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A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. VIII.

MDCCCXXIV. CONTENTS

OF

VOL. VIII.

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PART II. BOOK III. CONTINUED.

CHAP. IX. Continued.--Early Voyages of the English to the East Indies before the Establishment of an Exclusive Company.

SECT. IV. Voyage of Mr John Eldred, by Sea, to Tripoli in Syria, and thence by Land and River to Bagdat and Basora, in 1583.

V. Of the Monsoons, or periodical Winds, with which Ships depart from Place to Place in India. By William Barret.

VI. First Voyage of the English to India in 1591; begun by Captain George Raymond, and completed by Captain James Lancaster.

VII. Supplementary Account of the former Voyage, by John May.

VIII. The unfortunate Voyage of Captain Benjamin Wood, towards the East Indies, in 1596.

IX. Voyage of Captain John Davis to the East Indies, in 1598, as Pilot to a Dutch Ship.

X. Voyage of William Adams to Japan, in 1598, and long residence in that Island.

Introduction.

Sec. 1. Brief Relation of the Voyage of Sebalt de Wert to the Straits of Magellan.

Sec. 2. First Letter of William Adams.

Sec. 3. Letter of William Adams to his Wife.

SECT. XI. Voyage of Sir Edward Michelburne to India, in 1604.

CHAP. X. Early Voyages of the English to India, after the Establishment, of the East India Company.

Introduction.

SECT. I. First Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1601, under the Command of Captain James Lancaster.

Introduction.

Sec. 1. Preparation for the Voyage, and its Incidents till the Departure of the Fleet from Saldanha Bay.

Sec. 2. Continuation of the Voyage, to the Nicobar and Sombrero Islands.

Sec. 3. Their Reception and Trade at Acheen.

Sec. 4. Portuguese Wiles discovered, and a Prize taken near Malacca.

