Chap II. to the EAST 
The Reafon I imagine to be this, the Point of Land ly- 
ing in io° 30', being a Peninfula not above three or four 
Leagues broad, ferves for a Shock to heighten and inflame 
the Wind, which runs along the Coaft North-Eaft and 
South- Weft ; whereas Cape Guardafu is very high, and 
the Wind pafling over a long Traci of dry and hot Land* 
in Conjunction with the Rays of the Sun, does fo heat its 
Surface, that the Wind is wafted above it. The 27th we 
weighed Anchor, and as we advanced found the Wind grow 
bri fleer ; after we had failed about twelve Hours, we fell in 
with great Tides running out of the Red-Sea , and a few 
Hours after that found the Sea very much troubled, and 
ftained with red Spots ; fome took it for Flats, but we could 
difeover no fuch thing by founding. My Senfe of the 
Matter was, that we then being in the Mouth of the Red- 
Sea , and that being the Day of the Moon’s Conjunction, 
fome great Floods joined to the Prefiure of the Sun and 
Moon, occaftoned this Violence of the Tides. 
Next Day a Confultation of the Pilots being called, it was 
refolved that we jfhould run feven or eight Days to and 
again in the Mouth of the Red-Sea ; for fear the Wind we 
then had fhould waft 11s too foon upon the Coaft of Ma- 
labar ; purfuant to this Refolution, we fleered North to- 
wards the Coaft of Arabia . Augujl the 31ft we came 
within two Leagues of the Coaft of Arabia , we were then 
in 14 0 20' Latitude, over-againft a Bay, in which, accord- 
ing to the vulgar Maps, there fhould be fome Iflands called 
Caramberumma , and Xael, which produce great Quanti- 
ties of Frankincenfe. I thought to have made Carambe- 
nrnma , but the contrary Winds and Tides, prevented me. 
I underftood that there came to that Place every Year a 
great many Mohammedan Pilgrims, fome of whom conti- 
nued there a long time. 
In the Entry of the Red-Sea , and along the Coaft of the 
Cafiines , or Guar defines, there is a prodigious Quantity of 
Fifh, efpecially Thornbacks, fome of which are as long as 
a Boat, and proportionably thick ; fome of our Men ftruck 
at them with a Grapple, but it pierced their Skin no more 
than if it had been Iron. This Coaft of Arabia is fandy, 
and in fome Places low ; but in the inland Parts there are 
very high Mountains, which were covered with Fogs all the 
Time we were there. The Calm obliging me to flay in the 
Mouth of the Red-Sea till Sep ember the 10th, I began to 
be apprehenfive we might come too late to double Cape 
Comorin , and for that Reafon flood North-Eaft with what 
Eaft and Eaft-South-Eaft Wind we had, till we fell in 
with the South-Weft Winds, and fo fleered our Courfe 
South. 
Having called a Confultation of the Pilots and other 
Officers, in order to determine what Courfe we fhould 
Iteer to Cape Comorin , whether through the Channel of 
Mammal e , or along the Coaft of Malabar , it was alledged, 
that pafling through the Straights of Mammale at thatSeafon, 
would abridge our Voyage ; but on the other hand the 
Tides running South- Weft, were againft us, and to Hand 
to South-Eaft we fhould be obliged to fail clofe by the 
Wind, fo that the Ship would make but little Way ; and 
for that Reafon it was alledged, that we might fooner make 
the Coaft of Malabar than the Latitude of that Channel, 
and for my part, I was apprehenfive of being becalmed on 
that Coaft, upon which we had a hundred and twenty 
Leagues to fail before we could double Cape Comorin. It 
was likewife alledged, that we could not reach the Latitude 
of that Channel, which was 9 0 , without falling in upon the 
Terra Firma , by reafon that Handing South-Eaft would 
make more than an Eaft Courfe ; others again pleaded, 
that South-South-Eaft would do our Bufinefs. 
In this Difference of Opinions, I refolved to put the 
Cafe to a Trial, by ftanding South-South-Eaft, and re- 
marking from the Latitudes what Way we made: Accord- 
ingly we fleered South-South-Eaft till the next Day at 
Noon, and then having taken the Latitude, found that our 
Way was no better than Eaft-South-Eaft. After this I 
called together the Pilots again, the Majority of which 
agreed that we fhould go directly in quell of the Coaft of 
Malabar , in the Latitude of 1 3 0 20'. The chief Reafon they 
infilled upon was, that the Channel of Mammale lying in 
9 0 30', it would be a long Time before we fhould reach it; 
befldes, that in that Courfe we fhould be in Danger of fall- 
ing in with the Flats to the Northward of the Channel 
Though I was very apprehenfive of being becalmed on the 
Coaft of Malabar $ yet I yielded to the Plurality of Votes, 
and flood Eaft-South-Eaft. 
