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 his men to strip us out of our apparell even to our 

 shirts to see what money and jewels we had about us : 

 which when they had found to the value of some 200 

 pounds in golde and pearles they gave us some of our 

 apparel againe, and bread and water onely to comfort 

 us. The next morning they carried us downe to the 

 shore where our shippe was cast away, which was some 

 sixteene miles from that place. In which journey they 

 used us like their slaves, making us (being extreame 

 weake,) to carry their stuffe, and offering to beat us 

 if we went not so fast as they. We asked them why 

 they used us so, and they replied, that we were their 

 captives : we sayd we were their friends, and that there 

 was never Englishman captive to the king of Marocco. 

 So we came downe to the ship, and lay there with 

 them seven dayes, while they had gotten all the goods 

 they could, and then they parted it amongst them. 

 After the end of these seven dayes the captaine ap- 

 pointed twenty of his men wel armed, to bring us up 

 into ye countrey : and the first night we came to the 

 side of a river called Alarach, where we lay on the 

 grasse all that night : so the next day we went over 

 the river in a frigate of nine oares on a side, the river 

 being in that place above a quarter of a mile broad : 

 and that day we went to a towne of thirty houses, 

 called Totteon : there we lay foure dayes having nothing 

 to feed on but bread and water; and then we went to 

 a towne called Cassuri, and there we were delivered by 

 those twenty souldiers unto the Alcaide, which examined 

 us what we were : and we tolde him. He gave us a 

 goode answere, and sent us to the Jewes house, where 

 we lay seven dayes. In the meane while that we lay 

 here, there were brought thither twenty Spaniards and 

 twenty Frenchmen, which Spaniards were taken in a 

 conflict on land, but the Frenchmen were by foule 

 weather cast on land within the Straights about Cape 

 de Gate, and so made captives. Thus at the seven 

 dayes end we twelve Englishmen, the twelve French, 



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