Nature and fortune, Gulliver says, condemned him to a restless life. On 20 June 1702, two months after coming home, he sails again from the Downs in the Adventure. She is bound for Surat.
At the Cape of Good Hope they put in for water and find the ship leaking. The captain falls sick with an ague too, so they winter there and leave only at the end of March.
North of Madagascar the wind blows far more fiercely than usual for twenty days. The day after it drops, a storm brought by the southern monsoon falls on them.