While Near Pulo Laor, On The 12th December, We Descried Three Sail, And
Sent Our Pinnace And Shallop After One
Of them which was nearest, while
we staid with the ship, thinking to intercept the other two; but they
stood
Another course in the night, so that we saw them no more. In the
morning we descried our pinnace and shallop about four leagues to
leeward, with the other ship which they had taken; and as both wind and
current were against them, they were unable to come up to us, so that we
had to go down to them. On coming up with them, we found the prize was a
junk of Pan-Hange,[74] of about 100 tons, laden with rice, pepper, and
tin, going for Bantam in Java. Not caring for such mean luggage, our
general took as much rice as was necessary for provisioning our ship,
and two small brass guns, paying them liberally for all; and took
nothing else, except one man to pilot us to Patane, who came willingly
along with us, when he saw our general used them well. The other two
pilots, we had taken before from the three praws, were very unskilful,
wherefore our general rewarded them for the time they had been with us,
and sent them back to their own country in this junk.
[Footnote 74: This should rather be, perhaps, Pau-hang, being the same
place called by other writers Pahaung, Pahang, or Pahan, often called
Pam in the Portuguese accounts, and pronounced by them Pang.
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