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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Narrative of the First Voyage of Sir James Lancaster
- Narrative of the First Voyage of Sir James Lancaster
- The Voyage of Captain James Lancaster to Pernambuco
- The First Voyage made to East India by Master James Lancaster (now Knight) for the Merchants of London, Anno 1600
- The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— I
- The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— II
- The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— III
- The Voyage of Captain Sharpeigh— I
- The Voyage of Captain Sharpeigh— II
- The Sixth Voyage set forth by the East India Company: Instructions to the Factors
- Commission to Sir Henry Middleton for the Sixth Voyage
- The Second Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton, being the Sixth set forth by the East India Company
- Journal of the Sixth Voyage, by Thomas Love
- Journal of the Sixth Voyage, kept by Nicholas Downton (1610-1613)
- Journal of Ralph Crosse, Purser of the Hoseander in the Tenth Voyage
- A Calendar of the Ships' Journals preserved in the India Office (written within the seventeenth century)
- Journal of the Voyage of John Knight to seek the North-West Passage, 1606
- A List of Ships of the East India Company (employed during the Seventeenth Century)
- Index
The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Narrative of the First Voyage of Sir James Lancaster
- Narrative of the First Voyage of Sir James Lancaster
- The Voyage of Captain James Lancaster to Pernambuco
- The First Voyage made to East India by Master James Lancaster (now Knight) for the Merchants of London, Anno 1600
- The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— I
- The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— II
- The Voyage of Captains Keelinge and Hawkins— III
- The Voyage of Captain Sharpeigh— I
- The Voyage of Captain Sharpeigh— II
- The Sixth Voyage set forth by the East India Company: Instructions to the Factors
- Commission to Sir Henry Middleton for the Sixth Voyage
- The Second Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton, being the Sixth set forth by the East India Company
- Journal of the Sixth Voyage, by Thomas Love
- Journal of the Sixth Voyage, kept by Nicholas Downton (1610-1613)
- Journal of Ralph Crosse, Purser of the Hoseander in the Tenth Voyage
- A Calendar of the Ships' Journals preserved in the India Office (written within the seventeenth century)
- Journal of the Voyage of John Knight to seek the North-West Passage, 1606
- A List of Ships of the East India Company (employed during the Seventeenth Century)
- Index
Summary
The Dragon, whereof Captain William Keeling was general, and the Hector, Captain Hawkins, sailed from Erith on the 8th March, 1606-7, and next touched at Plymouth, from which port they departed on the 16th of April, 1607.
On the 7th of May the ships anchored off Maio, where they lay for two days. During that time no tidings of Mr. Dirham, who in 1604 had been left behind there by Sir Henry Middleton, were obtained.
The Island of Fernando Larania [Fernando Noronha] was sighted on the 6th of June, and ten days later the ships were off the coast of Brazil. From that time the fleet drifted northwards, and recrossed the Line on the 8th of July.
As some 50 of the Dragon's crew and an equal number of the Hector's men were ill with scurvy and the flux, and as, owing to the wind, it was impossible to reach the Island of Fernando Larania, the General on the 30th of July held a Council, when it was resolved to put into Sierra Leone, of which place Sir Francis Drake and Captain Cavendish had made a favourable report.
On the 6th of August the vessels entered the harbour of Sierra Leone, at which place they remained till the 13th of September. During that time the sick were sent on shore to some empty huts, formerly built by the Portugals. A Portuguese ship, too, a regular trader between the Cape de Verde Islands and Sierra Leone, put in there. Its master avoided having any dealings with the English.
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- The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East IndiesWith Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office, and the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to Seek the North-West Passage, pp. 113 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1877