Part II. travels into the Levant* 
\many times wanting, and then happy is he that hath a Jarr. Care was taken to 
our twoCifterns and all our Casks with the beft water that is drank at Congo^ 
aiMthefe Cjiftems held fixteen Hogllieads a piece. 
M^day the fixth of December, a JVeJi Wind coming in with the New-Moon, 
the Sh\p'^MafHUpatan, made Sail in the morning, without firing a Gun, and all 
day long fuch as were to go with us were coming on Board, until five a Clock iri 
the evening, when we weighed, made Sail, and Steered away Somk We were 
then in five Fathom water, and about half an hour after fix, we found fix Fa- 
thom. About feven a Clock the Wind veered about to North-Wefi, and wc flood 
away South, South-Eaft. Half an hour after eight, we had feven Fathom waten 
About ten a Clock, feven Fathom a Foot lefs. About half an hour after eleven, 
feven Fathom > and then we fet the Ships Head Eafl, South Eaji but at mid- 
right held our Courfe S'oai^. 
Next morning half an hour after five, we had thirteen Fathom water, and were 
almoft at an equal diftance from the Ifle of ^uefchimo, which was to the North-Eaji 
of usi the ifle of Nahdgion or Vitombe, South, South-Weji of us, and the Ifle of 
Toabo, South Eaftùom us, and we bore away Eafli 
^efchimo is a great Ifle but low Land -, though it hath feveral Hillocks, yet Quefchim. 
they are all fo low, that Sailing along this Ifland, on any fide, you may fee the 
Mountains of the main Land over it; It lyes in length Ea^ and We^, is not very 
broad, but twenty Leagues long: it is to the E<«^ of Congo, and IFefl, South-JFeJi 
from Comorons it is a fruitful and well inhabited Ifland, the ?Fe/î end of it not be- i 
ing above a good League and a half from Congo, and the Eafi end about a League 
from Bender- Abafjî. On the Eafl part of this liland there is a Fort, before which 
Ships may come to an Anchor in fix Fathom water, to take in frefli water, which is 
very good in this place. The Portuguefe formerly held this Fort i and it may be 
worth theobferving that though the Ifland be very near the main Land, yet Barks 
and Galliots pafs betwixt the two. 
Nahdgion^ or Vitombo, is a little low Defart Illand lying South, SoHth-Ea(i from mtm or Fl» 
^efchimo. ^ tomba, 
ionboh another little low flat Ifland and Defart affoarding only a great many ' 
Antelopes and Conys. It lyes to the Eafi of Nahdgion or Pitomba, and South ùom. 
Congo, from which it is but four Leagues difhnt. Manuel Mendez fwho had much 
experience in thofe Seas, being very young when he came into that Country, where 
he hath during thefpace of many years made feveral Voyages,) made me obferve 
that if any one fhould build a Fort on that Ifland, and keep fome Men of War 
there, he might eafily raife a Toll upon all the Ships that Trade in thofe Seas -, for 
they mufi of neceffity Sail near to that Ifland on the one fide or other. Towards 
the South-Eafi, it has fifteen or twenty Wells of good water i but efpecially one 
that is excellent, and a good Road before it. When the Portuguefe were pofTefTed 
of Mafcate, they came every year with fome Galliots to the Ifle of tonbo, to receive 
the Tribute that was paid them in all the Ports of thofe Seas, and brought thither 
by thofe who were obliged to pay it. The yearly Tribute they had from the Ifle 
of ^efchimo confifted of five Perfian Horfes, and two Falcons i Congo payed four 
hundred lomans i Babrem fixœen thoufand Abajjis j and Catif the half of the yearly 
profits of its Cufloms; as (ot BaJJora, there was a Portuguefe Agent that refided 
there, who received a Chequin a day of the Bajha, and as often as the General came 
to that Town, the Ba(ha made him a Prefent. This Ifland is encompafTed all round 
with Banks under water, neverthekfs there isalmofl: every where, four, fix, eight, 
nay in fome places nine Fathom water. 
About half an hour after feven, the Wind flackened much, and we Steered 
South, South Eafi, about eleven a Clock we found nine Fathom water : and feeing 
wewerealmoft becalmed, and the Tide caft us fo the Wefttvard, we were obliged 
todtop an Anchor half an hour after one a Clock at noon. We were fome three 
Leagues off of Sannas, which was to ihcfFefi, North-JFefl of us, to the North- 
Weji and by Wiji, it makes a Peak, but the Hill is higher than the Peak : we went ■ 
thither to take in water, for the water is very good there, though it be about two 
Leagues from the Weji point oÇ ^efchimo, which was to the North-Weji of us. 
About four a Clock we had a Breeze from 5"ok^/>, South-Weft, which made us Steer 
omQjOwxh South-Eafi. About fix a Clock we had twenty Fathom water. Half 
an hour after feven, the Wind turned North-fFejl, and we bore av/ay Ea(i ; at 
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