The C/ove steered for the coast of China, intending to
make it near Ningpo, but no land was seen till she sighted
the Pescadores in the Formosan Channel. She then picked
up the island of Shang-ch'uan, near Macao, known as the
spot where the Apostle of the Indies breathed his last,
and thence steered south-west across the Gulf of Tonquin
to Cape Varella. From there she coasted along Cochin
China, as far as Pulo Condor, crossed the Gulfof Siam, and
hit off the Malay Peninsula not far from the River Pahang,
passed the strait between Banka and Billiton, and £^rrived
at Bantam on January 3, 1614. Here Saris remained
nearly six weeks, loading his ship with pepper, and setting

^ Printed in Letters Received, vol. ii, p. 5.
Iviil INTRODUCTION.
the affairs of the factory in order. On February 13 He
notes in his journal that the Clove "got out of the straights
of Sunda/^ and on May 16 she anchored in Table Bay,
finally reaching Plymouth on September 27. While at
anchor here lie wrote a report on the commodities which
could be disposed of in Japan. A copy of this is printed
at the end of the journal, along with another written
from Table Bay, " to the Captain Generall of the English
appoynted for Japann," and delivered to the captain of the
Concord there.
