CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 



forwards to go who will, but onely for the king of 

 Portugall and his nobles, with leave granted unto them 

 of the king to make such voiages, or to the jurisdic- 

 tion of the captaine of Malacca, where he expecteth to 

 know what voiages they make from Malacca thither, & 

 these are the kings voiages, that every yere there de- 

 parteth from Malacca 2. gallions of the kings, one of 

 them goeth to ye Moluccos to lade Cloves, and the AttheMokc- 

 other goeth to Banda to lade Nutmegs and Maces. '^°; ^^^y/^^^ 



rr^i & 1 1 r 1 1 • -1 , the Cloves, 



These two gallions are laden ror the king, neither doe 

 they carie any particular mans goods, saving the portage 

 of the Manners and souldiers, and for this cause they 

 are not voiages for marchants, because that going thither, 

 they shal not have where to lade their goods of returne ; 

 and besides this, the captaine will not cary any marchant 

 for either of these two places. There goe small shippes 

 of the Moores thither, which come from the coast of 

 Java, and change or guild their commodities in the king- 

 dom of Assa, and these be the Maces, Cloves, and The klngdome 

 Nutmegs, which go for the streights of Mecca. The of Assa. 

 voiages that the king of Portugall granteth to his nobles 

 are these, of China and Japan, from China to Japan, 

 and from Japan to China, and from China to the Indies, 

 and the voyage of Bengala, Maluco, and Sonda, with 

 the lading of fine cloth, and every sort of Bumbast cloth. 

 Sonda is an Hand of the Moores neere to the coast of 

 Java, and there they lade Pepper for China. The ship The ship of 

 that goeth every yeere from the Indies to China, is called drugs, so 

 the ship of Drugs, because she carieth divers drugs of p^^^^^^J^ 

 Cambaia, but the greatest part of her lading is silver. 

 From Malacca to China is eighteene hundred miles : and 

 from China to Japan goeth every yeere a shippe of great 

 importance laden with Silke, which for returne of their 

 Silke bringeth barres of silver which they trucke in 

 China. The distance betweene China and Japan is foure 

 and twentie hundred miles, and in this way there are 

 divers Hands not very bigge, in which the Friers of 

 saint Paul, by the helpe of God, make many Christians 



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