CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 



sometimes there are some of them that are overthrowen, 

 but there can be no great losse, because they lade but 

 a litle at a time. All the marchandize they lade out- 

 wards, they emball it well with Oxe hides, so that if it 

 take wet, it can have no great harme. 



In my voyage, returning in the yeere of our Lord 

 God one thousand, five hundred, sixtie and sixe, I went 

 from Goa unto Malacca, in a shippe or Gallion of the 

 king of Portugal, which went unto Banda for to lade In the Hand oj 



Nutmegs & Maces : from Goa to Malacca are one f f ^ ^^'^ 

 . ^1 . 1 1 1 1 -1 J • 1 1 "^«^ Nutmegs 



thousand eight hundred miles, we passed without the ^^ ^^^^.^ ^^^„ 



Hand Zeilan, and went through the chanell of Nicubar, 'grow. 



or els through the chanell of Sombrero, which is by the 



middle of the Hand of Sumatra, called in olde time 



Taprobana : and from Nicubar to Pegu is as it were a 



rowe or chaine of an infinite number of Hands, of which 



many are inhabited with wilde people, and they call those 



Hands the Hands of Andemaon, and they call their people ^^^ the Hands 



savage or Vv^ilde, because they eate one another : also "^/^^"^^^^^^^ 

 o ' •^. /-. the^ eate one 



these Hands have warre one with another, for they have ^Jther. 



small Barkes, and with them they take one another, and 



so eate one another : and if by evil chance any ship be 



lost on those Hands, as many have bene, there is not 



one man of those ships lost there that escapeth uneaten 



or unslaine. These people have not any acquaintance 



with any other people, neither have they trade with any, 



but live onely of such fruites as those Hands yeeld : and 



if any ship come neere unto that place or coast as they 



passe that way, as in my voyage it happened as I came 



from Malacca through the chanell of Sombrero, there 



came two of their Barkes neere unto our ship laden with 



fruite, as with Mouces which wee call Adams apples, 



with fresh Nuts, and with a fruite called Hiani, which 



fruite is like to our Turneps, but is very sweete and 



good to eate : they would not come into the shippe for 



any thing that wee could doe : neither would they take 



any money for their fruite, but they would trucke for 



olde shirtes or pieces of olde linnen breeches, these 



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