'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎42r] (83/540)

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Let us have a word or two of the prices of suger and suger candy, as also
of the quantityes there p.yidable, and the seasons when most cheapest, that
against another yeare wee may make a fitting provision thereof for Persia.
Upon os.shipps retourne againe into porte, w"!' wee doe expect within 8
or 10 dayes at the furthest, wee will send you yoi p.tieular letters, if any out
of England, where there is little alteration since the last yeares ffleet, only
that the treaty of peace w«L Spaine was in agitation by reciprocall embasies
from each King to other, w$ yet by their non-cessation of armes, the successe
is somewhat to be doubted, and soe not remembering ought elce att Pisent,
wee commend you to Gods mercies and with freindly salutes rest.
Your very loving ffreinds,
THOMAS KASTELL.
JOHN SKIBBOW.
JOSEPH HOPKINSON.
RICHARD BARBER.
JAMBS BICKFORD.
AtlTHUR SUFFEILD.
JOHN HORRIS.
S deeatt;
Yt 30B September 1630.
III.
* Thomas Rastell to Mr. Burt and Council in Persia.
WorpU- and our very loviDg ffreinds MJ r Burt EsqJL
But first you may. take a knowledge that the « James William " and
« Blessing " dep^s England the 19J* March last, and passing by the Cape,
arrived att S4 Lawrence the Julye, where they founde the " Charles "
and Jonas intending to make that their place of wintering, for the more
seasonable arrivall upon the coast of England ; and proceeding thence for
Johanna they as prosperouslye met there the <$ Discovery " and <( Reformation, ,,
in whose comp-^- together they all safely arrived at the Barr of Surratt the 22
passed, to that God that guided us hether be the glorye.
Heere at our very first appearance wee were confronted by a ffleet of about sharp action
30 saile ffrigats and smaller vessells who had away ted, as well the Junckesf EnTkh^d
of this place as toJL owne shipps neare uppon 20 dayes before o— coming, and in Portuguese in tbe
that intrim had made seasure, and carried hence yj, Mussahee of this port w«l
a very great wealth of treasuree. Our landing heere for certayne dayes they
also hindred, for untill wee had conference w * l the factors here residing wee
held it not safe to adventure into the hole of Swally, not knowing what
hindrances might have been p^pared to indanger us uppon the Barr by the
sinkei ng of some vesselJs o_5- other materialls to that purpose, and dureing this
* Reprinted from Forrest's Selections, Bombay, Home Series, with notes.
t« « a large eastern, especially (in later nse) a Chinese ship. This is one of the oldest words in the
Europeo-Indian vocabulary. It occurs in the travels of Friar Odorico, written down in 1331, and a few years
later in the rambling reminiscences of John de' MarignoUi. The French translators of Ibn Batuta derive the
word from the Chinese tchonen (chwen). The old Arab traders must have learned the word from Malay pilots,
for it is certainly the Javanese and Malay and ajong a ship or large vessel. In Javanese the great Bear is
called Izntangjong "The constellation".-Colonel Yule's Hobson-Jobson. p. 860.
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