Part IL Travels into the Levant. 
to thofe who are bound for the Sindy^ to the end they may take their Meafures 
accordingly. 
N We lay fixteen days before Conga^ and I kept on Board all the while, not think- 
iW it convenient to go a (hoar, becaufe of the King ot Vortugals Agent, with 
wiiNi I had had a little clafhing at Schiras. This Man was powerful at Congo\ 
heverth&^^ he dayly invited me to come a (hoar, and fpend fome days merrily at 
his Houfe, and complained to all our Men that I would not : to this I made an- 
fwer, that I was rcfolved not to fet a Foot a (hoar, until I could walk upon In- 
dian ground. And (the truth is,") when I refleded upon what befd me at Co- 
moron^ I lookt upon it as a Trefpafs againtl human prudence, to run the hazard a 
ftcond time of being hindered to go into the Indies, So that all the Armeniam 
being a (hoar, and our Franks going thither a days, and never returning till night, 
I was many times the only White Man that remained on Board with the Blacks, 
for fo they call the Indians h and in the Indies they put as great a difference betwixt The Blacks 
a White and a Black, as betwixt a Mafter and a Slave i the Sons of Europeans^ Whites, 
born in the Indies are called Metijfes'-, they are notfo defpicable as the real Indians^ MetiJJes. 
(that is to fay,) thofe whofe Father and Mother are both Indians j but after all, 
the Europeans look upon them ftill, as people infinitely below themfclves. 
In the mean time it was very ill ordered that the Ship (hould be fo abandoned, 
for a Captain is, (as it were,) the Mafter of a Family, he ought never to lye out 
of his Ship, or if he does, he ought at leaft to leave fome body in his place, to give 
Order* when any accident happens, as very often there doesi and indeed, we were 
like to have been ruined on Monday morning the thirtieth of November^ when one 
of our Italians having lighted a Pipe of Tobacco aloft upon the Deck, before the 
Mafters Cabin, he laid down his Match upon the Binnicle, fo near the hole of the 
Whip/iafF, that it fell down ihrough that hole into the Gun-Room, at the foot of 
the Mizan Maft, upon which many Horns full of powder hung, and where there 
werefeveral Bandaliers, and Cartaradgcs ready filled with powder for the Guns. 
By good fortune my man went down at the fame time i and being in the Gun- Room 
fraelt fire, which made him look about on all Hands, Cintil he found the lighted 
Match, which he fnatched up, and in great fear brought it above Decks, and in 
all probability if he had not gone down at the" very nick of time, the Ship 
could not have failed of being very quickly blown up. But God of his infinite 
mercy delivered us. 
Whilft we lay at Anchor before Congo, we put a (hoar two Horfes for Perfta, 
and took on Board four others belonging to the Sieur Manuel Mendez Henriquez. 
Agent of the King of Portugal^ who left his ReGdence ztCongo^ upon difcontent, 
becaufe the Cuftomer would not pay him all that belonged to the King of Portugal 
of the profits of the Cuftoms this year and the year before. And for that reafon 
he was refolved to go to Daman, and from thence to Goa, to complain to the Vice- 
Roy, deCgning to come back with two Galliots of War, and plunder what he could 
along the Coall of Perfia, and chiefly at Congo : which would have been eafic for 
him to do, even with fo fmall a Force as two Galliots. He put on Board, then 
two Women Slaves, and feven or eight Men, Servants and Slaves, with a great 
deal of Goods, leaving no body at Congo, but a Deputy and a Clerk, whom he 
charged not to fee the Cuftom-Houfe, nor Cuftomer, nor yet to receive any thing " 
from him, until new Orders from the Indies. The Cuftomer employed feveral 
to Mediate an Accommodation with Manuel Mendez, but ill Language was all the Mamil Ma- 
anfwer he had. Befides all this Equipage, we took on Board feveral Bags of mony ^f^- 
belonging to Armenian Merchants i feveral Bales of Perfian Carpets -, feveral Bags 7*^5. ^'^'P^ 
of Gentian, which is Tranfported from Persia, where it grows, into the Indies, "^S^tco;; 
where it is ufed for dying red, and feveral Bags of Tobacco i for neither the Indian Baffora. Te- 
nor Per[-an Tobacco is good for any thing, and cannot be taken but with a Bottle bacco. 
full of water, through which thefmoak paflss before it come at the Mouth i fo that 
they who carry good Tabacco to the Indies, make a great profit of it i we took on 
Board alfo feveral Ghefts of Schiras Winei and our hranlqoï the Ships Company, 
carried fome Baas of Nuts, of which they hoped to make, at leaft fifty per cent y Bags of Nuts, 
but you muft take notice that this is a Commodity proper only for thofe who 
have not above twenty Piaftres to lay out in Trading, and pay no Freight, fuch as 
the inférieur Officers or Sea-men i for every Officer and Sea-man may put on Board 
fo many Bags Freight free, according to the Offlce he difchargei in the Ship. 
A a Befides 
