The two and twentieth we saw a Jonk and gave chase to her, fetching her up we found her to be a great Junk of _Surrat_, bound for _Acheen_ with Merchandise, having a pass from the President and Councel, therefore he medled not with them; but in the afternoon came to an anchor in two and twenty Fathom, about thirty Leagues of shore. The weather was gusty with much rain, but never did I hear such peals of Thunder, nor see such great and continued flashes of Lightning: at four in the evening the next day we anchor’d at eighteen fathom within six leagues of _Damon_, the wind at _North North east_, and variable, with such terrible claps of Thunder and Lightning, that my friends, the Scrivener and Drugster would have freely parted with all they had to have been at the bottom of a _Cornish_ Tinn-mine. They envied now poor _Gregories_ condition, accounting his misery a great happiness, for since the Element of Water had received him into the Womb of her protection, the Element of fire might as soon give him a new soul as to detriment his body, theirs being now minutely expos’d to the mercy of its uncontroulable fury. On the twenty fifths evening we anchored in ten fathom reddish clay, the _Pagod_ _East, North east_, _per_ Compass, and the trees of old _Swalley_, _North, North-east_, about three Leagues off; the next day the wind being at _North, North-west_, we turn’d up and anchor’d in ten fathom, the Toddy-trees _East_ and by _North_, _per_ Compass. Lastly, having laid one buoy on the tonge of the sand and another on the point of the Main, we came over the Barr, the least water is four fathom and half at half flood, so we ran in till the Souther-Toddy-tree bore South and by East _per_ Compass, and there anchor’d in eight fathom water. This month we sailed not above one Hundred and seven Leagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAP. XXIV. Latroon _and his friends arrive in_ Swalley _Road, they go ashore at_ Surrat, _are entertained with other Captains of Ships lately come to an Anchor, by the President; he discovers an old Mistress of his and his old fellow servant, waiting on a Captain in a disguising habit; he renews his acquaintance with her; she tells him what befell her after his unworthy shipping her to_ Virginia, _and the cause of her coming for_ India. _She enters into a League with_ Latroon _to cheat her pretended Master, which she did, the manner how. They sail together from_ Surrat _homeward._