At This Point Of Land There Cometh Put A Great River,[268] By The Stream Of Which There Has Been Raised A Reef Or Shoal, Extending Half A Mile Into The Sea From The Point, And Occasioning A Smoother Road.

Bringing that sand to bear S.S.W. there is good and safe anchorage in six and a half fathoms, two miles from the land.

Two leagues north from this point, which, for distinction, I name Cape Comfort, there issues forth another branch of the same river, by which the headland is made an island, and off the mouth of this river there is likewise a long spit of sand, which is dry at low water.

[Footnote 267: Obviously rounding Cape Godawery, in lat. 16 deg. 83' N.]

[Footnote 268: One of the two main branches forming the Delta of the Godawery. - E.]

The 4th of July I sent the boat belonging to the Unicorn into the second branch of the river, which we called Mullet Sound, to see if they could discover any town where a guide might be procured, to conduct Robert Pickering and William Clarke to Masulipatam, by whom we proposed sending a letter to Mr Methwould. Our boat returned on the morning of the 6th, reporting that a guide had been procured at a little village three leagues up the river. They likewise brought aboard twenty hens, which they had bought for two shillings. The 8th, the barge returned from Captain Ball with seventy-one sheep and goats, and thirty-nine hens, having left Captain Ball and others at a town called Narsapela, six leagues up in the country.

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