The A's departure from Bahta, 
An. xSgg. it fecms, when I was laft afhore they had 
narrowly watch’d me) the Governor him- 
felf could not relcafe me. Befides I might 
cither be murther’d in the Streets, as he 
fentme word, or Poyfoned, if I came a- 
fhore any more ; and therefore he advifed 
me to ftay aboard. Indeed I had now no 
farther Bufinefs afhore but to take leave of 
the Governor, and therefore took his Ad- 
vice. 
Our Stay here was till the 2^d of April. 
I would have gone before if I could fooner 
have fitted my felf; but was now carneft 
to be gone, becaufe this Harbour lies open 
to the S. and S. S. W. which are raging 
Winds here, and now was the Seafon for 
them. We had had two or three Touches 
of them ; and one pretty fevere : and the 
Ships ride there fo near each other, that 
if a Cable fhould fail, or an Anchor ftart, 
you are inftantly aboard of one Ship or 
other : and I was more afraid of being dif- 
abled here in Harbour by thefe bluftring 
Winds, than difcouraged by them, as my 
People were, from profecuting the Voy- 
age ; for at prefent I even wifh’d for a 
brisk Southerly Wind as foon as I fiiould 
be once well out of the Harbour, to fet me 
the fooner into the True General Trade- 
Wind. 
The Tide of Flood being fpent, and 
having a fine Land-Breez on the 23d. in 
the 
