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and the twenty Spaniards were all conducted toward 

 Marocco with nine hundred souldiers, horsemen and 

 fotmen, and in two dayes journey we came to the river 

 of Fez, where we lodged all night, being provided of 

 tents. The next day we went to a towne called Salle, 

 and lay without the towne in tents. From thence we 

 travelled almost an hundred miles without finding any 

 towne, but every night we came to fresh water, which 

 was partly running water and sometime raine water. 

 So we came at last within three miles of the city of 

 Marocco, where we pitched our tents : and there we 

 mette with a carrier which did travell in the countrey 

 for the English marchants : and by him we sent word 

 unto them of our estate : and they returned the next 

 day unto us a Moore, which brought us victuals, being 

 at that instant very feeble and hungry; and withall 

 sent us a letter with pen, inke, and paper, willing us 

 [II. ii 203.] to write unto them what ship it was that was cast 

 away, and how many and what men there were alive. 

 For said they we would knowe with speed, for to 

 morow is the kings court: and therefore we would 

 know, for that you should come into the citie like 

 captives. But for all that we were carried in as captives 

 and with ropes about our neckes as well English as 

 the French and Spaniards. And so we were carried 

 before the king : and when we came before him he did 

 commit us all to ward, where wee lay 15 dayes in close 

 prison : and in the end we were cleared by the English 

 Marchants to their great charges : for our deliverance 

 cost them 700 ounces, every ounce in that country con- 

 tayning two shillings. And when we came out of prison 

 we went to the Alfandica, where we continued eight 

 weekes with the English marchants. At the end of which 

 time being well apparelled by the bountie of our mar- 

 chants we were conveyed downe by the space of eight 

 dayes journey to S. Cruz, where the English ships road : 

 where we tooke shipping about the 20 of March, two in 

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