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kind of one I would have. I told him, fince he was pleas'd to give me my 

 choice, that I rather defir'd a young lively Horfe, rather than an old one. 

 Thereupon he fent me one that was fo given to bounding and prancing, that 

 he threw a young Hollander out of the Saddle } but upon my defire to have 

 him chang'd, he fent me another, which I fold afterwards for four hundred 

 Roupies. 



From Amadabat I return'd to Sur at ; from Sur at I travePd again to Gol- 

 conda, and thence to the Mine to buy Diamonds. From whence returning back 

 for Sur at, I refolv'd for Perfia. 



CHAP. XX. 



My return from Surat to Ormus. 

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BEing upon my return to Surat from the Diamond Mine, 1 underftood that 

 the War was proclaim'd between the Englijk and the Hollanders, and the 

 latter would fend no more Ships into Perfia. The Englijh alfo gave out the 

 lame refolutions 5 for indeed they had fent four Ships into Per Ça, which they 

 expected back every hour. While I was thus in fear of flaying long in a 

 place where I had no bufinefs, there arriv'd at Surat five great Dutch Ships 

 from Batavia ; three of which being rather Men of War, than Merchant-Men, 

 were order'd to be unladen with all fpeed , with an intention to look out 

 for the four Englijh Veffels that were expeded out of Perfia. The other two 

 were appointed to follow two or three days after, being in that time to 

 take in provifions for the whole Fleet. 



In one of thofe two Veiïeîs I embark'd, and letting fayl the eighth of fa- 

 nvarv, we came before Diu the twelfth, where we overtook the other three 

 Ships. H e. ,„ was debated at a Council of War, what courfe to fleer to 

 meet the Englijh j and it was refolv'd, that we mould fleer away for Scindi, 

 where we arriv'd the twentieth of the fame month, and ftay'd there till the 

 twenty-eighth, and then fetting fail with a fair Wind, we landed at Gomrom 

 the ieventh of March. 



The End of the Tirft Book. 



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