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 Inge in the Height of eighteene and a halfe 

 Degrees to theNorward of the Equinoctial!; 

 and foe wee fayled on untill the fourth of 

 September, when wee came within foure 

 Leagues of the Barr of Suratty where wee 

 mett with the Ozeander, beeinge one of our 

 Fleete, whoe was rydinge at an Anchoure 

 there, havinge gotten a Pilott out of a Boate 

 of the Countrye, and lefte one of our Car- 

 penter's Mates in Hoftage for him, whoe 

 (unwifelye carryinge fome Moneye aboute 

 him) when the Moores were from the Shippe, 

 they cutt his Throate, and tooke what hee 

 had, as afterwards wee were certaynlye in- 

 formed. 



Up pon the 7th of the fame 

 Moneth, wee arrived at the Barre Surm ' 

 of Suratt in the Eafl-Indeafes, and the thir- 

 teenth Day, wee came to Suratt y and were 

 kyndlye entertaytied of the Governor, and 

 the Chiefes of the Cittye. 



There is an Order in this Cuntrye, that 

 Strangers cominge to vifite an Inhabitants 

 (bee hee a Man of anye Fafhion) doe pre- 



fente 



