Before Leaving This Place, Mir Mahommed Desired Us To Leave A Writing Of
Commendation In His Favour, Specifying The Kind And Good Entertainment
We Had Received.
This was accordingly granted, and I wrote it upon
parchment, beginning it in large letters, the purport being similar to
that granted at Mohelia, and this also was signed by the captain.
The
governor also sent us three notes signed by himself, for the purpose of
being given by us to other ships, if they should happen to come upon
this part of the coast, as we had been constrained to do, by which he
might know our ships from those of other nations, and give them good
entertainment accordingly. Cape Resoit is in lat. 16 deg. 38' N. and has
good anchorage in 5-1/2 or 6 fathoms.
The 28th August, we set sail from thence, directing our course for the
coast of Persia, coasting along the oceanic shore of Arabia; it being
our chiefest object to set the lord ambassador on shore, as, by reason
of the news we had received at the Cape of Good Hope, our expectations
of trade at Surat, Dabul, and all other parts thereabouts, were
frustrated. The 2d September, we sailed close beside an island on the
coast of Arabia, called Macyra, in lat. 20 deg. 30' N. And on the 4th of
that month we passed the eastermost point of Arabia, called Cape
Rassalgat, in lat. 22 deg. 34' N.[111]
[Footnote 111: This Cape is in lat.
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