Derde reys, gedaan voor de Engelsche Maatschappy na Oost-Indien, met drie scheepen, de Draak, Hector, en ...

requested 500 pieces of eight from this place on loan, which I refused him, but I sent him two pieces of carsey a type of coarse woolen cloth of a fine color, and one of my knives as a gift. I also had 575 pounds of aloe bought ashore for 115 thalers.

Further report on the monsoons.

On the 24th of the same, it was told to me that the westerly winds this year began on the last of April, and that they came eleven days later every year, so that in 33 years they would begin again on the same day of the aforementioned month, which I could not grasp to be true. They also said that the easterly monsoon (mousson) would begin this year on the 13th of October and last until the following April, and from that time until May there would be fair weather, upon which the westerly monsoon would return, provided that one and the other came eleven days later every year, and thus, according to their account, they had only two monsoons every year.

And of various coasts of Arabia, etc.

Their year, called Neyroofe New Year/Nawruz by them, begins with the onset of the easterly monsoon. According to their report, when it is the west monsoon or trade wind, the wind blows from the south, and when it is the east monsoon, it blows from the north. That after the 25th of September, ships in the Red Sea cannot depart toward the East. That Chaul, Dabul, and Danda Rajpuri are good and safe harbors and rich trading places on the coast of India. That at Saada, Ilbookee, Auzoane, and Mootoo, four islands of Comora, rice is plentiful and cheap and the people are good-natured, but that Jughezeegee and Malale, two other islands of that same coast, had little supply of rice, and the inhabitants there were false and treacherous, of which they told a little story: that sixteen years ago, an English ship lost many men there through treachery, which must certainly have been that of Jacob Lancaster Sir James Lancaster. This day, being the 26th of May, was for them the 224th day of their Neyroofe. On the coast of Arabia, there was no rain before the seventieth day of this