i8o Travels into the L e v a î? t. Part IL 
Befides all thefe Goods, there came on Board fo many people with their Chefts, 
Jairs, and other luggage, and fucha quantity of Pullets, Goats and Kidsi (for in 
that Climate it is the beft and wholefomeft meat, the Mutton there being good foç/ 
A great clue- nothing,) that tlie Ship was thwackt full above and below Decks, and fo pcftere^^ 
ter in the that one had nnuch a do to ftir. Many more Goods were offered to be pt:^. on 
SliiP' Board, but the Captain xefufed them, having no more fpare room. Wi^fiall this 
clutter and confufionjWe had the vexatious humour of the Captain to fuffcr, who was 
The Captain fo imperious and haughty, that the leaft triffle offended him, and he was continually 
a hally man. quarrelling with one or other of the three Franks who were Officers in the Ship, 
though they never gave him a word again : when the fancy took hinq in the Head, 
he would break out into fuch extravagancies of rage, that he would fall a Curfing 
and abufing the firfi Man that flood in his way i and fometimes he vvould challenge 
all the Ship to fight him when he came to Surrat, adding that he was an Italian, 
yes that he was. He would fuffer nobody to fay any thing to him, and to hear 
him vapour, there was ro Man greater than he : he had many debates with the 
Soubrefcart at whom hé had a great Pique, as with the reft of the Armenians alfo j 
fometimes he was fo enflamed with rage, that no lefs would ferve his turn, than 
to go a [hoar and leave the Ship i but then confidering on it better, he would burn 
her or run her againft a Rock, All the Armenians were to have their Heads 
broken j nay more than that, he was refolved to come forae time or other and 
take all the Ships on thofe Seas, and a hundred fuch extravagancies that blew away 
with the Wind : the Pilot had no eafie task of it, for he could not endure that 
he Qiould give his Opinion, thinking it an indignity that any Man fliould feem to 
know more than himfelE When he was in all his rage no body made him anfwer, 
no more than if he had been a Mad-man, and indeed, it was commonly the 
Shiras Wine, or Cow^o Brandy, that railed all this huf{ and din. When he was at 
a ftand whom to fall foul on, he turned to the Merchants that came laft on Board, 
who had their Goods in fome place upon the Deck, not knowing where elfe to put 
themi he would tell them that he muft have fo much mony, to fuffer their Goods 
to lye in fuch a place, or elfe threaten to throw them over Board : if they told him 
that they had payed fo much to the Soubrefcart^ and that they knew not where to 
lye, he (hewed them little Cabins, but he would have fo much mony for the hire 
of them, that no body would take them. The truth is, he was not altogether in 
the wrong, as to this laft point, for they fuffer not commonly Goods to lye upon 
the Deck, becaufethey hinder the working of the Ship > and as for the Cabins, it 
is ufual to let them at a very dear rate in Indian Ships, becaufe of the many PalTen- 
gers they have commonly on Board. 
We were in all an hundred and fixteen on Board, of whom about fourfcore 
were Paffcngers, all Armenians, except the Sieur Manuel Mendez and his Com- 
pany, my Man and I. A Cabin five Foot long, two Foot wide, and three Foot 
high, was let for a toman and a half, during the Voyage to Surrat, and the Boat 
was let for fourfcore AbaJJis. It is the Cuftom that fo foon as the Ship is out at Sea 
the Boat is hailed in, and laftied to Midftiips betwixt the Main-Maft and Fore- 
Maft. In ftiort, all know that there are fo.me Cabins which belortg to the Captain, 
as alfo all the Deck i and thofe who would accommodate themfelves there, mutt pay 
for it, efpecially when there is a Soubrefcart on the Ship, who takes the mony for 
the paflage, for which you are allowed no more but Salt, Water, and Wood, and 
thefe two laft too are given out every day by Meafure but you muft hire a place 
to lye and be in from the Captain, or fome of the Officers of the Ship who have 
Cabins, and have no (hare of the mony that you pay for your palTage. The(e 
things are all.but triffles, and have but little relation to the Voyage, yet I thought 
it might not be a mifs to mention them, to (hew how much Ships are commonly 
peflered, in that pafTage ^ for it is to be concluded that it is the fame thing on Beard 
A Meorijh or all other Ships i nay in Moorilh Ships the accommodation is worfe, where you 
Mthomttan have no Cabins, and where Chriftians are ufed like Dogs j only the noife is not 
Ship. fo great there, becaufe commonly in them the Mafler has ablolute command, and 
is not fo great a Fool as ours was. 
The greateft inconvenience Men endure on Board thefe Ships, is the want of 
water, for though every one has no more allowed him but two meafures a day, to 
drink, boil his Viduals, water his Poultry, eJ^c each of which meafures containing 
three Pints or there abouts, and tvery Horfe eight meafures -, neverthelefs it is 
many 
An iiundred 
and fixceen 
fouls on 
Board. 
Cabins be- 
longing to the 
Captain. 
What a Paf- 
fenger is fur- 
fiifhed with. 
