AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Diu. in the Indies, is called Diu, and is situate in a little 



Hand in the kingdome of Cambaia, which is the greatest 

 strength that the Portugals have in all the Indies, yet a 

 small city, but of great trade, because there they lade 

 very many great ships for the straights of Mecca and 

 Ormus with marchandise, and these shippes belong to 

 the Moores and Christians, but the Moores can not 

 trade neither saile into those seas without the licence 

 of the Viceroy of the king of Portugall, otherwise they 

 are taken and made good prises. The marchandise that 

 they lade these ships withall commeth from Cambaietta 

 a port in the kingdome of Cambaia, which they bring 

 from thence in small barks, because there can no great 

 shippes come thither, by reason of the sholdnesse of the 

 water thereabouts, and these sholds are an hundred or 

 fourescore miles about in a straight or gulfe, which they 

 call Macareo, which is as much to say, as a race of a 

 tide, because the waters there run out of that place with- 

 out measure, so that there is no place like to it, unlesse 

 it be in the kingdome of Pegu, where there is another 

 Macareo, where the waters run out with more force then 

 these doe. The principall city in Cambaia is called 



Cambaietta. Amadavar, it is a dayes journey and an halfe from Cam- 

 baietta, it is a very great city and very populous, and for 

 a city of the Gentiles it is very well made and builded 

 with faire houses and large streets, with a faire place in it 

 with many shippes, and in shew like to Cairo, but not so 

 great : also Cambaietta is situate on the seas side, and is a 

 very faire city. The time that I was there, the city was 

 in great calamity & scarsenesse, so that I have scene the 

 men of the countrey that were Gentiles take their 

 children, their sonnes and their daughters, and have 

 desired the Portugals to buy them, and I have scene 

 them sold for eight or ten larines a piece, which may be 

 of our money x.s. or xiii.s. iiii.d. For all this, if I had 

 not scene it, I could not have beleeved that there should 

 be such a trade at Cambaietta as there is : for in the 

 time of every new Moone and every full Moone, the 



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