ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c 1565. 



In this countrey, as no suspition, no not one traiterous 

 word is long borne withall, so was the king speedily 

 advertised thereof, who gave commandement out of hand 

 that the aforesaid Loutea should be put to death, and 

 with him the Moores of most importance : the other 

 to be layde first in prison, and afterward to be sent 

 abroad into certaine Cities, where they remained per- 

 petuall slaves unto the king. To this City came by 

 happe men and women threescore and odde, who at this 

 day are brought to five men and foure women, for it 

 is now twenty yeeres since this happened. Their off- 

 spring passeth the number of two hundreth, and they 

 in this City, as the rest in other Cities whither they 

 * That is their were sent, have their *Moscheas, whereunto they all 

 temples. resort every Friday to keepe their holy day. But, as 



I thinke, that will no longer endure, then whiles they 

 doe live that came from thence, for their posteritie is 

 so confused, that they have nothing of a Moore in them 

 but abstinence from swines flesh, and yet many of them 

 It should seeme doe eate thereof privily. They tell mee that their native 

 by their Countrey hath name Camarian, a firme land, wherein be 



V Qar%mdan 'in manv kings, and the Indish countrey well knowen unto 

 Ortelius. them. It may so be : for as soone as they did see our 



servants (our servants were Preuzaretes) they judged 

 them to be Indians : many of their wordes sounded upon 

 the Persian tongue, but none of us coulde understand 

 them. I asked them whether they converted any of the 

 Chinish nation unto their secte : they answered mee, that 

 with much a doe they converted the women with whom 

 they doe marry, yeelding me no other cause thereof, but 

 the difficultie they finde in them to be brought from 

 eating swines flesh and drinking of wine. I am per- 

 swaded therefore, that if this Countrey were in league 

 with us, forbidding them neither of both, it would be 

 an easie matter to draw them to our Religion, from their 

 superstition, whereat they themselves do laugh when 



JNorTheme the 7 do their idolatry. 



Sea. I have learned moreover that the Sea, whereby these 



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