CAESAR FREDERICK a.d. 



that I could never satisfie my thirst in drinking of water : 



I judge the reason of my hoarsenesse to bee with soppes 



that I wet in vineger and oyle, wherewith I susteyned 



my selfe many dayes. There was not any want of bread 



nor of wine : but the wines of that countrey are so hot [II. i. 230.] 



that being drunke without water they will kill a man : 



neither are they able to drinke them : when we beganne 



to want water, I sawe certaine Moores that were officers 



in the ship, that solde a small dish full for a duckat, 



after this I sawe one that would have given a barre of 



Pepper, which is two quintalles and a halfe, for a litle 



measure of water, and he could not have it. Truely I 



beleeve that I had died with my slave, whom then I had 



to serve mee, which cost mee verie deare : but to provide 



for the daunger at hand, I solde my slave for halfe that 



he was worth, because that 1 would save his drinke that 



he drunke, to serve my owne purpose, and to save my 



life. 



Of the kingdome of Orisa, and the river Ganges. 



ORisa was a faire kingdome and trustie, through the 

 which a man might have gone with golde in his 

 hande without any daunger at all, as long as the lawefuU 

 King reigned which was a Gentile, who continued in the 

 citie called Catecha, which was within the land sixe dayes 

 journey. This king loved strangers marveilous well, 

 especially marchants which had traffique in and out of 

 his kingdome, in such wise that hee would take no 

 custome of them, neither any other grievous thing. 

 Onely the shippe that came thither payde a small thing 

 according to her portage, and every yeere in the port 

 of Orisa were laden five and twentie or thirtie ships ^-^^ commodi- 

 great and small, with ryce and divers sortes of fine white ^%^ L ^/ ^^ ^^^ 

 bumbaste cloth, oyle of Zerzeline which they make of a " 

 seed, and it is very good to eate and to fry fish withal, 



great store of butter, Lacca, long pepper, Ginger, Mira- _ . , , 

 u 1 A A A-. ' . r 1 .u c\ u This cloth we 



bolans dry and condite, great store or cloth or herbes, ^dl Nettle 



which is a kinde of silke which groweth amongst the doth. 



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