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CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 

 and I, with a Frier, went and hired a barke to goe with 

 us to Jerusalem. Departing from Tripolie, we arrived 

 at Jaffa : from which place in a day and halfe we went 

 to Jerusalem, and we gave order to our barke to tary 

 for us untill our returne. Wee stayed in Jerusalem 14. 

 dayes, to visite those holy places : from whence we re- 

 turned to Jaffa, and from Jaffa to Tripolie, and there 

 wee shipped our selves in a ship of Venice called the [II. i. 244.] 

 Bagazzana : And by the helpe of the divine power, we The author re- 

 arrived safely in Venice the fift of November 1581. If ^^^'^'^^ ^' ^'' 

 there be any that hath any desire to goe into those 

 partes of India, let him not be astonied at the troubles 

 that I have passed : because I was intangled in many 

 things : for that I went very poore from Venice with 

 1200. duckets imployed in marchandize, and when I 

 came to Tripolie, I fell sicke in the house of Master 

 Regaly Oratio, and this man sent away my goods with 

 a small Carovan that went from Tripolie to Alepo, and 

 the Carovan was robd, and all my goods lost saving 

 foure chests of glasses which cost me 200. duckets, of 

 which glasses I found many broken : because the theeves 

 thinking it had bene other marchandize, brake them up, 

 and seeing they were glasses they let them all alone. 

 And with this onely stocke I adventured to goe into 

 the Indies : And thus with change and rechange, and 

 by diligence in my voyage, God did blesse and helpe 

 mee, so that I got a good stocke. I will not be un- ^ J^^'^ 



mindfull to put them in remembrance, that have a desire °!J[ :!f,uJI 

 r , 1 11 , 1 • J have tn those 



to goe into those parts, how they shall keepe their goods, Countreys for 



and give them to their heires at the time of their death, the recovering 



and howe this may be done very securely. In all the ^/^^^ S°°^^ ^f 



cities that the Portugales have in the Indies, there is ^ ^ ^^ ' 



a house called the schoole of Sancta misericordia comis- 



saria : the governours whereof, if you give them for 



their paines, will take a coppy of your will and Testament, 



which you must alwayes cary about you ; and chiefly 



when you go into the Indies. In the countrey of the 



Moores and Gentiles, in those voyages alwayes there 



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