Copy of a Letter Witten in the Molucco IJlands^ in the 
Tear iSjj, to the Burgermafter Witfen. 
^f^G give you fome account of things happened at 
i Banda; I muft tell you, it hath pleafed God to 
let us fee his wonderful Works, and Mighty Hand, up- 
on the 20th of Novemier of the laft Year, which hath 
never been (een by any Perfon now living. 
On the about the Evening was 
feeri a very thick Smoak about the top of the Mount 
GounqngApy^ which was much augmented on the ii 
and XX, and that Night the Flame broakout: On the 
xj, 24, and fbme following Days, the Fire was conti- 
nually increafing on the Weft: fide, and with fuch blows, 
as if the greateft Pieces of Canon had been difcharged : 
So that we were fearing that the whole Mountain 
Ihould have been cafl: upon us. A day of Humiliati- 
on and Prayer was ProclaimiCd by the Government a- 
gainft the Seventh throughout all ^anJa. Sometimes 
the Mount brought forth fuch a noife, as the 
greateft Storms can do about the Rigging of a Ship, 
or a Building on Shear, and afterward followed the 
Stones on the Weft fide as tar as the- Sea, which was a 
horrible Spectacle. FiOierraen have related unto me, 
that fo many Stones have been caft out already, that 
the place where they ufed to fifli with Lines at 40 
Fathom water is novv^dry, and the Fire cometh forth 
out of the Water fo vehemently, that it is dreadful to 
fee, and the Water is fo hot that we cannot come 
near it. And now the Mountain burneth moft to- 
wards the fide of the Loutoir, The Trees on the 
Eaft arid Weft fide are altogether fpoil'd, and the Weft 
fide is covered with Stones God knoweth how high. 
The ftinkof Brimftone during the WefterJy Monfbon, 
