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( 22 ) that ſhould convict me of guilt; but with lif up hands and eyes to heaven, I utterly denied ever I ſaw this man, or ever had any dealing him. In ſhort the Bannyan, ſince he could not poſitively I was the man, was diſmiſſed, not with a ſolemn vow he would be revenged of us all in neral; and I was cleared of-he indictment.

The next day, a great many of our men wen ſhore. and going into China row, (a ſtreet ſo ca in Bantam) to drink punch, a great crew of In and Chineſe (headed by this Bannyan) fell u then, killing whom they could not directing revenge upon any particular perſon, (which call Running a Muck:) So hot and ſharp was conflict, that many were killed on both ſides, more wounded This accident alarmed the w town, but moſt eſpecially the Engliſh there reſidia but at laſt, with much ado. this grand uproar calmed. It was my good fortune that I was then among them, otherwiſe I might have? made a ſacrifice among the reſt of my fellows; I was pre-informed that ſuch broils are uſual i ſuch occaſions, wherefore I kept myſelf ou harm's-way for that time.

But not long after, thinking their malice blown over, I went aſhore, and walking with o of our ſhip's crew, in the ſame Row, (where o of our men uſed to reſort) a fellow came to with this Bannyan I cheated, and both of t with Creaſes, (a kind of dagger of about a foot half long) would have ſtabbed me had not my lows prevented them, by ſtriking up their heels afterwards, with their own Crdaſes, ſtabbed t to the heart After this we could walk very q ly, without any diſturbance, going any where out danger.

I never came aſhore but I drank pretty free punch, arrack, &c. which was brought in