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dollar for ten large fowls, and afterwards bought 

 fifteen more at the same price ; for a dollar we might 

 also have bought two mpnkies, or a whole cage of 

 rice-birds. The master of the sloop brought with 

 him two books, in one of which he desired that any 

 of our officers would write down the name of the ship 

 and its Commander, with that of the place from 

 which she sailed, and of the port to which she was 

 bound, with such other particulars relating to them- 

 selves, as they might think proper, for the inform- 

 ation of any of our friends that should come after us : 

 and in the other he entered the names of the ship and 

 the Commander, himself, in order to transmit them 

 to the Governor and Council of the Indies. We 

 perceived that in the first book many ships, particu- 

 larly Portuguese, had made entries of the same kind 

 with that for which it was presented to us. Mr. 

 Hicks, however, having written the name of the ship, 

 only added "from Europe." He took notice of this, 

 but said, that he was satisfied with any thing we 

 thought fit to write, it being intended merely for the 

 information of those who should inquire after us from 

 motives of friendship. 



Having made several attempts to sail with a wind 

 that would not stem the current, and as often come 

 to an anchor, a proa came alongside of us in the morn- 

 ing of the 5th, in which was a Dutch officer, who 

 sent me down a printed paper in English, duplicates 

 of which he had in other languages, particularly in 

 French and Dutch, all regularly signed, in the name 

 of the Governor and Council of the Indies, by their 

 secretary : it contained nine questions, very ill express- 

 ed in the following terms : 



"1. To what nation the ship belongs, and its 

 name ? 



" 2. If it comes from Europe, or any other place? 

 " 3. From what place it lastly departed from ? 

 " 4. Whereunto designed to go ? 



