contriv'd a design to seize this Packet, upon the report that ran of the rupture between England and Holland. Casembrot having seen the bigness of the Packet, gives Wauwuck a description of it, and so both together they contrive another of the same form and bigness as neer as they could. When I came a-board, I took the English Packet, and lock'd it up in my Bouccha, which is the sort of Cloak∣bag that is us'd in that Countrey, and laid it behind my Bolster. There were two Shallops sent a-board us, wherein there were sixty bags of Silver, containing some fifty, some a hunder'd Tomans a piece. These bags they unladed very leisurely to gain time, watching when I would be gone to bed. But when they saw that I did not go to rest, the Dutch consulted together, and agreed to let fall a bag of Tomans into the Sea; and so came all a-board, sending away a Shallop to Gomron for a Di∣ver. When I found that the Vessel would not set Sail till two or three hours after day-light, I went to rest, my Bouccha lying in the same place, half out, and half with in-side of my Bolster: But when my Servants were gone, and I alone and a-sleep in the Cabin, they cunningly stole my Bouccha, took out the English Packet, and left the other which they had counterfeited, in the place; being only so many Letters of blank-paper. Coming to Surat the sixt of May following, I gave the Packet, as I thought, which I had receiv'd from the English Agent at Gomron, to two Capuchin-Erlers to deliver to the President at Surat. But when the Presi∣dent came to open the Packet before several of the Company, there was nothing but white-paper made up in the form of Letters; which when I heard, too much to my sorrow, I understood the villanous trick that Van-Wuck had put upon me. I wrote a smart Letter of complaint to the Dutch-General in Batavia, but finding no redress, I was forc'd to undergo the hard censure of the English, who would not permit me to justify my self. However, as it is rare to see treachery go un∣punish'd, the Complotters all dy'd miserably. Van-Wuck fell into a violent Fe∣vor, and being charg'd with the theft; thinking to defend himself with an equi∣vocation, that if he took the Cloak-bag, he wish'd he might dye without speak∣ing a word, in three days ended his life just in the same manner, and at the same time that he had imprecated upon himself. Bozan his Lieutenant, after a great debauch, going to sleep upon the Terrass of the Cabin, where he lay for coolness, (there being no Balisters,) rolling and tumbling in his sleep, fell down, and the next day was found dead in the Sea.
The Captain, four or five days after his arrival at Surat, being met in the Street by a Mahometan, who was jealous of his Wife, and being mistak'n by him for one among several Franks, that had parted him, and kept him from correcting his Wife some few days before, was stabb'd by him in three or four places with a Dagger, and kill'd him out-right. And this was the end of those treacherous people.