Sec. 5. Presents to and from the King of Acheen, and his Letters to Queen Elizabeth. Their Departure to Priaman and Bantam, and Settlement of Trade at these Places.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
• 2: With Occurrences till leaving Saldanha Bay
• 3: And Occurrences till his Return to Mokha
• 4: Incidents of the Voyage from England to Socotora
• 5: This town of Hammah is fallen into decay
• 6: Feluchia is a village of some hundred houses
• 7: 3 Bagdat is above two English miles in circumference
• 8: I remained six months at Basora
• 9: Eight days journey from Bagdat
• 10: And after losing sight of Rasalgate
• 11: In the first monsoon from Goa for Pegu
• 12: One of the people belonging to the Edward Bonadventure
• 13: This bay is called Aguada de Saldanha
• 14: And was therefore probably from near Cape Corientes
• 15: During which time we saw several pangaias
• 16: And carried us direct for Cape Comorin
• 17: We happily doubled Cape Comorin
• 18: We likewise stopt another ship of Pegu
• 19: To barter for ambergris and the horns of the abath
• 20: We found immense quantities of bonitos and albicores
• 21: Directing our course for the Brasils
• 22: Our victuals being all expended
• 23: This day came another French ship belonging to Dieppe
• 24: In this pangaia we found a kind of corn called millio
• 25: And within two days brought ryals of plate
• 26: Directing our course for Cape Tiberoon
• 27: Monsieur de la Barbotiere departed from a port called Laguna
• 28: And as soon as the carpenters had caulked a seam
• 29: And landed on the island of Utias
• 30: Put into a river or bay of the island of Utias
• 31: And thence In the east the Turks are called Rumos
• 32: These shoals being far out at sea in lat
• 33: Increasing to a maximum in one deflexion
• 34: We anchored at Mayotta close by a town
• 35: Giving him likewise a criss of honour
• 36: Upon which the sabander took off my hat
• 37: On learning the death of the sabandar
• 38: The harbour of Acheen is very small
• 39: Footnote 40 Areka is the nut
• 40: Who went in 1521 to Acheen with six ships
• 41: Leaving Pulo Lotum on the 30th September
• 42: We departed on the 16th of November
• 43: Footnote 46 Purchas his Pilgrims
• 44: To whom Captain Sebalt de Wert was sent
• 45: After a world of straits in these straits
• 46: And to pass through the straits of Magellan
• 47: Is on the coast of Chili near Conception
• 48: Which is eighty leagues from Bungo
• 49: Where the emperor then resided
• 50: Likewise on the south side of Niphon
• 51: They came notwithstanding to Firando
• 52: The 15th September we departed from St Jago
• 53: And we directed our course for the island of Mocha
• 54: The 12th we came close to Bungo
• 55: There came a Portuguese jesuit
• 56: Footnote 65 Purchas his Pilgrims
• 57: Being ten or twelve leagues north of Saldanha bay
• 58: The 9th there arose a great storm
• 59: We here set up a shallop or bark
• 60: Being in great hope of finding our pinnace
• 61: They told our general they were of Bantam
• 62: Pursuing our course for Patane
• 63: The country of Pahan is very plentiful
• 64: While they searched among the rice
• 65: At this island we found a ship belonging to Patane
• 66: Which he quaintly denominated PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMS
• 67: At the close of the next year 1600
• 68: Yet one of these was disfranchised on the 6th July
• 69: From the historiographer of the company 86 we learn
• 70: Footnote 99 Perhaps the pinnace already mentioned
• 71: And coming to the south of Gran Canaria
• 72: Either to make Saldanha bay or St Helena for refreshment
• 73: We bought 1000 sheep and 42 oxen
• 74: From Saldanha Bay to the Nicobar and Sombrero Islands
• 75: And another kind of fruit called plantains
• 76: The pinnace went always before
• 77: 108 ten or twelve leagues north of Nicobar
• 78: Their Reception and Trade at Acheen
• 79: Took a note of the superscription and of the queen's name
• 80: 110 After a long complimentary preamble
• 81: A Portuguese ambassador was at this time in Acheen
• 82: And when he was to send his messenger to Malacca
• 83: Not meaning to sail from Acheen
• 84: We lay within 25 leagues of Malacca
• 85: Presents to and from the King of Acheen
• 86: Pepper was cheaper here than at Acheen
• 87: And one ryal of eight as custom for each bag of pepper
• 88: With a present of some fine bezoar stones
• 89: Our carpenter mended our new rudder
• 90: We departed from St Helena on the 5th July
• 91: And of the first Factory of the English at Bantam
• 92: The Chinese town is mostly built of brick
• 93: The Javanese are exceedingly proud
• 94: The areka and betel being chewed together
• 95: At Bantam they purchase female slaves
• 96: And other Treacheries of the Javanese
• 97: But by the favour of the Sabander
• 98: Who are great enemies to the Javans
• 99: The sabander commended us mightily
• 100: And the other was his brewhouse
• 101: Would go and enquire after the incendiaries
• 102: Were it not for the sabander and admiral
• 103: Who was called queen of the land by the sabander and others
• 104: Many never went out of Bantam roads
