CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 

 Ormus Carrie no Pepper but by Contrabanda, as for 

 Sinamome they easllie get leave to carrie that away, for 

 all other Spices and drugs they may liberally carie them 

 to Ormus or Cambaia, and so all other merchandize 

 which come from other places, but out of the kingdom 

 of Cochin properly they cary away with them into 

 Portugale great abundance of Pepper, great quantitie of 

 Ginger dried and conserved, wild Sinamom, good 

 quantitie of Arecca, great store of Cordage of Cairo, 

 made of the barke of the tree of the great Nut, and 

 better then that of Hempe, of which they carrie great 

 store into Portugale. 



The shippes every yeere depart from Cochin to goe ^^t^^ ^^^^ ^^- 

 for Portugall, on the fift day of December, or the fift f/rfi;^'^' 

 day of January. No we to follow my voyage for the Qq^^iI^ 

 Indies : from Cochin I went to Coulam, distant from 

 Cochin seventie and two miles, which Coulam is a small 

 Fort of the king of Portugales, situate in the kingdom 

 of Coulam, which is a king of the Gentiles, and of 

 small trade : at that place they lade onely halfe a ship 

 of Pepper, and then she goeth to Cochin to take in the 

 rest, and from thence to Cao Comori is seventie and 

 two miles, and there endeth the coast of the Indies : 

 and alongst this coast, neere to the water side, and also 

 to Cao Comori, downe to the lowe land of Chialo, which 

 is about two hundred miles, the people there are as it 

 were all turned to the Christian faith : there are also 

 Churches of the Friers of S. Pauls order, which Friers 

 doe very much good in those places in turning the 

 people, and in converting them, and take great paines 

 in instructing them in the law of Christ. 



The fishing for Pearles. 



THe Sea that lieth betweene the coast which de- The order how 

 scendeth from Cao Comori, to the lowe land of ^^^yf^^fi^ 

 Chilao, and the Hand Zeilan, they call the fishing of ^^^^ ^^■ 

 Pearles, which fishing they make every yeere, beginning 

 in March or Aprill, and it lasteth fiftie dayes, but they 



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