ressed. For one of them stepped
to him, and dasht out his braines, and threw him over-boord: the rest
were brought to _Excester_, and either to be arraigned, according to the
punishment of delinquents in such a kind, or disposed of, as the King
and Counsell shall thinke meet and this is the story of this
deliverance, and end of _Iohn Rawlins_ Voyage. The Actors in this Comick
Tragedie are most of them alive; The _Turkes_ are in prison; the ship is
to be seene, and _Rawlins_ himselfe dare justifie the matter.

FOOTNOTES:

[4] From _Purchas, His Pilgrims_.

[5] Bristol.

THE DAUGHTER OF THE GREAT MOGUL[6]

DANIEL DEFOE

In this time I pursued my voyage, coasted the whole Malabar shore, and
met with no purchase but a great Portugal East India ship, which I
chased into Goa, where she got out of my reach. I took several small
vessels and barks, but little of value in them, till I entered the great
Bay of Bengal, when I began to look about me with more expectation of
success, though without prospect of what happened.

I cruised here about two months, finding nothing worth while; so I stood
away to a port on the north point of the isle of Sumatra, where I made
no stay; for here I got news that two large ships belonging to the Great
Mogul were expected to cross the bay from Hoogly, in the Ganges, to the
country of the King of Pegu, being to carry the granddaughter of the
Great Mogul to Pegu, who was to be married to the king of that country,
with all her retinue, jewels, and wealth.

This was a booty worth watching for, though it had been some months
longer; so I resolved that we would go and cruise off Point Negaris, on
the east side of the bay, near Diamond Isle; and here we plied off and
on for three weeks, and began to despair of success; but the knowledge
of the booty we expected spurred us on, and we waited with great
patience, for we knew the prize would be immensely rich.

At length we spied three ships coming right up to us with the wind. We
could easily see they were not Europeans by their sails, and began to
prepare ourselves for a prize, not for a fight; but were a little
disappointed when we found the first ship full of guns and full of
soldiers, and in condition, had she been managed by English sailors, to
have fought two such ships as ours were. However, we resolved to attack
her if she had been full of devils as she was full of men.

Accordingly, when we came near them, we fired a gun with