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They bad now the Liberty of theShoar, but to little Purpose ; For, bythe base Insinuation of the Jesuits, theyTrade. met with continual Disappointments andObstructions in their Trade, and wereobliged, at last, to leave the Place, andtake Capt. Hawkins and Capt. Sharpey,with the Rest of the Factory, and theirEffects on Board, without being allow-de the Time to gather in their Debts.■Are reveng- From thence, they went to Dabul,ed en the where they had something better Suc-Portuguese. cess, and as an Addition to it, had anOpportunity of being revenged on theP ortuguese , by taking one of theirShips,of three Hundred Tuns, laden withCocoes, Tin, Sugar, Racka-nuts, China-Diihes, Spices, Wax, Allom and Bast-Ropes; And a Frigate of sixty Tuns,laden with Rice and Tamarinds.

Retmnta After this, they returned to thetee ea. R?d Sea, where they arrived about thelatter End of March, 1612. and had anOpportunity of getting Satisfaction forthe Damages they had fustain’d at Mo-cha, by seizing seventeen Indian Ships,from fifteen Hundred to two HundredTake far - Tuns Burden, and some less, in thetier Satis- rich Loading of which the InhabitantsTurks Mocha were deeply concerned. TheBlfips and Goods, after they had beensufficiently plundered, were ransomedfor a considerable Sum, of which one

Ship alone paid fifteen Thousand Rialsof Eight.

From thence the Admiral went toBantam , where he dispatched the Dar-ling from Macassar, and other Places :But himself staying behind, to repairhis Admiral-stiip, died there, and lefther, and her Company in a poor Con-dition, notwithstanding all the Advan-tages they had made in this Voyage.

1010.

Hudson’j- fourth and las Voyage, fortheDifcovery of a North-West Passage.

On the seventeenth of Hpril, 1610. ?. u ^ cI P S ’Mr. Henry Hudson sailed from St. Ka- 59 °st’ ' P '

therine'’ s, on his fourth and last Voyage, Harris’i Col.for the Discovery of a North-IVeJt Pas- ^nd /zzsage. Of this Voyage, in which they ' Hudsonewere obliged to winter in that \ixPx\Qnd- finrthyifidly Climate, we have the longest Ac ~ la fi^'°y a se.count in Purchas. and Harris ; But as itis chiefly filled with the Differences be-tween Hudson and his Men, and an Ac-count of his being treacherously expo-sed by his Mate, Ivet , and others ofthe Ship’s Company, which cost him hisLife, I omit descending to Particulars;Especially as this Voyage affords no newDiscovery, only that he proceeded aHundred Leagues farther than any Manhad ever done before him, and gavenew Names to several Places.

Sundry Voyages to the North.

Next to this Voyage, we have, in Sundry Foy-Purchas and Harris, a short Account of oges 0} Edgeten several Voyages, between the Years1610 and 1622. of Captain Thomas Edge land.and others to Greenland, at the Chargeof the Mufcovy-Com^zny, which con-taining little more than an Account ofthe Number of Ships employed, withthe Times of their Setting-out and Re-turn, I shall not detain the Readerwith a Relation of them; exceptingwhere any Thing, particularly worthyof the Reader’s Notice, may requireit.

CHAP. IX.

Naval Expeditions and Transactions of the English, with other memorable

Events, of the fear, 1611.

j g The Expulsion of the French from

British l Emp. New England.

in America,

y°l- 1 - p-' * rip H E English having quitted NewHarris’s Col a England, as I have above ob-P. I.[p. 8 Sl ' served, the French presently

came and fixed within their Li-mits: But the Virginian Plantation, ta-

king Notice of this, and not liking 1611.their Neighbourhood (had there been The Frenchno other Reasons for their Removal)immediately dispatched Sir Samuel Afr- England :gall to displace them, which he per-formed with a great deal of Courage ar , e , ex ~and Dexterity. For having seizedForts they had built at Mount Manj’el,

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