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An.1687
A Prince of a Spice Island.
Pump-box ; being unaccustomed to such work. We learnt this way of Pump-making from the Spani- ards; who make their Pumps that they use in their Ships in the South Seas after this manner : and I am confident that there are no better Hand-pumps in the world than they have.
While we lay here, the young Prince that I mentioned in Chapter the 13th, came aboard. He understanding that we were bound farther to the Southward, desired us to transport him and his Men to his own Island. He shewed it to us in our Draft, and told us the Name of it : which we put down in our Draft, for it was not named there: but I quite forgot to put it into my Journal.
draft: hand-drawn nautical chart or sea map
This Man told us, that not above 6 days before this, he saw Captain Swan, and several of his Men that we left there, and named the Names of some of them, who, he said, were all well, and that now they were at the City of Mindanao : but that they had been all of them out with Raja Laut, fighting under him in his Wars against his Enemies the Al- foores : and that most of them fought with un- daunted Courage; for which they were highly honored and esteemed, as well by the Sultan, as by the General Raja Laut: That now Captain Swan intended to go with his Men to Fort St. Geosge, and that in order thereto, he had proffered 40 ounces of Gold for a Ship; but the Owner and he were not yet agreed : and that he feared that the Sultan would not let him go away till the Wars were ended.
All this the Prince told us in the Malayan tongue, which many of us had learnt; and when he went away he promised to return to us again in 3 days time, and so long Captain Reed promised to stay for him (for we had now almost finished our busi- ness) and he seem'd very glad of the opportunity of going with us.
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