Captaine comming to _John Rawlins_, and
sometimes making him take in all his sayles, and sometimes causing him
to hoyst them all out, as the Witch findeth by his Booke, and presages;
then have they two Arrowes, and a Curtleaxe, lying upon a Pillow naked;
the Arrowes are one for the Turkes, and the other for the Christians;
then the Witch readeth, and the Captaine or some other taketh the
Arrowes in their hand by the heads, and if the Arrow for the Christians
commeth over the head of the Arrow for the _Turkes_, then doe they
advance their sayles, and will not endure the fight, whatsoever they
see: but if the Arrow of the _Turkes_ is found in the opening of the
hand upon the Arrow of the Christians, then will they stay and encounter
with any shippe whatsoever. The Curtleaxe is taken up by some Childe,
that is innocent, or rather ignorant of the Ceremonie, and so layd downe
againe; then doe they observe, whether the same side is uppermost, which
lay before, and so proceed accordingly.

They also observe Lunatickes and Changelings, and the Coniurer writeth
downe their Sayings in a Booke, groveling on the ground, as if he
whispered to the Devil to tell him the truth, and so expoundeth the
Letter, as it were by inspiration. Many other foolish Rites they have,
whereupon they doe dote as foolishly.

Whilest he was busied, and made demonstration that all was finished, the
people in the ship gave a great shout, and cryed out, "a sayle, a
sayle," which at last was discovered to bee another man of Warre of
_Turkes_. For he made toward us, and sent his Boat aboord us, to whom
our Captain complained, that being becalmed by the Southerne Cape, and
having made no Voyage, the _Turkes_ denyed to goe any further Northward:
but the Captaine resolved not to returne to _Algier_, except he could
obtayne some Prize worthy his endurances, but rather to goe to _Salle_,
and tell his Christians to victuall his ship; which the other Captaine
apprehended for his honour, and so perswaded the _Turkes_ to be obedient
unto him; whereupon followed a pacification amongst us, and so that
_Turke_ tooke his course for the Streights, and wee put up Northward,
expecting the good houre of some beneficiall bootie.

All this while our slavery continued, and the _Turkes_ with insulting
tyrannie set us still on worke in all base and servile actions, adding
stripes and inhumane revilings, even in our greatest labour, whereupon
_Iohn Rawlins_ resolved to obtane hi