19. The 26th we came in Sight of the Coaft of Ma- 
labar , which is very high and mountainous ; within the 
Country, the 27th, we deferied Mount Deli, about eight 
Leagues off, which lies between Cranganor and Mangolar , 
and appears at that Diftance like an Eland. In that Place 
the Needle varied 15° 15' North- Weft ; having fpied a 
Galliot about a League off, and the Wind varying about 
to the North, we gave her Chace, but could not come up 
with her. The 28th, being becalmed, we faw a Ship 
two Leagues to the Windward of us, and I fent Mr .Mon- 
teurier with twenty-three Men in the Long-boat, ordering 
them not to board the Ship, but to command che Captain 
to fend his Pilots and Purfer aboard of us, and to acquaint 
him that I defigned them no Harm, but only to know if 
it was not too late to double Cape Comorin ; fometime after 
I faw our Long-boat board the Ship, and fome Mufkets 
fired, and after that a Boat came off from the Ship, and 
made towards us. 
The Calm continuing, and the Boat advancing but 
flowly, I fent our Skiff to know their News, which I was 
in Pain to hear : Upon its Return I underftood that the 
People in the Boat were five of our Men, three of whom 
were dangeroufly wounded- When thefe came aboard they 
recounted a tragical Story, viz. that upon their Approach 
to the Ship, which was a large one, M. Monteurier gave 
them Notice to lower their Sails, that they not obeying, he 
fired upon them two Brafs Guns, and a Broad-fide of Muf- 
ket Shot, that thereupon they ftruck, and told him he 
might board them if he would ; upon which our Men 
boarded them upon the Quarter-deck, and having killed 
all the Men abaft, thought themfelves entirely Mailers of 
the Ship, when of a fudden fixty or eighty Men ftarted up 
in the Fore-caftle, and with Shields and Hangers in their 
Hands, fell upon our Men with fuch Fury, that they obliged 
them to retire to the Boat. But there happened an unlucky 
Mifchance, the Boat was fo belayed that they could not dis- 
engage her, fo that moll of our Men were killed with PicL- 
axes, Arrows, and Hand-Granades, which were thrown into 
the Boat, and the reft being forced to leap into the Sea, 
one of them fwam to the Moor ’ s Boat, and having cut the 
Cable, faved himfelf, and the other four Men, without 
flaying for the reft, who in all probability were drowned. 
Next Morning I made all the Sail I .could to come up 
with the Ship, and having boarded it, found no body on 
Board but fifteen poor old Wretches with white Beards reach- 
ing to their Girdle, who with Tears and Lamentations 
threw themfelves at my Feet, and raifed my Companion 
more than Revenge ; befldes that, the five Men who were 
faved, unanimoufly affured me, that they did not fee them 
in the Engagement. The Account I had from thefe Men 
was, that the Ship having carried a Cargoe of Pepper to 
Mecca, was upon her Return to Panama near Calicut , to 
which Place fhe belonged, that themfelves were poor Peo- 
ple coming from Mecca to beg upon that Coaft, that the 
Owners of the Ship, in Number eighty, had gone off the 
Night before in our Boat, with the Gold and Silver, and 
the Boat being almoft over-laden, had left them behind. 
Upon the whole, I ccnfidered that thofe poor Men were 
innocent, and that the Ambition and Avarice of our Men 
was the Caufe of their Death, fince the Moors had ftruck* 
and defigned them no Harm, tiil our Men fell upon them ; 
for thefe Reafons I fpared the poor old Men. I found 
aboard of the Ship a great Quantity of Salt, Dates, Wine, 
two Puncheons of Opium, fome hundreds of Pounds of 
Coral, fome Cotton Cloth of fmall Value, Rofs-water,. and 
Knives, and I underftood from the old Men, that if our 
Men had not boarded the Ship, the Owners would have 
furniflied iqe with forty thoufand Ducats of Cairo , which 
is a Golden Coin worth about four Livres apiece. 
20. Oblober the 2d we were off Cape £ omorin in 7 0 50', 
thQ Needle varying 140 20', the Tides bearing to the South, 
having carried us farther off than we defigned. After that, 
being advifed by our Pilots to ftand for Ticow rather than 
Achen, I fleered South-Eaft, and South-Eaft a Quarter 
Eaft. The nth we had a violent Guft of Wind, which 
lafted 
