Avontuurlijke reys-togten van Johan Smith, in verscheyde gedeelten des werelds, begonnen in het jaar 1593 ...

rescued me to my satisfaction from my distress, continuing my way and purpose.

1593

Comes to a farmer who rescues him.

One of the French scoundrels.

Whom he wounds and injures.

Not long after this, walking through a small thicket between Pontorson and Dinan in Brittany, it happened that I met Cursell, one of those scoundrels, in a much worse state than I myself. My sensitive indignation had so little patience that I, without any words, drew my sword, commanding the other to do the same, whom in a short time I caused to tumble to the ground wounded, and would have finished him off had such not been prevented by people in sight of an old castle, who let me go unmolested when they heard Cursell's confession of what had happened previously, and how they had taken each other by the ears while dividing the stolen goods. For his part, however, he sought to excuse himself by being innocent of both one thing and the other.

Comes to the Count of Ployer, who treats him handsomely.

Travels through several places.

In view of having dealt with him thus, I was glad to be rid of him; and so subsequently I betook myself to a distinguished lord, the Count of Ployer, who, during the war in France, with his 2 brothers, the Viscount of Pomory and the Baron de Mercy, who had been brought up in England, provided for my needs better than ever before. When they had let me view St. Malo's Hill, St. Michel, Lamballe, Simbreack, Lannion, and their own castle of Tuncadeck, Guingamp original: "Gingan", and several other places in Brittany, I took my leave of them and traveled through Rennes original: "Raynes", the capital of Brittany, and so to Nantes, Poitiers, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux. The reputation of the strength of Bayonne, in Biscay, compelled me to view that; and from there I took my way through Lescar in Béarn and Pau original: "Paw" in the Kingdom of Navarre to Toulouse in Gascony, Béziers original: "Bezers",