On The 21st The Tide Was So Low, And An East-South-East Wind Blew So
Hard, That During The Whole Day The Boat Could Not Get Out.
On the
22nd they attempted to fish upon the wreck, but the weather was so
bad that even those
Who could swim very well durst not approach it.
On the 25th the master and the pilot, the weather being fair, went
off again to the wreck, and those who were left on shore, observing
that they wanted hands to get anything out of her, sent off some to
assist them. The captain went also himself to encourage the men,
who soon weighed one chest of silver, and some time after another.
As soon as these were safe ashore they returned to their work, but
the weather grew so bad that they were quickly obliged to desist,
though some of their divers from Guzarat assured them they had found
six more, which might easily be weighed. On the 26th, in the
afternoon, the weather being fair, and the tide low, the master
returned to the place where the chests lay, and weighed three of
them, leaving an anchor with a gun tied to it, and a buoy, to mark
the place where the fourth lay, which, notwithstanding their utmost
efforts, they were not able to recover.
On the 27th, the south wind blew very cold. On the 28th the same
wind blew stronger than the day before; and as there was no
possibility of fishing in the wreck for the present, Captain Pelsart
held a council to consider what they should do with the prisoners:
that is to say, whether it would be best to try them there upon the
spot, or to carry them to Batavia, in order to their being tried by
the Company's officers.
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