Soon after the nabob came to the shore, and we took boat together, going on board my ship.  Having shewn our ordnance, and the manner of pointing the guns, and explained all our other preparations for defence, I presented him with a very handsome gilt cup and cover, some fair knives, a rundlet of Muscadine wine, and some other toys.  Desiring to see some of our ordnance shot off, and how far they could carry their balls on the water, I caused three guns to be fired.  He would then have taken leave, but I accompanied him ashore, and ordered him to be saluted at his departure with eleven guns.  When we parted at the water side, the nabob gave me four baskets of grapes.  He likewise gave among the gunners and trumpeters 200 mahmoodies, and 500 among the ship’s company, together with 100 books of white bastas, worth two mahmoodies each.  Thus, after some compliments, we took leave of each other and parted.  While rowing up along shore for my better getting on board, as the tide ran very swiftly, Lacandas came running towards the boat, bearing a message from the nabob to ask if he should erect a tomb over the grave of my son.  I returned my hearty thanks for the kind offer, desiring Lacandas to say that I had already begun to do so.  The nabob then went away to Surat, and not long after his tent was taken down and went after him, with all the rest of his carriages.

The 26th, the nabob’s son and son-in-law, a very ingenious young man, came to visit me, upon whom I bestowed some knives and other things, such as I had left, which could not be much, as I had every now and then some great man or other to visit me, to all of whom I had to give something.  The 27th, the three sons of Ali Khan came to visit me, the eldest of whom, named Guger Khan, presented me with two antilopes, a male and a female, of which I was very glad, having endeavoured before ineffectually to send some home to Sir Thomas Smith.  After viewing all our ship, with our ordnance and warlike preparations for defence, I gave him four Spanish pikes, and some other things of my own, and saluted him with eleven guns at his departure.

In the afternoon of the 3d March, upon the tide of ebb, and having a light gale from the north, sufficient to give steerage-way to our ships, we hastened to get up our anchors, meaning to set sail in the prosecution of our voyage, though our friends, the Malabars, who had desired to go with us, made no attempt to come out.  At this time we saw another fleet of Portuguese frigates standing in from the westwards, and being willing to do my best to hinder them from going into the river of Surat, were it only to shew our good-will to the country people, we shot at the nearest of them, though without hope of doing them any hurt, as there was room for them to pass on either side of us, beyond reach of our shot.  I was willing also to shew our friends on land, as also to those who I made no doubt would go down the coast to give notice to the galleons of our coming, that we shot at their frigates going into Surat, that they might also expect that we cared little for their greater strength.