A.D. 

 1592. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Sumatra. 



The lies of 

 Pulo Pinaou. 



them we lay two or three dayes becalmed, hoping to 

 have had a Pilote from Sumatra, within two leagues 

 whereof wee lay off and on. Now the Winter comming 

 upon us with much contagious weather, we directed our 

 course from hence with the Hands of Pulo Pinaou, 

 (where by the way is to be noted that Pulo in the 

 Malaian tongue signifieth an Hand) at which Hands wee 

 arrived about the beginning of June, where we came to 

 an anker in a very good harborough betweene three 

 Hands : at which time our men were very sicke and 

 many fallen. Here we determined to stay untill the 

 [II. ii. 106.] Winter were overpast. This place is in 6 degrees and a 

 halfe to the Northward, and some five leagues from 

 the maine betweene Malacca and Pegu. Here we con- 

 tinued untill the end of August. Our refreshing in 

 this place was very smal, onely of oisters growing on 

 rocks, great wilks, and some few fish which we tooke 

 with our hookes. Here we landed our sicke men on 

 these uninhabited Hands for their health, neverthelesse 

 26 of them died in this place, whereof John Hall our 

 master was one, and M. Rainold Golding another, a 

 marchant of great honestie and much discretion. In 

 these Islands are abundance of trees of white wood, so 

 right and tall, that a man may make mastes of them 

 being an hundred foote long. The winter passed and 

 having watered our ship and fitted her to goe to Sea, 

 wee had left us but 33 men and one boy, of which 

 not past 22 were sound for labour and helpe, and of 

 them not past a third part sailers : thence we made 

 saile to seeke some place of refreshing, and went over 

 to the maine of Malacca. The next day we came to 

 an anker in a Baie in six fadomes water some two leagues 

 from the shore. Then master James Lancaster our 

 captaine, and M. Edmund Barker his lieutenant, and 

 other of the companie manning the boat, went on shore 

 to see what inhabitants might be found. And comming 

 on land we found the tracking of some barefooted people 

 which were departed thence not long before: for we 



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Trees Jit for 

 mastes. 



Malacca. 



