AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563.81. 



When the Falchines that carried me understood the noise 



of the assault, they let the pallanchlne and me fall to the 



ground, and ranne away and left me alone, with my 



clothes wrapped about me : presently the theeves were 



on my necke and rifeling me, they stripped me starke 



naked, and I fained my selfe sicke, because I would not 



leave the pallanchine, and I had made me a little bedde 



of my clothes ; the theeves sought it very narrowly and 



subtilly, and found two pursses that I had, well bound 



up together, wherein I had put my Copper money which 



I had changed for foure pagodies in Ancola. The 



theeves thinking it had beene so many duckats of golde, 



searched no further : then they threw all my clothes in 



a bush, and hied them away, and as God would have it, 



at their departure there fell from them an handkercher, 



and when I saw it, I rose from my pallanchine or couch, 



and tooke it up, and wrapped it together within my 



pallanchine. Then these my Falchines were of so good 



condition, that they returned to seeke mee, whereas 



I thought I should not have found so much goodnesse 



in them : because they were payed their mony aforehand, 



as is the use, I had thought to have scene themx no more. 



Before their comming I was determined to plucke the 



Cane wherein my jewels were hidden, out of my coutch, 



and to have made me a walking staffe to carry in my hand 



to Goa, thinking that I should have gone thither on foot, 



but by the faithfulness of my Falchines, I was rid of that 



trouble, and so in foure dayes they carried me to Goa, 



in which time I made hard fare, for the theeves left me 



neither money, golde, nor silver, and that which I did 



eat was given me of my men for Gods sake : and after at 



my comming to Goa I payed them for every thing 



royally that I had of them. From Goa I departed for 



Cochin, which is a voyage of three hundred miles, and 



betweene these two cities are many holdes of the Portu- 



Foure small gals, as Onor, Mangalor, Barzelor, and Cananor. The 



fortes of the Holde or Fort that you shall have from Goa to Cochin 



oitugas. ^^^ belongeth to the Portugals, is called Onor, which 



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