JAMES LANCASTER a.d. 



1592. 



people and men-eaters, and willed them if they loved 

 their safetie in no case to come neere us. Which they 

 did onely to cut us off from all knowledge of the state 

 and traffique of the countrey. While we road from the 

 end of November until the middle of February in this 

 harborough, which is sufficient for a ship of 500 tuns 

 to ride in, we set upon a Portugall Pangaia with our 

 boat, but because it was very litle, & our men not able 

 to stirre in it, we were not able to take the sayd Pangaia, 

 which was armed with to good shot like our long fouling 

 pieces. This place for the goodnesse of the harborough An excellent 

 and watering, and plentifull refreshing with fish, whereof P^ ace f or re ~ 

 we tooke great store with our nets, and for sundry sorts 

 of fruits of the countrey, as Cocos and others, which 

 were brought us by the Moores, as also for oxen and 

 hennes, is carefully to be sought for by such of our 

 ships, as shall hereafter passe that way. But our men 

 had need to take good heed of the Portugals : for while 

 we lay here the Portugall Admiral of the coast from 

 Melinde to Mozambique, came to view and to betray 

 our boat if he could have taken at any time advantage, 

 in a gallie Frigate of ten tunnes with 8 or 9 oares on A gallie 

 a side. Of the strength of which Frigate and their *"&*.?' 

 trecherous meaning we were advertised by an Arabian 

 Moore which came from the king of Zanzibar divers 

 times unto us about the deliverie of the priest aforesayd, 

 and afterward by another which we caried thence along 

 with us : for wheresoever we came, our care was to get 

 into our hands some one or two of the countreys to 

 learne the languages and states of those partes where we 

 touched. Moreover, here againe we had another clap of Another 

 thunder which did shake our foremast very much, which thmder - cla P' 

 wee fisht and repaired with timber from the shore, whereof 

 there is good store thereabout of a kind of trees some 

 fortie foot high, which is a red and tough wood, and as I 

 suppose, a kind of Cedar. Here our Surgeon Arnold 

 negligently catching a great heate in his head being on Heat in the 

 land with the master to seeke oxen, fell sicke and shortly head dead h- 



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