They Had Sat
In Judgment Upon Him And His Men, Condemning Them To Remain As Prisoners
Till They Had Orders From Holland As To Their Ultimate Destination.
He
even said, that he was willing to continue in durance, provided we could
keep them out of Puloroon.
The conference being ended, Mr Courthop came
back to Nylacka in the galley, and the pledges were restored.
[Footnote 257: Purchas, in a side note at this place, quaintly converts
the name of the Dutch general into Lawrence Ly-all. - E.]
The eastern monsoon being now come, we fitted out a proa to send with
dispatches to Bantam, giving an account of what had passed; and it was
agreed that Mr Hinchley and I were to go, accompanied by four Englishmen
and fourteen natives of Puloroon, of whom five were chiefs, or
orancays, one of them being son to the sabander, who is the principal
man of the island. We set sail from Puloroon on the 17th April, 1617,
and when in sight of Bottone on our way for Macassar, we descried a
large ship and a pinnace, which gave us chase under a press of sail, so
that we had no means of escape, except by standing in for Bottone. After
being chased half a day, we got near the town of Bottone by night,
thinking the ships could not have got so far up the river; but seeing
the ship and pinnace almost within musket-shot of us next morning, we
presently landed most of what we had in the proa, taking refuge in the
woods.
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