (for we had now almoft finilhed our
U Aft * tR 11 t ^ eemet ^ vei T gtad °f the opportunity_of going with us.
er is I endeavoured to perfuade our men to return with the fhip to the river ofi-hl n anao ’°®~ r their fervice again to Captain Swan. I took an opportunity whenr ^ i™, 1 ! 6 , in § water, there being then half the (hip’s company afhore; and Ia ( 6 e y er y willing to do it. I defired them to fay nothing till I had tried the
w . S t-t, * 6 ° t ^ ler which I intended to do the next day, it being their turn to fill
Swan t ut - OI1 fi ^efe men, who feemed molt forward to invite back Captain
the rnen°f ^ a P tain P- ea d and Captain Teat of the project, and they prefently diffuadedbe gone r ° m ^ U< ”^ ^ e % ns * Yet fearing the word,., they made all poflible hafteto
while'afm/' 1110 ^ ^ een , informed, that Captain Swan and his men flayed’ there a greattoTpmaf 0 War •’ ? , t ^ lat: man y of the men got pa{fages from thence in Dutch {loopsj particularly Mr, Rofy, and Mr. Nelly. There they remained a great while,
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