JAMES LANCASTER ad. 



1592. 

 unlesse he went for them : but being gotten from us in 

 the edge of the evening, he with all the people which [II. ii. 107.] 

 were to the number of about three hundred men, women 

 and children, gote a shore with two great boates and 

 quite abandoned the ship. At our comming aboord we 

 found in her sixteene pieces of brasse, and three hundred 

 buts of Canarie wine, and Nipar wine, which is made 

 of the palme trees, and raisin wine which is also very 

 strong : as also all kind of Haberdasher wares, as hats, Wares Jit to 

 red caps knit of Spanish wooll, worsted stockings knit, c ^ tnt0 the 

 shooes, velvets, taffataes, chamlets, and silkes, abundance 

 of suckets, rice, Venice glasses, certaine papers full of 

 false and counterfeit stones which an Italian brought from 

 Venice to deceive the rude Indians withall, abundance 

 of playing cardes, two or three packs of French paper. 

 Whatsoever became of the treasure which usually is 

 brought in roials of plate in this gallion, we could not 

 find it. After that the mariners had disordredly pilled 

 this rich shippe, the Captaine because they would not 

 follow his commandement to unlade those excellent wines 

 into the Edward, abandoned her & let her drive at Sea, 

 taking out of her the choisest things that she had. And 

 doubting the forces of Malaca, we departed thence to 

 a Baie in the kingdom of Junsalaom, which is betweene The kingdom 

 Malacca and Pegu eight degrees to the Northward, to °f Jmsalaom ' 

 seeke for pitch to trimme our ship. Here we sent our 

 souldier, which the captaine of the aforesaid galion had 

 left behind him with us, because he had the Malaian 

 language, to deale with the people for pitch, which hee 

 did faithfully, and procured us some two or three quintals 

 with promise of more, and certaine of the people came 

 unto us. We sent commodities to their king to barter 

 for Amber-griese, and for the homes of Abath, whereof Amber-greese. 

 the king onely hath the traffique in his hands. Now Th ^ 

 this Abath is a beast which hath one home onely in her of Abath. 

 forehead, and is thought to be the female Unicorne, and The female 

 is highly esteemed of all the Moores in those parts as Unicorne. 

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