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India and ■ Persia :
In Eight LETTERS.
LETTER!
Containing a Twelve Month's Voyage through
Divers Climates.
CHAP. I.
Treats of "Bnbarlgqg and Pajsage 'till paft St. Iago.
O R your lingular Favour, in seeing me
Aboard ship (which might reasbnably be sup-
posed the last kind Osfice to a departing
Friend, considering the various Chances of so
long a Voyage, as well as the Uncertainty.of
my Return) I raust keep to that Promise,
whereby you obliged me to give you an ac-
count not only of my Being, but of what
Occurrences were worth my Animadversion.
You may remember, It was the 9th of December, in the Year of
our Lord 1672,, when by virtue of an Order from the Honourable
Raft-India Company, I being received on Board the Unity, we took of
.each other a long Farewcl.; the Ship then breaking Ground from
Graves-End, to fall down to the Buoy in the Note.
The London, our Admiral, lay expediting our whole Easi-lndia
Fleet there, which were Ten in Number; to whom his Majesty,
Charles \\. was plealed to grant Letters of Mart: Which impowered
' ~ to wear the King's Jack, Ancient and Pennant, and to act as
Taking Ship
at Gravtstnd,
and filling
down to the
Buy in the
til.
Men of War (die English and French at this rime being at open De-
fiance against the Dutch.)
B When
Number os
Ships, with
Letters os
Matt.
War with thS
HaBmuUri.
O F
India and ■ Persia :
In Eight LETTERS.
LETTER!
Containing a Twelve Month's Voyage through
Divers Climates.
CHAP. I.
Treats of "Bnbarlgqg and Pajsage 'till paft St. Iago.
O R your lingular Favour, in seeing me
Aboard ship (which might reasbnably be sup-
posed the last kind Osfice to a departing
Friend, considering the various Chances of so
long a Voyage, as well as the Uncertainty.of
my Return) I raust keep to that Promise,
whereby you obliged me to give you an ac-
count not only of my Being, but of what
Occurrences were worth my Animadversion.
You may remember, It was the 9th of December, in the Year of
our Lord 1672,, when by virtue of an Order from the Honourable
Raft-India Company, I being received on Board the Unity, we took of
.each other a long Farewcl.; the Ship then breaking Ground from
Graves-End, to fall down to the Buoy in the Note.
The London, our Admiral, lay expediting our whole Easi-lndia
Fleet there, which were Ten in Number; to whom his Majesty,
Charles \\. was plealed to grant Letters of Mart: Which impowered
' ~ to wear the King's Jack, Ancient and Pennant, and to act as
Taking Ship
at Gravtstnd,
and filling
down to the
Buy in the
til.
Men of War (die English and French at this rime being at open De-
fiance against the Dutch.)
B When
Number os
Ships, with
Letters os
Matt.
War with thS
HaBmuUri.