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dam , that had lain there Three Months for a Lading of 
Rice; and that fome of them would condudt them the next 
Day to the Road of Soppy. The 19th, they failed into the 
Bay, and anchored at Ten Fathom, fandy Ground, about 
a Cannon-fhot from the Shore. They bartered here for 
Hens, Sago, Tortoife, and Rice. On Auguft 19. they had 
leveral of the Natives oil board, who reported, that an 
Englijh and Dutch Ship had been lately in thofe Parts, and 
had procured fiiffi.cie.nt Provifions for their Voyage home ; 
which News was exceedingly agreeable to People who had 
fpent almoft all their Store ; and therefore there was a kind 
of public Rejoicing among the Crew, which now confided 
of Eighty-five Men, all healthy and vigorous, and who had 
no other Apprehenfions, than fuch as arofe from their Scan- 
tinefs of Vi&uals. The next Day, they had an Account, 
that there were no lefs than Twenty Englijh and Dutch Ships 
at Ternate. On Auguft 25. they failed, and on September 1. 
they entered, the Wind being contrary, into the Bay of an 
Hand, which feemed to be defer t. Some of the Officers 
went afhore, in order to view the Country, and endeavoured 
to afcend a very high Mountain for that Purpofe •, but found 
it fo very deep and rugged, that they quickly abandoned 
their Attempt. They faw, however, an extraordinary Curi- 
ofity here, which was a Worm as thick as a Man’s Leg, 
and of a great Length. The Name of this Hand is Moro , 
which, tho’ it appeared one continued Traft of Land at a 
Balance, they found, upon a clofer Examination, was, in 
Reality, compofed of feveral Hands. On the 5th, they 
anchored off the Coaft of Gilolo , where a very unlucky Ac- 
cident had like to have befallen them ; for, fome of the 
Seamen going to catch Fiffi unarmed, Four Soldiers of 
’Ternate fuddenly rufhed out of the Woods, Sword in Hand, 
intending to have killed them, as they were drawing up their 
Net ; but, the Surgeon calling out Oran Hollanda , the In- 
dian Soldiers flopped, and, throwing Water on their Pleads, 
which is a Sign of Peace in thofe Countries, approached 
them in a peaceable Manner, and told them, that the Rea- 
fon of their Attempt was their taking them for Spaniards. 
At the Requeft of the Seamen, they were perfuaded to go 
on board, where, having Beads and other Trifles given them, 
they were exceedingly well fatisfied, and promifed to bring 
them Provifions and Refrefhments ; which they did. 
24. On the 14th, they failed ; but, the Wind being flack 
for Two or Three Days, made ao great Progrefs in their 
Voyage. On the Sixteenth, however, they had Sight of 
Ternate and Tidore. On the 17th, they fpoke with a 
Dutch Ship, which gave them an Account of Admiral 
Spilbergen' s Voyage, as alfo, that there was a Squadron of 
T en Dutch Ships under the Command of the General John 
Dirickfon Lam , of Horn , at the Manillas , to defend the 
Trade of his Countrymen againft a great Spanijh Fleet that 
it was expelled would come fhortly to attack them at 
Ternate. The fame Evening they anchored in Eleven 
Fathom fandy Ground before Malaya in T innate ; there 
Captain Schovten , and Jaques le Maire, went on fhore, in 
order to confer with the General Laurence Real , who was 
come thither in the Place of the deceafed General Gerard 
Reynft , where they were well entertained by him, as alfo 
by the Admiral Stephen Verhaghen , and Jafper Janfon , Go- 
vernor of Amboyna , and by the whole Council of India. 
On the 1 8th, they fold Two of their Shallops, with a 
great deal of what they had faved out of the Horn , which 
was burnt in King's IJland , and received in ready Money 
.1350 Reals with Part of which they purchafed from the 
General Two Lafts of Rice, a Ton of Vinegar, the like 
Quantity of Spanijh Wine, and about Three Ton of 
Bifcuit. On the 24th, Eleven Men, and Four Boys, de- 
manded Leave of the Captain to enter into the Company’s 
Service ; which, at the Requeft of the General, he very 
readily granted. On the 26th, they took Leave of the 
General, who treated them with the greateft Kindnefs and 
Refpett, pnd accompanied their Captain and Supercargo 
aboard with Colours flying. On the 27th, they failed for 
Bantam. On the 29th, they paffed the Line for the 
Fourth time in that Voyage. On the 16th of October, 
they anchored in the Road of Japara ; and, on the 28 th, 
at pacatra , where they found Three Dutch , and as many 
Englijh, Ships in the Road. The following Night one of 
their Seamen died, which was the firft they loft out of the 
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Unity , and the third that had died during the whole 
Voyage. 
