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Tetreras they had, did the fame. It pitied me much to fee thefe poor People 
flic from their own Houfe (for fo I call their Sanbiquer ) and to leave all their 
Goods to the Plunder and Difcretion of thofe Mad-men, carrying nothing with 
them but a Chaplet or two of certain Bisket, which they fell ftrung upon Chap- 
lets. Prefently one of the Caiques fired a Cros-bar Shot out of a Blunderbufs 
Coifairs that into our Poop, which had it hit but a hands breadth lower, would have killed 
were Franks, us all, and ftink the Sanbiquer to rights ; but feeing no body appear on board 
of us, they made after thofe who were making their efcape to Jlioar, for being 
near Iand,the water was very fhallow,which made the Soldiers ^finding ground) 
to jump into the Sea, with a Sword in one hand and a Pillol in the other, and 
purfue the poor Wretches , firing at thofe whom they could not overtake : 
In the interim, I prayed our Capucin and another French Monk that was with 
us, to go up upon the Deck, and put out a white Flag, which they did ; and 
putting up a Handkerchief upon the end of a ftick, called in French to thofe 
vvrho remained in the Caiques, that we were French ; they bid us lower our 
Sail, which we eafily did, but it was fo great that we could not furl it. In 
the mean time, it covered all our Sanbiquer, and they fearing there might be 
more ftillhid underneath, durft not come j but having told them, that with- 
out their alTiftance they could not furl it, and that they need not fear any 
thing, they came on board, where knowing us to be Franks, they offered us 
not the ieaft injury as the former had done,only took of our baggage and things 
what they found here and there in the Veflel, though we ourfelves kept Itill a 
' good (hare of them. 
It was then a fad fpedacle to fee the Soldiers return loaded with Spoyl, lead- 
kg by the hand thofe whom they had taken a-ftioar, and who were all ftript to 
the Ihirt as foon as they had been taken. When they were come on board our 
Sanbiquir, they fearchM in all places to fee if they could find any thing worth 
the taking, and made Captive feven Turks in all: Being all on board our San- 
biquer or in their own Caiques, they carried us to their Ships ; and by the way, 
told us, how they had made us the evening before, but that not having feen 
a Galliot which they had in -company, for two days, they took our Sanbiquer 
for her, till next rnorning, when we ftood dole in by thelhoar, they were con- 
vinced it was not ftie, and that if they had not taken us for their Galliot, they 
would have given us a viflte the fam€ evening that they faw us. 
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Ofïphat happened on Board the Corf air s fo long as we 
were with them^ and our Arrival at Damiette. 
Within an hour, we came on board the Corfairs, being two Ships, the one 
Commanded by Captain Santi, called otherwife Rtpuerto of Legorn^ and 
the other by Captain Nicolo of Zante. We were made very welcome by thelê 
Captains, who divided us betwixt them : Our Monks went on board of Cap- 
tain Santi, and we who were Seculars were taken into the Ship of Captain 
Nicolo. Thefe two Ships were Conforts, and had on board each an hundred 
and forty Men, with fourteen Oars afide, which they could ufe in cafe of necef- 
fity, fetting two Men to each Oar. The Ship we were in had four and twenty 
Petreras, an(i two great Guns all of Brafs, befides a great number of Muskets 
and Blunderbuffes ; and the other was as well armed : They had befides a Galliot 
which they had made of a Sanbiquer they had taken near to Scandaroon, and 
armed with fix brazen Petreras, and a fair brafs chafe-Gun, having manned her 
with eighty of their Men, forty a piece, and that was the fame Galliot which 
had given us the chafe the day before : One of thefe Corfairs had been fix and 
thirty, and the other forty Months out at Sea. 
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