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iver Jordan, and the sea of Sodom, and returned to Joppa, from whence I went back to Tripoli; but as many others have published large discourses of these places, I think it unnecessary to write of them here. Within a few days after my return to Tripoli, I embarked in the Hercules of London, on the 22d December, 1587, and arrived safe, by the blessing of God, in the Thames, with divers other English merchants, on the 26th March, 1588; our ship being the richest in merchant goods that ever was known to arrive in this realm. SECTION V. _Of the Monsoons, or Periodical Winds, with which Ships depart from Place to Place in India. By William Barret._[5] It is to be noted, that the city of Goa is the principal place of all the oriental India, and that the winter begins there on the 15th of May, with very great rain, and so continues till the 1st of August; during which time no ship can pass the bar of Goa, as, by these continual rains, all the sands join together hear a mountain called _Oghane_, and run into the shoals of the bar and port of Goa, having no other issue, and remain there, so that the port is shut up till the 1st of August; but it opens again on the 10th of August, as the rains are then ceased, and the sea thus scours away the sand. [Footnote 5: Hakluyt, II. 413. It appears, from the journal of John Eldred, in the preceding section, that William Barret was English consul at Aleppo, and died in 1584. In the immediately preceding article in Hakluyt, vol. II. p. 406, et seq., is a curious account of the money weights and measures of Bagdat, Basora, Ormus, Goa, Cochin, and Malacca, which we wished to have inserted, but found no sufficient data by which to institute a comparison with the money weights and measures of England, without which they would have been entirely useless. In the present article, the dates are certainly of the old stile, and, to accommodate these to the present new stile, it may be perhaps right to add _nine_ days to each for the sixteenth century, or _twelve_ days to reduce them to corresponding dates of the present nineteenth century.--E.] To the northward, as Chaul, Diu, Cambay, Damaun, Basseen, and other places, the ships depart from Goa between the 10th and 24th of August; and ships may sail to these places at all times of the year, except in winter, as already described. Ships depart for Goa from Chaul, Diu, Cambay, and other parts to the northward, betwixt the 8th and
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