1607.

Treacheryof theMoors.

Forty oftheir principal Menslain.

A Settle-ment at-tempted alAden.

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ber of fifty, on board their own Ship:But this Action had like to have costthem dear; For, tho’ the Moors hadsuffered themselves to be easily taken,it was, it seems, only in Order to takea severer Revenge afterward, and, asthey hoped, to betray the Ship. Theywatched their Opportunity, when theythought the English were the most un-guarded, and, at once, drawing theirlong Knives, fell upon them, and stab-bed their Minister, one of their Mer-chants, and two Mates, designing thesame Fate for the Rest; But the Englijhreturned the Complement so heartily,that of the fifty they flew forty, whoproved to be of the best Quality inMelinda, and many of them of theRoyal Blood : The other ten they puton Shoar to carry the News. Purchasfays only five or six of the Moors cameoff alive. It was now high Time forthem to leave the Place, and get outof those Seas, it being not consistentwith their Safety, after this Action, tostay any longer within the Reach ofPemba and Melinda ; or any otherPlace, that might pretend to a Con-cern in the Revenge of these MoorsDeath.

In the Month of Januarv, 1609.they fell in with a Cluster of pleasantfruitful Islands, but destitute of Inhabi-tants, for which Reason they calledthem the Desolate Islands. They wereabout thirteen in Number.

From thence they arrived, in April,

1609. at Aden, a Place under the So-vereignty of the Great Turk, and theKey which lets him into all the Trea-sures and Sweetnesses of Arabia Felix.Here they were civilly entertained bythe Bashaw, and left two Merchants tomake a Settlement there : They paid,however, pretty dear for this Permis-sion ; For, as they had no Patent fromthe Grand Signor, and the Freedom ofCommerce, which he allowed them,was, as he pretended, only by Conni-vence, inReturn for thatFavour, and this

other Civilities, he made bold to take 1607.what Cloth he pleased, from them, forhis own Use, which was no more, thanthe whole Parcel they had sent up tothe Place of his Residence.

They then set Sail for Mela, orMocha, a City on the Red Sea, and thegrand Staple for all the Indian Trade,where they likewise met with cour- pi e gypteous Usage. Their next Design was for AscensionCambaya, where their Ship was lost on on ls th rthe Shoals, about eighteenLeagues from Cambaya.the Shoar , by the Wilfulnefs of theCaptain, who would not be persuadedto take a Pilot, though forewarned ofthe Danger. The Men got on Land,and travelled to Surat, from whencethey got to England, by differentWays.

The Union, after foe was seperated Unionfrom the Ascension, and had weathered luusaf atout the Storm, refreshed at St. Law- Zanzibar :rence* s, and then made away for Zan-zibar, where they met with much thesame treacherous Usage as their Com-panions at Pemba: First kindly used,and then an Ambush laid to knock themon theHead. From thence, they sailedfor Madagascar , where they anchored Madagascar-fourteen Days, in the Bay ; But were,in that Time, exposed to great Dangersand Losses, by the Barbarity of the In-habitants.

From hence, they directed their Trade atCourse to Achen , where, after a consi- Achen op-derable Opposition from the Dutchsfsjs ^they made the King their Friend, and u cbegan a Trade with the Guzurats. Af-ter some Time spent here, they wentto Priaman, upon the same Ifland of Advanta-Sumatra, where they fell into a Trade ffp I hmnf .so fine and flourishing, that the Happi-ness of their Settlement there seemedto make Amends for their past Misfor-tunes. After having got in a good The UniostLading of Pepper here, they set Sail ^heTRe-for England ; But with ill Success, and turn.a Repetition of the former or worseDisasters.

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