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To their slaves they did not give either musket or fusee; but theyhad each a halberd, or a long staff, like a quarter-staff, with agreat spike of iron fastened into each end of it, and by his side ahatchet; also every one of our men had a hatchet. Two of the womencould not be prevailed upon but they would come into the fight, andthey had bows and arrows, which the Spaniards had taken from thesavages when the first action happened, which I have spoken of,where the Indians fought with one another; and the women hadhatchets too.
Not being able to put the old man out of his talk, of which he wasvery opinionated or conceited, I told him we were gentlemen as wellas merchants, and that we had a mind to go and see the great cityof Pekin, and the famous court of the monarch of China. "Why,then," says the old man, "you should go to Ningpo, where, by theriver which runs into the sea there, you may go up within fiveleagues of the great canal. This canal is a navigable stream,which goes through the heart of that vast empire of China, crossesall the rivers, passes some considerable hills by the help ofsluices and gates, and goes up to the city of Pekin, being inlength near two hundred and seventy leagues." - "Well," said I,"Seignior Portuguese, but that is not our business now; the greatquestion is, if you can carry us up to the city of Nankin, fromwhence we can travel to Pekin afterwards?" He said he could do sovery well, and that there was a great Dutch ship gone up that wayjust before. This gave me a little shock, for a Dutch ship was
This was small comfort to us; however, we had no remedy: there wason our left hand, at about a quarter of a mile distance, a littlegrove, and very near the road. I immediately resolved we shouldadvance to those trees, and fortify ourselves as well as we couldthere; for, first, I considered that the trees would in a greatmeasure cover us from their arrows; and, in the next place, theycould not come to charge us in a body: it was, indeed, my oldPortuguese pilot who proposed it, and who had this excellencyattending him, that he was always readiest and most apt to directand encourage us in cases of the most danger. We advancedimmediately, with what speed we could, and gained that little wood;the Tartars, or thieves, for we knew not what to call them, keepingtheir stand, and not attempting to hinder us. When we camethither, we found, to our great satisfaction, that it was a swampypiece of ground, and on the one side a very great spring of water,which, running out in a little brook, was a little farther join
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