Chap. I. Captain Wo odes Rogers. I*?*? 
Things they fanfied, but could not keep them, or fend 
them aboard the Batchelor to fecure her, feeing white Shole- 
•water near us ; but they paffed by us, in danger of running 
on the Shales, not knowing the beft Anchoring-place for 
want of the Languid, I fo earneftiy defired to underftand 
the Malayans that had now left us, At parting, they made 
Signs, and pointed to the Land to the Northward, which 
they called Booroo. Our Pilot, Captain D ampler , fays he 
has been formerly through the Streights ; and, in his Book, 
tells us of a Town, near the South Part of them, where 
the King refided ; but lie knew nothing of it now, except 
the bare Story, Upon this, we agreed to fend one of the 
Pinnaces and the Linguifl along with him, to find out the 
Town, being willing to venture him to wait on his Ma- 
jefty the King of Bouton ,' to folicit for a Supply of Pro- 
visions, for which we would gladly pay ; and, to make 
the better Appearance, we fent Mr. Vanbrugh and Mr. Con- 
nely along with him. The Water flows here above fifteen 
Feet. There are Places near to the Town, which lie to the 
Northward fix Leagues, from whence we rode, where a 
Ship might, on Occafion, be laid afhore to refit ; and We 
could have carried the Duke thither to flop her Leak, but 
were not willing to lofe Time, fince we found it did not in- 
creafe more than one Pump could vent, which we had Men 
enough to keep continually going. 
38. On the 30th, in the Morning, a Prow came from 
the King, with a Nobleman on board, who had neither 
Shoes nor Stockings ; and a Pilot to carry us up to Town. 
The firft Queftion this Indian Lord alked, after he came 
on board, was, How we durft come to an Anchor there, 
without Leave firft had and obtained of the great King of 
Bouton? He brought each Commander a Piece of Bouton 
ftriped Cloth, a Bottle of Arrack, fome Rice in Baskets, 
(Be. as a Prefent from the King ; as alfo a Letter from the 
Officers we had fent alhore; giving an Account, that they 
had been very well received; and that the Town where 
the King refided, is large, walled, and fortified, and has fe- 
veral great Guns : Another Prefent was returned; and five 
Guns fired by every Ship, at the Meffenger’s going off, at 
which he Teemed very well pleafed. We wooded and wa- 
tered at the Ifland Sampo , and feveral Prows came off to 
us with Fowl, Indian Corn, Pompions, Papas, Lemons, 
Guiney Corn, (Be. which they trucked for Knives, Sciffars, 
old Cloaths, (Be. The People were civil, but fold very 
dear ; yet our Officers making a longer Stay at the Town 
than was intended, we began to fiifpeft they were detained, 
thofe Moors being very treacherous : However, we heard 
from them every Day ; and, on June 5. the Duchefs’s 
Pinnace came down with Mr. Coneley , who told us, there 
were four Lafts of Rice coming, which was bought of the 
King, and coft 600 Dollars, 50 Dollars in Tale being al- 
lowed to make up the Weight, becaufe the Royals were 
light ; and that Mr. Vanbrugh was detained for the Pay- 
ment. The next Morning it came, and was equally diflri- 
buted among the four Ships ; fome great Men coming to 
deliver it, and receive the Money : A Portuguefe , fent by 
the King, was detained till our Boat returned, and Provi- 
so 118 began to come more plentifully, and cheaper. The 
Town of Bouton isfeated on the Afcent of an Hill; on the 
Top whereof is a Fort inclofed with an old Stone Wall, 
on which there are Guns and Pattereroes mounted. The 
King, and a confiderable Number of People, live in the 
faid Fort, where an Herb-market is kept every Day. The 
King has five Y/ives, befides Concubines, and four Men, 
called Pury Bajfas , who carry great Canes, with Silver 
Heads, to manage their Affairs. His Majefty, on his long 
black Hair, wears a fort of green Gaufe, ftrewed with 
Spangles ; goes always bare-footed and bare-legged ; is 
fometimes dad like a Dutch Skipper ; but, when he ap- 
pears in State, has a long Calico Gown over his fhort 
Jacket. In Council, he fits on a Chair covered with red 
Sr° u / S alwa y s atten ded by a Serjeant and fix Men, with 
Match-locks ; befides three others, one of which wears a 
Head-piece, and carries a large Scimiter in his Hand ; an- 
other holds a Shield ; and the third a great Fan. Four Slaves 
lit at his Feet, one of them holding his Betele-box, an- 
tner a lighted Match, another his Box to fmoke, and a 
ourth his Spjtting-bafon. T he petty Kings and great Men 
fit on his Left. Hand, and before him ; every one attended 
