Part II. Travels into the L e v a n t. 
and that veiy brackifli too: they have two Barks or TaratKjttinf, wherein they 
carry Wood to fell at Mafcat. That wretched place is called Jafques, and de- 
î-nds on the Governour of Comron, who fends whom he pleafes to Command 
inX',. 
Ihurfday the feventeenth of December, about fix a Clock in the morning, we 
clapt on our Main-Top-Galant-Sail, and flood awa^ Eajt, keeping in fight of the 
Land of Perfia, leafl the Wind might force us too far out to Sea, which about 
eleven a Clock turned North-Eaji. At noon we found that from Sun fetting the 
day before, we had run threefcore and one Miles, or twenty Leagues, and a third, 
at the rate of three Miles a League. At one of the Clock,* we bore away Eafl: and by 
Somk About four a Clock, the Wind chopping about to fFefi, we bore away 
South-Eaji ardby Eaji. About half an hour after five, we had Eafi, North-Eali 
of us, a little low Ifle, clofe by the Perfian Ihoar, which in that place is very \ow. 
About fix a Clock we were off and on with that little Ille. Friday the eighteenth 
of December in the morning, we Steered cur Courfe Eafi and by South i and at 
noon we found that from that time the day before, we had made eight and thirty 
Leagues: then the Wind got into North 'fTefi, and we bore away Soutb-Eafl and 
by Eafi, that we might not run within Land, which we obfcurely made on Head 
a little to the Larboard. 
Next morning the Wind abated, and therefore we ftood away Ea(l and by 
SoHth. At noon we found by our reckoning, that we had in the laft four and 
twenty houis, made five and twenty Leagues and a half. Then the Captain, 
Mate, and Gunner took an Obfervation of the Suns height with a Quadrant, as well 
as they could i for none of the three had much skill irr it, and the Mate leaftof 
all: all three agreed that we were in twenty four degrees, thirty minutes Latitude. 
About evening the Wind (hifted into South fTefi, but it was fo eafie that fcarcely 
did it curl the water i yet we Steered away S outh- Eafl znd by Eajt, that we might 
not be caft a (hoar. 
Sunday the twentieth of December it continued fiill calm weather, fo that at noon, 
we foun'd we had made but five Leagues wayi and our Men having taken their 
Obfervation, found that we were ftill in the Latitude of twenty four degrees thirty 
minutes, as we were the day before : and that day every one was ftinted to a mea- 
fureand a half of water by day. Towards the evening we made the Land of 
Ferfia, and were but about five Leagues off of if, which made as Steer away 
Soutb-Eafi and by South, and ftand out to Sea, contrary to the opinion of the 
Mate who would have kept in by the Shoar, giving this reafon for it, that we 
needed not fear to be caft too far to the Leeward, as the Captain faid, becaufe aC 
îhattinie the EafiW'mà blows along the Coaft of Sindy, and befides, being near 
Land, in cafe it proved bad weather, we might come to an Anchor, and take in- 
water, which we were affraid we might come to want. But the chief reafon why 
he would have ftood in to (boar, and which he kept to himfelf, was that he might 
know the place where he was i for thefe are fuch an ignorant fort of Men^ that 
fo foon as they lofe fight of Land, they know no more where (hey arc. The 
Captain made anfwer to all his reafons, that it was bad advice, to make us double 
our way without any neceffity, and that we had no reafon to go look for Eajt 
Winds, having the Wind at South-Weft, which though it was eafie, flill kept us 
going on in our Courfe, and wauld, (if it frelhened,) bring us in a fliort time 
whither we wefe bound i and in that cafe, we needed not go look for water, 
whereof as yet we had no want : befides that, by ftanding in to (hoar, we run a 
risk of meeting the Zinganes, thofe Pirats I mentioned before, whom no body 
defired to fee \ and we put our felves alfo in danger of not being able to-get out 
ro Sea again for a long time, if the Wind (which we had,J lafted, becaufe we muft 
wait for another Wind , which perhaps, might not offer in fome weeks time. 
In fine, it behoved the Pilot to acquiefceto this judgment, which was approved 
by all of us nay the Gunner was for having us fteer our Courfe more to the 
Southward, and he was not out in that i for the Coaft of Cape Jafques bears 
Wei}: and by North, and and by South, and we Steered Sotttb-Eaji and by 
Ealt, from which fubftrading a Point and a half, which is the variation of the 
Needle, 
