ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1592. 

 Letting of died, which might have bene cured by letting of blood 

 blood very before it had bin setled. Before our departure we had 

 in this place some thousand weight of pitch, or rather 

 a kind of gray and white gumme like unto frank- 

 incense, as clammie as turpentine, which in melting 

 groweth as blacke as pitch, and is very brittle of it 

 selfe, but we mingled it with oile, whereof wee had 300 

 jarres in the prize which we tooke to the Northward 

 of the Equinoctiall, not farre from Guinie, bound for 

 Brasil. Sixe dayes before wee departed hence, the Cape 

 marchant of the Factorie wrote a letter unto our capi- 

 taine in the way of friendship, as he pretended, requesting 

 a Jarre of wine, and a jarre of oyle, and two or three 

 pounds of gunpouder, which letter hee sent by a Negro 

 his man, and Moore in a Canoa : we sent him his 

 demaunds by the Moore, but tooke the Negro along 

 with us because we understood he had bene in the East 

 Indies and knew somewhat of the countrey. By this 

 Negro we were advertised of a small Barke of some 

 A J unco laden thirtie tunnes (which the Moores call a Junco) which 

 with pepper was come f r0 m Goa thither laden with Pepper for the 

 rugs. l? ac torie and service of that kingdome. Thus having 

 trimmed our shippe as we lay in this road, in the end 

 we set forward for the coast of the East India, the 1 5 of 

 February aforesayd, intending if we could to have 

 reached to Cape Comori, which is the headland or Pro- 

 montorie of the maine of Malavar, and there to have 

 lien off and on for such ships as should have passed 

 from Zeilan, Sant Tome, Bengala, Pegu, Malacca, the 

 Moluccos, the coast of China, and the He of Japan, 

 which ships are of exceeding wealth and riches. But in 

 The currents our CO urse we were very much deceived by the currents 

 that set into the gulfe of the Red sea along the coast 

 of Melinde. And the windes shortening upon us to the 

 Northeast and Easterly, kept us that we could not get 

 off, and so with the putting in of the currents from the 

 Westward, set us in further unto the Northward within 

 Zocotora. fourescore leagues of the He of Zocotora, farre from our 



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 Northwards. 



