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French -, fo that by the Artifice of their Enemies he had conceiv'd a bad 
Opinion of them. He was thinking to folhcite their exclufion at Court, 
when Father Ambrofe^ Superiour of the Capucms, being enform'd of it, 
went to undeceive him, telling him that he ought not to give credit to 
the Enemies of that Company, for that they were combin'd to ruin it if 
they could. He loved that Father becaufe of his Probity, and therefore 
did not rejed him -, only adjur'd him to tell him the truth without diflîmu- 
lation concerning the matter, and whether the French, who were to come, 
were not Pirates, as it v/as reported all over the Countrey, and as many 
Franks had afllired him they were. 
This thought was fuggefted in Snrrat^ fo foon as it was known that 
there was a Oefign m. France offending Ships to trade in the Eaft-Indtes-^ 
and the Calumny was eafily believ'd, becaufe one Lambert Hago^ a Dutch- ^-^rnhen Hugo 
man, who had had French on Board of him, and whom they brought ^^'o"^^^'. 
frelh into the Peoples Minds, had been two Years before at Moca with 
French Colours, and a Commiffion from the Duke of Vendofme then Ad- 
miral of France^ and had taken fome Veflels : But that which offended 
moft, was the ftory of the Ship that carried the Goods of the Queen of 
' VifiapuT^ and was ftranded about Socotra^ an Ille lying in eleven Degrees The Queen of 
forty Minutes Latitude, at the entry of the Red- Sea. That Queen who ^^^f J'^* 
was going to Mecha, was out of the reach of the Corfar, for luckily flie 
had gone on Board of a Dutch Ship -, but being fatisfied with a Ship be- 
longing to her felf for tranfporting her Equipage^ Hugo met that Ship, 
and perfued her fo briskly, that the Mafter was forced to run aground. 
It being difficult for the Corfar to approach the Ship in the place where 
Ihe lay,, he loft no courage, but patiently expefted what might be the iffue 
of her ftranding : His expectation was not in vain '-, for the Indians want- 
ing Water for a long time, and finding none where they were, fufrercd 
great extremity -, and therefore having hid in the Sea what Gold, Silver, 
and prêtions Stones they could, they refolved to have recourfe to the Cor- 
far himfelf to fave their lives, hopeing that he would be fatisfied with 
what remained in the Ship. 
Hugo being come up with them, cunningly found out that they had The Cunning 
funk fomewhat in the Sea -, and a falfe Brother told him, that none but 
the Carpenter and his Son knew where the Qiieens Treafure was, (for fhe 
had carried with her a great deal of Money, Jewels and rich Stuffs to 
make Prefents at Mecha, Medina^ Grand Chetk^ and other places, refolving 
to be very magnificent.) In fine, Hugo having fufficiently tortured the 
Mafter, Carpenter, and the Carpenters Son, whom he threatned to kill in 
his Fathers prefence, made them bring out what was in the Sea, and feiz- 
ed it, as he did the reft of the Cargoe. This Action had made fo 
much noife in the Indies, that Hugo^ who was there taken for a 
French-man, was abominated, and by confequenee all French-men for 
his fake. 
The Governour talked high of that Corfar to Father Amhrofe^ who had 
much adoe to perfwade him, that he was not a French-man, becaufe 
he came with French Colours, and for certain had a great many French- 
men on Board. However, after much Difcourfe he believed him -, but 
for all that excufed not the French from the Aâion wherein they had af- 
iiffed him, and flill maintained, that nothing but a defign of Robbing 
had brought them into that Countrey : The Father denied that it was 
their defign, but that they only came with Lamberi Hugo to revenge an af- 
front done to fome French in Aden a Town of Arabia, the Happy ^ lying in ^den. 
the eleventh Degree of Latitude -, and thereupon he told him what was 
done in that Town to the French, fome years before ^ How that a Pinnace 
of Monfieur de la Meilleraye^ being obliged, in a ftorm to feparate from her 
Man of War, and to put into Aden. The Sunnis by force and unparalell'd 
impietie, had caufed all thofe that came afhore to be Circumcifed, though 
at nrfl they received them well, and promifed to treat them as Friends, 
That notwithffanding that, the King of France as well as the Indians had 
difapproved the Adion of the Corfar and French who were on Board of 
