CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563.81. 



hold of the Portugales, but without walks or enhnies. 



It hath towards the Sea a free port, the lawfull king of [II. i. 226.] 



that Hand is in Columbo, and is turned Christian and 



maintained by the king of Portugall, being deprived of 



his kingdome. The king of the Gentiles, to whom this 



kingdome did belong, was called Madoni, which had two 



sonnes, the first named Barbinas the prince ; and the 



second Ragine. This king by the pollicie of his yoonger 



Sonne, was deprived of his kingdome, who because hee 



had entised and done that which pleased the armie and 



souldiours, in despight of his father and brother being 



prince, usurped the kingdome, and became a great 



warriour. First, this Hand had three kings ; the king 



of Cotta with his conquered prisoners : the king of 



Candia, which is a part of that Hand, and is so called 



by the name of Candia, which had a reasonable power, 



and was a great friend to the Portugals, which sayd that 



hee lived secretly a Christian ; the third was the king 



of Gianifampatan. In thirteene yeeres that this Ragine 



governed this Hand, he became a great tyrant. 



In this Hand there groweth fine Sinamom, great store 



of Pepper, great store of Nuttes and Arochoe : there 



thev make great store of Cairo to make Cordage : it ^^^^^ ^^ ^ 



bringeth foorth great store of Christall Cats eyes, or ^tufe that they 



0.0 J ' fiidke ropes 



Ochi de Gati, and they say that they finde there some ^^^^^ ^^^ 



Rubies, but I have sold Rubies well there that I brought which is the 



with me from Pegu. I was desirous to see how they ^^^'^^ °f ^ 



gather the Sinamom, or take it from the tree that it ^^^^' 



groweth on, and so much the rather, because the time 



that I was there, was the season which they gather it 



in, which was in the moneth of Aprill, at which time the 



Portugals were in armes, and in the field, with the king 



of the countrey ; yet I to satisfie my desire, although in 



great danger, tooke a guide with mee and went into a 



wood three miles from the Citie, in which wood was 



great store of Sinamome trees growing together among 



other wilde trees ; and this Sinamome tree is a small tree, 



and not very high, and hath leaves like to our Baie tree. 



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