Tweede scheeps-togt, van de Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy, onder den Hr. Hendrik Middleton, generaal,...

are saved by Middleton.

would be so kind as to relieve the second coracora light boat that followed them, and in which there were several Dutch merchants (who, without his help, had nothing to expect but death). Upon this, our General gave orders to the gunner to fire upon the Tydorian galleys, which nevertheless did not cease to pursue the Ternateans and to grapple them within range of our cannon, where they put everyone to the sword, and no more than 3 escaped by swimming, who were taken into the boat by our men.

Other Ternateans are killed.

Civility of the English toward the King of Ternate.

Our General thought to go to Tydor, but the Dutch begged him not to let the King of Ternate and them fall into the hands of their enemies, from whom he had just saved them, promising to give him whole mountains of cloves and other goods at Ternate and Makeu, which was later paid with molehills, so that the proverb was proven true: having escaped the danger, the Saint whom one had promised much is forgotten. One matter I must not skip here, namely, that the King, coming aboard our ship, trembled with fear. Our General, believing that the cold caused such trembling, threw a black damask robe, trimmed with gold and finished with rough velvet, around his body. However, the King did not have the civility to return it upon his departure and kept it as if it were his own. But note how this civility was answered not long after by these ungrateful people.

Faithlessly answered,

By the King.

When our General came to the Portuguese city on Tydor, the Governor of the fort found one Thomas de Torres, accompanied by some others, with a letter, the contents of which were that the King of Ternate and the Dutch had reported that nothing but all sorts of falsehood and deceit was to be expected from us, but that he had better thoughts of us, and believed that