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with Japan and China wares, and a supercargo of their own, who,
trafficking with the Spaniards, brought back European goods again,"
and a great quantity of cloves and other spices. And there he was
not only paid his freight very well and at a very good price, but
being not willing to sell the ship then, the merchant furnished him
with goods on his own account; that for some money and some
spices of his own, which he brought with him, he went back to the
Manillas to the Spaniards, where he sold his cargo very well.
Here, having gotten a good acquaintance at Manilla, he got his
ship made a free ship; and the Governor of Manilla hired him to
go to Acapulco, in America, on the coast of Mexico, and gave him
a license to land there, and travel to Mexico, and to pass in any
Spanish ship to Europe, with all his men.

He made the voyage to Acapulco very happily, and there he
sold his ship; and having there also obtained allowance to travel
by land to Portobello, he found means, somehow or other, to get
to Jamaica with all his treasure; and about eight years after, came

‘to England exceeding rich: of the which I shall take notice in
its place; in the meantime, I return to our particular affairs. .

Being now to part with the ship and ship’s company, it came
before us, of course, to consider what recompense we should give
to the two men that gave us such timely notice of the design
against us in the river of Cambodia. The truth was, that they had
done us a considerable service, and deserved well at our hands;
though, by the way, they were a couple of rogues too; for as they
believed the story of our being pirates, and that we had really run
away with the ship, they came down to us, not only to betray the
design that was formed against us, but to go to sea with us as
pirates; and one of them confessed afterwards, that nothing else
but the hopes of going a-roguing brought him to doit. However,
the service they did us was not the less; and therefore, as I had
promised to be grateful to them, I first ordered the money to be
paid to them which they said was due to them on board their
respective ships; that is to say, the Englishman nineteen months’
pay, and to the Dutchman seven; and over and above that, I gave
them, each of them, a small sum of money in gold, and which
contented them-very well, Then I made the Englishman gunner