The 30th, Some Other Merchants Of Miaco Came To Look At Our Commodities,
Who Offered Twelve Tayes The Fathom For Our Best Stammel, Or Red
Cloth; But They Went Away Without Making Any Bargain.
At this time we
had very heavy winds, both by day and night, so that we were in fear of
another tuffoon, on which account all the fishers hauled their boats
ashore, and every one endeavoured to secure the roofings of their
houses.
A week before this, a bose, bonze or conjurer, had predicted
to the king that this tempest was to come. About this time our surgeon,
being in his cups, came into a house where a bose was conjuring for a
woman who wanted to know if her husband or friends would return from
sea. So when the bose was done, the surgeon gave him three-pence to
conjure again, and to tell him when our general would return to Firando.
In the end, the bose told him that the general would return within
eighteen days, pretending that he heard a voice answer from behind a
wall, both when he conjured for the woman, and now when he conjured for
the surgeon.
On the 2d of October, the master sent me word that some of the men had
run away with the skiff. These were John Bowles, John Saris, John
Tottie, Christopher Evans, Clement Locke, Jasper Malconty, and James the
Dutchman. While in the way to the king to get boats to send after them,
our Dutch jurebasso came running after me, and told me our people were
on the other side making merry at a tippling-house.
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