'A jurnall kepte by me William Speare bound for the East Indies in the good Shipp Discovery begininge the firste day of Marche Anno dm 1632'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'A jurnall kepte by me William Speare bound for the East Indies in the good Shipp Discovery begininge the firste day of Marche Anno dm 1632'
- Date:
- 1633/1637
- Description:
- Abstract: Journal of the voyages of the Discoveryand the Londonkept by William Speare between 1633 and 1637.Folios 5-92 cover the following voyages of the Discovery(Captain William Morris):England to Surratt [Surat, India], March-November 1633, via St Lawrence [Madagascar], Comoros and Comorone [Bandar Abbas, Iran]Surratt to Comorone and back, January-April 1634Surratt to Massipitan [Machilipatnam, India], April-September 1634, via Morisheus [Mauritius], St Lawrence and ComorosMassipitan to Comorone, December 1634-March 1635Comorone to Bumbee [Bombay, India], April-May 1635Bumbee to Syndie [Karachi, Pakistan], September-November 1635, via SurrattSyndie to Surratt, January-March 1636, via Comorone.Folios 93-132 cover the following voyages of the London(Captain Matthew Wills):Surratt to Massipitan, May-June 1636, via Gorre [Goa, India]Massipitan to Bantam [Banten, Java, Indonesia], August-October 1636Bantam to England, January-July 1637.The journal consists of daily entries of information on navigation, winds, weather, contact with other ships, and general observations.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 155; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 133-153, which have not been digitised.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Ships logs
Weather
Trade (practice)
Marine navigation
Discovery
London - Geographic region:
- Comoroone
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00033c_ar
81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00033c_en
IOR/L/MAR/A/LIX
IOR/L/MAR/A/LIX