2o8 Travels in India. Part IF, 



then to the South ; becaufe the feafon for failing was far fpent $ and for that jf vve 

 ftecr'd for the Welt Indies, we fhould find the wind more proper to c;,rry us into 

 Holland. But we had no (boner crofsM the Line, hut we found the wind quite con- 

 trary to what the Mariners expected ; fo that we were fore'd to (Veer to 

 the fixty-fourth Degree of Altitude with the Ifland, and fo return, by the North 

 into I h Hand. 



CHAP. XXVIU. 



Ti. c Holland fleet fets Siii I from St. Helens, and p-ofycroujly ar- 

 rives in Holland. 



TH E next (Jay after the Admiral had eall'd a Council, we weigh'd and fet Sail 

 about ten a Clock at night. Three days after our departure from St. Helens, 

 the Seamen were eall'd very duly to prayers morning and evening ; though all 

 the time we ftay'd in the rode, they never minded any fuch matter j which made 

 me wonder, to find they fhould be more devout when they were out of danger' 

 than when they were in jeopardy. 



After fevera! other days failing, we difcover'd the Coaft of Ifland, and then the 

 Ifland of FerelU, where we join'd with the Holland Fleet that ftay'd for us. Here 

 it is that the Commander in chief calls to account all the Mariners for their ""mif de- 

 meanours during the whole Voyage. 



Our Ship was bound for Zealand*, but we were fore'd to lye out at Sea feven 

 days before we could get into Fhjlnng, becaufe the Sand had chang'd its place. 

 Coming to an Anchor before Flujhing, two of the Company came aboard to wel- 

 come us home, and to advife us to lock our Cherts, and put our marks upon 

 them j for all Cherts are carry'd into the Haft India Houlc, where when the 

 owners come for them, they are order'd to op'n them, left they fhould have any 

 counterband goods therein. Thereupon I let a mark upon my Cherts, and went 

 afhore, after I had giv'n a good character of the Captain, and his civility to me 

 all the Voyage, and thence proceeded by Land to Ahddlchrgh. 



Four days after I came to Middlebnrgh, I went to fetch my Cherts j and find- 

 ing the two Directors there, one a Zealander, the other of Horn, who camefirft' 

 aboard us ; I produe'd my Keys, and offer'd'mv Cherts ta.be open'd. But the Zea- 

 lander more civil than the Horner, deliver a me my Keys again, and taking my. 

 word, told me I was free to takeaway my goods. And indeed I have always ob- 

 ferv'd, that the Northern people are always more rude and ungentile than the 

 Southern. 



As fur the 175-00 Florins which the General of Batavia promis'd fhonld be 

 paid me upon my arrival in Holland, I received fo many delays and put ofPs, that 

 I was at length fore'd to commence a Suit that lafted above two years ; no/could 

 I get a publick Notary either at Amflerdam or the Hague, that would make me 

 out a Proteft, every one fearing the Directors, who were both Judges and Par- 

 ties. At length after five years wrangling and jangliflg, the Director wrote to my 

 Brother at Batavia ( for I was then return'd again to the Indies ) that if I would 

 accept of 10000 Livers, he might receive it for me } which he did, and was 

 fore'd to give them an acquittance for the whole. 



This is the 'return which I made from the Indies in the year 1649, and the 

 only time that ever I return'd by Sea • having performed all the reft of my 

 Travels by Land, not counting my fhort Voyages through the Mediterranean 

 for any thing. And as for my firft Travels, I perform'd them all by Land, from 

 Paris through Germany and Hungary, as far as Confiantinople ■ whither I return'd 

 again in the year 1669. From Confiantinople I went to Smyrna, thence I fail'd 

 for Ligom 5 from Ligom I* travefd by Land to Genoa, thence to Turin, and fo 

 to Paris. * 



The End. 



