556 THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA.

great dexterity brought the ship almost to rights; and having gotten
the guns into their places again, the gunner called to me to bid
our boat get out of the way, for he would let fly among them. I
called back again to him, and bid him not offer to fire, for the
carpenter would do the work without him, but bade him heat
another pitch-kettle; which our cook, who was on board, took care
of. But the enemy were so terrified with what they had met with
in their first attack, that they would not come on again. And
some of them that were furthest off, seeing the ship swim as it were
upright, began, as we supposed, to see their mistake, and give over
the enterprise, finding it was not as they expected. Thus we got
clear of this merry fight; and having gotten some rice, and some
roots, and bread, with about sixteen good big hogs, on board two
days before, we resolved to stay here no longer, but go forward,
whatever came of it; for we made no doubt but we should be
surrounded the next day with rogues enough, perhaps more than
our pitch-kettle would dispose of for us.

We therefore got all our things on board the same evening, and
the next morning we were ready to sail. In the meantime, lying
at an anchor at some distance, we were not so much concerned,
being now in a fighting posture as well as in a sailing posture, if
any enemy had presented. The next day, having finished our work
within board, and finding our ship was perfectly healed of all her
leaks, we set sail. We would have gone into the Bay of Tonquin,
for we wanted to inform ourselves of what was to be known con-
cerning the Dutch ships that had been there; but we durst not
stand in there, because we had scen several ships go in, as we sup-
posed, but a little before; so we kept on north-east, towards
the Isle of Formosa, as much afraid of being seen by a Dutch or
English merchant ship, as a Dutch or English merchant ship in
the Mediterranean is of an Algerine man-of-war.

When we were thus got to sea, we kept out north-east, as if
we would go to the Manillas or the Philippine Islands; and this
we did that we might not fall into the way of any of our European
ships; and then we steered north until we came to the latitude of
22 degrees, 30 minutes, by which means we made the Island of
Formosa directly, where we came to an anchor, in order to get water