ABSTRACT
Munday, the 31th of August 16 12 . A t 6 a clock in the morning, by my judgment, with the way that wee have runn wee are in the latitude 20° 15 '. And now seeing the water to bee chaunged, wee heaved overboard our lead and found 19 fadom water, saft ozie ground; but yett could see noe land. Therfore I cannot judge but that our shipp is a great deale to the eastward of my reckning, for the land of Due [i.e. Diu] beareth N .E . and by East 60 leages of[f], and I knowe wee cannot bee so farr of[f], by the depth of water which now wee find, and also by the culler of the water, which is so suddenly changed. This 24 howers wee have [run ?] 36 leages with the wend at the west and by south, and faire weather; and now from [12 ?] to 4 a clock wee steared E .N .E . 6 leages and shoulding our depth from 18 fadom to 9 or 10 fadom, very good shoulding. And so running a glasse2 further, wee had presently 19 or 20 fadom. Soe wee continued
0 1 our course E .N .E . untill 6 a clock, and wee g rst stered E. till 2 a clock in the morning, the water
shoulding from 20 to 12 fadom, very good shoulding. And at 2 a clocke wee stood to the southward, and lying S.W . and by S., and shewed 2 lights to the Dragon, and shott of[f] a peece. But before wee had tackt our shipp, wee weare in 9 fadom. And soe standing till 4 a clock the same morning, being the first of September, wee spide the land under our lee, some 4 leages of[f], as wee did judge, bearing E .N .E . of u s; and I judge[d] it to bee the land of Due. But in the morning, when I see how the land laye alongst, wee found it to bee the land towards the
south of Damon, having then but 6 or 7 fadom. And at 8 a clock wee tackt to the northward of Daman, and the same day, at 1 or 2 a clock in the afternoone, wee came to an ancker somewhat to the northward of Daman, in 7 fadom water, in the sight of the tower of Daman, and soe [rode ?] ther all night.