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by a Slave in the Council-chamber, where they chew To- 
bacco, and chew Betele, in the King’s Prefence; and fpeak 
to him fitting crofs-legged, joining their Hands, and 
lifting them up to their Forehead. The Town of Bouton 
is very populous ; and by it runs a fine River; which;, they 
fay, comes down from ten Miles up the Country, ebbs and 
flows confiderably, and has a Bar at the Entrance ; fo that 
Boats cannot come out at Low-water. At leaft 1 500 Boats 
belong to this River, fifty whereof are Prows for War, 
carrying Pattereroes, and forty or fifty Men each. About 
fifty Hands are tributary to the King, who fends fome of 
his Prows, once a Year, to gather in the Tribute, which 
confifts of Slaves, each Hand giving him ten Inhabitants 
out of every hundred. There is one Mofque at Bouton* 
which is fupplied with Priefts from Moca, the People being 
Mohammedans . They are great Admirers of Mufic 
their Houfes are built upon Polls ; Dutch Money is cur- 
rent here, and Spanijh Dollars. On the 17th, our Pinnace 
returned, with Mr. Vanbrugh , and all our Men, having 
parted very friendly with his Majefty, but could not get a 
Pilot for Money : However, we refolved to ftay no longer, 
and to truft wholly to Almighty Providence for our future 
Prefervation. We difmiffed the Portuguefe Linguifl, and 
began to unmoor our Ships. The next Day, we made 
three Hands to the Northward of Zalayer ; and the Loom- 
ing of other Land to the Weftward of all which, we took 
to be the Southermoft Part of Celebes . On the 10th, our 
Pinnaces came up with this fmall Veffel ; who told them, 
they were bound for Macaffar , a Dutch Fatflory, on the 
South Part of Celebes. The Pinnace took the Mailer of 
her on board, who promifed to pilot us, not only through 
the Streights of Zalayer , but to Batavia , if we would keep 
it fecret, for fear of the Dutch. He fent his Veffel to lie 
in the narrower Paffage, between the Hands, till fuch time 
as our Ships came up. About four a Clock we entered the 
Streight, betwixt the Hands that are next to Zalayer, and 
another little one to the Northward of that, being the mid- 
dlemoft of the three ; having found a good Paffage, three 
Leagues over, all deep Water, fleering through North- 
weft by Weft, to give the Larboard Hands a good Birth ; 
then we made the Southermoft Part of Celebes. The fame 
Morning., the Pilot promifed to carry us through the Cha- 
nel the great Dutch Ships generally went for Batavia , and 
by that means avoid the Sholes, called the Brill and Bunker- 
ground. The Brill has very uneven Soundings; and, in 
many Places; but three Fathom Water, and lefs : So we 
haled away to the Northward, keeping the Hand Celebes 
aboard, the South-weft Part of which trends away in Low- 
land, with high Mountains at the Back of it ; and off the 
Point there lies a Rock, pretty high and remarkable. At 
four o’ Clock we came in to Sounding, and had ten Fa- 
thom ; the firft call the Rock off; the South-weft Point 
bore then North, diftant about fix Leagues ; and we had 
an Ifland a- head of us, from North- weft by Weft, to 
North North-weft, being low and level, about three Leagues 
long, and near the fame Diftance from the Main : As 
we entered, it grew narrower; we ftemmed with the 
North Part of the Hand, till we came within a League and 
half of it ; then fleered North a little, to weather a Spit 
of Sand lying off the Ifland, by which means we opened 
three fmall Keys ; after we were clear of the Shole, we 
haled up about feven, and came to an Anchor under the 
Hand, behind the Spit of Land, in ten Fathom Water, 
very good clean Ground. The Rock of Celebes then bore 
North-eaft by North four Leagues, the Northermoft of 
the Keys two Leagues, and the middlemoft Weft South- 
weft three Leagues : The other being fhutin with the long 
Ifland, we kept the Land going all the Way conftantly 
thro’ ; and had never lefs than fix Fathom, nor more than 
ten : As foon as it was Day, we weighed, and went betwixt 
the twofmallKeys, keeping neareft the Northermoft Sound- 
ing all the Way, and had no more than ten Fathom. The 
Water ftill deepening, being clear of them, we haled away 
Weft, and then South- weft, having a frefh Gale at South- 
eaft, and South-eaft and by Eaft ; no Land in Sight at 
Noon, but Part of the High-land at Celebes , which bore 
Eaft, diftant about twelve Leagues. It was very well for 
us that we met with this Pilot ; for, having no good 
Charts, nor any one acquainted with thofe Seas, we had 
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