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CHAP. IIII. Relations and Remembrances, taken out of a large Iournall of a Voyage, set forth by the East Indian Societie, wherein were employed, the Iames, the Anne, the New-yeeres Gift, the Bull, and the Bee; written by IOHN HATCH, Ma∣ster of the Bee, and after in the New-yeeres Gift; and lastly, came home in the Iames.
THe fift of March, 1616. we set saile from the Downes. The seuen and twentieth [ 10] 1617. we saw the Canaries.* 1.1 Aprill the tenth, we met the Tornadas in sixe degr. From thence to the twentieth, wee obserued a Current setting to the North. The thirtieth, the Tornadas left vs, in latitude thirtie minutes North, longitude three hundred and fiftie degrees fifteene minutes, that night we crossed the Line. Iune the one and twentieth,* 1.2 we came to anchor in Soldania Bay, accompanyed with the Gift and the Bull, hauing lost our Admirall and Vice-Admirall the night before, by fogs and hazie weather.* 1.3 They came in the next day. There we found riding the Hound, where∣in was Master William Iourdaine. Here we could get no refreshing for our sicke men, wherefore on the first of Iuly, some were sent to march vp into the Countrey to get prouision, which they did (without losse of any, onely two hurt) in great abundance. The thirteenth, wee set saile [ 20] from the Bay.* 1.4 August the thirteenth, we anchored in the Road of Molala. The seuenteenth, we had both our Cables cut with the Rocks. The eighteenth, we set saile from thence.
The fiue and twentieth, in latitude at noone foure degrees fortie foure minutes, longitude fiftie three degrees fiue minutes by iudgement, we found our selues hindred by some Current: at sixe in the euening the water was changed white,* 1.5 and at seuen as white as any Whay, which made the Skie also white and hazie. This night we sounded often and had no ground: thus the water continued all night in the strangest manner that euer I saw,* 1.6 vntill the day light did alter it. It so continued together with the Current: the sixe and seuen and twentieth was but little whi∣tish, and the Current also forsooke vs. The fourth of September, we passed by Socatra, but came not within sight by reason of the Monson, lest it should be done before we came to Surat. Wee [ 30] found in the foure dayes before that,* 1.7 by helpe of a Current, the ship had passed three score leagues more then otherwise shee could haue run; which now left vs. The seuenth, a leake sprung in the Admirall (which Master Copeland, their Minister, hath with much feeling related how dange∣rous,* 1.8 either by villanie or negligence of the Sh••pwrights, as after appeared, when they came to careene her▪ being a great hole slightly stopped, and much hazarding ship, goods and men: they had none other meane there in deepe water to stop it, but by stitching a Bonet or piece of a saile full of Ockam or calking stuffe, which by force of the water running into the ship, being haled downe to the place, was sucked and forced in, and so stayed the leake till it selfe decayed in time, then the leake renewing, and againe stop∣ped: which in the careening was found and remedied.) On the eleuenth, it was stopped. The twelfth, we tooke a Portugall ship which came from Mosambeek, laden principally with Ele∣phants [ 40] teeth, and bound for Diu.
In the sixteenth, we saw two Iunks, one of them chased by two Ships, which were the Fran∣cis and the Lion, Ships set forth by () The Iunke they chased was the Grtat Mo∣gols Mothers, of the burthen of twelue or fourteene hundred Tunnes, hauing in her aboue a thousand persons, and nine and twentie Tunne of siluer (some report more a great deale) wee chased the Chasers, and in the euening came vp vnto them with the Bee and the Gift, and so sa∣ued the Iunke, with whom and her two Chasers, we anchored on the twentieth, betweene the Riuer of Surat and the Barre of Swally.* 1.9
The thirteenth of March, wee weighed: the fifteenth at night, wee anchored to the South west of Damon.* 1.10 The seuenteenth, the Anne departed from vs to the * 1.11 Red Sea. The seuen and [ 50] twentieth, 1618. wee espyed many sailes and fetched them vp with the Bee, being fiue and twentie saile (fourteene sa••le of Frigats men of Warre, eleuen of Merchants the Molucca fleet) and two great Gallies of Goa, which exchanged some shot with vs, but assoone as they could cleare themselues from vs, went away: and being so farre off at Sea, they all escaped vs, not without great trouble, in three Vessels, whence they heaued Chists and other things ouer-boord, to make roome for their Oares, and eight of them got into Cochin, the rest to Goa.
The nine and twentieth, came aboord a Boat with one Woman and foure Men from the King of Calecut. The Woman was interpreter and spake Portuguise. Aprill the first, we came to an∣chor two miles to the North of the Road of Bring Iohn.* 1.12 About two leagues to the North of Brim Iohn is a red Cliffe, and to the South of it a low sandie shore, and the next high Land or [ 60] Cliffe is within a mile of the Road of Brim Iohn, where on the second wee anchored. Master Coytmore and I agreed the next day with the Gouernour for fortie Rialls to water there, and se∣uentie men were landed to guard the watering place for feare of poysoning; for they are trea∣cherous people, which also came armed the next day very strong, and would not permit vs vn∣der twentie Rialls more.