In A Consultation As To The Best Course To Be
Taken With The Fleet, It Was Resolved To Go To
The coast of Coromandel,
which we were informed was a good country for recovering the health of
our men, and
Abounding in rice, wheat, butter, and other, provisions,
which could not be procured here for any money.
Sec.3. Departure for Coromandel, with Occurrences there, and the Death of
Sir Thomas Dale, - Capture of English Ships by the Dutch; and Occurrences
at Tecoo.
On Monday the 19th of April, 1619, all our ships being together in
Bantam roads, with three Chinese junks riding among us, it was resolved
in council to execute the commission given us by the Honourable Company,
by appropriating to them the goods in these junks, in payment of former
debts due by the Chinese. Next day Kewee came aboard to the president,
accompanied by the three nockhadas, or captains of the junks, to know
his intentions. He gave him the following answer: - If the young king of
Bantam would displace the pangran, who had treated us with so much
injustice, he would then return on shore and bichar[266] with him, and
restore the junks. The 28th, being ready to sail, intending to go for
Morrogh to take in water and unload the junks, we descried a sail coming
from the westwards round Palinbangan point, which turned out to be a
Portuguese frigate, captured at Jasques, manned by twenty Englishmen,
and sent by Captain Bonnar with advice to the president at Bantam.
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