Our Ship Being Now Laden With Cloves Bought Of The
Javans, Our Captain Bought Some Slaves From The King; And While We Were
Very Busy This Night, One Of Them Stole Out From The Cabin And Leapt
Into The Sea To Swim Ashore, So That We Never Heard Of Him More.
Next
morning the captain sent Augustine Spalding, our Jurabossa, to inform
the king of the slave having made his escape, who presently gave him
another.
May 3d, we proceeded for Bantam, saluting the town of Booton at our
departure with three guns. The 3d, we had sight of the Straits of
Celebes, for which we made all sail, but could not get into them that
night. The 23d May, we anchored in the road of Bantam, where we did not
find a single Christian ship, and only four junks from China, having
taffaties, damasks, satins, and various other commodities. Having
finished all our business here, the captain and merchants took leave on
the 15th July, 1608, when we presently made sail from the road of
Bantam, bound home for our native England.
* * * * *
Note. - At this place Purchas observes, "To avoid tiring the readers,
the rest of this voyage homewards is omitted; instead of which we have
set down a table of the journal of this ship from the Lizard to Bantam,
as set forth by John Davis." - On this paragraph of Purchas, the editor
of Astley's Collection remarks, I. 335. c. "But we meet with no such
table in Purchas, neither is any reason assigned why it is omitted, so
that many may believe these copies of Purchas imperfect.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 504 of 815
Words from 136952 to 137221
of 221842
