too, fby Reafon of this uncivil Ufage \ ) they put 

 direftly for the Iflands, and arrived there in three 

 Days : Where being informed by a Menchevv they 

 took fwith the Governor of Canwars Pais,) of thex'e 

 being no Anchor-Ground among them, and Melin^ 

 da being the next convenient Ifland, they fent their 

 feoats on Shore, to fee if there was any Water,> and 

 Ivhether it was inhabited or not; who returned 

 with an Anfwer to their SatisfaStion, viz^. that there 

 was abundance of good Water, and many Houfes, 

 but deferted by the Men, who had fled to the 

 neighbouring Iflands on the Approach of Ship?^ 

 and left only the Women and Children to guard 

 one another. The Women they forced in a Bar- 

 barous Manner to their Lufts, and to requite them, 

 deftroyed their Cocoa Trees, and fired feveral of 

 their Houles. and Churches. (1 luppofe built by the 

 Portuguefcy who formerly ufed there, in their Voy- 

 ages to India.^ 



While they wer^ at this Ifland^ they loft three 

 or four Anchors, by the Rockynefs of the Ground,' 

 JPrefhnefs of Winds, and at laft were forced thence 

 by a harder Gale than ordinary, leaving 70 People, 

 Blacks and Whites, and moft of their Water Casks : 

 in ten Days they regained the Ifland again^ filled 

 their Watef ^ and took the People on Board. 



Provifions were very fcarce, and they now re- 

 vived td vifit their good Friends the Dutchy at Co-- 

 chwy who, if you will believe thefe Rogues, never 

 fail of fupplying Gentlemen of their ProfelBon. 

 After three Days fail, they arrived off Telkchery^ 

 and took a fmall VelTel belonging to Governor 

 Adamsy "John Tawke Mafter^ whom they brought on 

 Board very drunk, and he giving an Account of 

 Captain Macha^^ fitting out^ put them in a Teiti- 

 peft of Paflion : A Villain, fay they, that we ha/vt 

 treated fo civilly ^ as to give him a Ship and other TrefentSy 

 und now to he armed agalnft uSy he ought ta he hatred j 



