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Book I Travels in India. 8 



one day what he had done. I bid him have a care of going there any more 

 for fear of ruining himfèlf and all the French men in the City. But he contrary 

 to my advice went thither two or three times after that,, till at length he was dif- 

 cover'd by one of the women of the Bath that took care of the Linnen, and 

 dry them without , upon Perches as high as the top of the Arch, to which 

 they get up by a little Ladder. The woman feeing a man lying all along upon 

 his belly^ ieiz'd upon his Hat, and began to cry our. But Marefts, to get him- 

 felf out of the mire, and to hinder the woman from making more noife, put 

 two Tomans into her hand. When he return'd to the Inn, I perceiv'd him to look 

 as if he had been fcar'd, and conjeduring that fome ill accident had befall'n 

 him, I prefs'd him to confefs what was the matter. He was loath at firft, but 

 at length he confefs'd how he had been difcover'd by a woman, and how he had 

 ftop'd her mouth with money. Thereupon I told him, that there was a necerïîty 

 for him to fly, for that the danger was far greater than he imagin'd. The Dutch 

 Prefident alfo, to whom I thought it convenient to tell what had pafs'd, was of 

 the fame opinion ; upon which we gave him a Mule, and as much money as was 

 necelfary for him, ordering him to go. to Bander, and thence by Sea to Sur at. 

 I gave him a Letter of Recommendation to the EngUJh Prefident, who was my 

 Friend -, whom I alfo defir'd to let him have two hundred Crowns, if he had oc- 

 cafion for them. I wrote very much in his commendation ; and mention'd the 

 proffer which the Dutch Prefident at Ifpahan had made him, to fend him with 

 Letters to the General, who would not fail to employ him according to his 

 merit. For indeed at that time that the Hollanders had War with the Portuguefes 

 m ÇcyLitiy any perfon of wit and courage, like the Sieur Des Aîarejh^ was very 

 acceptable to them. Which made them very earneft«wkh him, to take an em- 

 ployment among them ; and to that end , they carefs'd him, and prefented him 

 very nobly during his ftay at Ifpahan. But he told them., that not being of their 

 Religion, he was unwilling to ferve them againft the Ponuguefts ; whi-ch was 

 the only reafon that hinder'd him from accepting the offers which I had made 

 him. Thefe particulars I wrote in his behalf to the EngUJh Prefident at Surat } 

 fo that the Sieur Des Marefts being defirous to go to Goa to ferve the Portu- 

 gais, the Prefident wrote in his behalf to the Vice-Roy, by whom he was very " 

 much belov'd_, relating to him, befides, what the Hollanders had proffer'd him, 

 that his recommendation might be the more acceptable. Thereupon the Vice- 

 Roy made him very welcome ; and upon the Sieur Marefts defire to be era- 

 ploy'd in Cejlan in the Portugal Army, he fent him away with the firft oppor- 

 tunity, with Letters of Recommendation to Don Phriip de Mafcaregnas , who 

 was then Governour of Ceylan, and all thofè places that belong'd to it under 

 the jurifdi&ion of the Portugueses. It happen'd three days after, that they loft 

 Nagombe, and when they retook it, the Sieur Marefts was one of thofè that 

 receiv'd moft wounds, and won moft honour in the Affaults. He it was that 

 afterwards was moft inftrumental in faving Don Philip from being drown'd -, Id 

 that when Don Philip came to be Vice-Roy of Goa, he could not think he de- 

 ferv'd a lefs reward than the Command of his Guards ; in which employment he 

 dy'd within three or four months. He was very much lamented by the Vice- 

 Roy, by whom he was entirely belov'd. But he left his Eftate to a Prieft, with 

 whom had contracted a particular friendfhip ; upon condition that he fhould 

 only pay me two hundred and fifty Crowns that I had lent him } which how- 

 ever I had much ado to get out of the Prieft's Clutches. 



While I ftay'd at Goa, I was told a pretty ftory concerning a Caravel, or 

 Portugal VefTel, which arriv'd there but a little before, and came from Lisbon. 

 When fhe was about to make the Cape of Good Hope, there happen'd fuch a 

 violent Tempeft, as lafted five or fix hours, and put the Marriners to fuch a 

 nonplus, that they knew not where they were. At length they fell into a Bay, 

 where they faw feveral Inhabitants ; and as fbon as they came to an Anchor, they 

 beheld the fhore cover'd with men, women, and children, that teftifi'd a ftrange 

 amazement to fee white people, and fuch kind of building as the Caravel. The 

 mifchiet was , that they could not understand one another, but by figns. But 

 after the Portugais had giv'n thofè Cafres Tobacco, Bisket, and Water the next 

 day the people brought them a great quantity of young Oftriches, and other 



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