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Chap; III. 



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yet two of the Negro's were taken, that in each Noftril wore a Ring. Sailing 

 further, feveral Boats came aboard of them, whereof thofe that Row'd, break- 

 ing their Affagays or Launccs over their Heads, enter'd the Ship - the Hair of 

 their Heads and Beards bedawb'd with Lime, flew about, whiift they Danc'd 

 on the Decks, after they had eaten a good Meal : But they endeavor'd to re* 

 ward this their kind Entertainment with Treachery , for going afhore, they 

 foon after return'd in greater numbers, and fat upon the Anchors which lay 

 over the Bows of the Ship, and there being a great calm, endeavor'd to Towe 

 the Ship towards the Shore, whiift others threw Stones and Arrows. But fo 

 foon as the Hollanders firing their Guns Wounded feveral of them, they all 

 fled , except fome which they took Prifoners, whereof one whom they after- 

 wards called Uofes, did them great fcrvice. 



But he 3iaire was amaz'd at nothing more, than when on the next Coaft he 

 faw feveral little Houfes built about nine Foot high , out of which many Peo* 

 pie Iffu'd, which were all deform'd, either having Wry Nofes, Bow Legs, 

 Squint Eyes, or crooked Backs, and all in one part or another mif-fhapen. 



At laft, Anchoring before Jacatra, the Ship was ftopt there by order of the 

 Eaft'India Company , and the Men divided and put aboard thofe Ships that 

 Sailed from India to Holland P znd arriv'd in fafety at Flujhing, after they had Sail'd 

 about the World, in two years and eighteen days. 



Sect. XVIII. 



Voyage of the Naflavian Fleet, under the Command of Jaques L' Heremite, 

 and Geen Huigo Schapenham. 



Remarkable Exploit* of ' I '*He United Netherlands, to abate the Spanijh Greatnefs, fet out a confidera* 

 H ble Fleet, which they fent to try their fortune, in making Prize of what 

 ever they could light upon in any of their Havens wafti'd by the South- 

 Sea. 



Jaques U Hermite had ten Ships under his Command, Mann'd with fixteen 

 hundred thirty feven Men, and two hundred ninety four Brafs and Iron Guns, 

 with which he fet Sail from Goree, jinno 1623. and coming before Cape Vincent, 

 he difcover'd eleven Turkjjh Pirates, whom fighting, he beat, and re*took the 

 Holland Ships they had made Prize of. 



At %oxents Head, V Hermite gave chafe to fifteen Spanifh Ships, and coming 

 up with them, funk eleven, and took four laden with Sugar. Afterwards An- 

 choring at Safia, he fent the Ship Over-yjfel, and a Frigat call'd the Gray-Hound, 

 to Convoy home the Prizes; afterward being informed, that thirty Spanifh 

 Ships were making to them, Sailing into the Haven St. Vincent, the Spring Wa- 

 ter that hefupply'd his empty Cask with being brakkifh, caus'd an excoriation 

 of the Guts, which brought the Bloody-Flux, whereby he loft many of his 

 Sea-men- being well entertain'd by the Salvages of Antonio, they went on to 

 Sierra Leona, a Mountainous Point full of Lime-Trees, here they found the 

 Names of Sr. Francis Drake, and other Englijh cut in a Rock. 



After that he put in at the fruitful Ifland Anndkon , where he caus'd his Chi- 

 rurgeon to be Beheaded. 



^rawkkw; This wicked Man being brought to the Torture , would confefs nothing 



concerning the Crimes objected againft him, but being ftrip'd for Execution, 

 they found a fmall Bag hanging on his Bread, in which lay a Serpents Skin 



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