She was so very large, that she carried us all very, very easily, and would
have carried two or three tons of baggage with us; so that we began to
consult about going to sea directly to Goa; but many other considerations
checked that thought, especially when we came to look nearer into it; such
as want of provisions, and no casks for fresh water; no compass to steer
by; no shelter from the breach of the high sea, which would certainly
founder us; no defence from the heat of the weather, and the like; so that
they all came readily into my project, to cruise about where we were, and
see what might offer.

Accordingly, to gratify our fancy, we went one day all out to sea in her
together, and we were in a very fair way to have had enough of it; for when
she had us all on board, and that we were gotten about half a league to
sea, there happening to be a pretty high swell of the sea, though little or
no wind, yet she wallowed so in the sea, that we all of us thought she
would at last wallow herself bottom up; so we set all to work to get her in
nearer the shore, and giving her fresh way in the sea, she swam more
steady, and with some hard work we got her under the land again.

We were now at a great loss; the natives were civil enough to us, and came
often to discourse with us; one time they brought one whom they showed
respect to as a king with them, and they set up a long pole between them
and us, with a great tassel of hair hanging, not on the top, but something
above the middle of it, adorned with little chains, shells, bits of brass,
and the like; and this, we understood afterwards, was a token of amity and
friendship; and they brought down to us victuals in abundance, cattle,
fowls, herbs, and roots; but we were in the utmost confusion on our side;
for we had nothing to buy with, or exchange for; and as to giving us things
for nothing they had no notion of that again. As to our money, it was mere