A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 8 - By Robert Kerr












































 -  While on our way between the
Chersonesus of Malacca and Piedra branca, we met with three praws,
which being afraid - Page 158
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While On Our Way Between The Chersonesus Of Malacca And Piedra Branca, We Met With Three Praws, Which Being Afraid Of Us, Anchored So Close To The Shore That We Could Not Come Near Them, Either In Our Ship Or Pinnace.

Our general therefore manned the shallop with eighteen of us, and sent us to request that he might have a pilot for money, to carry his ship to Pulo Timaon, which is about five days sail from where we met them.

But, as they saw that our ship and pinnace were at anchor a mile from them, and could not come near, they told us flatly that none of them would go with us, and immediately weighed anchor to go away. We therefore began to fight them all three, and took one of them in less than, half an hour, all her men, to the number of seventy-three, getting ashore. Another fought with us all night, but yielded about break of day next morning, our general having joined us in his skiff a little while before she yielded. They were laden with benzoin, storax, pepper, china dishes, and pitch. The third praw got away while we were fighting the other. Our general would not allow any thing to be taken out of them, because they belonged to Java, except two of their men to pilot us to Pulo Timaon. The people of Java are very resolute in a desperate case. Their principal weapons are javelins, darts, daggers, and a kind of poisoned arrows which they blow from trunks or tubes.

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