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TO SURATT IN EAST INDIA
I I
the hole, which wee conceived to bee English, butt theie
proved Hollanders, and haveing bene a'board the Admirall,
called the Utrech, wee went a shoare to Swally Towne1,
about three quarters of a mile from the water side, and
there wee understood our President2 was newly gon from
thence to Suratt, beinge come downe, thinckinge the Fleete
had bene English, whome wee followed, and over tooke
that night. After deliverie of the Companies letters, hee
returned back to meete our Shipps, and Mr Willoughby
with him, but I proceeded toward Suratt.
$ot/i September 1628. I arrived att Suratt, where were
many English merchants, by whome I was freindly
welcomed. The same day our shipps came in to Swally,
and thus, by Gods permission, wee came to our desired
Porte, haveing bene 6 monethes 3 dayes from the tyme of
our setting sale out of the Downes [27th March 1628] till
our Anchoringe in Porte Swally, and gon by nearest
Computation 13,713 miles from Blackwall to this placed
[Mundy's Notes on the Voyage.]
In the aforesaid Voyage, there is a breife mention made
of Cape Bonesperance, St Laurence, Mohill, etts., which
places I will now a litle insist upon for soe much as I sawe.
The Cape of Bonesperance, or Good Hope, is it selfe
a litle Island or rocke, entringe a good way into the Sea,
within which is a very high hill, Levell on the Topp,
therefore by us called the Table4. Under it lyes the Bay
1 Suwali, a busy seaport town in the 17th and 18th centuries, is
now an unimportant village. It is situated about 12 miles west of Surat.
2 Richard Wylde. He went to India with Captain Weddell's fleet
in 1624 and succeeded Thomas Kerridge as President of Surat in April
1628. Two years later he returned to England. See English Factories,
1624—1633. Herbert, p. 35, speaks of "Master Wyld as a "modest
understanding Gentleman."
3 According to Mundy's own figures the distances traversed amount
to 13,804 miles. This total does not agree with the reckoning of the
log and it is impossible to reconcile the discrepancies.
4 The copy in Harl. MS. 2286 has an addition here: "S. James
I I
the hole, which wee conceived to bee English, butt theie
proved Hollanders, and haveing bene a'board the Admirall,
called the Utrech, wee went a shoare to Swally Towne1,
about three quarters of a mile from the water side, and
there wee understood our President2 was newly gon from
thence to Suratt, beinge come downe, thinckinge the Fleete
had bene English, whome wee followed, and over tooke
that night. After deliverie of the Companies letters, hee
returned back to meete our Shipps, and Mr Willoughby
with him, but I proceeded toward Suratt.
$ot/i September 1628. I arrived att Suratt, where were
many English merchants, by whome I was freindly
welcomed. The same day our shipps came in to Swally,
and thus, by Gods permission, wee came to our desired
Porte, haveing bene 6 monethes 3 dayes from the tyme of
our setting sale out of the Downes [27th March 1628] till
our Anchoringe in Porte Swally, and gon by nearest
Computation 13,713 miles from Blackwall to this placed
[Mundy's Notes on the Voyage.]
In the aforesaid Voyage, there is a breife mention made
of Cape Bonesperance, St Laurence, Mohill, etts., which
places I will now a litle insist upon for soe much as I sawe.
The Cape of Bonesperance, or Good Hope, is it selfe
a litle Island or rocke, entringe a good way into the Sea,
within which is a very high hill, Levell on the Topp,
therefore by us called the Table4. Under it lyes the Bay
1 Suwali, a busy seaport town in the 17th and 18th centuries, is
now an unimportant village. It is situated about 12 miles west of Surat.
2 Richard Wylde. He went to India with Captain Weddell's fleet
in 1624 and succeeded Thomas Kerridge as President of Surat in April
1628. Two years later he returned to England. See English Factories,
1624—1633. Herbert, p. 35, speaks of "Master Wyld as a "modest
understanding Gentleman."
3 According to Mundy's own figures the distances traversed amount
to 13,804 miles. This total does not agree with the reckoning of the
log and it is impossible to reconcile the discrepancies.
4 The copy in Harl. MS. 2286 has an addition here: "S. James