Seeing Him Stand From Us, I Gave Him One Shot, And Stood
With The Other Ship, Which, Seeing Us Stand With The Great Ship, Struck
To Leeward, Thinking To Escape In The Darkness Of The Night, Now
Approaching.
I took her for a ship of Diu; but, on getting up to her,
she proved to be from Kuts Nagone, laden with cotton-wool, some packs of
Indian cloth, with some butter and oil.
Having got some of her principal
men aboard my ship, I made her edge with me into shoal water, on the
Arab coast, where I endeavoured, by means of lights, to discover five of
my men, whom I had left in the Larree ship. We anchored at midnight in
twelve fathoms, four leagues within the bab, where the next two days
we took out of the Larree ship sixty-six bundles of Indian cloth, but
which we returned again, as not needing it, and took only eight corges
of bastas, for which we paid to their content, and some butter and
oil. I now learned by a jelba, that Sir Henry Middleton had gone to
Assab roads, with eight or nine India ships, on which I made sail to
join him there, but the wind being unfavourable, had to come to anchor.
Next day, Giles Thornton, the master of the Trades-increase, came from
Sir Henry Middleton, to let me know that he had got possession of all
the Indian ships he desired. These were the Rekemi, of 1500 tons; the
Hassany, of 600; the Mahmudi of Surat, of 150; the Salamitae, of
450; the Cadree, of 200; the Azum Khani, belonging to the
Shah-bandar of Mokha, all belonging to Diu; besides three Malabar ships,
the Cadree of Dabul, of 400 tons, and a great ship of Cananore.
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