A.D. 

 1592. 



Some small 

 quantitie here- 

 of may be 

 carted to 

 pleasure those 

 kings. 



They arrive 

 at the lies of 

 Nicuba?\ 

 which are in- 

 habited by 

 Moores. 



They returne 

 homeward. 

 They arrive 

 at Zeilan. 



Tanaseri in 

 the kingdom 

 of Siam. 



Commodities 

 of Ben gala. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



onely two or three of these homes which are of the 

 colour of a browne gray, and some reasonable quantitie 

 of Amber-griese. At last the king went about to betray 

 our Portugall with our marchandise : but he to get aboord 

 us, told him that we had gilt armour, shirtes of maile 

 and halberds, which things they greatly desire : for hope 

 whereof he let him returne aboord, and so he escaped the 

 danger. Thus we left this coast and went backe againe 

 in sight of Sumatra, and thence to the Hands of Nicubar, 

 where we arrived and found them inhabited with Moores, 

 and after wee came to an anker, the people daily came 

 aboord us in their Canoas, with hennes, Cocos, plantans 

 and other fruits: and within two dayes they brought 

 unto us roials of plate, giving us them for Calicut cloth : 

 which roials they flnde by diving for them in the Sea, 

 which were lost not long before in two Portugall ships 

 which were bound for China and were cast away there. 

 They call in their language the Coco Calambe, the 

 Plantane Pison, a Hen Jam, a Fish Iccan, a Hog Babee. 

 From thence we returned the 21 of November to goe 

 for the Hand of Zeilan, and arrived there about the third 

 of December 1592. and ankered upon the Southside in 

 sixe fadomes water, where we lost our anker, the place 

 being rockie and foule ground. Then we ranne along 

 the Southwest part of the sayd Hand, to a place called 

 Punta del Galle, where we ankered, determining there 

 to have remained untill the comming of the Bengala Fleet 

 of seven or eight ships, and the Fleete of Pegu of two 

 or three sailes, and the Portugall shippes of Tanaseri 

 being a great Baie to the Southward of Martabam in 

 the kingdom of Siam : which ships, by divers intelligences 

 which we had, were to come that way within foureteene 

 dayes to bring commodities to serve the Caraks, which 

 commonly depart from Cochin for Portugall by the 

 middest of Januarie. The commodities of the shippes 

 which come from Bengala bee fine pavillions for beds, 

 wrought quilts, fine Calicut cloth, Pintados and other 

 fine workes, and Rice, and they make this voiage twise 



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