CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 



safe to Ancola, which is a country of the queene of 



Gargopam, tributary to the king of Bezeneger. The ^^^ manhan- 



marchandise that went every yere from Goa to BezeneP^er . ^^^ ^ f ^^f ^ 



TT Tri T-v 1 10 in and out to 



were Arabian Horses, Veivets, UamasKs, and battens, Bexeneger 



Armesine of Portugal!, and pieces of China, Saffron, and every yere. 



Skarlets : and from Bezeneger they had in Turky for 



their commodities, jewels, and Pagodies which be ducats 



of golde : the apparell that they use in Bezeneger is ^^^ apparell 



Velvet, Satten, Damaske, Scarlet, or white Bumbast 'f those people. 



cloth, according to the estate of the person with long 



hats on their heads, called Colae, made of Velvet, Satten, 



Damaske, or Scarlet, girding themselves in stead of 



girdles with some fine white bombast cloth : they have 



breeches after the order of the Turks : they weare on 



their feet plaine high things called of them Aspergh, and 



at their eares they have hanging great plenty of golde. 



Returning to my voyage, when we were together in 



Ancola, one of my companions that had nothing to lose, 



tooke a guide, and went to Goa, whither they goe in 



foure dayes, the other Portugal! not being disposed to 



go, taried in Ancola for that Winter. The Winter in ^^eir Winter 



those parts of the Indies beginneth the fifteenth of May, ^■•^^«^-^^^^^^^^- 



and lasteth unto the end of October : and as we were in 



Ancola, there came another Marchant of horses in a 



palanchine, and two Portugal! souldiers which came 



from Zeilan, and two cariers of letters, which were 



Christians borne in the Indies ; all these consorted to 



goe to Goa together, and I determined to goe with 



them, and caused a pallanchine to be made for me very 



poorely of Canes ; and in one of them Canes I hid 



privily all the jewels I had, and according to the order, 



I tooke eight Falchines to cary me : and one day about 



eleven of the clocke wee set forwards on our journey, and 



about two of the clocke in the afternoone, as we passed 



a mountaine which divideth the territory of Ancola and 



Dialcan, I being a little behinde my company, was 



assaulted by eight theeves, foure of them had swordes 



and targets, and the other foure had bowes and arrowes. 



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