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and twenty. The Ten who continuM in llieir Ik'solution to 

 the last were : 



Paul Be — It,^ twenty Years old, a jMereliant's son of 



Mdz. 

 Jacques dc la Case, thirty Years old, a Mercliant's Son of 



Nerae, who had been an Ollieer in the Elector of 



JJrandenhimjh's Army. 

 Jean Testard, a Drng^ist, twenty-six Years old, a I^Ier- 



chant's Son of *SV. Qnintiii in Ficardij. 

 Isaac Buyer, a Merchant, about twenty-seven Years old, 



Son of an Apothecary near Kerac. 

 Jean dc la Ilaije, a Silversmith of Uoan, twenty-three 



Years old. 

 Jacques Gv.vjuer, twenty Years old, a Merchant's Son of 



Lyuns. 

 Jean Fayni} thirty Years old, a Convert and i'atrician of 



Roan. 

 Robert Ansclln, eighteen Years old, a Miller's Son of 



Ficardi/. 

 Ficrrot, twelve Y'ears old, of Roan. 

 And Francis Leguat, Esq., above fifty Years of Age, of the 



Province of Burgundy, who was put over the rest. 



Tho' it cou'd not but be a very great Trouble to us to see 

 our selves depriv'd of fifteen of our Companions, when we 

 least expected it, and look'd on them as Persons destin'd to 

 tlie same Fortune as we were, who perhaps might be a Com- 

 fort and Help to us: Yet we cheerfully resign'd our selves 

 into the Hands of Providence, and parted from Amsterdam 

 the 10th of Jidy 1690. The 13th we arriv'd m Tcxel Ptoad, 

 where we lay till the fourth of SejUcrnher following. We 

 then set Sail, in company of 2'4 Ships, English and Butch. 

 We bent our Course Northward, by favour of an East South- 



1 Paul Bencllc (or Beinidk'. according to M. Muller). 



- Joan Pagui died iu April, 1G91, ou board, off Diego Ruj^s I. 



