AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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porches, for the great heat which is there, and yet they 

 never had any harme in the night. At the end of two 

 moneths, I determined to go for Goa in the company 

 of two other Portugal! Marchants, which were making 

 ready to depart, with two palanchines or little litters, 

 which are very commodious for the way, with eight 

 Falchines which are men hired to cary the palanchines, 

 eight for a palanchine, foure at a time : they carry them 

 Men ride on as we use to carry barrowes. And I bought me two 

 bullocks, and bullocks, one of them to ride on, and the other to carry 

 them on the "^7 victuals and provision, for in that countrey they ride 

 wa^. on bullocks with pannels, as we terme them, girts and 



bridles, and they have a very good commodious pace. From 

 Bezeneger to Goa in Summer it is eight dayes journey, but 

 we went in the midst of Winter, in the moneth of July, 

 and were fifteene dayes comming to Ancola on the 

 sea coast, so in eight dayes I had lost my two bullocks : 

 for he that carried my victuals, was weake and could not 

 goe, the other when I came unto a river where was a 

 little bridge to passe over, I put my bullocke to swim- 

 ming, and in the middest of the river there was a little 

 Hand, unto the which my bullocke went, and finding 

 pasture, there he remained still, and in no wise we could 

 come to him : and so perforce, I was forced to leave 

 him, and at that time there was much raine, and I was 

 [II. i. 222.] forced to go seven dayes a foot with great paines : and 

 by great chance I met with Falchines by the way, whom 

 I hired to carry my clothes and victuals. We had great 

 trouble in our journey, for that every day wee were 

 taken prisoners, by reason of the great dissension in that 

 kingdome : and every morning at our departure we must 

 pay reseat foure or five pagies a man. And another 

 trouble wee had as bad as this, that when as wee came 

 into a new governours countrey, as every day we did, 

 although they were al tributary to the king of Bezeneger, 

 yet every one of them stamped a several coine of Copper, 

 so that the money that we tooke this day would not 

 serve the next : at length, by the helpe of God, we came 



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