Chap. VI. from the I, os James I, to the Revolution,

1607. had executed it, had not the Eng-lish taken the Snake into their Bosoms,and interposed, on their Behalf; Forwhich they used them Snake-like assoon as they had recovered their Strengthpi requited. anc ^ Vigour, and put themselves notonly in a defensive but an offensivePosture. These Tumults were in theMonth of May, 1609. And the verynext Month they begun to lay manyunreasonable Restraints upon the Tradeof the English, which they were forcedto submit to, being but sixty-two againstTheir info- above a Thousand of them.knee. In July, they carried their Insolence

so far, that they sent the English an Or-der, signed by the Vice-Admiral, andthe Residue of the Council, to depart infive Days. They were obliged to com-pound with them for a longer Stay, andto go away at last before they had cora-pleated their Loading.

efialZZlat thence they sailed to Bantam,

Bantam. where they took in three Thousand, fourHundred and eighty-one Bags of Pep-per, (Purchas makes the Quantity lar-ger) and having established a Factorythere in May , 1710. returned, withoutthe Loss of one single Man.

and positive Orders for them to re- 1607.move.

Having left the Moluccas , they foughtfor Business elsewhere, and, to that streightsofEnd, entered the Streights of Bangaya, Bangaya.the twenty-third of that Month. Theyfound the People thereabouts veryfond of a Correspondence with them,and, By all the obliging Behaviour that ^ atcould be, they endeavoured to procureit. They received, in particular, greatCivilities from the King of Botun, who,after having visited them on Board, in-vited them to his chief Town, and senta Pilot to carry them up thither. Herehe renewed his Civilities, and some J a-van Vessels coming, in the mean Time, Their Trad?

into that Harbour, laden with Cloves , t ere 'they happily secured them for them-selves, and got their Ship compleatlyfilled with them.'

Their Business being finished here,they took their Leave of this courteousand just Prince, and returned to Ban^tarn, where they arrived the twenty-fecond of May, 1708. and, having end-ed their Trade there, departed, the fif-teenth of July, for England .

Captain Middletonh Voyage to the East-Indies, after he parted with the othertwo Ships .

Purchas, The Consent, a Vessel of one Hup-P0l.Lp.226. dred and fifteen Tuns, under the Com-P^/.f m and of Captain David Middleton, Bro-Captain ther to Sir Henry, which set out withMiddleton’i the other two Ships, being designed on

onsen t, a fosibrent Voyage, soon left them. She

after he left came into the Bay of Soldania, in July,

r ■ - —

Captain

Keeling,

Arrive atMe Bay ofsoldania,at Bantam,a sd at theMoluccas.

five Months before the other. Theywent from thence to Bantam, wherethey discharged their Loading of Leadand Iron, and took in other Goods pro-per for the Moluccas, whither they setSail on the sixth of December, and reach-ed them the Beginning of January,1608. They lay there ’till the Middleof March , and met with great Obstructi-The s - onS th^ir Trade from the Spaniards,ards obfifutj ^ho, after great Difficulties, permittedtheir Trade, st the Beginning of that Month, butcountermanded their Orders, in a fewDays after, and urged their Departure.

The Natives, who had more Kindnessfor them, continued, however, to drivea Trade with them secretly, in theNight, ’till about the Middle of theMonth, the Spaniards, sent their final

The fourth general Voyage for .Account

of the East-India-Comp a ny. Harris'i Col,

P. I. p. 96.

This fourth general Voyage to the The fourthEast-Indies, which was begun in the J™

Year 1608. proved unfortunate. The East-JMies..two Ships, which went on this Voyage,were the Ascension, and the Union, andthey set Sail on the fourteenth of Marchfrom JVoolwich, under the chief Com-mand of Captain Alexander Sharpey.

They kept Company to the Bay of Sol-dania, where they arrived, the thir-teenth of July, and lay till the five andtwentieth of September . Quickly aftertheir leaving this Place, the two Ships The mwere separated, and the Ascension bore separated,up with the Islands of Comora, betweenSt. Lawrence and the Main, where theKing of the Country was very kind tothem.

They fell in next with the Isle ofPemba, in six Degrees, S. Latitude,where they found the People so treache-rous, that they could not forbear callingthe Place Hell, on Account of it’s ma-licious barbarous and deceitful InhabFtants. At leaving this Place, theytook three Pangays, or Barks belong- ThreeMoo ^ing to the Moors of Melinda, and carri- M Barfs ofed all their principal Men, to the Num- Melinda

her tahn '