Hand in all 

 the world. 



AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563-81. 



from Ormus. Also there is great store of corne, Rice, 



and Dates, which the countrey doth yeeld. T shipped 



Ormus is the my selfe in Basora to go for Ormus, and so we sailed 



barrennest ^^ thorow the Persian sea six hundred miles, which is the 



distance from Basora to Ormus, and we sailed in small 



ships made of boards, bound together with small cords 



or ropes, and in stead of calking they lay betweene 



every board certaine straw which they have, and so 



they sowe board and board together, with the straw 



betweene, wherethorow there commeth much water, and 



they are very dangerous. Departing from Basora we 



passed 200 miles with the sea on our right hand, along 



the gulfe, until at length we arrived at an Hand called 



Carichii an Carichii, fro whence we sailed to Ormus in sight of 



Hand in ye the Persian shore on the left side, and on the right side 



gulfe ofPersia. towards Arabia we discovered infinite Hands. 



Ormus. 



Ormus is /^^Rmus is an Hand in circuit five and twenty or thirty 



alwayes re- ^ V_>/ miles, and it is the barrenest and most drie Hand 



^lbmdlt7^of ^^ ^^^ ^^^ world, because that in it there is nothing to 



z'ictuall and ^^ ^^^5 ^^^ ^"^^ water, and wood, all other things neces- 



yet there is sary for mans life are brought out of Persia twelve 



none that^ miles ofF, and out of other Hands neere thereunto ad- 



grozveth in the joyning, in such abundance and quantity, that the city 



is alwayes replenished with all maner of store : there is 



standing neere unto the waters side a very faire castell, 



in the which the captaine of the king of Portugall 



is alwayes resident with a good band of Portugalles, 



and before this castell is a very faire prospect : in the 



city dwell the maried men, souldiers and marchants of 



every nation, amongst whom there are Moores and 



Great trade Gentiles. Hi this city there is very great trade for all 



of merchandise sorts of spices, drugges, silke, cloth of silke, brocardo, 



ril i^?i*6 1 ^^■'^ divers other sorts of marchandise come out of 



Persia : and amongst all other trades of merchandise, the 



trade of Horses is very great there, which they carry 



from thence into the Hidies. This Hand hath a Moore 



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