• 105: Set sail for Amboyna and the Moluccas
• 106: Along with two other Dutch ships bound for Cambay
• 107: In which some Javans were placed to defend
• 108: And two tall Javans to carry pikes before them
• 109: These matchans often kill many people near Bantam
• 110: Taken from the ships that came from Cambaya
• 111: None of our men met with any harm in this affray
• 112: Nor whether he had taken the Guzerat vessel
• 113: He then informed us of having taken the Guzerat vessel
• 114: Set sail in the Hector for Banda
• 115: And pay 100 cattees of nutmegs
• 116: Which used likewise to be called tincal
• 117: Each containing 49 1 2 Chinese cattees
• 118: And those most vendible are goobares
• 119: Billa billian is another custom of this port
• 120: Thus 19 Molucca cattees make exactly 50 Bantam cattees
• 121: At four cattees of cashes the taile
• 122: Sell for one dollar the cattee
• 123: Between Pulo Canally and Tidor
• 124: And one from the King of Tidor
• 125: We weighed anchor from Saldanha bay on the 20th August
• 126: The 27th we came to anchor in Saldanha bay
• 127: But Sierra Leona being mentioned
• 128: The first seen land proved to be Ilha Verde
• 129: And they would stay as hostages
• 130: Desired to put into Saldanha bay
• 131: We anchored in eighteen fathoms
• 132: And so along the land to Cape Corientes
• 133: 168 four of the Comora islands
• 134: Are good harbours for shelter in both monsoons
• 135: He was accompanied by a person of Acheen
• 136: The 14th we came back to Bantam roads
• 137: From the eastern part of Amboyna
• 138: And 1307 1 2 cattees of nutmegs
• 139: Where I got 1000 cattees of nutmegs
• 140: Within seven leagues of Cape Aguillas
• 141: Purchas gives the following account of it in a side note
• 142: Was viceroy of Cambaya or Guzerat
• 143: When going about my affairs to wait upon Abder Rachim
• 144: Their armada being then at Surat
• 145: Entreating leave to proceed to Agra to wait upon the king
• 146: I applied to a captain of the Khan Khana
• 147: Of which speech Finch informed me afterwards
• 148: He gave me the name of Ingles Khan
• 149: Craving his leave to repair to Surat
• 150: And the Bramin was condemned to be made a complete eunuch
• 151: 500 mahmudies which he owed me
• 152: The three Surat merchants being in the presence
• 153: He turned me over to Abdul Hassan
• 154: To procure me a pass or seguro from the Portuguese viceroy
• 155: And when two days journey from Cambaya
• 156: And arrived at Dabul on the 16th
• 157: As appended to his narrative by Purchas
• 158: Who was brother to his own father the Padisha Akbar
• 159: Who assaulted Ahmedabad in Guzerat
• 160: The prince told him of the Patan
• 161: There is one great Ragane 206 between Agra and Ahmedabad
• 162: With whom William Finch went into the Mogolls country
• 163: Remembrances respecting Sierra Leona
• 164: The nuts of the palmito are eaten roasted
• 165: It does not grow in bunches like our barberry
• 166: For procuring the palmito wine
• 167: Observations made at St Augustine in Madagascar
• 168: Which are of a gristly substance and excellent eating
• 169: And those made at Socotora begin
• 170: Two carkanets or chains of silver about her neck
• 171: 215 which are taken in traps in the mountains by the cafrs
• 172: At our first landing in Socotora
• 173: Then before Acheen with all the gallants of India
• 174: The Hindoostanee is equal to 1
• 175: On which Badur withdrew to his strong holds
• 176: 16 or 18 miles south of the Taptee
• 177: Among which Badur occupies several strong holds
• 178: That they made inroads as far as the Taptee
• 179: And about four coss from Boorhanpoor
• 180: Are on the north of the Nerbuddah river
• 181: The castle of Gualior is on the west side of the town
• 182: The royal army in the Deccan consisted of at least 100
• 183: At every coss from Agra to Ajmeer
• 184: The herb which produces the hermodactyle
• 185: Which takes its name from Biana
• 186: He began the Patan kingdom of Delhi
• 187: Who fled and got thirty coss beyond Lahore
• 188: Mooltan being then a flourishing city
• 189: Babur sent his son Humaion against his successor Abram
• 190: At forty cosses beyond is Gorebond
• 191: Beyond Ajmeer to the west and south west
• 192: Cambaya is thirty eight coss from Ahmedabad
• 193: And thence eighteen coss to Broach
• 194: You approach the king's durbar
• 195: It has evidently suffered the pruning knife of Purchas
• 196: We anchored in Saldanha roads on the 16th July
• 197: Sent some plantains to our captain
• 198: But if we would come to Booton
• 199: And went ashore to the town of Booton
• 200: Commanded by Captain Alexander Sharpey
• 201: We shall only abstract the author's voyage to Cambaya
• 202: Eight leagues from Mayo is the island of St Jago
• 203: On our first arrival at Saldanha bay
• 204: The natives brought us cocoa nuts for sale
• 205: Till one of the natives told us it was Pemba
• 206: That Churchman afterwards died at Mombaza
• 207: With Messrs Glascock and Tindal
• 208: The people of the Guzerat ship landed
• 209: We departed from Mokha on the 18th July
