Almost The Only Circumstance It Contains Worth Notice Is, That They Procured Refreshments In A Nameless Bay On The Western Coast Of Africa, To The North Of The Cape Of Good Hope, In Which They Bought Calves And Sheep Very Cheap, But Could Get No Water.

From many circumstances this appears to have been what is now called Saldenha bay; which name however in this voyage, is still given to that now called Table bay.

The only water found in that nameless bay was a dirty puddle; and though the boat went a mile up a fine river at the bottom of the bay, they found it all salt, and the whole adjoining country very barren. - E.

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SECTION XV.

Eighth Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1611, by Captain John Saris.[397].

INTRODUCTION.

Purchas has chosen to place this, and the subsequent early voyages of the English to the East, in a separate division of his Pilgrims, which he entitles "English Voyages beyond the East Indies, &c. In which their just commerce was nobly vindicated against Turkish treachery; victoriously defended against Portuguese hostility; gloriously advanced against Moorish and Heathenish perfidy; hopefully recovering from Dutch malignity; and justly maintained against ignorant and malicious calumny."

[Footnote 397: Purch. Pilg. I. 884, Astl I. 451.]

The full title of this voyage in the Pilgrims is, "The Eighth Voyage set forth by the East Indian Society, wherein were employed three Ships, the Clove, the Hector, and the Thomas, under the Command of Captain John Saris:

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