Missing Our Port Of Socotora, We Proceeded On Our Voyage; And, On The
4th Of September, We Celebrated A Solemn Funeral In Memory Of Our Slain
Commander; When, After Sermon, The Great Guns And Small Arms Gave A Loud
Peal To His Honourable Remembrance.
At night on the 6th September, to
our great admiration and fear, the water of the sea seemed as white as
milk.
Others of our nation since, passing in the same course, have
observed the same phenomenon, of which I am yet to learn the cause, as
it was far from any shore, and we could find no ground.
On the 21st of September we discovered the main land of India; and on
the 22d had sight of Diu and Damaun, cities inhabited by the Portuguese.
The 25th we came safely to anchor in Swally roads, within the bay of
Cambay, which is the harbour for our fleet while in this part of India,
when we were visited by the merchants of the Surat factory, the
principal of whom was Mr Thomas Kerridge.
Sec.2. Description of the Mogul Empire
Although this account of Hindoostan, or the Mogul empire in India, be
very incorrect, and in some places hardly intelligible, it is here
retained, as a curious record of the knowledge possessed on that subject
by the English about 200 years ago. We have two editions of this account
in Purchas, one appended to his narrative of Sir Thomas Roe, and the
other in this relation by Terry, which he acknowledges to be the most
correct, and which therefore is alone retained.
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