Chap. II, from thehos James L to the Revolution.
1604. Bantam, senate and Tydore from givingsp e ltt r „ S / rom them a favorable Reception,, and fend
1604,
severalKings toK. James.
One of tieBlips lost.
ing back very obliging Letters to KingJames, of which fee Copies in Harrisand Purcbas, as above.
The He si or and Susan, having gottheir Lading of Pepper left Bantam,tho’ their two Masters and several oftheir Men were dead, and they wereobliged to take many of their Men lickon Board, and set Sail, towards the lat-ter End of February or the Beginning ofMarch, 1604. homewards: And, inOtlober, the Admiral, with the AJcen-fion, followed. About the Cape ofGood Hope, they met the He st or, in a di-stressed Condition, with all her Mendead but ten, and having lost the Susanthree Months before, which was never„ more heard of. TheAdmiral, with the
turn. 6 rB r\ see rema -ining Ships, arrived in the-Uowns the sixth o f May 1606.
Bullying and
Harris’s Col.
V. I- p- 55-Purchas,Vol. I. p.132 , andVol. III. p.55 6 -
Davis ’5 Vo-yage to tieEaft-Indies.
Da vis’s Voyage to the East-lndies.
W e have. likewise, in Harris andPurchas, the Voyage of John Davis, anEnglishman, undertaken this Year, tothe Eajl-Indies . This John Davis wasa skilful Pilot, and as such went a Voy-age in 1598. with the Dutch to the Eajl-Indies, of which Voyage we have like-wise an Account in Harris .
This Voyage, on which he set Sail,
ward Michelbourn, having heard thisReport, was so moved, that he weighedAnchor, and sent the Hollanders Wordhe would come and ride close by theirSides, and defied the proudest of themall to put out a Piece of Ordnance againstthem; And withal, sent them Word, ifthey did go about, either to brave or todisgrace him,, or his Country-men, hewould either link them, or sink himselfby their Sides. Of these HollandersHcJwardkethere were five Ships, one of seven or of t&eDutch.eight Hundred- Tuns, but the Restwere of a much smaller Burden, Tothis Message, the Dutch did not thinkfit to make any Answer ; But as muchas they blustered and bullied before,they were now as quiet as Lambs, andhardly appeared out of their Ships, aslong as the Englijh remained there.
On the seven and twentieth of De-cember, being oss of Pan-Hatige, aCountry lying between Patane and J or,they met a Junck full of Japonese, whohad been Pyrating along the Coast ofChina and Cambaia, but, having losttheir Ship, were making the best oftheir Way Home to Japan , in thisVessel. They were about ninety inNumber, and had all the Appearanceof Persons of some Distinction, theirPilot only excepted. There past at firstsome Civilities between them, and theyvisited and made Presents one to the ci-ther : But six and twenty of the Tyger’s.
the fifth of December, from Cowes, in the Men being on board the Junck, search-
T n r* ttt. .. _ w . _ . r* - i*it /v
Khey arriveat Bantam.
Isle of Wight, in the Tyger, of twoHundred and forty Tuns, and a Pinnace,called the Eygerls Whelp, was with, andin Service of, Sir Edward Michelbourn.
I shall give no Account of the formerPart of this Voyage as containing nothingremarkable.
The eight and twentieth of November, fought with1605. they came within three Leaguesof Bantam, where they anchored allNight, and thought to have seen theEnglijh Fleet there; But it was gonefor England three Weeks before. TheCompany’s Factors came, however, onBoard, and told them, that the Compa-ny of the Dutch Ships, that were in theRoad, had represented them to theKing of Bantam, as Thieves, and Va-gabonds, and such as came for nothingbut to deceive them, or use such Vio-lence, as Time would give them an Op-portunity of Executing ; And that theEnglijh durst not come into the Roadamong them, but kept two or three
Leagues off, for Fear of them. Sir sid-
ing among their Rice for hidden Conmmodifies, of a greater Value, the Japo- jidespemte,nefe, who had before concerted their Fight with,Design, set upon them, flew the great-er Part of them, and drove the Rest o-ver Board. At the sameTime, they setupon the Ship like so many Furies, andan incredible Fierceness.
After some Time, the Englijh forcedthem to retire from the half Deck, downinto the Cabbin, where they defendedthemselves with great Obstinacy, forfour or five Hours setting at last the Cab-bin on Fire, and fighting with theFlames about their Ears. The Englijh,seing their desperate Design, of Burningthemselves, with the Ship, planted aCouple of Great Guns, charged withCross-bars, Bullets and Cafeffhot, a-gainst the Cabbin and fired in upon _ rrthem. These Guns did such Execution, ^
that of two and twenty only one escaped, Vittory ,.the Rest being torn and shattered toPieces. Thus they freed themselvesfrom this imminent Danger, but with
the