[Footnote 390:  From the sequel, and likewise as mentioned by Purchas in a sidenote, the Hope appears to have been a Dutch ship.—­E.]

Sec. 3. Voyage to Masulipatam, and Incidents during a long Stay at that Place.

We set sail from Patane on the 22d October, 1613, and on the 25th we were in with the most southerly of the islands of Ridang, in lat. 6 deg.  N. of which there are about eighteen or twenty.  In the evening of that day we came to the Capas, three small isles, about thirteen leagues from the Ridang islands, and two leagues from the continent.  The 26th, we saw Pulo Tyaman, twenty-eight leagues S.S.E. from the Capas.  The 29th, being calm, we came to Pulo Tingi, where, if you keep in eighteen fathoms, there is nothing to be feared but what maybe seen.  The 1st November we saw the point of Jantana, or Johor, and the mount on the island of Bintam, and came next morning in sight of Piedra-branca; about ten o’clock a.m. we came to the dangerous reef that projects four leagues out to sea from the point of Johor.  John Huigens van Linschoten describes this shoal well, which we passed not without danger, having the point and three little islands W.S.W. from us.  It is good to keep to leewards till you bring these little islands in one line with the point of Johor, and Piedra-branca open with the isle of Bintam.  Piedra-branca is a rock all covered with sea-fowl, and so bedunged as to make its top appear white, whence its name, which signifies the white-rock, or stone.

Till the 7th, we were every day turning up against the current till we got past the river of Johor, and about two leagues from Sincapura.  On the 8th, when close to the strait, several proas came aboard us, those in them being Salettes, who were subjects to the king of Johor, who live mostly by fishing, always remaining in their proas with their wives and children.  From these people we learnt that the king of Acheen had sent back Rajah Bouny Soe to Johor, who was younger brother to the former king; and, having married him to his sister, gave him thirty proas and 2000 Acheen soldiers, with a good supply of ordnance and other necessaries, ordering him to rebuild the fort and town of Johor, and to reign there as a dependant on Acheen.  We here took a pilot to carry us through the straits.

We arrived on the 19th December at Masulipatam, where we found an English ship and two Holland ships.  We were told that Mir Sadardi was now out of place, and that the government was in the hands of Atma Khan and Busebulleran.  The English ship was the James, which was sent expressly to second us in our voyage, and brought us letters, with which Messrs. Marlow, Davis, Gumey, and Cob came aboard the Globe.  The 21st I went ashore with the others, when we were met by Wentacadra, the son of Busebulleran, together with the sabandar, and other Moors, and were well received.  They presented us with several tesseriffes, and gave to director Warner and me a fine horse each, which at first I refused, suspecting some treachery, but was compelled to accept.  I took a caul, or licence for trade, the customs being settled at four per centum, and immediately landed goods.