ar MDCLXXIX,
on the Two and twentieth of September, furnished with such Arms as
we could well carry with safety and secrecy, which were Knives and
small Axes; we carried also several sorts of Ware to sell as formerly:
the Moon being seven and twenty dayes old. Which we had so contrived,
that we might have a light Moon, to see the better to run away by:
having left an Old Man at home, whom I had hired to live with me,
to look after my House and Goats.

[The way they went.] We went down at the Hill Bocawl, where there
was now no Watch, and but seldom any. From thence down to the Town
of Bonder Cooswat, where my Father dyed; and by the Town of Nicavar,
which is the last Town belonging to Hotcurly in that Road. From
thence forward the Towns stand thin. For it was sixteen miles to the
next Town called Parroah, which lay in the Country of Neure Cawlava,
and all the way thro a Wilderness called Parroah Mocolane, full of
wild Elephants, Tigres and Bears.

[They design for Anarodgburro.] Now we set our design for Anarodgburro,
which is the lowest place inhabited belonging to the King of Cande:
where there is a Watch alwayes kept: and nearer than twelve or fourteen
miles of this Town as yet we never had been.

[They turn out of the way to avoid the King's Officers.] When we came
into the midst of this Countrey, we heard that the Governor thereof had
sent Officers from the Court to dispatch away the Kings Revenues and
Duties to the City, and that they were now come into the Country. Which
put us into no small fear, lest if they saw us they should send us back
again. Wherefore we edged away into the Westernmost Parts of Ecpoulpot,
being a remote part of that Countrey wherein we now were. And there
we sate to knitting until we heard they were gone. But this caused
us to overshoot our time, the Moon spending so fast. But as soon as
we heard they were departed out of the Countrey, we went onwards of
our Journey, having kept most of our Ware for a pretence to have an
occasion to go further. And having bought a good parcel of Cotton
Tarn to knit Caps withal, the rest of our Ware we gave out, was to
buy dryed flesh with, which only in those lower Parts is to be sold.

[Forced to pass thro the Chief Governours yard.] Our way now lay
necessarily thro the chief Governors Yard at Colliwilla. Who dwells
there purposely to see and examine all that go and come. This greatly
distressed us. First, because he was a stranger to us, and one whom