He told me, that being there in one of the _King's_ Frigats, they went with their _Pinnace_ into the _middle stream_, and were carried violently by the _Current_: that soon after they sank a _bucket_ with a large _Cannon_ bullet to a certain _depth_ of water, which gave check to the boats motion, and sinking it still lower and lower, the _boat_ was driven a-head to wind-ward against the upper _Current_: the _current_ aloft, as he added, not being above 4 or 5 _fathom_ deep, and that the lower the bucket was let fall, they found the _under-Current_ the stronger. I designed to have made the _Experiment_ in the _Streights-Channel_; but both times I past, the Easterly wind blew so hard, that there was no putting out the boat with any safety; nor indeed at those times had we any leisure for such a _Curiosity_; which those, who liv'd at _Tangier_, might have tryed without any difficulty or danger. This conjecture, how likely or unlikely soever, will stand or fall according to the certainty of the _Observations_, which shall be made there, which I will endeavour to procure in order to the further establishment, or utter overthrow of it. 13. We weighed out of _Tangier_ and turned into the _Strait_, though against the Wind. The distance between _Gibraltar_ Cape, which gives name to the _Straits_, and is joyned to the Continent of _Spain_ and _Ceuta_ a well-built and strongly fortified Town, lying under the Hill _Alybe_, called so by the _Greeks_, which the Seamen commonly call, as do some _Spanish_ Writers, _Apes-hill_, from the great number of Apes which used formerly to haunt there, (at which places _Hercules_ is feigned to have set up his Pillars) may be about six Leagues; tho' both Lands lying very high (for we saw the Clouds much below them) it does not appear in the middle of the Current, out of a tall Ship, scarce half so broad. 14. Little Wind stirring. 15. A great Mist all the Sea over, so that we could scarce see three lengths of the Ship, which began to vanish in the Afternoon; and than we descryed the _Cape of Malaga_ at about four Leagues distance; and came to an Anchor that Night. The City lies under a high Hill, and is the Seat of a Bishop, who is at this time a Natural Son of King _Philip_ the Fourth, of the Order of St. _Dominic_. Here the Merchants told us, that it had not rained for seven Months together, except a day or two for an Hour: and that the _Algerines_, who were then breaking with us, had not been able to have set a Fleet to Sea about two years before, if they had not been furnished with Masts from _England_; and that they were now in Expectation of another Ship laden with the same, notwithstanding the Rupture, which was as good as began. I only make a Query, Whether _Jews_ or _English_ Men were the Freighters?