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C H A P. XVIII.
The Author with some other puts to Sea in an open Boat, designing for Achin. Their Ac- commodations for their Voyage. Change of Weather; a Halo about the Sun, and a vio- lent storm. Their great danger and distress. Cudda a Town and Harbour on the Coast of Malacca. Pulo Way. Golden Mountain on the Isle of Sumatra : River and Town of Passenge-Jonca, on Sumatra, near Diamond- point : where they go ashore very sick, and are kindly entertained by the Oromkay, and Inhabitants. They go thence to Achin. The Author is examined before the Shabander ; and takes Physick of a Malayan Doctor. His long illness. He sets out towards Nicobar again, but returns suddenly to Achin Road. He makes several Voyages thence, to Ton- queen, to Malacca, to Fort St. George, and to Bencouli, an English Factory on Sumatra. An account of the Ships Crew, who set the Author ashore at Nicobar. Some go to Tran- gambar, a Danish Fort on Coromandel; others to Fort St. George ; many to the Mo- gul's Camp. Of the Peuns; and how John Oliver made himself a Captain. Captain Read with the rest, having plundered a rich Portu- guese Ship near Ceylon, goes to Madagascar, and Ships himself off thence in a New-york Ship. The Traverses of the rest to Johanna, &c.