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TRAVELS 
INTO THE 
EV ANT 
PART II. 
BOOK IV. 
CHAP. I 
Of the Voyage from Baflbra to the Indies. 
FKiday the fixth of November} Embarked at Bajfora in the Ship of an Jr- Departure 
memanoi two hundred and threefcore Tun burden, called the Hs/'e- !^°^ g^^"'"'' 
we//. This Ship carried eighteen Gun?, and had on Board one and ^Ip^-^ii 
thirty Sea-noen, of whona lix and twenty were Banianr^ and the other 
hve Mahomttans. We had no Franks on Board, but the Captain who 
was of Legorn, the Gunner a Native of Toulon, and two Sailers, the one a Fene- 
iian, and the other a Greel{ of Candy. This was an Englijh built Ship, and for- 
merly belonged to the Ewg/i/^' Prcildent at Sunat^ who had three others befide?, 
and then (he carried twenty eight Guns : but War breaking out bef wixt the Englifh 
and Vutch, and thePrclident hnding (hat he was not able to maintain them againft 
the Hollanders^ who at that titne had many Ships in the Indies^ fold them about a 
year ago to Armenians., and one Codgiatninus ^ whom I mentioned already, bought 
two of them, of which this was one i he payed for her to the Englijh ilxteen 
thoufand Roupies^ which make eight thoufand Piafires., and put up the Armenian 
Colours upon her. 
The Captain had three Pafs-Ports, one from the Portuguefe, another from the 
Englijh^ and a third from the Vutch. The Ship had been for feveral years Com- 
manded by a Greeil;^ C<3««/w*, called Captain Vfcolo^ a Man of much experience in 
thofe Seas, and skiltul in taking Obfervations i but he died at BaJJora in the month 
of September thii preftnt year one thoufand fix hundred (ixty fiye, of an Inflamma- 
tion in the Throat : and the Armenians put in his place, a Man ot Lcgorn called 
Bernardo, who had formerly been Boadwain in the fame Ship. He was a good 
vSailer, but knew net how to fet off a Courfe, nor take an Obfervation, and in- 
deed, could neither Read nor Write, he had only learnt a little experience by fe- 
veral Voyages he had made in thofe Seas. The Armenians would have made an 
Englijh 
