The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 eBook

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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 571 pages of information about The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11.
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. 
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