CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 

 them unto whom he will ; and if he finde that hee 

 hath not employed his money well, hee may returne 

 his Jewels backe to them whom hee had them of, 

 without any losse at all. Which thing is such a shame 

 to the Tareghe to have his Jewels returne, that he had 

 rather beare a blow on the face then that it should be 

 thought that he solde them so deere to have them 

 returned. For these men have alwayes great care that 

 they affoord good peniworths, especially to those that 

 have no knowledge. This they doe, because they 

 woulde not loose their credite : and when those Mar- 

 chants that have knowledge in Jewels buy any, if they 

 buy them deere, it is their own faults and not the 

 brokers : yet it is good to have knowledge in Jewels, 

 by reason that it may somewhat ease the price. There An honest care 

 is also a very good order which they have in buying € heathen 

 of Jewels, which is this ; There are many Marchants ^ 

 that stand by at the making of the bargaine, and 

 because they shall not understand howe the Jewels be 

 solde, the Broker and the Marchants have their hands 

 under a cloth, and by touching of fingers and nipping Bargatnes 

 the joynts they know what is done, what is bidden, ^^^-^^'^^ 

 ! and what is asked. So that the standers by knowe i^^^^^^^^;^^;.^ 

 not what is demaunded for them, although it be for a doth. 

 thousand or 10. thousand duckets. For every joynt and 

 every finger hath his signification. For if the Marchants 

 that stande by should understand the bargaine, it would 

 breede great controversie amongst them. And at my 

 being in Pegu in the moneth of August, in Anno 

 1569. having gotten well by my endevour, I was 

 desirous to see mine owne Countrey, and I thought it 

 good to goe by the way of S. Tome, but then I 

 should tary until March. 



In which journey I was counsailed, yea, and fully 

 resolved to go by the way of Bengala, with a shippe 

 there ready to depart for that voyage. And then wee 

 departed from Pegu to Chatigan a great harbour or 

 port, from whence there goe smal ships to Cochin, 



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