'We had not cruised here above three days, or thereabouts, but I
spied a sail, and gave her chase; but when we came up with her,
never was such a poor prize chased by pirates that looked for booty,
for we found nothing in her but poor, half-naked Turks, going a
pilgrimage to Mecca, to the tomb of their prophet Mahomet.
The junk that carried them had no one thing worth taking away but a
little rice and some coffee, which was all the poor wretches had for
their subsistence; so we let them go, for indeed we knew not what to
do with them.'