tart IL "gravels into the Le v a ht, 199- 
Next morning about nine a Clock, we weighed, thoiigh it was fii.ll low 
water, only we had a Gale from South-Eafi--, we fleered Eafiy North'Eaft, that 
we might fland in to (hoar, and about half an hour after eleven we came to 
an Anchor, a League off of the, Town of and Wejiward f\om it. I did 
not go a (hoar, bccaufe the Captain told me, that I could not liay there above 
an hour or two, having ordered the Boat that carried a (hoar Mafter Manml 
Menàez^ to return immediately, apd being relolved fo foon as he had unloaded 
his Goods to weigh Anchor, and wait for no body; I did not think going 
a (hoar to be worth the pains of running the risk of being taken •■, for there 
are Malabar Barks commonly upon the fcout, efpecially in thç evening, skulking 
behind fome Points of Land , and when they perceive any fniall Veffel, make 
up to it and carry it away. 
Daman is a Town belonging to the Portuguefe^ who have made it very ftrong, vamin. 
and have a good Fort in it. It lyes in the twentieth degree of North Lati- Latitude of 
titudci and is Hfteen Leagues diftant from Baffaim, and forty from Din, They 
have molt delicate Bread at Daman, and drink only water of a Tanquier^ but, 
which they fay , is very good. From Daman to Cape Cnmor'm , a range of Gape Comrini 
very high Hills runs along the Coaft. This Town has no other Harbour but 
a little Canal or Cut which is full at high water, and remains dry when 
the Tide is out i fmall Barks come into it , but Ships ride out in the Road. 
Ours ftayed there a little more than four and twenty hours, for the Boats 
that were to come for the Goods of Mafter Manuel Mendez-, came not a 
Board of us till the next day, which was Saturday \ it "Was noon before We 
had loaded them, and it behoved us afteiwards to flay till two a Clock for 
our Boat , though we had fired a Gun in the morning as a fignal for them 
to put off; but the Sea-men being got drunk, made never the more hafte for 
that : we did not weigh Anchor then, till three a Clock in the afternoon, 
and we flood away Norths the Wind being then at Weft^ North-We^. A- 
bout feven a Clock we were forced to come to an Anchor, becaufe the 
Wind was down , and the Tide of Ebb made us lofe way. About nine a 
Clock, with a little Gale at Eafl, we weighed again , and bore away North h 
in five Fathom and a half water , and for above an hour , we had no 
more. 
Next day being Sunday the tenth of January, by break of day we were 
got within a Cannon fhot of Land, which was to our Starboard, and to the 
Larboard we faw two great Ships at Anchor : they were prefently known to 
be Ships belonging to the King of Mogul, which Trade to Moca, whither they Ships of the 
carry at every Voyage above two Millions. We faw many other Ships on ^tng ot Mi' 
Head, fome at Anchor, and others under Sail i amongft chefe there were two 
Dutch Ships, who failed not to fend off their Boats to know who we were, 
taking us to have been an Englijh Ship. At length , half an hour after ten, 
we came to an Anchor at the Bar of Surrat, in fix Fathom and a half The Bar of 
water i and prefently a Cufl:om- Houfe Waiter came on Board of us, being S»''''''^ 
there accidentally > for commonly they come not, till after the Captain be gone 
a (hoar. 
Next day Monday the eleventh of January, feveral of the Cuftom-Houfe 
Boats came on Board of us, to take in all the PalTengers and their Goods : we 
^went down into them, and they put off from the Ship about half an hour 
after two: at fiift we made towards (hoar apace, the Wind being good i but 
it being low water, an hour after we (tuck a ground, and it behoved us to flay 
for Flood to get off again, which was not till half an hour after three, when 
we weighed again the Anchor which we had dropped. We went on then, 
with the Tide, for the Wind was contrary s and within half an hour after, 
ran a ground again i where we were another haif hour before we could 
get off: having afterwards advanced a little farther, we faw a fmall Ifle to 
our Right Hand, and from thence the Channel grows narrower and narrower. 
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