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And lies sunk in St. Augustin's Bay.
her, she still pursued her Voyage towards the Red Sea: but the Winds being against them, and the Ship in so ill a condition, they were forc'd to bear away for Coromandel, where Captain Teat and his own Men went ashore to serve the Mogul. But the Strangers of Captain Freke's Ship, who kept still aboard the Cygnet, undertook to carry her for En- gland: and the last News I heard of the Cygnet was from Captain Knox, who tells me that she now lies sunk in St. Augustin Bay in Madagascar. This Di- gression I have made to give an account of our Ship.
The other passage I shall speak of, that occurred during this Interval of the Tour I made from Achin, is with relation to the Painted Prince, whom I brought with me into England, and who died at Oxford. For while I was at Fort St. George, about A- pril 1690, there arrived a Ship called the Mindanao Merchant, laden with Clove-bark from Mindanao. 3 of Captain Swan's Men, that remained there when we went from thence, came in her: from whom I had the Account of Captain Swan's Death, as is before related. There was also one Mr. Moody, who was Supercargo of the Ship. This Gentleman bought at Mindanao the Painted Prince Jeoly (men- tioned in Chapter XIII.) and his Mother; and brought them to Fort St. George; where they were much admired by all that saw them. Some time after this, Mr. Moody, who spoke the Malayan Language very well, and was a person very capable to manage the Companys affairs, was ordered by the Governour of Fort St. George to pre- pare to go to Indrapore, an English Factory on the West Coast of Sumatra, in order to succeed Mr. Gib- bons, who was Chief of that place.
By this time I was very intimately acquainted with Mr. Moody, and was importuned by him to go with him, and to be Gunner of the Fort there. I always