and that there was neuer Englishman captiue to the
king of Marocco. So we came downe to the ship,
and lay there with them seuen dayes, while they had
gotten all the goods they could, and then they parted
it amongst them. After the end of these seuen
dayes the captaine appointed twenty of his men wel
armed, to bring vs vp into the countrey: and the
first night we came to the side of a riuer called
Alarach, where we lay on the grasse all that night:
so the next day we went ouer the riuer in a frigate
of nine oares on a side, the riuer being in that place
aboue a quarter of a mile broad: and that day
we went to a towne of thirty houses, called Totteon:
there we lay foure dayes hauing nothing to feed on
but bread and water: and then we went to a towne
called Cassuri, and there we were deliuered by those
twenty souldiers vnto the Alcaide, which examined
vs what we were: and we tolde him. He gaue
vs a good answere, and sent vs to the Iewes house,
where we lay seuen dayes. In the meane while
that we lay here, there were brought thither twenty
Spaniards and twenty Frenchmen, which Spaniards were
taken in a conflict on land, but the Frenchmen were
by foule weather cast on land within the Straights
about Cape de Gate, and so made captiues. Thus
at the seuen dayes end we twelue Englishmen, the twelue
French, and the twenty Spaniards were all conducted
toward Marocco with nine hundred souldiers horsemen
and fotmen, and in two dayes iourney we came to the
riuer of Fez, where we lodged all night, being prouided
of tents. The next day we went to a towne called
Salle, and lay without the towne in tents. From
thence we trauelled almost an hundred miles without
finding any towne, but euery night we came to fresh
water, which was partly running water and sometime
raine water. So we came at last within three miles
of the city of Marocco, where we pitched our tents:
and there we mette with a carrier which did trauel
in the countrey for the English marchants: and
by him we sent word vnto them of our estate; and they
returned the next day vnto vs a Moore, which brought
vs victuals, being at that instant very feeble and
hungry: and withall sent vs a letter with pen,
inke, and paper, willing vs to write vnto them what
ship it was that was cast away, and how many and what
men there were aliue. For said they we would
knowe with speed, for to morow is the kings court:
and therefore we would know, for that you should come
into the citie like captiues. But for all that
we were carried in as captiues and with ropes about
our neckes as well English as the French and Spaniards.
And so we were carried before the king: and when
we came before him he did commit vs all to ward, where
wee lay 15 dayes in close prison: and in the
end we were cleared by the English Marchants to their
great charges; for our deliuerance cost them 700 ounces,
euery ounce in that country contayning two shillings.
And when we came out of prison we went to the Alfandica,
where we continued eight weekes with the English marchants.