Part I, 
Travels into the L e v a n t. 
were contrary to theirs, for we always prayed to God, that they might not 
come up with her ; frill reckoning, that the lefs mifchief they did, the bet- 
ter it would be for us; however they laboured fo hard, that they gained 
ground on her, and manned out their Cayque to Board her; then they who 
were mihQSaycjite^ (finding that they could not make their Efcape) furrendred 
themfelves ; and another Saycot feeing this, though fhe was above fix miles 
off of us, came without being purfued, and Surrendred of her own accord, 
in hopes of better ufage ; and both thefe two, were only loaded with Carob 
Beans. Towards the Evening, the Galliot, which had been out a Gruifing, 
(as (he daily did j came up with our Ships, and told us that they had met 
with a Turkilh Galliot, and having laid her a thwart the Hafs, they met 
with ftout refiftance j the Turks who were on board of her, having a naked 
Sword between their Teeth, and a Mufqnet in their hands ; fo that finding 
they could do no good on her that way, they left the Head, and fet upon her 
on the Stern, but they found as hot fervice there, as they had done before, 
and were even in danger of having been taken by the Turks: They Boarded 
her again the third time, but could make nothing on'tj on thecontrary, the 
Turks were like to have maftered them ; fo that having three of their Men 
Killed, and feven wounded, they were fain to come olF with Difgrace. Du- 
ring that Engagement, they had fired ferae (hot with their Chafe-Gun, which 
were the Guns we had heard in the Morning, and if the Ships had flood that 
way, from whence they heard the Guns, as the Maximes of their trade requi- 
red, they would have eafily taken that Galliot ; but being unwilling to fave a 
certain for an uncertain Booty, they milled of that fair hit. 
This Engagement afflidted us, becaufe it made our condition worfe and 
worfe, neverthelefs, we prayed our Captain to let go that Saycot, which had 
voluntarily furrendred, to the end, that fhe going to Damiette, we might go 
with her, and that thefe men might tell a-flioar, that they had been obliged 
to us for having begged their Saycot for them. This Saycot being of fmall 
value, they eafily granted our defires, and having taken out of her ten Sacks of 
Carobs^thty fet us on board and let her go, on Saturday the firftof Jime. We 
entreated the Captain alfo to give us that Turk who had put them upon the 
exploit of CafteL Peregrino-^ for feeing they had promifed him his Liberty, 
before an Image of the Virgin, as their Soldiers told us, he might tell all 
People at Damteite^ that we had procured him his freedom ; not daring to 
tell the real caufe of it, and fo would have put us out of all danger*, but they 
made us anfwer, that they would carry him back to his own Countrey ; 
which made fome of the Soldiers murmur a little, faying they could not fail 
of falling into fome raifchance, feeing they falfified their Promife made before 
the Image of the BlefFed Virgin, We went then in that Saycot whieh came 
from Cyprus^ and was bound for Damiette, and were not as yet out of dan- 
ger -, for if thefe Greeks had been malicious Rogues, they might have taken an 
opportunity to throw us over Board ; not only to make themfelves fatisfadion 
for the fmall matter that was taken from them, by the little Goods we had, 
but alfo in revenge of the wrongs which the Franks daily do to the Greeks 
their Countrey men ^ and indeed, we took that refolutiononly that we might 
be delivered out of fhe miferies that we endured a Board of thefe Ships; 
for befides the bad entertainment we had there, (which we could not have 
born with much longer,) we were daily in danger of being taken and burn'd 
a live, or at leaft made Slaves if thefe Corfairs had been taken -, as indeed 
it was to me a great wander, that the Turks fhould fufFer thefe Blades to 
Hop the entry into Damiette^ feeing they needed do no more but man out five 
or fix good Sayques^With an hundred and fifty or two hundred men a piece, and 
fall upon thefe Corfairs, whom they might eafily have taken . Befides that, 
we were hourly in danger of being wounded, if the Ships came to an Engage- 
ment, and durft not defend our felves, for if wc had once taken Arms, we 
muft have laid afide all thoughts of fetting Foot on Turkifh Ground, where 
we might be known by one or other that had Efcaped, or been Ranfom'd 
out of the hands of the Corfairs. In reality, the life of a Corfair is a molt 
wretched life, both for this World and the next ^ and certainly, there is 
nothing but I could do, rather than be engaged in it. When we left our 
Corfairs, 
