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accompanied with mofl dreadful outcries and lamentations of the wounded on both 

 fides. However, the Turks durfl not attempt to board us ; whether it w^re that they 

 thought us better manned than really we were, or that they feared we would fet fire to 

 the Ihip, which we threatened we would, fhewing them a match ready for that purpofe. 

 They anfwered us in Dutch, that they would not part with us upon thofe terms ; yet 

 was it not long before we faw them make away from us, having received many fhots 

 through their fhips ; and we, with a brilk gale, made all the fail we could to be rid of 

 thefe unwelcome guefts, fleering a quite different courfe, which, with the advantage 

 of the darknefs of the night, brought us quite out of fight of them by next morning. 



We gave thanks to God for his having delivered us from the danger of flavery, and 

 crowning our endeavours with fuccefs againft an enemy much ftronger than us, the 

 biggefl of them carrying twenty-four guns, and the other two ; whereas we had no 

 more than eighteen, befides that they were much better manned than we. After 

 having taken a view of our Ihip, and found it found under water, we betook ourfelves 

 to repair the damage we had received during the fight ; but whilfl we were bufy in 

 this work, we were on the 7th furprifed by fo violent a fliorm, that we were forced to 

 take in all our fails. This put us to a great nonplus, but by good fortune the florm blew 

 foon over, when orders were given to give an allowance of three pounds and a half 

 of bifcuit per week to the feamen, all our other bread being become mufly by that 

 time. The i oth we found ourfelves under the thirty-ninth degree and thirty minutes, 

 about twenty leagues off of the Canary Iflands ; here we difcovered the pike of Teneriff, 

 being two leagues and a half high, and accounted the highefl mountain in the world. 

 It may be difcovered at fixty leagues diftance from the fhore. Thus we continued 

 our voyage till the 1 4th, without any memorable accident, when we paffed the tropic 

 of Cancer. About noon we were overtaken by another florm, which made us take in 

 mofl of our great fails, for fear of the worfl, but it lafled not long. 



This tradl of the fea is called by the Dutch, the Kroos Sea ; by the Portuguefe, Mar 

 del Aragaco (or Largaco, or Suargaco), i. e. the Sea of Ducks-meat, becaufe here- 

 abouts, viz. from the eighteenth to the thirtieth degree, or as fome will have it, from 

 the twentieth to the twenty-fecond and twenty-third degree of northern latitude, it is 

 found in great quantity, and carried along with the flream : its leaves are of a pale 

 green colour, like that of parrots, fmall, thin, and carved at the end. It bears berries 

 of the fame colour, about the bignefs of a pepper-corn, but are quite hollow, without 

 any feed within or tafle. It is fometimes fo clofely twifled together, that it flops a 

 (hip in its full courfe ; though we had the good fortune to pafs through it without 

 much difficulty, being then about four hundred leagues from the coafl of Afric, where 

 are no iflands nor anchorage. It may be pickled with fait and pepper, and ufed like 

 as we do capers, being accounted a good remedy againfl the gravel. It is generally 

 found without roots, having only a few thin fprouts, which, as it is fuppoled, take 

 root in the fandy grounds of the fea ; though others are of opinion, that it is carried by 

 the violence of the flream from the iflands into the fea. 



The 1 8th, one of our fhip's crew died, who was the next day thrown overboard, at 

 which time I obferved, what indeed I had heard often before, that the dead carcaffes 

 always float with their heads to the eafl at fea. 



The 2 2d we were overtaken by another terapefl, called Travado, which with horri- 

 ble thunder and lightning furprifes the fhips fo fuddenly, that they have fcarce leifure 

 to take in their fails, and fometimes returns three times in an hour. We catched here 

 abundance of fifh, fuch as Bonytes of ten feet long, and Korets, and a great lamprey, 

 which we had enough to do to bring aboard ; we only took out the brains, being 



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