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

monsoon. The 305th day of the Neyroofe is the most suitable time to go to Surat, where one can arrive in ten or twelve days.

Burrom, Mekella, and Cayxen are good harbors in both monsoons on the coast of Arabia, but not places for trade. Xael or Xier has neither a suitable harbor nor roadstead, yet one trades there with iron and lead, and a Turk is the aga governor or local official there. These goods they send overland toward Caixem, a day's journey to the West, but at this time no traveling was being done there. We were also told that in both monsoons, the sea is uncommonly open or rough on the coast of Arabia, and that the current there is the same as the wind. That at the entrance to Surat there is no suitable roadstead on the West side to be sheltered from the westerly monsoon, partly because there is bad anchorage, and primarily because there is such a strong flood tide that, according to them, it can cast ships that are not firmly moored far away.

This roadstead of Delisa is a very good place for the west monsoon, but, which is strange, it blows so constantly and strongly two miles to the East and to the West that no ship can lie there. I can give no reason for this, other than that the distance between us and the high mountains causes such, for between them and us is mostly low land.

They depart from Delisa.

On the 24th of June, we set sail to depart.

See and arrive at some islands, where it is dangerous.

On the 23rd of July, we saw an island, and around nine o'clock, two others. We let two of them lie on the North side and one on the South side, being at four degrees, two minutes, Southern latitude. The most Northerly of these islands is large, high land, and full of trees. Between the two Southernmost of these three islands, lying ten miles from each other, there is a dangerous sandbank in the middle, to avoid which we took our course about two miles from the middle island, where there was a good passage, so that we left that bank about three miles from us
Willem Keeling.