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868

Royal

Commentaries.

BooK

VI.

tured to

fupply with

·Provifidns

for

biS

money, which much

pleafed the

dent when he thought how good a choice he had made of a knowing

and

ra·rhfii

perfon, for

weighty a trufi as this of che Gally-fiaves.

CH AP.

IX.

AlJ the

Gally-flaves

niake their

efcape

froni

Rodrio-o Ninno·

excepting one who

re111ained

with

hinz, and

h1m

he drov;

away

with Cztjfs

and

Boxes

with

his Fifi upon

his Face.

The Sentence which

·was

pa/fed on hiln in this cafe.

The

Favour

which

the

Prince

Maximilian

!hewed

him.

Rodrigo

Ninno

having got out of the

hands

of the r>yrate

his Strategem of

Miifick,

proceeded

on his Voyage,

and came to

Havana

where

mofi: of

his

Gally-Haves, having not had a fufficient Guard to fecure them,

made

their

efcapes: others

10[

them fled away at

Cartagena,

and others at the Hlands of

T".

cera.r,

fo chat when they came to pafs rhe Bar of Saint

Lucar,

there were not

above

eighteen remaining of che whole nwnber of eighcy fix; and between

thac

and

the Port of

Seville

feventeen found

means

to run away ; fo that when

Rodrigo Nimzo

•

came to difembark ,

had onely a poor fimple fellow of all

his

company re–

maining; whereas, according to conrraet made with the Prefident at

Los

Reye1,

\ as co have delivered the whole number of eighty fix at this place ;

wherefore

Ninno

entered into

Seville

with his fingle Gally-!lave at a Back-gate of the City

called

Carbon,

which

is little frequented

either by rhofe who go

or come

out.

Rodrigo

Ninno

finding himfelf

rhe middle of

Screet when no

perfon

appea..

red, catched hold of his Gally-flave

the Collar, and, with his

Dagger

his

hand, fwore by the life of the Emperour, that he would give him cwemy Stabbs:

buc> faid he, I

will not doe it, becaufe

will

noc

foul

hands with the

,oud

dirty

Villain

thou

arc,

who having been

Souldier

Pern,

hall yet the

bafe and poor fpirit to become a Slave in the Gallies.

Why

idfi not chou run

away

as the ocher

eighty

five have done? Get thee

gone

in the Devil's

name,

for

1had rather goe alone, than rhus ill-attended ; and having faid thus much, he

gave

him

thr~e

or four good Cuffi on the Ear, and

let him goe: And therewith

Ro–

drigo

went direetly co the Farmers of the Cufioms , co give them an

account

tbe great care he had taken of che Gally-flaves; but that wanting men

~ard

and fecure rhem, chey were all efcaped; and indeed he was in great

apprehenfions

and fear of his own Life,

lylng

at che mercy of

many men who had a

power

over him greater than his. The Commiffioners of the Cufiom-houfe were much

amazed to hear this

Story,

and knew not what co

fay

ir,

uncill farther Exami–

nation.

che

mean time, this

lall:

Gally-flave,

according

to his own bafe

fpirit,

talked

at large of this matter in che

firll:

Vittualling-houfe he came

~mo;

and

roid--.aH

the

{l>arciculars

which

Rodrigo Ninno

had either faid or done:

cb1s

Story

fille

d all the

Town wirh difcourfe, and came at

length

co the hearing of the CommHfioners,

who thereupon feized upon

N inno;

and che

King,s

Attorney accufed him

with

high

agg1~a\

ations of his fault,

alledgin~

chat he had given liberty to

eighty

!lx of

the

Kings

Slaves, for every one of "'hteh he ought co

pa~

rhe .value and

pnce

ranfome. The Suit againfl: him was profecuted, and

R_odnt.o

!lJnn~,

not being able

ju!lify

himfelf, he was condemned

ferve the

Kin~

h1~

H rfe for che

[pace

of fix years in

Oran

and with two ocher Compam?ns at

. \

o charge

and chat in the mean time he was not ro recurn

the

Indies.

But

Nmno

appeale.d

from

this

fentence

co the

Prince

M aximilian

Aujhia

who

t~en _g<?vern~d

S:Pff11t

in the abfence of his Imperial Majefly who was

his

Uncle:

His

H1g

ne mchned

a favourable Ear

the Advocates of

Rodrigo

Ninno,

who gave him a

rge

ac~ounc

of all the Services which

Ninno

had performed again

the Rebels, and how

Jh~d