• 210: Almost directly west from Surat river
• 211: And were gone by land to Surat
• 212: In a carak called Our Lady of Pity
• 213: Who travelled by land from Boorhanpoor to Masulipatam
• 214: After her Separation from the Ascension
• 215: Before the effect of our ordnance made them retire
• 216: And Mr Bradshaw sent Humphry Bidulph to Bantam
• 217: Footnote 303 This certainly is Audierne
• 218: I left Mr Hemsworth in the factory
• 219: We came before the town of Booton
• 220: And bore up the helm for Banda
• 221: And that I was willing to purchase spice from him
• 222: But Mr Spalding said he knew not
• 223: The people of Pulo way flocked about him
• 224: And having our skiff at Pulo way
• 225: For we had landed in the country of the canibals
• 226: On the arrival of the sabandar
• 227: And now turned off the Hopewell
• 228: Commanded by Captain Nicholas Downton
• 229: The latitude of Tamarin is 12 deg
• 230: We had sight of the town of Mokha
• 231: I had this day a letter from Mr Femell
• 232: A janissary brought some message for me from the aga
• 233: On the return of the boats to Mokha
• 234: The aga desired to know its purport
• 235: But Regib aga said I should have my wish
• 236: We were fifteen days between Mokha and Zenan
• 237: That Regib aga had imposed upon us
• 238: To stay them from doing injury to Mokha
• 239: I never ceased urging the kiahya
• 240: There are many of these sensors between Mokha and Zenan
• 241: Used me very civilly on my going up to Zenan
• 242: And some others who had remained at Mokha
• 243: The Darling departed from Mokha for Assab
• 244: That by the command of the aga
• 245: As they still kept my boy at Tayes
• 246: Having been often told at Mokha
• 247: Voyage from the Red Sea to Surat
• 248: Came off with a letter from Bangham
• 249: Khojah Nassan came to the shore
• 250: Partly his and Khojah Nassan's
• 251: And Khojah Nassan from that of Surat
• 252: Mocreb Khan sent for Mr Jourdayne
• 253: Supposing that of the preceding note for Swally accurate
• 254: Lest they might have made him prisoner at Mokha
• 255: Saldanha bay is some fourteen leagues N
• 256: The Dutchmen told us also of lions
• 257: We descried the island of Madagascar on the 6th September
• 258: Right over against the town of Tamarin
• 259: We were abreast the middle of Abdal Kuria
• 260: Footnote 354 The latitude of Aden is in 12 deg
• 261: And promised to give a pilot for Mokha
• 262: Remained still in chains at Mokha
• 263: Her own being prisoners at Mokha
• 264: In the afternoon we saw two Jelbas coming over from Mokha
• 265: I sent the Darling over to Mokha
• 266: Till the return of the ships to Mokha
• 267: She had completed her business at Socotora
• 268: Containing thirty six corges of coarse dutties
• 269: We descried land on the African coast
• 270: Belonging to the sabandar of Mokha
• 271: Following our admiral and the rest to Mokha
• 272: We anchored in the road of Tekoa
• 273: 367 We arrived on the 10th May in the road of Saldanha
• 274: And committed me to prison in the fort of Dungannon
• 275: And the other by Mr Peter Williamson Floris
• 276: Mr Floris and Simon Evans came aboard
• 277: When we bore up and anchored under Pulo tando
• 278: 375 Footnote 375 This kanna
• 279: But which the sabandar soon ended
• 280: Having thus concluded our affairs at Masulipatam
• 281: Which occasioned great dearth at Pahan
• 282: This the king of Tangu afterwards did
• 283: Siam recovered its independence
• 284: That were laden with rice for Pahan
• 285: The king of Pahan arrived at Patane
• 286: Datoo Besar and Datoo Lachmanna
• 287: To which he had invited the Peguers with many fair promises
• 288: The great king of Narsiaga or Velore
• 289: She arrived from Bantam on the 1st November
• 290: To demand the reason of our violent procedure
• 291: Mr Chancey came aboard with the rest
• 292: Footnote 396 Purchas mentions
• 293: And court of the Japonian empire
• 294: We came to anchor between Mosambique and Sofala
• 295: And a painted calico of Guzerat about his middle
• 296: To wait upon the king of Socotora
• 297: That we should proceed for Mokha
• 298: Footnote 410 The island or islands of Demiti or Mete
• 299: I received a present from Hayder Aga of three bullocks
• 300: Captain of the gallies at Mokha
• 301: 415 giving it a somewhat bitter taste
• 302: But ordered by the Grand Signior
• 303: Discharged the following goods at Mokha
• 304: A churle of indigo is 150 rotulas
• 305: They likewise offered 120 dollars for the bahar of tin
• 306: Twenty mahmudies the conido
• 307: For the sum of 7400 11 48 rials of eight
• 308: Rials 2947 9 16The 13th of August
• 309: And that Bantam was exceedingly unhealthy
• 310: Sir Henry Middleton arrived at Bantam in the Pepper corn
• 311: And about three and a half leagues westwards of Jacatra
• 312: Going either between Botun and Cambyna
• 313: Hoping to get a shift of wind to carry us to Machian
• 314: Being ten leagues from Machian
• 315: So that Machian was not truly placed on our chart
• 316: And had sent a message to Tidore
• 317: Advanced on promise of repayment in cloves
• 318: Between Marro and Battachina