
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 Second Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton, being the Sixth set forth by the East India Company
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 Trade's Increase, of which Sir Henry Middleton was General, the Peppercorn, and the Darling, accompanied by a store ship, sailed on the 1st of April, 1610, from the Downs. The fleet put into “Saphia” Roads to obtain timber to fish the Admiral's mainmast, but failed to do so ; and next touched at the Cape de Verde Islands, from whence they sailed on the 16th of May. At these islands the storeship parted company from the other vessels.
On the fourth of July, “the wind being very much, and fowle weather, our shipe (the Peppercorn) was very leake in the bowes, and the water ran into the powder rooine throw the sealinge and bulke head and was 5 foote deepe, and it wett us much powder. And the same day our Admirall borded us and brake our head, and bore her maynetopmaste by the bord”.
The fleet on the 23rd of July entered Saldanha Bay, and remained there at anchor until the 12th of August. In the Bay there was “a greate hollanse shipe, which was Admirall to 9 sayle, and by reason of fowle weather shee loste her company, being bound for the East India: and there were two savle more, Flemens, that were fishers for trayne oyle.”
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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. 145 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1877