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concriv'd a defign to feize this Packet, upon the report that ran of the rupture 

 between England and Holland. Cajtmbrot having fcen the bignefs of the Packet 

 gives Wauv/kcI^ a defcription of it, and (b both together they contrive another of 

 the fame form and bignefs as neer as they could. When I came a-board, I took 

 tiNC'Englijh Packet; and lock'd it up in my Bouccba, which is the fort of Cloak- 

 bag that is us'd in that Countrey, and laid it behind my Boifier, There were two 

 Shallops fenr a-board us, wherein there were fixtybags of Silver, containing fome 

 fifty, fome a hunder'd Tomans a j)iece. Theie bags they unladed very leifiii ely to 

 gain time, watching when I would be gone to bed. But when they law that I did 

 not go to reft, the Dutch confulted together, and agreed to let fall a bag of Tomans 

 into the Sea j and fo came all a-board, (ending away a Shallop to Gomrpp for a Di- 

 ver. When I found that the Velfel would not fet Sail till two or three hours after 

 day-light, I went to rclr,my Botttcha lying in the lame place, half out,and half with 

 in-fide of my Boliter : But when my Servants were gone, and I alone and a-fleep 

 in the Cabin, they cunningly ftole my Bor.ccha, took out the Englijh Packet, and 

 left the other which they had counterfeited, in the place } being only lb many 

 Letters of blank-paper. Coming to Surat the fixt of May following, I gave the 

 Packet, as I thought, which I had rcceiv'd from the EngUfh Agent at Gomron to 

 two Capuchin-Friers to deliver to the Prefident at Sura*. But when the Presi- 

 dent came to open the Packet before feveral of the Company, there was nothing 

 but white-paper made up in the form of Letters j which when I heard, too much 

 to my forrow, I underftood the villanous trick that Fan-W, ,\ had put upon me. 

 I wrote a imart Letter of complaint to the XWt^-General in Batavia, but finding 

 no redrefs, I was fore'd to undergo the hard cenfure of the Englijb^ who would 



«ui,fliiuuuuguiuitju win! lu<_ ineiLj uiiumij£ iu ucitiiu inmicii witn an equi- 

 vocation, that if he took the Cloak-bag, he wifh'd he might dye without fpeak- 

 ing a word, in three days ended his life juft in the fame manner, and at the 

 lame time that he had imprecated upon himfelf. Bozan his Lieutenant, after a 

 great debauch, going to fleep upon the Terrafs of the Cabin, where he lay for 

 coolnefs., (there being no Balifters^rollingttnd tumbling in his fleep, fell down, and 

 the next day was found dead in the Sea. 



The Captain, four or five days after his arrival at Swat, being met jn the Street 

 by a Mahometan, who was jealous of his Wife, and being miftak'n by him for 

 one among feveral Franks, that had parted him, and kept^him from correcting 

 his Wife fome few days before, was itabb'd by him in three or four places with a 

 Dagger,and kill'd him out-right. And this was the end of thofe treacherous people 



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