But it was the Lord's will that it should not find them, and so it returned to Firando.

On October 3, however, it was sent to Pulocondor [_i.e._, Condor Island], opposite Camboxa, with thirty men, fourteen pieces of artillery, munitions and provisions, to search for the crew and artillery of a ship that the Hollanders lost there.
On the twelfth of October of the same year, 619, another ship, greatly injured and with its crew wounded and crippled, came to the same port of Firando from Patane, on the further side of Malaca.

It, with two other Dutch ships, had fought, in the port of Patane, two English ships that were there.

Although anchored and unprepared, the latter fought to the death, over the anchor-ropes.

The smaller English vessel, seeing that it could not defend itself, and that there was no help for it, blew itself up by setting fire to the powder.