[Footnote 290:  Jones says they fell in with the coast of Diu about eight leagues to the eastward of that place, and steering seven leagues more along the coast, came to anchor at a head-land, where they sent the skiff ashore, and bought sheep and other things, and were here offered a pilot to Surat for seven dollars.  Fifteen leagues east from Diu would bring them to near Wagnagur, almost directly west from Surat river, on the opposite coast of the Gulf of Cambay. Moa was probably a village on the coast.—­E.]

The 29th [August?] we proceeded, thinking to hit the channel for the bar of Surat, getting first from ten fathoms into seven, and afterwards into six and a half.  We now tacked westwards, and deepened our water to fifteen fathoms; but the next tack brought us into five.  When some of the company asked the master where he proposed going? he answered, the vessel must go over the height.  The ship immediately struck, which I told him of.  On hearing this he cried out, who dares to say the ship has struck and had scarcely spoken these words when she struck again with such violence that the rudder broke off and was lost.[291] We then came to anchor, and rode there for two days; after which our skiff was split in pieces, so that we now only had our long-boat to help us in our utmost need.  But our people made a shift to get the pieces of the skiff into the ship, which our carpenter contrived to bind together with waldings, so that, in the extremity of our distress, she brought sixteen people on shore.

[Footnote 291:  According to Jones they attempted the shoals of Surat river at the last quarter of the ebb; whereas if they had taken the first quarter of the flood tide, they would have had sufficient water to carry them clear over the shoals.—­E.]

The 2d September, about six p.m. the ship again struck and began to founder, having presently two feet water in the well.  We plied our pumps till eleven; but the water increased so fast that we could continue no longer on board, and took to our boats.  About L10,000 in money lay between the main-mast and steerage, of which the general desired the people to take what they would; and I think they took among them about L3000; some having L50, some L40, and others more or less.  We now quitted our ill-fated and ill-managed ship, without taking a morsel of meat or a single drop of drink along with us; putting off for the shore, which lay about twenty leagues to the eastward, between midnight and one in the morning.  We sailed and rowed all night and next day till five or six in the evening, without any sustenance, when we reached a small island on the bar.  But just then, a sudden squall of wind broke the middle thwart of our long-boat, in which were fifty-five persons.  But we saved our mast, and when the gust ceased we got over the bar into the river of Gundewee.[292]

[Footnote 292:  Gundavee, a small river, on which is a town of the same name, five leagues south from the river of Surat.—­E.]