[Footnote 111:  This Cape is in lat. 23 deg.  N. and long. 58 deg. 45’E. from Greenwich.—­E.]

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Note.—­In explanation of the disappointment of trade at Surat, &c. there is the following marginal note in the Pilgrims, vol.  I. p. 490.—­“These news at the Cape were, Captain Hawkins coming away in disgust, as denied leave to trade; the English being often wronged by the Mogul, in frequent breach of promise, as already shewn; for which they forced a trade in the Red Sea on the Mogul subjects.  Which afterwards procured the privileges granted to Captain Best, as already related, lest the Moguls should have the sea shut up to them, and all their trade stopt.  They were the more induced to grant these privileges to the English, on seeing them able to withstand the Portuguese, whose marine force had held the Guzerat people under maritime subjection, and made them afraid to trade with the English.”—­Purch.

Sec.2.  Proceedings on the Coast of Persia, and Treachery of the Baloches_.

Having crossed the gulf from Cape Rasalgat, on the 10th September we got sight of the coast of Persia, in the lat. of 25 deg. 10’ N. When some seven leagues from the land, we sent our skiff ashore to make enquiry concerning the country, and to seek out some convenient place in which to land his lordship, having Sir Thomas Powell, with two of the ambassador’s Persian attendants, and Albertus, our own linguist, that we might be able to converse with the natives.  They came to a little village called Tesseque,[112] where they spoke with some camel-drivers and other country-people; from whom they learnt that the country was called Getche Macquerona [Mekran], and the inhabitants Baloches, all living under the government of a king, named Melik Mirza, whose chief residence was some five or six days journey from thence, at a port named Guadal.  They were farther informed, that all the country of Mekran paid tribute yearly to the king of Persia.  When informed of our purpose to land the ambassador, they told us that, by means of Melik Mirza, his lordship might have a safe conveyance in nine days to Kermshir, in the province of Kerman; and from thence might travel in eleven days more to Ispahan in Persia.

[Footnote 112:  Tize is laid down upon this part of the Persian coast, in lat 25 deg. 25’ N. and long. 60 deg. 80’ E. from Greenwich:  Perhaps the Tesseque of the text.—­E.]

We then sailed along the coast, and on the 11th of the month we sent our boat ashore with Sir Thomas Powell, accompanied as before, to make farther enquiries, and to endeavour to hire a pilot to direct our course for Guadal, as we were unacquainted with the coast.  They came to a place called Pesseque, about a day’s journey from Tesseque, where they had similar accounts with the former, all commending the port of Guadal as the best place at which the ambassador