for Bantam.  The 23d October, we came to anchor in the road of Marrah in the strait of Sunda, where we took in fresh water.  In this place there is great plenty of buffaloes, goats, hens, ducks, and many other good things for refreshment; and the people do not esteem money so much in payment, as white and painted calicoes, and such like stuffs.  If well used, these people will use you well; but they must be sharply looked after for stealing, as they think all well got that is stolen from a stranger.

We weighed anchor on the 28th of October from before Marrah, and stood for Bantam; which is in lat. 6’ 40’ S. We came this day within three leagues of Bantam, and anchored for the night.  Here we expected to have met the English fleet, but it had sailed for England three weeks before our arrival.  Yet those who had been left as factors of our nation came on board us, being glad to see any of their countrymen in so distant a foreign land.  They told our general, that the Hollanders belonging to the ships in the road, had made very slanderous reports of us to the King of Bantam, to the following purport:  “That we were all thieves and lawless persons, who came there only to deceive and cheat them, or to use violence, as time and opportunity might serve; adding, that we durst not come into the road among them, but kept two or three leagues from thence for fear of them.”  When our general heard this report, he was so much moved to anger, that he immediately weighed anchor, sending word to the Hollanders that he was coming to ride close by them, and bade the proudest of them all that durst be so bold as to put out a piece of ordnance against him:  Adding, if they dared either to brave or disgrace him or his countrymen, he would either sink them or sink by their sides.  There were five ships of these Hollanders, one of which was seven or eight hundred tons, but all the rest much smaller.  We went and anchored close beside them, but no notice was taken of our general’s message; and though the Hollanders were wont to swagger and make a great stir on shore, they were so quiet all the time we lay there, that we hardly ever saw one of them on land.

We took leave of our countrymen, and departed from Bantam on the 2d of November, shaping our course for Patane.  While on our way between the Chersonesus of Malacca and Piedra branca, we met with three praws, which being afraid of us, anchored so close to the shore that we could not come near them, either in our ship or pinnace.  Our general therefore manned the shallop with eighteen of us, and sent us to request that he might have a pilot for money, to carry his ship to Pulo Timaon, which is about five days sail from where we met them.  But, as they saw that our ship and pinnace were at anchor a mile from them, and could not come near, they told us flatly that none of them would go with us, and immediately weighed anchor to go away.  We therefore began to fight them all three, and took one of them in less