At The First Sight Of Our Men, Whom They Knew, They
Would Fain Have Put Off Their Boat Again, But
I would not permit them,
causing them to be reminded of their former behaviour to our men, when
in their
Hands; and when I thought them sufficiently terrified, I
ordered them to be told, that they should now see how far our nation
differed from the cruelty of Turks, who had most barbarously and
injuriously used our men, without giving any cause of offence, whom they
had betrayed by fair promises, yet I should now dismiss them without
harm. They immediately departed, making many fair promises of sending us
refreshments. They accordingly sent off next day a boat loaded with
fish; but we were too far off for them to reach us, as we were obliged
to put the Calicut ship to leeward towards the Red Sea.
[Footnote 363: In Purchas called Abdraheman; perhaps the name was Abd
Arrahman. - Astl. I. 421. c.]
The morning of the 14th, the wind at east, we descried another ship of
like burden with the former bound for Aden, which, about ten o'clock,
a.m. we forced to come to anchor. I learnt that she was from Pormean,
a town not far from Kuts Nagone,[364] a place tributary to the Great
Mogul, who had despised our king, and abused our nation. The nakhada
of this ship was a Banian; and being fearful, if any other ship should
approach Aden, I must either leave the one or the other, I therefore
made haste to search her by my own people.
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