CAESAR FREDERICK a.d. 



1563-81. 



and comming thither he should be very wel intreated. 



This Portugal went thither and was very well satisfied 



of this King. 



This Kino- of Rachim hath his seate in the middle 

 coast betweene Bengala and Pegu, and the greatest 

 enemie he hath is the king of Pegu : v/hich king of 

 Pegu deviseth night and day how to make this king 

 of Rachim his subject, but by no meanes hee is able 

 to doe it : because the king of Pegu hath no power 

 nor armic by Sea. And this king of * Rachim may Or, Aracam. 

 arme two hundreth Galleyes or Fusts by Sea, and by 

 land he hath certaine sluses with the which when the 

 king of Pegu pretendeth any harme towards him, hee 

 may at his pleasure drowne a great part of the Countrey. 

 So that by this meanes hee cutteth off the way whereby 

 the king of Pegu should come with his power to hurt 

 him. 



From the great port of Chatigan they cary for the ^'^^ commodi- 

 Indies great store of rice, very great quantitie of Bom- ^^J^ ^ ^[SPf 

 bast cloth or every sort, buger, corne, and money, with ^^ ^y Indies. 

 other marchandize. And by reason of the warres in 

 Chatigan, the Portugall ships taried there so long, that 

 they arrived not at Cochin so soone as they were wont 

 to doe other yeeres. For which cause the fleete that was ^^^ Portngal 

 at Cochin was departed for Portugal before they arrived -^^ depaft 



, iTi-^- r ^ 11 1- ^ r 1 tozcard Portu- 



there, and I being in one or the small shippes betore the ^all out of the 

 fleete, in discovering of Cochin, we also discovered the harbor of 

 last shippe of the Fleete that went from Cochin to Portu- Cochin. 

 gall, where shee made saile, for which I was marveilously 

 discomforted, because that all the yeere following, there 

 was no going for Portugale, and when we arrived at 

 Cochin I was fully determined to goe for Venice by the 

 way of Ormus, and at that time the Citie of Goa was Goa was be- 

 besieged by the people of Dialcan, but the Citizens forced ^^^l^^- 

 not this assault, because they supposed that it would not 

 continue long. For all this I embarked my selfe in a 

 Galley that went for Goa, meaning there to shippe my 

 selfe for Ormus : but when we came to Goa, the Viceroy 



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