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the whole Ship as to themfelves. For they made great Buckets of the Skins, 



four 



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Skins to a Bucket, which being let down from the Mails with Pullies, 

 ou ah certain great Holes which were cut in the Deck/ drew up a vaft quan- 

 Ul of Water. The fame day the violence of the Tempelt continuing, there 

 HJ three Thunderbolts into the Ship. The firft fell upon the Boltiprk, and 

 Sit it Qtatc in two j and running along upon the Deck kill'd three men. The 

 fecond fell two hours after, and kill'd" two men, mooting along as the other 

 did from Head to Stern. The third follow'd pTefently after, the Mafter, the 

 MgftcrS M^te,and my felf ftanding together near the main Mask, At what time the 

 0,0k coming to ask 'the Matter whether he mould take up the Victuals^ the Thun- 

 derbolt took> nim m ^ ie lowcr part of his Belly, made a little hole,and took off 

 all the Hair as clean as they drefs a Pig with hot water and Rofin, without doing 

 him any more harm. Only when they came to anoint the little hole with Oil 

 f Coc^s. he roar'd out through the (harpnefs of the pain which he endur'd. 

 The twenty- fourth of fwte in the morning, we difcover'd Land ; and ma- 

 ting toward it, we found our (elves before Ponte de. Guile, the firft Town in the 

 Illand of CcjLw, which the Hollanders had taken from the Portugals. From 

 thence to the Road of Mafjpatan we had very good weather ; where we ar- 

 r jv'd the fecond of Jul/, an hour or two after Sun-fet. There I went afhore, 

 and was molt civilly treated by the Dutch Prefident, and Merchants* as alfo by 



the EngHJh. 



The eighteenth awl nineteenth of JW, the Sieur Dh far din and I, bought us 

 tm?*U*k?*, and fa ° xen t0 carr Y our felves, our Servants, and our Luggage. 

 Our dciign was to have gone direftly to Colconda, there to have fold the King 

 a parcel of long Pearls, the.leait whereof weigh'd thirty-four Carats, and the 

 biggeft thirty-five; with fome other Jewels,the moft part whereof were Emraulds. 

 gat the Hollanders alluring us, that our journey would be to no purpofe^ in 

 regard the King would buy nothing that was rare, or of a high price, till Mir- 

 ^mla, his General and prime Minifter of State, had view'd the Commodity; 

 undc-ritanding therefore, that he was then at the Siege of Gandicot, in the Pro- 

 vince of Garnatsca, we refolv'd to go thither to him. 



chap, tviir. 



The Road from Maflipatan to Gandicot, a City and Gam{on in the 

 Troi'ince of Carnatica. And of the dealings which the Author 

 had with Mirgimola , wto commanded the King of GolcondaV 



Army. With a dijeourfe at large concerning Elqhants. 



U7E fet forth from Mafiipatan the twentieth of fune , about five of the 

 " Clock in the Evening. 



The next day, being the one and twentieth, we traveiPd three Leagues, and 

 lay at a Village call'd Nilmol. 



The two and. twentieth, we traveled fix Leagues, to Wouhir, another Village ; 

 eroding the River upon a floating Bridge, before we came thither. 



The three and twentieth, after we had travePd fix hours, we came to Fate- 

 met, a pitiful Village, where we were conftrain'd to lye three days by rea- 

 ion of the Rains. . 



The twenty-feventti, we came to a great Town, call'd Bezouart j not being 

 able to travel above a League and a half, becaufe the Road was all overflow d. 

 There we were fore'd to ftay four days, for the Rains had fo fwelTd the Ri- 

 ver which we were to crofs, that the 'Ferryman could not govern his Boat a- 

 gaioft the violence of the Stream. There we alfo. left the Horfes which the 

 King oi Pcrfa lent tothc King of Golcouda> 9 which by that time were redue'd to 



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