S.W. towards the point of the Sugar-loaf, some four leagues.  From this point of the Sugar-loaf lieth Penguin island; but keep fair by the point, as two miles from Penguin island there are two shoals.  From the point to the island there are some seven or eight miles N. and S. and so, borrowing on that point, in eight or nine fathoms, steer a course S.E. and E.S.E. till you bring the Table S.S.W. and the Sugar-loaf S.W. by W. when you may anchor in 6 or 6 1/2 fathoms as you please; and then will the point of land by the Sugar-loaf bear W.N.W. some two leagues off, and Penguin island N.N.W. some three leagues distant.  The latitude of the point going into the bay of Saldanha [Table bay,] is 34 deg. 5’ S.[95] On coming in there is nothing to fear, though the air be thick, as the land is bold within a cable’s length of the shore.

[Footnote 95:  Only 33 deg. 54’—­E.]

In my opinion, the current near Cape Aguillas sets to the southward not above fifty or sixty leagues from the land:  Wherefore, in going to the eastwards, it is right to have sixty leagues from land, so that you may miss that current.  For 90 or 100 leagues beyond Cape Aguillas, the land trends E. by N. and not E.N.E. as in the charts.

In my opinion the gulf of Cambaya is the worst place in all India for worms; wherefore ships going to Surat ought to use every precaution against injury from them.  At Acheen our general was denominated Arancaya Pattee by the king, who showed him extraordinary favour, sending for him to be present at all sports and pastimes; and all our men were very kindly used by the people at this place, more so than any strangers who had ever been there before.

Sec.3. Extracts from a Treatise, written by Mr Nicholas Whittington, who was left as Factor in the Mogul Country by Captain Best, containing some of his Travels and Adventures.

The sheep at the Cape of Good Hope are covered with hair instead of wool.  The beeves are large, but mostly lean.  The natives of that southern extremity of Africa are negroes, having woolly heads, flat noses, and straight well-made bodies.  The men have only one testicle, the other being cut out when very young.[96] Their apparel consists of a skin hung from their shoulders, reaching to their waist, and two small rat-skins, one before and the other behind, and all the rest of their body naked, except a kind of skin or leather-cap on their heads, and soles tied to their feet, considerably longer and broader than the foot.  Their arms are very scanty, consisting of bows and arrows of very little force, and lances or darts very artificially made, in the use of which they are very expert, and even with them kill many fish.  They are in use to wear the guts of sheep and oxen hanging from their necks, smelling most abominably, which they eat when hungry, and would scramble for our garbage like so many dogs, devouring it quite raw and foul.