AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563-81. 



of an excellent sweet water to drinke : and if a man be 

 thirsty, with the liquour of one of the Mats he may 

 satisfie himselfe : and as this Nut ripeneth, the liquor 

 thereof turneth all to kernell. There goeth out of 

 Chaul for Mallaca, for the Indies, for Macao, for Por- 

 tugall, for the coasts of Meiinde, for Ormus, as it were 

 an infinite number and quantity of goods and merchandise 

 that come out of the kingdome of Cambaia, as cloth of 

 bumbast white, painted, printed, great quantity of Indico, 

 Opium, Cotton, Silke of every sort, great store of 

 Boraso in Paste, great store of Fetida, great store of 

 yron, corne, and other merchandise. The Moore king 

 Zamalluco is of great power, as one that at need may 

 command, & hath in his camp, two hundred thousand 

 Great ordi- men of warre, and hath great store of artillery, some of 

 nance madetn ^h^jj^ made in pieces, which for their greatnesse can not 

 serviceable'^ bee carried to and fro ; yet although they bee made in 

 pieces, they are so commodious that they worke with 

 them marvellous well, whose shotte is of stone, and 

 there hath bene of that shot sent unto the king of 

 Portugall for the rarenes of the thing. The city where 

 the king Zamalluco hath his being, is within the land of 

 Chaul seven or eight dayes journey, which city is called 

 Abneger. Threescore and tenne miles from Chaul, 

 towards the Indies, is the port of Dabul, an haven of 

 the king Zamalluco : from thence to Goa is an hundred 

 and fifty miles. 



[II. i. 219.] Goa. 



The chiefe /^^ Oa is the principall city that the Portugals have in 

 place the P or- vJ the Indies, wherein the Viceroy with his royall 



'^t^i f^'^ "^ Court is resident, and is in an Hand which may be in 

 the Indies. . . ^ ' , . .. 1 1 • 



Circuit five and twenty or thirty miles : and the city 



with the boroughs is reasonable bigge, and for a citie of 



the Indies it is reasonable faire, but the Hand is farre 



more fairer : for it is as it were full of goodly gardens, 



replenished with divers trees and with the Palmer trees 



as is aforesayd. This city is of great trafique for all 



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