[A Fort built near him, but afterward taken by the King.] In the year MDCLXVI. the Hollanders came up and built a Fort just below me, there being but a ridge of Mountains between them and me.  But tho so near, I could not come to them, a Watch being kept at every passage.  The King sent down against them two great Commanders with their Armies, but being not strong enough to expel them, they lay in these Watches to stop them from coming up higher.  The name of this Fort was called Arrandery.  Which altho they could not prevent the Dutch from building at that time.  Yet some years after when they were not aware, they fell upon it and took it, and brought all the People of it up to Cande, where those that remained alive of them were, when I came from thence.

[He and three more removed thence] In this Countrey of Hotteracourly, where the Dutch had built this Fort, were four English men placed, whereof I was one.  All whom the King immediately upon the News of the Dutche’s Invasion, sent order to bring up out of the danger of the War into Cande Uda, fearing that which we were indeed intended to do, viz. to run away.

This Invasion happening so unexpectedly and our remove so sudden, I was forced to leave behind me that little Estate which God had given me, lying scattered abroad in Betel-nuts, the great Commodity of that Countrey, which I was then parting from:  and much ado I had to get my Cloths brought along with me, the Enemies, as they called them, but my Friends being so near.  And thus was I carried out of this Countrey as poor as I came into it, leaving all the fruits of my Labour and Industry behind me.  Which called to my remembrance the words of Job.  Naked came I into this world, and naked shall I return:  God gave and God hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord.

[Settled in a dismal place.] We all four were brought up together into a Town on the top of a Mountain called Laggendenny.  Where I and my dear Friend and fellow Prisoner, and fellow Batchelor Mr. John Loveland lived together in one House.  For by this time not many of our People were as we, that is, single men; but seeing so little hopes, despaired of their Liberty, and had taken Wives or Bedfellows.

At our first coming into this Town, we were very much dismayed, it being, one of the most dismal places that I have seen upon that Land.  It stands alone upon the top of a Mountain, and no other Town near it, and not above four or five Houses in it.  And oftentimes into this Town did the King use to send such Malefactors as he was minded suddenly to cut off.  Upon these accounts our being brought to this place could not but scare us, and the more, because it was the King’s special Order and Command to place us in this very Town.