The  same  day  before  night,  the  Admirall  either
loth  to  pester  himselfe  with  too  much  company,  or
ignorant  of  the  commodity  that  was  to  be  made  by
the  sale  of  English  prisoners,  or  daring  not  to  trust
them  in  his  company,  for  feare  of  mutinies,  and
exciting  others  to  rebellion;  set  twelve  persons  who
were  in  the  George  Bonaventure  on  the  land,  and
divers  other  English,  whom  he  had  taken  before,  to
trie  their  fortunes  in  an  unknowne  Countrey. But
Villa-Rise,  the  Vice-Admirall  that  had  taken  lohn
Rawlins,  would  not  so  dispence  with  his  men,  but
commanded  him  and  five  more  of  his  company  to  be
brought  aboord  his  ship,  leaving  in  his  Barke  three
men  and  his  boy,  with  thirteene  Turkes  and  Moo?-es,
who  were  questionlesse  sufficient  to  over-master  the
other,  and  direct  the  Barke  to  Harbour. Thus  they
sailed  directly  for  Algier;  but  the  night  following,
followed  them  with  great  tempest  and  foule
weather,  which  ended  not  without  some  effect  of  a
storme:  for  they  lost  the  sight  of  Rawlins  Barke,
called  the  Nicholas,  and  in  a  manner  lost  them-
selves,  though  they  seemed  safe   a   shipboord,   by


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fcarefull  coniecturing  what  should  become  of  us:  at
last,  by  the  two  and  twentieth  of  the  same  moneth,
they,  or  we  (chuse  you  whether)  arrived  at  /Ilyier,
and  came  in  safety  within  the  Mould,  but  found  not
our  other  Barke  there;  nay,  though  we  earnestly  in-
quired after  the  same,  yet  heard  we  nothing  to  our
satisfaction;  but  much  matter  was  ministred  to  our
discomfort  and  amazement. 