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Travels in India. 



PartH 



then to the South ; becaufe the feafon for failing was far (pent 5 and for that if we 

 fteer'd for the Weft Indies, we mould find the wind more proper to carry us into 

 Holland. But we had no fooner crofs'd the Line, but we found the wind quite con- 

 trary to what the Mariners expected ; fo that we were forc'd to fteer to 

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

 into Holland. 



c h a P. xxvur. 



The Holland fleet fets Sail from St. Helens, and profperoufly ar- 

 rives in Holland. 



TH E next day after the Admiral had call'd a Council, we weigh'd and fet Sail 

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

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

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

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

 than when they were in jeopardy. 



After feveral other days failing, we difcover'd the Coaft of IJland, and then the 

 Ifiand of Ferella, 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 miftie- 

 meanours during the whole Voyage. 



Our Ship w r as bound for Zealand ; but we were forc'd to lye out at Sea feven 

 days before we could get into Flufioing, 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 Chefts, and put our marks upon 

 them 5 for all Chefts are carry'd into the Eaft India Houle, 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 fet a mark upon my Chefts, 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 Middldugb. 



Four days after I came to Middleburgh, 1 went to fetch my Chefts 5 and find- 

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

 aboard us ; I produe'd my Keys, and orfer'd my Chefts to be open'd. But the Zea- 

 lander more civil than the Horner, deliver'd me my Keys again, and taking my 

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

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

 Southern. 



As for the 175-00 Florins which the General of Batavia promis'd fhoald be 

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

 I was at length forc'd to commence a Suit that lafted above two years ; nor could 

 I get a publick Notary either at Amsterdam 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 jangling, 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 

 forc'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 5 having perform'd 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 Confiant inople ; whither I return'd 

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

 for Ligorn -, from Ligorn I travel'd by Land to Genoa, thence to Turin, and fo 

 to Paris. 



The End, 



