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An. 1689
Of the Cygnet, and her Crew.
notice at prefent of two paffages ; which I think I ought not to omit.
The firft is, that at my Return from Malacca, a little before Chriftmas, 1689, I found at Achin one Mr. Morgan, who was one of our Ships Crew that left me afhore at Nicobar, now Mate of a Danifh Ship of Trangambar ; which is a Town on the Coaft of Coromandel, near Cape Comorin, belonging to the Danes : And receiving an account of our Crew from him and others, I thought it might not be amifs to gratifie the Readers Curiofity therewith ; who would probably be defirous to know the fuccefs of thofe Ramblers, in their new intended Expedition towards the Red Sea : and withal I thought it might not be unlikely that thefe Papers may fall into the hands of fome of our London Merchants, who were concern'd in fitting out that Ship ; which I faid formerly, was called the Cygnet of London, fent on a Trading Voyage into the South Seas, under the Command of Captain Swan : and that they might be wiiling to have a particular Information of the fate of their Ship. And by the way, even before this meeting with Mr. Morgan, while I was at Ton- queen, January 1689, I met with an Englifh Ship in the River of Tonqueen, called the Rainbow of London, Captain Poole Commander ; by whofe Mate, Mr. Barlow, who was returning in that Ship to En- gland, I fent a Pacquet, which he undertook to de- liver to the Merchants, Owners of the Cygnet, fome of which he faid he knew : wherein I gave a par- ticular account of all the Courfe and Tranfactions of their Ship, from the time of my firft meeting it in the South Seas, and going aboard it there, to its leaving me afhore at Nicobar. But I never could hear that either that, or other Letters which I fent at the fame time, were received.
To proceed therefore with Morgan's Relation : He told me, that when they in the Cygnet went a- way