25. On the laft of Q Bober , arrived John Peter fan iCoen * 
of Horn , Prefident for the Eaft India Company at Bantam ; 
and the very next Day he fent for the Captain, and both 
the Supercargoes, before the Council of the Indies . After 
a very little Difcourfe, he required them, in virtue of his 
Commiffion from the Eaft India Company* to deliver up 
the Ship and Cargo immediately : The Captain and Super- 
cargoes infilled, that the Seizure was unlawful, frnce they 
had not offended either againft the Letter, or the Intention, 
of the Company’s Charter •, fmce, with refped to the 
former, they did not come into the Indies by either of the 
forbidden Palfages, viz. the Cape of Good Hope , or the 
Streights of Magellan , but by a Paffage of their own Dif- 
covery, which, in its Confequences, muft be extremely 
advantageous to the Commerce of their Countrymen, and 
to the whole trading World : That, as to the latter, it 
could not be the Meaning of the States General, in grant- 
ing that Charter* to deprive their Subjects of the Benefits 
refulting from new Difcoveries, fince that would have been 
inconflftent with the foie Deflgn of granting the Charter, 
which, as the Charter itfelf expreffed, was for promoting 
the Commerce of the Subjeds of the Republic. But all 
they could fay fignified nothing ; the Prefident told them, 
that, if they thought they fiiffered wrong, they might feek 
Redrefs in Holland. “ This, fays the Author of the 
44 Dutch Voyage, was done upon Monday the iff of No- 
44 member , after our Reckoning; but upon Tuejday , the 
44 2d of November , by our Countrymens Reckoning there. 
44 The Reafon of the Difference of the Time fell out 
44 thus: As we failed Weft ward from our own Country, 
44 and had with the Sun compaffed the Globe of the World, 
44 we had one Night or Sun-fetting lefs than they ; and 
44 th ey that came out of the Weft, and failed to the Eaft 
44 thereby, had one Day or Sun-fetting more than we, 
44 which makes the Difference ; and fo, as we made our 
44 Reckoning of the Time then with ourfelves, and did 
44 the like with our Countrymen, that Week we loft the 
44 Tuefday , leaping from Monday to IVednefday , and fo 
44 had one Week of Six Days. Our Ship being in this 
44 Manner taken from us, fome of our Men put them- 
44 felves into Service with the Eaft India Company ; the reft 
“ were put into Two Ships (that were to go home into 
Holland) called the Amfterda?n , and the Z eland, their Ge- 
“ neral being George van Spilbergen : The Mafter, Wil- 
44 lion Cornelijon Schovten , Jacob le Maire , and Ten of 
44 our Men, went with the General in the Amfterdam , the 
44 Mafter s Name John Cornelijon May , alias Menjcheater ; 
and Airis Claw f on, and the Pilot Claufterfon , witli 
“ Ten others, in the Zeland, the Mailer’s Name Cornelius 
44 Rienlande , of Midleburgh , which fet Sail from Bantam 
44 the 14th of December In little more than a Fort- 
night, viz. the 31ft of that Month, died Jaques le Maire , 
their Supercargo, chiefly of Grief and Vexation, on ac- 
count of the difaftrous End of a Voyage which had been 
fo profperous to that Time. He was extremely felicitous on 
account of his Journal, which he had taken the utmoft Pains 
about, recommending it to the Care of his Friends, and de- 
firing that a full Account of this Tranfadtion might be fairly 
publifhed, that not only their Countrymen, but the whole 
World, might judge of the Ufage they had received. 
26. January 1. 1617. they loft Sight of the Zeland. 
The 24th, they anchored under the Illand Mauritius, and 
refreshed there for Six Days. March the 6th, they paffed 
the Cape of Good Hope, as they gueffed, but faw it not. 
The 31ft, they were under the Hand of 67 . Helena , and 
there found the Zeland at their Arrival. The 6th of April, 
having fupplied their Ships with frefli Water, they fet Sail 
together . The 24th, they paffed the Equinoctial the Fifth 
time; and, the 28th, faw the North Star, which they 
had not feen for Twenty Months before. July the ift 5 
the Amfterdam came into Zeland , whither the Ship of that 
Name had come the Day before. Thus this Voyage 
round the World was performed in Two Years and 
Eighteen Days ; which, confidering the Difficulties they 
met with, the Nature of their Courfe, and every other 
Circumftance of the Voyage, was a very wonderful thing, 
and might, one would have thought, have induced the 
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