too, (by Reaſon of this uncivil Uſage;) they put directly for the Iſlands, and arrived there in three Days: Where being informed by a Menchew they took (with the Governor of Canwars Paſs,) of there being no Anchor-Ground among them, and Melinda being the next convenient Iſland, they ſent their Boats on Shore, to ſee if there was any Water, and whether it was inhabited or not; who returned with an Anſwer to their Satiſfaction, viz. that there was abundance of good Water, and many Houſes, but deſerted by the Men, who had fled to the neighbouring Iſlands on the Approach of Ships, and left only the Women and Children to guard one another. The Women they forced in a Barbarous Manner to their Luſts, and to require them, deſtroyed their Cocoa Trees, and fired ſeveral of their Houſes and Churches. (I ſuppoſe built by the Portugueſe, who formerly uſed there, in their Voyages to India.)
While they were at this Iſland, they loſt three or four Anchors, by the Rockyneſs of the Ground, Freſhneſs of Winds, and at laſt were forced thence by a harder Gale than ordinary, leaving 70 People, Blacks and Whites, and moſt of their Water Casks: In ten Days they regained the Iſland again, filled their Water, and took the People on Board.
Proviſions were very ſcarce, and they now reſolved to viſit their good Friends the Dutch, at Cochin, who, if you will believe theſe Rogues, never fail of ſupplying Gentlemen of their Profeſſion. After three Days ſail, they arrived off Tellechery, and took a ſmall Veſſel belonging to Governor Adams, John Tawke Maſter, whom they brought on Board very drunk, and he giving an Account of Captain Mackra’s fitting out, put them in a Tempeſt of Paſſion: A Villain,
ſay they, that we have treated ſo civilly, as to give him a Ship and other Preſents, and now to be armed againſt us, he ought to be hanged;
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