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THE V0YAGE8 OF MIDDLETON AND SARIS 21 provided with a pass from the Turkish emperor, order- ing his governors on the Red Sea to admit the English to friendly trade. But the Moslem ill-will, left behind by Sir Henry Middleton's " rummaging of Indian ships," rendered a traffic on shore impracticable. After a barter of cargoes enforced on Moslem vessels at sea, and something like a compact of piracy with Middle- A GENERAL VIEW OF MA8ULIPATAM. ton, Captain Saris proceeded to Japan, which he reached on June 12, 1613. There he found a solitary Englishman, whose story savours of the time. William Adams, having served as master in Elizabeth's navy and in the English Com- pany of Barbary Merchants, joined a Dutch fleet from Rotterdam to the East Indies as pilot-major in 1598. After long miseries the fleet got scattered, but Adams's ship reached Japan in April, 1600, with the crew in a dying state. Adams was brought before the emperor, examined as to his country and the cause of his coming,