s 6 James I. Naval Expeditious, &c of the Englilh.

CHAP. VI,

Sundry Voyages to the East-Indies, in the Tears, 1607 and 1608.

The third General Voyage for Account ofthe East-India Company.

1607.Harris'* Col.

P. I p. 7 6 .Purchas,/ 7 ^/.

/• p 188.

Keeling ’*

Voyage to the ln E’>

1 H E third Voyage, set forth bythe Eajl-India Company, was inthe Year 1607. under the Di-rection of Captain William Keel-as chief Commander. He had,Easlctndies. under him, about three Hundred andten Persons, in three Ships, the Dragon,the Hell or and the Consent. We havea long natural History and Descriptionof several Countries, in the Account ofthis Voyage in Purchas and Harris, andparticularly of Sierra Leona, in Africa-,But as it affords nothing to the Purposeof this History, I have only to observethat the Consent, being before departed,the other two Ships separated likewise,at Delisa, a Road in the North of Soco-tora, in the Arabian Sea; Captain Keel-The Dragon ing, in the Dragon, going for Bantam,and the Hec- and Captain Hawkins, in the HePtor,tor separate. £ or § ura y % The former, at their Ar-rival, found the Dutch had been before-hand with them, and had got two Ships<she Dragon I^den with Cloves, and two more readyarrives at to be laden with Pepper. They madeBantam : a Shift, however, to get their Ship lad-

en, and after having, during the Timeof their Stay there, experienced manyfresh Instances of the Treachery and In-to^Englmd. 1 gratitude of the Dutch, as well as inseveral other Places, during the Voy-age, they returned to England.

At SWcff, Captain Hawkins went onShoar, and having dispatched his Shipfor the Isles of Panda, travelled byLand to the Court of the Great Mogul,at Agra, to negociate the Company’sAffairs, for the Establishment of Trade,in sundry Parts of the Indies. And hereI shall leave him to return by anotherOpportunity.

The Hector The HePior being arrived at the Islesof Panda, they found the first Thingthey had to do was to regulate theCustom and Payments, which was Partin Mony, and Part in Merchandize.This done, they began to trade, butfound great Opposition from the Under-hand Dealings and Practices of the

arrives atthe Isles ofBanda.

Dutch. Among many others, I shallonly instance one or two Particulars.The Englijh made an Agreement withthe Natives of Puloway, for the Settle-ment of a Factory in that Island; Butthe Dutch, hearing of it, set themselvesto oppose and hinder it,with all the Artand Intriegue imaginable; Tho’ theycould not with all their Managementprevent their getting about thirteenHundred Weight of Mace, and nearhalf a Tun of Nutmegs.

The Englijh having, in the meanTime, an Account, that the Dutch de-sign'd to erect a Fort at Panda, andknowing what the Consequences of thatwould be, proposed to the chief Menof the Place, to make a formal Deliveryof it to them, in the Name, and for theUse of the King of England, beforethey began their Work. This Propo-sal they seemed to like very welh Butit was all Treachery and Deceit j Fortho’, according to the private Instructi-ons given them by the Dutch, they car-ried it with all the specious Pretences ofFriendship and Kindness in the World ;And pretended their Spice should rot onthe Trees, before they would let theDutch have an Ounce of it; Yet theywould never come to a Resolution onthat Point, and, by their Delays, plain-ly strewed they had some Under-handDealings with their secret Enemies, andgave them the Preference. Purchas in-deed, fays, they did actually sign aWriting to deal with the Englijh ; But,if they did, they soon broke it: Andthey paid dearly for it afterwards, whenthe Dutch, having compleated theirFort, treated them, as well as the Eng-lijh, with all the Rudeness and Insolenceimaginable.

The Bandanefe, finding they hadbeen trick’d, resolved to be revenged,and soon gave a notable Instance of theirResentment j For having cunninglydrawn the DrffWAdmiral, with thechief of his Followers, and Council, in-to a convenient Place, they put themevery one to the Sword. They after-wards formed a Plot to cut them all off,

and

1607.

Under-haAPraBices ofthe Dutch.

Treachery of ;the Natives';

Kindness ofthe Englishto the Dutch-