A.D. 

 [591 



320/ our men 

 betraied at the 

 lie of Comoro. 



Zanzibar 

 Hand. 



A Portugal/ 

 Factorie in 

 Zanzibar. 



The treason of 

 the Portugals 

 towards the 

 English. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



returned quietly: the third time likewise we sent them 

 for more, which also returned without any harme. And 

 though we thought our selves furnished, yet our master 

 William Mace of Radcliffe pretending that it might be 

 long before we should finde any good watering place, 

 would needes goe himselfe on shore with thirtie men, 

 much against the will of our captaine, and hee and 16 

 of his company, together with one boat which was all 

 that we had, and 16 others that were a washing over- 

 against our ship, were betrayed of the perfidious Moores, 

 and in our sight for the most part slaine, we being not 

 able for want of a boat to yeeld them any succour. From 

 hence with heavie hearts we shaped our course for 

 Zanzibar the 7 of November, where shortly after wee 

 arrived and made us a new boat of such boards as we 

 had within boord, and rid in the road untill the 15 of 

 February, where, during our aboad, we sawe divers 

 Pangaias or boates, which are pinned with woodden 

 pinnes, and sowed together with Palmito cordes, and 

 calked with the huskes of Cocos shels beaten, whereof 

 they make Occam. At length a Portugal Pangaia com- 

 ming out of the harborow of Zanzibar, where they have 

 a small Factorie, sent a Canoa with a Moore which had 

 bene christened, who brought us a letter wherein they 

 desired to know what wee were, and what we sought. 

 We sent them word we were Englishmen come from 

 Don Antonio upon businesse to his friends in the Indies : 

 with which answere they returned, and would not any 

 more come at us. Whereupon not long after wee 

 manned out our boat and tooke a Pangaia of the Moores, 

 which had a priest of theirs in it, which in their language 

 they call a Sherife : whom we used very curteously : 

 which the king tooke in very good part, having his 

 priests in great estimation, and for his deliverance 

 furnished us with two moneths victuals, during all which 

 time we detained him with us. These Moores informed 

 us of the false and spitefull dealing of the Portugals 

 towards us, which made them beleeve that we were cruell 



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