Dragon: Journal, William Finch and John Hearne, Factors, Vol. 5
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Journal of the East India Company ship, Red Dragon (Captain William Keeling), kept by John Hearne and William Finche. The journal covers the ship's voyage from England to Sierra Leona [Sierra Leone], Madagascar, and Zokatora [Socotra]. The ship's passage from Zokatora to Bantam [Banten] is not c...
'Short observations of the 3d. viage 1607 in the Dragon'
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The volume consists of a summary of the original journal of William Keeling concerning the Third Voyage of the East India Company to India, 1607-10. The summary was probably drawn up by an East India Company scribe in London. The extracts relate to Keeling's service as Captain successively of th...
Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship the Ascension from England to Surat, Captain Alexander Sharpeigh, 14 March 1607/8 to 26 August 1609. The Ascension departed from Woolwich on 14 March 1607/8 and the journal covers the ship's visits to the following destinations (dates are thos...
Fragment Journal of part of a journey on the third voyage of the East India Company on the Hector from Dellisha [Qalansiyah], a port town on the north coast of Socotra, to Surett [Surat], under Captain William Hawkins. The Journal consists of daily entries recording navigational information in...
Journal kept on the Trades Increase and Peppercorn ships by Thomas Love with notes on Downton's homeward voyage
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Part of a journal kept by Thomas Love on the sixth voyage of the East India Company. The journal covers the voyages of the East India Company ships Trades Increase and Peppercorn from the Downs to Mocha and back (Captains Sir Henry Middleton and Nicholas Downton respectively, 4 April 1610-19 Nov...