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
- [POSTSCRIPT.]
- A List of Ships of the East India Company (employed during the Seventeenth Century)
- Index
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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
- [POSTSCRIPT.]
- A List of Ships of the East India Company (employed during the Seventeenth Century)
- Index
Summary
“Here Mr. Knight ended writinge in His Jornall, and this 26 day of June 1606 the said Knight, his mate/ his brother, and 3 others, went into their shallop, and rowed to an Hand about 6 myle from their ship. Comeng to the iland the said Knight, his mate, his brother and … … went a shore, takinge with hym a compas and other instruments, to take a plat of the land : also they toke with them swords daggs muskets and halfe pykes to defend them from the enemyes yf they should meete with any. They went a shore about 10 of the clocke in the mornenge, commandinge the other 2 whom they left in the shallop wherof the trumpeter was one, to tarry there for them until 3 aclock in the afternoon: whiche attendance they performed, and stayed untill 11 aclock at nyght as they say, for neither that night nor at any tyme after, notwithstanding they sent a shore agayne and used their best means untill they were assalted by the salvages, could they either see, hear, or understand what was become of ye said Mr. Knight or theothers that went a shore wth hym.”
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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. 293 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1877