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Transcription

going into Bantam were constrayned to goe with the sayd
shipp to an Island on the Coast of Sumatra called Pullagunda
which is an extreame hott and unhealthfull Island and there tarry
fower moneths or thereabouts to take in the sayd shipps ladeing
which was faine to be brought aboard by stealth in boates
from Bantam and while the sayd shipp spe lay there hee saith
the sayd Brampton the Master of her and some others of her company
by reason (as hee beleeveth) of the intemperature and unhealthfullnesse
of the Eyre there fell sick and dyed, And the Olive Branch being
by the meanes aforesayd soe long in getting in hher lading, shee
thereby lost her Monsoones which is a winde that there blowes
constantly untill a certayne tyme of the yeare one way and serves
very fittly to bring home shipps thence for England, and after
that tyme blowes the other part of the yeare directly contrary
by which meanes the Olive Branch was after she had taken
in her lading forced to goe and Winter at an Island called
Mauritius the tyme being past for her getting about the
Cape Bona Speranza to goe for Ligorne this hee deposeth for
the reasons aforesayd being Purser and aboard And
further hee cannot depose/

To the 9th hee saith the Olive Branch arrived at Ligorne with her
ladeing on the seaventeenth of January 1657 (old style) and not
before, by reason of the hindernances aforesayd, And saith that if
shee had bin permitted by the dutch to have gone into Bantam to
have taken in her ladeing at her first arrivall (as shee intended
to have done) shee might by Gods blessing and the Industry of her
Company have there taken in her ladeing in fowerteene or sixteene
dayes and soe in all lykelyhood have arrived at Ligorne therewith
in the beginning of July 1657 soe that the sayd shipp the Olive
Branch was by the shipps of the dutch East India Company and through their meanes and default
obstructed in meanes aforesayd in her sayd voyage sixe monethes and a halfe or
thereabouts longer than otherwise shee needed to have bin And
further hee cannot depose/

To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth that the shipp Olive Branch
was and is of the burthen of two hundred tonnes or thereabouts and
carried in her the voyage in question forty two men and boyes and
eighteene peeces of Ordnance and was in this deponents Judgement
well worth to be lett to freight for a voyage in the Indies two hundred
and fifty pounds sterling per moneth, or thereabouts/

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