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much furprifed us, but.more when we faw that they made great Fires all along 
the Coaft, and efpecially upon the ToWers. We knew not the caufe of this, 
( which 1' (hall tell hereafter) only we concluded that they took us for Pirats. 
When we came near to 'pffa^ we perceived a great Fire upon the Tower, and 
then about nine a Clock at Night, offering to put into the Harbour to take in 
Wood and Water, they fired at us both great and fmall Shot : Then our Keys 
went upon the Poop, and called out as loud as he could, that he was fuch a 
Man, Reys of a Sanhiquer^ calling by Name thofe whom he knew at Jaffa ; but 
we had no other anfwer from within but Jlarga^ that is to fay, that we fhould 
ftand off, and with that another Volley of great and fmall Shot : When this 
Mufick had lafted about an Hour, they continually Firing, and our Reys calling 
to them and making a heavy Noife, the other Sanbiquer flood in nearer than 
w^e, and the Reys calling as loud as ever he could,made them at length hear him, 
and the Greeks who were at Jaffa to know him : Then in ftead of AUrga^ 
they called to us Tada, which exceedingly rejoyced us \ and the meaning of 
that was, that we (hould come in, fo that we entered the Port about ten a 
Clock at Night. For my part, I was afraid it might have been a Trick, that 
fb they might have eafily funk us when we were got nearer. But it proved other- 
wife, for we were received as Friends. We found all the People in Arms, 
ready to flie , and the Women and Children v;ere already gone from Jaffa, 
Here we had the comfort to be pittied, that we fhould have been Rifled even 
by Chriftians, for they knew us as having been once before at Jaffa.y and had 
had intelligence of our being taken. We ftayed at Jaffa for fair Weather until 
Friday^ the four and twentieth of May^ when the \A'ind prefenting, we fet 
out about Noon, and within two or three Hours after, were got out of fight 
of Land-, the Wind calming in the Evening, we came to an Anchor, and next 
Morning, Saturday the five and twentieth of May^ by break of day we weigh- 
ed, and failed upon a Wind ; about three or four a Clock in the Afternoon 
we made Land, and ftanding in to it, came to an Anchor at Sun-fetting, not' 
being able to weather a Cape on head of us, becaufe the Wind was contrary. 
Next day being 5w/'^^2^> the fix and twentieth of M^y, we weighed by break 
of day, and prefently made two Sail, whereof the one feemed to be a Ship, 
and the other a Galliot ^ we rowed off from them as much as we could, and 
at length (after fome hours) loft fight of them, but about Noon again we 
faw the Galliot a ftern of us. Our Confort ran prefently aflioar, and inftead 
of doing the like, we rowed and made all the fail we could, fo that in a fhort 
time we loft fight of the Galliot once more ; but making her again a little af- 
ter, we rowed again a little, and fo loft light of her the third time. At firft 
when we made thofe Sails, my mind mifgave me that fome Misfortune attended 
us and indeed 1 was an unlucky Prophet, for 1 told the reft, that as yet we 
were too far from Damiette to be taken, and that as we had been already 
taken within ten Miles of Acre., fo we fhould be taken within ten Miles of Da- 
miette. Having then loft fight of that Galliot once more, about fix a Clock 
at Night we came to an Anchor at a place , from whence we could fee 
three Veffels riding at an Anchor alfo. Ourdefign was, fo foon as it fhould 
be Night and calm, to endeavour to double a point of Land that we were not 
far fhort of, and then we would have been pretty near Damiette., and avoided 
that which befel us, but our Company flept too long ; for Monday, the feven 
and twentieth of May^ they turned out about two hours before day, and 
having weighed Anchor, made all the way they could with Sails and Oars, 
but at break of day when we were not twenty miles from Damiette^ we faw two 
Cayques full of Men coming againft us ; then would our Company have flood 
back again, but it v/as too late. And the C ay que s m^^Ving up with all fpeed, 
a Turk who was a PafTenger with us, tied his bundle about his Neck, and jump- 
ing over-board, got quickly afhoar without the lofs of any thing; the reft, 
whether it was that they could not Swim fo well, or that they hoped we might 
gainfho^r before they could board us, did not imitate him. I had then fome 
apprehenfions, that they as well as the Gorfairs, might difcharge their choler 
upon us who were Franks. But at length the Cayqms being come within Muf^ 
quet-fhot of us, all the Turks who were Paffengers in our Sanbiqner^ leaped 
over-board to fave themfelves on fhoar, and the Greeks having fired the two 
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