n, to keep
themselves from being defiled; or after they are defiled to cleanse
themselves again. They also take great care to keep themselves from
being polluted, by tasting or touching any thing that is accounted
Unclean; therefore Swines Flesh is very abominable to them; nay,
any one that hath either tasted of Swines flesh, or touched those
Creatures, is not permitted to come into their Houses in many Days
after, and there is nothing will scare them more than a Swine. Yet
there are wild Hogs in the Islands, and those so plentiful, that they
will come in troops out of the Woods in the Night into the very City,
and come under their Houses, to romage up and down the Filth that they
find there. The Natives therefore would even desire to lie in wait
for the Hogs, to destroy them, which we did frequently, by shooting
them and carrying them presently on board, but were prohibited their
Houses afterwards.

And now I am on this Subject, I cannot omit a Story concerning the
General. He once desired to have a pair of Shoes made after the
English Fashion, tho' he did very seldom wear any: So one [of] our
Men made him a Pair, which the General liked very well. Afterwards
some Body told him, That the Thread wherewith the Shoes were sowed,
were pointed with Hogs-bristles. This put him into a great Passion;
so he sent the Shoes to the Man that made them, and sent him withal
more Leather to make another Pair, with Threads pointed with some
other Hair, which was immediately done, and then he was well pleased.

CHAP. XIII

Their coasting along the Isle of Mindanao, from a Bay on
the East-side to another, at the S.E. end. Tornadoes and
boisterous Weather. The S.E. Coast, and its Savannah and
plenty of Deer. They coast along the South-side to the River
of Mindanao City, and anchor there. The Sultan's Brother and
Son come aboard them, and invite them to settle there. Of
the Feasibleness and probable Advantage of such a Settlement,
from the neighboring Gold and Spice Islands. Of the best way
to Mindanao by the South Sea and Terra Australis; and of an
accidental Discovery there by Captain Davis, and a probability
of a greater. The Capacity they were in to settle here. The
Mindanayans measure their Ship. Captain Swan's Present to the
Sultan: his Reception of it, and Audience given to Captain
Swan, with Raja Laut, the Sultans Brother's Entertainment of
him. The Contents o