ffe, but it got offe
again without any hurt, and therewith wee presently made towardes the
straight.

The 2. of December we passed by 3. townes which we might easily perceiue,
we likewise passed by Tubam, and ankered vnder Sidaya. The 5. of December
there came men out of the towne, and desired vs to stay, saying that there
we might haue Cloues and Nutmegs as many as we woulde, bringing certaine
banketting stuffe (as a present from their king) vnto Schelengers ship,
because it lay nearest to the land, and they came most abord it.

The 4. of December they came again into Schellengers ship, bringing
certaine presentes with them, and among the rest a certayne birde that
coulde swallowe fyer, which is a very strange fowle, and was brought aliue
to Amsterdam, which after was giuen to the states of Hollande lying in the
Hage, and some good fruites, willing vs to sende a man on shore, to see
their spices, whereof they said they had great store: wherevpon we sent a
man out of the Amsterdam, and with him an interpreter, one of the
Portingalles slaues, they leauing three or foure of their men aborde our
shippes, for pawnes till his returne: when our men came to lande hee was
well vsed, and there they shewed him fortie or fiflie bals of Cloues; which
done they brought him before the King, that promised him great fauor, and
told him that the next day he wold himselfe come abord our ships, and deale
with our Captaines, and with that he let our man depart.

[Sidenote: How the Indians betrayed them.] The 5. of December we expected
the Kings comming aborde, putting out all our flagges and streamers, and
about noone there came 8. or 9. indifferent great shippes full of men from
off the shore, wherein wee thought the King to bee, but when they were
almost at vs, they diuided themselues, three of them rowing to Shellengers
ship, and when they borded him, they thinking the King had been there,
Reymer van Hel as Factor and the Maister came forth to receyue him and the
Iauars entering all at once, Reymer van Hel said, What will all these
people do aborde the shippe, for there was at the least two hundred men,
who all at one time drewe out their poinyardes, and stabbed our men that
neuer suspected them, so that presently they had slaine twelue of the
shippe, and two sore wounded, that boldly withstoode them: the rest of our
men being vnder hatches presently tooke their pikes, and thrust so fast out
at the grates, that the Iauars woulde haue f