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An.1687
Their Departure from Pulo Condor.
which they give the Names of Orange, Mon- mouth, Grafton, Bashee, and Goat-Islands, in general, the Bashee Islands. A digression concerning the different depths of the Sea near high or low Lands. The Soil, &c. as before. The Soil, Fruits, and Animals of these Islands. The Inhabitants and their Cloathing. Rings of a yellow Metal like Gold. Their Houses built on remarkable precipices. Their Boats and Employments. Their food, of Goat Skins, Entrails, &c. Parcht Locusts. Bashee, or Sugar-cane drink. Of their Language and Original, Launces and Buffaloe Coats. No Idols, nor Civil form of Government. A young man buried alive by them; supposed to be for Theft. Their Wives and Children, and Husbandry. Their Manners, Entertainments, and Traffick. Of the Ships first Intercourse with these people, and bartering with them. Their Course among the Islands; their stay there, and provision to depart. They are driven off by a violent Storm, and return. The Na- tives kindness to 6 of them left behind. The Crew discouraged by those Storms, quit their design of Cruising off Manila for the Aca- pulco Ship: and 'tis resolved to fetch a Com- pass to Cape Comorin, and so for the Red- Sea.
Having fill'd our Water, cut our Wood, and got our Ship in a sailing posture, while the blustring hard Winds lasted, we took the first op- portunity of a settled gale to sail towards Manila. Accordingly June the 4th, 1687, we loofed from Pulo
loof: steer into the wind to clear the harbor, then turn to ride it