'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎426] (475/506)

436 Our Return *0 E N G L A N D.
Let, Vlil
A bold A£l of
an dlgier
Slave.
The 'Azores.
England,
Land atFoikflon
near Dover.
flkerranean ; but Nature having oppofed a fmall Neck of Land of
Sixty Miles, has thought fitter to let the unquiet Ramblers 20
ak-uc thefe vaft Coafts, than 10 cut them out a nigher Way to fo
long undifcovered Regions.
The Sixteenth we pafled the Northern Tropick into the Tem
perate Zw, where take an account of a desperate Adion. In
the Jofiah an Engli/h Seaman heid in Captivity by the Algerecns
had fo perfeded himfelf in that^durance in the Art of Thieving*
rbat nothing eoujd efcapehim ; in which being often Apprehended'
end as often Bound with Chains and Ropes, they were ail too little
to hold him fail ; for he could unty the hardefl Knot with his
Toes as well as Fingers, and was expert at filing or eating off his
from ; But continuing in thefe Pranks nothing could be fafe from
him, even the Ships-ltores were imbezelled by him, which touched
the Lives of all in the Ship, he having feveral times broken open
the Lazeretto, from which no Corredion could deter him ; at lad
allured by a general Confuft, fome puniihment was devifincr for
him, he unmanacled himfelf, and came before them as they were
thinking what to do with him, and bidding them Adieu, leapt into
the Sea, at once putting an end to their Conf'ult, and his Fear and
Fury.
fn Thirty Degrees North, we met with Alga or Sea Weed, fup-
pofed to be brought hither by the rapid Courfe of the Gulf of
Jlorida y which aotwithflanding is a great way to the Weft off
us.
The North-Eaft Winds have been very faint hitherto, whereby
we were hindred from meeting with the South Weft Windsfooner *
but between 30 and North they enter to purpofe ; that in the
beginning of jluguJ? we left the Weftern Iflinds, which are called
Flandrica, or the Azores, which lie between the Ifles of Cprvo and
Fiores ; where many place the firft Meridian, becaufe here is
found in thefe Seas and the parts adjacent, that the A/W-
//^ Needle has no declination from the Meridian Line, and that
It points out North and South exadlly ; which beginning of Longi
tude, Mercatar obferves in his Tables
And now we fet our Face diredly for England, knowing by
our Account we are paft thefe Spots of Earth, which tbofc return
ing from Mia think themfelves obliged to be fecure of, before
they do ; we having deprefled our Longitude Weft, from Afa*-
Eighteen Degrees take a North-Eaft Courfe, and being paft
forty degrees North, we take our Fortune both for Wind and Wea
ther , fometimes fair, fometimes foul , fometimes for us
lometimes againft us, till having our Latitude almoft compleat'
we again raifed our Longitude within a Degree and half of that of
eurA/lV bought us the Fourteenth of ^gv/? in fight of
tll .n h iUh en v ing ,hfi r Channel ' the were more concerned
than ailthe Voyage afore: As we came up we daily met with Ships
outward bound, and others overtook us coming in, and the Com-
pan.es Waiters Boarding us, every one was as cautious to own his
Hlate ' as a Ml(er ' 0 wnfefs on a Poll Ad. With thefe Caterpii-
lars