The 26th, Captain Hawkins and Captain Sharpey with the rest, came towards where we lay, leaving their carriages five miles from the water-side.  I landed with 200 armed men and went to meet them, about three miles off, to guard them and their goods from the Portuguese, who I doubted might attempt to intercept them, and brought them all in safety aboard without seeing any thing of the Portuguese.  The 27th I sent John Williams, one of our factors, to Surat on business.  Some days before, Mocreb Khan sent for Mr Jourdayne, desiring his compliments to me, and that he was now going out of town for two or three days, to meet a great commander who was coming from the Deccan wars; but that on his return he would be as good as his word, in regard to the establishment of our factory.  He came back on the 27th, when he again sent for Mr Jourdayne, whom he asked with an angry countenance what he did in Surat, and wherefore the English were not all gone?  His answer was, that he staid on his word and promise to have a factory allowed us.  He angrily answered, we should have no factory there, and that the long stay of the English ships had hindered him in his customs to the tune of a million of Manuveys,[342] and commanded him therefore, in the king’s name, to be gone with all speed, as there were neither factory nor trade to be had there by us.  John Williams returned this morning, and two carts came from Surat with provisions.  The 29th I sent for the factors to hasten away from Surat, as I meant to set sail.

[Footnote 342:  This seems an error for mamudies, the Surat currency in the former narratives of Hawkins and others.—­E.]

Sec. 6. Voyage from Surat to Dabul, and thence to the Red Sea, and Proceedings there.

The morning of the 9th February, 1612, we warped the Trades-increase over the sands from the road of Swally, which, if we had not done this tide, we had lost the whole spring.  This road is in the latitude of 20 deg. 57’, and the variation is 16 deg. 30’.[343] The morning of the 11th we sailed for Surat road, and anchored there in the afternoon beside a new ship belonging to Surat, just launched and come out of the river, and bound for the Red Sea.  Surat road is in lat. 20 deg. 40’.[344] We weighed anchor on the 12th, and anchored two leagues south from the road beside a ship of Calicut bound for Surat, out of which I took a pilot for Dabul.  We sailed again on the 13th, and at six in the evening of the 16th we arrived in the road of Dabul, in lat. 17 deg. 42’, [17 deg. 45’] N.

[Footnote 343:  Swally road, a little way north from the mouth of the Taptee, or Surat river, is in lat. 21 deg. 7’ N. long. 72 deg. 49’ E. We have no account in the original of having removed there, but that probably is owing to the negligence of Purchas in abbreviating.—­E.]

[Footnote 344:  The parallel of 21 deg.  N. runs through Surat roads, while the latitude in the text falls far to the south of Surat river.  The difference of latitude assigned by Sir Henry between Swally roads and Surat roads, supposing that of the preceding note for Swally accurate, which we believe is the case, as taken upon the authority of the latest and best map of India, Arrowsmith’s, would place the best anchoring ground of Surat roads in 20 deg. 50’, which likewise is much too far south.—­E.]