A.D. 



1563-81. 



Peper tree. 



Ginger. 



Cloves. 



Nutmegs and 

 Maces. 



White SandoL 

 Can for a. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



and from Cochin to Pegu. Once more I lost occasion 

 to make me riche, for whereas I might have brought 

 good store of Opium againe, I brought but a little, 

 being fearefull of my other voyage before. In this 

 small quantitie I made good profite. And now againe 

 I determined to go for my Countrey, and departing 

 from Pegu, I tarried and wintered in Cochin, and then 

 I left the Indies and came for Ormus. 



I thinke it very necessary before I ende my voyage, 

 to reason somewhat, and to shewe what fruits the Indies 

 do yeeld and bring forth. First, in the Indies and other 

 East parts of India there is Peper and ginger, which 

 groweth in all parts of India. And in some parts of 

 the Indies, the greatest quantitie of peper groweth 

 amongst wilde bushes, without any maner of labour : 

 saving, that when it is ripe they goe and gather it. 

 The tree that the peper groweth on is like to our Ivie, 

 which runneth up to the tops of trees wheresoever it 

 groweth : and if it should not take holde of some tree, 

 it would lie flat and rot on the ground. This peper 

 tree hath his floure and berry like in all parts to our 

 Ivie berry, and those berries be graines of peper : so 

 that when they gather them they be greene, and then 

 they lay them in the Sunne, and they become blacke. 



The Ginger groweth in this wise : the land is tilled 

 and sowen, and the herbe is like to Panizzo, and the 

 roote is the ginger. These two spices grow in divers 

 places. 



The Cloves come all from the Moluccas, which 

 Moluccas are two Islands, not very great, and the tree 

 that they grow on is like to our Lawrell tree. 



The Nutmegs and Maces, which grow both together, 

 are brought from the Island of Banda, whose tree is 

 like to our walnut tree, but not so big. 



All the good white Sandol is brought from the Island 

 of Timor. Canfora being compound commeth all from 

 China, and all that which groweth in canes commeth 

 from Borneo, & I thinke that this Canfora commeth 



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