San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-06

our means; how they then made this a
pretext TO seize our things, though we
were properly furnished with the dukes
pass, and hold our men in bond, and
how, having plundered us of all we had,
and seeing there was no more to be got,
they did offer us our freedom for writ
ten quittance of all they had taken for
their justification if ever they should
be brought to court, and finally how,
accepting of these conditions, we were
shipped aboard their galley with moth
ing in the world but few trifies, begged
by Mistress Judith in remembrance of
her mother.
This story was accepted without any
demur; nay, Captain Ballcock, being
one of those men who must ever appear
to know all things, supported it in
many doubtful particulars, saying that
he remembered the Rose of Bristol quite
we'll; that he himself had seen whole
greater offense than breaking mosque
window; that the dukes pass counted
for nothing with these Turks; that he
knew the galley we were brought in as
we'll as he knew Pauls church, having
chased it a dozen times, yet never got
within gunshot for her swift sailing,
ETC.. which did much content us to hear.
But the officers were mighty curious to
know what allied Captain Robert Evans
(meaning Dawson), fearing he might
be i'll of the plague. However, on the
don's vowing that he was only,sick of a
surfeit, Captain Ballcock declared he
had guessed it the moment he clapped
eyes on him, as he himself had been
taken of the same complaint with only
eating a dish of pease pudding.
Nevertheless, he ordered the sick man
to be laid in apart of the ship farthest
from his quarters, and so great was the
dread of jpestilence aboard that las his
sickness continued) not soul would
venture near him during the whole voy-
agYexcept ourselves, which also fell in
vs&y well with our wishes. And so aft
IF fairly prosperous voyage we came
jup the Thames to Chatham the third
day of August.
We had been provided with some
rough seamen's clothes for our better
covering ON the voyage, but now, being
landed and lodged in the Crown inn at
Chatham, Don Sanchez would have the
captain take them all back.
But" says he, eff you will do us
yet another favor, captain, will you suf-
fer one of your men to carry letter to
Mistress Godwin's steward at Chisel-
hurst, that he may come hither to re-
heve US from our present straits?"
"Aye," answers he, II will take the
letter gladly myself, for nothing pleases
me better than ramble in the country
where was born and bred.
So Moll writes letter at once to ST.
mon, bidding him come at once to her
relief, and Captain Ballcock, after care
fully inquiring his way to this place he
knew so well Gas he would have us be-
ieve), starts off with it, accompanied
by his boatswain, good natured kind
of lickspittle, who never failed to back
up his captains assertions, which again
was to our great advantage, for Simon
would thus learn our story from his lips,
! and be given no room to doubt its We,
| racity.
As soon as these two were out of the
house Dawson, who had been carried
from the ship and laid in bed, though
as hale since we passed the Goodwins
as ever he was in his life, sprang up,
and declared he would go to bed nc
more for all the fortunes in the world
till he had supped ON roast pork and on.
ions-this being dish he greatly loved,
but not to be had at Elcle, because the
Moors by their religion forbid the use OF
swine's flesh-and seeing him very de.
termined on this head, Don Sanchez or,
dered leg of pork to be served in oul
chamber, whereof Dawson did eat such
prodigious quantity, and drank there
with such vast quantity of strong ale
(Which he protested was the only liquor
an Englishman could drink with any
satisfaction, that in the night he wa.
seized with most severe cramp in his
stomach.
This gave us the occasion to send fol
a doctor in the morning, who, learning
that Jack had been i'll ever since we lef
Barbary, and not understanding hi!
present complaint, pulled very Ions
face, and, declaring his case was very
critical, bled him copiously, forbade
him to leave his bed for another fort
night and sent him in half a dozen bot
ties of physic. About midday he returns
and, finding his patient no better, ad
ministers bolus, and while we are al
standing about the bed, and Dawson tn,
color of death, and groaning betwix
the nausea of the drug he had swallowed
and the cramp in his inwards, in come
our Captain Ballcock and the ittl
steward.
"Therel" cries he, turning on Simon
! "did not 1 tell you that my old frient
Evans lay at death IS door with the treat
ment he hath received Of these Barbar
pirates? Now will you be putting us Of
with your doubts and your questionings
Shall / have up my ships company t