Page 516
An. 1690
Of P. Jeoly and his Mother.
word, for Michael understood it better. He did of- ten beat and abuse his painted Servant, to make him work, but all in vain; for neither fair means, threats nor blows, would make him work, as he would have him. Yet he was very timorous, and could not endure to see any sort of Weapons; and he often told me that they had no Arms at Meangis, they having no Enemies to fight with.
I knew this Michael very well, while we were at Mindanao: I suppose that name was given him by the Spaniards, who baptized many of them at the time when they had footing at that Island: But at the departure of the Spaniards they were Mahometans again as before. Some of our people lay at this Michael's house, whose Wife and Daugh- ter were Pagallies to some of them. I often saw Jeoly at his Masters Michael's house, and when I came to have him so long after, he remembered me again. I did never see his Father nor Brother nor any of the others that were taken with them; but Jeoly came several times aboard our Ship when we lay at Mindanao, and gladly accepted of such victu- als as we gave him; for his Master kept him at very short commons.
Prince Jeoly lived thus a Slave at Mindanao 4 or 5 years, till at last Mr. Moody bought him and his Mother for 60 Dollars, and as is before related, carried him to Fort St. George, and from thence a- long with me, to Bencouli. Mr. Moody stayed at Bencouli about three weeks, and then went back with Captain Howel, to Indrapore, leaving Jeoly and his Mother with me. They lived in a house by themselves without the Fort. I had no imploy- ment for them; but they both employed them- selves. She used to make and mend their own Cloaths, at which she was not very expert, for they wear no Cloaths at Meangis, but only a Cloath about their waistes: and he busied himself in making