Saris
Was Factor At Bantam In 1608, At The Time Of The Third Voyage Of The
East India Company, And Has Given An Account Of Occurrences There From
The Time Scott Left Off, As Contained In Section II.
Of this chapter
of our Collection.
In this voyage, he went farther eastwards than any
English navigator had gone before, being the first of our nation that
sailed to Japan in an English ship. William Adams indeed had been there
some years earlier, having been carried there in a Dutch ship, by a
western course. The remarks of Captain Saris are generally curious,
judicious, and full of variety. As already noticed in the extended title
by Purchas, Captain Saris had three ships under his command, the Clove,
in which he sailed as general, the Hector, and the Thomas." - Astl.
This journal occupies fifty pages in the Pilgrims of Purchas, besides
eleven pages more of observations on various occurrences at Bantam,
during the residence of Saris there from October 1605 to October 1609,
and other circumstances respecting the English affairs in the East,
which will be noticed in the sequel. In the present edition, while we
scrupulously adhere to that of Purchas, we have used the freedom of
abridging even his abridgement, particularly respecting the nautical
remarks, courses, distances, winds, currents, &c. which are now much
better understood by navigators, and which would be quite uninteresting
and tedious to most of our readers. - E.
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Sec. 1. Incidents of the Voyage from England to Socotora.
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