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APRIL, 1907.) THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL).
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soe ominent in yo portagalls tyme, from whome It was taken by yo Pertian, 10 That its said of it, If ye world weere & Ringe, Ormous was yo Dymond in it.11 But now in the Dust, And Bossara [Basra], wol is 15 days Jurney from Commoronne, y great port.
Wee had not beene at Commoroon 2 days, bat advice caime Capt. Hill was arrived at Due, haueinge soe good e voyage by my means. Mr Gayrey, 13 ye Marché, not knowinge me, writt to M: flowergli that if such an English man caime, discribinge me, where he bad Cognizance or interest y he would serve me, though, Sd he, meaninge me, he did nne a disoortesy once, yet hath be now served me beyond my Expectation & made me trebble mends (amends).
The discortsey I did him was in Conveyinge S Humphry Cooke out of India, 15 for Mr Garey would [have] sent him to y Company because he traded in India in ye Companys goods,
My Lord Cooke 16 his father being sent by ye King of England to be Gouerner of Bumbay, * Towne Given by yo Portagalls as part of yo Dowrey of of Royall Queene Katheran,17 lyeinge 24 howers Saile from Surrat & is an Isleland and the best port in India The Christians haue,
My Ld was sent wth 600 English Soldiers, & yo vice Roy of Portugall had order to deliver it to ye sd L4 Cooke, but tooke snuff [offence) y he was not treated or respected aboard yo Engl vessell as he expected, set them a shore in a part of yo Isleland wheere they had noe fresh water & would not da [deliver the Towne Bumbay till most of yo gd 600 soldiers wee[re] kild wie flux by drinking brackish water, 18
Mo John Flowers facter for yo India Company at Spabawne [Ispaban] & Commaroon, My Kinsman, I left him att Commaroon & went for Spawbowne & by Mr flowers order bad ye vse of y. Companys howse theire for my entertainm!
1. Ormus was taken by Shah Abbās, with the help of the English, in 1622. 11 Thomas Herbert gives the proverb in this form
"If all the world were made into ring,
Ormus the gem ani grace thereof should bring." - Some Years Travels, ed. 1638, p. 105. 11 The Company established an ageney at Basra, in 1640.
18 Henry Gary was Aoting Deputy Governor at Bombay in 1887, and named the title of Governor after the death of Sir Gorvade Luoas, in 1668. He was never confirmed in the office, and was condurod by the Court for his arrogance in 1671.
14 Stephen Flower, with whom Campbell Olaimed kinship, was a factor in the E. I. Co.'s Berrioo. He was * second " at Gombroon in 1383 and "Chief" from 1635 to 1869.
10 I can find no foundation for this story. 16 Sir Humphry Cooke was Governor of Bombay for the King, from
of Bombay for the King, from April 1665 to the end of 1866, during which time there was constant friotion between him and Sir George Oxinden, the Company's representative at Surat
11 In 1631 Bombay was ceded to the British Orown as part of the dowry of Katherine of Bragaosa, wife of Charles II. It was transferred to the E. I. Co. in 1868.
11 This statement is incorrect.
15 Stephen Flower was the Company's servant at Lepahan and Gombroon. It is strange that it Campbell really were his kingman, that he should mistake his Christian name. A paragraph in a letter from Flo Gombroon, 21st January 1369, showa Campbell in a very different position from what he leads us to infer, at this time :-"On Junko yt (in Company eight more from Sainda) lately arrived att Congo laden with goode, eto. provitions, oame passenger one M John Cambell who had served ye King of India as a Gunner seven or eight yearou and having obteined licence to depart for his Country (to wth his freinds had often sollicited him) his resolutions was to travell overland for England, (wth w moneys eto..hee had gained in ye time of his service to y vallge of 7 or 8000 taps.) towards with bae was advanced as far as Sognda, when in Company of about 40 persona more in y Caphila, they were unfortanately mett wth by
y w ho robbed them all of their money and goods stripped him to his shirt and hardly escaped with his life, in wch miserable oondition at his arrivall Ecynda finding noo remedy, hee chose rather to proceed on his Intended Journey though with nothing than return againe to the service of his old Master, and about six dayos since repaired hither for my assistance, upon y relation of which sad story, I havo uken his present oondition into consideration, and furnish'a him with w! necessary to carry him to England, where God sending him safely to arrive, I have hope of receiving from himsello or friends satisfaction, in two or three days more he departs in Compara Portugall Padre to Busan where I shall Commend him to ye fathers courtesy there for his safe prooeeding to Alleppo, and there noe doubt but y consull to whom I shall alsoo write will bofriend him in what further needfall, It would be a shame not to commiserate and assist in such cases as this our owne oountry run from whohe misfortune God defend us." - Factory Records, Swrat, Vol. 106.
