212 Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



The Abigail was a new ship, which sailed from England for 

 Batavia in 1622. The journal of the Master, James Burgess, is still 

 preserved in the India Office (Eecords : 0.0. 1060). In it occurs 

 the following entry : " 1622, 17 Dec. Arvd at Saldania. Ther I 

 mete the Littell James and to Hollandars bounde home." One of 

 these Dutch ships was probably the Leeuwin, which left Batavia in 

 company with the Lesser James. 



There are traces of a third inscription at right angles to that of 

 the Lesser James, but I have not yet been able to decipher anything 

 which can give a clue to its history. 



